Trump’s Huawei executive order not much more than a power play

Rumours are swirling around Washington DC suggesting President Donald Trump is on the verge of signing another executive order, this one the final blow to Huawei’s US ambitions.

Samsung looks to capitalise on Huawei’s woes

Samsung is reported to be investing heavily in infrastructure business to fill the market gap left by Huawei’s ban from 5G business in the developed markets.

Government to give Ofcom new stick swinging targets

The UK Government has unveiled a new consultation which will explore how it can instruct Ofcom to snap the whip, making sure telcos get their gears churning to meet connectivity targets.

Three UK’s guerrilla marketing strategy backfires

Challenger brands need to try harder to get noticed, but this approach can sometimes backfire, as Three UK found out this week.

Ericsson head details efforts, progress in 5G

Ericsson President and CEO Bӧrje Ekholm reaffirmed strides the Swedish company is making on 5G in the runup to MWC Barcelona.

Israeli firm DriveNets emerges from stealth with $110M

The cloud-based routing firm DriveNets hopes to use the first-round funding to upend established rivals like Cisco.

Marek’s Take: Same battle, different ‘G’

Mixed marketing messages about 5G are causing a lot of confusion for consumers. Isn’t there a better way to sell consumers on network superiority?

Samsung to open trio of U.S. retail stores next week

Samsung is expanding its retail presence in the United States with three locations set to open next week in Los Angeles, New York and Houston.

Samsung hopes to gain from Huawei’s pain

Samsung is investing heavily in its network equipment business and trying to capitalize on the myriad issues impacting Huawei of late.

Big Apple says no to Amazon

The PR bout between Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Democratic Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been settled, with the internet giant cancelling plans to open a New York office.

DriveNets Pockets $110M to Pave Software Disaggregation Path

The company's software is designed to support SDN in core, aggregation, and provider edge networks, and complement SDN in other parts of a network.

DigitalOcean Kicks Off Managed Database Service With PostgreSQL Support

The Managed Database service offers one-button launch and handles maintenance and updates.

MEF's LSO Sonata API is coming soon

MEF's long-in-the-works Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) Sonata API is nearing its first full-release date.

SDxCentral's Weekly Roundup — February 15, 2019

Verizon adds a secure connection to Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft Azure debuts new data services; 6Wind and Advantech work together on white boxes.

Kaloom’s Cloud Edge Fabric Supports Network Slicing, 5G Apps

The fabric is in trials with “two major wireless operators,” said Thomas Eklund Kaloom’s VP of marketing and strategy. It will enter production with operators and enterprises later this year.

Altice USA Might Sell Lightpath Unit – Cowen & Co.

Analyst firm says a deal for company's fiber-fueled business services unit could fetch as much as $4 billion, jolt stock.

Big Programmers & Studios Bring Hammer Down on Omniverse

Lawsuit alleges that Omniverse One World Television, a company 'powering' multiple OTT-TV services, is distributing channels, TV shows and movies without authorization.

How Comcast/NBCU Is Connecting With Startups

Working with Techstars, Comcast/NBCU is gearing up for a second Lift Labs Accelerator program that will involve up to 12 startups that could end up with partnerships with Comcast and/or NBCU.

Eurobites: MTN Uganda CEO Deported

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telefónica improves its network visibility with Ixia; Telia's Uzbek fine fallout keeps falling out; DriveNets raises $110 million.

Cloud-Native Router Startup DriveNets Banks $110M, Takes on Cisco et al

Vendor already has Tier 1 traction, a founder with track record of disruption, the backing of Bessemer and has Cisco, Juniper, Huawei and Nokia in its sights.

5G4REAL: MWC19, 5G Handsets & Some Frequency Queries

The first 5G handsets are expected to be on display at Mobile World Congress – or even before. But 5G networks and coverage are still lacking.

