IT provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) teamed with Anthropic to accelerate enterprise AI adoption, with a focus on highly regulated sectors where accuracy, auditability and governance requirements have historically slowed deployments.

As a Global Premier Partner in the Claude Partner Network, TCS will establish a dedicated business unit focused on delivering industry services and AI expertise built on Anthropic’s Claude family of models, with early access to new releases.

It will also provide Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant to more than 50,000 employees across engineering, finance, legal, marketing, and sales.

The two companies will jointly go to market with AI capabilities across financial services, public services, life sciences, healthcare, aviation, telecom, and medtech.

The partnership also spans several TCS businesses and platforms. Diligenta, TCS’s UK-based life and pensions business with over 22 million customers, will use Claude to improve customer experience through agentic process transformation.

TCS iON, which conducts more than 75 million annual assessments across 1,500 cities in India, will deliver learning and certification programmes on Claude models to help build an AI-certified workforce.

K Krithivasan, CEO and managing director of TCS, stated enterprise AI value comes from understanding business context, orchestrating complex systems and applying deep AI engineering talent.

“By combining Claude with our industry expertise, engineering rigour and large-scale transformation capabilities, we will help customers move faster to production, especially in industries where trust, resilience and regulatory discipline are critical,” he said.

The partnership comes as Anthropic, now valued at $965 billion, looks to extend the momentum which has pushed its valuation above rival OpenAI, with both startups moving towards public listings.

The post Tata, Anthropic partner to scale enterprise AI adoption appeared first on Mobile World Live.

AT&T unveiled a 24-hour unlimited wireless data service for iPad users in the US, available to any customer regardless of their existing operator for a flat daily rate of $3.

The company claimed to be the first major US wireless provider to offer on-demand connectivity for iPad users on a pay-as-you-go basis. The service is for models with mobile and Wi-Fi connectivity capabilities, with the 24-hour data window beginning shortly after purchase.

AT&T explained it is targeting consumers who do not activate mobile connectivity on compatible iPads, pitching the benefit of short-term network access for periods where users are not in Wi-Fi range.

It highlighted ease of use, stating the service is activated in device settings without the need for a dedicated app.

The first day pass is complimentary, with subsequent purchases charged to a credit or debit card.

Josh Goodell, VP of consumer product management, said the goal is to make connectivity simple across the devices people use most.

The operator positioned the launch as part of a broader effort to simplify connectivity and provide flexible options without long-term commitments.

Model compatibility ranges from seventh-generation iPads to the latest Pro and Air models with M3 chips.

AT&T ultimately plans to expand the service to other 5G-enabled devices including Android tablets, smartwatches, laptops and drones.

Multi-day options are also planned.

AT&T noted data rates may be temporarily reduced during periods of network congestion.

The post AT&T launches $3 daily iPad data pass appeared first on Mobile World Live.

AI platform disruptions rose sharply in early 2026 as growing enterprise adoption and heavier workloads exposed reliability issues across the full infrastructure stack, according to research from Ookla.

Analysing 471 days of US Downdetector data from 1 January 2025 to 16 April 2026 across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, AWS and Microsoft Azure, Ookla recorded 3.7 million user-reported problems.

High-signal disruption days, defined as when a service recorded more than 10 times its own median daily report volume, rose from six across four major AI apps in Q1 2025 to 51 in Q1 2026, according to the report by Ookla analyst Luke Kehoe.

Anthropic’s Claude model accounted for 39 of those 51 disruption days, making it the clearest example of scale-up volatility in the period. Gemini accounted for seven, Copilot three and ChatGPT two.

Claude recorded near-zero Downdetector reports in early 2025 before moving into a sustained report baseline from mid-July as adoption grew.

In Q1 2026, Claude generated 314,996 reports, while March volume alone was nearly three times February’s level. Ookla noted the pattern cannot be attributed to a single outage, with disruption clustered around demand surges, model-release windows and platform instability as Claude Code and Cowork usage scaled rapidly.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT produced the largest individual disruption signals in absolute terms, including roughly 68,000 reports on 2 December 2025, but its underlying reliability trend has improved.

