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What’s Happening On Earth?

🇨🇦 Fiber Optic Sensing: New Applications and Revenue Opportunities for CSPs and Fiber Providers in North America - Fiber-optic cables are evolving beyond their traditional role as data conduits to become sophisticated distributed sensor networks. This multi-functionality provides Communication Service Providers (CSPs) and fiber infrastructure owners with situational awareness, allowing them to monitor their networks and other infrastructure in real-time, enhance physical security, and develop new revenue streams through sensing-as-a-service offerings.

My Take: Read it. This took a while to compile in collaboration with Dr. Paul Dickinson. He likes it when you call him “Dr.” As I speak with more ISP and fiber owners, I’m amazed that these solutions are so nascent, yet spark innovative and needed discussions when brought to the forefront. The use case for Leak Detection on pipelines has been in place for a long time. Other applications have lagged. Happy to speak with anyone interested about this in more detail. There are real associated revenue opportunities.

What if we could prevent disasters before they strike? - Penn State researchers have developed cutting-edge technology using existing underground fiber optic cables to give city officials an early warning system for failing pipes, sinkholes, and landslides. 

My Take: Failing infrastructure is driving the demand for situational awareness. City crews are alerted to early signs of issues they can remediate before they become more significant and troublesome

What we know about NTIA’s (alleged) new BEAD memo - In cases where NTIA determines proposed project costs are “unreasonable,” states are asking existing bidders in those areas to provide their “best and final offer.” NTIA reportedly stated this is not another BEAD bidding round and that in these “limited cases,” providers already have the information they need to adjust their bid or “stand on their current one.”

My Take: If I’m following the home game properly, this new piece adds thresholds at the project area level, not just overall state-level cost per location.

Broadband Communities releases the 2025 Top 100 list - From multimillion fiber expansions to grassroots deployments in rural communities, the connectivity landscape is more dynamic than ever in 2025. As the BEAD program injects new energy to the telecom sector, we take a look at the top 100 organizations (in no particular order) accelerating builds, sparking new partnerships, and reshaping the competitive landscape in 2025.

My Take: In Canada, this would be like the top 10 😉 Anyway, it’s a list, so that’s that.

🇨🇦 OOKLA Canadian Speedtest Connectivity Report - To show a full picture of network performance in each market, our reports are informed by millions of daily consumer-initiated tests taken on Speedtest, along with quality of experience (QoE) metrics that offer insight into the daily connected activities that matter most to end-users.

My Take: I don’t even want to comment on this because I’m not sure these reports really mean anything or impact any decisions. If someone from OOKLA would like to educate me, I’m happy to be enlightened. And what about all the regional and Tier 2 guys? Where are they?

🇨🇦 Canada Makes Significant Broadband Progress, But Rural Gaps Persist - Canada has largely achieved its national broadband connectivity goals in urban areas, with about 95% of Canadians now having access to high-speed internet, but significant disparities remain in rural and Indigenous communities, industry experts said during a Broadband Breakfast Live Online event in August.

My Take: This was a lot of fun. Watch the Webinar replay. Statistics matter.

TikTok Buyers to Include Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen - TikTok's US operations would be acquired by a consortium that includes Oracle Corp., Andreessen Horowitz and private equity firm Silver Lake Management LLC under a deal President Donald Trump is set to discuss with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

My Take: This deal isn’t just about saving TikTok from a U.S. ban, it’s about control of the algorithm and who profits from it. Oracle and investors like Silver Lake and a16z get a cash-flow machine with a massive U.S. user base, while ByteDance keeps its crown jewel in China and licenses it back. The U.S. gets operational control and data security optics, but ByteDance still gets paid. Everybody dance!

Urban Mobile Infill: Why not-spots aren’t just a rural problem - We've all experienced times when we couldn't get mobile signal. But it isn't just a rural problem. Steve Smith, Principal Consultant at FarrPoint, discusses why mobile coverage is becoming more prominent in towns and cities. According to him, urban areas face unique challenges - from old protected buildings, new high-risers blocking signals to larger populations accessing mobile networks.

My Take: Urban mobile “not-spots” aren’t just rural problems anymore. Buildings, high-rises, materials (steel/glass), underground zones, new construction and overloaded networks create coverage gaps in cities. Solving them requires small-scale interventions (like small cells, indoor DAS), with cooperation among operators, property owners, and planners.

