KubeCon to Focus on Stability, Extensibility, Stateful Support

“We expect more people to build frameworks on top of Kubernetes,” said Janet Kuo, a software engineer at Google and co-chair of the KubeCon event.

US influence on Europe failing as France resists Huawei ban

The White House might have felt banning Huawei was an appropriate measure for national security, but France does not agree with the drastic action.

AT&T floats proposal for new category of CBRS devices

Members of AT&T’s technical and regulatory staff recently met with FCC officials to discuss a possible new category of devices operating in the CBRS 3.5…

Automakers step up demands for V2X at 5.9 GHz

The Association of Global Automakers is urging the FCC to ensure the entire 5.9 GHz band gets retained for auto-safety services.

Marek’s Take: Which vendors will win in the vRAN race?

Upstarts like Altiostar and Mavenir hope to disrupt the vRAN space, but large operators are usually reluctant to work with smaller players, and they hand over…

New BT logo looks more like a warning than an invitation

British Telecom has filed for a trademark on a new logo but it’s a bit rubbish and the internet is ridiculing it.

Cisco sees 5G money in its future

On its fiscal third-quarter 2019 earnings call this week, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins mentioned “wired and wireless” networking a few times.

Microsoft and Sony join up on AI and cloud gaming

Microsoft and Sony have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop cloud systems for game and content streaming, and to integrate Microsoft’s AI with Sony’s image sensors.

Don’t ignore Huawei’s ban on buying US components

While everyone is focusing on the ban on selling in the US, the ban on buying US components is a much more interesting chapter of the Huawei saga.

Microsoft and Sony team up on cloud-based gaming

In a seemingly surprise move, rivals Microsoft and Sony announced on Thursday they were teaming up on cloud-based gaming and AI solutions.

FCC reveals glacial progress on the resale of location data by operators

US operators have been reselling the location data they accumulate about their subscribers and have been slow to deliver on promises to stop.

Ericsson Head Criticizes Europe For Slow 5G Rollouts

Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm blames European government officials and regulators for letting Europe fall behind Asia and the United States on 5G.

HPE Buys Supercomputer Company Cray for $1.3B, Boosts Its HPC Business

Cray recently won a portion of the U.S. Department of Energy’s $600 million exascale supercomputer contract.

LG muscles in on competitive AI chip space

LG has unveiled has developed its own artificial intelligence chip in an attempt to muscle in on this increasingly competitive segment of the semiconductor market.

Top carriers tell FCC they stopped selling user location data to aggregators

The top U.S. wireless carriers have told the FCC they stopped selling customer location data to third-party aggregators.

Ericsson CEO: Europe needs to speed up 5G deployments or miss out

Ericsson CEO and President Börje Ekholm warned that Europe may lose ground to the U.S. and China on 5G.

Project EVE Seed Code Drops, Creates Virtualization Standard for Edge Devices

LF Edge announced the Edge Virtualization Engine (EVE) as a new open source project when it launched in January.

Juniper Networks picks Tata Consultancy Services for product assurance

Juniper Networks announced it has selected Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to beef up its product assurance process with artificial intelligence and automation.

Open19 Hardware in PoCs With ‘Mega Data Center Operators’

Open19 Foundation President Yuval Bachar kicked off the second annual summit by declaring that “2019 is the year of Open19 adoption.”

Samsung’s 5G phone now available on Verizon

The first wave of 5G smartphones are hitting markets in the U.S. throughout May.

Apptio Buys Cloudability to Extend Cloud Cost Management

Cloudability’s platform leverages data science, machine learning (ML), and automation to sort through cloud spending programs. This allows customers to have a simplified view of their usage and spending across different cloud platforms.

Telefónica Takes AURA AI Program to More Markets

The “cognitive intelligence” platform was developed with Microsoft as a way to use AI to help customers manage their own accounts with the service provider.

Qualcomm: mmWave is not just for outdoors

While a lot of the early deployments of 5G using millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum have focused on outdoor areas, Qualcomm is here to remind everyone that it…

Android App Developers Get '5G Mode'

A new API from Qualcomm promises to give Android Q app developers information about how fast users' 5G phones will go. But don't expect a 5G 'killer app' anytime soon.

Huawei vs Trump & the Casualties of War

Putting Huawei on the trade blacklist would have dire consequences for the global supply chain and the operators that use its equipment.

