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Global Data and the luxury of a boring connection
On a Gulf of Mexico workboat, a better network bought something unexpected: a way to call home. Global Data Systems makes its living managing the technology behind ordinary moments in difficult places.
The Satellite Network That Would Rather Not Be the Internet
Most satellite networks want to bring you the internet. Logos Space is betting that governments and large companies will pay for something more peculiar and more valuable: a private road around it.
Ground Control and the art of sending less
A water level, a missing buoy, a glacier’s temperature: Ground Control makes a business of getting small, consequential messages out of places ordinary networks cannot reach.
The Quiet Buyout Shop That Bets on the Pipes, Towers, and Billboards Nobody Notices
For almost 30 years, a small team in Lower Manhattan has quietly built and sold the unglamorous infrastructure of American communications and media - and made a business out of the boring.
T-Mobile Won the 5G Race. Now It Has to Outrun Its Own Success
The magenta insurgent grew up, absorbed Sprint and built a 5G lead. Its harder assignment now is to become a broader broadband company without turning into the kind of carrier it taught customers to distrust.