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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.
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.
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.
Cohere Tried to Replace the Wireless Waveform. Then It Learned to Sell the Math.
The telecom industry would not rip out 5G for Cohere's elegant new waveform. So the company kept the mathematics, wrapped it in software, and found a way into the network without replacing the radios.
CEVA Sells the Part of the Chip You Never See - and Gets Paid Again Every Time It Ships
CEVA is the rare semiconductor company that does not need to manufacture a chip to collect from billions of them. Its bet is simple: as intelligence moves out of the cloud, the best tollbooth may be a small, power-efficient block of reusable silicon IP.
Inseego Sold the Fleet Business to Save the Hotspot - Now It Wants to Run the Wireless Edge
The company behind MiFi escaped a debt squeeze by selling telematics for $52.7 million and narrowing its bet to 5G hardware plus cloud software. The turnaround offers a practical lesson in focus - and a warning about betting too heavily on a few giant carriers.
Rogers Is Building Canada’s Everything Network - and Betting the Bundle Beats the Backlash
A radio bet became a national telecom, then swallowed cable, sports and satellites. Rogers now wants one household to buy the connection, the content and the perks - while never forgetting the day its own network went dark.
The Kiosk That Ate 2,000 AT&T Stores
How Farid Virani turned one mall cart into the biggest AT&T retailer in the country - and what he did with the money once he got there.