Centre Acts to Prevent Damage to Underground Utilities During Telecom Cable Laying: Scindia
Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia announced that the government has rolled out multiple safeguards to protect underground utilities, including drinking water pipelines, during telecom cable installations. The 2024 Telecommunication Right of Way Rules empower public entities to set conditions and claim compensation for any damage. A mandatory "Call Before u Dig" (CBuD) mobile app now coordinates excavations, with Punjab issuing a state‑wide directive and the central government urging all states to map assets on the PM GatiShakti platform. These steps aim to streamline telecom rollout while minimizing accidental utility disruptions.
Breeze Connect Launches Operator Connect for Teams Direct Voice Calling
Breeze Connect has rolled out Microsoft Teams Operator Connect for direct voice calling across Australia. The offering bundles a Microsoft 365 + Teams Phone licence from Leader Cloud with handsets, headsets, MTR systems and Teams Calling plans, all managed by Breeze. It...
Catalyst Announces Integration with FirstNet Fusion From AT&T
Interoperability provider Catalyst Communications announced that its Catalyst Dispatch platform will be integrated into AT&T’s FirstNet Fusion MCX ecosystem, the next‑generation public‑safety broadband solution. The integration delivers native 3GPP‑compliant dispatch with built‑in LMR interworking, allowing dispatchers to operate across legacy...
The Post-Capacity Era of Satellite Connectivity
Novaspace’s eighth Capacity Pricing Trends report declares a Post‑Capacity Era for satellite connectivity, where bandwidth is no longer the primary differentiator. Starlink’s sub‑$0.30 per GB pricing is driving a structural decline in capacity costs and forcing the industry to compete...
Motorola Solutions Connects Vic Search and Rescue Dog Orgs to Radio Network
Motorola Solutions donated APX 8000 portable two‑way radios to Australian Search and Rescue K9 and Search and Rescue Dogs Australia, linking them to Victoria's state radio network. The equipment enables the volunteer dog teams to communicate securely with police, ambulance and fire...
Fiber Frenzy
Comcast finished extending its Xfinity fiber network in Clark County, Washington, bringing high‑speed symmetrical internet to roughly 500 homes northeast of Battle Ground Lake. Meanwhile, Charter announced a Spectrum fiber rollout in Washtenaw County, Michigan, slated to connect nearly 1,000 addresses across...
SpaceBridge CEO David Gelerman Explains Why UniHub Is a Pivotal Launch for Company
SpaceBridge is set to unveil UniHub at SATShow 2026, a software‑defined, modular VSAT hub packaged in a compact 3RU enclosure. The all‑in‑one solution promises up to five‑fold performance gains over the legacy ASAT‑II architecture and dramatically faster field deployment. CEO...
Contrivian Becomes Authorized Reseller of Amazon Leo for State, Local Governments
Contrivian announced it has become an authorized reseller of Amazon’s Leo low‑Earth‑orbit satellite service, extending its portfolio of multi‑modal connectivity for U.S. state and local governments. The partnership allows Contrivian to embed Leo’s satellite links into its software‑defined network platform,...
ST Engineering iDirect Forms African Connectivity Partnership With Q-KON
ST Engineering iDirect and African satellite services firm Q‑KON announced a partnership to launch the Intuition Unbound platform across Africa. Q‑KON will provide satellite capacity and teleport facilities in South Africa, while iDirect supplies its scalable ground connectivity solution. The...
Gomez Webinar To Focus On Telecom Act’s 30 Years
On March 17, FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez will host a three‑hour webinar commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The event features a panel of policy veterans who helped craft and implement the landmark law. Topics...
Updated Resource: Community Networks Continue to Win Big in California's Infrastructure Grant Program
California’s Last‑Mile Federal Funding Account has awarded a total of $1.23 billion, with community networks capturing half of the $110 million granted in the latest round. The Hoopa Valley Utility Authority secured a nearly $40 million Hoopa TRAIL project to deliver gigabit service to...
Keysight Collaborates with 3dB Labs to Enable Interoperable Signal Monitoring and Analysis
Keysight Technologies has integrated its spectrum analyzers and FieldFox handheld units with 3dB Labs’ Sceptre software, creating a unified signal‑monitoring platform. The partnership lets users operate Keysight hardware directly within Sceptre, streamlining real‑time and offline analysis across mixed‑vendor RF environments....
