Getting Network Automation Right: A Practical Strategy for Enterprise Networks
Enterprise network automation hinges on strategic planning rather than just tool selection. Leaders must prioritize process maturity, governance, and skill development before deploying IaC platforms like Terraform or Ansible. A phased, high‑frequency task approach mitigates risk in brownfield environments, while aligning automation with broader digital transformation goals. This balanced strategy delivers consistency, faster service delivery, and stronger compliance.
Turk Telekom Opens 5G Technology and Innovation Centre in Istanbul
Turk Telekom has opened a 5G Technology and Innovation Centre at its Gayrettepe headquarters in Istanbul. The 600‑square‑metre hub serves as a live‑lab showcasing real‑world 5G applications and demos. It offers a test environment for startups, corporates, universities and public institutions...
Panasonic Enjoys Rapid IFE Growth as Connected Seatback Takes Wing
Panasonic Avionics reports rapid growth of its Astrova OLED inflight entertainment (IFE) platform as airlines adopt low‑latency LEO satellite connectivity, notably United Airlines’ Starlink rollout. United’s Starlink‑enabled seatbacks now let passengers stream personal services such as Spotify directly on the...
🛰️ AST SpaceMobile ($ASTS) Deep Dive
AST SpaceMobile’s shares have surged from under $20 to a market capitalization above $30 billion, drawing heightened attention from hedge funds and analysts. Recent filings show Cantor Fitzgerald increased its stake by roughly 140%, a rare move for a company still...
HFCL Bags USD 1.10 Billion OFC Contract with Global MNC
HFCL Ltd. has secured a long‑term supply agreement with a global multinational corporation to provide high‑fibre‑count optical fiber cables (OFC) worth approximately USD 1.10 billion through December 2030. The contract will deliver multi‑million fibre‑kilometre volumes each year, marking HFCL’s first multi‑year OFC deal...
Defining the Blueprint | Shifting Contours of Connectivity in an AI-Native 6G Era
The telecom industry is redefining 6G as an AI‑native, cloud‑native architecture rather than a simple upgrade of 5G. AI will be embedded in every control loop, turning networks into self‑optimizing platforms that can predict failures and allocate resources in real...
Ericsson Drives 6G Journey Toward an Intelligent Fabric at MWC 2026
Ericsson used Mobile World Congress 2026 to showcase its AI‑native 6G roadmap, positioning its silicon‑based radios and open‑source software as the backbone of an intelligent network fabric. The company announced collaborations with Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and the Linux Foundation’s OCUDU...
IOH, Safaricom Partner on AI, Mobile Financial Services
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) and Kenya's Safaricom have signed a partnership to co‑develop digital services, emphasizing artificial intelligence, mobile financial solutions, and network planning. The agreement leverages IOH’s push to embed AI across its telecom operations and Safaricom’s proven M‑Pay...
AT&T Commits $250 Billion Through 2030 to Build Essential Infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence
AT&T announced a $250 billion capital spending plan through 2030 to expand its fiber and 5G networks, specifically targeting the bandwidth and latency needs of artificial‑intelligence workloads. The company aims to become the foundational network layer for the emerging AI economy,...
MTN South Sudan Provides Free Mobile Data for Educare Platform
MTN South Sudan has signed an MOU with Educare to provide zero‑rated access to the Junub Academy e‑learning platform. The initiative allows students and teachers nationwide to use curriculum‑aligned digital content without incurring mobile data charges. By focusing on underserved...
Radost Adds App in Hungarian, Accepts Foreign IDs
O2 Slovakia’s MVNO Radost has expanded its mobile app to include Hungarian, joining Slovak and English. The update also lets users activate service using a range of foreign identity documents, covering countries such as the Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, the...
Ghana Consults on Plans for A2P Messaging Traffic Gateway
Ghana’s National Communications Authority (NCA) has opened a public consultation on a new regulatory framework for international Application‑to‑Person (A2P) messaging traffic. The proposal aims to give regulators greater visibility into cross‑border messaging, curb revenue leakage from unauthorized routing, and combat...
