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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.

North America National Telecom

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 VodafoneThree and Ericsson branding beside 5G core infrastructure with the London skyline in the background.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom

VodafoneThree puts Ericsson 5G core live

VodafoneThree has activated Ericsson's cloud-native 5G core as the merged UK operator moves from shared infrastructure towards a single core platform.

Sep 18, 2026
Editorial illustration of Tencent Cloud and U Mobile branding over the Kuala Lumpur skyline with 5G, AI and cloud connectivity graphics.

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends

Tencent Cloud, U Mobile partner on 5G and AI

Tencent Cloud and U Mobile will develop and test enterprise 5G and AI applications in Malaysia through U Mobile's Enterprise Innovation Platform.

Sep 18, 2026
Editorial graphic showing a US 5G tower, the Capitol and regulatory stages for C-band, 1.6GHz, 2.7GHz, 4.4GHz and 7GHz spectrum

North America National Telecom Trends

FCC lines up spectrum auctions after C-band

Upper C-band has auction rules and a deadline, while the 1.6GHz, 2.7GHz, 4.4GHz and 7GHz bands remain at different identification and study stages.

Sep 18, 2026
Editorial illustration of Hutchison Telecom in Hong Kong with 5G infrastructure and H1 2026 figures for corporate, customer service and roaming revenue.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

Hutchison Telecom corporate revenue rises 43%

Local service revenue stayed flat even as 5G penetration reached 64%, leaving corporate services and roaming to provide much of Hutchison Telecom's growth.

Sep 18, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of an Australian mobile-network outage affecting emergency calls, with a failed phone call, telecom tower and Triple Zero imagery

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

Optus outage tests emergency-call failover

A 76-minute hardware failure disrupted voice calls and left 46 Triple Zero calls unable to connect. The unanswered question is whether emergency camp-on worked as intended.

Sep 18, 2026
Editorial illustration of a mobile tower showing 5G and 6G radio equipment to represent infrastructure reuse between network generations

Global National Telecom Trends

6G plans shift towards reusing 5G spectrum and radios

Early 6G designs favour reusing 5G infrastructure, which could reduce opportunities for operators to switch suppliers.

Sep 17, 2026
Editorial illustration of European telecom executives, EU flags, a mobile tower and the European Commission representing the debate over telecom consolidation

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends

European telcos push EU on consolidation

European telecom CEOs want merger rules to give more weight to scale and investment as Brussels rewrites its competition framework.

Sep 17, 2026
Editorial illustration of Iowa State's ARA rural wireless testbed with a telecom mast and tractor in farmland near Ames

North America National Telecom Trends

FCC opens five-year rural wireless test zone in Iowa

Iowa State's ARA testbed can now run wireless experiments across Ames and surrounding farmland under a five-year FCC Innovation Zone designation.

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

North America National Telecom

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
AI-generated illustration of a woman using a smartphone near a mobile tower, representing the global mobile internet usage gap

Global National Telecom Trends

GSMA: 3.1bn still do not use mobile internet

GSMA says 3.1 billion people live within mobile broadband coverage but do not use mobile internet, with handset affordability the biggest reported barrier.

Sep 16, 2026
Editorial illustration of a 4G phone retaining mobile data but losing voice calls after Vietnam's 2G network shutdown

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

Vietnam shuts down 2G, exposing VoLTE gaps

Some older 4G phones may keep mobile data but lose voice calls after Vietnam's 2G shutdown unless VoLTE is supported and enabled.

Sep 16, 2026
Editorial illustration of SES O3b mPOWER satellites above Earth with a rocket launch representing the final three spacecraft in the constellation

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

NTT DOCOMO deploys Nokia baseband in Open RAN

NTT DOCOMO is using Nokia's latest baseband with radios from other suppliers in its commercial LTE and 5G network.

Sep 16, 2026
AI-generated illustration of a Dallas event using Samsung and Verizon 5G infrastructure to create a crowd-density heatmap

North America National Telecom Trends

Samsung and Verizon test 5G crowd sensing in Dallas

Samsung and Verizon used a virtualised 5G network and 40MHz of CBRS spectrum to map crowd density in near real time without separate radar equipment.

Sep 16, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a Wind Tre telecom technician beside mobile network equipment in Italy during overtime restrictions

Europe and Middle East National Telecom

Wind Tre unions call overtime restrictions through 12 October

Restrictions on overtime, supplementary work and on-call availability run to 12 October, while planned night work is excluded from the action.

Sep 15, 2026
AI-generated illustration of a Sceye HAPS aircraft providing mobile connectivity over coastal Japan while a SoftBank engineer monitors the network.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

SoftBank tests HAPS service ahead of 2027 launch

A Sceye platform crossed the Pacific and carried calls, messages and data over SoftBank's network, moving the project beyond earlier airborne demonstrations.

Sep 15, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration showing a Nigerian telecom engineer working on a mobile site alongside figures showing 8,526 of 12,179 committed upgrades completed

Africa National Telecom Trends

Nigerian operators complete 70% of network-site upgrades

The NCC says 8,526 of 12,179 committed site deployments or upgrades are complete, while fibre cuts remain a separate source of disruption.

Sep 15, 2026
Silver spheres in a dark channel approach a blue branching channel, with a distant mobile antenna in soft focus.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends

Kyivstar's Odesa 5G pilot puts LTE relief first

The fifth trial location adds a way to move traffic off the existing mobile network, under existing tariffs. Its business case needs evidence from the customers who remain on 4G as well as those trying 5G.

Sep 14, 2026
Copper radio-frequency channels sit in open test fixtures beside an unconnected socket on a dark engineering bench.

North America Institutional Trends

Next G Alliance puts spectrum timing on the 6G investment agenda

A new set of industry recommendations focuses attention on the steps between identifying airwaves and using them commercially. For network investors, that sequence matters more than a headline total.

Sep 14, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport using private 5G to connect airport vehicles, tram cameras and staff devices across the airfield.

North America Institutional Trends

Minneapolis airport puts airfield operations on private 5G

Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is using a dedicated Ericsson 5G network to keep cameras, staff devices and airport vehicles connected across its five-square-mile campus.

Sep 14, 2026