Telecom Ramblings

T-Mobile has made two inorganic moves to expand its exposure to the last fiber mile. They have enetered into definitive agreements to create two strategic fiber joint ventures to acquire three fiber-to-the-home companies. [Read more →]

Four interesting items of regional interest: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Fady Masoud, Senior Director, Solutions Marketing at Nokia

The explosive growth of AI model training, inference and data movement across distributed, geographically distributed compute clusters is driving a sharp increase in east-west and data center interconnect traffic. Combined with increasing traffic from telecommunications providers expanding capacity in metro and [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Anders Tysdal, Chief Infrastructure Officer, Tampnet

Offshore operators are under mounting pressure: ensure stable energy supply, reduce cost per barrel, improve safety and cut emissions. To deliver on these ambitions, operators are rethinking how offshore assets are connected, controlled and supported from shore. [Read more →]

Five colo related items from this week’s news: [Read more →]

Four bits of last mile expansion news to keep up with: [Read more →]

Four interesting items from around the world: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Jacques Le Mancq, President and CEO of Broadpeak

Telecommunications service providers face sustained pressure to diversify revenues and protect their share of consumer spend. Streaming bundles and aggregation strategies are gaining momentum, with video now one of the strongest drivers of broadband value. Parks Associates’ State of Streaming Report shows that more than a third of broadband households bundle a streaming subscription with home internet in Q3 2025, underlining video’s strategic importance within [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authorec by Bo Larsson, CEO of MatSing

Large sporting events create one of the most demanding environments in wireless networking. Tens of thousands of users gather in a confined space, all expecting instant connectivity. They upload videos, stream replays, share photos, and interact with digital services throughout the venue. [Read more →]

A few bits of news from around the world to catch up with: [Read more →]

Five bits of regional news to catch up with from around North America: [Read more →]

Three network expansion projects on three continents to catch up with: [Read more →]

Over the weekend, the UK Defence Secretary highlighted activity by Russian submarines deep under the Atlantic. The craft are said to have been surveiling subsea cables and pipelines, which as an island the UK is more heavily dependent on than others. But I don’t think it’s an isolated thought, rather it’s learned behavior from what’s going on in the Strait of Hormuz. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Tony Thakur, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Great Plains Communications (GPC)

Across the Midwest, in emerging growth corridors and across the nation, we’ve seen a recurring pattern: organizations believe they are protected because they have redundant connectivity until an outage proves otherwise. The issue is rarely bandwidth. It is about overall network resiliency and a strategy to mitigate during an outage. [Read more →]

Two bits of inorganic activity, and some fiber in the deep south: [Read more →]

A few stories to keep up with from: [Read more →]

A few items from over the Easter break worth to catch up on: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Paul Wright, Chief Revenue Officer at CBNG

For much of the past decade, Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) has been marketed around peak sector throughput. Vendors highlight multi-gigabit physical layer rates. Operators quote headline sector capacity. Lab demonstrations showcase ideal single-user speeds under pristine radio frequency (RF) conditions. [Read more →]

Lots of interesting news from around the industry to catch up with before Easter: [Read more →]

The rumor mill went from zero to 60 late yesterday afternoon after a report by TMT Finance. Uniti Group might be getting an offer soon, with T-Mobile and the private equity company TPG looking to divide things up between them. T-Mobile is interested in the last mile, while TPG would be looking at the wholesale and enterprise fiber. [Read more →]

Three bits of FTTx news, plus two international projects: [Read more →]

The rise of AI is changing not just the data center world, but the network infrastructure that connects it.  It seems like just yesterday that intercity and last mile fiber were things that didn’t get invested in. That has all flipped, and network operators have been moving rapidly to meet demand.  We spoke with Dan Stoll, President of Commercial and Carrier at Fidium, about how the network landscape is evolving. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Apoorva Jain, Chief Product Officer at EdgeBeam Wireless

The telecommunications industry has relied on a relatively stable definition of “the Edge” for decades. We’ve treated it as a manageable extension of the cloud or the perimeter of a corporate network, essentially a gateway where a router connects to a local line or a fiber hookup. However, this definition is quickly failing as we move deeper into 2026. We’re no longer managing the “Edge” — we’ve entered the era of the “Frontier Edge.” [Read more →]