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Broadband / Telco

Here’s how big the fiber shortage really is - Lead times for ribbon fiber are in the “60-plus weeks range” as vendors struggle to make enough cable for data centers and future BEAD projects. There’s also a shortage of Buy America-compliant glass for fibers. Data centers are where most of the money’s at, so a shortage could be most crippling to BEAD and smaller ISPs

Meta inks deal to pay Corning up to $6 billion for fiber-optic cables in AI data centers - As Meta tries to rapidly construct massive data centers to keep pace with the artificial intelligence craze, it’s turning to a 175-year-old glass manufacturer for help.

My Take: Self-inflicted wound? The industry planned for demand but not delivery. Fiber, conduit, crews.. Of course, the Data Center gold rush isn’t helping. And then Meta decided to buy all of it 😁

Experts say 6G networks still years away, but Canada’s already preparing for the technology of the future - Currently, the federal government is funding multiple 6G research projects through the National Research Council’s (NRC) High-throughput and Secure Networks Challenge program, including a study into ‘millimetre wave’ technology that seeks to bring increased connectivity to “remote and rural areas that are beyond the reach of traditional fibre telecommunications networks.”

My Take: No comment. The NRC works on some great projects!

Bidders for bust broadband provider put off by rats’ taste for fibre - A potential rescue bid for the bust London broadband provider G.Network has been ruled out over fears that rats have chewed through its fibre-optic cables.

My Take: Even the rats need a little fiber in their diet. Cheap joke. I know. Electrify the fiber. Problem solved.

CES Takeaways Part 3: Smart Home and Security Markets - AI is now embedded as a foundational layer across smart home and security platforms. While AI on devices is primarily limited to cameras, robots, and certain types of sensing technology (including smoke/CO detectors, leak and flow detectors), the software layers that manage the smart home through hubs, AI voice assistants, and smart home apps are ubiquitous.

My Take: Meanwhile, the Broadband Forum report suggests there is a much lower demand past 2025 than there was in 2023 for SP-based value-added services in the residential space. See last week’s newsletter for that one.

AI readiness in fiber networks – a 20-point checklist (11-20) - As enterprises scale AI workloads, the underlying fiber network becomes a critical enabler – not just to move data, but doing so smartly and reliably. The second part of our 20-point guide explores the subtler dimensions of AI readiness: programmable and intelligent infrastructure, sustainable edge integration, governance and openness, and service assurance. 

My Take: Scanned it. Didn’t read it. Not sure what open access policies have to do with AI, but whatever.

OpenWiFi in MDUs Is Moving Into the Mainstream: What Ask4 CTO Andy Davidson’s Scale Story Tells MSPs - OpenWiFi has moved beyond experimentation and is now ready to serve as a primary platform for large scale multi-dwelling unit (MDUs) deployments.

My Take: Instead of each tenant buying and managing their own router, building-wide Wi-Fi networks are being deployed and managed centrally. Not a new concept. Just better economics.

CableLabs advances on coherent PON and DOCSIS 4.0 - Advancing the ball on both FTTP and HFC, CableLabs has issued specs for a 100-Gig coherent PON platform and verified that a DOCSIS 4.0 modem interoperates with DOCSIS 3.1 networks.

My Take: Read the article for all the details. It’s all there. In a nutshell, CPON delivers much higher speeds, interoperability and longer reach on a single fiber, letting operators serve more customers with fewer network sites. DOCSIS 4.0 delivers multi-gig, more symmetrical speeds over existing cable networks, extending their life without a full fiber rebuild.

China's 10G pilots underway despite lack of use cases - Chinese operators face a lack of use cases as they roll out 168 10G optical network pilots at government's behest.

My Take: “If you built it, they will come” is a risky propsition, unless when it’s state-backed, I guess. The assumption in China is that applications will appear once the infrastructure exists.

Dumb pipes or AI powerhouses? Telcos face an identity crisis - Telcos and other communication service providers face a decision that will define the industry over the next generation: What role should they play in the AI economy? Many are choosing to remain as infrastructure providers, while others are committing to becoming full-service participants in the new world.

My Take: “The findings show a striking divide: 57% of operators believe they should focus on providing infrastructure, including networks and data centers, while 43% argue for a more ambitious role, either orchestrating AI ecosystems or becoming full-service participants in the AI value chain.” - There’s a downloadable report in the article.

