Gabriel Brown

Industry analyst covering next-generation mobile networks and services for @OmdiaHQ

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

Mobile phone service in the UK is exceedingly good value. It's one essential service that seems immune from price rises.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Final note on mobile phones costs. The price rises are totally avoidable once you're out of contract, millions are most can get all the data you need for just a few quid (eg 30Gb for £3/mth) see https://t.co/hcN7luq4xb

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

@SamirKhazaka Do you see Nvidia getting into mobile devices? Being so active in 6G radio implies it must also be looking at device modems, long term

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

@telecoms @Hyperoptic @bt_uk @scottbicheno @iainwmorris Fwiw, I have @Hyperoptic at home. Brilliant service!

Super clean install and basically zero outages in 18 months.

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

@lauriewhitwell Gross. Horrible to have a betting sponsor. Immediate brand dilution.

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

@AdamJoseph Horrible to have a betting sponsor. What a scourge on society. An immediate turn-off.

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

Seems like a pretty good home for this product line. Kudos to @justinhotard for landing it responsibly at somewhere with potential.

@inseego is up 23% rn

[Mike Dano @mikeddano]

"Inseego $INSG said on Thursday it will acquire Nokia's $NOK fixed wireless access, or FWA business, to expand its global footprint in wireless broadband."
https://t.co/O5VEKjus4K
via Seeking Alpha

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

Moderated by your truly. Free reg and two (very) expert speakers open to taking questions

[Qualcomm Research & Technologies @QCOMResearch]

6G isn't just faster wireless. It's sensing. Digital twins. Physical AI. Hear @Qualcomm's vision straight from the engineers shaping it. April 22 | 12PM ET | Register: https://t.co/7iqaGW1UuH #6G #AI #SpectrumPolicy

[Qualcomm Research & Technologies @QCOMResearch]

What happens when wireless infrastructure becomes national security infrastructure? That's the 6G reality — connectivity, sensing, and AI baked in from the ground up. Join @Qualcomm + @OmdiaHQ analyst @Gabeuk to explore what's coming. April 22 | 12PM EDT | Free via @Light_Reading https://t.co/iETXw8Bfyp #6G #Telecom #EdgeAI

[Steve Crowley @SteveCrowley]

NTT DOCOMO and SK Telecom publish a white paper on requirements for the evolution of vRAN and the path to AI-RAN. "vRAN has reached a pivotal turning point where it needs to demonstrate its economic efficiency and differentiated value in commercial networks."
https://t.co/F1kiAUHgo5

[Mike Dano @mikeddano]

Today at #CableNextGen Comcast's network chief Elad Nafshi said that AI data on the company's network today is:
text=97.1%
images=2.6%
videos=0.3%

This is all noteworthy amid the collapse of OpenAI's Sora video generator app: https://t.co/9dkJoqn3VY

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

Ankur Kapoor @TMobile on service-aware RAN.

"If you only need X number of physical resource blocks [for the] application you're using, it will automatically allocate you only that. You'll have a fantastic experience, but there'll be no wastage".

[Light Reading @Light_Reading]

T-Mobile Chief Network Officer Ankur Kapoor says AI RAN is the future but next step for industry is to use more AI in radio networks today.

Read more on Light Reading: https://t.co/cwv2N5fXjR

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

@Londonist Dumb banter. North and South are pretty much similar. Same as East and West.

(posting from South)

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

I've been user testing EE's 5G standalone (SA) service in London. Check out my user review here:

https://t.co/IYLxxl1wXS

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

@Techlife32 Have you seen massive MIMO FDD anywhere yet?

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

@rcbregman Cool. seems to work very well

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

On the @nokia investor call last week @justinhotard

The platforms we’re investing in need to be 6G ready... we’re talking about AI-RAN as an example: if you buy an AirScale platform today, it’s going to be upgradable to AI-RAN as we launch that platform.

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

"Some of the key decisions are happening now... if you want to influence how 6G is going to be designed and built, you really need to be involved already."
-- Yours truly

[Light Reading @Light_Reading]

Light Reading and Omdia kick off 2026 with a timely look at 6G. Buckle up: the countdown to 2030 has already begun.

Read more on Light Reading: https://t.co/17qxBF491f

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

@SamirKhazaka @nikitabier @elonmusk X is such a weird place these days. Some of it is truly amazing and super useful.

And a lot of it is total garbage -- almost lilke an anti-signal (useful in its own way, I suppose).

The algos aren't picking out signal-to-noise very well.

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

A pretty good heuristic ;)

"Basically the opposite of everything you read on X."

[obsidian capital @obsidiancap1]

Basically the opposite of everything you read on X. Relying on incumbent software vendors for ai functionality add-ons and paying for it, time to market is critical and want to focus internal developer resources on driving revenue and core business forward not rebuilding 3p apps, and so have no plans to displace any vendors and on the contrary growing spend with every vendor coming up for renewal. Havnt downgraded anything, consider their top SaaS vendors mission critical, laugh off the thought of in housing any software and having to maintain it, would rather relay on 3p and outsource accountability and liability. havnt touched dev seat counts. laugh off Claude cowork (although they like Claude code- will change dev workflows and driving heightened productivity), not moving any pre allocated enterprise sw budget to LLM providers

[Gabriel Brown @Gabeuk]

@SamirKhazaka "nudges" perhaps. But the power of the ecosystem is in the air interface standard and unit volume -- and this has to remain the priority.