SK Telecom Opens the New 5G Era

SK Telecom today announced that it has switched on its 5G network at 00:00, December 1, 2018.

Telefónica takes aim at new growth strategy

Telefónica Chairman and CEO José María Álvarez-Pallete rallied the troops on Friday by announcing a new internal program.

The Final Four: Sprint vs. Ericsson and CTIA vs. Cisco

The quarterfinals are over, and boy were there some surprises.

T-Mobile Customer Service Reps Use AWS to Predict Why You’re Calling

The company uses AWS SageMaker Ground Truth to create natural language understanding models for customer service conversations.

CenturyLink CTO Dugan digs into company road map—Q&A

CenturyLink's Andrew Dugan is digging into his new role as the company's CTO.

Huawei’s struggles open $5B opportunity for others: analysts

Growing concerns among governments across the world related to Huawei’s equipment could create a $5 billion opportunity for rivals.

VMware, Dell Tech Report Revenue Surge Ahead of Tracking Stock Vote

The elephant in the room on both earnings calls was the VMware-AWS relationship. The latest offering — AWS branded servers running in customers’ on-premises data centers — could hurt legacy hardware vendors like Dell.

SDxCentral's Weekly Roundup — November 30, 2018

Google Cloud lands in Hong Kong; Infinera adds optical network to its open line system; and plenty of news from AWS re:Invent.

Italy floats the idea of a nationalised broadband network

With a suspiciously positioned government, perhaps we should not be surprised Italy is going against popular trends by proposing a nationalised broadband network.

ZTE may be in trouble with the US yet again

Reports indicate ZTE is suspected of being naughty, yet again, with respect to US government conditions for being able to operate there.

Palo Alto Networks to provide new security product

Palo Alto Networks is upping the ante in the security game, announcing a new product that will be directed at mobile service providers early next year.

Cisco, AT&T, Intel Promote Best Anti-Botnet Practices for Companies

The anti-botnet guide provides best practices for service providers, enterprises, and software and device manufacturers.

Charter files for C-Band tests in Florida

CCO Fiberlink, a subsidiary of Charter Communications, filed an application for Special Temporary Authority to conduct tests in the 3.7-4.2 GHz band.

AT&T Pegs 2019 Capex Guidance in $23B Range, Despite 5G Push

Think 5G is going to blow out 2019 capex? Uh-uh, says AT&T.

Cloud Dynamics Underpin MYCOM OSI's Acquisition

Why would a private equity company buy a telecom network assurance and optimization company? Because the cloud is where the money is.

Broadband Incumbents Should Be 'a Little Bit Nervous' About Starry – Analyst

Starry's millimeter wave-powered fixed wireless technology and biz economics 'appear to be working' as startup prepares to enter several more markets.

Eurobites: Altice Sells Off SFR Fiber Assets for $2.3B

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telefónica outlines transformation plan; Italy's League party supports state-backed broadband network; Germany scrutinizes Amazon.

Cisco: We'll Partner With Service Providers on Collaboration

The energetic Amy Chang, head of collaboration technology at Cisco, talks with a less energetic Mitch Wagner of Light Reading about the vendor's strategy to partner with service providers to take the stress out of videoconferencing.

WiCipedia: 'Trusting One's Dopeness' & the Happiest Women in Tech

This week in our WiC roundup: Fidelity re-evaluates its gender breakdown; women in India are happiest in tech roles; Apple starts new training program for women in tech; and more.

AT&T Bets Big on OTT to 'Bend the Cost Curve' of TV & Video

Also sets plan to launch a three-tiered SVoD product in Q4 2019.

Europe's Telcos Fret as Walls Close In On Huawei

The tightening of restrictions on China's biggest network equipment maker could deal a major blow to its European customers.

Telcos are missing the AI trick

We’ve spoken about this before, but our bugbear has been renewed at The Great Telco Debate; telcos have too narrow a view on artificial intelligence (AI).