🇨🇦 Amazon Sidewalk Arrives in Canada Feb. 26: How to Opt Out of the Shared Network - Amazon is officially bringing its Sidewalk network to Canada on February 26, 2026, after a U.S.-only launch back in 2023. The company began notifying Echo and Ring users this week that their devices will soon act as “bridges” to create a shared, neighbourhood-wide wireless network.

My Take: Ya, share my Internet with other people - and I get what in return? The privilege of paying an extra $3.99/month to get rid of commercials on Prime.

AT&T ramping up fiber buildout pace as it closes in on Lumen - Amid a longer-term goal to build fiber to 60 million locations by 2030, AT&T will raise its fiber run-rate to 4 million locations in 2026, and expand that to 5 million locations annually through the end of the decade.

My Take: Maybe they can borrow some fiber from Meta.

Who needs 5G, or even 6G? New breakthrough can transmit at 15 gigabytes per second - that's enough for a whole weekend's worth of movies - A new wireless transceiver has achieved data rates that exceed those of current consumer wireless systems under practical operating conditions. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, have reported a wireless transceiver operating in the 140GHz range that can move data at roughly 120Gbps. That transfer rate translates to about 15GB/s, far exceeding current consumer wireless limits.

My Take: More innovation in the optical space. Once upon a time, Ethernet was just a thought.

🇨🇦 telMAX Secures PCMag Title as Canada’s Fastest Gaming ISP, Underscoring Fibre Network Advantage - telMAX has been recognized by PCMag as Canada’s Fastest Overall ISP for Gaming for the second consecutive year, reinforcing the competitive strength of its pure fibre network in one of the most performance-sensitive segments of broadband.

My Take: Gaming tests expose weaknesses that speed tests often hide. Latency, jitter, and consistency matter more than peak download speeds for gaming. What are they doing differently from everyone else?

FCC votes to 'supercharge' Wi-Fi in 6 GHz band - The FCC voted today to adopt an order to enhance unlicensed use in the 6 GHz band, moving to create a new category of devices – geofenced variable power (GVP) devices – that can operate both indoors and outdoors at higher power than previously authorized devices.

My Take: “According to the FCC, this action enables consumers to benefit from “supercharged” Wi-Fi and a new generation of wireless devices, from AR/VR and IoT to a range of snazzy smart devices.” with a new class of geofenced variable power (GVP) devices.

Comcast: ARPU is the next big growth obstacle - Comcast overhauled its pricing strategy last year as an attempt to win back lost broadband customers. The move seems to be paying off but at the cost of average revenue per user (ARPU).

My Take: Isn’t this a growth obstacle for every SP? Fixed wireless and mobile bundles offer consumers “good enough” options, even if fiber remains better. Can’t keep charging more when there are options.

Regulatory

Carr Proposes New Reforms to Federal Lifeline Program - The Lifeline program provides a discount on phone and Internet services for qualifying low-income Americans, but in recent years, rampant abuse of the system has been uncovered, necessitating a closer look at the FCC’s rules.

My Take: According to the report, providers claimed millions of dollars in subsidies for phone and internet service provided to people who were already dead. In other news, support calls are down significantly!

🇨🇦 Telus’s CRTC complaint about degraded internet service is ‘blatantly dishonest’: Bell - Any trouble Telus had buying wholesale internet services from Bell in central Canada was resolved after “a brief initial adjustment period,” Bell said

My Take: But Bell is still annoyed. “Telus continues to benefit from an effective wholesale service from Bell that is far better than the completely unworkable service provided by Telus,” (which they can’t get)

SpaceX now wants to alter BEAD performance requirements - According to a leaked document obtained by Broadband.io’s Doug Adams, SpaceX is requesting that states sign a waiver with several provisions regarding low Earth orbit (LEO) capacity reserves, subscriber metrics and more.

Starlink Funding at Risk? SpaceX Wants Exemptions to US Broadband Program - SpaceX is poised to receive over $600 million from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. But it now wants to get 50% of the money up-front.

My Take: Among other things, they want to be judged on current, observed performance, not future guarantees. Why? Because BEAD was built around fiber economics. Speed, Capacity and Performance - all sorts of variables in space. Many other issues around installation fees, capacity, etc. Was the point to pay for permanent infrastructure, or for fast access where it’s too expensive for fiber to go?

