Kontainer Korner: Red Hat Boosts Quay Support

Also, The Rook cloud native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes hit its 1.0 release, and a Kublr survey found that attendees at container-focused events really like containers.

Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Outstanding Test & Measurement Vendor

Six companies – Anritsu, Infovista, Kentik, Netrounds, Spirent and Viavi Solutions – made the cut in the Outstanding Test & Measurement Vendor category.

Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Outstanding Digital Enablement Vendor

LotusFlare, MATRIXX Software, MYCOM OSI, Netcracker Technology, Openet and Synchronoss Technologies are the six shortlisted companies in this category.

CenturyLink's Walker on Why 5G Demands Efficiency at the Edge

CenturyLink's Bill Walker explains how edge computing can help service providers efficiently manage traffic and meet increasing bandwidth demands in the 5G era.

Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative Mobile/Wireless Product or Service

Amdocs, CommScope, Parallel Wireless, Quantenna Communications, Sprint and Verizon and Ericsson are this year's finalists.

Cloud Bursts: Arista Stumbles, Equinix Flies High, OpenStack Goes Ghostbusters

Also: VMware gets jiggy with Microsoft, Eric Schmidt and Diane Greene depart the Alphabet board, Mirantis gets 'Ultraviolent' and other recent telco cloud news you may have missed.

Cybera Injects Cloud Management Into Its SD-WAN Platform

Cybera’s multi-tenant platform is built on an architecture that provides SD-WAN, cloud-based security, and secure application gateway services to customers.

Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative Telecoms Product

There are 11 (yes, count them!) shortlisted entries in this year's category for Most Innovative Telecoms Product (Optical/IP/Carrier Ethernet/FTTH).

Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Company of the Year (Private)

Several privately held companies – including Versa Networks, CUJO AI, Synamedia and Pluribus Networks – have grown their businesses and set themselves up for success in the last 12 months.

Sprint’s prospects look grim without T-Mobile: analysts

Sprint says its standalone future is in trouble, but opponents to its proposed merger with T-Mobile say it's not that bad. Industry analysts weigh in.

BT gets personal on speed guarantees

BT has announced a new initiative, Stay Fast Guarantee, which will aim to hyper-personalise speed guarantees for new and re-signing customers.

Facebook selectively bans ‘dangerous’ users

Social media giant Facebook has significantly stepped-up its censorship efforts by banning seven accounts, six of which are often described as ‘far-right’.

Verizon’s Hans Vestberg made $22.2M in 2018

The compensation of Verizon’s top executives was approved by shareholders yesterday at its 2019 annual meeting.

Arista Networks' stock drops after weak Q2 forecast

The weekend can't come soon enough for Arista Networks after its stock dropped on the heels of a weak second-quarter forecast.

Verizon continues quest to correct content car crash

The Verizon mission to conquer the content world has been anything but a smooth ride to date, and now it is reportedly searching for a buyer for Tumblr.

5G Security Draws a Global Crowd, Results in Draft Proposals

Delegates from 32 countries this week gathered at a conference in Prague to address security concerns and discuss potential plans for securing 5G networks.

Opponents to T-Mobile/Sprint merger step up efforts

Their core arguments against the combination of T-Mobile and Sprint remain much the same, but opponents to the tie-up are stepping up their lobbying efforts in…

Adva's Pate makes the case for uCPE

While universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) offers many benefits for service providers, it has yet to hit the mainstream.

Vodafone Idea to update network with Ericsson cloud infrastructure

The deal follows an earlier multiyear agreement between the two companies for 5G-ready equipment.

Google goes back to ad-supported model for its YouTube Originals

Google seems to come a cropper when it comes to its YouTube content ambitions, announcing all of its Original content will now be available for ‘free’.

Juniper Pushes Open Source Past Experimentation to Implementation

Juniper’s Julius Francis discusses how open source must evolve and consider security, operationalizing, management, and monetization to serve use cases and customers.

Canonical Sharpens Focus on Red Hat, VMware; IPO Plans Remain

The company has simplified its service offerings in an attempt to lower cost and attract more customers looking to jump into the open source game.

Dell and HPE Spar Over Multi-Cloud, Consumption-Based Infrastructure

A year after HPE CEO Antonio Neri said “Dell doesn’t have an edge-to-cloud approach,” Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said HPE’s multi-cloud strategy “isn’t going so well.”

