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| Verizon, BT Merge International Enterprise Operations BT Group and Verizon agreed to form a fifty fifty joint venture, combining their international enterprise operations into a scaled connectivity platform. Expected to complete in 2027, the new UK headquartered company will serve over three thousand multinational customers across more than one hundred eighty countries, representing four billion dollars in annual revenue. Martijn Blanken will become chief executive officer designate for the cloud and AI ready business on September 1, 2026. |
| FCC Announces Agenda for Upcoming Meeting FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced the agenda for the July 22 2026 open meeting. Key topics include Upper C Band auction rules to expand wireless services and overhauling space licensing rules. The commission will also update broadband labels for consumers strengthen the robocall database to block illegal calls and close supply chain loopholes for dangerous equipment. Drafts are available online. The public and press can attend the meeting in Washington. |
| AIGIP Announces AI Workforce Readiness Program AIGIP launched a five-course certification program to address a workforce gap in artificial intelligence governance. The curriculum is based on DOD and NIST risk frameworks. It offers pathways for corporate executives, compliance professionals, cybersecurity teams, public-sector leaders, and independent workers. The tracks certify professionals to manage AI risks, deploy responsible structures, and align operations with regulation. Complimentary enrollment is offered for a limited time. |
| AT&T Expands Build-A-Plan with Home Internet AT&T is expanding Build A Plan on July 7, allowing customers to customize their wireless service month to month and easily add high speed home broadband. Users can combine cellular options with AT&T Fiber or AT&T Internet Air starting at seventy dollars monthly. Unlike the fixed bundle of AT&T OneConnect, this updated program focuses on flexibility, budget control, and convergence, giving users the choice to adjust or remove services anytime based on current household connectivity needs. |
| Sprocket Security Launches AI Web Application Vulnerability Tool Sprocket Security unveils Apex, an AI penetration testing agent that perform autonomous, context-aware, unauthenticated web application testing, surfacing exploitable vulnerabilities at machine speed. Apex Tests for Real Impact Apex tests against the OWASP Top 10 categories and beyond, chaining smaller weaknesses into attack paths that demonstrate real, exploitable impact rather than theoretical risk. |
| Loftware & BearingPoint Transform Supply Chains with SAP Loftware and BearingPoint announce a global partnership to accelerate SAP-aligned digital transformation in supply chains, enhancing visibility, resilience, and compliance. The alliance will help organizations accelerate SAP-aligned digital transformation initiatives through improved product identification, traceability, and operational connectivity. |
| Gilat Secures $43M Sidewinder ESA Orders for In-flight Connectivity Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: GILT, TASE: GILT) announced it has received additional orders of $43 million from a major in-flight connectivity service provider for its Sidewinder electronically steered antenna (ESA) terminals. Deliveries are planned over the next 18 months in both line-fit and retrofit configurations. |
| DE-CIX Deploys AI Internet Exchange in Stockholm CIX announces AI-ready Internet Exchange in Stockholm, strengthening digital connectivity between North America and Northern Europe by deploying Stockholm’s first AI-ready Internet and Cloud Exchange. The new deployment expands DE-CIX's Nordic footprint while strengthening digital connectivity between North America and one of Europe's most advanced digital regions. |
| Juniper Research over 1B Agentic Commerce Surge Juniper Research announces agentic commerce users will reach 1.3 billion by 2031 a nearly 350% increase from under 300 million this year. Growth is driven by direct support from major retailers, increasing comfort with AI, and greater availability of agentic payment infrastructure. |
| Inductive Bio Accelerates Drug Prediction and Discovery with Anthropic Claude Inductive Bio, an AI drug discovery partner developing virtual chemistry labs, today announced that it has joined Anthropic's life sciences ecosystem and launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector that makes its ADMET (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion, & Toxicity) prediction models accessible directly within Claude. |
| Cisco Boosts Speed and Experience at the Kentucky Derby Cisco partners with Churchill Downs to become the Official Enterprise Networking Partner of the Kentucky Derby, enhancing connectivity and fan experiences. This partnership represents a significant investment in the future of connectivity at Churchill Downs, designed to support next-generation fan experiences at future Kentucky Derby Weeks and other year-round events. |