WiCipedia: 'It Takes One Misstep to Fall Off Your Pedestal'

This week in our WiC roundup: A startup competition for black women in tech; the challenges of getting to the top and staying there; have a dude's name to get ahead; and more.

Huawei Sets Sights on 6G Stardom Amid 5G Strife

Amid turmoil in international equipment markets, Huawei's rotating chairman is worrying about what happens after 5G.

JP Morgan launches its own cryptocurrency but don’t get too excited

JP Morgan has created the first cryptocurrency to be backed by a U.S. bank but you can’t buy any and it’s not obvious what the point of it is.

Nokia plugs AI to get MWC ball rolling

Nokia has announced the launch of its network of Cognitive Collaboration Hubs which will aim to bring telcos and enterprise into its realm to work on a series of AI usecases.

Cisco CEO Spies Networking Opportunity in AWS Outposts

Chuck Robbins said he didn’t want to imply that a deal with AWS was in the works. But he added that AWS Outposts with Cisco networking was “certainly conceivable.”

Operators struggle to make business case for 5G

Despite all the hype and excitement surrounding 5G, operators are still in the very early stages of deployment.

Carriers earn higher marks on purchase experience

The nation’s wireless carriers got a Valentine’s Day gift from J.D. Power on Thursday.

Apple expected to launch half-baked streaming platform

Rumours are swirling around the Apple content business once again, this time pinning an April launch date on a streaming product which would offer third-party bundles in-app.

EU set to proceed with controversial new online copyright rules

Inevitably the EU Copyright Directive, complete with its widely despised Articles 11 and 13, is continuing its glacial progress along the European rubber-stamping conveyor belt.

AT&T gets OK for lab tests at 3700-4200 MHz

AT&T has received the OK for tests at its lab in Austin, Texas, using a range of spectrum bands, including 3700-4200 MHz, 3400-3600 MHz and others.

ONF's fifth reference design targets 5G deployments

Pulling together its work over the last eight years with CORD, SDN and cloud, ONF today announced its fifth reference design, which is called COMAC.

Google makes $13 billion worth of cloud plans for 2019

Google is a firm which is not shy about spending money to make money, and the ever-increasingly profitable cloud industry is going to be getting another Google-shaped assault.

SingTel saw Q4 profit drop by 14%

SingTel reported almost flat revenues and 14% decline in net profit in the quarter ending 31 December 2018, blaming negative influence from its investments in Australia and India.

IBM’s Cloud Kubernetes Service Gains ‘Experimental Managed’ Knative Support

The support will allow organizations to deploy Knative in a Kubernetes cluster using a one-click install via the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service user interface.

ETSI MEC Creates Its First Working Group

The new working group will focus on the implementation and deployment of systems that leverage multi-access edge computing standardized APIs.

Rubrik Launches Open Source Community Called Build

It’s based on a set of APIs providing pre-built use cases, quick-start guides, and integrations with popular tooling.

Industry Voices—Raynovich: Cisco stays calm in the storm

Cisco reported stable growth and company executives described a positive environment despite a government shutdown and trade war with China.

Rakuten builds a greenfield wireless network in Japan

A lot of vendors are working with Rakuten. Some of the key vendors include Intel, Quanta, Altiostar and Cisco.

Carbonite’s $618.5M Webroot Deal Marries Endpoint Data Protection, Security

The acquisition comes as other data backup companies including Rubrik and Cohesity are also moving into security.

ONF Launches Open Convergence Initiative for 5G Deployments

The COMAC initiative is focused on delivering services over both mobile and broadband networks while supporting subscriber management and maintaining a consistent service experience without regard to the access technology.

KT Picks Oracle’s Policy Control Function Platform for Its 5G Network

The 5G PCF platform acts as the policy management function of the 5G control plane. It’s also one of the 5G core network elements providing quality of service and network policies.

CBRS Alliance, Small Cell Forum collaborate

The CBRS Alliance and the Small Cell Forum have formally reached an agreement to cooperate closely to advance the Citizens Broadband Radio Service band.

