AI Models Raise Telecom Cyber Threat Concerns in India
India’s telecom sector faces heightened cyber‑risk as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI model could autonomously locate and exploit network vulnerabilities. Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia convened emergency talks with carriers and academia, demanding action plans to harden infrastructure. Operators lack direct access to Mythos, complicating mitigation, while pushing zero‑trust and sovereign cyber capabilities. The government‑industry dialogue aims to shape AI‑focused security policies before the model’s broader release.
Optimum Searching for Optimism
Optimum’s first‑quarter 2026 results show a widening broadband subscriber loss of 56,000 after adjustments, while residential broadband ARPU slipped 1.2% to $132.32. The company is deliberately sacrificing short‑term metrics, mirroring Comcast’s convergence play but with a tighter balance sheet. Fixed‑wireless...
Gogo Inc (GOGO) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Gogo reported first‑quarter 2026 revenue of $226.3 million, a modest 2% decline year‑over‑year, while equipment revenue surged 22% on strong 5G and Galileo shipments. Adjusted EBITDA fell 14% YoY to $53.3 million but rose 41% sequentially, and net income jumped to $13.1 million...
Fiber Frenzy
Shentel wrapped up a $32 million fiber build in Franklin County, Virginia, delivering gigabit speeds to more than 6,700 previously unserved homes. Comcast finished construction across four Indiana counties, linking over 2,100 addresses to its residential and business services, and announced...
CBRS Proponents Reiterate Opposition to Higher Power
Proponents of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) reiterated their opposition to any increase in power levels during a New America webinar on May 6, 2026. They argue that higher power would overwhelm the spectrum access systems, cause adjacent‑channel interference,...
Oklahoma Wins a Key Approval for Their BEAD Plan
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration gave final approval to Oklahoma’s Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) plan, unlocking $428 million in federal grants matched by $146 million from local providers. The funding will support last‑mile projects that connect 40,509 homes, businesses...
Koho Close to Securing Banking Licence, Hopes to Launch Telco Product, CEO Says
Koho Financial, the Toronto‑based fintech with over 2.5 million users, is on the brink of securing a Schedule 1 banking licence after raising CAD 190 million (≈US 140 million) in equity and debt. The company reports more than CAD 200 million in revenue and has turned down two...
Verizon Details ‘Satellite-Everywhere’ for Disaster Response, Expands Satellite Fleet
Verizon announced a major expansion of its disaster‑response satellite fleet, now totaling 2,600 assets. The rollout includes a new multi‑orbit off‑road trailer that can switch between GEO and LEO satellites to deliver mobile 5G hotspots in hard‑to‑reach areas. The company...
Power Drives the AI Data Center Boom, but Connectivity Cannot Be Overlooked
AI’s super‑cycle is reshaping data‑center strategy as power demand skyrockets, with Omdia forecasting global IT‑load capacity to reach 314 GW by 2030 – a 2.9‑fold rise. To sustain gigawatt‑scale training clusters, operators must adopt “scale across,” a new DCI model that...
HPE Bolsters Autonomous Network Operations for Mist, Aruba Central
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has integrated autonomous networking capabilities into its Mist AI platform and Aruba Central management suite, enabling real‑time detection, diagnosis, and remediation of network issues without human input. The enhancements include dynamic frequency selection, client roaming insights,...
Will Canada’s Telesat Really Complete Its Lightspeed Constellation by 2028?
Telesat says its Lightspeed low‑Earth‑orbit satellite network will be fully operational by the first quarter of 2028, after investing $171 million in Q1 and bringing total spend to roughly $2.7 billion. The company reported progress on design reviews, user terminals, software and...
Cisco: AI Growth Is Turning Wi-Fi Into Enterprise Infrastructure
Cisco's 2026 State of Wireless Report shows AI is turning Wi‑Fi into a core enterprise infrastructure. While Wi‑Fi 5 still powers 43% of networks, organizations deploying AI are far more likely (62%) to treat wireless as strategic. The survey finds 78%...
Shentel Completes Broadband Project in Franklin County
Shentel completed a $32 million broadband expansion in Franklin County, Virginia, delivering gigabit‑capable fiber to more than 6,700 previously unserved homes. The project was co‑funded by the Virginia Telecommunications Initiative (VATI) and the county, reflecting a public‑private partnership model. Shentel now...
