Wireless Internet

AT&T is leaning harder into convergence and taking a shot at its cable competition with "OneConnect," a mix of flat-fee bundles that combines the company's gigabit-class fiber service with mobile. AT&T claims that customers can sign up for the new, simplified offering, which includes fiber speeds up to 1 Gigabit/s and bundles in connectivity for wearables and tablets, in "under five minutes." The mobile side of the bundled subscription includes unlimited voice, text, and data, and supports a bring-your-own-device model using eSIM technology. AT&T OneConnect starts at $90 per mon

Seven years after launching its first Starlink internet satellite, SpaceX is preparing to go public and could command a sky-high valuation. One ironic beneficiary of Starlink’s success is telecom mogul Charlie Ergen, who has used regulatory arbitrage to save his failed broadband bet. This is a tale of dumb industrial policy that might end well despite government planners. The story starts in 2019 when the Trump Justice Department required T-Mobile and Sprint to sell spectrum and their prepaid phone business to Ergen’s Dish network as a condition for green-lighting their merger.

SpaceX emerged as a possible bidder to acquire more AWS-3 spectrum in the Federal Communications Commission's upcoming auction, sparking further questions about its intent for Starlink Mobile direct-to-device services. First reported by Ookla analyst Mike Dano on LinkedIn, the FCC a

Starlink may have started out as a gap-filler in rural areas, but its reach, pricing, and capacity seem to indicate that it intends to be a much bigger player on the broadband stage, according to cable industry executives. Starlink is reaching more deeply into suburban and urban areas where it has spare capacity, it's ramping up at retail, and it's preparing to deploy bigger low-Earth orbit satellites packed with

The White House launched its new official mobile app—delivering President Donald Trump and his Administration directly to the American people like never before. This new app offers Americans a direct line to the White House—cutting through the noise with unfiltered, real-time updates straight from the source. With the official White House app, Americans can:

I recently looked at the reported broadband subscriber counts from the largest publicly traded internet service providers for the end of 2025. Most of these statistics come from the quarterly reports of the ISPs. The story hasn’t changed a lot during the year. Fixed wireless access cellular ISPs still dominate new net customer gains in the industry. Cable companies continue to lose customers. Telephone companies are growing by adding more fiber customers than they are losing copper customers. There are a few interesting stories in these numbers.

How can policymakers maximize the chances for the Broadband Equity, Accss and Deployment program to succeed? In my view, four adjustments would help:

More Pennsylvanians will receive satellite internet service from SpaceX after last-minute changes to the state’s plan to spend more than $700 million in broadband funding. The latest adjustments continue a shift that began in 2025, when the Trump administration, seeking to lower costs, overhauled the rules for a massive broadband grant program. The new version of the state’s plan more than doubles the number of locations that the Elon Musk-owned SpaceX will cover.

Rep Dave Taylor (R-OH-02) applauded the passage of his bill, H.R. 2474, the Expanding Appalachia’s Broadband Access Act, through the House of Representatives by a voice vote. The Expanding Appalachia’s Broadband Access Act will direct a study to be conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the capabilities of satellites to be used by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) for economic development. This study will measure the capabilities of satellites for rural business services and assess whether they could meet businesses’ needs.

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the U.S. wireless infrastructure sector, covering purpose-built cellular towers, indoor and outdoor small cells, macrocell sites, annual infrastructure investments, and the American workforce sustaining this essential industry. The following key statistics show the strength of the U.S. wireless infrastructure industry at the end of 2025: