Today’s telecom news includes announcements on Digital Realty, Globalstar, Orange, Telesat, Nokia, Microsoft, among others.
Digital Realty Plans New Los Angeles Subsea Cable Landing Station
Digital Realty and Assured Communications plan to build a new submarine cable landing station at Digital Realty’s LAX12 data-center campus in Los Angeles. The facility is intended to provide cable operators with infrastructure for landing and powering trans-Pacific systems while directly connecting them with terrestrial fiber and data-center networks. Operations are targeted for 2028. Locating the cable landing station within an established carrier-neutral interconnection campus could shorten the path between subsea systems and cloud, content and telecom networks serving North America. The project comes as trans-Pacific capacity expands rapidly through new systems linking the US with Japan, Guam, Southeast Asia and Australia, driven increasingly by hyperscale cloud and AI traffic rather than traditional carrier demand alone.
Globalstar Doubles Ground Infrastructure at Greece Satellite Gateway
Globalstar has completed construction of an expanded ground station in Nemea, Greece, supporting deployment of its third-generation C-3 mobile satellite system. Construction started in September 2025 and added three new six-metre tracking antennas alongside three existing antennas, doubling the site’s satellite-ground infrastructure. Commissioning of the new equipment is now underway. The Nemea expansion forms part of Globalstar’s wider ground-network buildout supporting next-generation satellite communications. Ground gateways are critical to satellite-network capacity because they connect orbital infrastructure with terrestrial telecom and internet networks. Expanding the number of tracking antennas increases the facility’s ability to communicate with satellites and provides additional infrastructure as Globalstar develops its next-generation constellation and expands mobile satellite and direct-connectivity applications.
Orange Activates Europe’s First Telesat Lightspeed LEO Gateway
Orange and Telesat have commissioned Europe’s first ground gateway for the Telesat Lightspeed low-Earth-orbit network at Orange’s Tier-4 teleport in Bercenay-en-Othe, France. The facility will support Telesat’s initial constellation of 225 satellites, with Orange providing secure high-speed terrestrial connectivity to a planned Paris point of presence. Intellian supplied the gateway antennas. Telesat Lightspeed will use optical inter-satellite links so customer traffic can remain in space until reaching an authorised landing facility, improving routing flexibility and data sovereignty. Telesat is targeting Q1 2028 for global commercial service. The gateway provides a significant terrestrial-network milestone as the company moves from satellite construction toward operational LEO broadband infrastructure.
Nokia and Microsoft Build Agentic AI Platform for Autonomous Telecom Networks
Nokia and Microsoft are integrating Nokia Data Suite with Microsoft Fabric to create a unified data foundation for AI-driven telecom-network automation. The multi-vendor, cross-domain architecture combines subscriber, network, radio-frequency, IT and third-party data to support automated root-cause analysis and closed-loop operations. Nokia says operators can provision usable telecom data products in minutes rather than the weeks often required to construct conventional data pipelines. Initial use cases include autonomous Voice over New Radio assurance, RAN optimisation, geo-experience analysis, predictive maintenance and fault management. AI operational assistants can recommend or execute network workflows while retaining human oversight. The collaboration targets increasingly autonomous 4G and 5G networks and addresses one of the largest obstacles to agentic network operations: preparing trusted, governed network data at scale.
