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Most teams frame it as in-house or outsourced. There’s a third option in the middle, and that’s where a lot of them get stuck. Contract engineers arrive fast. You still manage them, and you still pay for the rework. I wrote up how the three models compare, which work fits each, and a simple way to decide. Most operators land on a hybrid: keep the decisions in-house, buy the volume. https://lnkd.in/d6gNAqZ3

Your network is the people you're trying to reach. Behind it are the people who make sure you can. The network behind your network.

Provisioning rarely fails at the router. It fails at the handoffs. Order management, inventory, design, config, test, billing. Five or more systems, bought in different decades, that don't agree on what's actually in the network. At Tier 1 scale in 2026, that gap is harder to close: → Smaller teams, same order queue → Copper and fiber running side by side → More tools, more places for the record to drift → Senior engineers pulled toward design, away from the exceptions Our CEO Fisnik Pula breaks down the four places provisioning errors concentrate, and the five numbers that turn "error-free" from a target into a contract. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eY9itSZC

AT&T's first copper discontinuance takes effect on 15 November. BT Group switches off its PSTN on 31 January 2027. Until those dates, someone still has to run the TDM and SS7 platforms. The engineers who know them are retiring or moving to fiber. Four kinds of vendor will take on that work: Platform vendors like Ribbon Communications and Alianza support and replace the switch. Signaling bureaus like Transaction Network Services (TNS), Syniverse and BICS host your SS7. Managed services firms take over the whole NOC. Specialist squads like Mikkena Global J.S.C run the platform you already own until the switch-off date. Lorik Bejta's guide explains who does what, and lists five things to get in writing from each before you sign. Read the guide: https://lnkd.in/eYbHSGHW

A handshake needs two hands. A circuit needs two ends. Telecom talks constantly about connecting people, places and technology, and almost never about the connection between the teams building it. New on the blog: what separates a vendor from a partner, and why the difference only shows up on the days the plan stops working. It takes two to telecom. https://lnkd.in/dWdZcyGh

There’s an old saying: “Time will tell.” I’ve always liked that one because it applies to almost everything in life. People can tell you they’ll be there. Companies can promise they’ll deliver. Plans can look perfect on paper. But you don’t really know what something is worth until the moment comes when you have to depend on it. That’s when promises become proof. Telecom is no different. We make commitments every day. Response times. Resolution times. Uptime. SLAs. They’re written into contracts, measured in minutes and percentages, and agreed upon long before anyone actually needs them. But an SLA matters most when the clock starts ticking. When a network goes down, a deadline is at risk, or something unexpected happens in the field, nobody is thinking about the document that was signed months ago. They’re thinking about whether the person on the other end is going to answer. Whether the team will move. Whether the promise will hold when it matters. That’s something we’ve always taken seriously at Mikkena Global J.S.C Because reliability isn’t really proven when everything is working. It’s proven in the moments when someone is counting on you. You can put a lot of things in writing. But in the end, time will tell.