Kaloom debuts Cloud Edge Fabric

Kaloom’s Cloud Edge Fabric is the first fully automated data center network fabric with native support for network slicing and 5G user plane function.

Cisco's shares rise after second-quarter earnings report

Cisco's pivot to software-based revenues was rewarded during its second-quarter earnings report after the market closed on Wednesday.

5G4REAL: MWC19 Handset Warning

Let's get serious about 5G phones. They're going to be cool, gorgeous and they're mostly going to run at 4G speeds.

Ray Dolan Dons a 5G Cap at Cohere

Former CEO of Sonus Networks has taken the CEO role at a company with an alternative take on next-generation wireless broadband.

Amazon Scuttles Planned New York H2Q

Local political opposition proved to be too much for Amazon.

Brightcove Buys a Streaming Rival for $15M

Following Telstra's disastrous acquisition of Ooyala and a subsequent buyout by Ooyala's management, Brightcove has stepped in to buy Ooyala's online video platform biz.

Huawei Muscle Puts Ericsson, Nokia on 5G Back Foot in Europe – Sources

European vendors do not have the resources to replace Huawei if a ban should come into effect, according to service provider sources.

Podcast: AT&T, 5G & the Mirantis Incident

The recently reported deal with Mirantis is another step in AT&T's network evolution as the company continues to carry the flag for open source and a software-defined 5G network.

Ahead of 5G, Sprint Tweaks Backhaul & Spectrum Configurations

Sprint is clearly preparing for a 5G onslaught of data on its network, with plans to pay up to $175 million to potentially switch from Ethernet to fiber backhaul and, separately, to expand its 2.5GHz signals into additional channels.

Google Fiber: A Timeline of the Good, the Bad & the Ugly

Google's fiber initiative is almost exactly nine years old. Following its embarrassing setback in Louisville, here's a look back at Google Fiber's moments of hype, glory, achievement and disappointment.

Verizon, T-Mobile, Amazon Hint at CBRS 3.5GHz Ambitions

Verizon and T-Mobile have hinted at plans to use 3.5GHz CBRS spectrum to add capacity to their services. But others, like Amazon, are hinting at broader plans to use the spectrum for IoT-style services.

Eurobites: Prosecutors Name Former BT Execs in Global Services Fraud Probe

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Brussels busy on digital commerce, copyright laws; Nokia plans AI hubs; the app that tracks Saudi women.

Virtualization Is Progressing, but What About Cloud & Automation?

Communications service providers are about a fifth of the way towards their virtualization targets.

MWC 2019: 5G's AI Power Struggle

5G will usher in an AI power struggle between the mobile operators and the web services giants, predicts Aditya Kaul, research director focused on artificial intelligence and robotics at Tractica.

Google to Spend $13B on New Data Centers & Offices in US

Google says new construction will create capacity to hire tens of thousands of employees, and enable creation of more than 10,000 new construction jobs.

The secondary market is becoming a primary consideration for smartphone vendors

With western smartphone markets in steep decline the secondary market is gaining traction as a counter-intuitive way to reverse that trend.

Potential Presidential candidates line up to oppose T-Mobile/Sprint merger

Leading opponents of President Trump have signed a letter to the FCC condemning the proposed T-Mobile US and Sprint merger, suggesting the threat of regionalised monopolies and sky-high bills.

Google plans to invest $13B in the U.S. in 2019

With this new investment, Google will have a home in 24 states, including data centers in 13 communities.

Oman Data Park Adds Fortinet SD-WAN to Its Managed Services Portfolio

This extends a 7-year partnership between the Oman-based service provider and Fortinet.

Google Gets Aggressive, Pledges $13B for US Data Centers and Offices

This will include “major expansions” in 14 states and “tens of thousands” of new employees, CEO Sundar Pichai said.

Prepaid market is an operator blind spot – research

Some new research commissioned by mobile financial services company Juvo has concluded operators are wasting loads of cash through prepaid churn.

