Carriers & Services News

TROY, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As more telecom customers manage their accounts digitally, mobile apps and websites have become the primary way to pay bills, check usage and make service changes. To better capture the digital experience offered by internet service providers and wireless carriers, the JD Power 2026 U.S. Telecom Digital Experience StudySM, released today, evaluates customer perceptions of both mobile apps and websites, including desktop and mobile platforms. Overall customer satisf...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Netcracker and BICS announce a major milestone in the service provider's strategic OSS modernization program....

CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--altafiber today announced the continued expansion of its cutting‑edge, multi‑gig XGS‑PON fiber network across Ohio, delivering internet speeds up to 6 gigabits to residents and businesses in Grove City and Marysville. The company will extend service to approximately 17,600 homes and businesses in Grove City and 15,000 homes and businesses in Marysville, with construction scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2026. As the leading provider of fiber‑based service...

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Circuitry.ai and OwlSure today announced a strategic partnership to help global enterprises operationalize AI across service, parts, and warranty operations, enabling secure, production-scale deployment across the enterprise. Enterprises across manufacturing, automotive, industrial, and regulated service sectors continue to face fragmented data, siloed enterprise systems, and manual processes that limit productivity and inflate service and warranty costs. Many AI i...

MARKHAM, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Iristel, one of Canada’s leading independent Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs), today announced a partnership with the Municipality of Pictou County to support the delivery of modern cloud-based voice services for residential and business customers across the region. Through the partnership, the MOPC Network — the municipality’s region-wide fibre broadband network — will leverage Iristel’s national telecommunications infrastructure to deliver reliabl...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Netcracker and customers Charter Communications, T-Mobile and WOW! will participate in the Cable Next-Gen Technologies & Strategies event in Denver....

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved an increase in the Company’s quarterly cash dividend from $0.89 to $0.92 per share of common stock. This dividend increase will be effective for quarterly dividends payable after March 26, 2026, and will raise the annualized dividend payout to $3.68 per share of common stock. Additionally, the Board of Directors has approved, effective immediately, a new $20.0 billion stock...

PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Astound, a recognized leader in WiFi, mobile, TV, and fiber‑optic solutions, today announced that Ettienne Brandt has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Brandt will lead Astound as it continues to execute on its ambitious network expansion and as it prepares for a planned combination with GFiber (formerly Google Fiber), following an agreement announced March 11 to combine the two companies and create the largest independent fi...

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Comcast today announced a groundbreaking initiative to bring AI processing, using NVIDIA GPUs, closer to customers than ever before to accelerate the development of next-generation AI applications across America. The first-of-its-kind collaboration will test the performance of AI workloads running directly at the edge of Comcast’s network – in regional facilities closer to where customers live and work. The field trial takes advantage of Comcast’s nationwide, deep...

AUSTIN, Texas & SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GTC – CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today unveiled a Secure-by-Design AI Blueprint built with NVIDIA that integrates protection from the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform directly into NVIDIA OpenShell, an open-source runtime that enforces policy-based guardrails to make autonomous agents safer to deploy. The architecture integrates security natively into the AI agent stack, enabling organizations to operationalize autonomous systems with governance, v...