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T-Mobile Expands Fiber with Two 50/50 JVs

T-Mobile Expands Fiber with Two 50/50 JVs

Hema Kadia April 29, 2026

T-Mobile has inked two 50/50 fiber joint ventures to accelerate FTTP reach, add multi-gig capacity, and broaden its multi-access broadband portfolio. T-Mobile will partner with Oak Hill Capital to combine GoNetspeed and Greenlight Networks into a single platform and, in a separate JV, team with infrastructure investor Wren House to acquire i3 Broadband. Collectively, the platforms target about 1.8 million passings by the end of 2026—roughly 1.3 million from GoNetspeed/Greenlight and 500,000 from i3 Broadband—expanding T-Mobile’s ability to sell T-Fiber by T-Mobile alongside its leading 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) offering.

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Mariana Minerals uses Celona private 5G at Copper One

Mariana Minerals uses Celona private 5G at Copper One

Hema Kadia April 29, 2026

Mariana Minerals has deployed Celona’s private 5G network across its Copper One copper mine and refinery in southeastern Utah. The network supports MarianaOS, the company’s software-defined mining platform, enabling autonomous drilling, self-driving haul trucks, real-time monitoring, asset tracking, edge computing, and continuous data collection. The deployment shows how private 5G can become production infrastructure for AI-driven mining operations, helping improve visibility, coordination, drilling accuracy, downtime response, and future automation.

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Broadband Industry Pushes for Permitting Reform on Federal Lands

Broadband Industry Pushes for Permitting Reform on Federal Lands

Hema Kadia April 28, 2026

The broadband industry is intensifying its push to cut permitting delays on federal lands, with trade group USTelecom urging the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to adopt new White House guidance that would let agencies skip full environmental reviews for low-impact infrastructure projects. The guidance, issued by the Council on Environmental Quality in April, presses federal agencies to expand so-called categorical exclusions under NEPA — a shortcut the industry argues is essential to closing the digital divide in rural America.

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Vodafone Business AI and cybersecurity for SMBs with Google Cloud

Vodafone Business AI and cybersecurity for SMBs with Google Cloud

Hema Kadia April 23, 2026

Vodafone Business and Google Cloud expanded their $1 billion, ten-year partnership with two launches aimed squarely at small and mid-sized businesses: a managed detection and response service and an agentic AI concierge. Vodafone Business and Google Cloud are packaging hyperscaler security analytics and agentic AI into carrier-delivered services that SMBs can adopt quickly. The launch markets, technology choices, and managed wrap indicate a pragmatic path to better protection and always-on customer engagement. Leaders should pilot now with tight KPIs, validate compliance early, and build an integration roadmap that scales across markets as the offer expands through Europe.

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SK Telecom B2B AI Push: Public Sector & Defense

SK Telecom B2B AI Push: Public Sector & Defense

Hema Kadia April 22, 2026

SK Telecom is reorganizing around artificial intelligence to accelerate a B2B push, with a sharp focus on public sector and defense opportunities in South Korea. At a town hall marking six months in the role, SK Telecom’s CEO signaled a decisive shift: make AI the company’s growth engine and align operations, culture, and go-to-market around enterprise needs. The operator outlined an organizational, technology, and culture overhaul to strengthen competitiveness across B2B AI. The company will scale its AI data center footprint by combining capabilities from SK Group affiliates and global partners. SK Telecom advanced its in-house foundation model to a

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Intel and Google Advance AI Infrastructure with Xeon 6, IPUs

Intel and Google Advance AI Infrastructure with Xeon 6, IPUs

Hema Kadia April 22, 2026

Intel and Google expanded a multiyear partnership that doubles down on Xeon CPUs and custom infrastructure processing units to scale AI with better efficiency and predictability. Google committed to multiple generations of Intel Xeon for AI, inference, and general-purpose workloads across its global cloud. The latest Xeon 6 processors are already powering Google Cloud’s workload-optimized instances, including C4 and N4, to coordinate large-scale training, serve latency-sensitive inference, and run mainstream compute. In parallel, the companies will broaden co-development of custom ASIC-based IPUs that offload networking, storage, and security from host CPUs to improve utilization and deliver more stable performance at

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Meta ordered to pay €30M to Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom–T-Mobile US holdco merger plan

Hema Kadia April 21, 2026

Deutsche Telekom is weighing a structural overhaul that would collapse its 53% ownership of T-Mobile US into a single, unified company spanning both sides of the Atlantic. Reports indicate Deutsche Telekom is exploring an all-stock transaction in which a new holding company would acquire both Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile US, with current shareholders of each ending up as owners of the combined entity. The new group could pursue dual listings in the U.S. and Europe, eliminating today’s parent–subsidiary setup and aligning governance, strategy, and capital allocation under one roof.

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