Connectivity, Education and Telecommunication

BSNL Gears Up for Major BharatNet Expansion in Karnataka, Goa, and Puducherry

Telecom Talk

JUNE 17, 2025

In a major development towards expanding rural broadband connectivity, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has signed an agreement with Polycab India Limited for the implementation of the Amended BharatNet Project across Karnataka, Goa, and Puducherry.

Construction

Construction Education Broadband Telecommunication

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Becomes First Mobile Operator in Southeast Asia to Deploy AI-RAN with Nokia and NVIDIA

Total Telecom

MARCH 5, 2025

This milestone sets Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison as the first operator in Southeast Asia and the third globally to build a commercial AI-RAN network, enabling the convergence of AI and wireless connectivity to enhance performance, efficiency, and unlock new opportunities across industries.

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Sparkle and Algérie Télécom Sign a Memorandum of Understanding for a New Subsea Cable Linking Italy and Algeria

Total Telecom

JULY 25, 2025

By doing so, it will also support the growing demand for internet services and digital content, offering an outstanding connectivity experience for both consumers and businesses. This agreement marks a significant step in strengthening digital ties between Europe and North Africa, ” said Enrico Bagnasco , CEO of Sparkle. “

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India Developing Indigenous AI-Native Telecom Technologies

Telecom Talk

JUNE 11, 2025

Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) will be a foundational technology shaping the future of telecommunications, enabling transformative services such as immersive digital experiences, autonomous operations, and integrated sensing, a senior official from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) said on Wednesday.

Technology

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ITP Approved to Deliver Telecoms Apprenticeship Training, Backed by Industry Support from Vodafone and Cornerstone

Total Telecom

MAY 14, 2025

The CNFE standard focuses on the skills required to build and maintain mobile infrastructure – including 5G – at a time when pressure on UK connectivity has never been higher. We enable reliable, high-speed mobile connectivity by building and maintaining the infrastructure that underpins the UKs digital economy.

Telecoms

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Broadband Breakfast on July 9, 2025 - Undersea Cables and Global Conflict

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 8, 2025

The latest conflicts in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere have serious implications for connectivity infrastructure worldwide. This Broadband Breakfast live session will consider the impacts that global conflict has on subsea broadband infrastructure and global connectivity.

Cable

Cable Broadband Telecommunication Internet

Bulgarian Students to Speak Live with Astronauts Aboard the International Space Station

Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The connection will take place between March 24 and 28, 2025. ” To prepare for this extraordinary event, a series of educational seminars will take place in March. Neterra is a global provider of connectivity, telecommunications solutions, and IT assets management.

Radio

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Anchorage Update: Lessons from the Frontier State

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 25, 2025

At the Fiber Broadband Association’s (FBA) Regional Fiber Connect Workshop in Anchorage last week, local broadband executives, tribal leaders, and policymakers came together to share best practices and lessons learned in a state that has unique challenges and opportunities connecting communities and people to fiber broadband.

Broadband

Broadband Construction Connectivity Communication

Rohit Rawool: Why Hardware Matters in a Software-Driven World

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 20, 2025

Yet, as we chase the promise of a hyper-connected future, we risk overlooking a critical component of our technological infrastructure: mechanical engineering in telecommunications hardware. My work in the United States focuses on creating next-generation telecommunications hardware to strengthen broadband infrastructure.

Hardware

Hardware Transmission Plug-in Broadband

Women’s History Month: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Rural Broadband Association

MARCH 11, 2025

Over her 22-year tenure, she helped transform the company from a party line system into a modern telecommunications provider, and she was inducted as a charter member of the Kansas Telecommunications Hall of Fame in 1995 for her work. Next, we have Bonnie Krause , who called West River Telecommunications Cooperative (WRT; Hazen, N.D.)

Telephone

Telephone Telecommunication Education Telecoms

State of broadband advocacy targets

Mark Goldberg

JULY 16, 2025

Policy-making and regulation have moved on from questions of basic access to telecommunications and Internet to recognize different types of digital divides, such as age and/or gender digital divides, and their implications for access to education, healthcare, e-government services, employment opportunities and participation in the digital economy.

