Telecom Intelligence: Week of July 15, 2024 A single faulty software update ended the week by grounding airlines, silencing broadcasters, and knocking out 911 centers: CrowdStrike's botched Falcon sensor push bricked some 8.5 million Windows machines in the largest IT outage in history. Earlier in the week, EchoStar relaunched Boost Mobile as a self-declared fourth carrier on its cloud-native 5G network with a $25-forever flagship plan, the FCC proposed requiring all phones be unlocked 60 days after activation, and Nokia's second quarter confirmed that operator equipment spending remains stuck in a deep trough.