Global telecom capex stabilizes in Q2: Dell’Oro - Dell’Oro said the latest data reinforces the view that while telecom capex has peaked, it is not collapsing

My Take: Operators are shifting investment priorities toward increasing network capacity and quality, automation, and energy efficiency. Investments are being optimized. More performance per dollar, etc.

Nvidia Takes The Commanding Lead In Datacenter Ethernet Switching - Well, that didn’t take long. In April 2020, Nvidia completed its $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox Technologies for its InfiniBand and Ethernet switching, and a little more than five years and a GenAI boom later Nvidia has been crowned the leading revenue generator for Ethernet switching in the datacenter by IDC.

My Take: Not much to say about that. Is what is is.

Cable broadband faces a flat future, not doomsday - In an analysis of cable broadband's potential 'end state' amid fiber and FWA competition and coming network builds, MoffettNathanson sees cable losses improving in the coming years, scratching out a small gain in 2028.

My Take: Cable broadband isn’t heading for collapse, but growth will be flat for the next few years. Competition from fiber, fixed wireless, satellite, and slowing new home builds will keep things tight; only modest gains are expected by around 2028. Has DOCSIS had its moment?

🇨🇦 Telus finalizes sale of 49.9% stake in tower unit to La Caisse - Montreal-based Terrion consists of passive macro wireless infrastructure assets, commonly known as cell towers. In total, the company will operate around 3,000 sites across British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec.

My Take: This lets Terrion become a focused tower company, opening up co-location for other wireless operators (who can use those tower sites). That supports competition, boosts infrastructure growth, and helps improve coverage.. and helps Telus fund their $2B investment (?) in the East.

🇨🇦 Feds Cover Nearly Half the Cost of $200M Xplore Internet Project - “Today marks the beginning of a major step forward in connecting rural Newfoundland with world-class Internet service,” said Brent Johnston, Chief Executive Officer, Xplore, in a statement last week.“We’re proud to partner with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to bring fast, reliable fibre Internet to communities that have long been underserved. This investment is about more than just infrastructure—it’s about unlocking opportunity, supporting local economies, and improving everyday life for thousands of Newfoundlanders.”

My Take: Yea, they need it. 24,000 rural households by laying 6,000 kilometres of fibre, with completion targeted for early 2027. $8,333 per home passed. Reasonable.

Boost Mobile: What the U.S. is Losing - EchoStar, the company behind Boost Mobile, is planning to decommission portions of its wireless network following its recent deals with AT&T and SpaceX. Here’s a look at some of the capabilities of that network before it passes into history.

My Take: Pretty picture. Say goodbye.

FNTV Report: 5G vs. Wi-Fi: Why the enterprise bet is shifting - For more than 30 years, Wi-Fi has been the default for local connectivity in offices, homes and public spaces. But the rise of 5G — with its global scope, ultra-low latency and carrier-grade reliability — is starting to shift the balance.

My Take: This has been trending for a while. Not sure why ISPs with industrial and large “uncarpetted” customers aren’t jumping on this.

Bloomenergy - 2025 Data Center Power Report - In this report, Bloom Energy provides an updated view of the evolving data center power landscape, following a more comprehensive 2025 Data Center Power Report released earlier this year. These insights are shaped by ongoing conversations with industry leaders and a targeted survey examining shifts in power procurement strategies.

My Take: Power is more important than fiber, of course. Every discussion I’m having on the subject relates to proximity to power. Read the report. It’s very insightful.

What’s Happening In Space?

What’s in Space This Week?

Amazon: Project Kuiper to Begin U.S. Service Within About Six Months - the Amazon-owned company expects to provide service in five countries, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States by the end of the second quarter next year, according to various news outlets.

My Take: Hey, Kuiper people. If you’re looking for beta folks, I’m happy to play! Really interested in their commercial model, how they will target, and how they will manage with the limited constellation.

Amazon wants FCC to drop five-year rule on deorbiting satellites - As it builds up its Project Kuiper LEO constellation, Amazon now wants the FCC to drop a five-year deorbit rule for satellites. The company called the timeline – set to reduce the harms of orbital debris – 'artificial and rigid.'

My Take: They want satellites designed with the capability to deorbit in five years, but not forced to come down if conditions or anomalies make it impractical. Kind of like forced retirement.

