Telecom Ramblings

Five significant buildouts and upgrades to note from metros around the US: [Read more →]

News from around the world plus the American southwest: [Read more →]

With MetroConnect underway down in Florida, there should be plenty of regional and last mile news to take a look at this week.  Here’s a start: [Read more →]

The vision of building a subsea cable that leverages shorter routes through the Arctic Ocean to connect Europe, Asia, and North America has been around for a while. Making that vision reality has been elusive, but recent moves suggest it might not be that far off now. A collection of companies and other entities with infrastructure experience in that part of the world have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore a Pan-Arctic Cable System (PACS). [Read more →]

Plenty of infrastructure news from around the industry this week to catch up with: [Read more →]

Three vendor wins, an IX, and a new data center project: [Read more →]

Two subsea cable projects, a wireless infrastructure upgrade, and an AI expansion: [Read more →]

Two regional fiber items and three international upgrades: [Read more →]

When it comes to subsea cables, there are short ones, long ones, really long ones, and now there is Project Waterworth. Over the weekend, Meta announced its latest subsea cable infrastructure project that would span 50,000km and connect the east coast of the US with the west coast of the US, via, well, everywhere. [Read more →]

A few international news bytes before the long weekend: [Read more →]

Five data center infrastructure projects, four from North America and one from the Middle East. [Read more →]

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

Might there be a day soon where the last major landmass on the Earth gets connected via subsea cable? Well, a project that would connect Chile with Antarctica is at least getting a feasibility study according to a release yesterday. [Read more →]

Four bits of infrastructure and related news from three continents: [Read more →]

Here is a series of news bytes covering regional infrastructure expansion projects from this week: [Read more →]

Interesting news items from Europe, southeast Asia, and the Middle East from the past several days: [Read more →]

There has been some consolidation activity in the fiber last mile this week. Gateway Fiber and WANRack have announced plans to merge into a national FTTX platform touching 25 states. [Read more →]

A new data center, a new subsea cable, a new branch, and some FTTH: [Read more →]

An upgrade, a new PoP, some datacenter investment, and a subsea cable project gets funded: [Read more →]

Two financial moves and two upgrade projects: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Dario Betti & Nicholas Rossman, Mobile Ecosystem Forum

2025 offers the mobile industry the opportunity to redefine possibilities for consumers and businesses alike with enhanced user experiences and fresh revenue streams. However, the sector will also face significant challenges. Here are a few thoughts on what to expect. [Read more →]

A Reuters report says that Zayo is at the front of the pack of potential buyers for Crown Castle’s fiber and small cell business business. There’s certainly no doubt there is a process underway, as Crown Castle has been trying to figure out what to do with its fiber business for a couple years now and the only question left is how they find the door they seek. And Zayo is perhaps the most obvious potential buyer as well, but they aren’t past the finish line yet. [Read more →]

A few items, both international and domestic, to catch up with at midweek. [Read more →]