Telecom Ramblings

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Gerry Christensen

The outbound enterprise calling landscape is standing on the precipice of its most profound structural shift since the inception of the STIR/SHAKEN framework. For years, the telecommunications industry has wrestled with a fractured trust ecosystem where bad actors thrived on malicious anonymity, and legitimate businesses were forced to pay a premium just to prove they weren’t scammers. [Read more →]

Power is the binding constraint on new GPU deployments. Operators who already hold energized space are looking to convert compute demand into revenue themselves. Colocation facilities and former bitcoin miners are moving up the stack into bare metal and GPU-as-a-Service. And colocation facilities can finance the climb on better terms than the new neoclouds they compete with. [Read more →]

Some new terrestrial fiber far away, a new FTTx market back home, a bit of M&A, and some cloud interconnection south of the border: [Read more →]

There was a key bit of consolidation announced in the fiber world yesterday, albeit an in-house project. Great Plains Communications and Ritter Communications will be merging into a single entity under the brand RightFiber. [Read more →]

Four bits of US network infrastructure new: a major wavelength deployment, some new backbone PoPs, and dueling FTTx rollouts in the southwest: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Gerry Christensen, Special Contributor to Telecom Ramblings

The regulatory architecture of the U.S. voice network is undergoing a structural renovation. On October 29, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a sweeping multi-part item at its October Open Meeting, releasing a consolidated Ninth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) and Public Notice.

While the headline goal remains the ongoing battle against illegal robocalls, [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Dario Betti, CEO, Mobile Ecosystem Forum

UK-based Gamma Communications is drawing the attention of several suitors; Providence Equity Partners is in talks, and there is also confirmed interest from Epiris and a consortium backed by Oakley Capital with Giacom.  A takeover of Gamma—valued at about $1.2 billion—could impact partnerships, competition and investment across Europe’s business communications sector. [Read more →]

A mix of infrastructure products from around the industry: [Read more →]

Four bits of partnership news and one M&A. [Read more →]

Four bits of expansion news from around the industry over in Europe: [Read more →]

A few interesting tidbits from around the industry: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Mike Tapp, Head of Finance at LiquidStack

Not a week goes by without news of yet another super-massive data center being planned, proposed, or built. The headlines are filled with eye-watering figures around size, cost, capacity, and aggressive timelines. But while big numbers are a good way to attract eyeballs, one of the figures that matters most to today’s data center operators is rarely reflected in today’s headlines. [Read more →]

Two data center projects and two fiber updates: [Read more →]

Two from northwestern Europe and two from the US/Mexico border region: [Read more →]

SUBCO and Firmus are teaming up to build some subsea fiber that’s, well, under down under. The new cable will connect the island of Tasmania to the rest of Australia.  It will be the island’s first new fiber connection in a couple of decades. [Read more →]

Some subsea fiber, a bit of data center consolidation, and some last mile fiber: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Mike Hicks, Principal Solutions Analyst, Cisco ThousandEyes

Satellite constellations are already transforming global connectivity, extending the Internet’s reach to nearly every corner of the planet. Now, as conversations turn toward compute in orbit, the focus is expanding from connectivity alone to how distributed infrastructure will shape the future of digital services. [Read more →]

EdgeConneX Chief Transformation Officer Jenny Zhan explains the organizational transformation required to deliver data center capacity at ever-rising scale and ever-accelerating pace.

AI has dramatically changed the scale of data center capacity we’re delivering, and the pace we’re delivering at. [Read more →]

Four buildout projects from the Midwest and West to catch up with: [Read more →]

Three bits of interesting vendor wins from three corners of the globe, and three corners of technology. [Read more →]

After this part of the US had a cold, wet Memorial Day weekend, let’s catch up on some news from around the world: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Jennifer Curry Hendrickson, Senior Vice President of Managed Services, DataBank

Enterprise IT leaders have spent the better part of a decade being told that cloud is the answer. For many use cases, it is. Yet, a pattern has emerged across the industry that deserves more direct examination than it usually gets: Organizations are moving workloads back out of public cloud at a rate that suggests the original decisions weren’t as sound as they appeared. [Read more →]

Four bits of fiber news from around the US: [Read more →]