Moving Beyond LLMs with NetAI and Graph Neural Networks
NetAI is replacing large language models with graph neural networks (GNNs) to diagnose network failures. By modeling routers, edges, and protocol layers as a graph, the platform delivers deterministic root‑cause analysis instead of probabilistic guesses. It creates a digital twin...
Ending the Telecom Spreadsheet Era with Lightyear
Lightyear, a telecom‑focused AI platform, replaces manual spreadsheet‑driven billing with an operating‑system‑style solution. Using large language models, it extracts data from any invoice, maps charges to a live network inventory, and automatically flags overcharges, ghost circuits, and contract‑rate variances. The...
IMS2026: The RF and Microwave Event Comes to Boston, June 7–12
The IEEE International MTT Symposia (IMS2026) will convene June 7‑12 in Boston, drawing more than 8,000 engineers, researchers and technology leaders from 55 countries. Over 500 companies, including 91 first‑time exhibitors, will showcase the latest in RF and microwave integrated circuits,...
The Lock-In Loophole that Could Derail Cellular IoT
Cellular IoT, expected to power billions of devices, is finally gaining momentum thanks to the GSMA's SGP.32 eSIM specification. However, a hidden flaw—63% of eSIM remote managers (eIMs) are non‑configurable—creates a new lock‑in risk. Non‑configurable eIMs prevent adding alternative managers,...
Verizon Uses Digital Twins to Defend Against Storm Damage
Verizon is deploying a digital‑twin system that uses high‑resolution 3D drone imagery and AI to map cell‑site damage after storms, letting engineers plan repairs without onsite visits. The carrier is also testing permanent satellite backhaul at storm‑prone macro‑cells in the...
Senators Release Details of BEAD Permitting Bill
The Senate introduced the Accelerating Broadband Permits Act of 2026, requiring the NTIA to create a public dashboard that tracks BEAD funding, service rollout, and subscriber numbers across all states and territories. The bill also mandates a permitting‑toolkit to map...
Morse Micro Selects Gateworks as the First Global Design House Partner
Morse Micro announced Gateworks as the inaugural partner in its Design House Partner Program, a global effort to fast‑track production‑ready Wi‑Fi HaLow solutions. Gateworks, known for rugged embedded hardware made in the United States, will provide M.2 cards and development...
U.S. Space Force Picks ThinKom’s Hidden Satellite Ground Station
ThinKom Solutions won the U.S. Space Force’s 2026 Fight Tonight competition with its Containerized Digital Array, a transportable satellite ground station hidden inside a standard shipping container. The system uses concealed phased‑array antennas and supports multi‑orbit, multi‑band communications across LEO,...
Corning to Build Three New Manufacturing Plants After $500 Million NVIDIA Investment
Corning announced a partnership with NVIDIA that includes a $500 million cash investment and a $2.7 billion option to buy additional Corning stock. The deal will fund three new optical‑glass manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Texas, expanding domestic fiber capacity by...
Satellite Technology and the Legacy of the Media Pioneer
Media mogul Ted Turner died on May 6, 2026, marking the end of a career that fused broadcasting with satellite communications. In 1976 he uplinked his Atlanta UHF station to Satcom‑1, creating the first super‑station and proving that orbital capacity could replace...
Oracle and AWS Partner to Expand Multi-Cloud Networking
Oracle and Amazon Web Services announced a joint effort to extend multi‑cloud networking, linking Oracle Interconnect with AWS Interconnect‑multi‑cloud. The private, high‑performance connection will let customers move data and run applications seamlessly between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and AWS, starting in...
I Tested 5G Across Rural America During a 3-Day Roadtrip - and It Didn't Go Well
Reporter Adam Doud spent three days driving rural America with three Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra phones—each on AT&T, T‑Mobile, and Verizon—to log 5G performance. Using nPerf, he collected over 52,000 data points on network type, signal level, and strength across Iowa, Wisconsin...
NVIDIA Takes Warrants for $500m in Corning Stock as Fibre-Optics Partnership Goes Structural
Nvidia has secured equity‑linked warrants worth roughly $500 million in fibre‑optics maker Corning. The deal gives Nvidia a traditional warrant for up to 15 million shares at $180 each and a pre‑funded warrant for an additional 3 million shares. In return, Corning will...
