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Light Reading is an independent B2B digital media platform providing daily news, analysis and insight for the global communications networking and services industry. Our broad readership and solid reputation make us the leading resource for telecom, mobile and cable network operators, cloud services players and all the companies that develop and supply them with technology, applications and professional services. Light Reading has over 500,000 qualified registered users, our websites attract over 1.3 million monthly page views and our newsletters are sent out to 220,000 opt in subscribers.

Our brand is also active across all social media channels, with over 100,000 members and followers. The Light Reading Group incorporates a dedicated research division Heavy Reading, over 15 successful annual industry events including its flagship Big 5G Event (formerly the Big Communications Event), several targeted online communities (including Security Now, Connecting Africa and Broadband World News) that dig even deeper into key areas of the global communications industry and its sister industry news site Telecoms.com.

Light Reading is the go-to, independent online news analysis and opinion portal for the global communications networking and services industry that comprises telecom, mobile and cable network operators, the cloud services players (including the web-scale giants) and all the companies that develop and supply them with technology, applications and professional services.

The Light Reading team has been identifying and reporting on the key communications industry trends since the turn of the century and has an unrivalled team of experienced journalists and editors based across North America and Europe that informs and (we hope) entertains those involved in this vital multi-trillion-dollar sector.

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Aug 24, 2026	Telecom Experts Say Elon Musk’s Wireless Plan Is Historically Stupid	Earlier this month I noted that Elon Musk’s Starlink is giving very unsubtle indications that the company wants to jump into the wireless business. I also noted that there’s a very long list of reasons why this isn’t likely to go well for h...
Aug 19, 2026	Nokia Closes All Mainland China Operations, Completing 42-Year Exit Before 6G Freeze	By Scott McCain Published: Aug 19 2026, 9:12 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Aug 18, 2026	Elveo Mobile Launches With Spectrum SpaceX and AST Cannot Borrow or Buy	By Terrence Hill Published: Aug 18 2026, 10:13 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Aug 11, 2026	Russia Calls 5G Hardware Domestic, but New Lab Test Shows Chinese Chips Inside	By Mark Rutherford Published: Aug 11 2026, 10:40 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Aug 5, 2026	New Glenn Explosion Nearly Tripled AST SpaceMobile Launch Count, Forcing $1.15B Raise	By Donald C. Case Published: Aug 05 2026, 12:55 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Aug 4, 2026	Copper Thieves Severed 105 AT&T Phone Lines in South Carolina Last Year	By Adrian Parham Published: Aug 04 2026, 7:24 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 31, 2026	FirstNet 5G Standalone Core Goes Live: Per-App Slicing on Public-Safety-Only Infrastructure	By Richard L. Wells Published: Jul 31 2026, 2:40 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 30, 2026	AT&T Closes EchoStar Spectrum Deal: 3.45 GHz Is Live Nationwide, 600 MHz Is Not Ready	By Eloise Jones Published: Jul 30 2026, 3:14 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 30, 2026	ALLO Communications tells Boulder it won’t build out city’s fiber network	Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ALLO Communications has informed the city of Boulder that it is backing out of an agreement that would expand internet access in the area, the city announced in a Thursday news release. The Nebrask...
Jul 26, 2026	NAVER and NVIDIA Triple Korea’s AI Factory to 200 Megawatts in $10 Billion Deal With Brookfield	By Brandon Fisher Published: Jul 26 2026, 6:55 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 23, 2026	Comcast Crosses 10 Million Wireless Lines, Peacock Posts First-Ever Quarterly Profit	By Philip Nickell Published: Jul 23 2026, 3:24 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 20, 2026	BT Stress-Tests 5G Network Slicing at Royal Welsh Show Before Summer Launch	By Adrian Parham Published: Jul 20 2026, 6:33 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 19, 2026	Мобильный интернет быстрее, чем в Европе, но сотовые операторы работают на дизеле — факты об африканском 5G	На первый взгляд может показаться, что «5G в Африке три раза быстрее, чем в Британии» — это что-то из комиксов про Ваканду. А понятия «надежное соединение» и «Сомали» вообще не могут соседствовать в одном предложении. Тем не менее, африканс...
