Telecommunications Infrastructure

Paris – October 05, 2026 -- TCL announced that its LINKHUB HH516 has become the world's first purpose-built 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) customer premises equipment to achieve prplWare 4.0 certification from the prpl Foundation.

Certification validates integration of authentic prplWare software across the device

The HH516 passed the required prplOS and High-Level API tests, confirming its open, modular software architecture meets prpl Foundation standards. The certification allows operators to reuse management and service capabilities across product generations, reduce repeated integration work across devices and silicon platforms, and gain flexibility in multi-vendor deployments.

Canada – October 02, 2026 -- TXO has acquired Wesbell Communications, a Canadian Tier 1 telecommunications solutions provider, expanding TXO's technology lifecycle services and processing capacity across North America.

TXO adds Wesbell's Tier 1 customer base and processing capacity to its global network

The deal combines Wesbell's established Tier 1 customer relationships and solutions capability with TXO's international reach. Wesbell brings network and engineering services, managed services and technical support, backed by a team with deep telecoms infrastructure expertise.

Irvine, Calif. – October 02, 2026 -- MobileX has appointed Raju Datla as Chief Financial Officer, bringing more than 25 years of telecom, infrastructure and capital markets experience to the wireless carrier as it scales distribution and its AI-driven service platform.

Datla joins from RedCloud Holdings after leading its global finance and capital markets strategy

Datla most recently served as CFO of Nasdaq-listed RedCloud Holdings (NASDAQ: RCT), overseeing finance, capital markets and the financial execution of the company's global expansion. He previously held the Chief Strategy Officer role at Tillman Fiber and was CFO and co-founder of NxtGen Datacenter & Cloud Technologies.

Kalispell, Mont. – October 01, 2026 -- Vero Broadband, LLC, operating as Vero Fiber, has completed its merger with Montana Sky Networks Incorporated, known as MontanaSky, combining two broadband providers active in Northwest Montana.

Merger unites a 30-year-old local provider with a national fiber network operator

MontanaSky, founded in 1993 and operating offices in Kalispell and Libby, Montana, has spent more than three decades serving the Flathead Valley region. Vero Fiber, a subsidiary of VFN Holdings, Inc., specializes in fiber-to-the-premises networks and has expanded through acquisitions and investment in rural and underserved U.S. markets.

Englewood, Colo. – October 01, 2026 -- WideOpenWest, Inc. (WOW!) has been named Cablefax's 2026 Top Ops Market Mover, recognizing a year in which the broadband provider expanded fiber passings by more than 50% across its expansion markets and over 20% across legacy markets.

WOW! extends network to nearly 50,000 additional homes and businesses

The company's network growth over the past year reached new premises across Central Florida, South Carolina and Michigan, adding fiber capacity to its footprint that already passes nearly two million residential, business and wholesale customers across 20 markets.

San Francisco – October 01, 2026 -- Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) has released the initial session lineup for ONE Summit Japan 2026, set for Dec. 10-11 in Tokyo alongside Open Source Summit Japan.

Tokyo event gathers global networking community to address agentic AI shift

The summit will bring together technologists, operators, researchers and open source contributors to examine how artificial intelligence is reshaping network architecture and how networks must evolve to support next-generation AI infrastructure. LFN frames this as one of networking's most significant architectural shifts in decades, with AI functioning simultaneously as a major network workload and as a tool for automating network operations.

Cleveland – October 01, 2026 -- ArchKey, a national electrical and technology systems provider, has acquired US Communications & Electric, a Cleveland-based technology integration firm, expanding its national technology services platform across North America.

Acquired firm brings 130 employees and 10,000 completed projects

US Communications & Electric, founded in 1996, employs more than 130 professionals and has completed over 10,000 projects for customers in data centers, healthcare, education, government, financial services, and industrial sectors. The firm specializes in audio-visual systems, distributed antenna systems (DAS), network infrastructure, security solutions, and connected building technologies.

Blair, Neb. – October 01, 2026 -- Rightfiber, the fiber broadband provider formerly known as Great Plains Communications, has completed its acquisition of American Broadband Holding Company's Fastwyre Broadband operations in Nebraska, adding 26 communities to its network footprint.

Rightfiber absorbs Fastwyre's 26 Nebraska communities into its network

The deal transfers Fastwyre customers in towns including Blair, Fremont, Bellevue, Wayne, Bassett, Oakland, Pender and Winnebago to Rightfiber, a company backed by investment firm Grain Management. Rightfiber now operates across 20 states with more than 28,000 route miles of fiber, supporting over 300,000 Fiber-to-the-Home passings and serving customers in more than 400 communities nationally.

HOLMDEL, N.J. – October 01, 2026 -- HYLAN, a full-service communications and electrical infrastructure provider, raised $75,000 for pediatric cancer nonprofit Liv Like a Unicorn at its eighth annual golf tournament, pushing the company's total charitable contributions past $500,000.

HYLAN's golf tournament nets $75,000 for Freehold-based pediatric cancer charity

The September 28 event at Metedeconk National Golf Club in Jackson, New Jersey, gathered HYLAN's partner network to support Liv Like a Unicorn, a 501(c)(3) organization based in Freehold that funds research into pediatric brain and spinal cord tumors and assists families during treatment.

Eight years of fundraising push HYLAN's total giving above $500,000

This year's $75,000 contribution brings HYLAN's cumulative charitable donations to more than half a million dollars since the tournament's inception, according to the company.

Dallas – October 01, 2026 -- AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon Communications have signed a joint venture agreement to expand wireless and satellite coverage in underserved areas of the United States, formalizing a plan first disclosed in May to pool limited spectrum resources.

Three rival carriers agree to share spectrum to eliminate dead zones

The agreement builds on the companies' earlier pledge to combine spectrum assets in order to reduce coverage gaps and extend satellite connectivity to customers nationwide. Terrestrial mobile networks will continue operating independently, with the JV targeting regions where traditional cell service remains unreliable or unavailable.