Information About NordSpace's Maiden Flight from the Atlantic Spaceport Complex - We are pleased to announce that NordSpace has been assigned a new launch authorization spanning September 20, 2025 to September 27, 2025. Our launch window will open daily between the hours of 06:30 - 12:00 NDT, and 15:00 - 19:00 NDT. Our rocket remains ready to launch, and our team will be on-site next week to restart site preparations, rehearsals, and tests ahead of launch.

My Take: They came so close the last time! Best of luck for a successful trial.

SpaceX’s Shotwell Talks Spectrum and Starship at WSBW - The spectrum transaction marks the start of the next stage of work as SpaceX works with chip manufacturers to get chips compatible with the spectrum into consumer phones. It also changes the way SpaceX will work with telcos.

My Take: Owning spectrum unlocks smoother deployment of D2C; less regulatory friction, better device compatibility, reduced reliance on telcos, etc. Still a long way off. I still think they bought it so some other competitor couldn’t have it.

Russia developing Starlink rival at 'rapid pace,' space chief says - Russia will soon have a rival to Elon Musk's satellite internet service Starlink, as it tries to shift away from outdated thinking that has allowed SpaceX to win the crown of satellite dominance, Russia's space chief said on Wednesday.

My Take: Russia is fast-tracking its own Starlink-style satellite internet system through Bureau 1440 after realizing SpaceX’s dominance. The project is meant to secure sovereign communications, support military use, and reduce reliance on foreign networks. Hopefully, the constellation isn’t being built by the same people who built the Tupolev Tu-144

🇨🇦 Operators CEOs See Huge Opportunities in Government Market - Telesat CEO Dan Goldberg said he underestimated how large government demand would be for Lightspeed, Telesat’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation in development. “We always expected it would be large when we pulled the trigger and started building Lightspeed, but I think we underestimated how big it would be,” he said, adding that government demand is “huge.”

My Take: Rising geopolitical tensions, climate disasters, and the push for sovereign space capabilities have expanded government reliance on commercial satcom far faster than expected. Maybe there is a silver lining, afterall!

🇨🇦 Kepler Communications CEO talks sovereignty, security, and space data - They discuss Kepler’s groundbreaking optical communications test — the first ever to connect an aircraft and a spacecraft via laser link. Mitry explains why this milestone matters for defense, border monitoring, and the future of real-time data transfer. The conversation also explores Kepler’s role in an evolving space ecosystem, the push for interoperability and sovereignty, and the company’s roadmap toward delivering internet beyond Earth.

My Take: If you have an interest in this stuff, I’d encourage you to watch.

🇨🇦 Telesat pitches Lightspeed as stopgap to Europe’s IRIS² - Canada’s Telesat is pitching Lightspeed as a bridge to IRIS² as its low Earth orbit (LEO) broadband constellation is set to come online in 2027, at least three years before Europe’s sovereign multi-orbit network is due to enter service.

My Take: 2027 seems so far away..

🇨🇦 Storms leave 120-mile scar in Alberta visible from space (images) - Satellite imagery from NASA caught the aftermath of a hailstorm that ripped through a region southeast of Calgary, Alberta on Aug. 20. The scar, roughly 125 miles (200 km) in length, is especially visible because vegetation in the late summer "has matured and greened up," agency officials wrote on Aug. 28.

My Take: That’s what cloud seeding and screwing with Mother Nature gets you 😄 … but holy cow! I wonder what sort of other damage that caused?!

These 2 European telescopes use lasers to track potentially dangerous space junk (video) - At a double observatory atop Mount Teide on the Spanish island of Tenerife, a powerful laser is being deployed to track fragments of space debris in orbit and warn when these fragments threaten satellites. Soon, it could even be used to push space debris away from a collision course with a satellite.

My Take: Ooh, that would be cool to watch. Sort of Star Warsy.

Starlink for Only $59 Per Month? SpaceX Offers Cheapest Satellite Deal Yet - On Friday, the official Starlink site began promoting the deal, which pops up if you try to subscribe to the satellite internet service's Residential Plan in certain locations. You can also get the Residential Lite plan, which offers slower speeds, for $49 per month, down from $80.

My Take: The land grab continues with pricing precedence being set, perhaps. At leats Kuiper knows where they have to price to compete, unless they just bundle stuff together and no one really knows what they’re paying for.

Starlink looking less niche as its retail presence expands - Starlink has nearly a dozen retail partners in the US, including Best Buy and Walmart, illustrating the company's desire to make the satellite service less of a niche, rural play. However, Starlink's subs still skew to rural areas.

My Take: Yea, because they have other options in non-rural aras, although oddly enough, I’d suggest that urban areas have fewer things obstructing clear view of the sky and may make for easier installations.

Starlink down: Elon Musk’s satellite internet service confirms it is experiencing outage - No further information was provided. According to outage-tracking site Downdetector, more than 43,000 users in the United States reported problems with the network shortly after midnight, at around 12.35am Eastern Time (0435 GMT).

My Take: Threw this in here just because. Either they’re experiencing more outages these days, or people are just paying more attention and looking for things to report on.

SES Satellites and K2 Space Corporation have announced a strategic collaboration to advance SES's next-generation Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) network.- The partnership combines SES’s expertise in multi-orbit networks - including O3b mPOWER - with K2 Space’s engineering capabilities to co-develop infrastructure and technologies for future MEO deployments.

My Take: SES and K2 Space are shifting to agile satellite development so they can update faster and offer flexible, software-defined services. The new MEO network is designed to support hosted payloads, space situational awareness, sovereign government needs, mobile connectivity for ships and aircraft, and enterprise backhaul. The goal is to deliver secure, adaptable, and quickly upgradable infrastructure for both commercial and government customers. More pictures and commentary from Carlos Placido. That’s the first 3D NCAT model I’ve seen and not exactly sure how to interpret it.

In a significant and unexpected development, a $100 million satellite funded by Jeff Bezos has ceased communications and is currently missing in space - The sophisticated vessel, designed to advance the frontiers of astronomical and terrestrial research, unexpectedly lost contact with ground control, and its present location remains unknown. For a project of this magnitude, backed by one of the world's foremost entrepreneurs, its disappearance has generated considerable consternation within the global scientific and aerospace engineering communities.

My Take: I think someone stole it. It must be there somewhere, unless it suffered a rapid unscheduled disassembly.

🇨🇦 De Havilland Canada Brings Starlink In-Flight Internet on Dash 8 Fleet - De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited (De Havilland Canada) is pleased to announce the retrofit option of Starlink in-flight internet on its Dash 8-400 aircraft. This advancement brings reliable, high-speed Wi-Fi to one of the world’s most versatile aircraft, setting a new standard for in-flight connectivity in regional aviation.  

My Take: Excellent. Why was the Ontario government so alone in its anti-Elon campaign? Anyway, now you can clean out your email inbox while slowly going deaf from the sounds of the engines.

EchoStar is at a ‘Pivot’ With Fresh Capital After FCC Investigation and Spectrum Sales  - EchoStar’s core brands — Dish Network, Sling TV, Boost Mobile, and Hughes — remain and the company intends to keep its core emphasis on connectivity and communication. 

My Take: I’m wondering when I will no longer see an Echostar story in my feed?

NASA Announces CHAPEA Crew for Year-Long Mars Mission Simulation - Four research volunteers will soon participate in NASA’s year-long simulation of a Mars mission inside a habitat at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. This mission will provide NASA with foundational data to inform human exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

My Take: One of them works for Canada’s Kepler Communications, I believe. The guy who never replied to any of my LinkedIn messages ;)

Direct To Device

Starlink’s bold move: from ISP to satellite MNO - The telecom and space industries are abuzz following Elon Musk’s recent remarks at the All-In Podcast Summit, made shortly after SpaceX’s reported $17 billion acquisition of EchoStar’s S-band spectrum. Musk outlined Starlink’s ambition to become a fully integrated global carrier; offering both fixed broadband and direct-to-handset (D2D) satellite services directly from orbit, using its own licensed spectrum.

My Take: Still lots of talk about what they’re ultimately going to do with this. 50MHz isn’t all that much. There’s the issue with indoor services, although the S-band stuff has some propagation. Once again, Carlos Placido offers his expert insights!

Forrestere’s Digest: Space42, Viasat launch Equatys D2D venture - Equatys will serve to unite satellite and terrestrial networks leveraging a 3GPP Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) Release compliant platform accessible to standard smartphones and IoT devices, extending service to billions of people and devices worldwide. Anticipated to be capable of supporting well over 100 MHz of harmonised MSS spectrum already allocated across more than 160 markets, the venture aims to establish a foundation for reliable global communications with commercial rollout targeted within three years.

