Artificial intelligence has created one of the largest infrastructure investment cycles in history. Most attention has gone to GPUs, data centers, and electricity. Nvidia provides the processors. Hyperscalers build the computing campuses. Utilities search for enough generation and grid capacity to power them. Connectivity has received far less attention, but it is only a matter of time until it gets full focus. For example, Verizon has signed an agreement worth well above $1 billion to provide Google with dark fiber across several data center routes. The company expects to announce additional contracts before the end of 2026, representing several billion dollars of revenue over the following years. Verizon will use existing fiber where possible and construct new routes where necessary. It can provide either dark fiber or managed, lit capacity, depending on what the customer wants.

AT&T published a number this week that should get the attention of every telco enterprise team: the company is now processing an average of 45 billion AI inference tokens every day. These 45 billion tokens per day represent AI inference processed by AT&T’s own production systems. That is 45 times the volume AT&T reported in September 2024, when it was generating around one billion tokens per day. The company has also processed approximately one trillion tokens while developing OTel 2.0, its latest telecom-specific open model, including around 400 billion tokens used for post-training. Microsoft says the project used approximately 530 GPUs across different architectures.

You can get fast, reliable internet without cable or phone lines using modern wireless options like 5G, satellite, or fixed wireless. Wireless internet offers flexibility, quick setup, and cost savings, making it ideal for renters, travelers, and rural households. Options like mobile hotspots, fixed wireless, and satellite each suit different locations, usage needs, and budget levels. The best cable-free internet choice depends on coverage availability, data needs, speed expectations, and how consistently you stay online.

A few years ago, I booked a flight from Lima to Cusco that, thanks to a mix-up, was scheduled ten days earlier than the one my friends were on.  When I landed in Cusco—a city not exactly known for its strong internet infrastructure—I couldn’t get WhatsApp to load, and I didn’t have a local Peruvian number to fall back on. Trying to reach my friends or figure out how to get to our accommodation quickly became a bit of a mission. I’ve spent a lot of time in the quiet corners of the world—coastal towns along Brazil’s southeastern São Paulo state, where cell service fades at the shoreline, and the vast open plains of Patagonia, where the stars easily outnumber people.

In an industry dominated by large corporations and opaque practices, Telecoop is proving that telecommunications can be democratic, sustainable, and fair. As France’s first solidarity-based cooperative mobile operator, Telecoop is doing more than selling mobile plans; it is rewriting the rules of how the telecom sector can serve citizens and the environment.

Meshtastic and LoRa mesh networking systems are transforming the way communication is handled in remote environments. Utilizing tools like the Heltec ESP32 V3 and open-source Long Range firmware, these platforms provide dependable, broad-range messaging without depending on conventional networks. This article delves into the details of these technologies, their use cases, and how they enable smooth standalone communication solutions.

Meshtastic channel sharing relies on URLs encoding base64-encoded data that reveals critical security information. When users share a Meshtastic channel link—formatted as https://meshtastic.org/e/#—the data after the hash symbol contains a ChannelSet message with the channel's pre-shared key (PSK) in plaintext, making it decodable by anyone. The reference explains that a channel URL structure includes settings defining channels, with uplink_enabled and downlink_enabled flags indicating whether traffic bridges to internet MQTT servers. Critically, the PSK field determines channel security, and its length indicates key strength. A browser-based Meshtastic channel URL decoder allows users to inspect shared links without exposing keys to external servers. The reference emphasizes that sharing a channel URL directly shares its encryption key—there is no separate key exchange mechanism. Users should treat channel links as carefully as cryptographic keys themselves. The article clarifies a major misconception: channels using Meshtastic's default public key appear locked but are effectively public, a distinction explained in Meshtastic's encryption guide.

Telefónica Germany put 1,100 staff at risk and named AI as the reason. Also, Nokia reported that orders from AI and cloud customers reached 2.8 billion euros in a single quarter, nearly triple the quarter before, with revenue from those customers doubling year on year. Same technology, same morning, two companies standing on opposite sides of the money. One is using AI to shrink, and the other is using AI to sell. There was a third story that week. Ericsson warned that memory chip prices are climbing because AI buyers have cornered the supply, and its shares fell. So the industry now has all three positions on display. Sell into the cycle, pay for it through the supply chain, or cut payroll and call it a strategy. Most operators are currently the third company.

This intermediate training course in Geneva equips government officials, regulators, policymakers, and telecommunications professionals with essential skills to accelerate school connectivity in underserved areas. The five-day program employs a structured four-step methodology: identifying connectivity gaps, reviewing available technologies, selecting sustainable solutions, and designing implementation pathways. Participants engage in realistic scenario simulations, applying decision matrices and conducting Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) modelling to assess fictional country profiles. The course emphasizes experiential, problem-based learning with peer exchange and real-world case studies, enabling professionals to make evidence-based deployment decisions under uncertainty. Limited to 30 participants with baseline telecom infrastructure knowledge, the training combines pre-course engagement, interactive delivery of key concepts and tools, and post-training virtual follow-ups to support implementation progress. Completion requires full attendance and active participation. This initiative directly addresses the critical infrastructure gap preventing millions of students from accessing digital education, making it essential for countries pursuing sustainable last mile connectivity expansion.

