Democrats eye up Bill of Rights for the Internet

With Silicon Valley seemingly not doing enough to empower the consumer in the digital era, Congressman Ro Khanna is working on new proposals to more tightly regulate the technology industry.

Former Cisco boss thinks tech leaders are too cocky

John Chambers, who ran Cisco for 20 years, reckons the leaders of tech companies need to dial down the arrogance a bit.

Netflix dominates the internet, but keep an eye on gaming geeks – Sandvine

Netflix currently accounts for an incredible proportion of global internet traffic, though the gaming segment is starting to throw its weight around.

CloudHealth Founder Talks VMware Acquisition, Cloud’s Next Phase

CloudHealth CTO and co-founder Joe Kinsella says VMware plans to target managed service providers with its new multi-cloud management product line.

Broadcom Banks on WiFi to Storm 5G and IoT Markets

The company views WiFi as instrumental in providing the necessary in-building coverage and capacity for 5G deployments.

Shah: What Reliance Jio in India can teach other global operators

Reliance Jio’s business model will be realized as it shifts gears to becoming a media, content and advertising company, like Verizon and AT&T.

Verizon looking to extend 5G beyond fixed wireless

Verizon looks to move beyond fixed wireless to more futuristic opportunities like 5G mobility-enabled autonomous vehicles and drones.

Innovium Downplays Chip Programmability, Stresses PAM4

Innovium considers switch chip programmability to be relevant for niche applications and as an insurance policy for future needs.

Zabbix Debuts Latest Version of Its Open Source Monitoring Software

Zabbix began as a hobby project, but evolved into a network monitoring software for system administrators to monitor IT infrastructure that has a user base of 300,000 across 75 countries.

Samsung looks to reverse mid-year dip with Q3 numbers

Q2 wasn’t exactly a party for Samsung, though it seems ready to correct the dip at the first possible opportunity.

Microsoft’s fixed wireless Airband program gains momentum

Microsoft’s Airband effort appears to be gaining steam through the company’s steady announcements of additional carrier and vendor participants.

Amazon, Supermicro and Apple call BS on Chinese spying sting – someone is lying

Amazon, Supermicro and Apple have released statements denying they have ever found any malicious microchips on their hardware calling into questions the validity of Chinese espionage claims.

EE offers first UK 5G to a bunch of bankers

EE is claiming victory in the UK 5G race, but its newly announced live trial in Canary Wharf is still just a trial.

Q3 prediction: T-Mobile to gain customers, Sprint will lose them

One analyst firm believes that T-Mobile and Sprint are headed in decidedly opposite directions.

Verizon significantly raises ad spending amid iPhone launch

Verizon significantly increased the amount of money it spends on TV advertising during the month of September, according to iSpot.tv.

F5 Networks' Feger talks software, VNFs, analytics

Service providers can bring value, such as analytics, to customers that hyperscale companies can't deliver, according to F5 Networks' James Feger.

Bloomberg China Chip-Hack Controversy Highlights Fake News, National Security Fears

By now the story and resulting controversy is as much about media credibility as it is about cyber — and national — security.

Report: Managed security a sweet spot for carriers

With security concerns continuing unabated, carriers stand to make a tidy profit in delivering managed security solutions to their customers.

AT&T crowns itself the 5G King of the World

Following a trip to the White House last week, AT&T has decided this meeting has confirmed the US as the best, and since it is the best in the US, AT&T is the logically the 5G King of the World.

Gravitational Draws Kubernetes Into Its Secure Credential Sphere

The update allows for the management of credentials using both Kubernetes and secure socket shell for multiple infrastructure environments.

SDxCentral's Weekly Roundup — October 5, 2018

Dell Technologies applies to list shares on NYSE; AT&T names new preliminary 5G markets; Google launches tools for its Kubernetes Engine.

Samsung's Chip Shop Fuels Q3 Profit Growth

Strong sales of memory chips appear responsible for the big increase in operating profits at Samsung in the recent third quarter.

Palo Alto Buys Into Cloud Security Analytics With $173M RedLock Acquisition

The security vendor scoops up RedLock to gain expertise in security analytics.

Telia Carrier Vies to Be Prime Cloud Connector

Cloud connections, not video or 5G, will be the global network operator's growth drive.

YouTube TV Unshackles Its Cloud DVR

OTT-TV provider lifts ad-skipping restrictions that prevented customers from recording shows from AMC, Disney, Fox, NBCU and Turner.