Broadband

Broadband Healthcare Education Telecommunication

Pew: Incomplete Federal Data Threatens Effectiveness of Broadband Deployment Programs

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 10, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 10, 2025 – Enhanced federal data collection was needed to strengthen broadband program design and reduce connectivity barriers, a report published Tuesday by the Pew Research Center declared. Department of Agriculture. ”

Broadband

Broadband Healthcare Education Internet

Jio AI-Native Network Strategy, Verizon ODA Accreditation, TM Forum GSMA Partnership, and More

Telecom Talk

JUNE 19, 2025

Ewaldsson, for example, envisages 6G arriving at the end of the decade and supporting “ maybe 100 times more data usage … lower than a millisecond latency, and perhaps 500 billion connected devices globally.” This work builds on Elisa’s automated network platform, the Elisa Defined Network (EDN).

Network

Network Telecoms Platform Mobile

Mahesh Krishnaswamy: The Future of BEAD: Unlocking Reach & Resilience with High Capacity Wireless

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 23, 2025

Connectivity is the backbone of our society. It powers everything from education and finance to healthcare and emergency response, not to mention our increasing conversations with AI agents recently. The United States is on a mission to extend high-speed internet to every corner of the country. Do you need redundancy or resiliency?

Broadband

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PTC Member Profile: Kokum Randeni, NCINGA

PTC

MARCH 14, 2025

Moreover, prioritizing sustainable innovations and social impact projects will inspire future generations to work toward a more equitable and connected world, ensuring their contributions are meaningful and impactful. How can telecommunications technologies help humanity ? What value does PTC hold for you/your company?

Education

Education Telecommunication Technology Connectivity

Shentel Announces Glo Fiber Expansion with Acquisition of WideOpen Blacksburg

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 30, 2025

WASHINGTON, June 30, 2025 — With a definitive agreement to acquire the assets and operations of WideOpen Blacksburg, a local internet service provider, Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) has announced plans to expand its Glo Fiber Service into Blackburg, Virginia. ”

Internet

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Indosat Leads Southeast Asia’s AI-RAN with Nokia and NVIDIA

VoIP Review

MARCH 6, 2025

The venture places Indosat as a pioneer not just in Asia, but globally, enabling AI and wireless connectivity convergence for enhanced performance and efficiency. This educational collaboration aims to accelerate AI-enabled networking breakthroughs related to network optimization, spectral efficiency, and energy consumption.

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OBD Updates: BEAD, Line Extension and Future Office Hours

Blandin on Broadband

JUNE 18, 2025

The Minnesota Line Extension Connection Program aims to connect residents and businesses that lack access to wired broadband internet service with service providers and assist in the expense of extending broadband to those locations.

Broadband

Broadband Internet Internet Connectivity

Shared Infrastructure, Shared Future

Mark Goldberg

MAY 5, 2025

Next Tuesday (May 13), there will be a free one-hour webinar hosted by the International Telecommunications Society looking at Shared Infrastructure, Shared Future: Competition and Connectivity in the Next Generation of Networks. Next week’s session is the fourth in the 2025 series.

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What is an IP Phone and when to use it

VoIP MS

JUNE 11, 2025

Unlike traditional landlines, which rely on traditional phone lines, or softphones, which operate through software on computers or mobile devices, IP phones are physical desk phones that connect directly to the internet via Ethernet or Wi-Fi. Can I use an IP phone as a normal phone? Basically, VoIP phones work just like traditional phones.

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Phone Landline Hardware Telephone

PTC Member Profile: Jim Buie, ValorC3 Data Centers

PTC

APRIL 4, 2025

With over 30 years of experience across the data center, cloud services , and network infrastructure ecosystem, Jims visionary approach and deep industry knowledge have made him a trusted leader in the world of cloud computing, infrastructure management , and telecommunications. The value is truly immeasurable. Its also very rewarding.