The pitch is familiar to anyone who sat through a Telecom vendor keynote this year. Smart glasses are the next smartphone, billions of always-on cameras will stream reality to the cloud, and networks will drown under the load unless operators start preparing for 6G today. It is the 2007 mobile data tsunami narrative, recycled with a new device on the slide. The adoption half of that story is true. The traffic half is not, and the gap between the two is where operators need to be wise not to misallocate capital.

La question du prix est au cœur des offres de service, et nous avons reçu de nombreuses questions sur notre politique tarifaire. En tant qu’opérateur mobile d’intérêt général, la transparence est l’un de nos principes fondamentaux : transparence sur nos prix, mais aussi sur les pratiques de nos concurrents. Voici donc les éléments qui expliquent notre tarification.

Depuis 2020, le nouveau réseau mobile de la 5G se déploie progressivement en France. Présentée comme une technologie de rupture, la 5G promet, en accélérant l’innovation et les nouveaux usages, de renforcer la performance et la compétitivité de l’économie française. Alors que l’Union Européenne a fixé l’objectif de couvrir toutes les zones peuplées par la 5G d’ici à 2030, TeleCoop interroge ce déploiement massif qui se fait hélas au détriment de l’intérêt général.

En l’espace de 30 ans, les téléphones portables sont devenus omniprésents dans notre quotidien et quasi-indispensables pour la plupart d’entre nous. Depuis leur arrivée au début des années 1990, nos façons de communiquer, de travailler, de consommer ont profondément changé. Chaque génération de réseau mobile (2G,i-indispensables pour la plupart d’entre nous.

Le réseau mobile est un ensemble d’infrastructures interconnectées. La plus visible d’entre elles dans notre environnement, ce sont les antennes-relais de téléphonie mobile (aussi appelées stations de base). Ce sont elles qui nous permettent de capter le réseau mobile avec notre téléphone portable sur tout le territoire grâce à une communication par ondes radio. Lorsque vous passez un appel ou utilisez vos données mobiles, votre téléphone envoie un signal radio à l’antenne-relais la plus proche (et inversement pour un appel ou des données entrantes). Toutes les informations dont cette dernière a besoin pour vous identifier et vous permettre d’accéder au réseau mobile se trouvent dans votre carte SIM.

Burkina Faso – Données De La Téléphonie Mobile Au 3ème Trimestre 2023 (Arcep) : 26 Millions D’abonnés, 115 Milliards De Chiffre D’affaires, 26 Milliards D’investissements Et 26 Milliards D’impôts Et Taxes Payés

Digital sovereignty encompasses diverse policy objectives, from building local capacity to strengthening public infrastructure and governing data flows. However, these approaches are not equivalent in their impact on the global Internet. The Internet's fundamental strength lies in its ability to interconnect independently operated networks through globally unique identifiers, open standards, and operational coordination. This interconnectivity creates the Internet commons—a shared environment enabling participation across different political and economic systems. The article proposes a commons test framework to evaluate whether digital sovereignty strategies expand choice, preserve interoperability, strengthen resilience, and support meaningful participation, or conversely create dependencies and chokepoints. Critically, core technical coordination functions enabling global interoperability should remain insulated from repurposing as instruments of national policy or political control to preserve the Internet's collective strength.

Semtech and the LoRa Alliance showcased their comprehensive IoT ecosystem at Asia Tech x Singapore 2026, reinforcing the region's position as a dynamic hub for Internet of Things adoption. The collaboration featured the largest IoT booth at the expo, drawing significant foot traffic and substantive technical discussions. Semtech representatives participated in two pivotal conference sessions addressing LoRaWAN's critical applications in utilities management and smart city infrastructure development. A standout demonstration highlighted the Fast Long-Range Communication modulation technology, successfully streaming live video over Semtech hardware and challenging conventional expectations regarding low-power wireless capabilities. The event marked a significant milestone for the LoRaWAN community in the Asia-Pacific region, evidencing the technology's growing maturity and expanding enterprise adoption across essential infrastructure sectors.

MAXON provides self-organizing wireless communication systems based on advanced MANET (Mobile Ad Hoc Network) technology, enabling rapid deployment of flexible and reliable wireless networks without fixed infrastructure. Supporting multi-hop relay, dynamic routing and decentralized networking, MAXON self-organizing network radios provide voice, data and video transmission for drones, vehicles, handheld terminals and base stations.

Gone are the days when networking embedded devices was a big deal. And today, such devices can be linked in powerful mesh networks over wireless protocols. In this article, learn how these two Cornell students used Microchip PIC32 MCUs and Espressif’s ESP8266 Wi-Fi module to create a mesh network of wirelessly connected devices. The mesh network is able to configure itself, and requires no manual intervention to connect the nodes.

A commercial telco and a mesh network are not different ways of solving the same problem. They are built on opposite assumptions about how infrastructure works. Understanding why that matters is the key to understanding why regional Australia keeps getting left behind, and what to do about it.