Congress challenges T-Mobile, Sprint on merits of merger

The leaders of T-Mobile and Sprint today testified before the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

Cato Networks dials up RingCentral certification

SD-WAN vendor Cato Networks announced today that it has garnered certification as a RingCentral connectivity partner.

EA’s Fortnite copycat is off to a flier

One week after Electronic Arts launched Apex Legends, a free-to-play online battle royale game, the team is purring over 25 million sign ups and over 2 million concurrent players at peak times.

AT&T on the homestretch of virtualization goal

AT&T is on the final leg of having 75% of its network virtualized by 2020, but there are still a few hurdles to clear on the stretch run.

Vapor IO, partners launch Kinetic Edge Alliance

Vapor IO and its partners have launched the Kinetic Edge Alliance, an industry alliance focused on simplifying edge computing for the masses.

Paxata Taps Instana for Code-Level Insights Into Its Containerized Applications

The data preparation software company immediately identified dozens of problems within its code after deploying Instana’s APM and SDK software.

Unstructured Data Leads Dell EMC to Expand Isilon Storage

The new storage platform “sits slightly ahead of the curve with what’s happening in the market,” says one analyst.

Huawei Dominates Global Network Equipment Services Market, Dell’Oro Reports

The China-based firm held a commanding lead in global sales over rivals Ericsson, Nokia, and Cisco. Combined, those four vendors controlled 86 percent of the market.

UK and US smartphone markets in steep decline

The latest numbers from industry trackers Strategy Analytics reveal UK smartphone shipments fell 14% in Q4 2018.

Kinetic Edge Alliance Targets 30 Markets to Unleash Edge Critical Mass

The new group advances Vapor IO’s Kinetic Edge architecture, which uses software-defined interconnection and high-speed networking to combine multiple micro-data centers into a single, virtual facility.

California data dividend sounds nice but shows digital economy ignorance

The State of California might be making friends in Silicon Valley with its defence of net neutrality rules, but in proposing a ‘data dividend’ on the digital economy, these kinships might turn sour very quickly.

IBM Taps Kubernetes to Unleash Watson Across Clouds

Watson applications can now be run as microservices orchestrated by Kubernetes across rival cloud ecosystems like like AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Ruckus unveils ICX 7850 switch

Ruckus Networks is offering up its new ICX 7850 switch, which is designed to serve as an edge-to-core solution for the next decade of enterprise networking.

Is There a 5G Edge Advantage for Mobile Operators?

Edge networking and edge cloud are closely associated with 5G. It's not an overstatement to say edge computing is inherent to 5G architecture.

Cisco: Service Provider Revenue Shrinks, Overall Revenue Grows

Everything's looking great, says Cisco. Let's just not talk about the service provider business.

Apple Nears Launch of Video Streaming Product Sans Netflix – Report

HBO's involvement reportedly 'in doubt' as Apple prepares to introduce an aggregation offering that includes Apple originals and integrated access to other OTT services.

Dish Undaunted About Wireless Plans

Still confident that FCC will approve its NB-IoT plan and that Dish will start to have standards-compliant gear in hand for a standalone 5G network sometime in 2020.

Fourteen Takeaways From the Sprint/T-Mobile Merger Hearings

If you missed the three-plus hours of testimony from T-Mobile's John Legere and Sprint's Marcelo Claure on the proposed merger between their companies, here's a quick rundown of what happened (spoilers: not much).

Dish Sheds 334K Video Subs in Q4, Rocked by HBO, Univision Blackouts

Sling TV adds 47K subs in period, slowed from a gain of about 160K a year earlier, but Dish says its OTT base is now 'margin-positive.'

Edge Computing Players Move Beyond Tower Locations

The edge computing sector remains in flux: Players aren't interested in locating equipment at the base of every single cell tower anymore, and some (like Vapor IO) have delayed their data center buildout plans.

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst: How Open Source Stopped Being 'Scary'

Red Hat's boss on how open source enables innovation and the cloud, disrupts IT, and might make the world better. Also: Will the IBM acquisition threaten Red Hat's unique culture?

Eurobites: Ireland's eir Plows €500M Into Fixed-Line Network

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: TIM collaborates with Corning; Tele2's Q4; prepaid mobile in developing economies; Kudelski forges IoT partnership.

Edge Computing Players Retreat From Tower Locations

The edge computing sector remains in flux: Players aren't interested in locating equipment at the base of cell towers anymore, and some (like Vapor IO) have delayed their data center buildout plans.

BT manages to give Kirkby a job after all

Allison Kirkby, the new CEO of Danish telco TDC, has found the time to become a non-executive director of BT too.

Symantec Buys Luminate, Adds Software-Defined Perimeter to Its Cloud Security Arsenal

The acquisition advances Symantec’s strategy of buying born-in-the-cloud security startups and folding their technologies into its platform to unify cloud and on-premises security.

Google Cloud to compete more aggressively with AWS and Azure

Google Cloud is setting its sights on more traditional enterprises, building up its sales force and working with its channel partners.

China at the centre of US/Hungary passive aggressive spat

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has joined the European roadshow with the intention of lobbying other governments towards a China ban, but Hungary’s message is clear: mind your own business.

Mesh wifi goes mainstream as Amazon acquires Eero

Amazon’s push into the connected home took another step with the acquisition of mesh wifi specialist Eero.

Verizon adds Alibaba Cloud into its cloud ecosystem

Verizon has expanded the reach of its Secure Cloud Interconnect into Alibaba Cloud for private connections.

Ericsson and Intel partner for 5G cloud platform

Ericsson and Intel have announced a new partnership which is aimed at aligning the Swedes efforts for software-defined infrastructure with Intel’s Rack Scale Design.

Verizon issues call to action for 5G deployments

Verizon kicked off an initiative that aims to pressure local and state lawmakers to remove or ease restrictions on 5G deployments.

Intel and Ericsson partner on software-defined infrastructure

Ericsson and Intel announced a partnership to develop a software and hardware management platform for NFV, distributed cloud and 5G.

Windstream Enterprise rolls out SIEM service

Windstream Enterprise has added a SIEM service to its security arsenal to help midsized enterprises ward off security threats.

AT&T Adds Minneapolis and Chicago to Its 2019 5G Plans

The carrier said that its initial 5G service is currently providing select customers with network speeds up to 400 Mb/s. It has also seen speeds as high as 1.5 Gb/s in field testing using a “test device.”

Deep Security Startup ShiftLeft Raises $20M Series B

The company’s customers include Nutanix, Raytheon, and Tavant. It has raised almost $30 million to date.

Nokia expands WING with 4 vertical packages

Nokia is trying to make it easier for operators to get new business in vertical IoT markets.

China plummeting and India soaring but Apple just can’t get a break

IDC had a stab at smartphone shipments in two of the worlds most lucrative markets, and it does not make pleasant reading for Apple.

AT&T claims its customers love 5GE

In response to rival US operator Sprint suing it for deception over its 5G Evolution move, AT&T has insisted it’s just thinking of the punters.

Amazon expands reach into the home with Eero acquisition

Amazon’s entry into homes and businesses is widening. The company announced that it will acquire Eero, a popular maker of mesh Wi-Fi equipment.

Lenovo Jumps Into Consumption-Based Infrastructure, Ready to ‘Kill’ the Competition

The vendor’s TruScale Infrastructure Services lets companies rent its data center severs and software stacks and only pay for what they use.

Nokia Dives Into New Market Verticals With WING IoT Platform

Ahead of MWC, Nokia launched four vertically-focused IoT packages to serve the agriculture, livestock management, logistics, and asset management markets.

Juniper’s New 5G On-Ramp Products Include 400 GbE Triton Chip

The new products include a pair of routers that expand Juniper’s Metro Fabric line and a new edge line card offering a three-fold increase in card and system capacity using its Penta chip.

Europe has not been great at net neutrality – report

Nearly three years after the EU net neutrality regulations came into effect, neither service providers nor national regulators have been role models in following the rules, a new report concluded.

T-Mobile applies for extension to test UAS

T-Mobile has filed an application for Special Temporary Authority to use AWS-3 spectrum for testing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in Bellevue and Redmond,…

Datadog Adds AI-Based Testing Platform Madumbo to Its Pack

The Paris-France based startup offers a software platform that tests the behavior of a company’s user-facing web applications.

Juniper tries to lure elusive service providers with network routers

Juniper Networks is offering refreshes to its metro, edge and core network portfolio, and it’s billing the updates as a way for service providers to simplify…

AT&T Adds 2 More US Cities to 5G Plans in 2019

Chicago and Minneapolis down to get mmWave in 2019, as AT&T boasts speeds of 400-Mbit/s for its mobile service.

Qualcomm Quietly Exits Wireless Charging & Healthcare – on the Same Day

Qualcomm is getting rid of its businesses in the wireless vehicle charging sector and the mobile healthcare sector as it works to refocus on opportunities spanning the mobile, auto, IoT, networking and PC sectors.

DT's Dinner with Huawei Could Become Dog's Breakfast

A European backlash against Huawei could turn into the German incumbent's biggest network challenge of all time.

The Telecoms.com Podcast: Europe, Huawei, O-RAN & Legere

Uh-oh – Brexit chat ahoy! Plus Huawei, O-RAN and John Legere.

Eurobites: Ericsson, Intel Combine on Software-Defined Infrastructure for 5G

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: US Secretary of State Pompeo pummels Huawei in Hungary; Nokia offers IoT-in-a-box; Allison Kirkby joins BT board; how to monitor your smart baby.

AT&T Building 5G Network on an Open Source Foundation

Sure, Kubernetes and OpenStack provide the platform for a continent-spanning network, but the open source process is a critical part of the equation.

Amid Global Turmoil, Huawei Still Counts at Least One American Supporter

While Huawei faces sales bans from carriers and governments worldwide, the company still counts at least one supporter: James Valley Telecommunications. "I'm a believer in being innocent until proven guilty," said the CEO.

Ericsson, Intel Team Up on 5G Software-Defined Infrastructure

The two vendors are jointly developing a hardware management platform for service providers that combines Ericsson SDI Manager software and Intel Rack Scale Design architecture and software.

White House congratulates itself for catching AI bug

President Trump is set to sign several bills into law, each of which aims to stimulate US ambitions in future technologies and productivity.

Managed SD–Branch a game changer for distributed organizations

SD-Branch technology has matured to the point of deployment and is now delivering significant benefits to customers in terms of speed of deployment.

Q&A: Epsilon CEO Szlosarek talks U.S. expansion

Wholesale carrier Epsilon expanded its reach in the U.S. last month by partnering with The Massachusetts Internet Exchange.

Tech titans clash with Wi-Fi Alliance over 5.9 GHz

Qualcomm, Nokia and Samsung are supporting the 5GAA's request for permission to conduct C-V2X in the upper portion of the 5.9 GHz band.

US raises suspicions of Chinese influence in Eastern Europe

The US Department of State has raised concerns over Chinese presence in Eastern Europe as a potential danger for corruption and government espionage ambitions.

Trump readies executive order banning Chinese telecom equipment

President Donald Trump is planning to sign an executive order this week that will ban Chinese telecom equipment from America’s wireless networks.

Qualcomm sells health division to private equity firm

Qualcomm Life has been acquired by private equity firm Francisco Partners for an undisclosed sum.

AT&T deploys mobile 5G network at AT&T Stadium

AT&T says it has made good on its plan to bring 5G service to the venue that bears its name in Arlington, Texas.

