Wireless Internet

USTelecom President and CEO Jonathan Spalter urged Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to implement recent White House guidance to federal agencies that would expedite broadband permitting on federal lands and help connect more Americans to fast, reliable internet service. In letters to both Secretaries (

Which airline offers the fastest in-flight Wi-Fi? It’s a simple question with an increasingly important answer. As our lives become more “always connected,” the frustration of poor or non-existent connectivity becomes more acute. We have reached a point where the quality of in-flight connectivity (IFC) can be a decisive factor for passengers choosing flights and airlines based on their digital experience. For airlines, providing high-quality Wi-Fi is no longer just a perk—now it is a critical driver of passenger loyalty.

The Supreme Court grappled with the constitutionality of law enforcement’s use of Google location history data to track down a suspect, in a case that could further define the Constitution’s protections for digital privacy. Some of the justices seemed inclined to uphold what are known as geofence warrants, a new tool that police use to narrow down suspects based on location data collected by companies such as Google.

Marketing has been calling it convergence for twenty years. Every carrier's annual investor day has featured a bundle slide. Most of them have been wrong about what they were selling. Real convergence, as a seamless, better-together service, is still years away. What we have settled on calling convergence is selling wireless and home Internet to the same customer. What we have is one company owning both the fiber running under the street and the wireless network running over it, allowing that company's market share to compound.

Verizon Communications released results for the first quarter of 2026. Key highlights include: 

This edition of the Broadband in America Report series explores the latest trends in fixed-wireless access (FWA) broadband across the United States, examining how the market has evolved from early-stage deployments into a scaled, mainstream broadband alternative led by national mobile carriers. 

The Federal Communications Commission denied requests by multiple satellite companies—including SpaceX—for access to spectrum, saying it’s all about enabling the direct-to-device market to flourish. Our first reaction was: Huh? How does denying satellite companies access to spectrum encourage them to compete in the D2D space?  Turns out, it’s actually providing regulatory certainty in a very uncertain but highly hyped industry.

Charter Communications reported financial and operating results for the three months ended March 31, 2026. Key highlights include:

Charter Communications still has its hands full with the pending Cox Communications merger, but CEO Chris Winfrey said he would be game for more cable industry consolidation if the right scenarios present themselves. "We like cable as an investment.

The Federal Communications Commission is blocking an investment firm’s access to valuable wireless spectrum and threatening to take away its licenses because of a paperwork filing error—and the firm’s executives warn that customers in rural America will pay the price. Brevet Capital, with around $2.5 billion in assets under management, has been locked in what appears to be a strange, two-year bureaucratic snafu with regulators that began when it took over licenses for 112 satellites as part of a bankruptcy proceeding in 2021.