Big 5G Event Keynote Panel: We Need to Talk About Edge Computing

Ibrahim Gedeon from Telus, Jim Poole from Equinix and Tom Tofigh from QCT discuss edge computing as part of the telco cloud at the Big 5G Event in Denver on May 8, 2019.

Service Providers Can Take Control of IoT Security

As 5G networks begin to roll out, it is worth looking at how service providers can deliver high-value, high-margin security services in a way that no one else in the IoT ecosystem can match.

WiCipedia: Egg Freezing, Hormone Lunches & Back to Work With Babies... Oh My!

This week in our WiC roundup: Women in Comms steals the show in Denver; moms in tech hog the headlines; women are talked over in meetings (duh); and more!

Eurobites: EU Must Pull Its 5G Finger Out, Says Ericsson's Ekholm

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: BT launches employee share scheme, unveils underwhelming new logo; German trade group distances itself from US stance on Huawei.

Cloud Bursts: Oracle Touts Telco Triumphs, Microsoft Proclaims Partnerships & More

Oracle sells to Asian telco Circles.Life; Microsoft partners with Sony on gaming; VMware acquires Bitnami for multicloud, and more telco cloud news this week.

Judge rules that Charter must pay for letters to Windstream customers

A federal judge in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York has ruled that Charter Communications has to pay for letters that will be…

A look at how US suppliers have been hit by Huawei news

President Trump’s Executive Order and the decision to place Huawei on the US ‘Entity List’ is going to dominate the headlines over the next couple of days, but what will be the impact on US suppliers?

Facebook restricts Live streaming access

Facebook has introduced new restrictions on its video streaming platform, Live, suggesting those who break other Facebook policies will be banned for a period of time.

T-Mobile says dynamic spectrum sharing needs low- and midband spectrum

T-Mobile CEO John Legere said, "If you want to use DSS, you are effectively committing in the same breath to rolling out 5G in mid- and low band."

Samsung confirms UK launch-date for Galaxy S10 5G

Although it is easy to get lost in the 5G hype, this is an important announcement to take note of; Samsung’s 5G device will be available in the UK from June 7.

uCPE processor sales set for a growth a spurt - report

According to a report by IHS Markit, uCPE processors sales will sail to $327 million by 2023, which would be a big jump from $7 million this year.

Cisco Rides High on Rising Network Complexities

Cisco's expanded push into 5G and WiFi 6 is leading the vendor into wider opportunities outside of its traditional domain.

UK is the tech start-up centre of Europe – research

A new report from Tech Nation has crowned the UK as the European hotspot for technology start-ups, and fourth worldwide for scale-up investment after US, China and India.

Commerce Dept. bans Huawei, 70 affiliates from sourcing U.S. components

The move comes one day after U.S. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in relation to telecom equipment.

Tata Communications Taps Cisco-Viptela SD-WAN for Hybrid Network Service

The India-based provider already has two SD-WAN services: one based on its own application-aware WAN technology and another based on Versa Networks tech.

Tata Communications taps Cisco's SD-WAN for multi-cloud deployments

Cisco chalked up another customer win for its Viptela-based SD-WAN offering, and extended its partnership with Tata Communications in the process.

Verizon’s Vestberg boasts about 5G speeds

Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said the carrier measured 1.5 Gigabits per second on the new Samsung Galaxy S10 5G in Chicago today.

Huawei hints at legal retaliation to Trump executive order

US President Trump has issued an executive order calling for major restrictions on technology suspected of assisting ‘foreign adversaries’.

WSJ columnist disputes NYT’s report about Russia and 5G health effects

The New York Times article this week claiming Russia is behind the 5G cancer concerns has received pushback from a Wall Street Journal columnist.

Cisco's Robbins talks tariffs, 'lumpy' service providers during earnings ca

Cisco turned in positive numbers during its third quarter earnings on Wednesday.

UK Gov names members of AI Council

The UK government will be hoping its AI ethics board is a bit more successful than Google’s as it names the full line-up.

Huawei Takes Artificial Intelligence to the Database

This puts the equipment vendor in competition with traditional database vendors including IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft — some of which also have autonomous database products.