Jul 16, 2026	Qualcomm Exits Small Cells as Nokia Bets on Nvidia to Own 6G Radio Networks	By Mike Gonzales Published: Jul 16 2026, 4:12 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 16, 2026	SK Telecom AI-RAN Pilot Goes Live as Nokia Targets Double Spectrum Capacity	By John Bright Published: Jul 16 2026, 4:10 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 16, 2026	T-Mobile Abandoned Written Rate Promises for Millions: What Customers Can Do	By Devin Culbertson Published: Jul 16 2026, 7:29 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 15, 2026	Vodafone Replaces SMS Codes in UK and Europe: What the Carrier Now Sees When You Log In	By Clayton Lewis Published: Jul 15 2026, 6:27 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 14, 2026	AT&T, Ericsson Prove 5G Towers Can Track Drones at Scale Without New Hardware	By John Bright Published: Jul 14 2026, 11:42 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 10, 2026	Verizon’s 5G Standalone Network Now Powers Telematics for All New BMW Group Cars	By Terrence Hill Published: Jul 10 2026, 12:06 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 10, 2026	FCC Sets July 22 Vote on C-Band Auction Designed to Anchor America’s 6G Era	By Maxwell Templeton Published: Jul 10 2026, 4:24 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 3, 2026	FCC Sets Rules for $30B–$75B C-Band Auction, Blocks SpaceX Satellite Bid	By Mike Gonzales Published: Jul 03 2026, 4:20 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 3, 2026	Pentagon Bets Open-Source Code Will Break Ericsson and Nokia’s 6G Lock	By Mike Gonzales Published: Jul 03 2026, 4:15 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 2, 2026	Ericsson Commits to Full-Stack 5G Core as Nokia Customers Find New Homes	By Mark Rutherford Published: Jul 02 2026, 6:21 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 2, 2026	Japan Backs Rakuten With $922M to Build Sovereign Satellite Broadband Network	By Clayton Lewis Published: Jul 02 2026, 6:19 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jun 29, 2026	Comcast’s NBCUniversal spinoff raises hope for more deals. There may not be good options	Comcast announced Monday it’s planning to spin off its NBCUniversal and Sky media units into a separate publicly traded company. The announcement, which comes just months after Comcast spun out its cable networks into Versant, is already ra...
Jun 27, 2026	Starlink Mobile Is Coming for AT&T and Verizon: SpaceX Has Spectrum, Still Needs Towers	By Kyle Belmonte Published: Jun 27 2026, 11:54 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jun 18, 2026	SoftBank and OpenAI Launch AI Patching Advisory for Japan: Internal Test Found 10,500 Flaws	By Jerry Owens Published: Jun 18 2026, 08:32 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jun 8, 2026	Singapore Plenaries Lock 6G Standard Timeline: March 2029 Spec Freeze Opens Chip Development Window	By Chase Fiorini Published: Jun 08 2026, 16:18 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
May 21, 2026	Trump FCC Using False Claims Of Immigrant Fraud To Drive Up Costs Of Broadband For Everyone	Back in February the Trump FCC announced it was launching new “reforms” of a major bipartisan FCC program that helps poor people afford broadband. Dubbed Lifeline, the program provides a modest $9.25 stipend to help low-income Americans aff...
Apr 16, 2026	NTT Research Launches Scale Academy to Bring Lab Technology to Market	Image: NTT Research NTT Research just flipped the switch from idea factory to product engine… and there’s no hiding behind prototypes anymore. For most of its seven-year life, NTT Research has proudly defined itself as a basic research shop...
Feb 6, 2026	MAGA Zealots Are Waging War On Affordable Broadband	The Trump administration keeps demonstrating that it really hates affordable broadband. It particularly hates it when the government tries to make broadband affordable to poor people or rural school kids. In just the last year the Trump adm...