Space42 and Viasat to Launch Equatys Venture with Access to World’s Largest Coordinated Spectrum Block for Global Direct to Device Services

My Take: In a nutshell, Equatys is different because it uses a shared, neutral-host type of model with harmonized MSS spectrum across 160+ markets, so mobile operators can plug in without building their own satellite systems or ground infrastructure. Starlink runs its own consumer broadband network, and AST is building a vertically integrated system tied to specific operator deals, while Equatys positions itself as common infrastructure for everyone. Will need to dig into this a bit more. It’s like Terrestar, I think, only larger.

Enabling AI

Intel and NVIDIA to Jointly Develop AI Infrastructure and Personal Computing Products - The companies will focus on seamlessly connecting NVIDIA and Intel architectures using NVIDIA NVLink – integrating the strengths of NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing with Intel’s leading CPU technologies and x86 ecosystem to deliver cutting-edge solutions for customers.

My Take: Intel will build custom x86 CPUs (for data centers) and x86 system-on-chips (for PCs) that integrate with NVIDIA technologies (NVLink and RTX GPUs). Integrating the two yields better performance for AI workloads.

VaultGemma: The world's most capable differentially private LLM - We introduce VaultGemma, the most capable model trained from scratch with differential privacy.

My Take: VaultGemma represents a significant step forward in the journey toward building AI that is both powerful and private by design

Introducing upgrades to Codex - Codex just got faster, more reliable, and better at real-time collaboration and tackling tasks independently anywhere you develop—whether via the terminal, IDE, web, or even your phone.

My Take: I have no idea what this is about other than is GPT-5 optimized and specialized for coding. Catchy name, that CODEX.

Cisco thinks SLMs can help solve agentic AI’s efficiency challenge - Agentic AI is driving strong business interest despite a lack of solid return-on-investment (ROI) models, a financial challenge one Cisco networking executive said could be tempered by smart planning that takes into account advantage of small language models (SLMs) running in edge environments.

My Take: The edge is the next frontier of AI processing. Faster insights and more efficient workflows for enterprises using agentic AI, because local SLMs handle much of the processing. Reduced network bandwidth and latency load, fewer cybersecurity risks (since less data leaves the local environment).  More predictable ROI, more mature deployments of agentic AI rather than fragmented experiments.

Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden - Up until very recently, AI companies remained secretive about how much energy leading AI models, like ChatGPT or Gemini, use up when generating a single response. Even though OpenAI, Mistral, and Google have now provided a little more insight into the energy demands of their models, many questions about AI’s energy burden remain. In this edition of What’s Next in Tech, find out three big things we still don’t know about AI’s climate impact.

Generative AI's environmental impact explained - Generative AI tools and LLMs such as ChatGPT have exploded onto the tech scene. Here's a look at what that costs the environment and how to decrease the negative impact.

My Take: Can’t we use AI to figure out what AI’s climate impact it? Isn’t there a GretaGPT?

Bell and Simon Fraser University team up to advance Canada's AI and supercomputing ecosystem - Bell, Canada's largest communications companyⁱ , and Simon Fraser University (SFU), today announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on advancing Canada's artificial intelligence (AI) and sovereign supercomputing ecosystem.

My Take: More sovereign infrastructure, more powerful, secure compute resources for Canadian universities, industry, and government.

NK hackers used AI to target S. Korean military: report - North Korea’s Kimsuky hacking group used artificial intelligence-generated images in a recent phishing campaign against South Korean military agencies, a local cybersecurity firm said in a report Monday.

My Take: Did they use Deepseek? They made fake ID cards. More of that to come, I’m sure.

This and That!

Information collected by the world's largest radio telescope will be stored and processed by global data centers - When the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Observatory goes online later this decade, it will create one of science's biggest data challenges.

My Take: “The SKA Observatory will produce around 600 petabytes of data each year. That amount would take 200 years to download using an at-home internet connection of 100 megabytes per second.” .. Well, clearly we’ve found the killer app and the only driver to >1Gbps connection. Maybe Starlink for backup, just in case.

Cloudflare accidentally DDoS'ed itself in dashboard update gone wrong - Three-hour service disruption affected dashboard and APIs but spared network infrastructure

My Take: Oops?

FBI Warns of Threat Actors Hitting Salesforce Customers - The FBI's IC3 recently warned of two threat actors, UNC6040 and UNC6395, targeting Salesforce customers, separately and in tandem.

My Take: Do they put the threat actors into a special pipeline?

