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The Walkie-Talkie That Learned to Roam
Kodiak did not replace the radio. It smuggled the radio's best habit - one-button group conversation - into the phone, then sold the trick through the world's mobile carriers.
The PR Firm That Learned to Speak Fiber
The internet has a plumbing problem and a language problem. From a house in Mamaroneck, iMPR built a business translating fiber, colocation and subsea cables for the people who decide what gets noticed - and, increasingly, what gets built.
The Tiny Firm Behind the Big Technology Story
JLM Partners built a communications business by staying small, learning the plumbing of broadband and showing up wherever complicated technology needs a plain-English story.
Engage PR makes the internet’s plumbing worth talking about
Fiber routes, optical networks, data centers: Engage PR works where the technology is complicated and the audience is exacting. Its second act began just as the world stopped meeting in person.
Bob Gold & Associates knows who needs to hear your story
In the business behind your television screen, attention has a specialist market. Bob Gold & Associates helps technology, media, and telecom companies find the people who can actually do something with their news.
Globalive sold WIND for C$1.6 billion. Then it kept building.
Anthony Lacavera’s investment company turned a bruising telecom adventure into a business-building practice. Its next tests run from a Canadian bank to a mobile network in Bermuda.
4YFN sells startups a shorter walk to their next big customer
Barcelona’s startup event puts founders within reach of MWC’s corporate crowd. The attraction is proximity; the test is what happens after the introductions.
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.
BTC Broadband has a plan for the next severed cable
The Bixby telephone company grew into a fiber, voice and managed IT provider. Its next test is keeping Oklahoma customers connected when something goes wrong.
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.
Ciena’s AI opportunity runs through old fiber
The company that helped telephone carriers squeeze more from their cables is selling the same economic idea to the AI era. The speeds have changed. The appeal of avoiding another dig has not.
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.
Point Broadband’s big bet on small-town internet
A $725.1 million debt deal and a merger with Clearwave Fiber have given Point Broadband room to grow. In Foley, Alabama, the work came down to new fiber, old cable boxes and teaching people to stream.
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.
Batelco wants more than your phone bill
Bahrain’s familiar telecom brand is tying family plans to a much bigger business in cables and data centres. The ambition runs from the living room to the seabed.
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.
Telarus Makes a Business of the Mess Between Buying Tech and Making It Work
The technology distributor equips independent advisors with supplier access, quoting software, and engineering help. Its next wager: customers will pay more attention to execution than to the cheapest quote.
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.
Superloop wants your broadband bill. Or a cut of someone else’s.
The Australian telco has turned fibre, acquisitions and other companies’ customers into an A$664 million business. Its most interesting product may be the machinery behind the brand on your bill.
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.
Optimum built faster internet. Now it has to make customers stay.
Fiber is growing. Mobile is growing. The broadband base is shrinking. Inside Optimum’s effort to turn a better network into a business customers keep.
Range’s $4 Million Route to 58 Customers
In rural Wyoming, fast internet starts with an expensive stretch of dirt. Range is building for the neighbors at the end of it - and for a new fiber route from Denver to Chicago.
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.
Ceragon Networks sells the internet a way around the digging
The wireless transport specialist connects towers, utilities and offshore operations where fiber is awkward to build. Its next challenge is turning that engineering talent into a less lumpy 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.