Charter accused of backdoor attack against fixed wireless - In a letter to the FCC, WISPA wrote, “Charter has apparently adopted an internal policy to not renew contracts for upstream wholesale services with wireless internet service providers and to not enter into any new contracts for those services with WISPs.”

My Take: In a letter to the FCC, WISPA wrote, “Charter has apparently adopted an internal policy to not renew contracts for upstream wholesale services with wireless internet service providers and to not enter into any new contracts for those services with WISPs.”

Fiber Optic Sensing

How Fiber Bragg Grating Temperature Sensors Deliver Proven Accuracy? - Fiber Bragg grating temperature sensors are receiving increased attention since they provide dependable and extremely precise measurements in difficult locations such as oil and gas plants, utilities, and smart buildings.

My Take: FBG give operators better visibility into what’s actually happening inside cables, racks, and equipment, but it comes at a cost.

What’s Happening In Space?

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Launches Satellite Program as Space Data Centers Pick Up Steam - The enterprise-focused satellite network could support future data centers in space while intensifying competition with Starlink and Amazon Leo.

My Take: Own the data highways between space and Earth. Extend AWS to orbit. Talk about a cloud!

After TeraWave Launch, Elon Musk Teases Terabit Speeds for Starlink, Too - After Starlink rival Blue Origin surprised the market by announcing TeraWave, a satellite constellation meant to offer data speeds up to 6Tbps, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested that Starlink would "exceed" whatever TeraWave has to offer.

My Take: Anything you can do, I can do better. That was from “Annie”, wasn’t it?

The 200,000-Satellite Filing: When Commercial Loopholes Become State Weapons - The primary battleground for space supremacy has shifted. While the world watches the launchpads, the decisive contest is unfolding inside the filing processes of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

My Take: I had to ask for help with this one (It wasn’t easy to scan) - China filed for 203,000 satellites through a state entity that doesn't answer to investors, claiming massive spectrum that forces Western operators to design around interference from systems that may never launch. It's regulatory denial-of-service, weaponizing ITU paperwork to throttle competitors before they even reach orbit.

SpaceX Axes $10-Per-Month Roam 10GB Starlink Plan - The company is encouraging users to check out the revamped, $50/month Roam 100GB plan.

My Take: It’s good to be King.

How Much Do You Want Starlink? Demand Surcharge Hits $1,500 in Some Areas - The exorbitant fee pops up in select areas of Alaska. Elsewhere, however, it drops to $500.

My Take: Oh, my lord. That’s like an Uber surge price. I don’t see how charging more solves a capacity problem.

SpaceX launches 11,000th Starlink satellite to date on Thursday - The Starlink 17-19 mission added another 25 satellites to its megaconstellation in low Earth orbit. Among the satellites was the 11,000th Starlink satellite launched by the company since its first batch of production satellites were flown in May 2019.

My Take: Why did I think it was 9,000? Anyway, 👏

Why Elon Musk’s Starlink is a ‘hard no’ for me - Elon Musk’s record on disinformation, power and accountability makes licensing Starlink in South Africa unacceptable.

My Take: Starlink solves real problems, but it also concentrates a lot of control in one place. What changes when the company eventually goes public? An IPO may bring more oversight, but governments will still rely on it.

The Arctic Space Race Heats Up - Geopolitical, economic, and climate change dynamics drive the need for better satcom capabilities in the strategic Arctic region.

My Take: The Arctic space race is not about better internet. It is about who controls access to a region that suddenly matters. Satellites become tools of influence.

From Speculation to Strategy: How Deep Analytics Drive Satellite Investment Decisions - As innovation in the space sector accelerates (driven largely by private investment) the need for informed, high-confidence decision-making has become critical. Investors must understand system architectures to assess the impact of rapid technological change, particularly when decisions involve multi-million or multi-billion-dollar commitments.

My Take: A great piece from Carlos Placido and his NCAT machine! Without data, it’s just an opinion.. or something like that.

Amazon's internet-beaming satellites are bright enough to disrupt astronomical research, study finds - Amazon Leo satellites are generally not visible to the naked eye but still could obstruct astronomical observations.

