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Illustrative scene of a technician inspecting a fiber distribution cabinet beside a US neighborhood; not an actual AT&T or joint-venture site.

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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…

Oct 8, 2026
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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…

Sep 29, 2026
Steel lattice telecommunications towers on a rural ridge at dusk, with a translucent overlay of lit and dimmed rectangular spectrum-licence blocks drifting past them.

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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.

Sep 25, 2026
Dusk aerial view of one continuous US regional access corridor: a weathered copper pole line running beside freshly trenched fibre conduit and a roadside access cabinet, the network converging toward a lit city and a mobile tower on the horizon.

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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…

Sep 25, 2026
Editorial illustration of a Canadian telecommunications network with shared wireless and wired nodes, an unresolved backbone gap, a provisional alternate route and operators examining evidence.

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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…

Sep 19, 2026
Editorial illustration of a Spectrum technician and service van representing the rollout across former Cox markets

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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.

Sep 17, 2026
Editorial illustration of Cricket 5G Home Internet using AT&T's mobile network with a home gateway and nearby cell tower

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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.

Sep 17, 2026
Editorial illustration of large fibre cable reels representing Verizon's long-term supply agreement with Corning

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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.

Sep 9, 2026
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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.

Sep 7, 2026
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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.

Aug 10, 2026
Illustration of low Earth orbit satellites linking directly to smartphones over North America, with ground stations and network connections.

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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.

Jul 30, 2026
Illustration of geographically diverse fibre connections linking Yankee Stadium with the New York Yankees' primary data centre in Tampa.

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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.

Jul 15, 2026
A low Earth orbit satellite constellation providing broadband connectivity above Earth, representing the transition from satellite deployment to commercial broadband services.

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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.

Jul 6, 2026