{"id":1043376,"date":"2026-10-15T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043376"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:31:32","slug":"verizon-cto-calls-for-6g-uplink-breakthrough-to-meet-ai-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/verizon-cto-calls-for-6g-uplink-breakthrough-to-meet-ai-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon CTO calls for 6G uplink breakthrough to meet AI demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Verizon CTO Yago Tenorio has said that the telecom industry requires a significant breakthrough in 6G uplink capacity. This need arises from future artificial intelligence (AI) applications, which are expected to fundamentally alter network traffic patterns, according to a Light Reading report. <\/p>\n<p>Mobile networks are currently designed to prioritise faster download speeds. They dedicate substantial bandwidth to downstream connections, with typical downlink-to-uplink ratios of 9:1 or 8:2. However, AI usage could shift from transactional prompts to applications needing &#8220;continuous contextual awareness,&#8221; Tenorio said. This would drive the downlink-uplink ratio closer to 1:1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Verizon CTO Yago Tenorio has said that the telecom industry requires a significant breakthrough in 6G uplink capacity. This need arises from future artificial intelligence (AI) applications, which are expected to fundamentally alter network traffic patterns, according to a Light Reading report. Mobile networks are currently designed to prioritise faster download speeds. They dedicate substantial bandwidth to downstream connections, with typical downlink-to-uplink ratios of 9:1 or 8:2. However, AI usage could shift from transactional prompts to applications needing &#8220;continuous contextual awareness,&#8221; Tenorio said. This would drive the downlink-uplink ratio closer to 1:1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043393,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043376\/revisions\/1043393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}