The Second BEAD Round Will Be Decided by How NTIA Averages Its Own Cost Data
The NTIA has opened a supplemental round for the $42 billion BEAD programme with about $21 billion left, and its average-cost allocation formula mixes…
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Cellnex UK Sees a Densification Market Opening Because VodafoneThree Is Deleting Sites
Cellnex UK expects a densification opportunity as VodafoneThree consolidates down to 26,000-28,000 sites, leaving BT and Virgin Media O2 near 19,000 each, though euro…
AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Signed a Satellite Venture With No Name and an Interim Boss
AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon formed a joint venture for satellite-enabled coverage in underserved US areas, with Paul Roth as interim CEO, a board…
Nokia Sold Its FastMile Gear to Inseego and Kept 11 Percent of the Buyer
Inseego completed its purchase of Nokia's FastMile fixed wireless access business, roughly doubling its revenue, with Nokia taking about 1.9 million Inseego shares equal…
Nokia and ICEYE Will Sell Governments Satellites They Own and Operate Themselves
Nokia and ICEYE agreed to build low Earth orbit broadband satellite systems that government customers own and operate themselves, with first launch expected in…
Globe Telecom Puts a Billion Dollars Into Data Centres and Asks Whether the Philippines Can Fill Them
Globe Telecom plans at least $1 billion of data centre investment in 2027 through STT GDC Philippines, while CEO Carl Cruz reports demand the…
Dell’Oro’s Flat RAN Forecast Is Really a Warning About Whose Customers Pay for the Next Upgrade
Dell'Oro Group sees worldwide RAN revenue flat in nominal dollars through 2030 at roughly $30 billion to $40 billion a year, with growth confined…
e& Switches On the Upper 6 GHz Band in the UAE, Handing the Industry Its First Commercial Mid-Band Network
e& UAE launched the world's first commercial Upper 6 GHz network on 6425 to 6775 MHz with 350 MHz of contiguous bandwidth and Huawei…
Cellcard Signs a $300 Million Huawei MoU in Cambodia as Its 5G Count Passes 500 Sites
Cellcard signed a memorandum of understanding with Huawei covering about US$300 million of 5G, XGS-PON fibre, modular data centre and cloud AI investment in…
Nokia Sells Zain KSA Visibility Into More Than 100 Cities Without Touching the Radio Layer
Zain KSA launched Nokia Deepfield Cloud Intelligence across more than 100 Saudi cities, giving application-level visibility through the Cloud Genome internet map covering more…
Cisco’s cBR-8 Cannot Be Bought New and the Secondary Market Wants $47,900 for One
A cBR-8 chassis Cisco stopped selling in April 2026 is listed at $47,900 on eBay, and the DOCSIS 4.0 certification stamp the industry needs…
Macao’s Operator Put Quantum Key Distribution Inside the IP Network Rather Than Bolted On Top
CTM and Huawei put quantum key distribution inside the IP bearer network in Macao, a decision on standards that were approved years before the…