Altice ‘on track’ to launch mobile services this summer

Altice has deployed more than 19,000 small cells in less than one year through its partnership with Sprint.

Vodafone and Telefónica Get Nod for Spanish 5G pilots

Vodafone Spain is to work with Huawei on a pilot in Andalusia, while Telefónica teams up with Ericsson and Nokia.

CTIA: DOD report fails to reflect U.S. standing in 5G

CTIA is taking issue with a recent report on 5G by the Defense Innovation Board (DIB) that it says misrepresents the status of 5G in the U.S.

Samsung mum on PS-LTE particulars

Samsung Electronics announced that it has signed an expansion contract with KT Corporation (KT) to provide public safety LTE (PS-LTE) network solutions for 10…

Q1 vendor earnings reveal some bright spots, but Huawei clouds markets

First-quarter vendor earnings are in the books, and while there are some bright spots, namely Samsung and Corning, Huawei's status clouds the markets.

Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative 5G Strategy

A10 Networks, Allot, Amdocs, Casa Systems, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Lumina Networks, Ooredoo Qatar, Parallel Wireless and SK Telecom are the Light Reading finalists for the annual Leading Lights award for Most Innovative 5G Strategy.

India's Vodafone Idea Taps IBM & Ericsson for Cloud

Vodafone Idea picked IBM to implement multi-cloud for customer engagement, in a five-year multi-million-dollar deal, and Ericsson for its cloud packet core.

Today's Mobile Networks Make Charlie Ergen Sick to His Stomach

'When I go to one of our towers, I want to throw up,' the Dish Chairman says, stressing that the architecture of wireless networks is in dire need of virtualization in the 5G era.

Mediacom Joins Cable's Wireless Rush via CBRS Tests With Samsung

Mediacom – the nation's fifth-largest cable company – has joined its cable peers in testing wireless operations in the 3.5GHz CBRS band. What the company might do with the spectrum remains an open question though.

T-Mobile Hopes Prepaid Restructuring Will Rekindle Growth

Speaking on a conference call with the company's prepaid dealers that was obtained by Light Reading, the chief executive of Metro by T-Mobile said he's leaving the business voluntarily, and that the move could help the operation's finances.

Three's Broadband 'Toy' Gets Set for 5G Push

A tiny broadband business that Three bought in 2017 is set to play a big part in the UK operator's 5G plans.

WiCipedia: Data Bias in Space, #MeToo Backlash & Childhood Conditioning

This week in our WiC roundup: #MeToo backlash hits hard; stopping imposter syndrome before it starts; book recommendations galore!; and more.

Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Best Deal Maker

Oracle, Momentum Telecom and Lumentum all made interesting, well-timed acquisitions, divestitures, partnerships and other deals in the past 12 months.

Eurobites: Open Fiber, Fastweb Extend Fiber Network in Italy

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Pompeo heads for London to sound the Huawei alarm (again); Proximus revenue down in Q1; big-buttoned phones still rockin' it for Doro.

Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative SD-WAN Product Strategy (Vendor)

Find out which vendors devised the most innovative SD-WAN product or platform during the past year.

Apple drives global smartwatch market up 48% in Q1

The latest global smartwatch shipment numbers from Counterpoint Research reveal strong segment growth driven largely by Apple.

Broadband speeds are up but UK’s fibre is still lagging

Ofcom has proudly proclaimed the majority of UK can now access ultrafast broadband at home and at work, but its fibre diet still leaves much to be desired.

Microsoft Adds More AI, IoT, and Blockchain Services to Azure

The tech giant announced several new Azure cloud services ahead of its annual Build developers’ conference next week.

Huawei set to launch 5G telly – report

A report is claiming Huawei wants to become a major TV and PC player and will use its 5G expertise as a differentiator.

Equinix Interconnect Revenue Soars; Stateless Jumps In the Hot Market

Networking startup Stateless rolled out its first product: a software-defined interconnection platform that enables composable Layer 3 network services such as routing, security, and automation.

FCC revises its U.S. broadband numbers downward after finding error

In February the FCC said its policies had helped deliver broadband to 5.6 million more Americans. But, it revised that number down to 4.3 million.

