Week of September 16–21, 2024Telecom Intelligence: Week of September 16, 2024
T-Mobile used its first Capital Markets Day since the Sprint merger to declare what it wants to be next: an AI-powered, satellite-augmented growth machine, unveiling an OpenAI partnership, a first-responder network slice, and financial targets through 2027. The week's darker story was in Lebanon, where thousands of exploding pagers and radios turned supply-chain integrity from an abstract procurement concern into a visceral global headline. And in chips, reports that Qualcomm had approached Intel about a takeover — a deal unthinkable five years earlier — captured how completely the silicon order beneath the telecom industry has been scrambled.