Updated: Mystery group stokes security fears in Sprint/T-Mobile merger

“Protect America’s Wireless” has been formed in what appears to be an attempt to block the proposed merger of Sprint and T-Mobile.

Qualcomm: Expect C-V2X in 2019 around world

Qualcomm says it’s clear that C-V2X is in the fast lane—including in China, where C-V2X is the clear technology of choice for China’s transportation system.

Verizon gets OK for CBRS tests in Florida

Verizon got the green light from the FCC to conduct CBRS tests in Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, using multiple handsets.

US ups the ante on Chinese industrial espionage claims

State-owned Chinese company Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company (FJICC) and Taiwan’s United Microelectronics have been formally charged with intellectual property theft, targeting a US firm.

US ups the ante on Chinese industrial espionage claims

State-owned Chinese company Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company (FJICC) and Taiwan’s United Microelectronics have been formally charged with intellectual property theft, targeting a US firm.

AT&T suggests Dish and DoJ are collaborating

With AT&T’s WarnerMedia and Dish arguing over a distribution deal, one AT&T executive has suggested Dish and the Department of Justice are collaborating to reverse the green light on the Time Warner acquisition.

AT&T suggests Dish and DoJ are collaborating

With AT&T’s WarnerMedia and Dish arguing over a distribution deal, one AT&T executive has suggested Dish and the Department of Justice are collaborating to reverse the green light on the Time Warner acquisition.

Smartphone market continues to plunge, with Samsung worst hit

Samsung’s smartphone shipments have declined for the past four quarters and the overall market has followed.

Smartphone market continues to plunge, with Samsung worst hit

Samsung’s smartphone shipments have declined for the past four quarters and the overall market has followed.

Boingo’s CBRS trial at Dallas Love Field gets updated status

Boingo's CBRS trial at Dallas Love Field in Texas has been updated from a Special Temporary Authority status to an initial commercial deployment by the…

American Tower: CBRS and C-band are big opportunities on path to 5G

Executives from American Tower pointed to the pending availability of wide swaths of midband spectrum as a major new opportunity.

Digital transformation 2.0: It's all about the edge—IDC report

The vision of a mass of powerful and centralized computers and communications equipment feeding data to far less powerful endpoints is antiquated.

Apple shares fall 5% on weak forecast

With Apple pointing the finger at fluctuating currency, poor performance in emerging markets and supply issues, its busiest quarter might not be as busy as investors had hoped.

Apple shares fall 5% on weak forecast

With Apple pointing the finger at fluctuating currency, poor performance in emerging markets and supply issues, its busiest quarter might not be as busy as investors had hoped.

AT&T boasts 1M unlimited data customers using connected cars

AT&T said that in the third quarter, it added more than 2 million connected cars to its network, for a total of nearly 24 million.

Verizon’s Stone: We’re employing vRAN today with 5G

Verizon’s Bill Stone said the carrier is making significant progress toward implementing vRAN technology on the carrier’s new 5G network.

WiCipedia: Doubling Down on Diversity & Google's Payoff Scandal

This week in our WiC roundup: Latinx women lag in VC funding; Google pays off its bad boys; glass cliffs are the new glass ceilings; and more.

Eurobites: Ofcom Starts Work on Opening Up BT's Poles & Ducts

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Safaricom comes on strong; Sweden approves Tele2/Com Hem deal; Spotify shares slump on margin-shaving plans; inventor of web says 'careful now.'

Zoom: 'Almost 100%' of Product Line Hit by Tariffs

With a tariff increase on the horizon, the Boston-based maker of cable modems and gateways looks to move production out of China, raise product prices.

Apple's Planned Cover-Up Meets Backlash

The Cupertino King has been increasing prices to offset a slowdown in unit sales. But it doesn't want you to know about it.

Dish-HBO Carriage Spat Could Have Big Carryover

HBO's first-ever blackout with a pay-TV distributor surfaces as DoJ tries to block AT&T-Time Warner merger.

UBBF 2018: Huawei Starts Ignition on Autonomous Driving Networks

Enabling fully autonomous cars is a huge technical challenge but putting in place autonomous driving networks -- Telco networks that run themselves without the need for human intervention -- cranks up complexity to an entirely new level.

