Telecom Ramblings

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 →]

Two bits of FTTX, some middle mile, and some underground: [Read more →]

Five items from around the industry: [Read more →]

Two from overseas, and two of regional interest from the southern US: [Read more →]

South America has a new optical infrastructure player. A group of investors has launched Conecta Infra, a neutral infrastructure platform targeting high capacity intercity networks acrossthe continent. They are starting out with $350M that will go toward 6,000km of infrastructure. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Stephen Lafaille, VP Business Development

The data center industry is entering a defining era – one in which power, not land or capital, determines competitive advantage. As AI compute requirements surge and the grid strains under unprecedented demand, operators face a simple but unforgiving equation: every megawatt not available for IT constrains [Read more →]

Two bits of last mile news and some cable landing activity south of the border:

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A couple of interesting infrastructure projects: [Read more →]

Some infrastructure expansion news in Brazil, Australia, and around the US. [Read more →]

Some interesting infrastructure activity in the the US southwest and Latin America to catch up with: [Read more →]

A bit of significant last mile fiber consolidation landed this week. Astound Broadband and GFiber, which used to go by the name Google Fiber, will be merging. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Nick Muir, General Manager for EMEA at Spectralink.

When companies calculate the ROI of modern unified communications (UC) deployments such as Microsoft Teams, they typically focus on white-collar workers who spend a lot of time at a keyboard or in meetings. Yet, around 80% of the global workforce is made up of frontline workers[1] — key employees such as nurses, factory workers, retail associates, and facilities staff, who rarely sit at desks. Too often, where the formal office environment ends, so does [Read more →]

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

Two bits of international news, some federal dollars, and another FTTx expansion project: [Read more →]