Oct 6, 2025	When He’s Not Busy Censoring Comedians, Brendan Carr Is Eliminating Free Wi-Fi For Poor Rural School Kids	Brendan Carr has received ample attention for his recent failed attempt to ban a comedian and trample the First Amendment, something he’s facing several fledgling investigations over. But that disaster class in shitty governance shouldn’t o...
Jul 31, 2025	Study Shows Musk’s Starlink Too Congested To Tackle U.S. Broadband Woes Despite Billions In New Subsidies	A new study from researchers at X-Lab shows that Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite broadband service lacks the capacity to put a serious dent in U.S. broadband. Despite recent efforts by the Trump administration to rewrite a $42 billion subsid...
Jul 8, 2025	IPv6 в мире — как продвигается переход на новый протокол	Доля IPv6 в глобальном трафике медленно, но верно увеличивается. Однако аргумент — «у протокола нового поколения больше адресов» — перестал быть ключевым драйвером роста. Мы решили посмотреть, как меняется картина в мире относительно IPv6: ...
May 15, 2025	Trump FCC To ‘Investigate’ Dish 5G Network, To The Direct Benefit Of… Elon Musk	You might recall that the first Trump DOJ and FCC cobbled together a dumb plan to cover up the problems created by their rubber stamping of the competition-eroding T-Mobile and Sprint merger: they’d help Dish Network create a new 5G network...
Apr 23, 2025	Why cable companies like Comcast and Charter are leaning into mobile service	Less than a decade after cable giants like Comcast and Charter Communications jumped into the mobile business, the segment has become a significant financial driver. Nearly half of all wireless line additions last year were from a cable ope...
Apr 11, 2025	FCC’s Gomez (Correctly) Says Brendan Carr Is Abusing FCC Authority To ‘Censor And Control’ Journalists	Instead of doing things like protecting consumers or telecom and media market competition (you know, his purported job), Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr has spent his first few months in office abusing agency authority to threaten companies tha...
Feb 20, 2025	After 5G Was Idiotically Overhyped And Fell Flat, 6G Appears To Be A Nervous Mess	We’ve long noted how the “race to 5G” was largely just hype by telecoms and hardware vendors eager to sell more gear and justify high U.S. mobile data prices. While 5G does provide faster, more resilient, and lower latency networks, it’s mo...
Jan 23, 2025	Analysts Think America’s Two Biggest And Shittiest Cable Giants (Comcast, Charter) Could Merge Under Trump 2.0	Despite a lot of bullshit about how Trump is super “populist,” “supports antitrust reform,” and will “carry on the legacy of monopoly busters like Lina Khan,” none of that has ever been true. Trump’s first administration was jam packed with...
Jan 13, 2025	Telecoms Glom Onto ‘AI’ Hype Cycle In A Fruitless Bid To Make 5G Seem Interesting	We’ve noted for several years how the “race to 5G” was largely just hype by telecoms and hardware vendors eager to sell more gear and justify high U.S. mobile data prices. While 5G does provide faster, more resilient, and lower latency netw...
Dec 20, 2024	The Future of Wireless: Aura Wireless and FNTV Lead the Charge	In the fast-paced world of telecommunications, innovation is the lifeblood that keeps the industry thriving. Two recent developments stand out: Aura Wireless's recognition as a finalist in the Fierce Network Innovation Awards and the launch...
Dec 19, 2024	Fierce Network unveils FNTV: Revolutionizing video content for the global comms Industry	NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Questex's Fierce Network, a mega portal designed to meet the needs of decision makers throughout the global communications industry, today announces the launch of FNTV, a groundbreaking video plat...
Dec 9, 2024	Trump 2.0 To Slather Elon Musk’s Starlink With Billions In Taxpayer Subsidies It Doesn’t Deserve	SpaceX’s Starlink service can be an absolute game changer for those completely out of range of broadband access. Getting several hundred megabits per second in the middle of nowhere is a decidedly good thing, assuming you can afford the $12...