Wisycom RF Solutions Support Gravity Media’s Live Cycling and Marathon Broadcasts
Gravity Media relies on Wisycom’s RF over Fiber and wireless gear to deliver live coverage of major cycling races and international marathons, including the Tour of Italy, Tour of Denmark, and Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam marathons. The company uses...
Samsung, Qualcomm Claim 5G FWA vRAN First
Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm Technologies validated 5G Power Class 1 (PC1) for fixed wireless access (FWA) on a virtualized RAN, claiming the first industry demonstration of high‑power device transmission combined with a fully software‑driven network. Using Samsung’s vRAN stack, 3.7 GHz massive...
SWISSto12 Contracts HPS/LSS for Deployable Antenna Reflector on HummingSat GEO Mission
Swiss satellite‑communications firm SWISSto12 has awarded German consortium HPS/LSS a contract to build a 5‑meter deployable L‑band antenna reflector for its NEASTAR‑1 mission on the HummingSat GEO platform. The reflector will unfold in orbit, enabling direct‑to‑device media broadcasting from a...
Askey and pureLiFi Take Aim at an FWA Nemesis: Windows
Askey and pureLiFi announced a two‑box solution that uses infrared LiFi to bypass the long‑standing problem of windows attenuating fixed wireless access (FWA) signals. The system pairs an indoor unit that connects to the home network with an outdoor unit...
Verizon Deploys Digital Twin Tech & Expanded Satellite Fleet for 2026 Hurricane Season
Verizon is rolling out a Digital Twin platform that pairs high‑resolution drone imagery with AI to locate storm damage to its network in real time. The carrier has also expanded its satellite fleet to 2,600 assets, adding a Multi‑Orbit Off‑Road...
Tachyon Networks Expands FWA Portfolio With $1.5M Development Partnership With Sivers Semiconductors
Semiconductor firm Sivers Semiconductors announced a $1.5 million development partnership with Tachyon Networks to create a 60 GHz millimeter‑wave transceiver for fixed wireless access (FWA). The collaboration builds on an existing 28 GHz effort, extending Tachyon’s unified platform to support both 28 GHz and...
Fraunhofer IIS Tests High Bandwidths for NTN
In April 2026 Fraunhofer IIS proved a broadband 5G non‑terrestrial network connection over the German GEO satellite Heinrich Hertz using Ka‑band frequencies. The test employed 50‑100 MHz of spectrum and achieved peak data rates of 137 Mbit/s. A seamless handover between the satellite’s north...
Greenerwave and Telespazio France Sign Strategic Agreement to Distribute Multi-Orbit, Low-Power and Sovereign SATCOM Terminals in Europe
Greenerwave and Telespazio France, a Leonardo group subsidiary, have signed a strategic agreement to distribute Greenerwave’s low‑power, multi‑orbit (GEO/LEO) satellite communications terminals across France, the broader European market and the United Kingdom. The partnership targets defense, government and security customers,...
Eurobites: GSMA Shines Spotlight on Networks 'Investment Gap'
Europe’s mobile operators face a €475 bn ($560 bn) investment need over the next decade to achieve world‑class connectivity, yet only €270 bn ($318 bn) is expected to be available, leaving a €205 bn ($241 bn) shortfall. The GSMA’s report urges EU regulators to adopt more...
Switch Storm Coming: Gartner Forecasts Price Hikes, Long Lead Times for Enterprise Data Center Switches
Gartner warns that enterprise data‑center switch markets are entering a storm as vendors divert engineering talent, memory and laser resources toward high‑margin AI infrastructure. The shift will push AI‑focused network fabric spending past traditional data‑center networks by 2026 and more...
Preview: How M360 LATAM Connects a Digital Future
M360 LATAM returns to Mexico City, co‑located with the 13th Latin American Congress on Digital Transformation (CLTD). The event features GSMA’s Vivek Badrinath delivering the opening keynote and introduces the rebranded GLOMO LATAM Awards. Discussions focus on 5G use cases,...
