Next-generation mobile and network convergence creates great opportunity and challenge. This talk overviews and suggests translink convergence as a way to leverage O-RAN’s and 3GPP’s significant efforts to date as well as to enable order-of-magnitude improvements in cost, sustainability, latency, and throughputs/coverage. Translink convergence specifically leverages fronthaul split 7.2 in an usual way, using also the existing and contemplated computing/signal-processing capability of distributed units, radio intelligent controllers, and edge-cloud computing virtualization and desegregation. The talk overviews some basic fundamentals in the concept and outlines the approaches to the order-of-magnitude improvements.