RadioDig announced the launch of its iOS and Android apps, giving broadcast engineers, tower technicians, station managers and telecom consultants access to tower records from their phones. The apps include maps, structure details, ownership information, change monitoring and downloadable areas for offline use. RadioDig grew out of a routine frustration: finding basic information about a tower often means searching several …
Wireless Hall of Fame dinner honors five leaders who helped shape the industry
Wireless industry leaders gathered October 5 at The Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City, in Arlington, Virginia, to celebrate five individuals whose careers helped shape the networks, businesses and infrastructure behind modern wireless communications. The Wireless History Foundation’s 2026 Wireless Hall of Fame Awards Dinner honored Brian Boyle, Jim Bugel, John DeFeo, Julius Knapp and Craig Snyder. The evening brought together industry luminaries …
Colorado cell complaints pile up as Table Mountain radio quiet zone limits squeeze AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile
More than 100 wireless-service complaints from the Longmont and Niwot, CO, area have been filed with the FCC since the beginning of September, 9NEWS (KUSA-TV) reported, after the nation’s three largest carriers altered their signals to comply with the rules protecting a federal radio quiet zone north of Boulder, CO. Under the FCC’s process, a complaint forwarded to a carrier …
The Big Three sign satellite dead zone JV — with an interim CEO, a shared spectrum pool and no name yet
AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have entered into a joint venture agreement to pool spectrum for satellite direct-to-device coverage, naming former AT&T and Cingular Wireless executive Paul Roth interim CEO. The venture now has a board, a mission and a leader. What it doesn’t have is a name, a launch date or a public accounting of the spectrum going into it. …
FCC’s NEPA overhaul makes 200 feet the new environmental line for towers — and its own math comes in far below the billion-dollar pitch
Editor’s note: This article is a deep dive into the FCC’s Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FCC 26-64), adopted Sept. 30, 2026, and released Oct. 1, along with the Commission’s Sept. 30 open meeting, post-meeting press conference and commissioners’ written statements. The FCC voted 2-1 on Wednesday to declare that spectrum licenses no longer turn privately …
HHS and FCC wireless radiation dockets draw 1,519 submissions — and little science the FCC says it will weigh
Two federal agencies are asking the public what it knows about wireless radiation, and the public is answering—loudly. As of Sept. 30, the two dockets held 1,519 submissions: 1,155 published comments on the Department of Health and Human Services’ RF/EMF docket and 364 filings in the FCC’s reopened RF exposure proceeding. A Wireless Estimator review of 146 of the HHS …
Wyden warns a 3-0 Republican FCC could put wireless licenses and spectrum actions in legal limbo
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has asked the FCC’s lone Democrat, Commissioner Anna Gomez, for her legal opinion on whether the Commission can lawfully operate with three Republicans and no one else—and his letter makes clear what he thinks the answer is. If he’s right, the fallout wouldn’t stop at Commission votes. It would reach the delegated license, equipment, and spectrum …
Did Musk and Bezos hijack BEAD billions? The satellite awards add up to about $1 billion
The loudest charge against the Trump administration’s BEAD rewrite — that Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos walked off with “billions” in taxpayer broadband grants — doesn’t survive the state award data, which shows SpaceX and Amazon Leo splitting roughly $1 billion of a roughly $21 billion deployment pot, before NTIA’s summer trims. Now Wall Street analyst Blair Levin is making …
FCC’s $25,000 jammer fine against Texas jewelry heist suspects is headed to a ‘last known address’ — and likely no further
Three weeks after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr named him Chief of the Enforcement Bureau on August 31 —promising “great wins for the American people”—Hunter P. Deeley, a former Justice Department national security lawyer who joined the FCC as an Assistant Bureau Chief in 2023, signed his first Notice of Apparent Liability (NAL). The target wasn’t Huawei. It was three men …
Colorado cancels $103 million broadband grant to Maverix after invoices, unpaid contractors surface
The Colorado Broadband Office has rescinded a $103 million provisional BEAD award to Parker-based Maverix Broadband, ending the company’s run as the presumptive largest recipient of the state’s rebuilt broadband program after an investigation turned up canceled invoices, unpaid contractors and millions of dollars in costs the state says it may not recover. None of that $103 million had actually …
