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OSC Top Solutions Group Wants Your Network to Earn Its Keep
The Colombian integrator grew by following its customers across borders. Now it is selling a harder promise: making the networks, security systems and people behind critical infrastructure work together.
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.
Boldyn Networks wants to own the places your phone goes silent
Under railway tracks, around racetracks and inside livestock sheds, Boldyn builds networks that other businesses use. Its wager: sharing the infrastructure can make difficult connections worth the expense.
The IT Company Selling One Help Desk for 190 Countries
SISL Global built a $220 million business around a stubborn corporate nuisance: keeping hardware, networks and people working across borders without turning every country into a separate project.
EPIC iO Bet the Camera Was Never the Point
The Fort Mill company is stitching cameras, sensors and wireless links into one operating layer for remote sites - a useful idea whose economics depend less on magical AI than on good placement, clean signals and humans who still make the call.
Boingo’s $854 Million Lesson for Infrastructure Builders: Own the Places Where Wireless Breaks
Boingo began by making airport Wi-Fi easier to buy. Twenty-five years later, its real product is the invisible layer beneath airports, bases and ballparks - a lesson in moving from a convenient app to infrastructure that is painful to replace.
Iyad Tarazi Is Teaching the Airwaves to Share
He left a vast telecom organization for a startup with two scientists and a difficult idea: let radios share. A decade later, Iyad Tarazi is applying the same instinct to AI, physics and the stubborn economics of wireless networks.
Able Device Bet the Tiny SIM Card Could Run Your IoT Fleet. Now the Market Is Catching Up.
For 16 years, a nine-person Raleigh company has argued that the most underused computer in telecom is already inside the device. SIMbae turns that overlooked chip into a programmable traffic cop for connected fleets - with no new hardware and far less Java Card work.
Federated Wireless Became Air-Traffic Control for the Airwaves - Now It Wants AI to Find Five Times More Room
For a decade, Federated Wireless made crowded radio bands behave like orderly airspace. Its next wager is that physics-aware AI can turn the same towers and frequencies into much more network.
Rakuten Symphony
Rakuten built a mobile network in Japan, then turned the operating lessons into software for everyone else. The wager is that telecom's next upgrade looks less like a hardware swap and more like a cloud migration.
Ericsson
The 149-year-old Swedish firm that helped write the rules of 5G now has to prove those networks can grow again - under a new CEO and an AI-driven cost squeeze.