Orange puts AI-RAN through its paces as NVIDIA, Nokia hail momentum

Anne Morris2026-10-22T09:47:00

Source: NVIDIA

Orange’s AI-RAN scepticism is giving way to live network experimentation, with the operator testing whether spectrum efficiencies and shared edge compute can justify deployment. NVIDIA and Nokia now count nearly 20 telcos among their AI-RAN collaborators, with BT, DT, and Elisa among those advancing the tech towards commercialisation.

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Themes: Artificial intelligence (AI); AI infrastructure; AI radio access network (AI-RAN); Autonomous networks; Cloud-native networks; Edge AI; Network automation; Radio access network (RAN); Spectrum efficiency; Total cost of ownership (TCO).
Events: NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026; Intelligent RAN Forum 2026; Mobile World Congress (MWC).
People: Arash Ashouriha; Greg McCall; Justin Hotard; Laurent Leboucher; Sami Komulainen.
Geographic: Australia; Austria; Birmingham; Bonn; Europe; Finland; France; Germany; Indonesia; Japan; Oulu; Saudi Arabia; Taiwan; UAE; UK; USA.
Organisations: A1 Group; BT; Cassava; Chunghwa Telecom; Czech Radiocommunications (CRA); Deutsche Telekom; Du; Elisa; Etisalat; Fastweb + Vodafone; Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison; Kazakhtelecom; Mobily; Nokia; NVIDIA; Orange; Orange Business; Orion Telecom; Silknet; SoftBank; Stc; T-Mobile US; Telecom Italia (TIM); TPG Telecom; Zain.

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