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Your Wireless Connection
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WIA – To take stock of a year of rapid change and look ahead to what’s coming next, we polled experts across our member companies on the most significant developments of 2025 and the trends they expect to shape 2026. Their perspectives converge around a few clear themes: AI moving from promise to production, spectrum and policy shifts unlocking new momentum, and a growing emphasis on efficiency, automation, and ROI across networks, sites, and buildings. From private 5G and in-building connectivity to power intelligence, densification, and smarter infrastructure design, the insights that follow reveal an industry recalibrating for scale, resilience, and performance. Read on for a candid, forward-looking view of where wireless has been — and where it’s headed next. Read More
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Light Reading – Crown Castle says it has terminated its agreement with Dish Wireless and will now seek to recover more than $3.5 billion in remaining payments after Dish defaulted on its payment obligations. Read More
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Inside Towers – The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau told lawmakers that recipients continue to progress with their plans to permanently remove, replace, and dispose of covered communications equipment and services. Read More
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Light Reading – Six years after the first nationwide commercial 5G networks in December 2019, the technology has delivered results that confound the original hype cycle. Some promises materialized in unexpected ways. Read More
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Dell’Oro Group – Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) continues to surge, supporting both residential and enterprise connectivity due to its ease of deployment along with the more widespread availability of 4G LTE and 5G Sub-6GHz networks. Read More
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Vineyard Gazette – The Chilmark select board is asking the town’s planning board to consider options that would allow the installation of a large cell tower as the community struggles with poor cell service. Read More
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FinTech Magazine – As AI and data demand surge, DigitalBridge’s Steven Sonnenstein shows how tower scale and diversification keep the firm ahead in digital infrastructure. Read More
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Inside Towers – Verizon has filed a federal lawsuit to block rooftop construction at a Brookside condominium tower, warning the work could interfere with a decades-old cell site and disrupt wireless service across parts of Kansas City. Read More
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Boldyn Networks – A deployment at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport will extend high-capacity 5G to the terminal, concourses, airfield, rental car facility, and parking garage serving more than 50 million annual passengers. Read More
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