Telecom Industry News

Telecom Stocks To Watch Today - January 20th

Short Squeeze Season: Is Super Micro Ready to Fly? AT&T, TELUS, Dycom Industries, America Movil, and Vodafone Group are the five Telecom stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Telecom stocks are shares of companies…

SK Telecom doubles down on customer trust after data leak

SK Telecom held the 12th regular meeting of its Customer Trust Committee on Wednesday, marking its first meeting of 2026. The committee was launched in May 2025 to help restore customer trust following a massive leak of USIM data in late April. At…

Comtech Telecommunications (NASDAQ:CMTL) Shares Cross Above 200-Day Moving Average - Time to Sell?

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL - Get Free Report)'s stock price passed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Tuesday. The stock has a 200-day moving average of $3.07 and traded as high as $6.10. Comtech…

Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones

Verizon has started enforcing a 365-day lock period on phones purchased through its TracFone division, one week after the Federal Communications Commission waived a requirement that Verizon unlock handsets 60 days after they are activated on its…

Verizon's New CEO Says Layoffs Are 'A Way of Life' - 15,000 Workers About to Learn What That Means

If you want to understand what 2026 holds for the American workforce, look no further than Verizon When Dan Schulman took over as chief executive in October 2025, replacing Hans Vestberg, he inherited a telecom giant haemorrhaging customers and…

AI Data Centers In Space? Implications For Business Leaders

The idea of placing AI data centers in space is slowly edging from science fiction towards reality. In late 2025, Elon Musk's SpaceX and Google announced plans to launch the servers that train and run LLMS into orbit. The science fiction-like…

Netflix to pay all cash for Warner Bros. to fend off Paramount hostile takeover

Netflix agreed to pay all cash for Warner Bros. Discovery, amending its $72 billion deal in an attempt to fight off Paramount's hostile takeover bid. Netflix originally agreed to buy the company with a mix of cash and stock. To sweeten the offer…

European telcos to get unlimited radio spectrum under EU draft law

BRUSSELS, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Europe's telecoms operators ‌will get a major boost under a European Commission proposal announced on Wednesday, ‌allowing them to use radio spectrum for an unlimited duration, but their demand…

Ted Cruz Pats Himself On The Back At Senate Hearing For Screwing Over Rural School Children

Ted Cruz last week chaired a Senate hearing dubbed “Plugged Out: Examining the Impact of Technology on America's Youth.” The hearing spent a lot of time doubling down on the scary-sounding, often-baseless stories lawmakers tell…

EU plan to phase-out high-risk tech draws fire from China's Huawei

Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The EU plans to phase out components and equipment from high-risk suppliers in critical sectors, according to a draft proposal released by Brussels on Tuesday - a move criticized by China's Huawei, which is…

Netflix Earnings Shed Light on Why It Needs Warner

TRAI examining Navi Mumbai airport RoW issue: Chairman

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday said that it will examine the Right of Way (RoW) issue of Navi Mumbai International Airport, for which telcos had recently sought the regulator's intervention. “The issues that…

India's largest company is caught in geopolitical tensions. But it faces the biggest challenge at home

Slowdown in sales growth of Reliance Retail has led brokerages to cut target prices on Reliance Industries. The company has had to cut back on cheap Russian crude imports due to U.S. sanctions. Sheldon Cooper | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty…

Nigerians to feel impacts of new spectrums opening before end of 2026, says NCC - The Nation Newspaper

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has provided further insights on the opening of two spectrum bands to deepen operations in the telecommunications industry and boost the digital economy. Speaking with reporters shortly after the…

Big Tech is racing to own Africa's internet

American big tech companies want to become Africa's next internet providers. Earlier this month, Amazon acquired an operating license to roll out its low-Earth orbit satellite broadband service, Amazon Leo (earlier called Project Kuiper), in…