CrowdStrike IPO Plans to Raise $100 Million

CrowdStrike says revenue hit $249.8 million for fiscal 2019, and it says Amazon Web Services is running its security platform on “hundreds of thousands of AWS workstations and servers.”

In Chasing AT&T, Verizon & T-Mobile Diverge in 5G Video Strategies

As AT&T digests DirecTV and Time Warner, Verizon and T-Mobile are working on refining their video strategies ahead of broad 5G rollouts.

Comcast's machineQ Shifts Gears

Under its new OTT-like, bring-your-own broadband model, the industrial IoT company aims to scale up more rapidly and set the stage for a global services strategy.

Big 5G Event Keynote: Fireside Chat – Andrew Dugan, CenturyLink

CenturyLink CTO Andrew Dugan shares his views on 5G transport technology at the Big 5G Event in Denver on May 8, 2019.

Charter Using Mobile to Dislodge 'Inert' DSL Customers

Company CFO Chris Winfrey expands on Charter's strategy to use Spectrum Mobile as a growth driver for its home broadband service.

Sprint's First 5G Devices Available May 31

Sprint will kick off preorders for the LG V50 ThinQ and the HTC 5G Hub on May 17.

US Wireless Operators Have (Mostly) Stopped Selling Customer Location Data

US operators have been selling customer location information to third parties, including location aggregators. However, that's mostly over, according to new carrier correspondence with the FCC.

Verizon Ramps Up 5G Advertising Alongside Galaxy S10 5G Launch

Verizon launched the nation's first device with integrated 5G capability, the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G, and the company's CEO highlighted the operator's open approach to 5G partnerships.

5G Car Crash Looms for Telecom Industry

Failure to transform their businesses, highlighted at this week's Digital Transformation World event in Nice, is fast catching up with the telcos.

CenturyLink's Walker: More Edges, More Efficiency

Bill Walker explains how edge computing has allowed operators to decompose applications and distribute them on the network.

Eurobites: UK Security Report Says Huawei Can't Be Trusted

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Bouygues gets off to a flier; Sunrise raises its earnings guidance; Vodafone/INWIT towers deal set for the summer.

AT&T's SVoD Services Will Be Pay-TV Friendly

AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson said the expectation is that distributors like Comcast will be 'important partners' for WarnerMedia's upcoming set of OTT-delivered subscription VoD services.

HR's Steve Bell on FUD in a 5G World

Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Steve Bell highlights some of the fear, uncertainty and doubt related to 5G's return-on-investment cases and regulatory environments.

CBA supports content companies’ requests for C-band safeguards

The C-Band Alliance (CBA) says it has no objections to the safeguards that several content companies believe are necessary for the C-band.

Trump Issues Long-Rumored Executive Order Targeting Chinese Telco Vendors

China is not implicitly named in the 545-word executive order, but the action is clearly directed at Chinese-based vendors Huawei and ZTE.

VMware snags software app vendor Bitnami

VMware is bolstering its application packaging toolset with the purchase of Bitnami, the company announced on Wednesday.

Streaming platforms are starting to become less attractive

Netflix started as a platform where old-series could be relived, but now with rivals aiming to replicate the success of the streaming giant, the content world is becoming increasingly fragmented.

Verizon says consumers will self-install new 5G fixed gear

The operator said it will relaunch fixed 5G using standards-based 5G New Radio (NR) technology in the second half of the year.

Operators are finally getting the message about 5G monetization

Conversations at Digital Transformation World 2019 indicate operators may finally be getting the memo about monetising 5G.

Trump’s hand is hovering over China executive order

President Trump is reportedly on the verge of signing an executive order effectively banning Huawei, and other Chinese companies, from providing any products or services in the US market.

Loyalty penalties for broadband, mobile and TV finally tackled

Ofcom has introduced rules which will aim to tackle ‘penalties’ imposed on renewing customers by broadband, mobile and content providers.

Riverbed pumps up SaaS applications with new Accelerator

Riverbed announced updates to its Digital Experience Management and SD-WAN offerings, but the headliner is an "accelerator" for SaaS applications.…

Bugpocalypse Now: ZombieLoad Hits Intel Processors, Microsoft Warns of WannaCry-Like Worm

Like the earlier Meltdown, Spectre, and Foreshadow processor flaws, the newly discovered ZombieLoad is a side channel attack that allows hackers to steal sensitive data and keys.

