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Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can ‘Hear’ Them

One of the world’s most peculiar test beds stretches above Princeton, New Jersey. It’s a fiber optic cable strung between three utility poles that...

Is Telecoms Infrastructure A Market Where Startups Can Thrive? It Depends On Your Approach

Hyperoptic, co-founder Dana Tobak talks about scaling an infrastructure business ...

Why Airlines Are Fighting the 5G Rollout

the activation of C-Band frequencies by AT&T and Verizon means that improved 5G networks are now available for millions of Americans. The long-anticipated rollout...

Facebook Renews Its Ambitions to Connect the World

Facebook first revealed its plans to build a 37,000-kilometer subsea cable, named 2Africa, in the spring of 2020, and it announced an expansion last...

Huawei, 5G, and the Man Who Conquered Noise

How an obscure Turkish scientist’s obscure theoretical breakthrough helped the Chinese tech giant gain control of the future. US telecoms never had a chance.

The Tech Antitrust Problem No One Is Talking About

The US has suffered, and broken up, telecom monopolies in the past. AT&T had a government-sanctioned monopoly for much of the 20th century, until...

How Apple Built 5G Into Its New iPhones

In introducing its first 5G phones on Tuesday, Apple said it had tested them on more than 100 networks. That’s a significant achievement,...

Qualcomm’s Founder On Why the US Doesn’t Have Its Own Huawei

At the time, the existing contenders for a wireless standard had limits on how many conversations they could handle, and Jacobs was considering a...

A Plan to Turn Military Bases Into ‘Sandboxes’ for 5G

The US government thinks the military could help whip the country’s 5G industry into shape.Michael Kratsios, the acting undersecretary of defense for research...

The White House Announces a Plan to Speed the Rollout of 5G

Superfast 5G wireless isn’t exactly spreading across the US at superfast speeds. The White House and Defense Department on Monday announced a plan to...

How Gamers Powered Super-Fast Internet Abroad

Dragos Sas, a software developer based in the historic Romanian city of Cluj, recalls childhood days of hauling PCs and hefty CRT monitors to...

The Covid-19 Pandemic Shows the Virtues of Net Neutrality

Net neutrality—the idea that internet service providers should treat all traffic equally—might seem quaint during the Covid-19 pandemic. Internet traffic is surging, so...

When School Is Online, the Digital Divide Grows Greater

Like many students around the world, Nora Medina is adapting to online learning. But Medina, a high school senior in Quincy, Washington, who also...

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