Beeline Uzbekistan Revenues up 12% in Q4
Beeline Uzbekistan, a Veon subsidiary, reported fourth‑quarter 2025 revenue of 1.002 trillion Uzbek soums, an 11.8 percent increase year‑on‑year. Growth was driven by disciplined pricing, higher handset sales and faster digital adoption. Telecom and infrastructure services rose 3 percent to 872.2 billion soums, helped...
Kyivstar Revenues Grow 30% in Q4
Kyivstar, the Ukrainian arm of Veon, posted fourth‑quarter 2025 revenue of UAH 13.5 billion, a 30.1% year‑on‑year increase. EBITDA rose 23.1% to UAH 7.2 billion, delivering a 53.5% margin. The company’s multiplay subscriber base expanded 18% to 7.3 million, while its mobile customer count slipped...
The Most "AI-Powered" MWC of All Time
Mobile World Congress 2026 showcased AI as the event’s prevailing theme, with vendors and operators touting AI‑powered antennas, networks and software. Nvidia emphasized its role as a computing‑platform provider rather than a direct telecom solution builder, enabling AI‑driven network optimisation...
Telia Norway Upgrades Svindelsperre Scam Blocker
Telia Norway has rolled out an upgrade to its Svindelsperre scam‑blocking service, which debuted last year. The enhancement, operational for three weeks, automatically rejects international calls originating from numbers that do not conform to standard numbering formats. By filtering out...
Ericsson on Africa and the Impact of AI at MWC 26
At MWC 26, Ericsson’s VP for West and Southern Africa, Majda Lahlou Kassi, outlined the company’s strategy to pair AI with 5G‑Standalone and 5G‑Advanced to accelerate digital transformation across the continent. The firm unveiled more than ten AI‑enabled radio products and a...
Mobile Mast on Islay Resolves Another Total Mobile Not-Spot in Scotland
The Shared Rural Network programme has activated its second mobile mast on Islay, delivering 4G coverage to a previously total not‑spot. The green‑finished mast near Kilchoman extends service across 14 km of roads, paths and tracks along the island's western coast....
Antevia Networks, Benetel Partner to Drive Outdoor Private 5G Deployments
Antevia Networks and Benetel announced a strategic partnership that integrates Benetel’s outdoor O‑RU with Antevia’s 5G SHIFT private network platform. The combined solution promises faster, repeatable outdoor private 5G deployments with simplified procurement and clearer responsibility boundaries. It is positioned for...
Network Device Telemetry Protocols with Dinesh Dutt
In the latest episode of Software Gone Wild, the host discusses network device telemetry with Dinesh Dutt, a leading authority on the subject. The conversation examines why many operators still rely on screen‑scraping despite the availability of modern protocols such...
bgproutes.io: A Next-Generation BGP Data Collection Platform
bgproutes.io launches as a next‑generation BGP data platform that aggregates routing information from RIPE RIS, RouteViews, PCH and its own peers, surpassing 5,000 worldwide VPs. It uses automated peering via PeeringDB and the BGP Monitoring Protocol to capture both best‑path and...
Still Reports of Ongoing iTalk Outage — Two Weeks On
The iTalk broadband outage has now lasted nearly two weeks, leaving thousands of ADSL and FTTC customers offline. iTalk, a reseller of Vodafone and TalkTalk wholesale services, has not responded to inquiries, prompting speculation about a wholesale migration or commercial...
AT&T Launches New Postpaid and Business Smartphone Plan Lineups Including Up To 300GB Of Mobile Hotspot Data
AT&T unveiled revamped post‑paid consumer and business smartphone plans, introducing the Value 2.0, Extra 2.0 and Premium 2.0 line‑up for individuals and Unlimited Standard 3.0, Advanced 3.0 and Premium 3.0 for enterprises. The top consumer tier now includes 100 GB of mobile‑hotspot data and 4K streaming, while...