France continues charge against Silicon Valley

The City of Paris has joined the overarching French battle against Silicon Valley, suing Airbnb for publishing 1,000 illegal rentals adverts.

Orange Business Services Builds ‘One-Stop Shop’ for SD-WAN

Orange claims the largest enterprise SD-WAN deployment in the world rolling out more than 1,500 sites with its Flexible SD-WAN service.

UK growth is slowing, but so is Europe’s

The numbers for 2018 GDP growth are in and, while they’re not great, they’re a lot better than some doom-mongers have expected.

Kubernetes, Docker, ContainerD Impacted by RunC Container Runtime Bug

The flaw basically allows an infected container to gain control of the overarching host container and allow an attacker to execute any command.

Dell EMC Leads HCI Hardware Sector as Numbers Rise

IHS Markit says hyperconverged infrastructure will grow from only 122,000 units shipped last year to more than 1 million units shipped by 2022.

User backlash after Tencent’s Reddit interest

Chinese internet giant Tencent is reportedly leading the pack for Reddit’s Series D round, with the social media giant aiming to raise between $150 and $300 million, but not everyone is happy.

Tenable Predicts the Big Bad 3% of Vulnerabilities

The new security tool it built analyzes data across 150 sources. It then uses machine learning to predict the likelihood a vulnerability will be exploited in the next 28 days.

Ericsson 5G U.S. Investment Climbs With Tower Training Facility

The vendor last year said it would open a software development center and ASIC design center in Austin, Texas. The two facilities will develop 5G products and software and employ more than 330 engineers.

Verizon issues $1B in green bonds for environmental initiatives

Part of the proceeds from the $1 billion of 10-year green bonds will support several green 5G-related projects in Verizon’s pipeline.

MWC 5G-Gasm Risks Missing the Big Telecom Issues

Nearly upon us once again, MWC in isolation provides a distorting view of the telecom industry and its challenges.

Amazon to Snap Up eero, Claw Into Whole-Home WiFi Market

Eero battles with likes of Google and Netgear at retail, has made some strides in the service provider sector.

Technicolor to Unload Research & Innovation Unit

Has a 'binding offer' from InterDigital for unit that has operated labs linked to data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, VR and augmented reality.

Why Verizon Is Seeking Grassroots Support for Its 5G Buildout

Verizon – one of the biggest US corporations – is asking regular people to help it build its 5G network. Why? It probably has something to do with health issues and aesthetic opposition to small cells.

Verizon to Keep 3G Network Running for Some Enterprise Customers

Verizon re-affirmed that it will shut down its CDMA 3G network at the end of this year. But that shutdown won't affect a few of Verizon's enterprise customers who get to keep service for a few more years.

MWC 2019: 5G & the Capex Question

With 2019 set to be the year when 5G really starts to shift from slideware to the network, the head of Ovum's European telecoms team, Dario Talmesio, talks about the impact on carrier capex.

Unified Office CEO: Would You Like Extra Services With That VoIP?

CEO Ray Pasquale isn't in the VoIP business to lower the price of phone calls. He wants to give small businesses everything they need to know – from network analytics to pizza topping preferences – on one screen.

When Worlds Collide: Google's VP Hire Reflects Telco & Media Convergence

Hiring John Honeycutt, ex-CTO of TV giant Discovery, as Google VP for telecom media and entertainment, reflects sea changes in telecoms.

How Sports TV Viewership Is Changing

And how these changes offer fresh opportunities for video providers to engage sports fans in meaningful new ways.

Can Cable Beat 5G?

Cable leaders will make the case for their new 10G initiative at Light Reading's Cable Next-Gen Technologies & Strategies event in Denver next month.

Eurobites: Bharti Unit, Telkom Kenya to Merge Operations

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: US sounds alarm over Huawei's empire-building in eastern Europe; Iskratel soups up FTTH on French-owned Réunion Island; rural mobile connectivity failing in the UK.