Telcos are getting pretty good an impersonal communications

They might be slowly headed in the right direction, but telcos are still not great at relating to customers.

T-Mobile, Sprint ink $533M reciprocal long-term spectrum lease

T-Mobile disclosed a major new spectrum deal with Sprint that the company said stands apart from the two carriers’ plans to merge.

Q&A—AT&T's Pacewicz on bringing order to SD-WAN

Roman Pacewicz, chief product officer at AT&T, discusses how the MEF's first service specification for SD-WAN spells the end of its Wild West days.

BT increases profit on declining revenues by getting rid of 2,000 people

Operator group BT saw its revenues decline in the six months to the end of September but still managed a 30% increase in net profit.

Dish, others make final stand against Sprint/T-Mobile merger

Dish Network was among a number of entities voicing loud and stiff opposition to the Sprint/T-Mobile transaction.

Sky flexes its AI muscles

Artificial intelligence might be the buzz word of 2018, but few actually know what to do with the technology. That said, Sky seems to be surging ahead of the pack.

Survey: SD-WAN drivers, strategies are broad and deep

SD-WAN is still a fairly new technology, so it is not surprising that enterprises have different goals and deployment strategies.

Holistic platforms are key to AI success: report

Development and adoption of AI must be done in a systematic and unified manner across MSPs' departments and initiatives, according to ABI Research.

Budget is good start, but don’t get too excited – National Infrastructure Commission

The National Infrastructure Commission has given the UK’s Autumn Budget the thumbs up, but will the shiny new roads take much needed funding away from the country’s quest towards the digital economy?

Verizon Bundles Amazon Prime to Pump 1-Gig Fios

OTT video-focused promotion enters fray as Verizon sees an increase in broadband-only subs in the Fios services mix.

RAD: uCPE Is Gateway to IT Service Revenues

Service providers need to broaden their view of what uCPE can offer to include not just VNFs but virtual functions that support basic IT.

Former Time Warner Cable Exec Joins T-Mobile's Home & Entertainment Unit

Chris Cholas, also late of Intel, named VP of hardware, firmware and special projects.

You Suck, Ofcom CTO Tells WiFi Industry

Mansoor Hanif turns up to one of the WiFi industry's big events and tells attendees why cellular is so much better.

HPE's 'Spaceborne' Computer Gets Down to Business in Earth Orbit

The International Space Station's onboard computer will start chewing on real scientific data, after a year running test suites and benchmarks.

Eurobites: Ericsson Taps WNC for 5G Hotspot Devices

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Three UK uses carrier aggregation; Swisscom struggles on home turf; Nordic bigwigs get serious about sustainability; US slams UK tax plan.

Comcast's O'Toole: SDN Stands Up to the 'Tyranny of the Boxes'

Moving from legacy technologies like MPLS won't happen overnight, and operators need to find a way for legacy and new technologies to coexist in a hybrid WAN environment, said Comcast's Kevin O'Toole.

BT Cuts 2K Jobs to Boost Profits as Sales Dip

UK telecom incumbent says job cuts are starting to support growth in earnings, but its sales performance remains dire outside the consumer business.

The Open Source Revolution Is Over – the Revolutionaries Won

Microsoft's $7.5 billion GitHub acquisition and IBM's $34 billion purchase of Red Hat mark the final end of open source's outlaw period. Light Reading looks at how open source went mainstream, and what the revolution means for business.

Chip division continues to carry Samsung

Samsung has released its quarterly numbers, and while it is an improvement on the last quarter, the business is seemingly being propped up by a surging semiconductor unit.

NetFoundry Deploys Its Overlay Network in EdgeConnex Edge Data Centers

With NetFoundry, EdgeConnex will provide enterprise customers with private and direct connections to public cloud providers, including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.

Shareholder attitudes on fibre are shifting – investor

Some telcos might have been afraid of committing to fibre deployment due to the vast expense and potential shareholder backlash, but attitudes are changing.

Edgeworx ioFog Platform Drills Software Down to the Edge

“Our goal is to bring a full software layer down to the lowest edge layer possible and to make building for the edge as easy as building for the cloud,” says CEO Kilton Hopkins.