My Take: I thought I read something a long while back about how they were building their satellite so they wouldn’t present this problem. Anyway, we’ve been here before.

Governments’ New Must-Have: Their Own Satellites - Countries in Europe, the Middle East and Asia are investing in their own satellites or paying for exclusive access to private satellites. Their goal: ensuring steady communications, data and intelligence, critical for national security as conflict and geopolitical tensions spread. 

My Take: Well, yes.

SpaceX gets unlikely allies in latest D2D C-band fight - Elon Musk’s SpaceX wants the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reserve a portion of spectrum in the upper C-band for next-generation satellite use, including direct-to-device (D2D) services.

My Take: Cable companies and others see SpaceX as a way to weaken mobile carrier dominance. Supporting Starlink gives them leverage in their own negotiations. C-band is expensive but necessary to support direct phone connections, without being fully dependent on carriers.

AST SpaceMobile risks missing 2026 satellite launch target - As AST SpaceMobile preps next satellite launch, the D2D startup's goal for 45 to 60 satellites in orbit by the end of this year looks challenging.

My Take: Missing timelines hurts credibility. That makes future funding more expensive and more difficult, especially for a capital-intensive business.

Starlink vs AST SpaceMobile: Will the winner take it all? - It’s about allowing you to make a TikTok or watch Netflix on your phone anywhere on the planet, from the salt flats of Atacama to the dunes of Khongor in the Gobi Desert. To make this happen, two radically different design philosophies are at war, and several companies are building the infrastructure needed to ensure that every phone on the planet is permanently connected to the Internet.”

My Take: It comes down to scale vs. power. Maybe.

SpaceX sends list of demands to US states giving broadband grants to Starlink - Arguing that SpaceX should receive grant money regardless of whether residents purchase Starlink service, the letter to states said that grant payments should not depend on “the independent purchasing decisions of users.”

My Take: Well, are the grants paying for availability or adoption? Maybe if Starlink were reserving capacity, it would make more sense.

🇨🇦 Rogers Satellite Now Included in All 5G+ Plans in Atlantic Canada - Rogers Communications today announced that all customers in Atlantic Canada on all 5G+ plans now have Rogers Satellite included at no extra cost for up to 24 months.

My Take: Anyone used this and care to share their experience? Anyone reading this? Hello?

Data Centres

New AI data center buildout being done in secret location to avoid backlash from local residents — ex-crypto mining company doesn’t want publicity for its latest project - A former blockchain mining company that pivoted to AI is keeping its latest data center construction under wraps. Applied Digital, formerly known as Applied Blockchain, announced that it has broken ground on a 430 MW facility somewhere in the Southern United States

My Take: How does one quietly build a secret data centre? Those involved will have trust issues to deal with.

🇨🇦 Canada's government puts out call for firms to build 100MW+ AI data centers - Canada’s government has put out a call for businesses interested in building large-scale AI data centers. It is looking for industry partners interested in constructing data centers with a capacity of more than 100MW in Canada.

My Take: Building data centres is easy. Making them useful is the hard part. This also signals that AI infrastructure is now strategic, not optional.

People Are Protesting Data Centers—but Embracing the Factories That Supply Them - As the data center backlash grows, support is growing for server factories and the hundreds of jobs they’re expected to bring.

My Take: People are pushing back on data centers, but the supply chain behind them is growing quietly. Server factories, electrical plants, and component makers are getting approved with little pushback, even though they only exist because data centers are being built.

What you need to know about Corning’s new $6B Meta deal - Corning inked a $6B supply agreement with Meta to make fiber for the tech giant’s data centers. The vendor is also preparing to manufacture hollow core fiber for Microsoft. Corning has already admitted to supply constraints, as it plans to expand manufacturing and increase jobs in North Carolina

My Take: Meta knows. This deal is not about fiber. It is about control. Lock up the physical infrastructure before it runs out. Increase the gap between the biggest players and everyone else.

The Real Constraint on Data Centers in Space - GPUs are already flying in orbit. The physics works. The economics are getting there. But there is one problem that could kill the whole idea.

My Take: That problem is maintenance, specifically the inability to repair or upgrade anything once it’s in orbit. There. I spoiled it for you. Why can’t a fleet of humanoids fix things? We can call them Cylons, perhaps.