VMware Snaps Up Another Kubernetes-Focused Startup

Bitnami is the latest target, following on the heels of VMware's acquisition of Heptio earlier this year.

New Relic Adds Layer of Context to APM Platform for Complex Environments

The latest addition, New Relic One, will act as a delivery vessel for future innovations including features for serverless computing, logging, and AIops.

San Francisco puts the brakes on facial recognition surveillance

The City of San Francisco has passed new rules which will significantly curb the abilities of public sector organisations to purchase and utilise facial recognition technologies.

Flexential boosts data center capacity in Atlanta

With Atlanta a hot bed for the fintech industry, Flexential announced today that it has expanded its colocation facility in the Atlanta area.

President Trump to ban network gear posing security risk: Reuters

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang argued the U.S. is engaging in a smear campaign against Chinese companies.

FCC proposes new rules to allow carriers to block robocalls

The new rules would also allow carriers to help consumers to block calls not on their own contact list.

Intel Pushes Open Source Hypervisor With Cloud Giants

The chipmaker discussed several open source efforts at its annual Open Source Technology Summit. And if you’re wondering why you’ve never heard of it, it’s because for the past 15 years it’s been a closed, internal event.

Wi-Fi Alliance expands home certification program

The Wi-Fi Alliance announced that it has expanded its Wi-Fi Certified Home Design program to include multifamily residential complexes like apartments,…

Arista Releases 400G Ethernet Switch-Router Platforms for Large-Scale Networks

The new switches are the third generation of Arista’s R-Series family of universal spine switches with new standards for throughput, density, power efficiency, and price performance.

Vodafone UK Pins 5G Launch Plans on July 3

The first cities to get 5G service include Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, and London.

Apple’s 5G iPhone may slip to 2021, not likely to boost sales

Will the 5G iPhone, expected to appear in 2020, help turn around Apple’s phone sales? Probably not, analyst says.

Riverbed Updates Performance Management, SD-WAN, End-User Monitoring

The company released a new cloud-based SaaS performance management service onto its Digital Performance platform.

TM Forum Open Digital Framework Targets 5G Migration

The framework includes TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture, open APIs, data and artificial intelligence (AI) standards, reference implementations, and reference materials tied to business processes.

Industry Voices—Lowenstein: Don’t ignore Wi-Fi

There’s a lot happening with Wi-Fi, much of it in a way that will be integral to the fixed and mobile broadband experience going forward.

Cisco's Happy, Despite Service Provider Decline

Cisco's service provider business declined 13% in the third fiscal quarter, but overall revenue was up, so it was (metaphorical) high fives for everyone on Cisco's quarterly earnings call.

5G Scores a US Win & an EU Loss in Connected Cars

Should cars talk to each other using WiFi or 5G? That's a question that appears to have caused a rift between Europe and the United States — and one that could potentially redefine the world's transportation industry.

Comcast Still Has Big Streaming Dreams

Even as it hands over operational control of Hulu to Disney and paves the way to sell its Hulu stake, Comcast sees loads of opportunity in the OTT video market as it revs up plans for both Sky's Now TV streaming service in Europe and NBC's forthcoming OTT service.

Trump Clears the Way for a Huawei Ban

A new executive order from President Trump allows the US to ban telecom gear from China – and anywhere else it wants.

The Big 5G Event: Photos

20 select shots from the week that was in Denver, Colo.

Verizon Launches Near-Nationwide NB-IoT Network

Verizon finally gets on the nationwide NB-IoT trail.

Ericsson Boasts of Progress in CDN-to-Edge Pivot

Ericsson's Edge Gravity essentially represents a pivot by the company from selling CDN services to selling edge computing services. And though the process hasn't been completely smooth, Ericsson is boasting of progress.

WOW & Philo Bundle Up

Continuing a growing trend, WOW has become the latest cable operator to combine its broadband service with a skinny bundle OTT-TV offering.

Rakuten CTO: We're Stronger, Faster & Cheaper Than You

Japan's Rakuten is building what it says will be the first truly cloud-native mobile network, and its existing operators should be worried.

Nice Work If You Can Get It...

It's a tough job talking about telco transformation on the French Riviera in May, but someone's got to do it... so what are the big talking points from the TM Forum's Digital Transformation World event in Nice, France?

