Telecommunications 9 August 2025 - 6 September 2025

Liberty Global stock price holds near $13 after VodafoneZiggo buyout plan sparks 17% jump
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Liberty Global stock price holds near $13 after VodafoneZiggo buyout plan sparks 17% jump

Liberty Global agreed to buy Vodafone’s 50% stake in VodafoneZiggo for €1 billion cash plus equity, giving Liberty full control of the Dutch joint venture. Liberty’s shares were little changed premarket Thursday after a 17% jump Wednesday. The deal includes plans for a 2027 Amsterdam listing and spin-off, pending regulatory approval. Vodafone will receive €1 billion and a 10% stake in the new Ziggo Group.
February 19, 2026
Mobile Mayhem: 48 Hours of Shocking GSM Shutdowns, 5G Power Plays & Global Network Drama (Sept 5–6, 2025)
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Mobile Mayhem: 48 Hours of Shocking GSM Shutdowns, 5G Power Plays & Global Network Drama (Sept 5–6, 2025)

Pakistan set December 2025 for its first 5G spectrum auction after years of delays, while Turkey scheduled its inaugural 5G tender for October 2025. Reliance Jio and Meta launched a $100 million AI venture in India. Malaysia activated a second 5G network, ending a monopoly. A Verizon outage on August 30 left U.S. users without service for nine hours; Pakistan and Iraq imposed government-ordered internet blackouts.
September 6, 2025
Global GSM Revolution: 48 Hours of 5G & 6G Breakthroughs, Deals, and Policy Shake-Ups
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Global GSM Revolution: 48 Hours of 5G & 6G Breakthroughs, Deals, and Policy Shake-Ups

Bangladesh’s top mobile operators launched the country’s first 5G services in major cities. Pakistan’s Prime Minister approved a 5G spectrum auction to finish by December 2025. Iraq announced a national 5G telecom company with Vodafone for a 2025 rollout. The GSMA warned India against allocating 5G spectrum directly to enterprises, urging it remain with carriers.
September 3, 2025
Your Smartphone Can Now Text via SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites – Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Your Smartphone Can Now Text via SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites – Here’s Everything You Need to Know

SpaceX’s Starlink has launched satellite texting for ordinary smartphones, allowing users to send SMS without cell towers in initial coverage areas. The “Direct to Cell” service works with standard 4G LTE phones and requires no extra hardware. Partner carriers, including T-Mobile and Rogers, plan to expand the service in 2025. Voice and data features are expected to follow after further network upgrades.
September 2, 2025
Mobile Network Mayhem: 5G Power Plays, Big Outages & AI Game-Changers (Sept 1–2, 2025)
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Mobile Network Mayhem: 5G Power Plays, Big Outages & AI Game-Changers (Sept 1–2, 2025)

Verizon ended free Apple Arcade/Google Play perks and loyalty discounts on legacy plans in early September, sparking customer backlash. Days before, a software glitch left millions of Verizon users in “SOS only” mode for hours, with over 23,000 outage reports nationwide. T-Mobile launched a new “SuperMobile” enterprise plan bundling 5G slicing and Starlink satellite coverage for businesses.
September 2, 2025
Global Mobile Networks Rocked: Weekend of Outages, 5G Leaps & GSM Milestones (Aug 30–31, 2025)
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Global Mobile Networks Rocked: Weekend of Outages, 5G Leaps & GSM Milestones (Aug 30–31, 2025)

A major Verizon outage Saturday left millions across the U.S. without mobile service for hours, with phones limited to “SOS only” mode. Verizon blamed a software issue and began restoring service by night. In Pakistan, authorities cut 3G/4G mobile internet in Balochistan over security concerns, affecting millions. T-Mobile US launched a new enterprise 5G plan offering expanded coverage using network slicing and satellite links.
August 31, 2025
6G network
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6G Revolution: Blazing Speeds, Global Tech Rivalries, and the Next Wireless Frontier

China launched a 6G test satellite and achieved a 100 Gbps laser link from space to ground. South Korea’s ETRI demonstrated a 200 Gbps wireless 6G prototype in January 2025. Japan’s SoftBank began outdoor 6G trials in Tokyo with Nokia in July 2025. Ten countries signed a White House-backed pledge in February 2024 for secure, open, and resilient 6G networks.
August 18, 2025
LoRaWAN is Transforming Smart Cities and Farms
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The Long-Range IoT Revolution: How LoRaWAN is Transforming Smart Cities and Farms

Over 350 million LoRaWAN devices were connected worldwide by mid-2024, with forecasts topping 3.5 billion by 2030. Montevideo deployed 70,000 LoRaWAN streetlights to cut energy use by up to 80%. LoRaWAN supports long-range, low-power sensors in cities and farms, and by 2024, at least three firms offered LoRaWAN-from-space via satellite gateways. The ecosystem includes over 500 member companies.
August 15, 2025
Laser Reflectors are Revolutionizing Satellite Communications
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How Laser Reflectors are Revolutionizing Satellite Communications

NASA’s Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration in 2013 achieved 622 Mb/s downlink from lunar orbit. In June 2023, MIT’s TBIRD CubeSat set a record with a 4.8 TB transfer in five minutes. By 2024, Europe’s SpaceDataHighway logged over 80,000 laser links and 2.5 petabytes downloaded. In December 2023, NASA linked the ISS to its LCRD optical relay, completing a two-way laser relay.
August 14, 2025
Private 5G Revolution
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Inside the Private 5G Revolution: How Dedicated 5G Networks Are Transforming Industry by 2025

By the end of 2024, over 1,600 private mobile networks operated across 80 countries, according to the Global mobile Suppliers Association. Airbus had three production sites live with private 5G and planned further rollouts in Canada, the UK, the US, and China, with Ericsson as supplier. Nokia led private 5G vendor rankings in 2025, with deployments at DHL and Volkswagen. AWS ended its direct private 5G service in May 2025, shifting to partner-based offerings.
August 9, 2025
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