Top 5 New Broadcom-VMware Products In 2026: Chips, Wi-Fi 8 And Cloud Platform
Broadcom and VMware unveiled five major products in 2026, including the VMware Telco Cloud Platform 9, a private‑cloud solution for telco operators, and a unified Wi‑Fi 8 platform built around the BCM4918 APU. The hardware lineup adds the BroadPeak integrated radio DFE...
Google Fiber Just Went Live in This US City with 8 Gig Speeds
Google Fiber has begun service in Las Vegas, Nevada, offering up to 8 Gigabit speeds. The launch includes plans from 1 Gbps to 8 Gbps with symmetric download and upload rates of 8,000 Mbps. Service is currently limited to the incorporated city, with no...
Totogi: ‘Building AI that Really Works at Scale Is Not a Weekend Project’
Totogi’s Ontology is an executable knowledge layer that sits above BSS, OSS and network systems, providing a unified decision infrastructure for telco AI. The platform recently secured a deal with Singapore’s StarHub, promising up to a 10% boost in enterprise...
Technology-Driven Cable Market Cycles
The submarine telecom market experiences pronounced cycles that closely follow technological advances, as illustrated by a 1987‑2025 analysis of cable length deployments. New technologies—such as the 1990s shift to optical fiber and the introduction of Erbium‑Doped Fiber Amplifiers—drastically lower cost...
MTN Launches Click-to-Deploy StarEdge Horizon Satellite Service on AWS Marketplace
MTN has launched StarEdge Horizon, a private LEO satellite service, on the AWS Marketplace, allowing enterprises to provision global satellite links as a native cloud resource. The solution delivers a true Layer 2 network over SpaceX’s Starlink constellation with static IP...
Fibocom Targets Smart Pet Collars with MQ771-GL LPWA Module
Fibocom unveiled the MQ771-GL LPWA module at Embedded World 2026, targeting smart pet collars. The module combines Cat‑M and NB‑IoT with a 17.7 × 15.8 mm footprint and power‑saving modes as low as 1 µA, promising battery life extensions from days to months. Fibocom...
1NCE Adds Netmore LoRaWAN via Plugin, Bringing LoRaWAN and Cellular Under One IoT Platform
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,...
Mint Mobile Can Help You Stream on the Go for Less
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...
Integrated Digital Connectivity Drives Africa’s Growth
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 %...
SoftBank Takes Aim at Latency with some AI Wizardry
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 Launches Taurus BCM83640 A 3nm 400G Per Lane Optical DSP
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 Carrier Guide to 2026: Traffic, Tech and Trends
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...
O2 Offers Subscribers 5G+ Upgrades but Struggles to Explain Why
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...
Broadband Access Equipment to Return to Growth in 2026
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 Selects IT for Kunoa North Cable
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...
Internet Outages in Russia to Last as Long as ‘Necessary’ to Ensure ‘Safety’: Kremlin
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 Expands Canadian Landing Station Footprint for Lightspeed
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...
The Industrial eSIM Revolution: A Conversation with Pelion’s Alan Tait
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 Expands Microsoft Teams Phone Capabilities with Operator Connect Configuration for Dynamics 365
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...
Netcracker CTO: Achieving High Value with AI Is Telecom’s Next Inflection Point
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...
Ground Control: The Strategic Backbone for Telcos’ Space-Based Infrastructure
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...
La Luce Cristallina Releases Beta-Version of 200mm Barium Titanate Wafer
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...
Research: Glasgow Tops UK Broadband Outages
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...
GSMA Intelligence: Telecom Operators Must Accelerate Shift to Intent-Driven Autonomous Networks
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...
Telecom News: ADTRAN, Keysight Technologies, TeraSignal, OFC 2026
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...
How MSB Micro Systems Helps Resellers Deliver Always-On Enterprise APN
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....
10 MHz to 110 GHz Ultra-Wideband Distributed Amplifier
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....
BookEnd
"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 Companies Express Concern over Stoppage of LPG Supply
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...
8 Years After Its Founding at Mobile World Congress, Can Open RAN Scale?
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...
Viasat Wins $14 Million Contract to Provide In-Flight Satcom for Navy Executive Aircraft
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...
UK’s First Live Broadcast Using New N40 Private 5G Spectrum
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...
Wireless Industry: Light Poles Covered Under Pole Access Rules
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...
ADRF Launches Next Generation of Its Popular Public Safety Wireless Solution
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...
ACCC Backs Tighter Rules on Mobile Coverage Claims
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...
Ripple Fiber Plans to Begin Fiber Construction in Haverhill
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...
Cable One’s Sparklight Launches Mobile Service with Free Line Promotion
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 Launches Voice Relay
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...