Telecommunications Infrastructure

Kansas City – September 18, 2026 -- Conexon's Conexon 100 Club now counts nearly 50 electric cooperatives across 13 states that have delivered fiber broadband to 100 percent of their members, following the induction of seven new co-ops in 2026.

Seven cooperatives across three states complete full fiber buildouts

The 2026 inductees -- Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative (Oklahoma), Central Florida Electric Cooperative, Glades Electric Cooperative, Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative (all Florida), and Grady EMC, Habersham EMC and Satilla REMC (all Georgia) -- finished on-system fiber-to-the-home construction between the second half of 2025 and the first half of 2026.

Washington – September 18, 2026 -- CTIA, the trade group representing U.S. wireless carriers, is pressing the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to launch a study of the 4 GHz band within 60 days, calling it a cornerstone for securing American wireless and AI leadership ahead of the World Radiocommunication Conference in 2027 (WRC-27).

CTIA Wants NTIA Study Launched Within 60 Days

A new CTIA report identifies the 4 GHz band as capable of delivering 400 megahertz of contiguous spectrum, aligning with existing 5G and 6G standards. The band sits alongside Upper C-Band, 2.7 GHz and 7 GHz in the spectrum pipeline already flagged by the Administration and Congress. "Beginning work this fall is our best chance at freeing up the spectrum needed to meet surging AI demand, fuel innovation, expand access to affordable broadband, and reassert America's global wireless leadership," said Ajit Pai, President and CEO of CTIA.

Chicago and Atlanta – September 18, 2026 -- West Monroe and Sitenna have formed a collaboration to help utilities cut manual data reconciliation across grid, network and infrastructure programs by combining consulting expertise with an infrastructure lifecycle management platform.

London – September 18, 2026 -- Ninety-seven percent of telecom executives expect AI to deliver major productivity and operational gains within five years, yet organizational readiness gaps threaten to blunt that upside, according to the EY-Parthenon Telco of Tomorrow study, based on interviews with nearly 100 telecom C-suite leaders globally.

Cédric Foray, EY Global Telecommunications Sector Leader, said telcos are not short of growth opportunities, but the greater challenge is whether they have the operating models, skills and strategic clarity needed to capture them.

Shenzhen – September 18, 2026 -- Tencent Cloud has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Edge Services 2026 Vendor Assessment, positioning its EdgeOne platform against a field of global edge providers now competing on AI inference performance rather than legacy content delivery metrics.

IDC Says Competitive Frontier Has Shifted to AI Inference at the Edge

The IDC MarketScape (doc #US54122426, September 2026) states that content delivery performance and network proximity are now baseline expectations rather than differentiators. Vendors are instead being evaluated on GPU availability, model deployment tooling, inference latency, and token cost efficiency compared with centralized cloud AI services.

San Antonio – September 18, 2026 -- Frost & Sullivan has named Singtel its 2026 APAC Company of the Year in the 5G enterprise industry, citing the operator's enterprise connectivity strategy, innovation pipeline, and measurable customer impact across the region.

Frost & Sullivan benchmarks Singtel on strategy effectiveness and execution

The research firm's evaluation process scored Singtel across two core dimensions -- strategy effectiveness and strategy execution -- with the company excelling in both categories. Mei Lee Quah, Senior Director of ICT Research at Frost & Sullivan, said Singtel is demonstrating how 5G infrastructure can evolve beyond connectivity into an agile, secure, and financially optimized enterprise utility.

Austin, Texas – September 18, 2026 -- Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB) will unveil new products with what it calls new-to-industry performance during the keynote of its seventh annual Works With Summit, scheduled for October 6-7 at ACL Live at the Moody Theater and the company's Austin headquarters.

CEO Matt Johnson leads October 7 keynote with CTO and software chief

Silicon Labs President and CEO Matt Johnson will open the October 7 keynote, joined by Daniel Cooley, senior vice president and chief technology officer, and Manish Kothari, senior vice president of software development. The executives will outline the technology, AI tools and ecosystem collaboration required to scale intelligent connected systems as devices become more deeply integrated into homes, businesses and infrastructure.

Stamford, Conn. – September 18, 2026 -- Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR, CHTRP) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.43750001 per share on its Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, payable October 15, 2026 to holders of record as of September 30, 2026.

Preferred shares trace back to the Liberty Broadband acquisition

The 7,183,812 shares of Charter Preferred Stock outstanding were issued when each share of Liberty Broadband Corporation's Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock converted into a newly issued Charter Preferred share at the deal's effective time.

Preferred stock carries fixed 7% yield and 2039 redemption date

The Charter Preferred Stock carries a liquidation preference of $25 per share plus accrued but unpaid dividends, pays dividends quarterly at a 7% annual rate, and is mandatorily redeemable on March 9, 2039. Each share is entitled to 1/3 of a vote.

Dallas – September 18, 2026 -- E Source has launched advanced scenario planning capabilities within its GridInform® Vegetation Intelligence software, allowing electric utilities to model multi-year vegetation management strategies and quantify reliability, risk, and cost tradeoffs before deploying field crews or capital.

New tool cuts vegetation planning timelines from months to minutes

The software lets utilities run long-term planning scenarios directly within the platform rather than relying on static, point-in-time analyses or external studies. Planners can evaluate vegetation investment strategies over five- to ten-year horizons by integrating infrastructure data, vegetation conditions, weather exposure, and outage history.

Users can compare cycle-based maintenance against targeted work programs and test how changes in funding levels and prioritization affect future reliability outcomes and cost trajectories.

Redwood City, Calif. – September 18, 2026 -- The Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market reached $3.5 billion in the second quarter of 2026, extending year-over-year growth above 20 percent for a fifth consecutive quarter, according to Dell'Oro Group.

SD-WAN spending strengthens as enterprises replace aging branch infrastructure

SD-WAN demand rose materially in Q2 as branch-network modernization climbed enterprise priority lists. Dell'Oro Group found the trend reflects selective replacement of aging or higher-risk equipment rather than a wholesale refresh across entire branch estates.