The Reality of Open Networking in CSP Transformation

Survey finds that many CSPs are boldly forging a path towards the open, agile, automated and efficient networks the telecom industry requires.

Eurobites: EE Trials 5G New Radio at London's Canary Wharf

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telia gets GET; Colt extends Dublin network; Net Insight reshapes top team; Deutsche Telekom smartens up facilities management.

WiCipedia: Lyft Assesses Diversity Growth & Melinda Gates Tackles Gender Imbalance

This week in our WiC roundup: Lyft's latest diversity report; a Gender Manifesto relapse; flexible work becomes a necessity; and more.

CenturyLink: NFV Meeting (Modest) Expectations

Bill Walker says carrier never expected NFV to cause massive shifts early on, adding that it's replacing legacy at a pace that makes financial sense.

VMware Closes CloudHealth Acquisition

VMware beefs up its portfolio for multicloud management.

Open APIs: The Key to the Platform Business Model

Communications service providers (CSPs) are working towards more open architectures as they develop their next-generation networks.

Who Will Be the Also-RANs in the 5G Market?

The 5G market is set to take off soon, and vendors are racing to make their first 5G radio access network (RAN) offerings available.

EE dangles students from a crane

In order to make some kind of statement about 4G, EE suspended a small movie theatre full of students from a crane.

Nation-States Attack MSP Networks, DHS Security Alert Warns

Managed service providers' customers — especially IT, energy, healthcare, communications, and manufacturing companies — are the end target for these attacks.

Edgility Open Source Initiative Marries Serverless With the Edge

Creators of Edgility say it will offer network operators a better way to manage resources at the network edge. And it will work with existing open source projects like ONAP and Akraino.

Huawei makes a Beeline for Russian 5G

Holographic calls have become the hot 5G use-case so Huawei teamed up with Beeline to do one in Russia.

Maybe the Chinese espionage rhetoric is more than political hot air

Evidence has reportedly been found of China spying on more than 30 US companies, suggesting the anti-China rhetoric might be more than political posturing.

VoLTE spreads to carriers like Sprint, Bluegrass and others

Some of the nation’s other wireless network operators—including Sprint, Bluegrass Cellular, U.S. Cellular and others—are launching VoLTE.

B.Yond taps into AI and automation to map networks

Startup B.Yond is blending artificial intelligence and automation to provide carriers with real-time snapshots of their network assets.

Telefónica’s Luca division is driving AI into big data

Telefónica’s Luca data unit has deployed its AI-based big data solutions into 20 countries while working with more than 150 corporate customers.

AT&T touts theoretical peaks of 1 Gbps on LTE

AT&T offered an update on its LTE network upgrade efforts at the same time top executives touted the opportunities around 5G technology.

Wi-Fi Alliance finally concedes 802.11 is too geeky a name for types of wifi

The supremely geeky 802.11 brand almost certainly alienates regular punters so the decision has belated been made to change it.

Telco industry accuses California of violating US Constitution

It was only going to be a matter of time, but the telco industry is taking California to court over the decision to reinstate net neutrality rules.

Smaller Telcos Can Connect to Public Clouds Via Tata Communications Transformation Services

Tier 1 service providers have connected to public clouds with relative ease. But Tier 2 and Tier 3 providers are struggling to create this connectivity, according to Tata.

China Hacked Supermicro Servers to Spy on Amazon, Apple, Report Says

A former U.S. intelligence official said data center server provider Supermicro is the "Microsoft of the hardware world" and attacking Supermicro motherboards is "like attacking the whole world.”

China Hacked Supermicro Servers to Spy on Amazon, Microsoft, Report Says

A former U.S. intelligence official said data center server provider Supermicro is the "Microsoft of the hardware world" and attacking Supermicro motherboards is "like attacking the whole world.”

JFrog Jumps to $1B Valuation on Heels of Series D

The company has seen a 500 percent increase in sales since its last funding round in 2016.

Spirent CEO: Engineers Are Human, Too

In the second part of his CXO interview, Eric Hutchinson talks about AI, cybersecurity and the humanizing factor of the test company's strategic shift.

Chinese Hardware Hack Threatens US Tech Supply Chain – Bloomberg

Thirty companies, including Amazon and Apple, and the US government are threatened in the attack, according to a bombshell investigative report from Bloomberg.