Vodafone Greece Waives Roaming, International Calling Fees for Subscribers in Middle East
Vodafone Greece announced a limited‑time support package that eliminates roaming and international calling charges for its Greek subscribers traveling to or residing in the Middle East. The waiver applies to ten countries, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates...
Total Wireless Expands Store Count as Verizon Pushes Harder Into Value Wireless Retail
Total Wireless, Verizon's prepaid value brand, now operates over 2,000 stores nationwide, adding 1,100 locations in 2025 and averaging three new openings per day in 2026. The company aims to reach 4,000‑5,000 stores as part of a long‑term growth plan....
TOTSCo Consults on Monitoring and Improvements to One Touch Switching
TOTSCo, the operator of the One Touch Switch (OTS) platform, has opened a consultation to address performance gaps after 18 months of operation and roughly 2.5 million broadband switches. The body highlights four problem areas – hub match success, failed messages,...
Lifecell Reaches 29% of Voice Traffic over LTE Network
Ukrainian mobile operator Lifecell reported that voice traffic carried over its LTE network now accounts for 29% of total calls. The carrier’s VoLTE subscriber base reached almost 1.5 million in January, a 2.5‑fold increase year‑on‑year. About 4.5 million smartphones – roughly 66%...
Tower Company Pilar Targets Expansion in Media Sector
Pilar, a Russian tower operator owned by mobile carrier T2, is expanding its presence in the media sector. The firm manages over 33,500 telecommunications towers nationwide, with broadcasters accounting for 25 % of its customer base. In the past year it...
Life Belarus Increases 4G Speeds with LTE Network Expansion
Life Belarus has rolled out 587 new antennas across 300 LTE base stations, boosting its network capacity. The operator completed upgrades on 139 sites by March 10, with roughly 85% of them now operating on the 1,800 MHz band. These enhancements have...
Rostelecom Upgrades Telecom Infrastructure at Evraz Plant in Yekaterinburg
Rostelecom has finished the second phase of modernising the telecommunications infrastructure at Evraz’s Kachkanar mining and processing plant in the Yekaterinburg region. The rollout adds a private LTE network, expanding on nine base stations installed in the first phase with...
Benchmark Telecom Introduces Ranger XL Mobile Mast for Temporary Coverage
Benchmark Telecom, a Belgian telecom infrastructure provider, launched the Ranger XL, a mobile transmitter designed for temporary network capacity. The telescopic mast extends up to 30 meters and can be operational in just 30 minutes. It targets high‑traffic events such as festivals and...
EXCLUSIVE March 2026 Update on Openreach Full-Fibre Roll-Out
Openreach added 363,513 full‑fibre premises in the past four weeks, bringing its total database to 21.75 million sites – 65.1 % of UK premises. In the last quarter the company passed FTTP to another 1.06 million locations and is on track to hit...
FCC Alert on Cybersecurity Risks
The Federal Communications Commission issued an unprecedented cybersecurity alert for telecom operators, noting a fourfold rise in ransomware attacks from 2022 to 2025. The agency urges carriers to patch systems promptly, enable multi‑factor authentication, segment networks, and monitor vendor security...
Qualcomm X105 6G-Ready 5G Modem to Deliver 14.8 Gbps Download and 4.2 Gbps Upload Peak Data Speeds
Qualcomm unveiled the X105, the industry’s first 3GPP Release 19‑ready modem‑RF system, capable of 14.8 Gbps downlink and 4.2 Gbps uplink peak speeds. Built on a 6 nm RF transceiver, it delivers 30% lower power consumption and a 15% smaller footprint than the X85....
IPv4 ECMP Works on Arista cEOS Release 4.35.2F
Arista’s cEOS 4.35.2F release finally supports IPv4 ECMP, allowing forwarded traffic to be balanced across multiple equal‑cost paths in an anycast topology. The lab test shows packets alternating between two downstream nodes, confirming functional ECMP. However, locally originated traffic still...