Enterprise orchestrators, blockchain on MEF's road map

MEF is moving forward on its project road map, including orchestration for enterprises, blockchain and 5G.

Ofcom officially releases BT from its Openreach undertakings

Measures BT undertook in 2005 to placate Ofcom over its wholesale operations are officially no longer relevant, so it doesn’t need to bother.

Q3 validates O2 indifference towards convergence

Telefonica’s UK business O2 has continued a strong 2018 performance with a 7.9% increase in revenues in the third quarter, while it greedily captured an additional 120,000 subscribers.

Facebook says sharing is increasingly going private

While announcing another solid set of numbers, Facebook revealed that sharing is increasingly moving to private channels.

Sprint shifts focus to improving financials as subscriber metrics waffle

Sprint reported quarterly financials that largely surpassed Wall Street expectations, but the company’s customer figures were decidedly mixed.

Wi-Fi 6, Next Generation Hotspot boost confidence in Wi-Fi

The Wireless Broadband Alliance Annual Industry Report for 2019 shows the evolution of Wi-Fi is accelerating and spanning new areas.

Microsoft recognises AI might screw over some employees

Artificial intelligence has been hyped as the technology which will drive profits in the next era, though few in the technology want recognise how painful the technology will be for some segments of society.

Verizon's Cevis: Wholesale customers want more bandwidth—Q&A

LOS ANGELES—Enterprise customers want more bandwidth, and they want it in real time, according to Verizon Partner Solutions President Eric Cevis.

T-Mobile, Sprint Talk 5G as Rivals Launch

Both carriers posted increased revenues and earnings for their most recent quarters, and their pending merger received approval from T-Mobile's shareholders.

MEF Focuses on Revenue-Generating Services, Not Just Specs

MEF President Nan Chen said the organization has transformed from a pure-play standards group to a software and specification development organization.

Viavi Launches Mobile Core Emulator to Speed 5G Deployments

With the 5G Core Emulator added to its product mix, Viavi can provide complete, end-to-end 5G base station testing and validation.

FCC tests show Wi-Fi can share with DSRC in 5.9 GHz band

The FCC released the results of tests conducted to see if unlicensed devices could share spectrum with Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC).

Coalition gets pushback on P2MP plan for 3.7-4.2 GHz

The Broadband Access Coalition wants spectrum in the 3.7-4.2 GHz band available for point-to-multipoint (P2MP) fixed wireless, but others oppose it.

NAB makes case for content in race to 5G

In the wireless industry’s “Race to 5G,” the FCC shouldn't sacrifice the nation’s position as the world leader in content, broadcasters said.

Here’s how CAF II auction winner NextLink is spending its $281M

NextLink was the biggest winner in the government’s recent CAF II auction. So what does NextLink plan to do with all that money?

Raynovich: Inside IBM's desperation Red Hat move

IBM's move Monday to spend $34 billion to buy open-source company Red Hat reeks of desperation for IBM CEO Ginni Rometty.

Cisco’s 400G Data Center Switches Extend Intent-Based Networking

The Nexus 400 gigabit Ethernet switches target hyperscale cloud providers, large enterprise data centers, and telecommunications providers moving to 5G.

Nokia rolls out WaveSuite to jump-start optical networking control

Nokia announced today a new suite of software-focused applications that give service providers more control over their optical networks.

MEF CTO: We're Living Up to Agile Promises

Pascal Menezes tells MEF18 audience the organization is dramatically reshaping how it creates and delivers specifications.

MEF18 Day Two: uCPE Can Spur IT Service Revenue

Light Reading editors share their highlights from Day Two of MEF18, including new uses for uCPE and MEF's faster spec processes.

Spectrum, Telus Team on Dynamic Services PoC

MEF18 demo shows policy-driven dynamic services over multi-carrier networks

NTT DoCoMo to Spend $8.8B on 5G, Forecasts Flat Profit

Japanese operator provides a financial update for the next few years that may underwhelm those expecting more from 5G.

Data Center Switching Enters the 400G Era

The growth of public and private cloud data centers is driving a strong and growing market for high-performance switch chips, and the choices dominating operators in the market make will have a dramatic impact.

Carriers Keep 5G on the Smart Cities Agenda

The need to deploy infrastructure to support 5G services is having an impact on just about every smart cities discussion and plan. Even when 5G isn't on the menu, some cities are asking for multi-decade public-partnerships, a chance for someone to influence the next major tech transition.

Sprint Gets 5G in Place for First Half of 2019

2.5GHz network capacity will be Sprint's 5G advantage, CEO Michel Combes said on company's fiscal Q2 call.

Eurobites: Telefónica Revenues Hit by Currency Movements in Q3

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: MegaFon gets loan to buy Nokia gear; BT and Sky extend UK content deal to Ireland; why GDPR can be good for you.

IBM-Red Hat: A Crazy Plan That Might Work

IBM's $34 billion Red Hat buyout is a high-risk, high-reward gamble that will probably fail. But if IBM succeeds, it can dominate enterprise computing for a generation.

NBN: We're Beating Europe & Not Overcharging Anyone

Executives from Australia's controversial wholesaler reject the accusation they are overcharging customers and insist the project is now on track to meet targets.

T-Mobile raises 2018 customer growth expectations—again

For the third time this year, the company increased the number of customers it expects to gain over the course of 2018.

T-Mobile: Mobile TV service from Layer3 won’t launch until next year

T-Mobile’s Mike Sievert disclosed that the TV service that T-Mobile launches this year won’t be portable. Instead, it will only be available in a fixed…

How easy will it be for IBM to digest Red Hat?

Imagine our surprise the day before a lunch scheduled with the CTO of Red Hat when IBM announced it was buying his company.

Inward application of tech explains dumb pipe rhetoric

Every telco fears the ‘dump pipe’ label and the push towards commoditisation, but perhaps this trend is being compounded by an inward looking attitude in the application of potentially revolutionary technologies.

MTN Consulting Names AWS’ Infrastructure Vendors

In addition to using vendors, AWS manufactures a range of equipment from routers, chips, network interface cards, and network gear for high-speed data transfers.

T-Mobile proposes phased auction for 3.7-4.2 GHz

T-Mobile says it has a better idea for how the 3.7-4.2 GHz band should be made available for 5G services—one that would see taxpayers get compensated.

5G ROI is a no-brainer for us – Orange

5G is clearly critical for the digital economy of tomorrow, but the expensive job of rolling out the networks take a bit more cunning thought.

Huawei gets another supporter: fixed wireless operator in Mo.

Another rural telecom company came out in support of China’s Huawei: Mark Twain Communications.

Spectrum Enterprise close to launching SD-WAN service

Spectrum Enterprise is "about to unveil" its SD-WAN service, according to an executive who is attending the MEF18 conference in Los Angeles this week.

AT&T still vague on 5G service pricing

AT&T’s top wireless executive declined to discuss how the operator might charge for 5G services.

T-Mobile/Sprint merger odds rise to 70%, analysts say

The analysts at Wells Fargo said they now give the proposed merger between Sprint and T-Mobile a 70% chance of happening.

The edge will make us cash, but we need to be quick – DT

With telcos searching for elusive return on investment in a 5G world, edge computing could offer some relief.

IBM’s Acquisition of Red Hat Hinges on Integration

Red Hat is viewed as an open source software beacon and some worry a heavy-handed integration from IBM could snuff out that light.

Ciena Optimizes Its Packet Optical Networks With Analytics Service

The offering is sold as a subscription service in three tiers to provide different levels of visibility and data analysis based on an organization’s needs.

Google Does Good While Other Cloud Providers Battle for JEDI

It’s not all rainbows and flowers at Google. Hundreds of employees are planning a walkout following a report that the cloud giant rewarded a top exec accused of sexual misconduct.

Nokia launches some actual applications for SDN

All the hype surrounding software-defined networking is finally starting to yield some tangible results in the form of three apps from Nokia.

UK government eyes up Silicon Valley for tax raid

Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond has confirmed a ‘digital tax’ in the autumn budget aimed at holding the internet players accountable to reasonable tax rates.

MEF Releases SD-WAN Technical Specification to Its Members

MEF aims for its SD-WAN service standardization to accelerate sales of SD-WAN products and services like MEF accomplished with Carrier Ethernet service standardization.

Russia Will Launch 5G in 2020, GSMA Says

Mobile broadband is expected to be the first use case for 5G in Russia. Specifically, operators are looking at ways to ease network congestion in urban areas.

MEF tunes up LSO Sonata in a developer release

LOS ANGELES—MEF's long-awaited Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) Sonata APIs for intercarrier services are now available as a developer release.

Nokia WaveSuite Taps SDN to Boost Optical Network Control

The platform uses the MEF 63 Optical Transport Services specification focused on Layer 1 orchestration but is not intended as an end-to-end orchestrator.

Legere: T-Mobile Not Feeling 'Major Pressure' From New Cable Rivals

Exec says cable's spending levels on new mobile services isn't scalable and believes that most of their subs are coming from Verizon.

T-Mobile: 6 of Top 10 US Markets Ready for Our 5G in 2019

As the operator adds 1.6 million net customers for its Q3.

The Telecoms.com Podcast: Broadband, 5G & Q3 Numbers

The usual suspects assemble once more in order to record their incoherent ramblings for your pleasure.

MEF18 Day One: SD-WAN Reality Sinks In

SD-WAN is taking off but making provisioning complexity remains a challenge, and one that MEF is helping to address.

FCC Tests Show WiFi Can Operate Safely in 5.9GHz Band

Cable industry wants FCC to free up substantial portion of the band for WiFi.

Harmonic's Cable Virtualization Biz Looks a Bit More Real

Says its CableOS platform is involved in a mix of commercial deployments and field trials with 25 cable ops.

AT&T's Goodell: SD-WAN Explodes as Killer App

But deployment complexities continue to challenge telecom operators.

Eurobites: Only 5G Can Save Us Now, Says Telecom Italia CEO

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telefónica's AI commandments; Colt cozies up to Oracle; BT's security boss quits; Elisa's clean air on a 5G string.

MEF Executing on SD-WAN Specs, New APIs & Enterprise Council

Organization kicks off its annual conference with three key announcements showing progress on multiple MEF 3.0 fronts.

Cable, Mobile Prepping for CBRS – Analyst

FCC said to have processed registrations for 15,000 CBRS sites in the US.

Nokia Builds Apps for Optical Network Monetization

Vendor's new WaveSuite applications are designed to help network operators make more money from their optical assets.

Vidgo Soft-Launches National OTT-TV Service

CEO Shane Cannon says service's underlying multi-CDN streaming platform held up as usage spiked during El Clásico match.

IBM's Red Hat Acquisition: 'Management Has Run Out of Steam'

IBM's Red Hat acquisition seems like a hail-mary play by a vendor that's losing to the competition in public cloud.

New York wades in to the T-Mobile/Sprint debate

New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood could prove to be another hurdle for T-Mobile and Sprint to overcome in their headache-inducing merger.

Colt beefs up cloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud

Colt has deepened its relationship with Oracle by offering dedicated cloud connectivity services to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect.

Trump set sights on spectrum strategy

US President Donald Trump has unveiled plans to create a National Spectrum Strategy to prepare the country prepare for the introduction of 5G wireless networks.

We’ll be ready for 5G by 2020 – Reliance Jio

Reliance Jio owner Mukesh Ambani has stated India will be fully-4G by 2020, and is setting his eyes on the 5G euphoria already.

IBM aims to boost its strategic imperatives with $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat

IBM has announced by far the largest acquisition in its history with the acquisition of cloud and open source software vendor Red Hat.

Comcast executives talk vCMTS

Comcast is boldly going into uncharted waters with its deployment of virtualized CMTS, and it has learned a few lessons along the way.

O2 commits to plugging 339 farmer Johns into the digital economy

O2 has announced it will start pumping enhanced 4G into some of most notorious not-spots throughout the UK, with 339 communities set to receive the connectivity boost.

Microsoft Offers to Move Employees Averse to JEDI Bid

Employees recently posted a blog protesting the company's plans to bid on the $10 billion, 10-year contract to provide cloud services for all branches of the military.

Ericsson Collaborates With Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel in India

The work is part of a wider drive to develop 5G in India, boosted by the Centre of Excellence and Innovation Lab for 5G at the Indian Institute of Technology, which Ericsson established in Delhi in July.

MVNO speeds are 23% worse than those from host operator, report says

Tutela found that the average download speeds provided by the nation’s MVNOs are 23% slower than what’s available from that MVNO’s “host” network.

IBM Gobbles Up Red Hat for $34B in Hybrid Cloud, Container Push

Red Hat will maintain its independence to work with other public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Accedian Launches Analytics Platform to Provide Front-End View of Its Data

Previously, the performance monitoring company had no way to take the test data it was creating and analyze it to detect anomalies and predict network issues.

Ligado taps Ericsson, Sequans to build satellite-based IoT network

Ligado said it inked deals with Ericsson and Sequans to build equipment for the satellite component of its planned network.

IBM buys Red Hat for $34B

IBM is looking to be a bigger player in the cloud space with its $34 billion deal to buy Red Hat, which was announced Sunday night.

VMware exec: Clear correlation between 5G, virtualization

While operators like BT have called NFV “unimpressive,” virtualization is still very much a part of operators’ path to 5G, according to VMware.

IBM: Don't Panic! We Won't Mess With Red Hat

On a joint conference call, senior IBM and Red Hat execs sought to reassure analysts, investors and customers that nothing will change at Red Hat after Big Blue completes its $34 billion takeover.

MEF18 Preview: APIs, Blockchain & More

Light Reading's Carol Wilson and Mitch Wagner tell you what they're looking forward to at MEF18 in Los Angeles.

MEF 18 Preview: APIs, Blockchain and More

Light Reading's Carol Wilson and Mitch Wagner tell you what they're looking forward to at MEF18 in Los Angeles.

Cisco Closes Sale of Video Software Unit to Permira

Synamedia declared 'open for business,' taps Dave Longaker to lead Americas region.

IBM: Don't Panic! We Won't Mess With Red Hat

On a joint conference call, senior IBM and Red Hat execs sought to reassure analysts, investors and customers that nothing will change at Red Hat after Big Blue completes its $34 billion takeover.

Challenges & Opportunities in Network Mergers & Migrations

Mergers and migrations are a great opportunity to modernize the network and automate it, but they present challenges to service providers.

CableLabs Futurist: AI Still Has Its Limits

In a fireside chat at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, CableLabs' Bernardo Huberman warns that, despite their many attributes, smart machines are still no substitute for human beings.

What Made Waves at Cable-Tec Expo?

Heavy Reading's Alan Breznick and Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner discuss the tech topics that resonated in Atlanta at SCTE's annual confab, including Full Duplex DOCSIS, expanded spectrum DOCSIS, distributed access architectures, AI, and what critical role cable might play in the 5G era.

AT&T Reveals First Commercial 5G Device

AT&T's 5G 'puck' is a Netgear mobile hotspot.

Mobileum Snaps Up Mobile Security Specialist

Roaming solutions specialist Mobileum has acquired hosted signalling firewall vendor Evolved Intelligence, a move that begs a number of questions says seasoned industry analyst.

Orchestrator Startup Inmanta Raises Funding, Bolsters Team

Startup boasts some impressive results from a proof of concept with a Belgian operator and remains confident about landing commercial deals.

Google Extends Enterprise Support in 'Firebase' Mobile Dev Service

Google is taking the next generation of its Firebase mobile app development service beyond consumer apps and small and midsized business developers.

Eurobites: UK Budget to Find £250M for Rural Full-Fiber Boost?

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telia achieves 600Gbit/s 'milestone' with Infinera; Turin's 5G remote-controlled car; MTN user numbers up in Q3.

Mr. Rogers Slams Trump, & for Good Reason

No, not Fred Rogers. We're talking about former NBC Cable chief Tom Rogers, who blasted the president's denunciation of the news media as 'enemies of the people.'

Nokia's Enterprise Push Is Adding €180M in Annual Sales

Kristian Pullola, Nokia's chief financial officer, says enterprise activities are offsetting a decline at the mainstream telecom business as he prepares for a new round of cost cutting.

Is IBM Overpaying for Red Hat?

Big Blue is paying a staggering premium for a company that trades in open source software.

RJio Aims to Increase Stake in GTPL Hathway – Reports

India's youngest and most aggressive operator is trying to beef up its cable stakes as it aims to be a force in the country's home broadband market.