Mobile Networks

Inside China’s Hidden Cyber Machine: How the MSS and ‘Salt Typhoon’ Put Spies in Your Phone Network — and What Comes Next

Key facts (as of September 28, 2025) The big picture: from “quiet persistence” to a global telecom dragnet The past year has made clear that China’s cyber apparatus—centered on the Ministry of State Security (MSS) and buttressed by commercial contractors—has

28 September 2025

No Signal? No Problem – Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell Satellites Are Eliminating Dead Zones

Direct-to-Cell Revolution: What It Is and When It Will Work in Your Country

In August 2022, SpaceX and T-Mobile announced a partnership to add Direct-to-Cell texting via Starlink satellites, enabling roaming coverage for remote areas using SpaceX’s constellation. SpaceX launched the first Direct-to-Cell–equipped Starlink satellites in early 2024, and by mid-2025 there were

14 August 2025

Connectivity · Direct-to-Cell · Future Tech · Mobile Technology · NASDAQ:ASTS · NASDAQ:TMUS · Networks · NYSE:AMT · NYSE:BCE · NYSE:RCI · NYSE:T · NYSE:VOD · NYSE:VZ

Inside Madagascar’s Internet Revolution: From Mobile Networks to Starlink Skies

Madagascar is connected to four major submarine cables—EASSy, LION/LION2, METISS, and 2Africa—with the 2Africa landing at Mahajanga in February 2023 and becoming operational in late 2023. Fixed broadband penetration is extremely low, at about 0.11 per 100 people in 2023,

1 August 2025

Africa · Innovation · Internet · Starlink · Technology