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MWC 2026: Five Themes That Cut Through the Noise 

Freshly back from Barcelona, where 105,000 attendees gathered across four days at Fira Gran Via for MWC26, Stéphane Téral and the team share their unfiltered analysis of the five themes that defined MWC26. Above all else, energy efficiency and carbon footprint reduction dominated communications service providers' and vendors' agendas. The remaining four themes — agentic AI in live networks, physical AI and humanoid robotics, Starlink Mobile's satellite-to-phone announcement, and digital sovereignty with post-quantum cryptography — each carry real implications for the wireless infrastructure market.  This research note cuts through the hype to tell you what actually matters. 

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