Skyscraper-size asteroid previously predicted to hit us in 60 years will zoom past Earth on Thursday (Sept. 18) — and you can see it live - The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The space rock was previously predicted to have a slim chance of impacting our planet in 2089, temporarily earning it the top spot on a major risk list.

My Take: Whew! I’ll make sure to look up tonight, after I finish writing all of these My Take comments. This is the longest part of the newletter production process, by the way, and is totally dependent on the mood I’m in at the time.

'Russian nesting doll' virus hides inside a deadly fungus, making it even more dangerous to people - A virus found lurking inside a deadly fungus may make the microbe even stronger and harder to kill when it infects people.

My Take: See below. I thought AI was creating viruses to take care of this sort of thing. Anyway, eww.

Diagnostic dilemma: A woman kept tasting bleach — and doctors found a hidden cause in her blood - A woman was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that also led to striking behavioral changes — namely, her craving the taste of powdered bleach.

My Take: So first I thought this was about a woman who kept drinking bleach, but then that would be a show on TLC. How did she know what powdered bleach tasted like if she hadn’t tasted it? It’s like when people say something tastes like poop. My dog would know, but who else?

A Deep Dive into Apple’s C1 Modem Performance Across Leading Global Markets - Using Ookla Speedtest Intelligence® data for Q2 and Q3 2025, we analyzed the performance of the iPhone 16e and compared it to the performance of the iPhone 16 on 5G, across a range of markets where we’ve seen significant uptake of the newer device. We compared the performance of these two devices because the iPhone 16 and the iPhone 16e have a similar design and the same 6.1” screen, with the inclusion of the C1 modem in the iPhone 16e being a key difference. 

My Take: Lots of data in there, as there is with any Ookla report. Too bad the iPhone17 was just released.

AI-designed viruses are here and already killing bacteria - A research team in California says it used AI to propose new genetic codes for viruses—and managed to get several of these viruses to replicate and kill bacteria.

My Take: And then what happens to the virus? It kills you instead? At least you didn’t have to deal with the bacteria anymore.

How to Set Up and Use a Burner Phone - Obtaining and using a true burner phone is hard—but not impossible. Here are the steps you need to take to protect your mobile communications based on the risks you face.

My Take: Posting this for a friend. I always thought you just walked into a convenience stoe, buy a phone and then break it in half when you’re done with it. “Do not power the phone on near your home, work, or usual hangouts.” Good advice, for my friend.

Infographic Of The Week

My Take: We’re #1! We’re #1! - I wouldn’t have guessed Canada. Consumption has gone down 14.6% since 2020. They say it’s all due to the cold weather and the demand from Industry. Probably from all the illegal grow ops and people having to charge their EVs more often because they’re not as efficient in the winter.

Podcast Recommendation

In this episode of The Broadband Bunch, host Brad Hine is joined by Jeff Boozer, VP of Broadband Strategy at ETI Software, and Don Eben, CEO of Core Consults, for a conversation on what it really takes for broadband providers to succeed with artificial intelligence. While AI is being hailed as the future of telecom operations, the trio cuts through the buzz to explore the foundational elements that make AI effective—namely, high-quality data, robust integration, and a strategic focus on interoperability.

Listen Here!

Movie/Streaming Recommendation

IMDb: 5.2/10

JMDb: 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿/10 (I had to watch something..)

Cleaner is a solid but formulaic high-rise hostage thriller that clearly borrows from Die Hard, set in modern London with environmental terrorism as the central catalyst.

Daisy Ridley is the best part of the film, playing ex-soldier and window cleaner Joey with an authentic, harried energy that elevates otherwise predictable material. The plot delivers effective suspense as Joey, stuck outside the skyscraper, must rescue her neurodivergent brother and dozens of hostages after eco-activists take over an energy company's gala.

Director Martin Campbell knows how to stage action, but the first half is a slow burn with more gloss than grit, and sudden tonal shifts undermine immersion. Once the set-pieces ramp up, the fights impress, but the script lacks surprises or emotional heft.

Ultimately, Cleaner is brisk, slick, and moderately diverting, best enjoyed with low expectations and popcorn (read Twizzlers) in hand.

By the way, NOBODY 2 is out. “It’s a worthy, crowd-pleasing follow-up that balances carnage with charm, clocking in at a lean, satisfying 90 minutes.”

Here’s the trailer. NOBODY was a pleasant surprise. I had no idea NOBODY 2 was in the works.

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