Telecom Talk
AUGUST 5, 2025
Bharti Airtel has delivered a robust financial and operational performance in Q1 FY26, continuing its momentum as one of India’s leading telecom providers. The company reported a significant 18.5% year-on-year (YoY) jump in Average Revenue Per User (ARPU), rising from Rs 211 in Q1 FY25 to Rs 250 in Q1 FY26 the highest in the Indian telecom industry.
Broadband Breakfast
AUGUST 5, 2025
WASHINGTON, August 5, 2025 – In a letter addressed to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday, four telecom trade associations demanded federal action to address the spike in coordinated attacks on the nation’s communications infrastructure. “Critical infrastructure attacks pose a significant national security threat,” the letter warned.
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Telecom Talk
AUGUST 5, 2025
In today’s hyper connected economy, reliable and fast internet is not a luxury it’s the backbone of digital transformation across industries, homes, and rural enterprises. Bharti Airtel , India’s second largest telecom player by subscriber base, is making strategic and aggressive investments in its network infrastructure. In the first quarter of FY26 alone, Airtel has added 43,700 km of fibre and 1,800 new towers , reinforcing its commitment to offering faster speeds, wider coverage, and a more
Total Telecom
AUGUST 5, 2025
News The joint venture’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network will span 12.2 million premises, making it one of the largest networks in Europe This week, Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC has agreed to purchase a 25% stake in MásOrange and Vodafone Spain’s upcoming fibre network joint venture, internally known as ‘Surf’. Vodafone Spain and MásOrange announced the creation of the joint venture in January.
Telecom Talk
AUGUST 5, 2025
India’s telecom operators, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, are leveraging Geographic Information System (GIS) technologies to streamline the expansion of their 5G networks and fixed wireless access (FWA) services, according to a senior executive of Esri India. The GIS-driven approach is helping telcos identify optimal deployment locations, improve network management, and enhance customer experience.
telecoms.com
AUGUST 5, 2025
Nokia has been drafted by ProRail, the organization responsible for the Netherlands' national railway network infrastructure, to modernise its core network.
RCR Wireless
AUGUST 5, 2025
AI adoption in telecom is accelerating, with telcos moving from experimentation to real-world deployments. The focus is now on refining AI use cases, growing business strategies and unlocking real ROI. RCR Wireless News‘ latest market pulse report explores the latest innovation in AI, from agentic AI and telco AI infrastructure to the progress of AI RAN.
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Blandin on Broadband
AUGUST 5, 2025
The MN Broadband Task Force did not meet in July. They will be meeting at Farmfest on August 6. There a couple other meetings that may be of interest to broadband folks: Minnesota Public Broadband Alliance MPBA ; hosts a meeting on September 10, speakers include Gigi Sohn and Christopher Mitchell. The Rural Assembly Everywhere 2025 happens on September 17 It’s been a busy summer with the Office of Broadband Development hosting weekly meetings about BEAD funding and many providers working on the
RCR Wireless
AUGUST 5, 2025
Analyst house ABI Research looks at how full duplex microwave innovations are boosting 5G spectrum efficiency, helping operators meet growing backhaul demands, overcome spectrum limitations, and enable high-capacity, cost-effective wireless connectivity.
Broadband Breakfast
AUGUST 5, 2025
WASHINGTON, August 5, 2025 – Cable broadband providers aren't expected to return to subscriber growth anytime soon. The broadband industry added roughly as many subscribers in the second quarter of 2025 as the same period last year, New Street Research reported. That was the result of fiber and fixed wireless improving while cable losses got worse.
RCR Wireless
AUGUST 5, 2025
The milestone represents a significant proof of concept for Open RAN’s interoperability and network flexibility, according to the companies In sum – what to know: Key Open RAN milestones – The successful Open RAN call using Ericsson basebands and 1Finity radios — and the live deployment of a third-party rApp — show real-world interoperability and […]
Blandin on Broadband
AUGUST 5, 2025
I have been tracking the progress as it happens, but always nice to see Minnesota broadband stories outside of Minnesota – Broadband Communities reports … A broadband expansion in Minnesota’s Arrowhead Region has reached 65% completion in the city of Coleraine, according to a recent update posted by the firm behind the project, Paul Bunyan Communications.
