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National Telecom company intelligence covers national telecom operators, mobile network groups, fixed-line carriers, wholesale connectivity providers, and incumbent infrastructure companies in North America, with enough context for readers to understand how these organisations build, operate, finance, regulate, and sell the infrastructure that supports digital markets.
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The repair AT&T announced is not the repair anyone has verified
On 22 February 2024 the mobile network that AT&T operates across the United States stopped working, and by the end of that day the public record already carried three closures: a cause, a customer credit and a regulator's inquiry. Read from outside on 18 October 2026, none of the…
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Array Digital Infrastructure: A US$517m Half-Year Profit and US$53m of Quarterly Rent
The company that kept UScellular's towers and much of its spectrum now reports four different things at once — recurring site rent, spectrum-sale consideration, a half-year profit and a balance sheet — and not one of them measures the others.
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Frontier's conditions name four duties and specify none
The Verizon–Frontier transaction closed on 20 January 2026. The last approval on the public record attached conditions under four headings — affordability, service quality, infrastructure investment, and workforce and supplier diversity — and nothing obtainable turns those…
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When Rogers went down, the repair team lost its way in
The 2022 outage exposed a trap: the connections needed to fix the network depended on the network itself. The public record now shows what Rogers changed—and what still needs testing.
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Ripple’s sale gives fiber expansion two different scorecards
Eaton Fiber acquired Ripple Fiber as Verizon took most of Ripple’s existing customers and some network assets. The close expands a wholesale build platform, but its progress will only be legible if construction, customer migration and service continuity are measured separately.
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AT&T’s Fiber JV: Open Access Depends on the Anchor Tenant
AT&T plans to combine Forged Fiber 37 and Gigapower with GIP and CPP Investments. The ownership split is public; the wholesale rules that will turn “open access” into an orderable service are not. AT&T remains central to the customer relationship and was named as the planned…
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Lumen Cashed Out Its Fiber Growth Engine. The Harder Test Comes Next
Lumen's sale of its consumer fiber-to-the-home business to AT&T closed on February 2, 2026, converting the company's fastest-growing retail asset into cash aimed squarely at its debt stack. But the transaction that reshapes US consumer fiber ownership is only half executed: the…
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Array Digital Infrastructure’s tower rent book is now the whole company
The Verizon spectrum sale closed on 1 June 2026, and TDS withdrew its take-private proposal on 1 September 2026. What is being tested now is whether a 4,456-tower rent book and a $1.58 billion C-Band-heavy licence stub can carry the company without another parent-led transaction.
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Verizon Closed the Frontier Deal. Almost No Federal Service Guarantee Came With It
Frontier Communications is no longer an independent company. Verizon paid $38.50 a share in cash and closed on 20 January 2026, taking control of an incumbent whose fibre and copper plant now feeds Verizon's own capital plan. The obligations that actually bind that transfer are…
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Rogers’ 8 July Outage: What the Public Record Can—and Cannot—Prove
Rogers’ 8 July 2022 outage is a useful resilience test precisely because the public record is uneven: it records a regulator’s investigation notice and Rogers’s reported explanation and response, but does not, in the preserved sources, independently establish the failure chain or…
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Spectrum reaches 11m former Cox locations
Spectrum pricing and packages are now available across former Cox markets, while Charter continues integrating sales, service and operating processes after the merger.
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Cricket launches 5G home internet on AT&T network
Cricket has launched fixed wireless home internet over AT&T's 5G network, extending the prepaid brand into broadband without building a separate access network.
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Verizon secures six-year Corning fibre supply
Verizon will receive more than 80 million fibre miles from Corning between 2027 and 2032 for broadband and long-haul network construction.
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Verizon prepares Hawai‘i network for Hurricane Lowell
Verizon has positioned backup power, satellite assets and field equipment across Hawai‘i before Hurricane Lowell, preparing for possible network disruption.
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AT&T selects Ericsson for EchoStar 600MHz rollout
AT&T is preparing to deploy EchoStar’s 600 MHz spectrum after already putting the acquired 3.45 GHz holdings into service.
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Amazon seeks FCC approval for 5,105 D2D satellites
The filing would add direct mobile links to Amazon Leo, but deployment still depends on regulatory approval, spectrum access and operator integration.
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New York Yankees hire Lumen for dual 100G fibre network to Tampa
The Yankees are connecting Yankee Stadium with a relocated primary data centre in Tampa through two diverse 100 Gbps fibre routes designed to support resilient operations.
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LEO Broadband Enters Commercial Competition
Amazon's service launch signals that the next phase of LEO broadband will be defined by commercial execution rather than satellite deployment.