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Dish, the company behind Dish TV and Sling TV, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to restructure its debt, but its services will continue operating normally during the process.
T-Mobile is retiring many legacy plans, including some from the 3G/4G era and Sprint, and moving subscribers to current plans, with some seeing price increases. Customers are upset due to T-Mobile's past promises as the 'Un-Carrier'.
Comcast plans to split its media and broadband properties into two standalone companies, aiming to simplify operations and attract investors. The broadband and wireless network business will serve 65 million US customers, while NBCUniversal becomes a separate media entity.
NVIDIA announces new AI agents and tools for telecom operations, including synthetic data generation and secure agent runtimes, showcased at DTW Ignite 2026. The platform aims to enable autonomous networks by combining domain-specific models, privacy-safe synthetic data, and policy-based guardrails.
TelcoAgent is a foundation model-based framework for scalable and explainable multi-KPM forecasting in 5G networks, using automated 3GPP knowledge graph construction and a time-series foundation model for zero-shot prediction.
Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries announced AI services including Jio Call Agent, an AI-powered MyJio app, and TeleFrame home display, aiming to embed AI into telecom and homes as India seeks domestic AI leadership.
The Australian government will require businesses and organisations to register branded SMS sender IDs from 1 July 2026, as part of new rules to combat scam messages.
California regulators accuse AT&T of lying to the FCC in an attempt to shut down its copper phone network without providing adequate replacement, particularly challenging AT&T's claim that state rules prevent fiber upgrades and that wireless service is a sufficient substitute.
The FCC proposes requiring telecoms to collect government IDs for all phone customers, effectively banning burner phones, sparking privacy concerns from advocates like the ACLU.
The author built RelayOps, an AI support agent prototype for telecom/subscription support, and shares results from a 50-ticket sample, seeking critique on handoff records, unsafe actions, audit fields, and usefulness for testing.
A technical walkthrough of building a telecom customer support agent that prioritizes safety metrics over classifier accuracy, using a deterministic access gate, scoped tool execution, and route-level evaluation.
The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 against AT&T and Verizon, upholding FCC fines totaling $104 million for selling users' real-time location data without consent, finding that the FCC's penalty process did not violate carriers' Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial.
AT&T sues California to end its obligation to maintain the century-old copper phone network, arguing it costs $1 billion annually to serve only 3% of households, but California regulators refuse to allow the shutdown.
Engineer Patrick Schlott is restoring old pay phones in rural Vermont, converting them to free VoIP-based phones that allow calls anywhere in the US and Canada, providing a public service in areas with poor cell coverage.
AgentPhone launches an API that provides AI agents with their own phone numbers and identity, enabling them to make calls and send messages across channels like iMessage, WhatsApp, RCS, and SMS.