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Wednesday, April 29, 2026

T-Mobile US Prepares for Physical AI

As T-Mobile US deploys artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance its radio access network, it is bringing compute capacity closer to end users, Srinivasan Gopalan, CEO of T-Mobile US, noted in an earnings call with analysts. "As we build more AI into our network, we will generate a bunch of fallow compute, especially at the edge. Now the fallow compute plus low latency creates an incredible opportunity because if you're thinking of scale, automation -- it's impossible to do that without low latency," he said. "Low latency has to be essential to any form of robotics or automation that you do."

The telco's 5G Advanced network means it is well placed to serve the demands of so-called physical AI (robotics) systems, John Saw, president of technology at T-Mobile US, added.  "We have a bunch of innovations that we have developed with 5G Advanced to increase spectral efficiencies and capacity like especially for the uplink, which is really needed for physical AI, like things like uplink transmit switching, higher transmit power and uplink MIMO, right?... we believe that we have a multiyear advantage over the competition for this." Source: T-Mobile US collateral

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