Telecommunications Infrastructure

Taipei – October 13, 2026 -- Gemtek Technology, Qualcomm Technologies and gFiber are targeting commercial deployment in 2027 for an AI-native Wi-Fi 8 broadband gateway, with gFiber set to be the first operator to roll it out. Gemtek is showing the device at Network X 2026.

Gateway runs on Qualcomm's Dragonwing NPro A8 Elite platform

Gemtek engineered the gateway on the Qualcomm Dragonwing NPro A8 Elite Platform. It combines Wi-Fi 8 Quad-Band connectivity with Edge AI computing. Software comes from Genix Networks, a Gemtek subsidiary.

The device is designed as a home internet hub and a local platform for agentic AI. It supports network optimization, device awareness, security and proactive management.

Paris – October 13, 2026 -- Orange has launched "Reconnexion Flash" in France, a service that moves a household's entire connection to the customer's smartphone hotspot when the fiber line fails. It runs on SoftAtHome's Always'ON software and needs no extra hardware.

Orange activated the service remotely for customers with the latest Wi-Fi 7 gateways, the Livebox 7 Wi-Fi 7 and the Livebox S. No hardware is shipped. Dedicated backup kit such as a 4G dongle or mobile router has been the usual fallback during fiber cuts or maintenance, and Always'ON removes that step.

Livebox detects outages and switches to the smartphone hotspot automatically

The Livebox detects the outage, connects to the smartphone's hotspot and keeps serving the home network. Laptops, tablets, smart TVs and connected devices stay online over Wi-Fi or Ethernet without reconfiguration.

Montreal – October 13, 2026 -- BroadForward's 4G routing (DRA/DEA) and Diameter Firewall are now live in the network of Terrestar Solutions Inc., Canada's only domestically headquartered and controlled mobile satellite operator, enabling mobile and IoT traffic to be routed between terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks.

The deployment extends BroadForward's presence in satellite communications. It supports signaling interoperability between Terrestar's Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) infrastructure and national mobile networks.

Terrestar targets the 75% of Canadian landmass without terrestrial coverage

More than 75% of Canada's landmass lacks terrestrial coverage. By routing signaling between satellite and cellular domains, BroadForward's platform lets Terrestar extend coverage in both directions, supporting its aim to bring mobile connectivity to rural and remote communities.

Vienna – October 13, 2026 -- TCL showed its 5G AI CPE X5 at Network X 2026, a home broadband device with a theoretical peak downlink of 7.01 Gbps under 3GPP Release 18 and an agentic AI layer meant to cut operators' operations and maintenance workload.

8Rx antenna design lifts lab downlink throughput by up to 51%

The X5 combines four directional C-band antennas with up to 13 dBi gain and four omnidirectional C-band antennas. In lab testing, this 8Rx architecture delivered up to 51% higher downlink throughput than a 4Rx design. AI analyzes signal quality to help select the antenna configuration for better reception. For indoor Wi-Fi, AI-assisted signal-path selection, congestion detection and channel adjustment aim to keep connections stable.

Boston – October 12, 2026 -- Fortress will present a full-scale prototype of its NextGen SMART ILA modular optical infrastructure platform, designed for a 600 kW day-one load that scales to 1.2 MW, at an invitation-only event in Denver, Colorado, on October 20–22, 2026.

Platform targets 400 to 800 kW of ICT capacity across low-, high-density and mixed configurations

Fortress positions the NextGen SMART ILA as a standardized, modular alternative to traditional precast infrastructure. The platform supports low-density, high-density and mixed configurations, allowing consistent deployment across multiple sites as network requirements change.

San Jose – October 12, 2026 -- Cablenet Communication Systems plc, the second largest fixed network operator in Cyprus, is modernizing its DOCSIS broadband access network with Harmonic's cOS virtualized broadband platform, Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) announced. The deployment is designed to strengthen gigabit service capability, simplify operations and lower operating expenses.

Distributed access architecture with Oyster nodes underpins higher speed tiers

Cablenet is deploying cOS in a distributed access architecture (DAA) with low-power Oyster nodes. The operator can introduce significantly higher speeds across its footprint and scale services as subscriber demand grows. The software-based platform also preserves flexibility for Cablenet's longer-term multi-technology network strategy.

Palo Alto – October 12, 2026 -- insidepacket has announced the AI Access Platform, which connects enterprises to GPU and neocloud providers through private network paths that can be activated in minutes. The platform is planned for introduction in Europe, first with Zayo Europe.

Platform comes in two models for GPU clouds and operators

The first model is a dedicated on-ramp that a GPU cloud sells under its own brand. The second is an operator layer that exposes many GPU clouds to the operator's enterprise customers. The underlying NaaS platform has been in production in the US since September 2025 and in Europe since mid 2026.

Stockholm – October 12, 2026 -- Ericsson's treasury stock stands at 125,805,951 Class B shares after repurchases made on Nasdaq Stockholm between October 5 and October 9, 2026, under its SEK 15 billion buyback program.

Buyback program runs to March 31, 2027

Ericsson announced the program of up to SEK 15,000,000,000 on April 16, 2026. Repurchases started on April 23, 2026, and can continue until March 31, 2027 at the latest.

Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE carries out all acquisitions on Ericsson's behalf. The program follows the EU Market Abuse Regulation (No 596/2014) and the Safe Harbour Regulation (Delegated Regulation 2016/1052).

Board plans to propose cancellation of repurchased shares at 2027 AGM

The Board of Directors intends to ask the 2027 Annual General Meeting to cancel the repurchased shares. Shares used to fulfil obligations under Ericsson's share-related incentive programs are excluded from that proposal.

Tokyo -- NTT DOCOMO began commercial operation on September 9, 2026 of Nokia's latest O-RAN ALLIANCE-compliant base station equipment, becoming the world's first operator to run it in a multi-vendor configuration, according to DOCOMO's own research as of that date.

Levante and Ponente cards connect to radio units from multiple vendors

The equipment uses Nokia's Levante baseband card for data processing and Ponente card for control processing. It connects to O-RAN-compliant radio units from different suppliers. DOCOMO says this lets it match radio units to each area's traffic demand: high-power units for wide coverage, and compact units for dense urban sites with limited installation space and for event venues.

Tokyo – October 12, 2026 -- KDDI, NTT DOCOMO, SoftBank and Rakuten Mobile signed a memorandum of understanding on September 11, 2026, to jointly study how 5G millimeter-wave base stations can serve customers across operator boundaries. The four carriers announced the agreement on September 16.

Four carriers will test technical feasibility of cross-operator mmWave use

The study will assess whether the usage coverage of 5G millimeter-wave base stations can be expanded among mobile network operators. The companies will also evaluate efficient operational frameworks for implementing such an arrangement.

The work will focus on technologies and approaches related to 5G millimeter-wave base stations, repeaters and other related assets. The operators plan concrete studies on how to make effective use of facilities that have already been deployed.