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California launches $3.2B Middle‑Mile Broadband Network, Connecting Tribal and Rural Communities
The state’s Department of Technology has activated the $3.2 billion Middle‑Mile Broadband Initiative, the nation’s largest open‑access middle‑mile network. The first connection was made to the Bishop Paiute Tribe in Inyo County, marking the inaugural tribal customer. Governor Gavin Newsom aims to build 8,000 miles of fiber, with over 5,300 miles slated for completion by the end of 2026.
1NCE has integrated Netmore’s LoRaWAN services into its 1NCE OS platform via a dedicated Network Server plugin, allowing customers to manage both cellular and LoRaWAN connectivity from a single software stack. The move targets hybrid IoT deployments—such as smart cities, street lighting, and logistics—where coverage gaps and operational silos increase cost and complexity. By offering unified visibility, ingestion and routing tools, the partnership promises redundancy and broader reach without requiring separate back‑end integrations. The Netmore LoRaWAN plugin is now publicly available, marking the start of a deeper strategic collaboration between the two firms.
20% more spectral efficiency. In #telecom, that’s massive. At #MWC26, I sat down with Joe Constantine from Ericsson broke down how #AI in RAN is driving: → +20% efficiency → +14% energy savings → 5x better positioning The real shift? From offline, file-based management → to...
Mint Mobile positions itself as a budget‑friendly carrier for mobile streaming, offering plans from $15 to $30 a month with flexible data caps. A 5 GB plan can deliver roughly nine hours of video per day, while the unlimited option limits...
Analysts estimate a $2.9 trillion digital opportunity in Africa over the next five years, positioning the continent as the world’s fastest‑growing bandwidth market. Internet usage has climbed to roughly 40 % of the 1.5 billion population, though it remains well below the 66 %...
CallTower is enabling inbound PSTN calls from its Operator Connect service to flow directly into Dynamics 365 workstreams. That might sound simple. In practice, connecting telephony with CRM and service systems has traditionally required multiple vendors, custom routing, or dedicated...
The EU’s 2026 spectrum regulation dossier has been refreshed, adding two new research notes that examine 5G rollout across the 27‑member bloc and in the Balkans. The notes evaluate the effectiveness of the EU’s 5G “pioneer bands” and the persistent...
The INCA State of the Altnets report shows full‑fibre coverage reaching 19.7 million premises by the end of 2025, with live connections climbing 32% to 3.5 million. Growth is driven largely by customers switching from Openreach and Virgin Media, pushing the altnet...
SoftBank unveiled Autonomous Thinking Distributed Core Routing, an AI‑driven system that pairs a CAMARA QoD API with an intelligent agent to dynamically select the optimal network path. The solution toggles between user‑plane‑function routing for efficiency and SRv6 mobile user plane...
Broadcom unveiled the Taurus BCM83640, a 3nm optical PAM4 DSP delivering 400 Gbps per lane and enabling 1.6 Tbps transceivers. The chip acts as an 8‑to‑4 gearbox PHY, offering best‑in‑class bit‑error‑rate and power efficiency. It paves the way for future 3.2 Tbps modules...
The 2026 Carrier Guide highlights three dominant trends shaping telecom operators: heightened demand for redundancy and resiliency, pervasive AI integration, and the emergence of quantum‑grade security. Traffic volumes continue to climb, forcing carriers to publish granular network maps that prove...
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O2 announced that its 5G standalone (5G+) network now covers more than 700 UK towns and is available to every subscriber, regardless of plan tier. The carrier promotes the upgrade as delivering stronger reliability and capacity in high‑traffic venues, while...
Dell’Oro Group reports the global broadband access equipment market generated $4.8 billion in Q4 2025, a 7 percent quarter‑over‑quarter rise and modest 2 percent year‑over‑year growth. While 2025 marked the end of a three‑year spending contraction, the data signal a rebound poised for 2026....
Hawaiian Telcom has contracted IT International Telecom to design, supply, and install the Kunoa North inter‑island subsea fiber‑optic cable system, slated for completion in 2028. The $87 million project, financed with a $37 million NTIA grant and $50 million from Hawaiian Telcom, will...
The Kremlin announced that mobile internet outages across Russia will persist for as long as necessary to protect citizen safety, attributing the disruptions to increasingly sophisticated Ukrainian cyber attacks. Outages have been documented in Moscow and western cities such as...
