Washington – October 13, 2026 -- The entry of 5G Home broadband into a market drove cable prices down 17%, saving American households up to $28.5 billion from 2023 through 2025, according to a study commissioned by wireless trade group CTIA.

Dallas – October 13, 2026 -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has agreed to sell AT&T Mexico to Grupo Televisa and Fintech Holdings for $2 billion in cash at closing, subject to certain adjustments, plus additional contractual and contingent benefits.

Global – October 13, 2026 -- Monogoto, a cloud-based connectivity provider operating in 200+ countries, has received recognition in this year's Merit Awards for its Software-Defined Connectivity Cloud, which manages public cellular, private LTE/5G and satellite networks from a single platform.

Taipei – October 13, 2026 -- Gemtek Technology, Qualcomm Technologies and gFiber are targeting commercial deployment in 2027 for an AI-native Wi-Fi 8 broadband gateway, with gFiber set to be the first operator to roll it out. Gemtek is showing the device at Network X 2026.

Gateway runs on Qualcomm's Dragonwing NPro A8 Elite platform

Gemtek engineered the gateway on the Qualcomm Dragonwing NPro A8 Elite Platform. It combines Wi-Fi 8 Quad-Band connectivity with Edge AI computing. Software comes from Genix Networks, a Gemtek subsidiary.

Paris – October 13, 2026 -- Orange has launched "Reconnexion Flash" in France, a service that moves a household's entire connection to the customer's smartphone hotspot when the fiber line fails. It runs on SoftAtHome's Always'ON software and needs no extra hardware.

Montreal – October 13, 2026 -- BroadForward's 4G routing (DRA/DEA) and Diameter Firewall are now live in the network of Terrestar Solutions Inc., Canada's only domestically headquartered and controlled mobile satellite operator, enabling mobile and IoT traffic to be routed between terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks.

The deployment extends BroadForward's presence in satellite communications. It supports signaling interoperability between Terrestar's Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) infrastructure and national mobile networks.

Vienna – October 13, 2026 -- TCL showed its 5G AI CPE X5 at Network X 2026, a home broadband device with a theoretical peak downlink of 7.01 Gbps under 3GPP Release 18 and an agentic AI layer meant to cut operators' operations and maintenance workload.

Boston – October 12, 2026 -- Fortress will present a full-scale prototype of its NextGen SMART ILA modular optical infrastructure platform, designed for a 600 kW day-one load that scales to 1.2 MW, at an invitation-only event in Denver, Colorado, on October 20–22, 2026.

San Jose – October 12, 2026 -- Cablenet Communication Systems plc, the second largest fixed network operator in Cyprus, is modernizing its DOCSIS broadband access network with Harmonic's cOS virtualized broadband platform, Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) announced. The deployment is designed to strengthen gigabit service capability, simplify operations and lower operating expenses.

Palo Alto – October 12, 2026 -- insidepacket has announced the AI Access Platform, which connects enterprises to GPU and neocloud providers through private network paths that can be activated in minutes. The platform is planned for introduction in Europe, first with Zayo Europe.