US broadband vendor Inseego completed its deal to buy Nokia’s fixed wireless access (FWA) CPE business, in a move it expects will roughly double its revenue.

By adding indoor, outdoor and mmWave FWA technologies to its wireless broadband portfolio, Inseego stated it now has a global presence across consumer and business connectivity.

Its footprint for operators now includes Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, while also expanding its engineering capabilities.

To support its global ambition, Inseego established an international headquarters in Amsterdam, a development centre in Athens, Greece, expanded its presence in Bangalore, India, and added customer-facing sales and technical resources across its new markets.

“We now have the scale, technology, and global reach to support carriers across business, residential, and mobile use cases,” Inseego CEO Juho Sarvikas said.

The deal, announced in April, grants Nokia approximately 1.9 million common shares, representing an 11% ownership stake in Inseego

The Finnish vendor also received warrants to purchase up to 800,000 shares of common stock, at an exercise price of $4.26 per share.

Nokia will also kick in a further $10 million cash payment by 15 October to support engineering work on interoperability between Inseego’s device operating system and cloud platform and certain Nokia technology ecosystems over the coming year.

Nokia will provide transition support and refer new FWA opportunities to Inseego.

About 250 people from the acquired business will support Inseego’s engineering, product management, supply chain, sourcing and customer support operations. They include employees joining Inseego and Nokia personnel providing support under a transition services agreement.

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T-Mobile US, Verizon and AT&T sealed their joint venture (JV) to expand coverage across areas of the US that terrestrial services cannot reach, in a rare example of cooperation between the big three.

The move followed an announcement in May outlining how the operators planned to pool their spectrum resources to eliminate “dead zones” by expanding satellite coverage for customers nationwide.

Former AT&T, Cingular Wireless and Ameritech executive Paul Roth is serving as the interim CEO of the JV while a search for a permanent chief is underway. The entity will be managed by a board with representatives from each founding member.

The companies stated the JV will “nearly eliminate dead zones in the U.S. currently without mobile service, reaching previously unserved areas” to cut down on coverage gaps.

It will also be beneficial for first responders during natural disasters or other disruptions by providing connectivity when terrestrial services are down.

They claim the new service will also provide a better customer experience for direct-to-device (D2D) consumer services through the unified approach.

T-Mobile notably has launched a commercial D2D service in collaboration with SpaceX, while Verizon has rolled out a satellite messaging service with Skylo Technologies. Verizon and AT&T are also separately working with AST SpaceMobile.

AT&T Business has a partnership in place with Jeff Bezos’ Amazon Leo to provide connectivity to businesses across the US. SpaceX is also mulling a mobile service through its Starlink birds, but the industry is somewhat sceptical of its approach.

The operators stated the venture will also be a boon to additional satellite providers while also collaborating closely with rural mobile operators to expand access and simplify integration.

The service could emerge as a threat to cable operators such as Cox Communications, formerly Charter Communications, Comcast and smaller providers across rural areas which are currently losing broadband subscribers to fixed wireless access services offered by the trio.

The combined use of each operator’s spectrum will improve efficiency while enabling mobile operators to deploy new services at a faster rate.

The JV also plans to take a standards-based approach to satellite services while allowing each of the three to continue their individual efforts across the sector.

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A non-profit legal group reportedly sued OpenAI over a cyberattack by its AI agents against Hugging Face, in what CNBC described as a test case for whether an AI company can be held legally responsible for damage caused by autonomous systems.

The news outlet reported Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) filed the suit on 29 September in a Superior Court. It relates to OpenAI agents escaping their testing environment onto the open internet and hacking Hugging Face’s systems in the process, one of the earliest known actions of its kind, CNBC wrote.

CNBC reported LASST believes OpenAI breached Californian computer laws and should be held accountable for the actions of its agents. It wants the court to bar the company’s systems from accessing computers without authorisation.

An OpenAI representative told CNBC the suit lacks merit.

OpenAI scrapped plans to release a new model this week over safety concerns, days after stating it is thoroughly reviewing future iterations as a result of the Hugging Face incident, CNBC reported.

Various reports indicate the company’s agents also hacked an Australian government website.

CNBC noted Hugging Face is not involved in the LASST lawsuit, but highlighted a previous call from the start-up’s CEO Clement Delangue for OpenAI to donate $100 million towards helping it beef up its defences.

OpenAI reportedly tried to invest the same sum in Hugging Face. Nvidia ultimately secured a deal to buy it for $13 billion.

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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reportedly opened a wide-ranging probe into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies over the potential danger posed by their models.

The New York Post reported FTC chair Andrew Ferguson launched the investigation before OpenAI agents attacked AI startup Hugging Face in a test.

Its probe will seek documents on alleged unfair or deceptive practices violating the FTC Act from AI players, or “super intelligence” companies as President Donald Trump calls them.

The agency is now drafting a civil investigative demand to force testimony from leading companies in the space.

Its move adds to scrutiny of OpenAI and Anthropic’s safety practices after researchers warned their models could cause catastrophic harm.

News outlets reported President Donald Trump met executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Meta Platforms and Nvidia earlier this week, after which the companies signed a voluntary commitment on AI development.

The framework arrived during a dispute over whether safety concerns should slow development.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently proposed permanent third-party evaluators inside AI companies as part of a wider plan to curb advances in frontier capabilities. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backed the proposal.

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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted rules to open more than 1,000MHz of spectrum through its satellite spectrum abundance order.

The order was approved unanimously yesterday (30 September) by chair Brendan Carr and commissioners Nathan Simington and Anna Gomez.

The spectrum covers the 12GHz and 42GHz bands, which the FCC stated could support a range of connectivity services including satellite broadband to the home, in-flight and on-ship connectivity, and core traffic-routing functions in satellite terrestrial networks.

“We’ve been running our spectrum abundance playbook for pretty much everything in the sky,” Carr said. “We’ve taken multiple actions to free up spectrum for direct-to-device offerings, with much more of that to come in the next few months.”

The agency is also considering opening 1,450MHz in the Ku- and Ka-bands and 138.25GHz in the D-band for expanded satellite communications.

A second proposal would add bands for emerging space operations, including in-orbit servicing, refuelling and manufacturing, lunar missions, spacecraft control, and data transmission.

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