Telesat announced new Canadian landing‑station sites in Estevan and Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, and Papineauville, Quebec, expanding its ground footprint ahead of Lightspeed pathfinder launches in December. The company aims to operate 24 landing stations worldwide by the start of global services...
At MWC Barcelona 2026, Pelion CTO Alan Tait outlined the shift toward an eSIM‑first architecture for industrial IoT, highlighting the transition from legacy SGP.02 to the emerging SGP.32 standard. He emphasized that the new specifications simplify global provisioning for diverse...
CallTower announced that its Operator Connect telephone numbers can now be configured directly within Microsoft Dynamics 365, allowing inbound PSTN calls to flow through a Teams resource account into CRM workstreams. The integration eliminates the need for a separate telephony...
At MWC26 Netcracker CTO Bob Titus warned that AI marks a critical inflection point for telecoms, promising new revenue, cost reductions, and superior customer experiences. He emphasized that operators must upgrade talent, build robust, governable AI architectures, and prioritize high‑value...
Telcos are transforming ground infrastructure into the operational backbone of space‑based connectivity, merging teleports, gateway stations and edge data centers with cloud and 5G networks. e& showcased this shift by delivering the Middle East’s first 1.25 Gbps satellite link from its...
Gulf nations are racing to construct six overland data corridors linking the region to Europe, routing traffic through Syria, Iraq, and the Horn of Africa. The most advanced, Saudi Arabia's SilkLink, secured an $800 million contract to lay 4,500 km of fiber...
All Points Fibre Networks (APFN) has upgraded its Aquila wholesale platform to deliver 1.7 Gbps and 2.3 Gbps multi‑gigabit speeds using CityFibre’s XGS‑PON technology, bringing its offering in line with other CityFibre‑based platforms. The 5 Gbps tier remains exclusive to Sky for now....
La Luce Cristallina announced the beta‑release of its 200 mm barium titanate (BaTiO₃) wafer, now available for customer evaluation in advanced electro‑optic modulators. The wafer’s ultra‑low‑voltage operation leverages BaTiO₃’s high Pockels coefficient, targeting co‑packaged optics for AI‑driven data‑center, telecom and datacom workloads. It...
VIAVI Solutions introduced a next‑generation True‑Phase Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) interrogator that embeds AI and machine‑learning at the network edge. The device leverages VIAVI’s patented phase‑stepping interferometry to deliver accurate strain, vibration and acoustic measurements across multiple fibers. Real‑time event...
Broadband Genie’s research of 3,200 UK bill‑payer connections shows a pronounced regional gap in broadband reliability, measured by outages over 48 hours per £100 spent. Glasgow leads with 0.94 outages per £100, far above Belfast (0.57) and London (0.53), while...
Mobile operators must accelerate the shift to intent‑driven autonomous networks, according to a GSMA Intelligence report highlighting rising operational complexity and cost pressures. Most operators remain at Level 2 autonomy, with isolated automation delivering limited OPEX savings. The study calls for...
ADTRAN unveiled the LiteWave800, an ultra‑low‑power 800 Gb/s linear pluggable optics module that operates at just 1 pJ per bit and 0.8 W, targeting intra‑data‑center links for AI and cloud workloads. Keysight introduced the AresONE 1600GE, a 1.6‑terabit Ethernet platform that emulates AI...
Mobile connectivity has become a boardroom priority in Southern Africa, yet a 60% usage gap persists despite widespread coverage. Operators have poured billions into batteries and generators to keep 4G services alive during load‑shedding, underscoring the need for engineered resilience....
Eravant has introduced the SBB‑0111141708‑1F1F‑E1, an ultra‑wideband distributed amplifier that spans 10 MHz to 110 GHz. It delivers 17 dB gain up to 70 GHz, 16 dB to 90 GHz, and 10 dB at the top of the band, while offering both coaxial and Uni‑Guide waveguide interfaces....
"Over-the-Air Measurement for Wireless Communication Systems" by Yihong Qi and James L. Drewniak offers a comprehensive guide to OTA testing, spanning fundamentals to advanced MIMO and massive‑MIMO techniques. The book aligns its content with 3GPP and CTIA standards, making it...
Telecom tower manufacturers in India have seen LPG supplies cut off after a government order redirected public‑sector LPG to domestic consumers. The Digital Infrastructure Providers Association (DIPA) warned that the loss of LPG, which powers galvanization furnaces, could force plants...
