2025

Greetings from Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri.  We presented with Jeff Yount of Intermountain Infrastrucutre Group (IIG) at the UNITEL 2025 Executive Summit.  Terrific discussions with several fiber and legislative leaders there, and many …

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The sale is part of a broader cash deal announced in February, under which Indus Towers agreed to acquire 12,700 towers from Bharti Airtel and another 3,400 from Hexacom In …

LG has set ambitious targets, aiming to boost annual sales from its chiller business to $720 million and more than triple orders for data center cooling solutions over the next …

Spanish paper El Pais reported that Telefonica had signed the deal with Huawei in late 2024 In sum – what to know: Telefonica extends 5G deal in Spain – The …

Through the acquisition, Crusoe is also expanding into the Middle East, with the establishment of its Tel Aviv office In sum – what to know: Crusoe acquires Atero for GPU …

The six-year agreement reportedly gives Meta the compute power to support its AI expansion In sum – what to know: Meta signs $10B AI deal – The six-year agreement reportedly …

Wireless connectivity is poised to make significant gains in several areas, including transfer speeds, AI integration, security, and interoperability Technology is improving at a lightning-fast rate. Systems, increasingly likely to …

Boldyn Networks has launched the UK’s first open-RAN neutral-host 5G system at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light, with Virgin Media O2 on board; it has also agreed a deal to deploy …

CSPs must evolve with multi-capability networks, advanced antennas, and orchestration to meet agentic AI demands, rising data usage, new device types, and low-latency, high-throughput experiences while optimizing energy and coverage …

Google researchers looked at how much energy, water and carbon emissions that a run-of-the-mill Gemini text query generates It has become conventional wisdom that using an AI chatbot like ChatGPT …

U.S. President Donald Trump recently mentioned the fact that Nvidia was looking to make its Blackwell chips available to the Chinese market In sum – what to know: Nvidia prepares …

SoftBank said that the demonstration results show that high-performance AI models and GPUs are indispensable for achieving 5G-Advanced and 6G performance In sum – what to know: 30% boost in …

The agreement builds on a partnership between Maxis and CMI signed in 2024 to explore 5G initiatives and digital services In sum – what to know: First CMI MVNO in …

The core part of the collaboration is the establishment of an AI innovation hub, bringing together Vodafone Idea and IBM Consulting specialists to co-develop AI solutions In sum – what …

AI-driven automation can mean lower costs, fewer outages, and a fundamentally new playbook for scale, speed, and resilience What if your telecom network could heal itself, predict outages before they …

Ten years old today (August 21), Netherlands-based LoRaWAN outfit The Things Industries appears to be thriving in a complex, fragmented, and weirdly twisted IoT market. Wienke Giezman, the company’s co-founder, …

Can Verizon Consumer Group CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath improve customer care? Verizon could be onto something important. They are said to be shifting their focus back to improving customer care and …

University of Maryland survey found that support for AI regulation crosses party lines In sum – what you need to know: –United on AI – Large majorities of U.S. citizens, …

Private 5G is gaining traction globally, with deployments from Tesla to Sinopec showing measurable productivity, safety, and efficiency gains, reinforcing forecasts of rapid market growth and momentum toward mainstream industrial …

Bell and Buzz HPC’s main goal is to provide secure access to large-scale AI computing resources located entirely within Canada In sum – what to know: Canada gains sovereign AI …

Vantage noted that construction is already underway, with the first building expected to be operational in the second half of 2026 In sum – what to know: $25B AI mega-campus …

Honeywell has acquired SparkMeter’s utility platforms in a tuck-in deal to expand its smart energy software, aligning with its strategy of spinning off legacy units while bolstering digital energy-transition capabilities. …

Red Hat, Axiom Space collaborated on a compact edge compute solution, or “orbital data center” for space A compact prototype for an orbital data center (image above) will soon be …

Orange stressed that sensitive data such as passwords, banking details, and email addresses were not affected In sum – what to know: Large-scale breach, limited data exposed – Hackers accessed …