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Jeff Forbes

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2025

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Education

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Leadership From the Inside Out

Rural Broadband Association

MARCH 11, 2025

The network and professional development experienced through the NTCA Women in Telecom program offer a view of the telecommunications industry from the inside out, rather than the isolating and more difficult work seen from the outside in. Women supporting other women is magical and a superpower when shared! Promote to Featured Blog Off

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An Interview With Former BEAD Director Evan Feinman

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 25, 2025

” In a phone call last week from his home in Richmond, Feinman said his problem wasn’t as much with Musk as with the possibility that rural residents could get short shrift on connection quality. Northam, at the time the lieutenant governor, made universal broadband connectivity a huge part of his campaign.

Broadband

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Amazon Braket and Amazon Bedrock: quantum algorithms solving telco challenges – a case study on backhaul network upgrades

AWS Telecommunications

JUNE 30, 2025

Bandwidth allocation: Optimally allocating bandwidth to different services or users in a shared network.Network reliability and fault tolerance: Finding the smallest sub-network that remains connected even after removing connections, thus making sure of network resilience.

Network

Network Connectivity Education Bandwidth

Internet Outage in Much of Gaza Disrupts Humanitarian Operations, Deepens Isolation

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 21, 2025

Israeli strikes damaged a main connection, cutting off communications in large areas of the strip since Tuesday, according to the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, based in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The vast majority of UNRWA workers don’t have connectivity in the areas affected by the outages.

Internet

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Women’s History Month: Today’s Trailblazers

Rural Broadband Association

MARCH 19, 2025

One of her proudest accomplishments was the creation of Consortias Connections conferences, which serve as a space to educate and advance womens careers in the rural broadband industry. Though she recently retired, the company grew significantly during Mauns tenure as CEO. Kristi Westbrock joined CTC (Brainerd, Minn.)

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Telephone Broadband Communication Technology

Texas May Return $1 Billion in BEAD Funding to Treasury

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 7, 2025

billion in BEAD money allocated by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Biden administration. billion, the most of any state allocation, to connect 779,378 eligible locations in the state. The Biden administration awarded Texas the $3.3 ”

Healthcare

Healthcare Education Broadband Telecommunication

Maine’s BEAD Plan Delayed, Triggered by NTIA’s New Policy Direction

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 17, 2025

In a notice sent to stakeholders late Wednesday, Maine Connectivity Authority Chief Operating Officer Brian Allenby said that the program's administrator, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, has halted key procedural meetings with the state required to move forward with BEAD implementation.

Broadband

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Dito Telecommunity reaches 15 million subscribers

Developing Telecoms

JULY 25, 2025

Dito CEO Eric Alberto said: “We remain committed to understanding and putting our customers first, challenging the status quo, and expanding our high-speed network with integrity and innovation at the core.”

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Peter Murray: Connected Cities Tour Event Summarized

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 19, 2025

This is part 2 of a two-part series on the Connected Cities event in Miami-Dade County. The Chief highlighted how important being connected was to his team which was a good transition to the panel discussion that followed on Private Wireless Networks using LTE and 5G transmission technologies.

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MN House introduces HF1740 a bill appropriating money for community cable television programming

Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This bill is tangential to broadband but could relate directly to cable franchising, which does connect it to broadband. Minnesota House reports Nadeau, Norris and Carroll introduced: HF. 1740, A bill for an act relating to arts and cultural heritage; appropriating money for community cable television programming.

Television

Television Cable Finance Distribution

Central Arkansas Telephone Co-Op, inc

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2025

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OCA Fiber Solutions

Rural Broadband Association

JUNE 6, 2025

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Bridged Broadband

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 29, 2025

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The June Bug Center

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 26, 2025

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Nokia Leverages Dell’s OTEL for KDDI Policy and Charging Solution

Dell

JUNE 9, 2025

By Ryan McMeniman | June 9, 2025 Topics in this article Telecommunications Dell’s OTEL Supports Nokia’s charging and policy management functions for KDDI 5G Core. OTEL’s secure connectivity enabled teams from Japan, Singapore, the U.S. The project involved extensive collaboration among global teams from Dell, Intel, Nokia and Red Hat.

