Quiet Signals, Structural Progress

Quiet Signals, Structural Progress

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Not every meaningful step in infrastructure earns immediate or proportional attention. In a market conditioned to react to spectacle, some of the most important progress can look uneventful from the outside. That’s largely been the case with XNET’s recent announcements, which together reflect a rapid advancement in how the network is positioned to scale.

Two developments stand out as 2025 closed. The first is XNET’s collaboration with @CambiumNetworks(NASDAQ:$CMBM). The second is the appointment of Stephen John to XNET’s Board of Advisors. Individually, each is meaningful. Taken together, they establish a pathway to growth at a materially faster and larger scale in 2026.

XNET’s partnership with Cambium formalizes the integration of our neutral-host roaming capabilities with Cambium’s enterprise grade WiFi 6 and WiFi 7 access points. This enables secure and seamless carrier offload in environments where connectivity is most strained and most valuable simply by the push of a few buttons. This includes hotel chains, REIT owned shopping centers, university campuses, QSRs, and large commercial venues.

What makes this notable is the practical impact. Cambium has an established footprint across MSPs, ISPs and system integrators. By aligning with an existing enterprise WiFi stack, XNET compresses deployment timelines from quarters to weeks, reducing friction for real-world adoption and network onboarding.

Importantly, pilots are already live. These are not proofs of concept, but functional integrations operating in environments where performance, reliability, and security are paramount. This is how DePINs quietly move from an idea to reality.

Alongside the appointment of a telecom-focused CEO in 2025 (@JamesWChilds), XNET’s decision to bring Stephen John onto its Board of Advisors reflects a deliberate focus on scaling correctly. John brings more than two decades of leadership across wireless infrastructure, carrier relationships, and public company operations, including executive roles at Westell Technologies (OTC:$WSTL) spanning carrier facing products and large scale DAS initiatives.

More importantly, John understands how telecom infrastructure decisions are actually made. He’s operated inside the systems that move real traffic, navigated carrier procurement cycles, and aligned deployment economics with MNO/MVNO expectations. That perspective becomes critical as XNET expands discussions with carriers and partners while moving toward repeatable, commercial offload.

This guidance is arriving before revenue inflects, not after. As offload grows, the economics flywheel shifts quickly. In high-density environments, a relatively small number of well placed deployments can generate sizable, recurring revenue. Scale for XNET isn’t about deploying everywhere it’s about deploying where it actually matters.

That’s the approach XNET is taking. Not disruption for its own sake, but a better model that integrates cleanly with existing systems, lowers friction, and expands cellular coverage using decentralized infrastructure.

As XNET scales, moves like this aren’t optional. They’re required to build real infrastructure through compounding execution.

More infrastructure.

More credibility.

More execution.

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