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17 December 2025

Wireless Watch Christmas Quiz 2025

Please send your answers to [email protected]

Winners will be announced in our first issue of 2026. Please do not cheat. We will be suspicious of perfect responses.

 

M&A

  1. How much did Softbank agree to pay for Ampere in March?
  1. Which company completed its acquisition of Intelsat this month, and how much did it pay for the satellite company?
  1. In February, Nokia completed its acquisition of which optical vendor?
  1. How much did Three UK and Vodafone UK pledge to invest in improving their mobile networks as part of their planned merger?
  1. Who is acquiring Lumos for $950 million?

Numbers

  1. How many subscribers were on T-Mobile’s FWA waiting list at the beginning of the year?
  1. How many attendees at MWC 2025?
  1. How many tower sites does Viettel have?
  1. How many mentions of ‘AI’ in Mavenir’s December 8th press release entitled – ‘Mavenir Confirms Refocus Strategy on Mobile Core and AI Vision With Expanded Leadership Team to Accelerate AI-Native Network Strategy’
  1. How many times has Jensen Huang travelled to China in 2025?

Recent history

  1. Which UK MNO is said to have “absolutely shanked” some of its franchise operators?
  1. How many telcos signed partnerships with Perplexity AI this year?
  1. How many equity partners in Ericsson’s API JV Aduna can you name? One point for each
  1. Which model of Nvidia chips has Trump finally approved for sale in China?
  1. The US is considering revoking the green card of which EU official, as a response to the EU fine on X this month?

Ancient history

  1. Which telco launched the first 3G network and in what year?
  2. How much did US telcos pay in the C-band spectrum auction in 2021?
  1. What year was Ethernet invented?
  1. What was the name of the first active communications satellite launched in 1962?
  1. Who wrote As We May Think? In what year?