South Korea adds 260k 5G subscribers in one month

Sceptics will suggest consumer 5G launches will fall flat, an answer to a non-existent problem, but 260,000 subscriptions after one month suggests there is an appetite for 5G in South Korea.

Qualcomm banks almost $5 billion from Apple and that’s just the start

In its latest quarterly earnings announcement Qualcomm revealed just some of the cash it’s trousering from Apple after winning their legal fight.

Google introduces auto-delete

Privacy is proving to be one of the long-standing themes of 2019 and Google latest move perhaps should be considered an industry standard.

Airship Fixed AT&T’s AIC Pain Points, Catalyzed OpenStack Community

The carrier is looking to the OSF's Kata container project to solve multi-tenancy concerns with Kubernetes running in Airship.

Enea and Lanner team up on uCPE

Enea and Lanner Electronics have teamed up on getting uCPE platforms into the market for entry-level SD-WAN and security use cases.

Cisco Issues Largest Single-Day Security Vulnerabilities in at Least 12 Months

Cisco previously disclosed 42 advisories in April including critical security alerts for operating systems, routers, and LAN software.

FCC Chairman: Private sector should build 5G; security is key issue

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said for the second time this week that the right approach to 5G is private-sector-driven and private-sector-led, as President Trump put…

FCC wants proof AT&T, others stopped selling customer location data

AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint became embroiled in a pair of scandals involving location data and bail bond firms.

Huawei Leak Leads to Sacking of UK Defense Secretary

One U.K. parliament member claims that allowing Huawei to participate in the 5G network would be like “nesting a dragon.”

Public voices health concerns over 5G in Chicago

The Chicago Tribune reports that some residents are worried about possibly unsafe radiation exposure.

Software programmable interconnection is alive in some data centers

While SDN is being used in data centers, software programmable interconnection goes beyond a single data center to connect multiple data centers.

Ericsson: CBA plan poses ‘detrimental impact’ on 5G

Ericsson warned the FCC that if it adopts a two-tranche approach promoted by the C-Band Alliance (CBA), it would have a “detrimental impact” on the development…

Splunk Extends Power of Data to All With New Enterprise Products

The monitoring software company also injected AI and machine learning into its IT and security product suites.

Entner: Flexible U.S. spectrum policy gets it right

One of the key advantages the United States has in wireless is the policy of flexible use of spectrum.

Jeff Binder Exits T-Mobile, Robert Gary to Head Up Home & Entertainment Unit

Binder joined T-Mobile following company's acquisition of Denver-based pay-TV startup Layer3 TV.

Buying Wireless Spectrum 'Not in the Cards' for Altice USA, CEO Says

Altice USA laser-focused on planned launch of a mobile product, in partnership with Sprint this summer, CEO Dexter Goei says. Meanwhile, MSO sees video and broadband results improve in Q1.

Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Outstanding Components Vendor

Acacia Communications, Finisar, ProLabs, Source Photonics and Xilinx all submitted standout entries for the Outstanding Components Vendor category in this year's Leading Lights contest.

Casa Systems Sees Bottom Fall Out in Q1

Cable and wireless network access vendor reports revenues sank by more than half in Q1 as broadband product and service contracts fell across the board.

Qualcomm Eager for a 5G Christmas This Year

Even a forecast of a summer smartphone slump can't dampen investors' enthusiasm for Qualcomm, which is on track to receive at least $4.5 billion from Apple as it rides into a 'material' 5G opportunity next year.

Charter X1 Syndication Deal: A Remote Possibility?

Industry sources say it's extremely unlikely that Charter would do a full syndication deal for X1, but that Charter could be interested in adopting some specific features and capabilities of Comcast's video platform.

Ericsson Pain Is VEON Gain in Q1

Russia-focused operator pockets a profit-boosting compensation payment from Ericsson and hails a strong operational performance in major markets.

What Disney, Telcos & China's Social Credit System Have in Common

Big data is guiding your everyday decisions and the decisions that affect your life. It's no wonder that governments and corporations want in.

Eurobites: Huaweigate Triggers Political Earthquake in UK

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: ONI Telecom does data center interconnect with Nokia; Síminn prepares for 5G with Ericsson; Swisscom Q1 revenue slips.

Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative AI/Analytics Strategy

Accedian, Amdocs, ASSIA, Boingo, Cisco and Huawei make the shortlist for our Most Innovative AI/Analytics Strategy award.

Facebook’s privacy conundrum

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has to do something about his firm’s reputation for data privacy, but could it mean destroying its own core business model?

UK Defence Secretary identified as Huawei leaker and sacked

It looks like the source of last week’s leak of the Government’s plans for the Huawei issue was the Defence Secretary himself.

Industry Voices—Raynovich: Amazon owns the smart pipes

Remember the old argument about smart pipes and dumb pipes? It’s over. Amazon has built the ultimate smart pipe to the consumer.

Mirantis targets telcos that want to deploy compact clouds on premises

This is for telcos that want to deploy many small clouds as opposed to one big data center.

NTIA concludes tests for 5 SAS vendors

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) this week announced that it has wrapped up the laboratory testing stage for five Spectrum…

Jaguar Land Rover takes a rewarding approach to the sharing economy

Jaguar Land Rover is testing out a new rewards scheme that will see drivers rewarded with cryptocurrency for sharing data.

Global smartphone shipments plunge to lowest level since 2014

The decline of the global smartphone market continues but nobody sent Huawei the memo as it raced past Apple into second place.

UK sets wheels in motion for a more secure digital world

The UK Government has announced plans to introduce new security and privacy rules to ready the country for a flood of IOT devices.

Cradlepoint eyes CBRS spectrum to offer private LTE

The company sees an opportunity with CRBS spectrum and 5G to provide private LTE in industrial use cases where companies would like to escape from their…

Apple investors hope short-term pain will lead to long-term gain

16% growth in the steadily growing software and services business seems to be enough to rally investor confidence in the face of declining revenues.

Mirantis Models an Open Source Path for On-Prem App Deployments

The Model Designer for Mirantis Cloud Platform is basically a web site that includes drop-down menu options to simplify the application deployment process.

YouTube censorship contributes to disappointing Google numbers

Google holding company Alphabet saw its share price fall by 8% after it announced disappointing Q1 numbers.

Huawei overtakes Apple as smartphone shipments decline sharply: IDC

IDC said it was the sixth consecutive quarter to see smartphone shipments decline.

ZTE Taps Intel for eASIC Chips in 5G RAN Equipment

While the benefits and opportunities provided by 5G are well known, “once you open the hood of what’s really underneath the infrastructure to support 5G, there’s a lot of complexity under that hood,” said Intel's Ronnie Vasishta.

Dell Technologies and Orange Ink Telco 5G Deal

The agreement with Orange follows a 5G memorandum of understanding that Dell China signed with China Unicom last week.

Charter updates MVNO progress, explores dual SIM connectivity

CEO Tom Rutledge said Spectrum Mobile is "ramping nicely."

Sprint is testing NB-IoT in its network

The operator says IoT sales have increased 500% since it debuted its Curiosity IoT platform last fall.

AWS Opens Managed Blockchain to the Public, Rolls Block Storage on Snowball Edge

The cloud provider has been easing its way into the blockchain market, but now customers can leverage Hyperledger (and soon Ethereum) to build blockchain-based networks and applications.

CenturyLink expands private cloud offerings to Dell servers

In order to give its customers more choices, CenturyLink announced today that it has expanded its private cloud offerings to include Dell servers.

Aryaka snags $50M in funding; next stop IPO?

SD-WAN vendor Aryaka announced it has closed a $50 million round of funding led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing.

Report: Digital transformation now strategically vital

Organizations don't just accept the reality of digital transformation; they see it as a vital step in their company's survival, according a report.…

Nokia tapped for San Diego CBRS experiment

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is asking the FCC for permission to see if a private LTE network can operate in the Citizens Broadcast Radio Service (…

Aryaka Snags $50M to Scale Its Global Managed SD-WAN

The SD-WAN provider has spent the last year building and scaling its managed SD-WAN to “innovate across the entire architecture stack,” according to CEO Matt Carter.

As Launches Near, CBRS Industry Preps for Fixed Wireless, Private LTE

The NTIA has wrapped SAS testing in the CBRS band, one of the final steps in releasing the spectrum for commercial use. Midco and Landmark Dividend are among those planning to use the spectrum for services like fixed wireless and private LTE.

