Criminal attacks on America’s broadband and communications networks are increasing in both frequency and impact. New data released today at the fourth Telecom Industry Summit: Protecting Critical Communications Infrastructure shows the problem is being driven by a combination of economic incentives, weak enforcement, and regulatory gaps.

Rising copper prices have made theft increasingly attractive to criminal networks, even as most modern infrastructure is fiber-based and contains little to no copper. Weak scrap metal oversight in many states allows stolen materials to be sold with limited documentation, and penalties for network destruction are often too low to deter repeat offenses.

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A new report from ABI Research highlights a clear trend across the U.S. economy: demand for Wi-Fi is accelerating rapidly, driven by growing reliance on wireless connectivity in homes, businesses, and public spaces.

Wi-Fi is now essential infrastructure, powering everything from everyday connectivity to advanced applications like artificial intelligence, connected devices, and industrial automation. As demand continues to grow, ensuring that spectrum resources keep pace is critical.

The Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) has quickly become a cornerstone of wireless innovation in the United States. Often referred to as “America’s Innovation Band,” CBRS enables a diverse range of users, from manufacturers and hospitals to rural broadband providers, to deploy reliable, high-performance wireless networks using a shared spectrum model. That success is no accident. CBRS works because of a carefully designed framework that allows many users to coexist without interference, including power limits that keep networks operating efficiently side by side. A new study by Valo Analytica underscores just how critical that balance is. The analysis finds that increasing CBRS power limits could significantly disrupt existing operations, undermine investment, and weaken the very ecosystem that has made the band so successful.

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Wi-Fi has become essential to how Americans connect – at home, at work, and everywhere in between. Today, nearly 90% of mobile data traffic runs over Wi-Fi, and more than 23.3 billion Wi-Fi devices are in use worldwide. As demand for faster speeds, lower latency, and more reliable connections continues to grow, the next generation of Wi-Fi is already on the horizon.