Eight years after its 2018 launch at Mobile World Congress, the O‑RAN Alliance is moving from proof‑of‑concept to large‑scale commercial deployment. Rakuten Mobile posted its first profit, operating a fully open, cloud‑native network for 10.2 million subscribers across 350,000 cells. Major...
Thanks to @FCC pro-competition policies championed by @BrendanCarrFCC and @OliviaTrustyFCC, broadband Internet access price deflation -- read that again, PRICE DEFLATION -- is a real thing and a golden opportunity for low-income Americans to snag a great plan featuring...
Starlink is set up in a non-perfect spot on the balcony of my hotel. Not bad. https://t.co/iLyHatxq5W
Viasat has been awarded a $14 million contract to provide in‑flight satellite communications for the U.S. Navy’s C‑37 executive transport aircraft. The two‑year sole‑source agreement, issued by the Space Systems Command Commercial Space Office, will equip the Gulfstream‑based jets with Viasat’s...
More #MWC26 fallout: Here, Mark Giles, Luke Kehoe, Karim Yaici and I go over our highs and lows from the show last week. https://t.co/vj52qeHWwO
ICYMI US lawmakers urged the Trump administration to close the loopholes that have allowed a unit of blacklisted Chinese tech giant Huawei to operate freely in the US https://t.co/OW33O82sVC
Neutral Wireless, Haivision and ITN delivered the United Kingdom’s first live broadcast using the newly‑available n40 private 5G spectrum (2320‑2340 MHz) for the London New Year’s Eve Fireworks 2025/26. A portable pop‑up 5G Pro system created a single cell covering the...
"The FAA tracks reports of interference, and by the summer of 2025, it had received 659 reports of potential C-band interference. After analyzing the reports, the FAA identified 118 events that were directly attributable to lower C-band interference" https://t.co/8hpXQnKjlq
"6G Connectivity set to unlock New Possibilities for Enterprise I.T. in 2026" 5G enabled faster speeds, lower latency & wider bandwidths. 6G is being positioned not as an incremental improvemen,t but as the fundamental rebuilding network intelligence. https://t.co/Dfu3pZ3W9f
The wireless industry, represented by CTIA, has asked the FCC to confirm that utility‑owned light poles fall under Section 224 of the Communications Act, granting statutory pole‑attachment rights. Clarifying that light poles are “poles” would give carriers clear authority to...
Hacking group begins leaking customer data in Dutch telecom Odido hack https://t.co/byTVBOsAmS "The theft… included names, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, bank account numbers, birth dates and passport numbers." Every day, in every way, it gets worse. https://t.co/DSdcBeqfD7
Advanced RF Technologies (ADRF) unveiled its next‑generation PSR NEO Series public‑safety repeaters, supporting 700/800 MHz and UHF/VHF bands while meeting the latest IFC/NFPA and UL standards. The new units deliver the industry’s highest narrowband channel count—up to 128 channels—and include six wideband...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has endorsed new rules that require mobile operators to display coverage on standardized maps using a ‑115 dBm signal threshold. The proposal, driven by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), would label areas...
Proud to share that my first-author paper, “Optimizing Spectrum Allocation Using Deep Reinforcement Learning in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks,” has been published in Internet Technology Letters, a Wiley journal focused on emerging internet and communication technologies. This work explores how deep...
A 5-minute long 4K video uploaded in 2 minutes over *5G home internet.* It's not fiber, but it can get the job done in the right circumstances. There can be different options for different people and that's OK. I...
Ripple Fiber announced that construction of its 100‑percent fiber‑optic network in Haverhill, Massachusetts will start in the coming months, targeting more than 10,000 homes and businesses. The rollout aims to deliver symmetrical gigabit speeds, enhanced security and contract‑free pricing, with...
Maritime satcom provider #KVHIndustries: 2025 was our turnaround year; new 18-mo, $45M capacity deal w/ @Starlink is 3X the size of our earlier one; 2026 revenue to climb 24%; adj EBITDA 66%. LEO competition's increasing - great news. @EutelsatGroup.https://t.co/Zxf08GDZmr...
Cable One’s Sparklight brand has rolled out Sparklight Mobile, a prepaid wireless service available only to its broadband subscribers. The launch includes a limited‑time promotion that gives eligible customers one unlimited talk‑and‑text line free for twelve months. Three data tiers...
Sinch has expanded its Enterprise Voice platform with Voice Relay, a service that lets developers attach text‑based AI agents to live telephone calls. The offering includes an AI‑ready voice infrastructure, enhanced branded‑calling protection, and broader global network reach. Voice Relay...
