Worldwide spending on telecoms and pay-TV services is forecast to reach US$1.585 trillion in 2026, up 2.3% year on year, due to inflation and rise in energy costs, according to IDC.
ZTE Corporation, a global leading provider of integrated information and communication technology solutions, recently hosted its 2026 Commercial & Industrial (C&I) Energy Storage Channel Partner Conference under the theme "Safer, More Efficient, and More Intelligent to Create Greater Value for Customers". At the event, ZTE launched its new-generation E260C3 Commercial & Industrial Energy Storage Integrated Cabinet.
PLDT’s wireless arm, Smart Communications, said on Friday it has launched a new service for premium postpaid customers that uses AI noise cancellation to filter out background noise during voice calls.
The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) is reportedly looking to establish legal measures that would require parents to report all SIM cards used by their children as an online safety move.
State-owned Thai telco National Telecom (NT) has reportedly submitted a proposal to the Finance Ministry to build four new international subsea cables connecting Thailand to Singapore, Japan and Europe at a cost of THB16.1 billion (US$480 million).
There has been a lot of interest in recent months on the topic of post-Quantum cryptography (PQC) and DNSSEC. It appears likely that the day will come when our current suite of cryptographic algorithms could not resist efforts to break them using appropriately powerful quantum computers. Some folk say this day is decades away, while others are predicting we have just a small number of years. We have suitably strong quantum-resistant algorithms that we can use. The only problem is that these post-quantum digital signatures are up to 40 times as large as the signatures we use today. And this has some serious implications for the operation of DDNSSEC.
Puerto Rico Opens Mayaguez Cable Landing Tender Puerto Rico Infrastructure Financing Authority (AFI)November 3, 2026 Puerto Rico's Infrastructure Financing Authority has opened a tender for a new submarine communications cable landing station in Mayaguez. Published on November 3, the notice identifies the procurement as AFI-BP-26-041 and calls for the design, development and construction of the [...]
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Bharti Airtel reported a 16.7% year-on-year increase in consolidated revenue to INR608.78 billion (US$6.8 billion) for the second quarter of its 2026-27 financial year, driven by growth in India and Africa.
Brazil’s telecoms regulator Anatel said on Wednesday its board of directors has endorsed two internal proposals to allocate BRL1.7 billion (almost US$309 million) of leftover funds from its 5G auction in 2021 to two new projects: a sovereign AI data centre and TV 3.0 converter subsidies.
Pan-African telco Paratus Group officially launched its Lesotho unit on Thursday, offering Starlink enterprise connectivity services alongside Paratus network solutions to businesses and organisations in the country.