Telecommunication

Rocco Commisso, the colorful founder, chairman, and CEO of Mediacom Communications and owner of soccer clubs in the US and abroad, has died at 76. Born in Calabria, Italy, Rocco immigrated to the US at the age of 12 and later rose to become one of the nation's top entrepreneurs with Italian roots.

There's a storm coming and it's headed for telephone companies. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned about an artificial intelligence (AI) bubble in August 2025, a caution that was followed by warnings from the Bank of England, International Monetary Fund, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Given the risk of a bubble and its potential collapse, how are communica

Two of the three big US carriers appointed new CEOs in 2025 and the question lingering on everyone's lips is, what will they do? Dan Schulman took over at Verizon in October, and Srini Gopalan took the helm at T-Mobile in November. 2026 will be pivotal for both as they look to make their mark and chart a course in the competitive US market. The way each executive landed in the top job was completely different.

If there’s a through-line from the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to today’s AI moment, it’s that major technology frameworks don’t just materialize; they happen when our country’s leaders come together around a common goal and vision for our nation and are willing to build it. In the 1990s, that leadership took multiple forms: a bipartisan belief that innovation was good for Americans; a willingness to negotiate across industry lines; and a White House that articulated a clear, pro-growth, pro-innovation framework for US technology leadership.

Sens Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) introduced the bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Scam Prevention Act, which would:

For media and telecommunications mergers & acquisitions, the past six months have been characterized by headline-grabbing megadeals, increased consolidation within streaming, and a pronounced shift toward profitability and scale—underscoring a renewed confidence among both strategic and financial buyers in deploying capital. Sector M&A activity saw a marked uptick in the second half of 2025, driven by more favorable financing conditions, strategic portfolio realignments, and a rejuvenated investor appetite for premium intellectual property. 

AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have long traded barbs over who offers the most reliable service, best price, and broadest wireless-service coverage. Now some are upping the ante with explicit poaching efforts—and litigation. This fall, both Verizon and T-Mobile launched promotions designed to lure in their competitors’ customers. Verizon’s “Bring Your Bill” campaign invites AT&T and T-Mobile customers to upload their bills or bring them in-store to get a counteroffer from Verizon.

It looks like Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is continuing his crusade to demolish all diversity, equity, and inclusion in the telecommunications space. AT&T recently announced it was dropping all its DEI policies. It wasn’t clear why AT&T would do this out of the blue. Until, of course, the FCC approved AT&T’s deal to buy about $1.02 billion in spectrum from the former USCellular. The other two main U.S. wireless operators have already capitulated to Carr’s hatred of DEI.

It's clear that US cable operators are struggling to return to broadband subscriber growth amid slow housing formation, a sluggish moving market and competition from fiber and fixed wireless access (FWA). That's not going to change soon, according to new research. Amid ongoing network upgrades, tier 1 operators such as Comcast and Charter Communications have been trying to staunch subscriber losses with service bundles featuring mobile and multi-year price locks while expanding their footprints with new fiber network builds.

A US telecommunications company trained an AI model on years of inmates’ phone and video calls and is now piloting that model to scan their calls, texts, and emails in the hope of predicting and preventing crimes. Securus Technologies president Kevin Elder said the company began building its AI tools in 2023, using its massive database of recorded calls to train AI models to detect criminal activity.