What happens if you’re late to an industrial revolution? America is about to find out AI superiority won’t prevent the consequences of the U.S. government’s failure to anticipate the next big economic shift Politics, AI, and utilities define success or...

Dish’s wireless dream crashes and burns as Boost’s network heads for shutdown Was it inevitable? Not necessarily, but a series of misfortunes and missteps paved the way for failure Now all eyes are on EchoStar’s ambitions for a D2D network....

Op-Ed: Fiber is the gold standard for rural broadband – BEAD must emphasize it   As the federal government prepares to invest tens of billions in rural broadband through the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, the choice of...

There’s been a lot of weird happening in the tech and telecom space, but something happened on Thursday that struck a cord amidst the chaos: President Donald Trump demanded the CEO of U.S. chip giant Intel resign immediately. The demand,...

We already have methods to share spectrum in 5G, at least in some regions of the globe Spectrum sharing will be a key part of 6G, simply because there are not enough new big blocks of spectrum to launch fresh...

I can’t be the only one feeling this way. Covering tech and telecom has always been a test of patience, with change in telecom especially moving at a glacial pace. But lately it’s starting to feel like a test of...

Shannon’s limit, named for the father of communications theory, Claude Shannon, defines the maximum error-free data capacity of a network connection, taking into account bandwidth and noise level. Like Moore’s Law, it is a foundational principle of our industry. And...

Work on 6G is now well underway, but industry reactions to the forthcoming GSMA mobile standard have ranged from negative (among carriers) to clueless (from trade journalists and analysts). These responses stem from a fundamental failure to grasp the killer...

T-Mobile execs like to talk about how the “un-carrier” has risen from “challenger” to “champion” in the 5G era That mantra may be annoying, but it’s not wrong And no, this correspondent is not chugging the magenta Kool-Aid  “Spot moose...