Nov 18, 2024	Pointless DirecTV, Dish Merger Already On The Edge Of Collapse	Culminating a deal that’s been rumored about for the better part of the last twenty years, Dish Network and DirecTV recently consummated a new merger in a doomed bid to try and remain solvent and relevant. The deal involved DirecTV acquirin...
Sep 13, 2024	The Telecom Tangle: Consolidation's Dangerous Dance	The U.S. telecom industry is in a precarious position. The ink is barely dry on Verizon’s proposed $20 billion acquisition of Frontier, yet the chatter about further consolidation is deafening. Analysts, ever eager to boost stock prices, ar...
Sep 12, 2024	Monopolized U.S. Telecom Industry Eyes More Consolidation, Because What Could Go Wrong	The ink is barely dry on Verizon’s $20 billion proposed acquisition of Frontier, but industry analysts — ever excited to boost stock valuations via speculation — are already pushing for greater consolidation in the very broken U.S. telecom ...
Aug 14, 2024	The 5G Mirage: Why U.S. Wireless Is Stuck in the Slow Lane	5G was supposed to be the golden ticket. A leap into a world of speed, efficiency, and innovation. It promised smart cities, remote surgeries, and robots at our beck and call. But the reality? A disappointing echo of those grand claims. The...
Aug 13, 2024	Report: Real World 5G Signal Availability Is Pathetic At AT&T (12%) And Verizon (7.7%)	Fifth-generation wireless (5G) was supposed to change the world. According to wireless carriers and gear makers, not only was it supposed to bring about the “fourth industrial revolution,” it was supposed to usher forth amazing new smart ci...
Jul 8, 2024	Big Telecom Eyes More Broadband Usage Caps (And A Tax On Big Tech) As Revenues Sag	Things aren’t too exciting if you’re a telecom executive right now. All the hype in tech is singularly fixated on the more headline catching, stock fluffing, and usually very broken aspects of “AI.” 5G, hyped as a transformative world chang...
Jun 24, 2024	Известные проекты, демонстрирующие силу облаков на OpenStack	Walmart, China Mobile, большой адронный коллайдер и даже игры Blizzard Entertainment — все используют OpenStack. Однако, делают это по-своему. OpenStack — решение для организации облачных сред с открытым исходным кодом, которое обладает бол...
Jun 12, 2024	India’s Jio Platforms gets license to operate Starlink-rivaling satellites: report	News Lokesh Choudhary · 21h ago · 2 min readIndia’s Jio Platforms gets license to operate Starlink-rivaling satellites: report Satellite internet industry is seeing rising investor interest. / Photo credit: Kacific Orbit Connect India, a jo...
Jun 5, 2024	Having Learned Nothing From The 5G Hype Cycle, The 6G Hype Cycle Begins In Earnest	Fifth-generation wireless (5G) was supposed to change the world. According to wireless carriers and gear makers, not only was it supposed to bring about the “fourth industrial revolution,” it was supposed to usher forth amazing new smart ci...
Jun 4, 2024	T-Mobile Missing From List of Companies Supporting Biden Administration's Call to Continue Offering Discounted Internet Plans	By Inno Flores Published Jun 4, 2024 6:16AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share on Pocket While 14 big telecom companies have backed the Biden administration's call to extend the...
May 29, 2024	«Этикетки» для тарифов и битва за общественный интернет — что с регулированием провайдеров в США и других странах	Недавно американский регулятор модифицировал стандарт широкополосного доступа. Теперь он ввел специальную маркировку для тарифных сеток операторов, чтобы повысить прозрачность услуг. В то же время отдельные муниципалитеты поддерживают местн...
May 10, 2024	CEO: ‘AI’ Power Drain Could Cause Data Centers To Run Out Of Power Within Two Years	By now it’s been made fairly clear that the bedazzling wonderment that is “AI” doesn’t come cheap. Story after story have highlighted how the technology consumes massive amounts of electricity and water, and we’re not really adapting to kee...