Kaniz Mahdi Joins TM Forum’s AI and Data Mission Board
TM Forum announced that Kaniz Mahdi, AWS Industries Director of Technology, has joined its AI and Data Mission Board. The board will steer the AI‑Native Blueprint, which debuted three core projects—Model as a Service, Data Products Lifecycle Management, and Agentic...
Turris Omnia NG Wired Dual 10GbE, Quad 2.5GbE Router Drops Wi-Fi for Cost Savings
Turris has launched the Omnia NG Wired router, mirroring the feature set of its Wi‑Fi 7 model but stripping out built‑in wireless to cut costs. The device offers dual 10 GbE SFP+ cages, four 2.5 GbE RJ45 ports, a Qualcomm IPQ9574 SoC, 2 GB...
APNIC Routing Security SIG at APRICOT 2026: Social Engineering, RPKI, ASPA, & TA Constraints
At APRICOT 2026, APNIC’s Routing Security SIG highlighted six RPKI‑related initiatives, most notably Indonesia’s rapid climb to over 90% RPKI coverage driven by the IIX’s drop‑invalid policy. The session introduced the Autonomous System Provider Authorization (ASPA) object for path validation and...
EU Regulation Dossier Updated for 2026
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...
INCA State of the Altnet Report Says Altnets Moving Towards Monetisation
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...
The Gulf Built Oil Pipelines to Avoid Hormuz. It’s Now Doing the Same for Data
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 Now Offering 1.7 Gbps and 2.3 Gbps CityFibre Full Fibre
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....
VIAVI Unveils True-Phase DAS Fiber Sensing Interrogator with AI/ML at the Edge
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...
Pakistan Raises USD 507 Million in 5G Spectrum Auction
Pakistan’s telecom regulator, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), concluded a major 5G spectrum auction on March 10, offering 595 MHz and selling 480 MHz for $507 million. Jazz secured the largest share with 190 MHz, while Zong obtained 110 MHz and Ufone 180 MHz. The auction generated...
Rogers Upgrades Fido Customers to 5G at No Extra Cost
Rogers Communications will automatically upgrade the majority of its low‑cost Fido mobile customers from 4G LTE to 5G, with no price increase or plan change. The nationwide rollout promises speeds up to 1 Gbps for users with compatible devices. The upgrade...
Telefonica Germany Expands 5G Coverage to More Areas
Telefónica Germany announced the rollout of its 5G network to three additional locations—Cunnewitz, Kroeppelshagen‑Fahrendorf, and Neuenhasslau. The upgrades bring high‑speed mobile connectivity to these towns, aligning with the operator’s broader plan to launch roughly 8,000 5G projects by 2025. This...
Home Unity Launches Retail Services over Freedom Fibre Network
Home Unity announced the launch of retail broadband services over the Freedom Fibre network, adding the provider to its portfolio of alternative networks. Freedom Fibre’s current footprint spans the North West and West Midlands, with plans to extend into Bristol,...
Semtech Launches Device-to-Cloud Cellular Video Platform for Critical Surveillance, Analytics
Semtech introduced a device‑to‑cloud cellular video platform built around its AirLink AR60 5G router and an AI‑powered compression engine from Digital Barrier. The solution couples multi‑IMSI carrier management via Semtech Smart Connectivity with edge‑level video compression, enabling live, high‑resolution surveillance...
MTS Launches Voice Transcription Service for Customers with Hearing Impairments
MTS has launched a free, nationwide voice transcription service for hearing‑impaired customers, converting incoming calls to real‑time text and turning typed replies into spoken audio. The solution uses MTS VoiceTech’s AI‑driven speech recognition and synthesis, eliminating the need for third‑party...
Mega Launches Family Plan with Unlimited Data for 3 Sims
Kyrgyz telecom operator Mega unveiled the Family Plus plan, priced at KGS 790 per month for three SIM cards with unlimited mobile data and on‑net voice minutes. The package also provides 20 off‑network minutes and the option to add extra SIMs for...
