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Mansoor Khan’s other network
He helped bring two engineering businesses together as Veltris’s founding CEO. His career also runs through another kind of network: the alumni, collaborators and younger founders he keeps bringing into the conversation.
Keysight makes failure useful.
Before a phone connects, a radar sees or an AI network moves a packet, someone has to ask an awkward question: does it actually work? Keysight sells the tools to find out.
American Tower sells the same sky twice.
The carriers fight for your phone bill. American Tower rents them room on the same steel - a sharing business with a very expensive lesson in who pays the rent.
Satish Dhanasekaran and the business of being early
Before a new technology can change your life, someone has to find out whether it works. From early smartphones to 6G, Satish Dhanasekaran has built a career on that inconvenient little detail.
John Stankey’s long way back to the connection
He helped take AT&T into Hollywood, then helped lead it out. After four decades in telecom, John Stankey is betting the company’s next chapter on fiber, wireless and the patience to build.
Steve Vondran took the long way up
He joined American Tower as a lawyer in 2000. Twenty-four years later, Steve Vondran became CEO, carrying an education in leases, steel, and the business of keeping people connected.
Telit Cinterion makes the connection last.
A pet tracker, a robotic beehive, and a factory robot share a problem: getting connected is only the beginning. Telit Cinterion sells the hardware, networks, and software that keep them useful.
Spanidea makes the pieces work together
A chip, a sensor, and an AI model can each work beautifully. Spanidea builds the engineering between them - the part that turns a clever demonstration into a connected product.
Aircom makes the map answer to the network
A coverage map is a promise. Aircom connects radio planning, live network measurements, and automated configuration to help mobile operators keep it.
Udy Kashkash and the art of keeping things running
From engineering labs to the CEO’s office at RAD, Udy Kashkash has built a career around a practical question: how do you move a network forward while keeping it working?
Cape wants your phone to forget you
Your phone can keep a secret. Its network has a longer memory. Cape is rebuilding the machinery beneath mobile service to make that memory shorter - and harder to exploit.
PCTEL finds the dead zones before the emergency
An antenna is only half the wireless story. PCTEL builds the hardware that connects people and the testing tools that expose where the connection falls apart.
Altiostar made the cell tower a software business
Before Rakuten bought Altiostar at a valuation above $1 billion, it put the company’s software through a bruising test. The result helped turn a Japanese mobile network into a blueprint for selling telecom differently.
MATRIXX makes the phone bill keep up with the phone
A mobile offer is only as nimble as the machinery that prices it. MATRIXX built that machinery for real-time commerce - and Amdocs paid approximately $197 million to bring it in-house.
Yas Madagascar’s $100 Million Bet Came Before the New Name
Before Telma became Yas, it committed $100 million to a mobile network expansion and brought commercial 5G to Madagascar. The next test is getting that infrastructure to earn its place in everyday life.
Orange found its next act in your wallet
The French telecom group is turning mobile connections into payments, cloud contracts and security services. Its African growth - and European banking retreat - reveal where that ambition earns its keep.
Mobily sells phone plans. Its bigger bet is under the surface.
The company that broke Saudi Arabia’s mobile monopoly is building a business in fiber, data centers and cables beneath the Red Sea. Getting there has meant a costly license, an accounting reckoning and a new test of what a telecom operator can sell.
Spark New Zealand Is Learning What to Let Go
The former Telecom has quit sports streaming and sold control of its data centres. Its next test is turning a narrower focus into better connections for New Zealanders.
Claro Argentina’s $350 million ticket to 5G
The airwaves were only the entrance fee. From crowded rooftops to a new Buenos Aires data center, Claro’s next chapter is being built one physical constraint at a time.
Ooredoo Tunisie wants a place in your living room
The mobile operator is making home broadband a bigger part of its business. Its 5G bet comes with a useful lesson: the network launch is only the beginning.
Dialog Wants More Than Your Phone Bill
After absorbing Airtel Lanka, Sri Lanka’s telecom heavyweight is selling a bigger slice of connected life: home internet, television, business tools and payments. Its next test is making a costly 5G expansion earn its keep.
Telecom Egypt sells the connection. Even to its competitors.
Behind the WE phone plans sits a business in cables, crossings and other operators’ traffic. Telecom Egypt’s advantage is physical - and so are its costs.
ZTE survived the cutoff. Now it wants the computing business.
A supplier ban stopped ZTE’s major operations in 2018. Today, the telecom equipment maker is chasing AI infrastructure while keeping a hand in everything from Mexico’s mobile networks to gaming phones.
Qualcomm gets paid for the chip. And the idea inside it.
The company behind Snapdragon built a business selling silicon and licensing wireless inventions. Its next test is carrying the economics of the smartphone into cars, PCs and industrial AI.
TPG Telecom’s next big move: own less, reach more
The company behind Vodafone, TPG and iiNet sold its fibre assets for A$5.25 billion and enlisted a rival to expand its mobile reach. Now comes the harder part: turning a bigger coverage map into a better business.
Vodafone Fiji put a wallet inside the phone business
M-PAiSA moved more than FJ$6 billion in a year. Behind that number is a locally owned telecom making itself useful at the checkout, on the bus and far beyond the mobile mast.
Optus can sell a connection. Can it restore trust?
Australia’s challenger telco has satellites, millions of mobile customers and a rival paying to use its network. Its next test is whether the everyday machinery of the business can live up to the promise.
2degrees made calls cheaper. Staying a challenger costs more.
New Zealand’s third mobile network won attention with 44-cent calls. Its next act involves fibre, private 5G and a proposal to share infrastructure with an old rival.
Singtel’s Next Act: Renting Out the AI Factory
The company that connected Singapore is selling the networks, computing power and data-centre space behind artificial intelligence. Its next test is making that expensive machinery earn its keep - while keeping the phone lines working.
Vodafone Idea finally adds subscribers. Now comes the expensive part.
After years of contraction, Vi has recorded its first quarter of net subscriber additions since its 2018 merger. Keeping that momentum means turning fresh funding into a network people choose to stay on.