Nibbles From Nice: Don't Mention the 'T' Word

DT's CIO doesn't dig 'transformation,' Enghouse keeps its toes warm and the TM Forum snacks on Danish… plus more from the Riviera.

Leadership Change Afoot at Arris's Network & Cloud Unit

Following CommScope merger, Dan Whalen has left the company and been succeeded by another industry vet, Kevin Keefe, who takes the reins of the unit during a critical time for the company.

Ovum's Mike Roberts on 5G's Milestone

At the Big 5G Event in Denver, Mike Roberts, research director for Ovum's Service Provider Markets group, gives his take on the current state of the 5G market.

Eurobites: Ofcom Calls Time on Customer 'Loyalty Penalty'

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: 3SS adds AI to the video mix; Insight TV pushes into MENA; the changing face of content consumption.

Tracking Telco Progress in Open Networking

My musings and observations on OpenStack, the open source community, what's working and what could work better.

Verizon's Wellbrock: RAN Is Fancy Radio That Rides on Fiber

The radio access network receives plenty of attention in 5G discussions, but Verizon's Glenn Wellbrock says those "fancy radios" require a strong fiber backbone.

Volta Bigs Up Its Cloud Router, Claims 90% Savings vs Legacy

Volta claims that moving routing intelligence to the cloud and running white boxes can slash costs compared with legacy equipment.

Faster isn’t always better – O2

With a new Opensignal report suggesting O2 has the slowest download speeds of the UK MNOs, the telco has hit back suggesting experience is about more than just speed.

Chinese spying law, no idea what you mean – Huawei Chairman

Huawei Chairman Liang Hua is the latest to enter the fray to defend the principles and reputation of the telco vendor, this time questioning the legitimacy of accusations.

Frontier's CEO says company is on the rebound

Frontier Communications CEO and President Dan McCarthy said at an investor conference his company is bouncing back thanks to several key projects.

Pai: Time to take a fresh look at the 5.9 GHz band

It looks as though the 5.9 GHz band is headed for a major formal review at the FCC.

Telecoms vendors need to raise their game – DTW 2019

There was a familiar feel to the latest instalment of TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World event, with operators once more urging vendors to get their act together.

AT&T, DT, China Telecom throw support behind TM Forum's Open APIs

The TM Forum announced that AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Salesforce and China Telecom have signed on in support of its Open APIs.

Git Attack Hit Weak Credentials

The attacker demanded a Bitcoin ransom for the return of content stored in git repositories at GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.

Not All SD-WANs Are Created Equal

Though SD-WAN is young, it’s approaching maturity “and people ought to be more discerning in what they want and what they expect from their SD-WAN,” says Martello’s John Proctor.

T-Mobile, Sprint consider concessions: report

Bloomberg reported Monday that T-Mobile and Sprint are considering possible concessions for their proposed deal, including the potential sale of prepaid…

Blue Planet debuts Proactive Network Operations platform

Ciena's Blue Planet is leveraging machine learning, automation and AI to proactively prevent up to 95% of service providers' network outages.

Thrangrycat Attacks Cisco Switches, Routers, Firewalls

Red Balloon Security disclosed two vulnerabilities in “tens of millions” of Cisco enterprise routers, switches, and firewalls that could allow hackers to remotely attack corporate networks, steal data, and attack other devices connected to the...

WhatsApp security breach may have government surveillance ties: Reuters

WhatsApp has not yet said how many users may have been affected by the breach.

Verizon Launches NB-IoT Network for Fixed Use Cases

Verizon’s narrowband IoT network runs on its LTE network and is suited for fixed applications requiring data rates below 100 Kb/s.

Data center capex for U.S. hyperscalers drops year over year: report

While revenue was up for the large U.S. hyperscale cloud providers, capex took a slight hit year over year in the first quarter, according to a report.

Verizon lights up nationwide NB-IoT network

The network is designed to connect devices that require data rates less than 100 kbps.

Supreme Court opens the legal floodgates on Apple

Apple is potentially on the verge of facing a tidal wave of lawsuits as the Supreme Court agrees the iLeader is allowed to be challenged on a potential abuse of power in the app economy.

Vodafone ditches Kiwis and cuts dividend in search of ‘financial headroom’

Vodafone has announced the sale of its New Zealand arm and a cut to the dividend as the firm searches for breathing room on the spreadsheets amid its Liberty Global acquisition and annual loss.