BT Teams up with STACKIT for Sovereign Cloud Push
British telecom BT is linking its Global Fabric network‑as‑a‑service to German sovereign‑cloud provider STACKIT, initially offering internet peering and later a private connectivity option. The collaboration lets organisations outside the EU reach STACKIT’s GDPR‑compliant data centres without traversing the public...
Telenor Forms Standalone Nordic Sovereign Cloud Unit
Telenor announced the creation of Telenor Sovereign Cloud, a standalone Norwegian cloud company housed within its Infrastructure unit. The service will run from nationally controlled data centres, keeping all data under Norwegian jurisdiction and complying with strict security legislation. Targeting...
IBTTA and 5GAA Sign Agreement on V2X Tolling
At the IBTTA Technology Summit in Orlando, the 5G Automotive Association and the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association signed a memorandum of understanding to explore vehicle‑to‑everything (V2X) enabled tolling. The agreement sets a framework for joint technical, testing and...
€475 Billion Required for Europe to Complete Its 5G Journey and Regain Digital Leadership, New GSMA Study Finds
The GSMA study estimates Europe must spend roughly $518 billion on mobile networks through 2035 to reach best‑in‑class 5G, but only about $294 billion (57% of the need) is likely to be funded, leaving a $224 billion gap. Full‑standalone 5G currently covers just...
Jio’s Premium 5G Push Could Change Mobile Plans in India
Reliance Jio is moving beyond cheap data by rolling out at least ten live 5G network slices that enable premium, priority‑grade services. Its fully standalone 5G architecture gives it a technical edge for slicing, positioning Jio to sell differentiated experiences...
The Great Reroute: How ICT Is Powering the New Silk Road
The article outlines how information and communication technology is reshaping the historic Silk Road into a digital corridor of fiber‑optic cables, data centers, and cloud platforms. Projects such as iQ Group’s 3,500‑km Silk Route Transit in Iraq and the Digital...
Capacity Over Coverage: Network Excellence Is the Ultimate Edge
Telecom operators are moving from a coverage‑first mindset to a capacity‑first strategy as data traffic, AI workloads, and enterprise demands surge. Quality metrics such as throughput, latency, reliability and jitter now define market leadership, prompting network densification, massive MIMO, mid‑band...
Telecel Zimbabwe Needs $50 Million or It’s Gone
Telecel Zimbabwe, once a major operator, has entered a corporate rescue and needs roughly $50 million in fresh capital to avoid liquidation, while carrying about $240 million in debt and only 300,000 active subscribers. The company’s network of over 1,000 base stations...
Digital Infrastructure: The New Real Estate of the Global Economy
Digital infrastructure is being rebranded as the new real estate of the global economy, with physical assets like data centers, fiber networks and subsea cables attracting institutional capital. Global data‑center investment reached a record $61 bn in 2025 and analysts project...
Once Trying to Sell His Stake in Vodafone Idea, Birla Returns as Chairman
Kumar Mangalam Birla, who in 2021 signaled a willingness to sell his 27% stake in Vodafone Idea, has re‑entered the company as its non‑executive chairman, replacing former CEO Ravinder Takkar. The board approved the change on May 5, 2026, and Takkar will...
TIM Q1 2026 Results Highlight Strong 5G, Postpaid and Fiber Broadband Growth
Brazilian telecom TIM posted Q1 2026 revenue of R$6.806 bn (≈$1.36 bn), up 6.5% YoY, driven by postpaid mobile growth and a 22.8% surge in fixed‑line broadband revenue. Mobile ARPU rose 5.8% to R$33.7 (≈$6.7), while postpaid ARPU reached R$55.1 (≈$11) as...
Telecom News: IG Networks, Connectbase, Charter, Spectrum Mobile, T-Mobile
IG Networks expanded its partnership with Connectbase, using the SellerCloud API to showcase its global connectivity services across more than 150 countries in a fully digital marketplace. Charter Communications introduced Spectrum Mobile Second Line, a $10 add‑on that lets users...
Telecom News: C-COM Satellite, iNetVu, Nokia, euNetworks
Satellite antenna provider C‑COM Satellite Systems announced $1.35 million in new iNetVu orders spanning portable Manpack units and vehicle‑mounted auto‑pointing systems, bringing its global deployments to over 11,000 units. In the defense sector, Nokia Federal Solutions partnered with Lockheed Martin to...