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Longtime Internet of Things (IoT) player KORE announced that it will acquire Twilios IoT business. The transaction shines more light on the tumult enveloping the IoT space.

This week in broadband builds: NTIA awards tribal broadband funding; altafiber to build in Warren County, Ohio; TDS grows in Wisconsin; NYC expands Big Apple Connect - and more.

After a two-year surge in sales to China, US semiconductor companies stand to lose billions in revenues as export controls are tightened.

The recent Cable Next-Gen event looked ahead. But it was also an opportunity to look back, when there was no DOCSIS and data was delivered over a 6MHz channel – enough to be wicked fast.

At the Cable Next-Gen event, Omdia analyst Jaimie Lenderman presented fresh data on cable operators plans for DAA, the virtual CMTS, DOCSIS 4.0 and PON, and her multi-year forecast for the cable equipment market.

Several private network installations are testing MOCN, which stands for Multiple Operator Core Network, as a way to connect to a commercial mobile network.

Facing so many options and trade-offs, and alert to the danger of supplier lock-in, many operators have yet to be convinced about RAN virtualization.

At the end of 2022, there were 142,100 cell towers and 452,200 outdoor small cell nodes across the US, according to one new tally.

Paul Gaske, COO at EchoStar, spoke with Light Reading at Satellite 2023 to discuss the companys forthcoming launch of its Jupiter-3 satellite, the future of direct-to-device communications and more.

The FCCs congressional authority to auction spectrum lapsed for the first time ever earlier this month, which is preventing the agency from authorizing T-Mobiles latest 2.5GHz purchases.