🇨🇦 $10-billion private-sector data centre development proposed for Olds - The project represents a $10 billion private-sector investment over an estimated two-year construction period, and is expected to deliver significant economic, employment and technological benefits at the local, regional and national levels, the Town of Olds and Invest Olds stated in a media release.

My Take: The project would roll out in stages and could become one of the biggest gas powered data centre investments in the area at 1GW. Supporters highlight new jobs, tax revenue, and growth. Critics worry about how much power and water it will use and what it means for the community long term. Wah.

Enabling AI

We are about to watch 40% of AI investments evaporate. - This is the stark warning found in Deloitte’s Tech Trends 2026 report. It argues that the hype era is officially over and we are entering a phase of structural reckoning. The report cites data predicting that nearly half of all Agentic AI projects will fail by 2027 because organizations are using tomorrow’s tools to automate yesterday’s broken processes.

My Take: Download the Tech Trends 26 report. Link in the story. Only 11% of organizations have deployed agentic AI in production, despite 38% piloting solutions. Gartner predicts 40% of agentic projects will fail by 2027.

'Jobs, jobs, jobs' the AI mantra in Davos as fears take back seat - Top executives at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting said that while jobs would disappear, new ones would spring up, with two telling Reuters that AI would be used as an excuse by companies which were planning layoffs anyway.

My Take: Yes, jobs may come back, but they will not be the same, and many people will be left behind in the process. Level up, people. Amazed by the number of people who still don’t “AI.”

Frequent Use of AI in the Workplace Continued to Rise in Q4 - The total percentage of employees using AI remains flat, but use varies meaningfully by industry and role type.

My Take: Interesting read with lots of stats. “Leaders, in particular, report substantially higher and more frequent AI use than other employees, and that separation has grown over time. Gallup research shows that lack of utility is the most common barrier to individual AI use, suggesting that clear AI use cases may be more apparent for leaders than employees in other roles.” Without the use cases, it’s a solution looking for a problem.

Musk's X investigated by EU over Grok sexualised images after public outcry - The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc's executive arm, said on Monday that it would investigate whether social media platform X protected consumers by properly assessing and mitigating risks related to Grok's functionalities.

My Take: Regulators are looking at whether this breaks the EU’s Digital Services Act, which forces platforms to control harmful content. The EU is drawing a hard line. If AI lives inside your platform, you are responsible for what it does. This is what happens when AI moves from experiment to product.

MCP Apps - Bringing UI Capabilities To MCP Clients - Today, we’re announcing that MCP Apps are now live as an official MCP extension. Tools can now return interactive UI components that render directly in the conversation: dashboards, forms, visualizations, multi-step workflows, and more. This is the first official MCP extension, and it’s ready for production.

My Take: So that’s kinda neat. Embed real interactive tools in a response. With MCP Apps, tools can now return interactive user interfaces—like dashboards, charts, forms, and workflows—directly inside chat conversations instead of only text.

🇨🇦 Former OpenAI researcher asks Canada to help end ‘AI arms race’ - A former safety researcher at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is calling on Ottawa to become an international leader in regulating superintelligence.

My Take: ““We need a country to come forward and say, ‘we recognize the world is not ready [for this]’,” said Steven Adler during an appearance at the House ethics committee on Monday.” Many believe superintelligence is dangerous. Lots of warnings about it. Have I mentioned the Cylons yet?

🇨🇦 AI will help Toronto Police to administer non-emergency calls - Moving forwards, people will have their calls answered by an AI chatbot similar to Amazon‘s Alexa or Apple’s Siri. The TPS has contracted the Canadian supplier Hyper to ease the strain on the system.

My Take: So my immediate thought was, why will it tell them to hang up and call 911 instead of just transferring people over? They need the inbound number, but that information would already be available, so I’m asking again - why not just transfer the call for real emergencies? I’m sure this AI experiment will be followed very closely. The article says there’s still a human in the background making sure “AI” is dispensing correct outcomes.

Google begins rolling out Chrome’s “Auto Browse” AI agent today - Google began stuffing Gemini into its dominant Chrome browser several months ago, and today the AI is expanding its capabilities considerably. Google says the chatbot will be easier to access and connect to more Google services, but the biggest change is the addition of Google’s autonomous browsing agent, which it has dubbed Auto Browse. Similar to tools like OpenAI Atlas, Auto Browse can handle tedious tasks in Chrome so you don’t have to.

