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The federal government is preparing to effectively ban the most popular home and small-business router brand in the United States. TP-Link, a Chinese-founded company whose de...

Nvidia’s Networking Empire: The Multibillion-Dollar Business Hiding in Plain Sight Behind Its GPU Dominance

For years, the investment thesis on Nvidia has been almost entirely about GPUs — the processors that power the artificial intelligence boom and have turned the company into o...

Meta’s 2Africa Undersea Cable—the Most Ambitious Internet Project on Earth—Is Stuck in Geopolitical Quicksand

The most expensive privately funded subsea cable ever attempted is running into trouble that no amount of engineering can fix. Meta's 2Africa Pearls project, a 45,000-kilomet...

Google Fiber’s Quiet Exit: How a Silicon Valley Moonshot Ends Up in the Hands of Private Equity

Google Fiber, once the most ambitious broadband experiment in American telecom history, is being sold. Alphabet Inc. has agreed to hand its fiber-optic internet division to B...

Google Fiber Swallows Astound Broadband in a Bet That Bigger Is Better in the Fiber Wars

Google Fiber, the internet service provider that Alphabet once treated like an expensive science experiment, is merging with Astound Broadband in a deal that will vault the c...

Beyond 5G: The Race to Build 6G Networks Is Already Underway — and the Stakes Are Enormous

We haven't even finished building out 5G. Most Americans still don't have consistent access to the fastest flavors of fifth-generation wireless. And yet the telecommunication...

Why Governments Are Racing to Secure 6G Networks Before They Even Exist

Telecommunications companies and researchers are already laying the groundwork for the sixth generation of wireless technology, commonly known as 6G. Although commercial avai...

AT&T’s $250 Billion Bet: Inside the Telecom Giant’s Massive Network Overhaul

AT&T just committed a quarter of a trillion dollars to rebuilding its network infrastructure over the next decade. That's not a typo. The company announced plans to invest ap...

Musk’s Orbiting Giant Courts the Carriers It Once Threatened

In the halls of the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, amidst the annual gathering of the global telecommunications elite, a distinct tension has settled over the proceedings. For y...

Accenture’s $12 Billion Bet on Ookla and Downdetector Signals a New Era in Digital Infrastructure Intelligence

When millions of internet users run a speed test on Speedtest.net or check whether their favorite streaming service is experiencing an outage on Downdetector, few think about...

Europe’s Satellite Internet Breakthrough: How ESA’s Gigabit-Class Air-to-Ground Test Could Reshape In-Flight Connectivity

For years, airline passengers have endured sluggish, overpriced Wi-Fi connections that struggle to load a simple webpage, let alone stream a video. That frustration may soon...

Cox and Charter’s $34.5 Billion Cable Merger Clears Its Final Regulatory Hurdle — And Reshapes the Broadband Industry

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday gave its blessing to the merger of two of America's largest cable operators, approving Charter Communications' acquisition o...

Spain’s Football Piracy Crackdown Is Shattering the Open Internet — And VPN Users Are Caught in the Crossfire

For years, La Liga, Spain's premier football league, has waged an aggressive campaign against illegal streaming of its matches. But what began as a targeted effort to shut do...

How a Single Misconfigured Rule Took Down 15% of Cloudflare’s Global Network for 90 Minutes

On February 20, 2026, Cloudflare — the company that serves as a backbone of internet infrastructure for millions of websites — experienced a significant outage that knocked o...

Your Wi-Fi Router Could Be Watching You: How Ordinary Wireless Signals Are Being Weaponized for Mass Surveillance

The wireless signals that blanket modern homes, offices, and public spaces — the invisible infrastructure we rely on to stream movies, send emails, and connect smart devices...

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