AT&T’s CEO on 5G: ‘Early opportunities are going to be in enterprise’

AT&T’s top wireless executive laid out his vision for 5G, noting that the company’s wireless business contributes fully 39% of AT&T’s revenues.

ZTE Led Q3 Surge in Optical Transport Revenues, Dell’Oro Report Says

Huawei continues to dominate the worldwide market, with Ciena tops in North America.

Three completes 5G outdoor trials in Hong Kong

3HK, the third largest mobile operator in Hong Kong conducted 5G trials on both the 3.5GHz and 26GHz bands

The diversification dilemma; making money and meeting expectations, can it be done?

Diversification is an accepted truth in the telco industry nowadays, but are the telcos resourceful and adaptable enough to chase after new revenues while also achieving their connectivity responsibilities?

T-Mobile/Sprint could face House hearings

With Democrats taking control of the House, a group of unions and others is calling for hearings on the proposed merger between Sprint and T-Mobile.

Juniper Networks buys cloud storage company HTBASE

Juniper Networks is looking to prop up its cloud capabilities by buying enterprise cloud storage vendor HTBASE for an undisclosed sum.

Updated: T-Mobile testing another banking service

T-Mobile said it is headed back into the banking business, albeit on a test basis.

Qualcomm pumps $100mn into AI start-up fund

US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has created a $100 million investment fund to support artificial intelligence (AI) startups in an effort to put mass-market devices, rather than the cloud, at the heart of AI activity.

ETSI publishes new spec and reports on 5G tech

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute, ETSI, released a new specification on packet formatting and forwarding and two reports on transport and network slicing respectively.

The quarterfinals: Vote for the most powerful person in wireless

The results are in from round two, and they’re pretty interesting. Now, in the quarterfinals, things are even more interesting.

AWS goes deep on machine learning

AWS announced a raft of machine learning services at this week's re:Invent 2018 conference in Las Vegas, including new algorithms for SageMaker.

Qualcomm Launches $100M Fund for AI, Invests in First Startup

Qualcomm will use the fund to invest in startups building AI for autonomous cars, robotics, and machine learning platforms.

StackPath EdgeEngine Uses Serverless to Strip Edge Deployment Complexity

Developers only need to upload their own code, which is then automatically deployed to the edge in an isolated runtime environment.

From siting to spectrum, CTIA revels in banner year

From infrastructure siting rules to spectrum auctions, CTIA has enjoyed a lot of wins in 2018.

Juniper Buys Composable Infrastructure Firm HTBASE

The deal will bring storage to Contrail’s multicloud product as well as expand Juniper’s edge computing portfolio.

VMware Tech Prevents Cyberattacks Across Texas School Districts

Two VMware customers, a Texas Education Service Center and a nationwide hospice company, say NSX and vRealize Network helped them secure and manage networks.

TRAI reveals Jio is the only Indian telco in growth

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released its monthly report on the state of play in India, and it’s a pretty gloomy picture for everyone aside from Jio.

AWS Sells Hardware to Enterprises to Use in Their Private Data Centers

The company is working with VMware on the new Amazon Outposts initiative. Considering VMware’s sister company Dell EMC makes hardware, this could have some interesting implications.

Qualcomm launches $100M investment fund for AI startups

Qualcomm is funneling the money into AI startups via the newly created Qualcomm Ventures AI Fund.

SK Telecom to Lead New ICT Innovations based on 5G-AI Convergence

SK Telecom today announced its plans to lead New ICT innovations in Korea by not just rolling out 5G network, but by converging its 5G network with AI technologies.

AT&T: 5G by End of Year, but No Commercial Launch Date Yet

5G has the 'most potential of any network and any technology that I've seen,' comments John Donovan, CEO of AT&T's Communications unit.

Bell Canada Makes 5G Progress

In a wide-ranging interview, Jeremy Wubs, Bell Canada SVP of marketing, talks about how Canada's biggest telco deploys next-generation business services, including 5G, software-defined networking and NFV.

