Telecommunications Infrastructure

Tokyo – September 07, 2026 -- Sceye's stratospheric platform completed a 15,000-km trans-Pacific flight from New Mexico to Japan in 13 days, demonstrating mobile broadband delivery to unmodified devices through SoftBank Corp.'s core network.

Sceye's ST1 mission cut cloud-processing latency by more than 40%

The Service Test 1 (ST1) aircraft carried a server onboard the platform, achieving an average round-trip processing response time of 68 milliseconds. Sceye said this marked the world's first test in which a mobile core network and web server were installed directly on a High-Altitude Platform System (HAPS), allowing response processing to occur onboard before results were relayed to smartphones.

Taipei – September 07, 2026 -- Gemtek Technology Co., Ltd. and Dixon Technologies (India) Limited are deepening their strategic collaboration through an Indian joint venture, expanding production capacity for optical transceivers, bidirectional optical subassemblies (BOSA) and other high-speed optical connectivity solutions.

Gemtek and Dixon combine photonic engineering with large-scale Indian manufacturing

The partnership pairs Gemtek's expertise in optical communications, photonic integration and product development with Dixon's manufacturing scale, supply-chain knowledge and market presence in India. The goal is a scalable platform serving broadband, telecom, data center, AI and cloud infrastructure markets in India and globally.

Mexico City – September 07, 2026 -- Flō Networks has announced plans to launch public tender offers to acquire up to 100% of the outstanding shares of Controladora Axtel, S.A.B. de C.V. and up to 100% of the CPOs of Axtel, S.A.B. de C.V., in a move that would consolidate two major fiber-optic operators in Mexico.

Boards of both Axtel companies give preliminary green light to the deal

Flō, the U.S.-based digital infrastructure operator formerly known as Transtelco, said it has received preliminary approval from the Boards of Directors of both Axtel Companies to advance toward launching the offers. The company is now seeking regulatory clearances required to proceed.

Juneau, Alaska – September 06, 2026 -- A public Wi-Fi network built for Alaska's capital has offloaded more than 20 to 30 terabytes of cellular traffic and served over 103,000 unique users during a single 30-day peak-season stretch, more than three times Juneau's year-round population, without adding a single employee to run it.

Cruise crowds overwhelmed carrier networks and city payment systems

Up to 16,000 extra visitors a day during cruise season jammed downtown Juneau's cellular capacity, knocking out point-of-sale terminals, parking kiosks and basic phone calls. Crowds gathered outside the downtown library, the only reliable signal source, just to get online. With carriers offering no fix, the City and Borough of Juneau opted to build its own network and hired Northriver IT to design, deploy and manage it.

Plano, Texas – September 06, 2026 -- Ribbon Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: RBBN) has expanded its critical infrastructure portfolio with two new routers, the NPT 1022M and NPT 2104, targeting utilities that must modernize grid communications without disrupting live operations.

New routers add capacity while preserving legacy operational technology support

The NPT 1022M and NPT 2104 build on Ribbon's existing NPT 1012D and NPT 2714 platforms, adding support for 100GbE and 400GbE interfaces alongside legacy 64 kbit/s PCM circuit emulation. The combination lets utilities run TDM-based teleprotection and SCADA systems on the same network as IP-MPLS and segment routing traffic, avoiding a hard cutover from decades-old infrastructure.

Taipei – September 06, 2026 -- Gemtek Technology Co., Ltd. and Dixon Technologies (India) Limited are scaling up their joint venture in India to expand production of Optical Transceivers, BOSA (Bidirectional Optical Sub-Assembly) and other high-speed optical connectivity components.

Joint venture pairs Gemtek's photonic integration with Dixon's manufacturing scale

The collaboration combines Gemtek's optical communications and product development expertise with Dixon's supply-chain capabilities and manufacturing presence in India. The partners aim to build a platform serving Broadband, Telecom, Cloud, Data Center and AI Infrastructure markets both in India and internationally.

WASHINGTON – September 06, 2026 -- Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added Rose Schlichtmann-Prince as a shareholder in its Washington, D.C., and Miami offices, expanding its Digital Infrastructure Group as investment in data centers and fiber networks accelerates.

Former Meta Platforms counsel brings decade of network infrastructure experience

Schlichtmann-Prince joins after nearly ten years as in-house counsel at Meta Platforms, Inc., where she advised on network infrastructure investments and strategic initiatives supporting the company's global digital infrastructure platform. She previously held legal and business roles at Verizon Communications, Cable & Wireless Communications, and Sprint, bringing more than 15 years of combined private practice, in-house, and business operations experience.

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- September 01, 2026 -- Phoenix Tower International (PTI) has signed a $6.5 billion multi-jurisdiction financing package, the largest such deal for a privately held tower company in the wireless infrastructure sector.

London -- September 01, 2026 -- The GSMA and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) announced on August 31, 2026 that MWC26 Doha will run alongside the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-26), the first time the two events have been co-located. PP-26 is the ITU's top policy-making body, held every four years to set the agency's strategic direction, approve financial plans and elect officials. The joint staging brings government, intergovernmental and industry leaders together in Doha for a month of digital policy talks and connectivity demonstrations.

MWC26 Doha will take place at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center (DECC) from November 8 to 10, 2026, organized in partnership with Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT). PP-26 will run at the same venue from November 9 to 27, 2026, under the organization of Qatar's Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA).

MUMBAI, India -- Aug. 31, 2026 -- India's enterprise telecom services market is on track to reach INR 954 billion by FY2030, according to Frost & Sullivan's India Enterprise Telecom Tracker released Aug. 31, 2026. The quarterly intelligence program covers fixed data, mobility, data center, fixed voice, and cloud communication services. Frost & Sullivan attributed the growth to cloud migration, AI workload adoption, and a shift toward integrated connectivity across cloud, data centers, and edge environments.