Data Breaches Are the New Normal. Encryption Should Be, Too

O.C. Tanner says its customers are becoming more sophisticated about security. This is a big part of the reason why it uses Fortanix’s encryption technology.

Red Balloon Security finds critical bug in Cisco routers

Red Balloon Security announced that it has found a bug in Cisco's secure boot process that could have a huge impact on Cisco's customers.

Verizon Exec Taps the Brakes on 5G for Driverless Cars

5G-powered drones and AR/VR services? Sure. But Verizon's Adam Koeppe said that driverless cars running on 5G isn't something that's going to happen anytime soon.

Direct-to-Consumer a Key but Not Exclusive Play for Programmers

Premium networks like Showtime must spread their bets and lock in distribution on both legacy and newer OTT platforms, COO Tom Christie says.

Nice Turns Nasty as Vendors Face Fire Over Cloud-Native Claims

The messages emerging from this week's Digital Transformation World sound depressingly familiar.

Arista Ships Smarter 400G Routers

Arista's second-generation 400G routers support built-in security, automation and telemetry for reduced capex and opex.

AT&T Taking Broadband Nationwide in 3-5 Years via Fiber & 5G

AT&T's CEO said the operator will be able to offer a 'true, high-speed Internet network throughout the United States' in the next three to five years via fiber and 5G.

5G in the USA: More Mobile Steps

Sprint perks up with first 5G launches and Verizon picks up another 20 5G mobile cities.

Disney Takes Full Operational Control of Hulu

Under 'put/call' agreement, Comcast can require Disney to buy NBCU's 33% stake in Hulu as early as January 2024; Comcast also inks deal to offer Hulu via its X1 video platform.

AT&T's Igor Glubochansky: Businesses Need Lower Latency Networks

AT&T sees big promise in manufacturing, healthcare and retail, even before mobile 5G becomes available everywhere.

Ciena: We'll Stop 95% of Network Outages

Ciena's Proactive Network Operations is a closed-loop automation platform that service providers can use to predict and prevent service disruptions.

Here Are All the 5G Networks & Devices Around the World – Today

As the 5G market gains momentum, new figures from the GSA and Ookla help highlight exactly where the global industry sits in terms of network rollouts and devices launched.

Eurobites: Vodafone UK Names the 5G Day

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Vodafone cuts dividend following €7.6 billion loss; Openet lands US Tier 1 gig; KPN invests in IoT startup Wirepas.

5G Tests Aim to Disrupt the Economics of On-Location TV Production

In tests with AT&T, LiveU will equip its portable video production backpacks with 5G, believing that the capabilities of the new network will drive down the costs of on-location news and sporting event coverage.

RFP Process No Longer Fit for Purpose – Report

Outdated telco IT procurement processes cost industry more than $1 billion per year, according to findings of a report from industry body TM Forum, which asks if it's time to kill the RFP.

Lawmakers call on FCC to speed midband efforts

Lawmakers are repeating a call for the FCC to speed up the availability of midband spectrum for 5G.

Apple recognised as ‘Privacy Champion’ by techies

An anonymous survey of people working in the technology industry has crowned Apple as the privacy champion of FANG, while 78% believe it is a top priority at their own organization.

China Mobile somehow surprised at FCC snub

There was no squabbling over party-politics here; both the Republicans and the Democrats agree China Mobile should not be allowed a licence to operate telco services in the US.

Sprint eyes VoLTE launch on virtualized core

Sprint plans to be the first carrier to launch VoLTE on a fully virtualized core when it conducts a commercial launch nationally this year.

UK rural collaboration back on the table

Getting competitors to work together for the greater good is a complex and often failed task, but the latest effort to address ‘not spots’ in the UK is holding steady.

Facebook financial foray flops face first

Facebook has killed a feature which allowed users to pay connections through its Messenger app due to a lack of uptake.

Vodafone share price tumbles after dividend cut report

Share price in Vodafone has taken a 4.6% hit during the opening hours of trading as rumours over a cut in dividend emerge.

VMware: AWS Is Our No. 1 Cloud Partner, ‘What We’ve Built Is Incredibly Unique’

The vendors’ relationship was born in the cloud, and now they are moving in together into on-premises data centers.