Verizon Offers 44,000 Employees a Buyout Deal

Verizon's plan to cull $10 billion in costs from its operations is getting very real now. First, thin out the ranks of old, middle-manager types.

When Making SD-WAN Plans, Don't Shirk Security

Security requirements 'can change the design of your overall network dramatically,' says Orange Business's John Isch.

Wind Tre: The New Weakling of Italian Mobile

The merger between 3 and Wind was supposed to create an Italian mobile heavyweight. But after Italy's 5G auction this week, that company is on the ropes.

Netflix-Backed ACE Sinks Another Video Piracy Threat

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, a group backed by major studios and OTT players, is having some success bombarding alleged Kodi-related pirates with threatening letters.

With Eyes on Hathway, RJio Redraws Battle Lines With Airtel

Having shaken up mobile, India's most aggressive service provider now threatens to disrupt the broadband market.

Eurobites: Beeline & Huawei Demo 5G's Potential With Russian Holocall

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Orange extends telematics deal; Telia goes smart metering; Ireland guns for Facebook.

Orange's Yves Bellego on Automation, Virtualization Progress

Yves Bellego, director of network strategy at Orange, explains how the operator is approaching automation, how it has developed a data lake and the ongoing challenges associated with NFV.

EE shows its 5G ambitions are greater than the smartphone

EE is set to green light its first 5G trial in London, testing out its fixed wireless access ambitions.

Ofcom isn’t happy with EE and Vodafone’s coverage predictions

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has opened separate investigations into coverage predictions offered up by EE and Vodafone.

Smartphone-only internet users grow from 12% in 2016 to 20%

A growing number of U.S. households are exclusively accessing the internet via smartphones, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.

Cloudera, Hortonworks Merge Their Big Data Efforts

A recent Forrester Research report on the big data fabric space ranked companies as “strong performers."

Banning us could hand China victory in the 5G race – Huawei

Reading between the lines, Huawei is asking the US a new question; banning us will make deployment slower and more expensive, so how will that help in the 5G race against China?

Italian 5G spectrum orgy reaches its climax

The frenzy of bidding for mid frequency 5G spectrum in Italy has come to a climax with operators’ cash reserves apparently spent.

Radware study highlights organizations' security concerns

Despite the ongoing concern over security, a recent study by Radware found that organizations are still being hacked at an alarming rate.

TIA assails Trump’s China tariffs as a threat to 5G

Concerns are growing over the Trump administration’s tariffs and how those tariffs could impact 5G deployment.

F5's James Feger: Elastic services need elastic pay models

F5 Networks' James Feger sees the industry through a wide-angle lens that includes service providers and their enterprise customers.

Google sneaks into the chatbot world with Onward acquisition

Google has made a somewhat sly entry into the chatbot segment with the acquisition of Onward, an automation start-up based out of San Francisco.

Dell Technologies Confirms IPO Is Its Backup Plan

Dell said in a filing with the SEC that the company met with investment banks to explore an IPO.

Keysight’s donation to further THz research

Keysight Technologies gave NYU Wireless a donation to help further explore millimeter wave and terahertz (THz) electromagnetic spectra.

Mun: Diffusion of wireless expands 5G, CBRS horizons

As expected, 5G was a key theme at this year’s MWC Americas show in Los Angeles.

Particle Migrates IoT Software Developer Tool to Microsoft

The Workbench product is a desktop development tool that now uses Microsoft Visual Studio Code for direct access to device programming.

3.5 GHz CBRS proposal sparks cheers, fears

As expected, the FCC’s latest plan for the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Services (CBRS) band isn’t going to please everyone.  

Connected speakers could refresh smart home euphoria

Enthusiasm for connected devices is on the rise, but it’s taking the buzz away from smart appliances and the smart home category on the whole.

San Francisco Giants Save $15K With Cohesity

The Major League Baseball team wanted to update its antiquated backup platform and utilize cloud storage to further reduce costs.

Palo Alto Networks Pays $173M for Cloud Security Startup RedLock

Palo Alto Networks plans to combine technologies from RedLock and Evident, another recent acquisition, into one product that provides cloud security analytics, advanced threat detection, continuous security, and compliance monitoring.

Wi-Fi Alliance introduces Wi-Fi 6

The Wi-Fi Alliance is introducing Wi-Fi 6 as the official industry designation for products and networks that support the next generation of Wi-Fi, based on…

Broadband Providers Attack California Net Neutrality Law

USTelecom, CTIA, NCTA and ACA band together to file suit challenging California's tough net neutrality law.