So What Is a Telco These Days?

Should a telco be a bank? Should they own media companies?

Will Plume's Open Source Plan Pay Off?

Comcast, Liberty Global, Bell Canada, Samsung and Sagemcom are on board with 'OpenSync,' as Plume seeks much more buy-in for its smart home software initiative.

T-Mobile Launches Mobile Banking Service in the US

T-Mobile becomes first major mobile operator to offer a mobile banking service in the US.

FCC 5G Auction Is at $336.3M Thursday Morning

The 5G auction adds nearly $20 million in bids on Thursday morning.

ZTE's Future at Stake as Venezuela Deal Attracts US Scrutiny

Embattled Chinese equipment vendor is staring at trouble after US senators called for an investigation into possible sanctions breaches in Venezuela.

Eurobites: US Leans on Germany, UK to Give Huawei the Heave-Ho

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ericsson extends connected car deal with Volvo; ASN boosts oceanic research; Nokia's Gfast first Down Under.

Qualcomm's $100M Plan to Seed AI in Devices

Chip giant's plans to support AI startups could help it to flog more expensive processors, but it faces a big challenge from China's Huawei.

Vertical Systems: SD-WAN Not Profitable Yet

In this video interview, Vertical Systems' Erin Dunne dissects the emerging SD-WAN market and explains why service providers aren't making much money from it yet.

Google’s MVNO is here to stay

After launching the MVNO service in 2015, Project Fi has trundled along without any real fanfare, but a rebrand of the service suggests it might get a bit more attention over the coming months.

Zuckerberg absent again; Facebook doesn’t seem to want to help itself

Facebook is a company which is consistently under fire for a rap sheet which seems to longer with each passing day, but you have to wonder why it seems to be constantly compounding the problem by irritating lawmakers.

Federated sees results of redundancy

This year’s hurricane season is giving companies like Federated Wireless a taste of how well their sensor networks are holding up.

AWS Beefs Up Its Database Portfolio to Escape ‘Abusive’ Relationships

Part of its database build-out includes a new blockchain managed service.

LG hands TV boss keys to the mobile business

LG has announced the President of its profitable Home Entertainment business will also be taking the struggling Mobile Communications unit under his wing.

Optical WDM equipment market hits growth spurt—report

The optical transport WDM equipment market grew 15% year-over-year in the third quarter, according to a report by Dell'Oro Group.

Versa Networks partners with AWS on SD-WAN service

Versa Networks has met its match in the clouds by partnering with Amazon Web Services to offer SD-WAN to AWS partners.

CenturyLink's Dugan named to MEF's board

MEF announced today that it has added CenturyLink's Andrew Dugan to its board of directors.

Google goes all-in on MVNO

Google changed the name of its MVNO service from Project Fi to Google Fi and added a new bring-your-own-device option.

Nokia and StarHub boast of completed 5G NR trial in Singapore

Nokia and the Singapore mobile operator StarHub conducted an outdoor pilot of both industrial and consumer use cases on 5G New Radio.

Sprint partners with Qualcomm and HTC on new 5G device

Sprint has announced a new partnership with Qualcomm and HTC to develop a mobile ‘smart hub’ that will run on 5G next year.

Round 2 voting: The most powerful person in U.S. wireless

The results are in, and now it’s time to move on to round two.

ABI Research: Network Slicing May Create $66B in Business by 2026

Mobile service providers stand to benefit from the growing promise of network slicing, but many are not taking full advantage of the opportunity.

Envoy Joins Kubernetes, Prometheus With a CNCF Diploma

The service mesh proxy was initially developed by Lyft and breezed through the CNCF incubation process a year faster than its fellow graduates.

New Zealand joins the march against Huawei

Kiwi telco Spark has had an application to incorporate Huawei’s radio access network (RAN) equipment in its 5G infrastructure plans slapped down over security concerns.