VMware debuts CAM to monitor data center energy usage

On Monday, VMware announced its Carbon Avoidance Meter (CAM) to help data center operators monitor their carbon footprint and energy usage.

UK Carriers Step Up 5G Rollout Plans, Seek Better Licensing Conditions

The countries four large carriers are reported to have come up with a plan that might help them avoid coverage obligations tied to future 5G licenses.

7 5G device form factors announced so far: report

GSA says 23 vendors have announced a total of 33 5G devices since the first 5G networks were turned on late last year.

Europe wants another look at Telia’s move into broadcasting

Swedish telecoms group Telia wants to buy Bonnier Broadcasting but the European Commission reckons that might be bad for telly in Sweden and Finland.

Microsoft Inks Wide-Ranging Partnership With SK Telecom on 5G, IoT

Partnerships between large tech companies and telecom operators are growing as 5G efforts gain momentum.

UK mobile lobby group bemoans inactivity from local councils

Perhaps the preached proactivity of central government will mean little towards the UK’s connected dream if local authorities and councils are creating a mobile bottleneck.

T-Mobile's Ewaldsson contrasts his carrier work with vendor work

Ulf Ewaldsson stressed the importance of a 5G standalone core network to achieve latency advantages.

Mellanox Infuses Ethernet Switches With Network Telemetry Tech

The monitoring technology, which Mellanox deemed What Just Happened, helps enterprises identify anomalies in the data plane.

HMD to use Qualcomm chips in Nokia-branded phones

HMD has signed a deal with Qualcomm in an effort to boost HMD's Nokia-branded phones with improved modems.

SK Telecom and Microsoft team up on ICT applications

South Korea's SK Telecom and Microsoft have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop 5G, AI and cloud solutions for SK's customers.

Federated completes rollout of ESC network

Federated Wireless announced today that it has completed the rollout of its environmental sensing capability (ESC) network.

Industry Voices—Chua: SD-WAN and uCPE – not quite done yet

Communication service providers' goal of running SD-WAN with uCPE deployments will require more heavy lifting before we get to SD-WAN nirvana.

SK Telecom and Microsoft Sign MOU for Comprehensive Cooperation in Cutting-Edge ICT

SK Telecom and Microsoft Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on May 7 for comprehensive cooperation in leading-edge ICT, including 5G, artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud.

STEM Is Root of Success for Women in Comms

STEM can help women self-correct the gender gap, but girls lose interest in STEM early on. That needs to change.

Podcast: The Big 5G Event & Big 5G Questions

Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre and Phil Harvey were joined by two guests -- Light Reading's Mike Dano and US Ignite's Mari Silbey -- to sum up the state of 5G, why US cities are closely watching 5G deployments and what we can look forward to as 2019 rolls on.

Liberty Global Grapples With Revenue Slump

Even as it carries out its phased retreat from the European continent, Liberty Global is trying to stem video sub losses and spur fresh revenue growth with a slate of new product and service offerings.

5G Opportunity Still Outweighs the Threat to Cable Ops

MSOs must remain wary of 5G-powered in-home broadband services, but the backhaul and fronthaul opportunities will abound for cable operators as 5G networks are deployed.

It's a Wrap: Big 5G Event Highlights

It's a wrap! Take a low-latency whistle-stop tour of who said what and why at Light Reading's Big 5G Event in Denver.

At Boingo, Network Cloudification Drives Business Transformation

Boingo is best known as the guys who get travelers online at airports, but that's just a small part of the business nowadays. Network virtualization has helped drive the transition.

Inside the 5G Small Cell Opportunity: Big & Messy

Everyone agrees that the small cell opportunity in a 5G world is big. However, what's unclear is how the market will play out, and whether it will be profitable for those involved.

Telenor Chopped 10K Jobs Last Year, & It's Not Done Yet

The Norwegian telco, whose operations span Europe and Asia, has taken a hefty axe to its workforce.

Eurobites: Telia's Bonnier Deal Comes Under EU Scrutiny

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Vodacom revenue rises; EU's connected-car WiFi plan stalls; UK councils asked to prioritize mobile connectivity.

5G Man Suffers In-Building Meltdown

5G Man is on a mission to help his new buddy, but the conditions can sometimes limit his powers...