Altice Europe in Talks About Fiber Assets

European service provider says it is in talks about fiber partnerships that could speed up network rollout.

Customer Conversations Changing in Era of Open Source, Automation

John Isch of Orange Business says businesses have differing requirements for understanding how telecom is changing.

Radware: Protect That API!

Second annual survey shows enterprises are exposing APIs to third parties but not attending encryption or authentication, leading to a sharp rise in the number and complexity of application breaches.

Italy's $7.6B 5G Bonanza Puts Telcos on the Rack

An Italian auction of 5G spectrum raises $4.6 billion more than its government had budgeted. That's great news for the government, but not so good for Italy's operators.

Eurobites: EE, Vodafone Rapped for Inaccurate Network Coverage Data

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: TomTom makes a comeback; Proximus helps conserve art; European Parliament approves new video service rules.

Huawei Hasn't Given Up on US Market, Pitches the FCC

Huawei has been telling the FCC why operators and consumers will suffer if it's not allowed to trade in the US as part of the universal service fund (USF) program.

How Cable Has Fueled OTT

In the second part of this three-part series, Burton explores the rise of OTT, as well as its impact on cable operators and other broadband service providers.

Orange Issues Telco Cloud Rallying Cry

'It's a standard, Jim, but not as we know it.' Orange pleads for operator consensus around NFV infrastructure, orchestration and automation requirements, but will that be enough to create scale and meet developer needs?

Where Is the Elon Musk of Telecom?

Telecom operators need leaders with the visionary flair of Elon Musk, but attracting them is easier said than done.

FCC's Pai Readies More 5G Spectrum, Will Propose Changes for CBRS Band

Pai says 6GHz proposal will give WiFi wings, while a change in CBRS rules could encourage 5G networks.

Sprint/T-Mobile merger could face challenges in California

The California Public Utilities Commission has scheduled an “evidentiary hearing” to review the proposed merger between Sprint and T-Mobile.

Infinera closes on Coriant purchase before share price tumbles 15%

24 hours after completing the acquisition of Coriant, Infinera share price has dropped 15% over comments rival Ciena is on the verge of stealing one of its biggest customers.

Telarix and Starhome Mach merge to offer global wholesale telecoms portfolio

A couple of companies involved in the areas of operator interconnectivity, roaming and general wholesale action have decided to merge.

GTT snaps up Access Point for $40M

GTT Communications continued its buying spree by snapping up North Carolina-based service provider Access Point for $40 million.

Cisco's David Ulevitch Leaves to Join a VC Firm

David Ulevitch, who was once in charge of Cisco’s security business, is leaving to become a general partner at Andreesson Horowitz.   

European Companies Launch OCP Experience Center to Test Hardware

Three companies opened the OCP Experience Center for testing new and proposed OCP technologies and for conducting demonstrations of open OCP hardware designs.

NTIA: We’re working to fix the broadband mapping problem

ORLANDO—NTIA expects to issue an RFP for mapping data later this year, and will also work with a tech vendor to help with data integration.

Digital Realty’s New Global Command Center Provides Centralized Network Monitoring

The new facility plays into the data center provider’s plan to pull hyperscale cloud deals away from competitors including Equinix.

Q&A—Comcast Business: SD-WAN customers want more 'nerd knobs'

FierceTelecom chats with two Comcast Business executives about how SD-WAN has evolved for the provider this year.

Sprint buys Audience Acuity’s database

Sprint said it inked a new deal with Audience Acuity to license the company’s database products.

Liberty Global throws weight behind G.hn standard to bolster wifi game

Liberty Global is the latest telco to join the HomeGrid Forum, having already deployed a G.hn wifi extender solution to improve connectivity in the home.

Nearly all UK workers muck about on mobile devices during meetings

UK VAR Probrand surveyed 1,000 UK workers about their use of tech in the workplace and found most of them multitask regularly.

Huawei: Our absence from U.S. market will ‘delay 5G deployment’

China’s Huawei is now arguing that its absence from the U.S. market could “ultimately delay 5G deployment.”

Sprint asks under-threat employees to support redundancies

In a move which perhaps indicates the Sprint/T-Mobile team is starting to get nervous, Sprint CEO Michel Combes is rousing employee support for the very merger which could potentially make them redundant.

3.5 GHz CBRS band lands on FCC’s October agenda

The FCC will finally take up the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Services (CBRS) band at its Oct. 23 open meeting.

