The best Telecommunications newsletters

Stratechery is Ben Thompson's analytical newsletter on the business, strategy, and societal impact of technology, with a focus on Apple, Big Tech, and telecom. Subscribers get in-depth essays plus a weekly roundup of bundle content, podcasts, and related analysis.

Weekly independent news and analysis of New Zealand's telecommunications market, covering mobile coverage, regulation, and industry deals. Readers get detailed reporting on surveys, Commerce Commission processes, and telco competition, with context from earlier coverage.

Jason Gintert's newsletter offers advisory analysis on peering, internet exchange strategy, connectivity and network automation, with a focus on how AI inference could use existing edge infrastructure such as central offices. Recent issues mix long-form argument, personal industry history and podcast or event recaps.

A company blog from Aerobavovna, a maker of tethered aerostats and high-altitude platforms, covering lighter-than-air funding data, first-order feasibility estimates for protecting infrastructure with aerostats, and developments in Polish and Ukrainian aerostat programmes. Readers get sourced market figures, engineering back-of-envelope calculations and news on military aerostat deployments, with some product promotion.

A UPSC exam preparation newsletter offering method-driven analysis of previous year questions, current affairs linked to the syllabus, and practice for Prelims, CSAT and Mains. Each issue explains a current news story and how it maps to UPSC topics, with exercises and study strategies.

A personal blog by an RF engineer covering radios, antennas and military C4ISR, mixing technical case studies with essays on the state of broadcast radio. Readers get an informed practitioner's perspective, with occasional personal posts.

Monthly updates from Télécoms Sans Frontières on its humanitarian telecommunications work, including crisis response, digital inclusion projects and beneficiary profiles. Readers get first-person stories and organisational statements on conflicts and disasters in places such as Ukraine, Madagascar, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

This blog publishes short explainer articles on mobile connectivity for travelers, covering GSM, whether FaceTime is free abroad, and what a SIM card stores. It is produced by an eSIM vendor, so each piece repeatedly promotes its product alongside the general information.

A news digest of experimental and demonstration radio licenses filed with the US Federal Communications Commission, focused on space-based power beaming, orbital reflectors and blockchain satellite networks. It mostly relays company claims and filing details, with occasional critical context such as scientific objections to orbital sunlight reflectors.

Telecom Trainer is a website and newsletter offering explainers on 4G, 5G and 6G technology. The sampled issues cover 5G radio access network architecture, smart city layers and, less relevantly, sustainable land management, mostly in general terms.

A blog-style content hub for telecom and field service professionals, offering general explainers on field service management, technician roles and technology trends like generative AI. The articles are broad, SEO-oriented overviews with little original reporting or specific practical detail.

This blog from Helium Mobile covers company news, including the announced acquisition by Noble Mobile, and promotional pieces about its prepaid plans, add-ons and the Helium Network. The posts are mainly marketing copy explaining plan prices and features, with little independent analysis.

Native Node is a company newsletter promoting solar-powered, off-grid network nodes that boost mobile and internet coverage for remote farms, councils and communities. Each issue pairs disaster or rural connectivity scenarios with product claims about what the nodes can deliver.