Nutanix Challenges VMware to PoC Battle, Launches Xi Cloud Services

“Our dominance in the core is why VMware avoids doing PoCs in accounts when we are in a head-to-head fight,” said CEO Dheeraj Pandey.

Nokia’s Software Biz Is Firmly Rooted in Silicon Valley

The company is building a corporate campus in Sunnyvale, California, to provide a home for its more than 1,000 employees in the Valley.

Netherlands falls to three MNOs as Europe approves T-Mobile/Tele2 deal

The European Commission has officially approved Deutsche Telekom’s acquisition of Tele2’s Dutch business, reducing the number of MNOs in the country from four to three.

Federated Wireless, Ruckus, Athonet to hold IoT demo

On Thursday, IoT developers at AWS re:Invent will get a chance to use DeepLens cameras connected to a private LTE network supported by CBRS.

Update – FCC 5G Auction Tops $316M Late Wednesday Evening

The FCC 28GHz 5G auction is over $316M as of Wednesday evening.

Windstream Underscores Need for Reach

Adding more Southwest US "on-ramps" to its Cloud Connect platform underscores importance of fiber reach.

Sprint Unveils Another 5G Device

The HTC MiFi device -- like AT&T's mobile puck -- will distribute 5G signals, via WiFi, to other non-5G devices.

AWS Launches 'Outposts' On-Prem Cloud Hardware, With VMware Help

Outposts lets users run native AWS software, or VMWare Cloud on AWS, on AWS-built on-premises hardware.

FCC 5G Auction Hits $261.3M Wednesday

The FCC 28GHz 5G auction hits $261.3 million on the morning of the eighth active day of bidding rounds.

IoT Boom Won't Pay Off for Mobile Operators

Ericsson's latest mobility report is a wake-up call for anyone who thinks cellular IoT connectivity will fuel sales growth for telcos.

Closing the Cybersecurity Talent Gap

The security industry has an incredible opportunity to move forward and close the talent gap by thinking outside of the norm and taking a chance on technology-savvy women with translatable skills.

Operators Using PoCs to Drive APIs to Market Faster

Real-world experience using live networks in MEF proofs-of-concept is allowing operator members to shape technical specs faster.

Spectrum Enterprise: Virtualized Services Virtually Here

In this video interview, Charter Spectrum Enterprise's Gunnar Peters talks about the MSO's efforts to build an SDN/NFV framework for delivering virtualized services to commercial customers.

Eurobites: Wind Tre Socked by Iliad's Entry Into Italy

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: TIM makes 5G connection; ADVA targets the network edge; Nokia boosts in-home WiFi, Ofcom tackles UK directory enquiries scam.

Smart Cities Are a Truly Different Kind of Telco Business

Smart cities could be a telco dream come true – a rare combo of connectivity-fed projects that require technology oversight, industrial might and the integration of several different disciplines under one roof. But for the big, long-term payoff, they'll need to keep investing in the space and be careful not to overreach.

Vodafone Idea Awards $1.3B 4G Contracts – Reports

Chinese vendors have advanced in India at the expense of their European rivals.

New Zealand Blocks Huawei From 5G Deal With Spark

New Zealand appears to join the US and Australia in excluding Huawei from parts of its telecom sector.

Exclusive: Early 5G Network Gear Won't 'Talk' to Device Chipsets

Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia are under pressure to show their standards-based 5G basestations are on speaking terms with forthcoming devices... because currently they aren't.

ETSI releases new spec, reports on next-gen IP protocols

ETSI released a new specification and two reports on next-generation IP protocols.

Googlers start hitting back at censored search engine

Google employees around the world are starting to remember what the ‘Don’t be Evil’ motto actually means, and the controversial Project Dragonfly is next on the radar.

Sprint, HTC announce mystery ‘5G mobile smart hub’ for 2019

Sprint and device vendor HTC announced they will sell a “5G mobile smart hub” in the first half of next year.

