Wireless Internet

New Street Research analyst David Barden recently suggested that Brightspeed might make a good acquisition target for Verizon. Asked about that prospect, Jacky Wu, Brightspeed’s president & CFO, said “While we won’t comment on market speculation, we do believe convergence is real. As the largest fiber platform outside of AT&T and Verizon, it’s not surprising that Brightspeed would generate interest.

Almost 57 years after President Richard Nixon’s long-distance telephone call to the Apollo 11 astronauts—via radio—Artemis II marked mankind’s return to the lunar neighborhood.

AI is no longer confined to data centers or research labs. It is increasingly mobile, real‑time, and woven into everyday life—from navigation apps and virtual assistants to industrial automation and connected vehicles. Yet as policymakers debate the future of AI, one foundational reality is often overlooked: AI only works if a robust digital infrastructure that supports it is in place. New research from the Wireless Infrastructure Association makes this clear. Our recent survey of U.S. consumers found that 74 percent of U.S.

Without a secure, more scalable Wi-Fi backbone, organizations can’t deliver on the opportunities afforded by AI and other technologies, warns Cisco. The vendor just published its inaugural State of Wireless 2026 report, which surveyed more than 6,000 global wireless professionals.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr announced that the Commission would vote on an order to modernize its satellite spectrum-sharing rules—a change that could unlock more than $2 billion in economic benefits for the American people and up to seven-fold more capacity for space-based broadband services. Drawing from the state-of-the-art in satellite technology, the FCC’s new technical rules would revise the decades-old framework for how Geostationary Orbit and Non-Geostationary Orbit systems share spectrum.

In the last quarter of every even numbered year, the Federal Communications Commission must publish a Communications Marketplace Report that, among other things, “assess[es] the state of competition in the communications marketplace, including competition to deliver voice, video, audio, and data services among providers of telecommunications, providers of commercial mobile service, multichannel video programming distributors, broadcast stations, providers of satellite communications, Internet service providers, and other providers of communications services.” In assessing the state of compe

Expanding and upgrading communication networks in rural areas is particularly challenging due to high investment costs and limited prospects for cost recovery. In this context, researchers and policymakers widely view mobile infrastructures as the most viable solution, given their flexibility and lower deployment costs. However, techno-economic assessments that support this view often rely on population-based demand models, an approach that fails to capture the growing complexity of contemporary usage patterns.

The Federal Communications Commission seeks to ensure that Lifeline services are used to benefit and support eligible low-income Americans, that the program's funding is protected from waste, fraud, and abuse, and that service providers are in compliance with FCC rules. The FCC also seeks to update and streamline Lifeline and related rules. Comments are due on or before May 4, 2026 and reply comments are due on or before June 2, 2026.

I was looking through the Federal Communications Commission cellular map in Buncombe County (NC), where I live. For those not fully familiar with the FCC broadband maps, the agency publishes two maps: the more familiar one that shows broadband coverage and a second that shows cellular coverage. You can toggle between the two maps at the FCC’s map website. It struck me while looking at the details in the maps that rural cellular coverage is changing, and not in a good way.

U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick partnered with AT&T to secure an additional $2 billion in value to benefit public safety under the First Responder Network Authority Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network contract. The deal is the result of a collaborative process to deliver greater benefits to public safety users who rely on FirstNet and better value for taxpayers. Specifically, as part of the deal, AT&T will: