IEEE Spectrum's Top Telecom Stories of 2023

Faster and better—or broken and worse? IEEE Spectrum‘s readers gravitated to the extremes in the kinds of telecom stories they read this year. On the one hand, stories about Russia’s satellite jamming operations in Ukraine and stumbling 5G performance around the world attracted a lot of attention from our visitors in 2023. But readers also seemed particularly eager to know more about some of the newest and the best in the field—data rate records shattered and new ways to keep identities and authentications safe, to name just a couple.