Orange Taps Dell for 5G Transformation

Orange and Dell will collaborate on a distributed cloud architecture for 5G cloud networking.

Comcast Business Beefs Up Managed WiFi Via Deep Blue Buy

Deep Blue specializes in the planning, engineering and installation of managed WiFi networks for hotels and entertainment venues, and reportedly pulled down $38 million in revenues last year.

5G4REAL: Rubik's Cube Is No Match for 5G

Verizon, AT&T and other network operators provided updates on the state of their 5G rollouts at the sixth annual Brooklyn 5G Summit, hosted by NYU.

Caavo Cuts Pricing, Morphs Video Platform Into a Smart Home Hub

Startup hopes to dive deeper into the mainstream by adding IoT management capabilities to a Control Center platform that can also unify the management and navigation of up to four TV-connected devices.

Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative 5G Technology

If 2019 is the year of 5G, Movandi, Pivotal Commware, Samsung Electronics, SK Telecom and Sprint are some of the companies to watch.

iPhone Apathy Bites Apple

Smartphone giant suffers a double-digit percentage fall in profit amid weak demand for the latest devices.

Aryaka Racks $50M Funding for Global SD-WAN Expansion

Aryaka's war chest now totals $184 million for its SD-WAN service, which runs on its own private network.

Eurobites: UK Proposes Laws for a Safer IoT

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nokia goes farming; Inmarsat earnings slump in Q1; CityFibre breaks ground on Cambridge network expansion.

Hansen Acquires Sigma Systems in $117M Deal

Australian billing and customer care specialist Hansen Technologies expands international presence with US$117 million deal to acquire Sigma Systems.

Amazon’s vigilante division Ring moves into crime reporting

Internet retail giant Amazon is making a big push into the neighbourhood watch world and now even wants to report on local crime itself.

Docker Enterprise 3.0 Gains Deeper Kubernetes Integration, Managed Option

The latest release comes on the heels of a new security breach of the Docker database.

Samsung’s profit crashes on weak semiconductor sales

Samsung Electronics reported a net profit decline of 57% in Q1, with total revenue going down by 14%. The semiconductor unit suffered the worst.

Apple starts to count the casualties of its poor 5G campaign

It looks like one of Apple’s most senior wireless engineers has cleared off, just days after the company lost its fight with Qualcomm.

A weak France overshadowed Orange’s Q1

The telecom operator Orange reported a flat Q1, with a weak performance in its home market partially compensated by the strength in Africa and the Middle East.

Vodafone found vulnerabilities in Huawei kit but stuck with it because it was cheap – report

The latest mini-leak in the ongoing Huawei propaganda war saw Vodafone admit to finding security flaws in some Huawei kit in the past.

The Edge Will Be Great, but It Needs to be Operational

While the edge promises a lot of use cases and possibilities, open source groups need to find a way operationalize and manage these devices to bring the use cases to fruition.

T-Mobile, Sprint extend merger timeline into July

T-Mobile and Sprint extended the deadline for completing their merger to July 29 as they continue to seek the regulatory approvals they need to complete a deal.

Google Cloud Revenues Remain a Mystery in Q1 Earnings

Parent company Alphabet’s first quarter 2019 earnings saw a revenue miss and the tech giant’s slowest growth since 2015.

Vodafone found backdoors in Huawei gear in 2009-2012: Bloomberg

In a later statement, Vodafone criticized the Bloomberg report and denied some of its allegations.

Red Hat Extends OpenStack Edge Support

The distributed compute node capabilities allow users to run OpenStack in as little as one node at an edge location.

Dell EMC Adds VMware SD-WAN Integration, Updates HCI Portfolio

Both rely heavily on VMware’s software — and further illustrate the importance of VMware’s technology to the newly public Dell Technologies as it stretches its product portfolio from the data center to the cloud and edge.

Bell partners with Google Cloud to offer hybrid cloud connectivity

Canada's Bell announced today that its Bell Cloud Connect business customers can now connect globally with Google Cloud Platform's hybrid cloud.

Samsung's Q1 profits drop 60%; declines in phones, chips, displays

The company didn't give many details about the screen issues found with its Galaxy Fold phones.

