5G Power Plays, Outages & a Global Race to Connect – Mobile Internet Highlights (Sept 4–5, 2025)
Pakistan approved its first 5G spectrum auction for December 2025, ending years of delays. Turkey set October 2025 for its own 5G tender. AT&T agreed to buy $23 billion in 5G spectrum from EchoStar, marking a record U.S. private spectrum sale. A Verizon outage on August 30 left customers nationwide with emergency-only service for hours.