RCR Wireless
AUGUST 5, 2025
SK Telecom noted that the infrastructure will be housed in its Gasan AI data center In sum – what to know: B200 GPU cluster launched in Korea – SK Telecom’s new sovereign GPUaaS platform features over 1,000 NVIDIA B200s, forming one of the country’s most powerful AI infrastructure clusters to date.
Telecom Talk
AUGUST 5, 2025
Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, is soon expected to launch 5G SA (standalone architecture) services. The company has already confirmed that intially, the 5G SA will come for FWA (fixed-wireless architecture) customers. Then, once the maximum user base of Airtel is using 5G phones and there’s capacity issues with the networks, the telco will start offering 5G SA to mobile customers.
VoIP Review
AUGUST 5, 2025
The recent completion of T-Mobile ‘s $4.4 billion acquisition of the wireless business of UScellular has reshaped the U.S. wireless landscape. T-Mobile acquired customers, stores, and approximately 30% of UScellular’s spectrum. This deal, finalized as $4.3 billion after adjustments, includes $2.6 billion in cash and $1.7 billion in assumed debt.
Telecom Talk
AUGUST 5, 2025
Bharti Airtel, while behind in number of fixed-broadband connections from Jio, is ahead in delivering a better experience. Opensignal, a network intelligence and insights firm, shared that Airtel led in almost all of the experiences for home broadband connections. Today, home broadband connections are categories in two ways – Fiber or AirFiber.
RCR Wireless
AUGUST 5, 2025
Airtel said that the new offerings include a sovereign telco-grade cloud platform and an AI-powered software suite In sum – what to know: India-built telco cloud launched – Airtel’s Xtelify unveiled ‘Airtel Cloud’, a sovereign, telco-grade platform promising 40% cloud spend savings and hosted entirely within India’s borders.
Light Reading
AUGUST 5, 2025
NBN has inked an agreement with Amazon for the right to sell Project Kuiper satellite connections to more than 300,000 customers across regional, rural and remote parts of Australia.
IEEE ComSoc
AUGUST 5, 2025
Government-owned wholesale broadband operator NBN Co will become the first major customer of Amazon’s Project Kuiper Low-Earth Orbit ( LEO ) satellite internet technology in Australia beginning in the middle of 2026. At that time, NBN Co plans to offer wholesale residential-grade fixed LEO satellite broadband services to more than 300,000 premises within our existing satellite footprint via participating Retail Service Providers (RSPs).
Blandin on Broadband
AUGUST 5, 2025
Broadband Breakfast reports … The internet-service provider announced Thursday afternoon that it had sustained losses totaling $915 million in Q2. That prompted its stock to take a nosedive after markets closed, dropping nearly 7.5 percent before recovering slightly to $4.25 a share as of 5:30 PM ET, $0.20 lower than at closing. The diluted loss per share was $0.92 in the quarter, compared to a loss of $0.05 per share in Q2 2024.
Broadband Breakfast
AUGUST 5, 2025
WASHINGTON, August 5, 2025 – The police are good at making arrests – but who knew flattery was also in their repertoire? Just two weeks after her confirmation as Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Arielle Roth already finds her desk flooded with demands. For instance, Patrick Yoes, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, sent an appeal urging Roth to protect the First Responder Network Authority, the independent agenc
Blandin on Broadband
AUGUST 5, 2025
From the Office of Broadband Development… Office of Broadband Development: Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program Updates Direct Negotiation for the Restructured BEAD Round, NOW OPEN Direct Negotiation for the Restructured BEAD round is now open. Resources posted to the OBD BEAD webpage on how to participate in Direct Negotiation can be found in the: Call for Letters of Interest and Bid Forms for Direct Negotiation Please note, the deadline to complete and submit required m
Developing Telecoms
AUGUST 5, 2025
Vodacom has committed to investing ZAR620 million ($34.5 millon) in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province during its 2025–26 financial year, as it seeks to meet rising demand for connectivity.
Broadband Breakfast
AUGUST 5, 2025
DENVER, August 5, 2025 – The chief of staff for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration confirmed Tuesday that locations recently defaulted on in one federal broadband program will not be eligible to be included in another. NTIA Chief of Staff Brooke Donilon told attendees at Mountain Connect 2025 that Rural Digital Opportunity Fund locations defaulted on after June 6 would not be eligible for funding from the Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment program.