OpenStack, no longer the rebel, scrambles to stay relevant

The group made its name with virtual machines, but it’s now actively involved with containers and bare metal environments.

Samsung Profits Slide, Anticipates 5G Growth

While chipset and display sales plunged during the first quarter of 2019, Samsung said its networking business was a relative bright spot due to the launch of 5G services in Korea.

Red Hat rolls out latest version of its virtualization platform

Red Hat bows the latest version of its virtualization platform to help drive operational simplicity for enterprises IT environments.

T-Mobile/Sprint merger approval is still hanging in the balance

The US DoJ’s anti-trust chief has not made up his mind on the T-Mobile/Sprint merger case, saying the deal must meet key criteria.

Ericsson Trumpets 45 5G MoUs Following Russia and China Signings

The Swedish vendor signed 5G MoUs with MOTIV of Russia and China Telecom.

6WIND's vRouters power 10M subscribers across 80 ISPs

6WIND landed one of its largest customer wins to date by deploying its virtual routers across two Internet Exchange Points.

Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative IoT/M2M Strategy

Nokia, Senet, Sprint & Ericsson and Wind River all stood out as having compelling IoT strategies and approaches to a growing, lucrative market.

If Sprint, T-Mobile Divest Customers in a Merger, They Could Call América Móvil

The merger of Sprint and T-Mobile continues to cast shadows across the industry, with Mexico's América Móvil voicing interest in divested customers and T-Mobile's prepaid chief leaving the company.

Charter Exploring 'Dual SIM' Technology

Charter, which added 176,000 mobile lines in Q1, is testing dual SIM capabilities, but deployments are not expected in 2019.

Charter in Talks About Licensing Comcast's X1 Platform

CEO Tom Rutledge confirms that Charter's had discussions, but company currently remains committed to its own, next-gen video platform and interface.

Three UK to Cut Two Thirds of Tech Jobs in Digital Makeover

The smallest of the UK's mobile operators is set to get even smaller on the staffing side as it automates processes and moves IT systems into the public cloud.

Eurobites: Huawei Refused to Close Vodafone's 'Backdoor' – Report

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Iliad fined by French stock market regulator; ARM gets new CFO; Safaricom's Collymore steps down; Telenor's Q1.

Here Are AT&T's 5 Most Congested Markets

California seems to be giving AT&T troubles.

Orange Q1 Sales Dip in France Amid Tough Competition

The French telecom incumbent sees revenues fall at home for the first time in two years but still manages to grow earnings.

Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative Automation Strategy

India's Reliance Jio and Japan's Rakuten make this year's shortlist for Most Innovative Automation Strategy.

OpenStack Foundation Pushes Collaboration With Other Projects, Communities

As the foundation broadens its base it is focusing on collaboration without boundaries as a way to solve open infrastructure problems faster and more efficiently.

Google, Federated, CommScope get OK for ESCs

The FCC has given its seal of approval to the Environmental Sensing Capabilities (ESCs) of Google, Federated Wireless and CommScope for use in the 3550-3650…

China Telecom gets a piece of the Philippines’ new third telco

Chinese operator China Telecom has signed a $5.4 billion deal to get involved in Mislatel, the Philippines third CSP.

Apple is facing complaints from developers for removing competing apps

Apps that help users control screen time have been removed or been demanded to curtail their features after Apple rolled out similar features. Some developers have filed complaints at the EU against the iPhone maker.

Dell, VMware Soar Into Microsoft Azure With New Hybrid Cloud Deal

The deal will allow customers to run VMware’s software stack in Microsoft’s Azure public cloud. And it’s similar to the 2016 hybrid cloud partnership between Amazon and VMware.

Cisco Releases WiFi 6 Access Points, Core Switches

Cisco is optimistic about the opportunities for Wi-Fi 6 in the near term and expects massive proliferation to reach clients by early 2020.

AT&T Deploys Nationwide NB-IoT Network

The operator upgraded its nationwide network of 4G LTE cell sites for NB-IoT and says it plans to update with global standards for massive IoT on its 5G network later this year.

Virgin Media shows off its new bundle of joy

UK multiplay operator Virgin Media has attempted to raise the stakes in the consumer and SME markets with some new products.

