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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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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FCC gives four carriers more time for rip-and-replace
Four US carriers received deadline extensions as labour, logistics, equipment shortages and ransomware replaced funding as the main barriers to completing rip-and-replace work
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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.
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GTS's SPAC deal leaves the most important cash number blank
The proposed combination of NMP Acquisition and Gibson Technical Services carries an implied enterprise value of US$400 million and points to about US$119.8 million in NMP's trust. Neither number tells GTS how much cash it can actually deploy. Public shareholders may redeem…
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Verizon tests crowd sensing on its existing 5G network
A Dallas trial turns radio-channel changes into a crowd-density map. The commercial question is whether that extra network output can earn a place in venue operations.
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StarTV renews satellite capacity to defend the viewing bundle
A renewed Eutelsat agreement puts broadcast-delivered IP video at the centre of a retention pitch in Mexico. The capacity commitment is clearer than the customer economics.
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Optimum's broadband credits will test its billing records
New Jersey's settlement separates compensation for former television subscribers from future internet discounts. Its commercial test is whether customer records can turn each promise into the right payment or credit.
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A US airborne mobile test keeps operators in the approval loop
A temporary spectrum waiver gives aviation researchers a route to evidence from existing mobile networks. Device approval and a credible commercial service remain separate questions.
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Comcast puts address eligibility at the centre of its Fabric plan
Comcast Business plans to expose last-mile Ethernet ordering inside Equinix Fabric. The useful measure of reach is an address that can receive an offer, not the size of either partner's network.
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Wavsys gives MidWave's self-forming network a fixed-site business
Project Fortis promises local radio communication when conventional connections fail. The new disclosure puts a less glamorous requirement in view: acquiring and building the places that anchor the network.
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Smith Micro's carrier deal leaves adoption to be proved
A broader agreement gives family-safety software a longer commercial runway. The operator still has to turn product options into services households actually use.
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Canada opens Indigenous spectrum window
Eligible Indigenous applicants now have first access to unused cellular spectrum, but licences still require a separate application.
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FCC sets vote on new satellite spectrum
The FCC will vote on 30 September on proposals to open more than 1,000MHz across the 12GHz and 42GHz bands for satellite connectivity.
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AT&T plans automated wavelength quotes through Connectbase
The expected early-fourth-quarter opening could put a carrier into more buying decisions sooner. A digital price response is still a different event from an activated circuit.
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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’s 80 Million Fiber Miles Reserve an Input, Not a Finished Network
Eighty million miles sounds like a map. In Verizon’s new Corning agreement, it is better read as an inventory unit: a six-year reservation of glass and connectivity components whose eventual value still depends on routes, crews, electronics, endpoints and customers.
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Zayo opens DynamicLink to agents beyond its own portal
The new MCP interface makes network control part of a wider enterprise workflow. The important test is whether an approved change remains the same change when it crosses systems.
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AT&T puts one service desk in front of Amazon Leo
The new satellite offer gives enterprise buyers one commercial interface. The harder question is what happens beyond it when a business application loses its normal connection.
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Uniti adds border access, not automatic local peering
New wholesale endpoints in McAllen and Chandler expand the places customers can buy transport. The traffic they can exchange locally remains a separate decision.