Uber feels sharp(ish) end of Dutch and British stick

Following a data breach which exposed personal information of roughly three million European customers, Uber has been fined over £900,000 by Dutch and British authorities.

AWS Gets Involved With the Satellite Biz, While Keeping Its Feet on the Ground

The company announced AWS Ground Station to ingest and process data from satellites and send it to the AWS cloud.

AWS Firecracker Further Blurs Container, Serverless Management

The open source platform acts as a next-generation hypervisor targeted at modern architectures and already powers AWS' Lambda and Fargate services.

NTT DoCoMo, Rohde & Schwarz collaborate on bands above 100 GHz

NTT DoCoMo and Rohde & Schwarz joined forces on a set of experiments to analyze RF propagation characteristics in spectrum bands above 100 GHz.

Ericsson, Cisco offer their 5G forecasts

Both Ericsson and Cisco released their traffic forecasts for the coming years.

Ericsson predicts 1.5 billion 5G connections by 2024

In its latest Mobility Report, Ericsson predicted that by 2024, 8.4 billion out of 8.9 billion mobile subscriptions will be on mobile broadband, including 1.5 billion on 5G.

AWS debuts Global Accelerator for better network performance

AWS took the wraps off of a new service that boosts the performance and reliability of global connections that are running on its public cloud.

UK Gov reserves £6.8bn to realise 5G dream by 2027

The UK Government has released a report which outlines £600 billion investments in national infrastructure, including £6.8 billion to make 5G a reality by 2027 and nationwide full fibre coverage by 2033.

Cisco report: Enterprise SD-WAN will bury MPLS by 2022

A report today by Cisco said that SD-WAN traffic in the enterprise sector will grow at a CAGR of 37% compared to 3% for traditional MPLS-based WAN.

Patriot Mobile, an MVNO for conservatives, looks for growth

Patriot Mobile is hoping to use the holiday shopping rush to gain some traction in the market.

Google faces GDPR complaints over user location tracking

Seven privacy advocacy groups will be reporting Google to their relevant data protection authority, claiming the firm is violating GDPR through location tracking of users.

HPE Buys AI, Big Data Software Vendor BlueData

Also today HPE rolled out four new edge products as well as storage advances with machine learning built in.

Vote to decide who is the most powerful person in the wireless industry

We’re letting you decide who is the most powerful person in the U.S. wireless industry for 2018.

AWS Will Use Custom Arm Processors to Power Certain Cloud Instances

The company says that using the custom Arm processors could cut costs as much as 40 percent.

Barefoot Networks looks to disrupt 5G with its P4 Tofino chip

Ever since it came out of stealth mode two years ago, Santa Clara, California-based Barefoot Networks has taken aim at shaking up the networking sector.

Red Hat Buys Hybrid Cloud Data Management Provider NooBaa

NooBaa’s hybrid and multi-cloud management technology will be integrated with Red Hat’s storage offerings.

Apple finds the water is warming up in App Store legal battle

Apple has found itself in court once again, but Qualcomm is no-where to be seen. Instead, a few of its loyal iLifers are challenging the firm over whether the App Store is an illegal monopoly.

Cisco Predicts Explosion in IP Data Traffic, Connected Devices

This growth in traffic will mean that more than one-third of network capacity will have to bypass the core by 2022.

VMware Wavefront’s AI Genie Automates Anomaly Detection

The vendor updated its cloud-native monitoring platform with new microservices capabilities and automated anomaly detection across infrastructure and applications.

Ericsson Predicts There Will Be 1.5 Billion 5G Subscribers in 6 Years

The vendor also says that IoT subscriptions are set to surge to 4.1 billion devices in 2024. Network operators have said they plan to build 85 NB-IoT and LTE-M networks.

Update: FCC 5G Bids up to $241.6M

UPDATED 5:35 PM – The 28GHz auction rolls on with bids at $241.6M on Tuesday afternoon.

AWS Takes Aim at Oracle & Microsoft – With Telco Assistance

AWS CEO Andy Jassy says enterprise are 'looking to flee' Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server – and the Philippines' Globe Telecom says they're one example of a company that did just that.