Erased servers deepen mystery as Carriox bankruptcy probes hundreds of millions in disputed telecom receivables
More than a year after Bankim Brahmbhatt’s telecom empire collapsed into bankruptcy, investigators are still trying to unravel an alleged receivables fraud that left one of America’s largest private-credit firms facing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. Funds managed by HPS Investment Partners, now part of BlackRock, lent approximately $430 million to companies linked to Brahmbhatt beginning in 2020, …
Rules built for nationwide carriers leave regional operators stranded, CCA’s Donovan warns
Competitive Carriers Association opened its 2026 Annual Convention in New Orleans on September 15 with a keynote program built around a single throughline: regional and competitive carriers are being asked to compete on satellite, spectrum, and cost structure all at once, and CCA wants Washington’s rules to reflect that they’re not doing it with nationwide-carrier resources. CCA 2026 runs September …
Blue Sky Towers’ Federal lawsuit targets Maine town’s rule restricting towers to Route 1 corridor
Blue Sky Towers IV has taken a Maine zoning dispute to federal court, alleging that Waldoboro effectively blocked Verizon from filling a significant wireless coverage gap when the town refused to allow a proposed 194-foot tower roughly five miles from the only corridor where local rules permit new wireless facilities. Blue Sky, the nation’s 51st largest tower owner, filed the …
Crown Castle to lose CFO Patel and COO Piche as towerco reshuffles top ranks
Crown Castle Inc. is preparing to lose two of its highest-ranking executives, with Chief Financial Officer Sunit Patel retiring and Chief Operating Officer Cathy Piche leaving the company, extending a period of substantial change at the Houston-based tower company. Two C-suite exits, two different timelines The company announced on September 14 that Patel will retire effective March 31, 2027, after …
DigitalBridge’s Indonesian towers sit in the blast radius of Bali’s Badung exclusivity ruling
More than 500 of the roughly 1,000 cellular towers serving Bali’s Badung Regency are now sitting on a demolition list under an Indonesian court order, industry group Aspimtel warned September 15, 2026 — a threat serious enough to raise the specter of a communications blackout across Kuta, Seminyak, and Canggu. One of the towercos in that demolition path traces back …
New precious arrival puts FCC nominee Thumann Severs’ Senate hearing on hold
Danielle Thumann Severs was supposed to face senators Thursday on her nomination to the Federal Communications Commission. Her newborn apparently had other plans. The Senate Commerce Committee has postponed the September 17 confirmation hearing for FCC nominee Danielle Thumann Severs after she gave birth this week, temporarily putting the next step toward filling one of the Commission’s two vacant seats …
WIA hosts FCC Commissioner Trusty, Delegate Hall for tower tour highlighting connectivity infrastructure
The Wireless Infrastructure Association (WIA) hosted FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty and West Virginia Delegate Walter Hall (District 58) for an educational briefing and tour of a wireless communications tower site in Kanawha County, West Virginia, providing a firsthand look at the infrastructure that connects communities and supports America’s growing digital economy. The visit, held at an SBA Communications tower site …
Poor 5G leaves Indian tower tech in a bind — but video raises questions about just how tight it was
There are established procedures for reporting poor cellular service. Tying the carrier’s site technician to the tower is not one of them. But in the case of a technician reportedly restrained by angry villagers in India over poor 5G service, the widely reported story may have a few loose ends — quite literally. Technician Aditya Bhan Singh was reportedly confronted …
25 years later, the wireless and broadcast industry remembers its own September 11 losses
President Trump, Vice President Vance, and four former presidents and officials gathered at ceremonies in Washington, New York, and Shanksville this morning commemorating the 25th anniversary of September 11, with the names of the people killed read aloud, a bell tolling between each. Amid the tributes, President Trump offered a line that captured the day’s tone: “We were all New …
From towers, buildings and fiber, 12 industry groups rally behind Danielle Thumann Severs for FCC commissioner
NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association today led a coalition of 12 communications industry, broadband, and public safety organizations in a letter to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chairman Ted Cruz and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell urging the Committee to favorably report the nomination of Danielle Thumann Severs to serve as a Commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission …
