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What to know: Narrowing the performance gap: Opensignal concluded that new DOCSIS upgrades are helping cable operators dramatically improve upload performance, narrowing the long-standing gap with fiber and making cable a stronger competitor in the premium broadband market. FWA defies …

As telecom operators embrace D2D satellite connectivity, the industry is moving closer to closing persistent coverage gaps, extending resilient mobile access to remote regions, and ensuring geography no longer determines access to connectivity, safety, or economic opportunity. The announcement that …

Cisco’s recent SD-WAN vulnerabilities are not isolated flaws but symptoms of a deeper architectural weakness across modern networks. As threat actors increasingly target centralized control-plane systems in enterprise and telecom infrastructure, the industry faces a growing imperative to move beyond …

Telcos are being asked to fund the next wave of AI and 5G innovation while already burdened by enormous debt and relentless infrastructure costs. By breaking down carrier finances with a simple lemonade-stand analogy and real 2025 operator numbers, Vish …

The U.S. broadband duopoly of cable and telcos is fading as fixed wireless, Starlink, WISPs, and fiber overbuilders expand rapidly. Increased competition from carriers and alternative providers is giving consumers more choices, wider availability, easier setup, and lower prices. The …

Verizon’s Lamont Copeland on assigning modalities to missions and modernizing TDM in bites Verizon’s Lamont Copeland recently spoke to RCR Wireless’ Sulagna Saha at the Defense Communications Forum, arguing that if you design a military network correctly from the start, …

Why CSPs are losing the customer relationship betting on half the experience and where they can grab the other half. Just three weeks ago, Verizon CEO Dan Schulman said the quiet part out loud at a Semafor fireside chat: network …

New joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon in the US reflects industry momentum around satellite-enabled mobile connectivity and broader ecosystem development, reckon analysts. In sum – what to know: Shared D2D push – AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile plan a …

Vodafone and other major European operators are advancing a federated telco edge-cloud designed to support sovereign AI and IoT workloads, positioning it as a home-grown alternative to hyperscaler platforms. The initiative promises “seamless” cross-border services, but remains in early-stage validation. …

T-Mobile’s latest moves in AI-native RAN and private 5G for elite sports suggest a carrier evolving beyond its disruptive roots into something more formidable: the operator with the clearest story about where telecoms, AI, and customer experience converge. In sum …

As telecom capex contracts, the industry is being forced into a more efficient model. Some networks are already operating that way. For the past decade, the telecom industry has been in a buildout cycle. Carriers have spent heavily to expand …

The carrier is increasing build activity by 20% while integrating AI to streamline construction Verizon is accelerating its network build activity by over 20% year-on-year, pushing past 30 million fiber premises passed with the Frontier acquisition, and betting heavily on …

Vodafone’s sovereign-cloud deal with AWS in Germany and BT’s brand refresh and UEFA deal in the UK, plus lots else, shows how European telcos are repositioning as trusted intermediaries for AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure. In sum – what …

The new Verizon system uses drone-captured 3D models and automated damage analysis In sum – what we know: Verizon is rolling out a new digital twin and AI system ahead of the 2026 hurricane season. The goal is essentially to instantly identify …

The Q4 2025 broadband subscriber tally clarifies who owns the pipes feeding American homes, including multi-dweller units (MDUs) but it tells only half the story for multifamily. The same operators that dominate the national rankings occupy a far more ambiguous …

Theme of the week: edge computing and private networks for physical AI and AI inference in industrial and military zones. HPE has released a new AI server platform, ruggedized and optimized for difficult edge deployments; the release follows this week’s …

T-Mobile US signed off another good quarter with some fighting talk about acquisition strategies and accounting habits at rivals AT&T and Verizon, and said its 5G network and compute build-out will be the best in the business to support enterprise …

Strong growth and raised guidance sit alongside major AI work at Verizon, about to be unveiled with a brand new AI tech stack to drive further network automation and customer (micro-) segmentation to cut costs, improve service, and drive “industrial-scale” …

Verizon explains how the company is scaling network capacity and deploying infrastructure across host venues In sum – what to know: Capacity boost – Verizon will increase bandwidth by 3–5x across U.S. stadiums using 5G, C-band, and mmWave spectrum to …

AT&T is positioning private 5G as a necessary enterprise capability rather than a breakout revenue engine, tying its future instead to edge AI, spectrum pragmatism, and a broader “AI grid” vision with partners like Cisco and Nvidia. In sum – …

Coherent optics, photonic line systems, and software agents are helping cloud providers and telco companies to manage the explosive AI workload demands on fiber networks – across cutting-edge interconnect systems, upgraded longhaul infrastructure, and emerging mobile access networks. As told …

As AI workloads splinter across the fragmented cloud-infrastructure landspace, enterprises are scrambling to keep performance, governance, and costs in check. Equinix reckons the answer is in neutral interconnection hubs that simplify last-mile access, orchestrate distributed infrastructure, and bring inference closer …

Global, porgrammable, and dense – from cloud to edge; Verizon Business talked at MWC about how its sees the new AI stack evolving for telcos, and why its investments in backbone fiber, metro access, and private network will link cloud …

Jennifer Artley, in charge of private 5G at Verizon Business has left. The news compounds unease in the market following Nokia’s decision to quit. Verizon Business remains focused, it says; interest in Nokia is considerable. In sum – what to …

T-Mobile US is accusing Verizon of hypocrisy, pointing to its own “Switch to Verizon” marketing campaign T-Mobile US has filed an official opposition to Verizon’s lawsuit, which alleges that the former’s claims of more than $1,000 in annual savings for …