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T-Mobile has launched a purpose-built Cyber Defense Center alongside a new Executive Briefing Center, signaling a maturing, integrated approach to cyber resilience across its network and enterprise business. T-Mobile unveiled a centralized Cyber Defense Center at its Bellevue, Washington headquarters to detect, disrupt, and respond to threats in real time, complemented by an Executive Briefing Center that showcases industry use cases and a tie-in to the companyโ€™s always-on Business Operations Center for continuity during crises. T-Mobileโ€™s Business Operations Center remains the operational backbone for network health, customer experience continuity, and coordinated disaster response, integrating data-driven dashboards that support rapid decisioning during natural disasters, outages, and high-impact events.
Defense, public safety, transport, and critical infrastructure need deterministic connectivity that moves with the mission. Traditional rollouts struggle with time-to-service, power, and backhaul constraints. Portable, โ€œall-in-oneโ€ 5G modules help bridge that gap by putting the radio, core, and management closer to the edge, enabling local breakout, resilience, and consistent QoS. With 3GPP Release 16/17 features maturing and SA-first private networks becoming standard, demand is shifting from pilots to field-ready systems that can be mounted in vehicles, worn as backpacks, or staged in temporary zones.
Ericsson has secured a three-year, $3 billion partnership with Export Development Canada (EDC) to expand R&D, fortify supply chains, and accelerate nextโ€‘gen network technologies with Canadian roots and global reach. The agreement arms Ericsson with EDCโ€™s financing and insurance support to scale Canada-based projects in 5G, Cloud RAN, AI-driven network operations, and early quantum communications research while integrating Canadian suppliers into its international ecosystem. Over the term, Ericsson aims to deepen R&D executed across Ottawa, Montrรฉal, and Torontoโ€”where more than 3,100 employees work on 5G Advanced, 6G, quantum networking, and automationโ€”expanding the countryโ€™s contribution to the vendorโ€™s global product and standards roadmap.
Microsoft is weaving Copilot directly into Windows 11 so users can talk to their PCs and allow AI to see the screen and take actions, signaling a shift toward an โ€œAI PCโ€ model. Microsoft is rolling out a wake phrase so users can start tasks or ask for help hands-free, positioning voice alongside keyboard and mouse as a core input. Copilot Vision can view whatโ€™s on your screen – apps, documents, photos, even gamesโ€”and provide step-by-step guidance or troubleshooting. Copilot Actions moves from advice to execution in a secure, contained desktop environment, while listing each step it takes. Windows 11 integrates Copilot directly into the taskbar, with one-click entry points for Voice and Vision.
Appleโ€™s new M5 chip is a material step in local AI compute that will ripple into enterprise IT, developer tooling, and edge networking strategies. M5 is built on a thirdโ€‘generation 3โ€‘nanometer process and reworks Appleโ€™s GPU as the center of gravity for AI. The 10โ€‘core GPU adds a dedicated Neural Accelerator in every core, pushing peak GPU compute for AI to more than four times M4. Unified memory bandwidth jumps to 153 GB/s, and configurations with up to 32 GB allow more and larger models to remain entirely on device. Onโ€‘device inference is moving from niceโ€‘toโ€‘have to default, driven by privacy, latency, and cost.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has opened a proceeding to revoke HKT Internationalโ€™s Section 214 authorizations, citing national security concerns tied to its affiliations and the evolving U.S.โ€“China risk posture. Section 214 authority is the gatekeeper for carriers to originate, terminate, or carry traffic that touches the U.S., including wholesale voice, IP transit, subsea capacity backhaul, and certain enterprise connectivity. Over the past five years, the FCCโ€”often in coordination with the interagency โ€œTeam Telecomโ€ group (DOJ, DHS, DOD)โ€”has revoked or denied comparable permissions for China Telecom (Americas), China Unicom (Americas), and Pacific Networks/ComNet, among others, after similar โ€œorder to show causeโ€ phases. The next 60โ€“120 days could reshape interconnection routes, roaming relationships, and wholesale arrangements touching Hong Kong-to-U.S. traffic paths.
Ericssonโ€™s Microwave Outlook 2025 points to a backhaul market that will be almost evenly split between microwave and fiber by 2030, reshaping transport decisions for dense 5G and future 6G builds. Microwave already carries traffic for most live 5G networks worldwide, and a rising mix of E-band and emerging higher bands is closing the capacity gap with fiber for short- to medium-range links. For operators facing site densification, fiber lead times, and rising build costs, microwave provides a fast, resilient, and cost-optimized path to scale. E-band deployments are accelerating and overtaking legacy 38 GHz usage in several markets.
OneLayer, a Boston-based private network security provider, raised $28M in Series A funding to meet surging enterprise demand for secure private cellular networks. With 6ร— revenue growth and deployments across 122,000 sq mi, the company enables IT-grade visibility and zero-trust enforcement for critical infrastructure, utilities, and manufacturers scaling private 5G.
AT&T 1 offers up to $5,000 for documented, incident-related losses, or a tiered cash payment if you donโ€™t submit documentation; whether a Social Security number was involved may affect the tier. AT&T 2 offers up to $2,500 for documented, incident-related losses, or a proportional cash payment without documentation. If you qualify for both incidents and have separate documentation for each, the combined cap could reach $7,500. Actual amounts depend on the total number of valid claims and settlement costs, and funds will not be distributed until after final court approval.
India and the United Kingdom have launched the Indiaโ€“UK Connectivity and Innovation Centre to accelerate secure, AI-driven, and resilient telecom technologies over the next four years. The two governments committed an initial ยฃ24 millionโ€”roughly โ‚น250โ€“โ‚น282 crore depending on exchange ratesโ€”to fund applied research, joint testbeds, field trials, and standards contributions in emerging telecom domains. The investment concentrates on three pillars: AI in telecommunications, non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) for satellite and airborne connectivity, and telecoms cybersecurity with open, interoperable systems. The multi-year window aligns to the critical runway for 5Gโ€‘Advanced and early 6G experimentation.
After two years of decline, telecom equipment spending is edging back into positive territory with early signs of a broad-based rebound. Dellโ€™Oro Groupโ€™s preliminary data indicates worldwide telecom equipment revenues across six tracked sectors rose 4% year over year in the first half of 2025, with markets outside China up a stronger 8%. The rebound was not limited to a single pocket of spend, but three areas led the gains: mobile core networks, optical transport, and service provider routers and switches. By contrast, RAN remains comparatively muted in many markets as 5G macro buildouts mature.
Verizon has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Starry, a fixed wireless broadband specialist focused on MDUs across Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Denver, and Washington, D.C. Starry brings nearly 100,000 broadband customers and an MDU-centric network architecture built around wideband millimeter-wave and hybrid fiber. Verizon said the move will support its ambition to double fixed wireless subscribers to roughly 8โ€“9 million by 2028 and extend availability to about 90 million households. Starryโ€™s in-market MDU know-how and neutral-host friendly building relationships give Verizon a fast path to scale in cities where it already owns substantial fiber backhaul and large 28/39 GHz mmWave holdings.

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