Platform9 Open Sources Its Kubernetes Etcd Support Tool

The etcdadm tool automates the configuration, deployment, and management of etcd clusters used by Kubernetes to store control plane information.

Nicoll: The race to 5G doesn’t matter, it’s the results that matter

What happens in one region does not necessarily directly impact any other region. What matters is how 5G is brought to market.

GTT Scoops Up the Service Provider Access Point for $40M

GTT is also working with another recent acquisition, Interoute, to move its SD-WAN to a universal CPE approach with an integrated firewall.

Cohesity Targets Service Providers With Multi-Tenant Platform

The software-defined platform runs on top of Cohesity, Cisco, HPE, or Dell EMC hyperconverged secondary storage appliances.

Aryaka’s New CEO Plans to Sharpen SD-WAN Firm’s Message to Customers

The former Sprint executive says that there are too many SD-WAN competitors in the market muddying the message to enterprises.

Cisco and SAP Team Up on Containers, Hybrid Cloud

The jointly-developed software integrates SAP’s Data Hub and Cisco’s Container Platform.

Radisys Will Use ETSI's MEC Standards for its Edge Software Platform

Radisys says operators want a platform that supports specific applications. They don't want to uncertainty about which platform to use.

Why Video Has the Urge to Merge

Evolution Digital's angle with 'eMERGE' highlights how cable ops will blend their own TV services with premium OTT video services and other digital-only content.

Vidgo Nears Debut of National OTT-TV Service

Will use a set of prepaid channel packages to reach what it views as an 'underserved' market.

SAP Debuts Cloud Tools for Old-School & New Wave Developers

Extending support for legacy languages to the cloud, as well as that newfangled serverless thing that all the kids are going on about.

Verizon: Vendor AI Not Ready for Prime Time

Verizon's wireline unit is developing its own machine learning internally using open source tools and 'agile' development methods.

Starhome Mach, Telarix Merger Built on Interconnect, Roaming Data

Vista Equity acquires roaming platform specialist Starhome Mach to merge it with existing portfolio company Telarix, which specializes in interconnect billing, rating and fraud management.

Are Retailers Leaving Amazon Cloud?

Some retailers are moving to platforms that aren't competing for customers. Others just want to keep their options open.

Eurobites: Telia Lands Norwegian NB-IoT Deal

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telia commits to 5G launch in early 2019; Sigfox grows its network; KPN's new hire; Orange lands in-flight connectivity deal.

Finland's 5G Sale Is No Italian Job

Finland's 5G auction has left each mobile operator with a sizable chunk of spectrum and not come at a crippling cost.

Verizon’s Haberman answers 6 questions about 5G Home

FierceWireless asked Mike Haberman, Verizon’s VP of network engineering, for details on a few key remaining issues with 5G Home.

5G becomes real as Verizon launches FWA offering in four cities

It might not have been the blockbuster moment the industry has been building towards, but the dawn has broken on the 5G era.

Telia pays the most in Finnish 5G auction

Finland offered up nearly 400 MHz of mid frequency 5G spectrum to its MNOs and Telia bought the most expensive block.

Smart speakers starting to drive next era of digital

Years usually pass before the world realises a technology breakthrough actually happened and it catches on; the voice user interface might just have arrived at that watershed moment.

AT&T puts white box specs into Open Compute Project

Ahead of deploying white boxes into thousands of its cell sites over the coming years, AT&T has released its white box specifications into the OCP.

Inspur Donates New Server Configurations to the Open Compute Project

The Chinese server vendor Inspur participates in all of the open hardware platforms, including OCP, the Open Data Center Community, and Open19.

Satellite operators form C-Band consortium to protect spectrum

A group of global satellite operators today announced the formation of an alliance to protect existing use of the 3.7-4.2 GHz band.

Inspur adds AI node into OCP-compliant servers

China-based Inspur rolled out a new set of Open Compute Project-based hyperscale rack servers that included support for artificial intelligence.

FCC lays out the FAST track to 5G

The FCC has unveiled the grand plan for 5G, outlining the strategy it will put in place to place the US at the top of the technology league table.

California’s net neutrality law could end ‘zero-rating’ services

California’s net neutrality law, if enforced and upheld by courts, could send ripple effects throughout the wireless industry.

PCCW's Hughes: Start small with automation

Carriers' quest for automation is nothing new, but the processes and technologies are now aligned to make it happen, says PCCW's David Hughes.

State versus federal battle looms as California signs net neutrality into law

California Governor Jerry Brown has been busy; 31 state bills vetoed and 34 signed into law, including the controversial net neutrality rulings, kicking off another state versus federal battle.

Intel triggered into joining Qualcomm Apple spat

Qualcomm has accused Intel of cheating at modems with Apple’s help, but Intel’s weak public riposte is unlikely to sway much opinion in its favour.

T-Mobile execs to address Sprint town hall Friday

T-Mobile’s John Legere and Mike Sievert will address Sprint employees Friday during a Sprint “town hall.”

50 million accounts breached at Facebook, but Europe needs to find the bad guy

Details of 50 million accounts have been lost to unknown nefarious individuals, but Facebook might get away with just a heavy hand-slapping from European watchdogs until the full consequences have been identified.

AT&T Contributes Its Cell Site White Box Router Spec to the Open Compute Project

This white box reference design is available to any hardware maker to use as a guide to build cell site gateway routers. And they can be paired with disaggregated software.

Verizon Fires Up First Residential 5G Fixed Wireless Markets

Verizon is touting the fact that it is the first operator globally to deploy 5G, even though the service is based upon the company’s own 5G TF standard.

Oracle Top Cloud Exec Thomas Kurian Resigns

Kurian's resignation comes less than a month after he announced that he was taking “extended time off” from Oracle.

Qualcomm undeterred on road to C-V2X

Between its cellular vehicle-to-everything work in China and elsewhere, Qualcomm is ever hopeful its favored technology will prevail.

Federated identifies others bands ripe for sharing

Federated Wireless believes there are plenty of other spectrum bands that are ideal candidates for spectrum sharing.  

HPE Revamps Its StoreOnce Data Protection and Backup

The updates essentially allow enterprises to store data once, then copy it to an all-flash on-premises array, and send it to a public cloud for for archiving or disaster recovery.

The New Infinera Is Already on Edge

Infinera closed its acquisition of Coriant today, creating one of the world's largest optical networking providers with 600 customers around the world. But talk of a major account challenge mounted by Ciena sent the company's stock tumbling more than 15%.

Vodafone Revs Up DOCSIS 3.1 in Germany

Major European provider becomes second MSO to launch gigabit-enabling D3.1 service in Germany, following the launch by Liberty Global's Unitymedia unit in May.

Comcast Hires Industry Vet to Help Lead X1, Other Video Products

Ranga Muvavarirwa played a big role in helping Time Warner Cable extend IP video apps to broad mix of retail streaming platforms.

DoJ Slaps California With Net Neutrality Suit

Claims that California's tough law illegally subverts federal government's deregulatory approach with 'burdensome state regulation.'

Key Takeaways From Open Networking Summit Europe

Open source may have gained support from the communications service provider (CSP) community, but there are some major challenges in making use of it.

Equinix: Scale or Die

VP Bill Long tells NFV-Carrier SDN crowd that niche players and new entrants face a much riskier market, even though hardware capex requirements are much lower.

Caavo's Video God Box Enters the Mainstream

Startup's sub-$100, mass-market focused, all-seeing 'Control Center' unifies search, navigation and playback for up to four devices, including set-top boxes, game consoles and streaming media players.

Cable's Fiber Outlook Gets Clearer With Coherent Optics

Cable is exploring coherent optics technology to better access the cable network and improve fiber networks to increase capacity tenfold.

Eurobites: BT Transfers 31K Workers to Openreach

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Huawei helps Monaco go 'nationwide' with 5G; Vodafone brings gigabit broadband to Bavaria; Deutsche Telekom beefs up LTE coverage in Hesse.

Microsoft Secures IoT 'Dark Matter'

Microsoft is developing hardware and software tools to help secure 80 billion Internet of Things devices that will come online by 2025.

Italy's €6B+ 5G Auction Risks Roman Ruins

An Italian spectrum auction risks crippling telcos on the brink of 5G rollout and should serve as a warning to other European authorities.

Verizon's Home-Grown 5G Arrives Today

It's here! Commercial 5G arrives in the US with the launch of Verizon's fixed wireless service, which is initially based on in-house tech specs.

3 Takeaways From Microsoft Ignite

Microsoft is striving to win cloud customers with a new telco strategic focus, HoloLens augmented reality, and by forswearing competing with customers – unlike, Microsoft says, its crosstown rivals at Amazon Web Services.