North America National Telecom Trends
North America National Telecom Trends
National Telecom trend intelligence tracks national telecom market trends, 5G rollout, fibre modernisation, wholesale network strategy, spectrum pressure, and digital infrastructure investment in North America, giving readers a fuller view of the demand shifts, capacity constraints, platform strategies, capital timing, regulatory pressure, and operating assumptions behind the market.
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The National Alert Fires at 2:20. Its Full Report Arrives in January.
FEMA has a 17 November slot for the US Emergency Alert System test. The FCC has two later clocks for the operators: 48 hours for the first account, then until 4 January for the detailed one.
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Canada’s Roaming Dispute Redacted Even the Headings
CRTC staff wants to know why the public record hides the existence of negotiations, arbitration and agreements in a Saskatchewan wholesale roaming fight. The prices can stay private; the outline of the case is another matter.
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CRTC: Two-Day Phone Lock Barely Touches the 15-Day Trial
Canada’s telecom regulator says a temporary two-business-day device lock should barely dent a 15-day wireless trial. It has now rejected a challenge to that compromise. The remaining question is whether the evidence due before a November hearing can show the trade is worth…
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CRTC Rejects Iristel’s Alert Exemption, Sets a 12-Month Clock
Iristel asked Canada’s telecom regulator for funding, a subscriber-threshold exemption or a wholesale alert feed. The CRTC refused all three and made one year the price of staying on LTE without a warning gap.
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Canada’s Telecom Roadmap Promises a Scoreboard. It Sets No Target.
Ottawa says it will track five measures and report on results from 18 telecom actions. The published roadmap supplies no baseline, target or reporting calendar for that test.
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The C-band’s referee will be picked by the players — then checked in public
The FCC has opened a selection contest for the private office that will review relocation bills and aircraft-equipment rebates. Industry and aviation groups get the first choice; the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau keeps the final order.
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Spok’s Net Income Rose 203%. Software Bookings Fell 28%.
A $7.5 million gain from a narrowband-license sale drove most of Spok’s pre-tax profit increase. Software revenue barely moved, while new bookings and backlog contracted.
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Who Keeps Score if the CRTC Drops Rural Phone Repair Reports?
The CRTC is reviewing seven telecom reporting duties, including annual service-quality measures for small local telephone companies. Its notice asks whether some reports can disappear, or whether complaints should replace them. A 2013 review already recorded missing filings and…
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Ribbon's Q4 EBITDA target jumps while its cash falls $56m
Ribbon's network sales recovered in the third quarter. The fourth-quarter profit target is much bolder, and it arrives beside a falling cash balance and a credit agreement whose leverage ceiling steps down. The useful question is how quickly the rebound becomes cash.
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FCC’s 42 GHz draft: satellites get the downlink; mobile goes secondary
The FCC’s circulated proposal would give satellite gateway downlinks primary status across 500 MHz at 42 GHz, keep terrestrial fixed links primary too, and move mobile services to secondary. The coordination machinery that would make the sharing work is still for a later…
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The Call Centre Was in Morocco. The $106,000 Bill Landed in Quebec.
Esprit Habitat hired a call centre across the Atlantic to invite Canadians to furniture sales. Canada's telecom regulator traced the calls back to the company that wanted the customers, then cut its own proposed penalty to a defensible number.
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Morocco Made Some Calls. Quebec Gets the C$106,000 Fine
Canada's telecom regulator held a furniture seller responsible for its overseas call centre, then cut its own proposed penalty. The call chain crossed an ocean; the limit on the regulator's fine stayed at home.
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The FCC is picking the referee for a satellite move’s bill
The Upper C-band shift has a quiet but consequential job opening: an independent clearinghouse will review relocation claims and radio-altimeter rebates. Proposals are due 9 November.
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Canada Gives MVNOs the Porting Key. They Still Borrow the Radio Network.
A new CRTC decision lets eligible full MVNOs move customer numbers through their own mobile core. The towers stay on someone else’s balance sheet.
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The FCC Took the Provider’s Reply Window Off One Map Layer
The July 2026 rule changes who gets to speak while the FCC updates the broadband location database. Providers can still challenge accepted results before the next map version; the reply has moved later in the cycle.
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BEAD’s Dashboard Has 55 Signatures. The Money Still Has a Paper Gate
NTIA’s October dashboard celebrates signed state awards. A separate, subgrantee-level certification controls when that subgrantee’s BEAD funds become available. One progress bar ends; another document takes the keys.
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The FCC Found 215 MHz for Rockets. Its Bands Add Up to 210.
Three allocations, two coordination desks and launch windows that move with the weather: the FCC’s space-launch spectrum question is an operating schedule disguised as a MHz debate.
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Canada’s Do Not Call List Has a Second Command: Don’t Hand It Around
Canada gave marketers a list to help keep phones quiet. Two October enforcement notices put C$565,000 on the cost of treating access as permission to circulate it.
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SpaceX Gets a Spectrum Report Card Instead of a Tower Deadline
The FCC has let three idle terrestrial licences change hands. In return, the new owner must show that phones can send data upward, on a schedule that gets less forgiving when it is missed.
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Northwestel’s Tower Rates Need Receipts, Not Just a Spreadsheet
A northern tower can host someone else’s gear. Northwestel has asked to revise the rates for space, power and attachments; Canada’s telecom regulator wants to see the working behind the bill. The due date for that working has moved to 3 November.