Apr 17, 2024	The GOP Is Blocking A Last Ditch Effort To Bring Cheap Broadband To Poor Americans	The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), part of the 2021 infrastructure bill, currently provides 23+ million low-income Americans a $30 broadband discount every month. But those 23 million Americans are poised to soon lose the disc...
Apr 9, 2024	New Net Neutrality Rules Won’t Harm Telecom Giants In The Slightest	The FCC is expected to vote to restore net neutrality rules on April 25. And while there’re early indications that the rules may be slightly weaker than those stripped away by the Trump administration — and absolutely no indication the rule...
Apr 5, 2024	Хватит ли места на рынке D2D после прихода SpaceX?	В марте 2024 года регулятор FCC согласовал нормативно-правовую базу для сервиса прямого спутникового доступа (Direct-to-Device, D2D) в США. SpaceX, использующий на правах сублизинга частоты сотового оператора T-Mobile, будут иметь вторичный...
Apr 5, 2024	Welcome to Fierce Network	The 4.8 earthquake in New Jersey isn’t the only seismic event happening in the world today. A hearty welcome to the brand-new Fierce Network, dear readers. The comms industry is changing and so are we. You may be wondering why the change? W...
Mar 22, 2024	UK confirms in-depth antitrust probe into Three and Vodafone’s planned $19B merger	The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed that it’s launching a formal “phase 2” investigation into the planned merger between Vodafone and Three UK. The CMA says that the deal could lead to higher prices for consumer...
Mar 13, 2024	Telco leaders convene at WBBA Congress to discuss digital transformation	HONG KONG, March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading telecom executives, government officials, and industry experts recently gathered at the World Broadband Association's (WBBA) Broadband Development Congress in Barcelona to discuss how teleco...
Mar 8, 2024	Dish Network, The Trump Era ‘Fix’ For The Sprint T-Mobile Merger, Heads Into Its Final Death Spiral	Aging satellite TV provider Dish Network is supposed to be undergoing a major transformation from tired old satellite TV provider to streaming and wireless juggernaut. It was a cornerstone of a Trump administration FCC and DOJ plan to cobbl...
Mar 4, 2024	Punkt rocks its minimalist roots with first smartphone	Punkt first made a name for itself in the world of mobile with pared-down, monochromatic phones focused on voice, text and not much else. Now, the Swiss company has taken its concept of minimalism and changed it up, with the launch of its f...
Mar 4, 2024	Nokia заменяет Huawei на площадках Deutsche Telekom в Германии	Nokia сообщила, что будет обслуживать 3000 площадок Deutsche Telekom, часть которых сейчас обслуживает Huawei. В компании рассчитывают, что это число в будущем станет больше. «Мы выиграли сделку с Deutsche Telekom по замене части оборудован...
Feb 23, 2024	Winning wireless with American strengths	Eric Schmidt Contributor Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011 and executive chairman of Google and its successor company, Alphabet, from 2011 to 2017. America’s infrastructure needs a serious upgrade. That includes the natio...
Feb 4, 2024	South Korea's KT to Build New Undersea Fiber Optic Cable in Asia	South Korean telco KT to build a new undersea fiber optic cable in Asia Submarine Cable Distribution in Asia Analog submarine cable signal transmission Common submarine cables are generally laid as shown. ZMS Cables Submarinos South Korean ...
Jan 23, 2024	‘De-Googled’ smartphone company Murena launches own-brand mobile network	Murena, a French startup that sells “de-Googled” smartphones replete with its own flavor of Android, is launching an own-brand mobile network as it throws its hat into the fast-growing mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) ring. Murena Mob...
Jan 18, 2024	Как канадские власти стимулируют конкуренцию среди интернет-провайдеров	Мы уже рассказывали о проблемах, связанных с доступностью широкополосного интернета в США, и как их пытаются решить с помощью независимых общественных сетей. Такой подход способствует развитию конкуренции среди провайдеров на достаточно мон...