Its monthly median daily report volume fell from a peak of 2,157 in April 2025 to 1,166 in April 2026, even as OpenAI reported more than 900 million weekly active users and rapid growth in Codex usage.

Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot showed smaller but distinct patterns. Gemini’s high-signal disruption days rose from zero in Q1 2025 to seven in Q1 2026, consistent with rapid user growth.

Copilot’s outage pattern reflected its position inside Microsoft’s broader enterprise range, with far fewer reports on weekends, reflecting enterprise-aligned use.

Cloud infrastructure also featured prominently in the reliability picture. AWS’s 20 October 2025 DynamoDB DNS event generated more than 315,000 US reports, while Microsoft’s Azure Front Door incident on 29 October produced nearly 96,000, illustrating how failures in cloud control planes can cascade into AI platform disruptions.

Ookla concluded AI reliability has moved well beyond model serving, with failure points now spanning feature gates, GPU fleets, developer APIs, login systems and demand-management policies, all of which can appear to the end user as a single outage.

The post Ookla finds AI platform outages surge as adoption grows appeared first on Mobile World Live.

UK operator Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) and Mavenir completed a proof-of-concept trial of technology designed to improve call clarity for customers suffering hearing issues without having to make changes on their phone.

Unlike device-based accessibility features or third-party apps, the service works entirely within the operator’s network. This allows participants to make and receive calls without needing to change their device or how they use it.

In the test participants completed a short, automated hearing test to identify how they perceive different sound frequencies. Personalised hearing profiles were then generated and securely linked to their mobile numbers, enabling the network to adapt how speech is delivered to them during calls in real time.

Following the trial, nearly 90% of participants reported improvements in call clarity, with many noting reduced listening effort, fewer misunderstandings and a more natural calling experience.

Jorge Ribeiro, director of core networks at Virgin Media O2, stated the trial was about using intelligence within the network to improve the experience without asking customers to do anything differently.

“We are encouraged by the early results from this proof-of-concept and are excited to explore how this type of technology could support more accessible services for our customers in future,” he said.

While still at an early stage, O2 said it is encouraged by the results and is exploring how the technology could be developed further to support accessible services at scale.

The post VMO2, Mavenir trial tech for hearing-impaired users appeared first on Mobile World Live.

Managed services provider MetTel completed a rapid network capacity upgrade for the US General Services Administration (GSA), equipping 11 federal offices across the country with connectivity infrastructure to support the Trump administration’s return-to-office mandate.

The project, delivered under the GSA’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract, involved the installation of 22 high-capacity network circuits alongside SD-WAN technology and VoIP services, enabling hundreds of federal employees to return to fully connected work locations.

Among the most demanding elements was a 10-gigabit circuit requiring entirely new carrier infrastructure, which was completed in under 60 days to meet the expedited timeline of a Telecommunications Service Priority order.

Don Parente, vice president of public sector at MetTel, said the mandate created an urgent, real-world test of the company’s capabilities.

“Our operations team delivered fast, reliable network modernisation, meeting the Administration’s Executive Order to return to work,” he said.

The SD-WAN architecture, which MetTel had previously deployed for the GSA, was a key enabler of the fast turnaround. The technology provides intelligent traffic management, enhanced resiliency and centralised network visibility, while high-capacity circuits were tailored to the specific needs of each site.

Bandwidth was sized for future growth, building in capacity to support evolving workforce and digital requirements without requiring additional infrastructure overhauls.

The Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) programme under which the work was delivered, is a 15-year, $50 billion government-wide vehicle designed to help federal agencies modernise their telecommunications and network infrastructure.

US-based MetTel has held EIS contract authority since January 2020, delivering network modernisation, managed services and communications transformation projects throughout that period.

The upgrade underscores the broader infrastructure pressures facing federal agencies as the return-to-office push accelerates demand for reliable, high-capacity government networks.

The post MetTel upgrades US government network infrastructure appeared first on Mobile World Live.