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#telecommunications

Though some Iranian networks appeared to be connecting to the global internet on Tuesday, researchers cautioned that the level of access was far below even the partial restoration that Tehran allowed at the end of January and throughout February-and it was drastically below Iran's typical baseline of global internet connectivity from December 2025. Internet monitoring experts at Kentik, NetBlocks, and Cloudflare began documenting the partial restoration of connectivity in Iran beginning in the early afternoon local time on Tuesday.

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. It's now been more than a week since Trump Mobile announced that phones would "start shipping this week." Last week Trump Mobile announced that the T1 Phone was ready to start shipping by the end of the week. Almost two weeks later, there's no sign that's actually happened - and the company still hasn't shipped either of the two phones ordered by The Verge.

For the full financial year to 31 March 2026, BT reported revenues of £19.7bn, down by 3% compared with the previous financial year, with adjustedrevenue of £19.6bn, slipping by 4%. These figures were driven by lower international revenue, including divestments, declines in handset trading and declines in adjusted UK service revenue.

California requires AT&T to spend $1 billion each year to maintain a century-old telephone network that almost no one uses. The copper wires that once served every home now serve just three percent of households in AT&T's California territory, with consumers fleeing every day to modern broadband services that are more affordable, reliable, and energy-efficient.

Caller ID company Truecaller launched eSIM services for travellers. The launch comes as the company aims to bolster its balance sheet and diversify business amid dipping ad revenues. The company said its plans will range from 1 GB over 7 days to 20 GB over 30 days. Initially, the launch will make the eSIM product available in 29 countries.

"Big Cable has had a pretty good run charging people whatever they want and calling it a promotion. We figured it was time to offer something radically different, like one clear price that doesn't slowly morph into something horrifying."

The letter argues that SpaceX is asking the definition of 'standard installation' as shipping in a box - not a working connection - and allowing Starlink to 'falsely demonstrate compliance' with the program's 100 Mbps download/20 Mbps requirements.

The firm's study, 'North American Fiber Broadband Report: FTTH Review and Forecast 2026-2030,' indicates that nearly $200 billion will be spent on fiber over the next five years, highlighting a significant investment in fiber-to-the-home services.

The Carrier Club has operated on the principle that 'in business, as in life, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.' This philosophy underpins its approach to procurement-as-a-service.

In the nineteenth century, entire railway networks became obsolete almost overnight, not due to physical deterioration, but because of changes in the technical standards that supported them. The expansion of railroads across Europe and North America adopted different track gauges, and as a dominant standard gradually emerged, these infrastructures became incompatible with one another.

"We share The Wonderful Company's vision of ensuring the entire Lost Hills community has access to reliable, high-speed Internet," said Matthew Murphy, CEO of unWired Broadband. "We're proud to play a role in making that vision a reality. Partnerships like this demonstrate how collaboration between the public and private sectors can expand critical infrastructure and help ensure families, students, and local businesses have the connectivity they need to succeed."

"Liberty Mobile is umbilically connected to Trump [Mobile]," Don Hendrickson tells me. And he would know: Hendrickson is one of the three Trump Mobile executives, alongside Eric Thomas and Pat O'Brien, who have been the semi-public faces of the company. And the same three men just happen to be the owners of Liberty Mobile, too. The Trump Mobile terms of use say that it is "powered by Liberty Mobile Wireless LLC," but that appears to be underselling the relationship.

Verizon ( NYSE: VZ) and Johnson & Johnson ( NYSE: JNJ) both rewarded shareholders with dividend increases this quarter, but their paths to sustaining those payouts look very different. Verizon raised its quarterly dividend to $0.69 per share, marking its 19th consecutive annual raise. Johnson & Johnson lifted its quarterly payout to $1.30 per share, extending a Dividend King streak spanning 63+ consecutive years. Verizon climbed 25.75% over the past month while Johnson & Johnson gained 11.28%.

Indian IT professionals worried about 72-hour workweeks might soon face the opposite concern, as Bengaluru-based outsourcing giant Infosys has partnered with Anthropic to bring agentic AI to telecommunications companies and other regulated industries. Anthropic and Infosys announced their collaboration plans on Tuesday, describing agentic AI as a core focus of their partnership. According to Infosys CEO Salil Parekh, the pair wants to combine their respective domain expertise to give businesses around the world a shot at actually getting some returns on their AI investments.

If you were affected by the Verizon outage earlier this month that took down the company's network for most of a day, the Federal Communications Commission wants to hear from you. In a document released earlier this week, the FCC explained that its Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau was officially investigating the outage and was seeking information from frustrated customers, particularly those who tried to call 911 or other public safety numbers but couldn't.

CommScope has a long history as an industry leader in networking solutions across a broad portfolio,

Retiree health care is a major issue. At the start of 2026, Verizon retirees who are not yet eligible for Medicare face huge increases in their health care premiums. Verizon has not hired much over the past 20 years, as technological changes - including the move to fiber optics and wireless - have dramatically reduced the workforce. Most remaining workers are retirement-eligible, with either 30 years of service or a combined 75 years of service plus age.

The same optic fibers that pulse with the world's Internet traffic are now listening to the pulse of the planet, picking up earthquake tremors in better detail than traditional seismic networks do. In a recent Science study, researchers used 15 kilometers of telecom fiber near Mendocino, Calif., to record the region's biggest earthquake in five yearscapturing in fine detail how the magnitude 7 rupture started, slowed and sped up, accelerating even faster than the speed of sound.