Jan 5, 2024	Кто и зачем меняет стандарты широкополосной связи — разбираем ситуацию в США и других странах	Мы уже обсуждали конфликт крупных провайдеров с властями американских городов, делающими ставку на независимые общественные сети. Цель такой инициативы — поспособствовать развитию конкуренции на рынке. Недавно члены Федеральной комиссии по ...
Dec 13, 2023	The ‘Race to 5G’ Wound Up Being More Of A Hobbled Waddle To Nowhere	We’ve noted for years how the “race to 5G” was largely just hype by telecoms and hardware vendors eager to sell more gear and justify high U.S. mobile data prices. While 5G does provide faster, more resilient, and lower latency networks, it...
Dec 6, 2023	Congressional Incompetence Could Doom Key Low-Income Broadband Program	Americans pay some of the highest prices in the developed world for broadband due to consolidated monopoly power and feckless regulators. It’s a problem the U.S. government lacks the competence or political integrity to fix. So what we usua...
Nov 23, 2023	Broadcom закрыла сделку по приобретению VMware суммой $61 млрд	Американский полупроводниковый производитель Broadcom объявил о завершении сделки по приобретению разработчика программного обеспечения VMware стоимостью $61 млрд. Регулирующие органы пытались препятствовать слиянию, указывая, что сделка ог...
Nov 22, 2023	Lenovo seeks halt of Asus laptop sales over alleged patent infringement	Enlarge / A marketing image for Asus' Zenbook Pro 14 OLED, which Lenovo is accusing of patent infringement. Asus reader comments 45 with Lenovo filed a lawsuit against AsusTek Computer Inc. and Asus Computer International, claiming that Asu...
Nov 17, 2023	The FCC Is Trying To Stop Discrimination In Broadband Deployment. Telecoms And Republicans Are Big Mad About It	For decades, big ISPs like AT&T have refused to upgrade low income and poor communities to fiber, despite billions in subsidies, regulatory favors, and tax breaks that were supposed to accomplish precisely that. Groups like the National...
Nov 15, 2023	Stack Infrastructure raises $290M in debt financing to build more data centers Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to provide free, deep, and relevant content. Join our community on YouTube Join the community tha ...	Stack Infrastructure Inc., a company that builds data centers for cloud providers and other organizations, has secured $290 million in fresh debt financing. The company raised the capital through a sale of securitized notes, or loans market...
Nov 1, 2023	Telecom Sector Sees Major Layoffs Despite Historic Stretch Of Tax Breaks, Regulatory Favors	The Trump era was very, very good to the country’s giant telecom monopolies. Trump officials doled out billions in tax breaks (AT&T nabbed $42 billion alone) and billions more in poorly tracked subsidies. It also approved anticompetitiv...
Oct 21, 2023	FCC, общественный интернет и 5G: что с сетевым нейтралитетом	В июне мы говорили о затянувшемся кризисе в США из-за попыток реформировать сетевой нейтралитет, а также об инициативах по усилению позиций интернет-провайдеров в разных странах. Разберем, что изменилось с тех пор. Фотография: Trent Geddes ...
Oct 11, 2023	AT&T Looking To Dump DirecTV After Years Of Merger Headaches	AT&T spent $200 billion to acquire Time Warner and DirecTV, believing this would turn the dodgy old phone company into an innovative new media juggernaut. But despite $42 billion in tax breaks and oodles of regulatory favors from the Tr...
Oct 11, 2023	Pixel 8 Pro review—The best Android phone	Enlarge / Behold, the glorious, flat display. Normal, common-sense phone design is back, finally! Ron Amadeo reader comments 326 with Google is listening. Reviewing phones means that we usually complain—a lot—about phone designs, about thin...
Oct 6, 2023	ISPs Are Still Ripping Off A COVID Broadband Discount Program	During peak pandemic, the FCC launched the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB program), giving lower income Americans a $50 ($75 for those in tribal lands) discount off of their broadband bill. Under the program, the government gave money to ...
Sep 19, 2023	Cato Networks, valued at $3B, lands $238M ahead of its anticipated IPO	Cato Networks, the Tel Aviv-based startup that packages software-defined networking, managed cybersecurity and global backbone services into a single offering, today announced that it raised $238 million in an equity investment that values ...
