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Submarine cables carry the vast majority of global internet traffic. They snake along familiar ocean floors, bunching at narrow passages that have defined connectivity for de...

Iran’s Bid for Digital Dominance: Control Over Hormuz Undersea Cables Threatens Global Data Flows

Iran is moving to seize authority over seven critical undersea fiber-optic cables that snake through the Strait of Hormuz. The proposal, pushed by outlets tied to the Islamic...

Big Tech Reroutes Data Through Iraqi Oil Pipelines as Gulf Conflict Exposes AI Infrastructure Risks

War has a way of rewriting assumptions. For years, U.S. technology giants poured billions into data centers across the Persian Gulf, drawn by cheap energy, sovereign wealth,...

Starlink Smugglers Defy Iran’s Endless Blackout, Risking Death for Digital Lifelines

Iran's internet has been dark for over two months now. One of the longest national shutdowns on record. It kicked off after U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on February 28, plungi...

FCC Ditches 1990s Satellite Power Caps, Unlocking 7x Broadband Capacity in Key Bands

The Federal Communications Commission on April 30, 2026, scrapped decades-old restrictions on satellite power levels. Out went Equivalent Power Flux Density limits from the l...

Cloudflare’s Quantum-Proof Tunnels: Hybrid ML-KEM Secures IPsec Against Harvest-Now Threats

Cloudflare declared post-quantum encryption for its IPsec tunnels generally available today. The move locks down site-to-site WAN connections against harvest-now-decrypt-late...

Celestica’s 1.6 Tbps Switches Pack 64 Ports of AI Firepower into One Chassis

Bandwidth demands in AI data centers just hit a new peak. Celestica Inc. started taking orders this week for its DS6000-series switches, each cramming 64 ports of 1.6 terabit...

T-Mobile’s Starlink Fusion: SuperBroadband Reshapes Business Connectivity Across America

T-Mobile just changed the equation for business internet. On April 28, 2026, the carrier unveiled SuperBroadband, pairing its nationwide 5G network with SpaceX's Starlink sat...

T-Mobile’s $2.7 Billion Fiber Bet and Starlink Hybrid Signal Broadband Assault on Cable Giants

T-Mobile US Inc. just dropped $2.7 billion into fiber joint ventures. The carrier aims to blanket more than a million extra homes with high-speed lines. And it's pairing that gr...

Ericsson’s Networks Defy AI Chip Squeeze and North America Slump in Q1 Earnings

Ericsson AB posted organic sales growth of 6% in the first quarter of 2026, even as reported revenue tumbled 10% to SEK 49.3 billion. Currency headwinds shaved SEK 7.8 billion o...

The FCC Just Gave One Router Company the Keys to American Wi-Fi — And Nobody Voted on It

A federal agency just reshaped the American home networking market without a single vote, public comment period, or congressional hearing. The Federal Communications Commissi...

The FCC Banned Chinese-Made Routers — Then Quietly Gave Netgear a Pass

The Federal Communications Commission spent months warning Americans about the national security risks posed by foreign-manufactured networking equipment. It moved to block n...

The $65 Bet on Space: How US Mobile and Starlink Are Rewriting the Rules of Wireless Bundling

A small wireless carrier most Americans have never heard of just made one of the most aggressive moves in the telecom industry this year. US Mobile, the Verizon-backed MVNO k...

The Router Revolution Nobody Asked For: How Ex-Bell Labs Engineers Are Betting That Wi-Fi’s Real Problem Is the Chip, Not the Antenna

For two decades, the Wi-Fi industry has chased the same dragon: more antennas, more bands, more spatial streams. Every new generation — from 802.11n to Wi-Fi 7 — has promised...

The Free Market That Isn’t: How U.S. Tech Policy Quietly Became the Most Protectionist in the West

The United States has spent the better part of four decades lecturing the world about free markets. Open competition. Level playing fields. Let the best product win. It's a s...

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