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T-Mobile US will also collaborate with Nokia and NVIDIA to drive and test AI-RAN technologies as part of the 6G innovation and development process, reinforcing its global leadership in driving wireless innovation. Trials are expected to begin in 2026, focused on field validation of performance and efficiency gains for customers.

The move will enable massive improvements in performance and efficiency, helping ensure that consumers using generative, agentic and physical AI applications on their devices have seamless network experiences. It will also support future AI-native devices such as drones or augmented- and virtualreality glasses, while being ready for 6G applications such as integrated sensing and communications.

“ Telecommunications is a critical national infrastructure – the digital nervous system of our economy and security. Built on NVIDIA CUDA and AI, AI-RAN will revolutionize telecommunications – a generational platform shift that empowers the United States to regain global leadership in this vital infrastructure technology. Together with Nokia and America’ s telecom ecosystem, we’ re igniting this revolution, equipping operators to build intelligent, adaptive networks that will define the next generation of global connectivity,” said Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO, NVIDIA

“ The next leap in telecom isn’ t just from 5G to 6G – it’ s a fundamental redesign of the network to deliver AI-powered connectivity, capable of processing intelligence from the data center all the way to the edge. Our partnership with NVIDIA and their investment in Nokia will accelerate AI-RAN innovation to put an AI data center into everyone’ s pocket. We’ re proud to drive this industry transformation with NVIDIA, Dell Technologies and T-Mobile US. Our first AI-RAN deployments in T-Mobile’ s network will ensure America leads in the advanced connectivity that AI needs,” said Justin Hotard, President and CEO, Nokia.

Supporting exponential growth in AI traffic

Growth in AI traffic is exploding. For example, almost 50 % of ChatGPT’ s 800 million weekly active users access the site via mobile devices, and its monthly mobile app downloads exceed 40 million.

With Nokia and NVIDIA-powered AI-RAN systems, mobile operators can improve performance and efficiency as well as enhance network experiences for future generative AI and agentic AI applications and experiences. They will be able to introduce new AI services for 6G with the same infrastructure, powering billions of new connections for cars, robots, drones and augmented and virtual-reality

T-Mobile remains committed to advancing next-generation technologies that redefine the customer experience.

glasses that demand connectivity, computing and sensing at the edge.

Seamless transition to AI-native networks

NVIDIA is introducing Aerial RAN Computer Pro( ARC-Pro), a 6G-ready accelerated computing platform that combines connectivity, computing and sensing capabilities, enabling telcos to move from 5G-Advanced to 6G through software upgrades.

The NVIDIA ARC-Pro reference design is available for manufacturers and network equipment providers to build commercial-off-the-shelf-based or proprietary AI-RAN products, supporting both new buildouts and expansions to existing base stations.

Nokia will accelerate the availability of its 5G and 6G RAN software on the NVIDIA CUDA platform and expand its RAN portfolio by embedding NVIDIA ARC-Pro at the heart of the new AI-RAN solution. This partnership will enable Nokia’ s mobile network customers to transition seamlessly from today’ s RAN networks to future AI-RAN networks.

Nokia’ s unique anyRAN approach simplifies the introduction of the ARC-Pro platform by establishing software-defined RAN evolution for both Cloud RAN and purpose-built RAN. AirScale baseband is a modular architecture in which new cards can coexist with previously deployed cards. Nokia aims to expand and evolve its AirScale baseband into the 5G-Advanced and 6G era with new AI-RAN capabilities.

Dell Technologies is driving innovation in Nokia’ s AI- RAN solution with its state-of-the-art Dell PowerEdge servers. Engineered for seamless scalability, these servers enable no-touch software upgrades and lowtouch silicon upgrades, ensuring a smooth evolution from 5G to 5G Advanced and 6G. With their robust, high-performance infrastructure, Dell PowerEdge servers are pitched as the ultimate compute platform for operators deploying AI-RAN solutions.

Future proofed for 6G

Nokia and NVIDIA’ s AI-RAN platform unifies AI and radio access workloads on a software-defined,

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