Sep 15, 2023	Starlink Has A Small Fraction Of The Customers It Originally Promised Investors	To be clear: SpaceX’s Starlink service is a game changer for those out of range of broadband access. Getting several hundred megabits per second in the middle of nowhere is a decidedly good thing, assuming you can afford the $600 hardware a...
Sep 6, 2023	Charter Spectrum Customers Lose Access To ESPN, ABC Channels Just As NFL Season Heats Up	For the last decade or so, U.S. cable TV customers have been plagued by a steady parade of content blackouts as cable providers and broadcasters bicker over new programming contracts.
Aug 25, 2023	T-Mobile увольняет около 5 тыс. сотрудников — 7% от общего штата	Телекоммуникационный холдинг T-Mobile уволит 7% персонала или 5 тыс. сотрудников. Сокращения затронут работников корпоративных и технологических направлений, а также сотрудников бэк-офисов, но не коснутся сферы розничной торговли и обслужив...
Aug 22, 2023	T-Mobile unveils $100 phone plan, topping AT&T and Verizon’s highest prices	Enlarge Getty Images \| SOPA Images reader comments 140 with T-Mobile yesterday announced a phone plan called "Go5G Next" that costs $100 a month for a single line, more expensive than the highest-tier wireless plans offered by AT&...
Jul 19, 2023	Dish Lays Off Employees As Cord Cutting Chips Away At Dying Satellite TV Company’s 5G Pivot	As we just noted, satellite TV provider Dish Network’s planned pivot into streaming video and wireless isn’t going great. The company continues to bleed traditional satellite TV subscribers, new streaming subscribers, and wireless customers...
Jul 17, 2023	AT&T stock fell to 29-year low on Friday and sank another 6.7% today	Enlarge Getty Images \| Eugene Mymrin reader comments 84 with AT&T's stock price hit a 29-year low on Friday and continued to sink today as investors fled telecom stocks on reports that cleanups of lead-covered telephone cables could cos...
Jul 13, 2023	5G goes members-only	After years of public 5G networks rolling out nationwide, the biggest mobile network action is now in private 5G networks. The big picture: The private networks are popping up not just in places where they were long expected, such as school...
Jul 10, 2023	Congress May Not Renew Low-Income Broadband Program Birthed During COVID	During peak pandemic, the FCC launched the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB program), giving lower income Americans a $50 ($75 for those in tribal lands) discount off of their broadband bill. Under the program, the government gave money to ...
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May 17, 2023	Verizon abandons its confusing mess of six “unlimited” wireless plans	Enlarge Getty Images \| Bloomberg reader comments 61 with Verizon is replacing its confusing mess of six "unlimited" wireless plans with a slightly less confusing menu of options. Starting tomorrow when the new plans roll out, cust...
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May 15, 2023	Quest To Replace Chinese Gear In U.S. Telecom Networks Is A Hot, Under-funded Mess	As the U.S. has tried to untether itself from Chinese tech, one major policy goal by both parties has been to purge U.S. telecom networks of Chinese telecom gear. The worry (sometimes substantiated, sometimes not) is that Chinese intelligen...
May 11, 2023	Dish Network Is A Hot Mess After Major Hack Attack	Satellite TV provider Dish Network isn’t having much fun. Despite oodles of direct government assistance during the Trump era, the company’s attempt to pivot from mediocre satellite TV provider to modern streaming service and wireless giant...

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FAQ about Light Reading

When was Light Reading founded?

Light Reading was founded in 2000.

What has the press written about Light Reading?

Parsers VC has collected 590 articles mentioning Light Reading, among them “Telecom Experts Say Elon Musk’s Wireless Plan Is Historically Stupid” (Aug 24, 2026) and “Nokia Closes All Mainland China Operations, Completing 42-Year Exit Before 6G Freeze” (Aug 19, 2026).

Is Light Reading still active?

Yes, Light Reading is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 27, 2026.