Beyond 5G Advanced – what next for smart energy and smart grid networks? (Analyst Angle)

As utilities prepare for 6G, AI-native networks, digital twins and integrated sensing promise to transform the power grid into an autonomous, software-defined system where connectivity, intelligence and energy converge to deliver resilient, self-optimising operations at scale. The electric power grid…

“Poor” and “cynical” – about GSMA and CTIA on US midband spectrum (Analyst Angle)

The GSMA and CTIA have misrepresented early 6GHz Wi-Fi adoption data to justify reallocating spectrum for mobile use, arguing the technology remains in a normal growth phase with significant long-term strategic and economic value. GSMA last month published a report…

SMB Wi-Fi in 2026 – one dominant vendor, one frustrated channel (Analyst Angle)

New research into the SMB Wi-Fi market reveals how managed service providers choose networking vendors, where leading platforms succeed or fail, and why support, integrations, channel economics, and ecosystem lock-in now matter more than checklists. Wi-Fi has become the most…

Spectrum sharing makes sense for the 4GHz band (Analyst Angle)

The US should consider spectrum-sharing in the 4GHz band instead of clearing federal users entirely. Shared, flexible licensing could support 5G/6G innovation, protect government operations, reduce costs, and enable localized, AI-driven wireless networks through intelligent coexistence models. The US can…

Analyst Angle Webinar: Securing telecom infrastructure for the quantum era

Quantum progress and shifting geopolitical dynamics are elevating telecom security from an operational concern to a strategic priority. Post-quantum cryptography, sovereign key management and end-to-end cryptographic upgrades are becoming essential components of long-term network resilience. In this webinar, on May…

Analyst Angle Webinar: Securing telecom infrastructure for the quantum era

Quantum progress and shifting geopolitical dynamics are elevating telecom security from an operational concern to a strategic priority. Post-quantum cryptography, sovereign key management and end-to-end cryptographic upgrades are becoming essential components of long-term network resilience. In this webinar, on May…

Scale vs service – why the top 10 operators don’t own the MDU market (Analyst Angle)

The Q4 2025 broadband subscriber tally clarifies who owns the pipes feeding American homes, including multi-dweller units (MDUs) but it tells only half the story for multifamily. The same operators that dominate the national rankings occupy a far more ambiguous…

The building is the network (part 1) – dumb Wi-Fi is dead (Analyst Angle)

Multi-dwelling unit (MDU) service providers have spent years building excellent Wi-Fi networks and collecting predictable fees. The ceiling on what that network can generate is gone. For years, the managed Wi-Fi industry sold itself on a straightforward value proposition: take…

Born in the USA – your next Wi-Fi router will be made in America (Analyst Angle)

The FCC has tightened supply chain security rules to bann new foreign-made consumer routers. Existing devices are unaffected, but vendors face strict domestic manufacturing demands, which will reshape competition as part of a US telecom infrastructure sovereignty push. The steady…

Wi-Fi takeaways from Mobile World Congress (Analyst Angle)

As the industry’s largest annual gathering for connectivity and telecommunications, MWC serves as a bellwether for where wireless technology is heading. Among the many themes on display at the 2026 event – from 6G visions to AI-powered networks – Wi-Fi’s roadmap generated some of the most pointed conversations on the show floor. With Wi-Fi 8 […]

The end of the medium-sized carrier (Analyst Angle)

The acquisitions of UScellular and Cox Communications largely spell the end of the medium-sized carrier There are no more medium-sized wireless carriers and soon, there will no longer be any medium-sized cable companies. Also, the number of telcos of medium size has fallen. Increasingly, service is provided by giants, with modest, localized wireless competition coming […]

Analyst Angle: floLIVE reimagines connectivity for intelligent IoT operations

Agentic and generative AI applications and workloads are testing the limits of legacy connectivity infrastructure from edge to cloud. The explosion of data and telemetry that feeds underlying large and small language models across domains – for training and inference – necessitate a reimagination of cloud infrastructure and network architectures. Furthermore, as edge and cloud […]

WPA3: Why Wi-Fi security is more nuanced than you think (Analyst Angle)

WPA3 adoption in multi-dwelling units presents a unique set of challenges The Wi-Fi industry loves a good checklist. WPA3 support? Check. Six gigahertz? Check. Protected management frames? Check. But as a recent CWNP webinar titled “Wi-Fi Security in 2026: Beyond WPA3 Bullet Points for 802.11 Networks” made abundantly clear, the gap between what the specifications promise and […]

What Deutsche Telekom’s AI factory reveals about Europe’s digital independence (Analyst Angle)

DT and Nvidia jointly funded the Industrial AI Cloud, Europe’s most ambitious sovereign AI facility In early February 2026, Deutsche Telekom’s CEO Tim Höttges stood inside a gutted bank vault in Munich’s Tucherpark district and declared that Europe can do AI. Behind him sat 10,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, wired together with 75 kilometers of fiber […]

The bulk-managed Wi-Fi industry needs economic ammunition — Now (Analyst Angle)

Managed Wi-Fi eliminates redundant truck rolls, avoids duplicate wiring, and enables smart building technology A regulatory storm is gathering as state legislatures from California to Colorado to New York advance bills that threaten to dismantle the bulk-managed Wi-Fi model in multifamily housing through opt-out mandates, markup caps, open access requirements, and infrastructure duplication…

ABI Research on cloud | Data center boom should make telcos uneasy (Analyst Angle)

By 2035, global active data center IT capacity is forecast to surge nearly six-fold, from roughly 24 GW today to around 147 GW, as a new ABI Research forecast shows. A staggering expansion driven largely by artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, hyperscalers, and increasing rack-level power density. Compared to previous hypes, this tectonic shift should be […]

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