Month: January 2025

Oil rose with optimism boosted by Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s annual New Year’s address in which he said the country is on an upward trajectory.

Walmart, Amazon and Costco are growing faster than the rest of retail and investing to stay ahead.

Technology stocks were leading gains in premarket trading, with chip stocks and cryptocurrency-linked names rising.

What’s on the Light Reading editorial coverage list in 2025? Network slicing, AI in the RAN (and damn near everywhere else), data center transformation, 5G Advanced getting more advanced-ier, broadband policy, spectrum sharing, eSIMs, cable everything, pay TV’s funeral, smartphones that fold, think and make you less reliant on telcos and much more.

The dollar rose to a two-year high against the euro and a basket of currencies as the Fed is expected to adopt a more cautious approach to cutting interest rates in 2025.

European natural gas prices were on the rise after a transit agreement between Russia and Ukraine came to an end, while a looming cold snap in Europe is also adding support.

Happy New Year to all!  While network operators were mostly focused on the organic path last year, there were a few significant deals.    Verizon is buying Frontier, Lightpath bought UFD, and of course Uniti and Windstream are merging.  And that last one was not a big surprise, as Windstream topped last years poll with … Read more

(Telecompaper) Finnish transport and communications agency Traficom said it will begin a port state control inspection of the tanker Eagle S on 02 January 2025 to…

It isn’t always easy for us to be content staying put. The answer may be to look for adventure in our own backyard.

Internal data shows securities enforcers bring in far less money than their cases indicate.