Hot Springs – October 27, 2026 -- Verizon Frontline displayed six categories of deployable connectivity assets at the 2026 Central States Communications Exercise in Hot Springs, Arkansas, many of them powered by ST Engineering iDirect technology.

HANOI – October 27, 2026 -- Viettel High Technology Industries Corporation has migrated more than 100 million subscribers and about 5,000 tariff plans at Viettel, Vietnam's largest mobile operator, to its in-house cloud-native charging system vOCS 4.0. The three-month cutover ran on a live national network with no service disruption.

San Francisco – October 24, 2026 -- Cloudflare will accept private network interconnect (PNI) requests only from networks that exchange more than 10 Gbps of peak traffic with it in a single location, according to its peering policy dated December 1, 2025.

Cloudflare applies an open peering policy across 335 cities

AS13335 runs a global anycast network spanning more than 335 cities in over 125 countries. Cloudflare will peer with networks that share a presence in mutual locations, and it may grant exceptions to the policy.

Montréal – October 20, 2026 -- Aurora Towers has added Niko Veilleux, an Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP partner with more than 25 years of practice, to its Board of Directors.

Veilleux leads Osler's Montréal Corporate Group

Veilleux heads the firm's Corporate Group in Montréal and sits on its Partnership Board. He has advised public and private companies, private equity sponsors, pension funds, boards of directors and special committees on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, capital markets transactions and corporate governance.

Dallas – – October 19, 2026 -- AT&T, the NBA and the WNBA have launched the fourth generation of the High-Speed Arena Network (HSAN), a platform designed to carry more than 118 concurrent, low-latency streams per game, and AT&T has extended its multiyear role as the leagues' Official Connectivity Partner.

Stockholm – October 19, 2026 -- Arelion has provisioned multi-terabit capacity on its Helsinki–Warsaw route and onboarded several new enterprise and wholesale customers, one year after launching its fully diverse Baltic corridor in October 2025.

Riyadh – October 19, 2026 -- stc group has published its AI Native Core Network White Paper at Network X 2026, setting 2030 as the target for evolving into an AI-native telecom network. The paper explains how the Saudi operator plans to embed AI directly into network design and operations to support emerging digital services and improve reliability.

Stockholm – October 19, 2026 -- Ericsson now holds 129,915,894 Class B shares in treasury after repurchases made between October 12 and October 16, 2026, under its SEK 15 billion buyback program.

Ericsson runs the SEK 15 billion program through March 2027

The program was announced on April 16, 2026. It runs from April 23, 2026, until March 31, 2027, at the latest. The weekly disclosure covers purchases of Class B shares (ISIN: SE0000108656). The source text does not include the volumes or prices for the week, which are given in an attached breakdown.

Vienna – October 16, 2026 -- Macao carrier CTM and Huawei have jointly developed a target IP architecture that integrates quantum key distribution (QKD) with communication networks, as CTM outlined a plan to make security a built-in network function rather than an edge-firewall add-on.

CTM presented the roadmap in a keynote at Network X 2026. The operator is moving its network from a traditional connectivity pipe to what it calls intelligent, deterministic and secure infrastructure, aimed at speeding up enterprise digital transformation in Macao.

Boca Raton – October 15, 2026 -- Phoenix Tower International (PTI) has been Certified by Great Place To Work across 15 markets, with Peru joining the list of certified markets this year.

PTI's certifications span Latin America, Europe and the United States

The certified markets include Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France (including the French West Indies), Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Spain and the United States. In the US, the certification covers PTI Corporate and PTI Services.