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Telecom Spectrum and Security
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North America National Telecom Trends
Space Force awards $60m for multi-vendor SDN integration
The Space Force will test cross-network links and orbital routers as it tries to connect commercial satellite systems through standard interfaces.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom
VMO2 says equipment reuse avoided 5,262 tonnes CO₂e
A 10-year equipment recovery programme with TXO shows how refurbished network hardware can reduce waste and the need for newly manufactured replacements.

North America National Telecom Trends
Array site-rental revenue rises 95% after T-Mobile lease
Array's tower rental revenue nearly doubled in Q2 as the T-Mobile lease lifted its base, while tenancy rose only slightly.

North America National Telecom Trends
Lockheed Martin tests NetSense drone sensing on Verizon 5G
The Miami-area demonstration used Verizon spectrum and AI software to detect and track drones, with pilot deployments planned ahead of targeted 2027 availability.

JPNOG
JANOG58 turned a sponsor annex into its first local-5G operations trial
JANOG58’s most consequential wireless result was not a headline speed test. Faced with an overflow of sponsor booths in a separate annex, the meeting team assembled a licensed local-5G service, provisioned it through CPE routers and operated it across three conference…

Global Cloud Services Trends
5G speed begins behind the antenna
A new radio icon does not guarantee a faster service. Spectrum, site density, fibre backhaul and core capacity determine whether 5G performance survives the busy hour.

Global Cloud Services Trends
Augmented reality needs a reality check
A convincing overlay is not enough. Useful AR depends on low delay, stable calibration, safe attention and a maintained map of the physical world.

Global Cloud Services Trends
Wireless power claims need a distance-and-efficiency boundary
“Wireless” can describe a charging pad separated by millimetres or energy sent across a room. Those are different engineering and regulatory propositions, and any deployment claim should state which one it means.

Creators
Harald Welte and the work of opening telecom’s closed interfaces
Across Linux firewalls, licence enforcement, open phones, GSM network functions and SIM tooling, Harald Welte repeatedly made closed communications systems inspectable. His record shows both the leverage of public implementations and the hardware, regulatory and maintenance…

North America Regional ISP
Regional connectivity needs an operating chain
Plateau Telecommunications shows why coverage depends on paths, power, staff, equipment and visible regulatory milestones working together.

Global Cloud Services Trends
A Tesla investment needs a scenario, not a slogan
A famous product and a volatile share price do not answer whether the expected return compensates for execution, competition and valuation risk.

North America National Telecom Trends
Grain owns T-Mobile’s 800 MHz map; the access model comes next
The nationwide low-band portfolio has completed its transfer from T-Mobile US to Grain Management for $2.9 billion in cash plus Grain’s 600 MHz licences. Ownership is now settled. Whether the spectrum becomes a shared infrastructure layer, a set of private networks or something…

Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Ericsson’s ICE contract puts the automation layer on trial before Costa Rica’s 5G SA goes live
Ericsson has confirmed the technical scope of its contract with Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad for Kölbi’s 5G Standalone network. The distinctive purchase is not only radio and core equipment, but a multi-vendor automation platform whose value can be judged only after…

North America Cloud Services Trends
IBM Cloud's 2020 routing flood made provider boundaries an accountability test
IBM Cloud's operator, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), attributed its 9 June 2020 cloud disruption to an external network provider that sent a flood of incorrect route advertisements—messages saying which network can carry traffic to a block of Internet Protocol…

North America Institutional Trends
Trump nominates Danielle Thumann Severs for FCC seat
US President Donald Trump has nominated Danielle Thumann Severs to the FCC; confirmation would add a fourth commissioner and create a one-seat quorum margin.

North America National Telecom Trends
AT&T leads neutral-host network at Davis Wade Stadium
AT&T will own a shared stadium DAS designed to support multiple mobile operators across Mississippi State University’s 60,000-plus-seat venue.

North America National Telecom Trends
Verizon restored Southern California service, but the severed route remains unnamed
Thousands of Verizon users in Southern California reportedly lost calls, messages and internet access after multiple fibre lines were cut in what the operator described as vandalism. Service returned in stages on Sunday, yet the public account leaves the most important resilience…

North America National Telecom Trends
AT&T's Davis Wade network is neutral-host by design; the other hosts remain unnamed
AT&T is leading and will own a 53-sector MIMO distributed-antenna system at Mississippi State University's Davis Wade Stadium, using Airspan's MobileAccess 6000 platform across mid-band spectrum. The design is intended for more than 60,000 seats and multiple operators, but no…

North America Regional ISP
Plateau Telecommunications and the Record of Regional Connectivity
Regional communications become dependable through a chain of ordinary controls: usable paths, accurate routing, powered facilities, staffed operations, replaceable equipment and visible regulatory milestones. Plateau Telecommunications offers a useful, bounded record for…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
U Mobile has built a 5G-A sandbox; the next proof is a production handoff
U Mobile's physical Enterprise Innovation Platform Hub gives enterprises somewhere to develop, test and demonstrate 5G-Advanced and AI applications. The launch is an ecosystem milestone, not a deployment result: value will be created only when a tested use case survives…
