Telecommunications Infrastructure

Englewood, Colo. – October 01, 2026 -- WideOpenWest, Inc. (WOW!) has been named Cablefax's 2026 Top Ops Market Mover, recognizing a year in which the broadband provider expanded fiber passings by more than 50% across its expansion markets and over 20% across legacy markets.

WOW! extends network to nearly 50,000 additional homes and businesses

The company's network growth over the past year reached new premises across Central Florida, South Carolina and Michigan, adding fiber capacity to its footprint that already passes nearly two million residential, business and wholesale customers across 20 markets.

San Francisco – October 01, 2026 -- Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) has released the initial session lineup for ONE Summit Japan 2026, set for Dec. 10-11 in Tokyo alongside Open Source Summit Japan.

Tokyo event gathers global networking community to address agentic AI shift

The summit will bring together technologists, operators, researchers and open source contributors to examine how artificial intelligence is reshaping network architecture and how networks must evolve to support next-generation AI infrastructure. LFN frames this as one of networking's most significant architectural shifts in decades, with AI functioning simultaneously as a major network workload and as a tool for automating network operations.

Cleveland – October 01, 2026 -- ArchKey, a national electrical and technology systems provider, has acquired US Communications & Electric, a Cleveland-based technology integration firm, expanding its national technology services platform across North America.

Acquired firm brings 130 employees and 10,000 completed projects

US Communications & Electric, founded in 1996, employs more than 130 professionals and has completed over 10,000 projects for customers in data centers, healthcare, education, government, financial services, and industrial sectors. The firm specializes in audio-visual systems, distributed antenna systems (DAS), network infrastructure, security solutions, and connected building technologies.

Blair, Neb. – October 01, 2026 -- Rightfiber, the fiber broadband provider formerly known as Great Plains Communications, has completed its acquisition of American Broadband Holding Company's Fastwyre Broadband operations in Nebraska, adding 26 communities to its network footprint.

Rightfiber absorbs Fastwyre's 26 Nebraska communities into its network

The deal transfers Fastwyre customers in towns including Blair, Fremont, Bellevue, Wayne, Bassett, Oakland, Pender and Winnebago to Rightfiber, a company backed by investment firm Grain Management. Rightfiber now operates across 20 states with more than 28,000 route miles of fiber, supporting over 300,000 Fiber-to-the-Home passings and serving customers in more than 400 communities nationally.

HOLMDEL, N.J. – October 01, 2026 -- HYLAN, a full-service communications and electrical infrastructure provider, raised $75,000 for pediatric cancer nonprofit Liv Like a Unicorn at its eighth annual golf tournament, pushing the company's total charitable contributions past $500,000.

HYLAN's golf tournament nets $75,000 for Freehold-based pediatric cancer charity

The September 28 event at Metedeconk National Golf Club in Jackson, New Jersey, gathered HYLAN's partner network to support Liv Like a Unicorn, a 501(c)(3) organization based in Freehold that funds research into pediatric brain and spinal cord tumors and assists families during treatment.

Eight years of fundraising push HYLAN's total giving above $500,000

This year's $75,000 contribution brings HYLAN's cumulative charitable donations to more than half a million dollars since the tournament's inception, according to the company.

Dallas – October 01, 2026 -- AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon Communications have signed a joint venture agreement to expand wireless and satellite coverage in underserved areas of the United States, formalizing a plan first disclosed in May to pool limited spectrum resources.

Three rival carriers agree to share spectrum to eliminate dead zones

The agreement builds on the companies' earlier pledge to combine spectrum assets in order to reduce coverage gaps and extend satellite connectivity to customers nationwide. Terrestrial mobile networks will continue operating independently, with the JV targeting regions where traditional cell service remains unreliable or unavailable.

Redwood City, Calif. – October 01, 2026 -- Dell'Oro Group has appointed Frank Yang, a 25-year veteran of networking and data center technologies, to build out its coverage of the Data Center Optical Connectivity market.

Yang will build forecasting models spanning 800G to 3.2T optics

Yang's mandate centers on quantitative forecasting models covering 800G, 1.6T, and 3.2T pluggable modules, coherent optics, near-packaged optics (NPO), and co-packaged optics (CPO). He will also track the evolution of server Ethernet adapters and smart NICs as AI cluster scaling strains traditional interconnect capacity.

Redwood City, Calif. – October 01, 2026 -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) will report third-quarter 2026 results for the period ended September 30, 2026, during a conference call scheduled for Wednesday, October 28, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. ET.

Equinix confirms October 28 call time and dial-in details

The call will take place at 2:30 p.m. PT. Participants can dial 1-517-308-9482 domestically and internationally using passcode EQIX, with a simultaneous live webcast available on the company's Investor Relations site.

Replay access runs through year-end for investors unable to join live

A replay of the call will be available one hour after the live broadcast through Thursday, December 31, 2026, by dialing 1-800-814-6745 and entering passcode 2026. The webcast replay will also remain accessible on the Investor Relations site without a password requirement.

STOCKHOLM – October 01, 2026 -- Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) will publish its third-quarter 2026 financial report at approximately 7:00 AM CEST on October 15, 2026, the Stockholm-based telecom equipment maker confirmed.

Ericsson sets October 15 release date with full PDF financial tables

The company will issue a press release with the complete financial report attached, including detailed tables in PDF format. The report will be posted on Ericsson's investor relations website immediately following the press release.

CEO Per Narvinger and CFO Lars Sandström to field analyst questions at 9:00 AM CEST webcast

President and CEO Per Narvinger and CFO Lars Sandström will present the results and take live questions during a video webcast scheduled for 9:00 AM CEST, equivalent to 8:00 AM BST in London and 3:00 AM EDT in New York. Journalists and analysts can submit questions via a dedicated dial-in line during the session.

Dallas – September 30, 2026 -- AT&T's Proof of Concept (PoC) Labs mark 30 years of testing emerging networking technologies for more than 500 enterprise customers annually, spanning healthcare, finance, manufacturing and media sectors.

AT&T PoC Labs validate technology before enterprise deployment

Founded in 1996 as a spinoff from AT&T Bell Laboratories, the labs let businesses test IP networking, MPLS, cloud connectivity, 5G and edge computing solutions in controlled environments before rollout. Locations operate in Dallas, Alpharetta, Georgia, Chantilly, Virginia, Chicago and Middletown, New Jersey, supplemented by portable Proof of Concept Kits deployed at customer sites and in the field.