| Inseego Prepares for Global Expansion Inseego Corp. announced several initiatives to advance the company’s international growth strategy to support its planned acquisition of Nokia’s fixed wireless access business. |
| GoNetspeed Expands Fiber Network in New Jersey GoNetspeed announced a fully funded forty three million dollar investment to expand its hundred percent fiber internet network to four new New Jersey communities. The expansion will bring symmetrical speeds ranging from five hundred megabits to six gigabits per second to more than thirty four thousand residents and businesses throughout Rahway, Clark Township, Linden, and Woodbridge. This marks the company second expansion in the state as it grows its footprint across eleven states. |
| Infovista Provides end-to-end Observability for Bandwidth Infovista’s VistaView solution has been deployed by Bandwidth Inc. (NASDAQ: BAND) to enhance voice quality and operational control across its global cloud communications network. Bandwidth powers mission-critical voice, messaging, and emergency services for many of the world’s largest enterprises and communications platforms, operating its own global Communications Cloud across nearly 70 countries. |
| Verizon and BT Team Up for Multinational Connectivity BT Group and Verizon agree to combine their respective international operations in a 50:50 joint venture, creating a new company focused on multinational connectivity. |
| KYOCERA AVX Reveals Web-Based Antenna Integration KYOCERA AVX released a new web-based RF engineering tool - the Antenna Integrator Studio. The new KYOCERA AVX Antenna Integrator Studio is designed to streamline, accelerate, and optimize the antenna selection and placement processes for RF engineers and, in turn, improve product quality, performance, and go-to-market timelines for manufacturers. |
| Contrivian Brings Reliable Field Communications to Remote Locations Horizon Plus combines advanced satellite connectivity, with intelligent 5G/LTE routing and SD-Wan for communications virtually anywhere. These capabilities are aimed towards remote site operators, disaster response, military deployments, and mobile healthcare environments. |
| Three Scandinavia to Transform Customer Engagement Telecom operator Three Scandinavia has selected Amdocs as a strategic partner to support parts of its ongoing business and digital transformation across Sweden and Denmark. |
| Cloudflare Collaborates With Leading Browsers Cloudflare announced a new initiative with major Web browsers-Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge-committing to developing and submitting for standardization a privacy-preserving protocol to help humans and bots prove that their traffic is not malicious. |
| NCC Group Joins Cyber Partner Program NCC Group announced that it has been selected to join the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program. This invite-only group will gain access to OpenAI’s frontier cyber capabilities, to advance the safe application of AI in cyber resilience. |
| Mavenir Launches Agentic Service Assurance Framework Mavenir announced its Agentic Service Assurance Framework: a TM Forum IG1251/IG1453-aligned, multi-agent system that automates complex network operations across multiple domains without replacing existing systems. The framework pairs an Intent Orchestrator with a multi-layer agentic ecosystem in which AI helps detect, diagnose, recommend, and resolve network faults faster, measurably improving operator productivity and accelerating the path to autonomous network operations. |
| TELUS Digital and ElevenLabs Partner TELUS Digital announced a partnership with ElevenLabs, an AI company that transforms how people and businesses communicate with the world. The partnership makes TELUS Digital a preferred implementation partner for ElevenAgents, ElevenLabs' AI voice agent platform. ElevenAgents handle high-volume, routine interactions and route complex or sensitive ones to human frontline teams, who receive better-qualified work and more capacity for the customers who need them most. |
| OpenVault Launches Vantage Fiber OpenVault announced that it is bringing its technological leadership in AI-powered proactive network maintenance solutions to optical networks with the introduction of its Vantage Fiber proactive PON service assurance solution for broadband providers. |
| Bell AI Fabric, Cohere, Hypertec and BUZZ HPC Announce Landmark Deal Bell Canada, Cohere, Hypertec and BUZZ High Performance Computing announced a major AI infrastructure deal, marking a significant step forward in the development and deployment of advanced AI workloads on sovereign Canadian infrastructure. |
| T Systems and SupplyOn Bring AI to Europe T-Systems and SupplyOn announced that they are launching a strategic partnership to bring artificial intelligence into industrial supply chains. To achieve this, SupplyOn, Europe’s largest industrial supply chain network, is connecting its platform to the T-Systems Industrial AI Cloud. |
