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The FCC will vote on its Space Modernization Order on July 22 It says the order is necessary to streamline the license application process This is necessary because of the overwhelming number of LEO applications The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to speed up the licensing process for satellite applications. It’s been taking comments on its proposed Space Modernization Order, and it plans to vote on this order at its July 22 open meeting.

Boost Mobile and Gen Mobile are operating normally despite Dish Wireless and Dish DBS filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wave7 Research says Boost remains a major prepaid wireless player – even after years of ownership/network transitions Boost continues to operate a wide retail footprint, including more than 3,000 stores across the country What’s the status of the Boost Mobile cell phone service now that Dish Wireless and Dish DBS filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday?

Inseego is boosting its FWA CPE team by hiring two ex-Nokia execs The company also expanded the role of its chief commercial officer (CCO) to include the Americas and Latin America Inseego's acquisition of Nokia's FWA business is nearly complete Inseego is moving full-steam ahead with its new fixed wireless access (FWA) customer premises equipment (CPE) business, which it bought from Nokia in late April for a stock and cash deal.

Meta is reportedly building a cloud business to sell excess compute capacity CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta was considering building a cloud business to compete with AWS, Azure and other cloud giants Meta could sell access to its AI models or sell neoclouds bare metal capacity Meta is reportedly building a cloud business to sell excess compute capacity from its Meta Compute initiative.

T-Mobile is finally pulling the plug on its 2G GSM network The carrier says it kept 2G alive to avoid stranding legacy customers, roaming users and IoT devices – but the remaining base is now “de minimis” The shutdown comes as T-Mobile is taking heat for migrating customers off older 3G and 4G-era rate plans and onto newer 5G plans It’s hard to believe T-Mobile still operates a 2G GSM network, but it’s true – although not for long.

Telcos chasing edge AI need a reality check: the opportunity is real, but it may be far narrower — and harder to capture — than industry hype suggests.

Upscale AI's recent $190M Series A-1 extension lifts total funding to $500M and its valuation to $2B, with Nvidia joining as an investor The pure-play startup is building open-standard silicon, systems and software for AI scale-up and scale-out, but is not yet shipping It must unseat Cisco, Arista, Broadcom and Nvidia while leaning on standards like UALink and Ultra Ethernet Upscale AI now has $500 million and a wildly ambitious mandate: build a new networking company from silicon up, aimed...

Rakuten Symphony appointed Amit Bhardwaj as the new President of its Radio Access Network (RAN) Business Unit, where he will help drive the continued evolution and deployment of cloud-native, open RAN solutions for operators worldwide. Bhardwaj brings 25 years of telecommunications industry expertise, including a16-year tenure at Ericsson. He also spent two years at Boost Mobile leading national Network Engineering for RAN and Device.

The U.S. and U.K. are increasing military budgets by the exact financial delta needed to upgrade their power and water networks to top-five global standard The U.K. remains paralyzed by legacy utility privatization while the U.S. has abandoned the regulatory playbook, leaving its fragmented grid to choke on corporate inertia AI cannot scale at the application layer if Layer 1 physical infrastructure — transmission lines and data center cooling water — is systematically underfunded The...

Dish DBS and Dish Wireless filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection The filing is tied to a prepackaged restructuring plan Boost Mobile and Gen Mobile customers shouldn’t see an impact Dish DBS Corp. and certain subsidiaries, including Dish Wireless, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday. The restructuring plan calls for implementing the terms of a previously announced Restructuring Support Agreement (RSA) signed in March.