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Modernizing OSS/BSS with a Geospatial Systems Approach

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

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State Legislators: Don’t Upend BEAD

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 3, 2025

“The health, safety, education, and economic success of our communities depend on these programs. ” The letter was organized by the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society and State Connections, a working group of state legislators. We ask that you tread cautiously when changing them.”

Broadband

Broadband Education Telecommunication Connectivity

Citizen's Mutual Telephone Cooperative

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2025

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Digital Skills Advocates Warn BEAD Changes Undermine Workforce Training

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 17, 2025

Under the June 6 Restructuring Policy Notice , the National Telecommunications and Information Administration removed language that had allowed states to spend remaining BEAD funds on non-deployment activities after building out broadband infrastructure to all homes and businesses in need. billion Digital Equity Act.

Education

Education Broadband Telecommunication Connectivity

United Telephone Assoc., Inc.

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2025

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Bridged Broadband

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 24, 2025

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Highline Services MI

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2025

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BSNL Gears Up for Major BharatNet Expansion in Karnataka, Goa, and Puducherry

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Becomes First Mobile Operator in Southeast Asia to Deploy AI-RAN with Nokia and NVIDIA

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Sparkle and Algérie Télécom Sign a Memorandum of Understanding for a New Subsea Cable Linking Italy and Algeria

India Developing Indigenous AI-Native Telecom Technologies

ITP Approved to Deliver Telecoms Apprenticeship Training, Backed by Industry Support from Vodafone and Cornerstone

Broadband Breakfast on July 9, 2025 - Undersea Cables and Global Conflict

Bulgarian Students to Speak Live with Astronauts Aboard the International Space Station

Anchorage Update: Lessons from the Frontier State

Rohit Rawool: Why Hardware Matters in a Software-Driven World

Women’s History Month: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

State of broadband advocacy targets

Pew: Incomplete Federal Data Threatens Effectiveness of Broadband Deployment Programs

Jio AI-Native Network Strategy, Verizon ODA Accreditation, TM Forum GSMA Partnership, and More

Mahesh Krishnaswamy: The Future of BEAD: Unlocking Reach & Resilience with High Capacity Wireless

PTC Member Profile: Kokum Randeni, NCINGA

Shentel Announces Glo Fiber Expansion with Acquisition of WideOpen Blacksburg

Indosat Leads Southeast Asia’s AI-RAN with Nokia and NVIDIA

OBD Updates: BEAD, Line Extension and Future Office Hours

Shared Infrastructure, Shared Future

What is an IP Phone and when to use it

PTC Member Profile: Jim Buie, ValorC3 Data Centers

Jeff Forbes

Leadership From the Inside Out

An Interview With Former BEAD Director Evan Feinman

Amazon Braket and Amazon Bedrock: quantum algorithms solving telco challenges – a case study on backhaul network upgrades

Internet Outage in Much of Gaza Disrupts Humanitarian Operations, Deepens Isolation

Women’s History Month: Today’s Trailblazers

Texas May Return $1 Billion in BEAD Funding to Treasury

Maine’s BEAD Plan Delayed, Triggered by NTIA’s New Policy Direction

Dito Telecommunity reaches 15 million subscribers

Peter Murray: Connected Cities Tour Event Summarized

MN House introduces HF1740 a bill appropriating money for community cable television programming

Central Arkansas Telephone Co-Op, inc

OCA Fiber Solutions

Bridged Broadband

The June Bug Center

Nokia Leverages Dell’s OTEL for KDDI Policy and Charging Solution

Modernizing OSS/BSS with a Geospatial Systems Approach

State Legislators: Don’t Upend BEAD

Citizen's Mutual Telephone Cooperative

Digital Skills Advocates Warn BEAD Changes Undermine Workforce Training

United Telephone Assoc., Inc.

Bridged Broadband

Highline Services MI

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