Blandin on Broadband
AUGUST 5, 2025
Broadband Breakfast reports … The Federal Communications Commission should still assess broadband affordability and adoption as part of its annual report on deployment, consumer advocates told the agency. The FCC is set to vote Thursday on a notice of inquiry that would kick off its annual report on whether broadband “is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion.
Broadband Breakfast
AUGUST 5, 2025
DENVER, August 5, 2025 – Steve Carender , director of special funding at Surf Internet, was dismayed when he first read the June 6 notice restructuring the Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment program. “There was, of course, gnashing of teeth and rending of garments,” Carender recalled, speaking to those in attendance of a Tuesday panel, here at Mountain Connect 2025.
Developing Telecoms
AUGUST 5, 2025
Vodacom Eastern Cape said on Tuesday that it has completed targeted network upgrades in the Addo region and along the R335 route to fill mobile coverage gaps in a bid to combat truck hijackings.
Broadband Breakfast
AUGUST 5, 2025
WASHINGTON, August 5, 2025 – In the ‘Benefit of the Bargain’ round to allocate the state’s $229 million in federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment funding, Vermont received bids to serve 100 percent of all currently underserved addresses within the state. Herryn Herzog , communications, strategy, and policy director for the Vermont Community Broadband Board, told Broadband Breakfast on Tuesday that the state received 100 applications from eight providers
Developing Telecoms
AUGUST 5, 2025
Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace (CRA) says that it has obtained a building permit to construct a data centre on the outskirts of Prague, in the Zbraslav – Jíloviště area.
VoIP Review
AUGUST 5, 2025
Amphenol is making headlines once again by purchasing CommScope ‘s Connectivity and Cable Solutions (CCS) business for $10.5 billion. This acquisition strengthens their foothold in data center interconnection solutions, intelligent buildings, and broadband networks. This isn’t Amphenol’s first move involving CommScope. Last year, they acquired CommScope’s Andrew connectivity business for around $2.1 billion.
telecoms.com
AUGUST 5, 2025
Networking kit vendor CommScope has signed a deal to sell its Connectivity and Cable Solutions Segment to comms component specialist Amphenol Corporation for $10.5 billion in cash.
VoIP Review
AUGUST 5, 2025
In a bold move set to revolutionize the processing of space-based data, the UAE startup Madari Space plans to launch a data center into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) by the third quarter of 2026. This pioneering project, spearheaded by former Etihad pilot Shareef Al Romaithi, aims to address the growing demand for processing raw satellite data directly in orbit, according to a Bloomberg report.
Broadband Breakfast
AUGUST 5, 2025
WASHINGTON, August 5, 2025 – NextNav persistence is not letting up, as the company appeals for support from the Federal Communications Commission for the third time in less than a month. In a recent filing submitted August 1, the geolocation services company urged the FCC to advance its proposal to expand 5G-based positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services.
VoIP Review
AUGUST 5, 2025
Virgin Media O2 Daisy has made a noteworthy entry into the UK’s business telecoms sector by combining the expertise of two established forces. Emerging from the merger of Virgin Media O2’s business division and the Daisy Group, this fresh venture promises to fulfill diverse telecom needs. The primary aspiration of Virgin Media O2 Daisy is straightforward—become the quintessential partner for British businesses, addressing their mobile, broadband , cloud, and security needs.
Developing Telecoms
AUGUST 5, 2025
Orange announced on Tuesday it is expanding its collaboration with OpenAI to deploy two new advanced open-weight reasoning models in its data centre infrastructure to boost support for AI solutions development across its footprint, particularly in Africa.
Light Reading
AUGUST 5, 2025
Rouzbeh 'Father of the Cable Modem' Yassini and industry analyst Stewart Schley join the podcast to discuss the story of cable broadband – from its early struggles to the rise of DOCSIS – as recounted in their new book, 'The Accidental Network: How a Small Company Sparked a Global Broadband Transformation.
Broadband Breakfast
AUGUST 5, 2025
WASHINGTON, August 5, 2025 – Satellite operators are excited about the prospect of two gifts from federal regulators: more airwaves and higher power limits. The Federal Communications Commission is looking to foster the burgeoning low-earth orbit satellite space by giving operators like Elon Musk ’s SpaceX more spectrum to work with, and instituting looser interference protections in some bands.
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