My Take: I use Chrome. I don’t see it. Anyway, I’m still doing a lot of stuff manually and forget to let AI run wild and do things for me. I have used Atlas and Comet, and this is the same - It’s just a new way of getting things done.

This and That!

Elon Musk Sure Made Lots of Predictions at Davos - Humanoid robots, space travel, the science of aging—Musk weighed in on all of it at this week’s World Economic Forum. But his predictions rarely work out the way he says they will.

My Take: When Elon speaks, people listen. He predicted reusable rockets.. and some other stuff about EVs, Robotaxis, Neuralink, etc. I don’t think he’s too far off with humanoids, or Cylons, which they will be called one day.

🇨🇦 Your e-mail to your co-worker might pass through the U.S. before returning - Most Canadians never think about how their internet traffic moves. We assume that a message sent from Vancouver to Toronto stays in Canada. Too often it doesn’t. “Domestic” internet traffic can detour through the United States before returning home. That matters far more now in the current context of trade friction and geopolitical competition.

My Take: Yea, and under the US Cloud Act, they can hold stuff and seek access to it. Here’s a novel approach - “First, governments should tie public broadband funding, spectrum licences and government connectivity contracts to a basic expectation: Keep Canadian internet traffic on in-Canada paths whenever technically feasible.” Here, check this out - Where on earth does your personal data travel?

Apple has quietly implemented another layer of privacy for (some) iPhone owners. - It has added a new feature that limits the information cellular/mobile networks can use to determine your location from cell site data. Apple stated this “enhances your location privacy by reducing the precision of location data available to cellular networks.”

My Take: More control over privacy settings is always a good thing, if people know about them, their impact and how to turn them off, of course. Either way, you can run, but you can’t hide.

Real Dyson spheres? How alien megastructures might survive in space, study explores - Mathematical models show that mass distribution and radiation pressure could allow mega-structures to harvest stellar energy without constant control.

My Take: I’m rewatching the Battlestar Galactica series, but I don’t think that will help. So say we all.

Terabit tsunamis & Typhoon threats are overwhelming telco cybersecurity - Affiliated with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Salt Typhoon hacking group was blamed for what was dubbed the worst telecom hack in U.S. history last year, with attacks placed on AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies, among others.

My Take: “In Nokia’s recent Threat Intelligence report, only 7% of communication service providers (CSPs) reported they were fully prepared for another Typhoon-esque attack. This was the area of least confidence for telcos, sitting on par with the more hypothetical danger of quantum computing threats.”

Top 10 IoT Companies in Europe to Watch in 2026 - This post highlights the top 10 European IoT companies that caught our attention the past year. Some are household names in tech circles, others are emerging innovators we genuinely believe will define the next decade. All of them are worth watching in 2026. 

My Take: There’s some cool stuff in here. Interested to see how the SatelIOT guys do with native NB-IoT connectivity. Other than that, Indoor drones.. portable body scanners.. etc..

Creepy humanoid robot face learned to move its lips more accurately by staring at itself in the mirror, then watching YouTube - EMO the robot learned how its silicone lips would move in response to its 26 facial motors by staring at its reflection.

My Take: Creep factor 100.

Infographic Of The Week

My Take: A good refresher of who America’s trading friends are, or were.

Movie/Streaming Recommendation

IMDb: 7.1/10

JMDb: 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿/10 (“entertaining, bingeable”)

Steal is a brisk, six-episode financial heist thriller that rides almost entirely on Sophie Turner’s jagged, lived‑in performance as Zara, a junior trade worker dragged into a £4 billion pension robbery at a London investment firm.

The show’s best moments fuse white-collar mechanics and real fear: spreadsheets, risk models, and compliance chatter weaponized into a hostage situation that feels plausibly systemic rather than cartoonish.

As Zara and colleague Luke scramble to survive both the gunmen and the ensuing MI5 and police scrutiny, Steal leans into questions of class, austerity, and how ordinary workers carry the downside of elite financial games.

The middle episodes sag under contrived twists and an over-invested detective subplot, but the series remains entertaining, bingeable, and pointed enough to sting.

Until Next Time

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