EC Signs Off Tele2, T-Mobile Merger in Netherlands

Tie-up secures 'unconditional' approval in a possible sign that regulators are giving up their opposition to merger activity.

FCC 5G Bids up to $196.4M

The 28GHz auction rolls on as bids approach $200M.

Eurobites: Europe Will Remain a 5G Laggard, Says Ericsson Report

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup, German spectrum auction process kicks off; BT lands UK police IT gig; has Deutsche Telekom's Dutch passed the EU's antitrust test?

Cisco: Get Ready for the Multi-Zettabyte Internet

Cisco's annual state-of-the-Internet report – a.k.a. the Cisco Visual Networking Index – projects 4.8 zettabytes of annual traffic by 2022, as networks are transformed by edge computing, IoT and the growing popularity of OTT-delivered video.

Synamedia CEO Seeks New Video Service Tangents

In addition to helping pay-TV partners hit all screens, Synamedia is fleshing out its portfolio with cross-app search and discovery offerings and services that help distributors, OTT players and content owners crack down on video piracy and password sharing.

Cisco: Connected Home Will Be Key Driver of IoT by 2022

Connected home applications, such as home automation, home security and video surveillance, connected white goods, and tracking applications, will represent 48% of the total M2M connections by 2022, Cisco says.

Terabyte Households Surge as Video Eats the Internet

Broadband homes that consume 1 Terabyte-plus of data per month more than doubled, Cisco data shows. Will ISPs raise their data ceilings?

Altice USA Exec: We're a 'Challenger Brand'

Co-President and COO Hakim Boubazine says Altice USA's view as a 'challenger brand' extends to the company's technology strategy and how the operator will evolve the cable network, the advanced services it will deliver over that network, and with respect to its partnerships, including its MVNO deal with Sprint.

Verizon's Hakl on 5G Rollout & Company Reorganization

Verizon's Shawn Hakl, SVP of Business Products, talks with Light Reading's Mitch Wagner about the telco's 5G rollout and its recent, sweeping reorganization to focus on customer segments.

AWS Debuts Networking Services – Should Telcos Be Scared?

Amazon Web Services launches Global Accelerator and other networking services. Is AWS going into competition with telcos?

DT/Tele2 tie up could smooth path to industry consolidation

For years the telco industry has condemned the EU’s approach to competition, though green-lighting DT’s acquisition of Tele2’s Dutch business could indicate a loosening grip on the idea of four operators.

Germany green lights 5G plans despite industry protest

German regulator Bundesnetzagentur has said it will move ahead with the proposed 5G auction plan, despite German telcos and industry lobby group GSMA slamming the plans as a commercial nightmare.

Openreach announces another one million GFast homes

Openreach has continued to push forward in its GFast mission, announcing it will connect another one million homes in 81 areas across the UK by next summer.

Service providers need to focus on digital touch points: report

When it comes to serving customers, service providers should expand their business offerings beyond edge compute technologies, according to Gartner.

OpenSignal: Mobile network speeds beat Wi-Fi in 33 countries

Mobile data speeds are faster on average than Wi-Fi in 33 countries, according to a new study from OpenSignal.

AT&T's Pacewicz says more work needs to be done on VNFs—Q&A

Virtual network functions (VNFs) are still not living up to their full potential, according to AT&T's Roman Pacewicz.

Phones 4U reaches from beyond the grave to claw back millions

Phones 4U administrator PwC has appointed one of the UK’s leading insolvency experts to assess whether there are grounds to make a claim against mobile operators for unlawful collusion.

Campaign against Huawei intensifies

The U.S. government’s concerns about potential espionage via Huawei products have reached heightened alert.

Smartphones drive one-third of all Black Friday sales

Black Friday was the biggest mobile shopping day in U.S. history with more than $2 billion in sales originating on smartphones for the first time.

