The content team at Channel Partners tracks stories of interest to the technology advisor and wider channel communities. Anyone selling communication and connectivity solutions will want to stay abreast of these developing stories or catch up on ones they have missed. All links are valid as of April 1.

Rising Component Prices Gives TD Synnex a Boost

TD Synnex received a boost from rising component prices amid pervasive shortages of memory and storage processors during the first quarter of its 2026 fiscal year, executives said during their earnings call. The distribution reported an 18.1% year-over-year jump in revenues to $17.2 billion, significantly exceeding prior guidance for the quarter. The company’s global distribution segment yielded $22 billion in non-GAAP gross billings, growing 17% year over year. Read the Channel Dive story.

Why TSDs Say They’re Insulated From Channel Headwinds

Technology services distributors (TSDs) say they started 2026 strong, shrugging off economic concerns haunting other firms in the channel. The broader B2B technology sales and services channel faces a multitude of challenges, as OEMs pressure partners to evolve and scale, resellers navigate a memory chip shortage and salaries slump. Nestled within a thriving as-a-service business model, TSDs aren’t sweating a downturn. In fact, the TSD market is expected to grow by at least 10% year-over-year in 2026, according to Omdia. Read the Channel Dive story.

T-Mobile defends ads after Verizon wins injunction

Verizon won a federal court order to block T-Mobile ads that claim consumers can save over $1,000 per year if they switch carriers and come to them. Despite the preliminary injunction, T-Mobile remained defiant and defended its advertising. According to the ruling this week from the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, T-Mobile must remove ads for its "Better Value" plan with the $1,000 savings claims compared to Verizon across Internet, TV, radio and any other forms of media, as well as a savings calculator on its website. The decision is a temporary injunction and the case is ongoing. See the Light Reading story.

More Layoffs at T-Mobile: Company Confirms IT Org Alignment

T-Mobile confirmed it made an unspecified number of layoffs this week. A tipster told GeekWire the number was in the hundreds, which the company did not verify. T-Mobile told GeekWire it was aligning its IT organization “to support future growth and innovation.” LinkedIn posts referenced the layoffs, with some alluding to a “major corporate restructuring.” The new round of cuts comes less than two months after T-Mobile shed 393 workers in Washington state. Those cuts impacted analysts, engineers and technicians, as well as directors, managers and VP-level executives. T-Mobile employed about 75,000 people as of Dec. 31, 2025. Read the GeekWire story.

6G and Integrated Sensing: What’s Next for ISAC

What do you get when you take key capabilities from private 5G and IoT networks and spread them across the macro 6G environment? ISAC, of course. Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is one of the most touted prospective features of future 6G networks. But when and where ISAC applications will be supported is still very much up in the air. Read the Fierce Network story.

Space Data Centers: Starcloud, SpaceX and Project Suncatcher Explained

Starcloud just crossed a huge milestone, raising $170 million in funding at a $1.1 billion valuation. While $1 billion isn’t exactly a huge sum in the data center world, it is certainly a lot for a startup – and one looking to deploy data centers in space at that. Fierce Network looks at the space data center space.

Delta Taps Amazon Leo for In-Flight Wi-Fi

Amazon Leo is slowly beginning to make its presence felt in the satellite comms market, winning a deal to provide in-flight connectivity to US airline Delta. Before anyone gets too excited, the service is not due to begin rolling out until 2028, with installation planned for an initial 500 aircraft. Read the Telecoms.com story.

Cloud-Native, AI-Driven, Yet Still Exposed

Few telcos today are truly AI-native. Most are in the AI-embedding phase. AI-embedding may help boost efficiency and unlock new revenue, but it also expands the attack surface, particularly where AI systems are exposed via APIs integrated into customer-facing services, or granting autonomous control, thus exposing data lakes, MLOps platforms, inference endpoints, and AI agents. The industry’s default response has been to throw more fixes at the problem: AI firewalls, or AI-enabled detection and observability tools. This approach often places disproportionate reliance on detecting threats and responding after access has already been granted, rather than reducing exposure by design. Read the Fast Mode story.