Midco wraps up CBRS testing

Midwest regional operator Midco and Telrad Networks completed initial Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) testing with Federated Wireless’ Spectrum Access…

OpenStack kicks off spring summit with 1.0 release of Project Airship

For its Network Cloud, AT&T deploys commercial-off-the-shelf servers from Dell and HPE. And, it uses white boxes in its Network Cloud for the switching.

Telenor makes some IoT predictions

The IoT bit of Norwegian operator group Telenor has had a go at predicting the IoT market, with a bit of help from its friends.

OpenStack Releases Airship 1.0 to Heighten Cloud Lifecycle Automation via Containers

AT&T, one of the primary contributors to Airship, has been using the project in its production network since December and says it will play a core role in its 5G network and infrastructure rollout.

Cisco pushes OpenRoaming, Wi-Fi 6

Cisco announced new Wi-Fi 6 access points across its Catalyst and Meraki portfolios, as well as the Catalyst 9600 core switch family, but its work with the…

AT&T says its nationwide NB-IoT network is up and running

AT&T now offers business customers two LPWANs designed for IoT.

KPN Partners With Huawei for Non-Core 5G, but Includes Escape Clause

The carrier says it has provisionally agreed to use RAN equipment and antennas from Huawei for 5G, but the Dutch government has yet to make a final decision.

Apple defends removing apps for violating App Store guidelines

Apple was responding to allegations made in a New York Times report over the weekend.

OSM will be center stage at Network Transformation Congress

This week's Network Transformation Congress in San Jose, California, will be service provider-centric and have a focus on Open Source MANO.

Harmonic CEO: We Want to Be No. 1 in Cable Virtualization, DAA

Harmonic sees a big year ahead for its 'CableOS' platform and distributed access architecture deployments as vendor takes aim at a cable network market that's been led by Arris, Cisco and Casa Systems.

Alphabet Reports Cloud Expansion, but Slowing Ad Growth Stalls Shares

Google's parent company credited its cloud business with growing revenues, but slowing growth in the advertising business sent its stock down.

Viacom Seeks Free OTT Payoff on Pluto TV

As the pay-TV sector continues to struggle, programmer sets launch of several free, ad-supported streaming channels from BET, Comedy Central, Spike and MTV on the now Viacom-owned Pluto TV ad-based OTT service.

T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Odds Sink to 55%

Analysts at Raymond James said that the proposed merger between Sprint and T-Mobile is facing increasing headwinds. However, the top antitrust regulator at the DoJ said he has not yet made up his mind about the proposed transaction.

ZTE Returns to Profit Despite Sales Slump

A fourth consecutive decline in quarterly sales at ZTE is a troubling sign for the Chinese vendor's supporters.

Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative Blockchain for Telecoms Strategy

Colt, Filament, Mobileum and Synchronoss Technologies all submitted standout entries for most innovative blockchain for telecoms strategy in this year's Leading Lights contest.

Huawei 5G Bans Highlight Network Confusion

Muddled thinking about the core and the edge is shaping government policy toward Huawei in some parts of the world.

AT&T Flies 'Airship' to 5G Cloud

AT&T's 5G network cloud is built using Airship open source cloud infrastructure provisioning software, which goes to version 1 on Monday.

The Telecoms.com Podcast: Huawei, Apple/Qualcomm & 5G

They say 'Hi Wei,' then talk about Huawei. And other stuff.

Cisco Connects With WiFi 6 Updates, OpenRoaming Progress

Cisco's Catalyst switch updates, access point improvements and OpenRoaming partners combine to paint a picture of constant, effortless wireless connectivity.

China Mobile Upends Broadband Market

China's biggest mobile operator has triggered upheaval in the market for broadband services.

TiVo Tunes In to Cable's IP Video Migration, Use of Android TV Boxes

TiVo says it's gaining ground with its next-gen video platform even as some of the nation's Tier 2/3 cable ops look to play down pay-TV and avoid investing in next-gen platforms.

Eurobites: UK Fiber Challenger Looks to Raise £1B for Network Buildout

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Exponential-e teams up on data storage; small-cells M&A; T-Systems goes all-in with Azure; China's ambassador to UK sticks up for Huawei.