Google Drives Direct Istio Access Into Google Kubernetes Engine

Within GKE, Istio will collect telemetry about a running container and send that information to either Stackdriver or Prometheus to allow an organization to monitor the health of that container.

Alibaba Restructures Amidst Cloud Computing Push and Growth

The research firm MTN Consulting said that Alibaba’s cloud computing business is rapidly becoming the group's “most ambitious venture,” as it boosts its overseas investments and refocuses on R&D.

Nokia names Uitto to lead mobile networks unit

Nokia announced the departure of Marc Rouanne and the appointment of Tommi Uitto as president of Mobile Networks.

UK goes through the gears in autonomous driving race

The US, China and Japan have been moving ahead swiftly in the race to put autonomous vehicles on public roads, but new trials in West London perhaps indicate the UK is not that far behind.

HPE Composable Cloud Invites Third-Party Vendors to Hybrid Cloud Party

The new product bundles software on top of HPE ProLiant DL rack servers for an open hybrid cloud platform.

U.S. Government Pressures Allies to Shun Huawei in 5G Contracts, Report Says

Government officials are fearful that telecom providers using Huawei gear in other countries will be vulnerable to spying.  

Mobile data could get even costlier after T-Mobile and Sprint merger

Report by Rewheel showed Americans already have the most expensive mobile data among all four-operator markets. A move to reduce the number of them could make it worse.

LeoSat touts ultralow latency

LeoSat Enterprises has big ambitions to handle huge quantities of data around the world—and to do so with very low latency.

Nokia Merges Mobile, Fixed Network Groups as Another Exec Is Shown the Door

The company says its newly formed Access Networks organization will help it win 5G contracts and battle against rivals Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE, and Samsung.

Web-Scale Companies Pioneer Open Line Systems, but Will Network Operators Follow?

The optical line system is undergoing a revolution. Web-scale providers are bringing the concept of disaggregation to optical networking in the form of the open line system (OLS). But are operators buying it?

FCC Ups Auctions for 5G to 4 Rounds Daily, Bids at $164.3M

The FCC ups the tempo on the first millimeter wave 5G auction.

Countdown to Commercial Use of Operator Cloud VR

Cloud VR solves several problems in the VR industry, but also places higher demands on operator networks.

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Sale of Arris Set-Top Box Biz 'On the Table' for CommScope – Analyst

CommScope could get $500 million for that unit 'in a distressed sale to a financial buyer,' Jefferies analyst George Notter suggests.

Eurobites: Telefónica Rolls Out Network-Based Cybersecurity Service

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Openreach extends UK Gfast reach; Deutsche Telekom signs SmartConnect deal with iPass; Telecom Egypt hits 200G with Nokia; Phones 4u aftershocks continue.

Cox Business: Riding the Next Wave of Growth

Brian Rose of Cox Business sheds some light on new areas that the division is eyeing as it looks to expand its services arsenal and further differentiate its position in the market.

5G Field Trials Show the Power of Applications

In partnership with Huawei, China Telecom Shenzhen has invested in 5G innovation and begun researching how to commercialize 5G technology.

MEF CTO Sees Key Role in Automation

Pascal Menezes says defining key APIs between carriers and setting SD-WAN standards is MEF's way of helping drive automation and digital transformation process.

Eurobites: Telefónica Rolls Out Allot's Network-Based Cybersecurity in Spain

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Openreach extends UK Gfast reach; Deutsche Telekom signs SmartConnect deal with iPass; Telecom Egypt hits 200G with Nokia; Phones 4u aftershocks continue.

Bill Shock: Orange, China Telecom Fret About 5G Energy Costs

Leading telcos are worried about the power inefficiency of forthcoming 5G networks and the impact this could have on profit margins.

Building a 5G-Ready Experience-Centric Converged Transport Network

To compete with OTTs an operator needs to build a comprehensive, flexible, and intelligent transport network that provides outstanding user experience and meets service development requirements for full-service operations.