Nokia Summons Mobile Heritage for 5G Security Services

Nokia envisions a growing role in network security as it expands its reach across extended detection and response (XDR); security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR); endpoint detection and response (EDR); managed services; and consulting. 

T-Mobile extends CDMA shutdown by 3 months

T-Mobile announced that it will extend the deadline for its CDMA network shutdown by three months, to March 31, 2022.

USDA dishes out $1.2B for broadband in third ReConnect round

The U.S. Department of Agriculture laid out plans to divvy up $1.15 billion in support for rural broadband in the third round of funding from its ReConnect Program, adding to the more than $1.5 billion it has doled out since the program’s inception in 2018.

Taiwan Mobile rolls out 5G standalone core with Nokia

Nokia has deployed a 5G standalone core network for Taiwan Mobile, building on the partners’ network deal announced last year.

Verizon, Nissan connect for car safety using MEC

Verizon and Nissan North America’s Research and Advanced Engineering team completed a proof-of-concept showing how sensor data from vehicles and surrounding infrastructure could be processed at the edge of Verizon’s wireless network to help guide drivers in near real time.

DoJ says Ericsson breached corruption-related settlement terms

The U.S. Department of Justice has notified Ericsson of a breach in its corruption-related settlement with the agency, the Swedish vendor disclosed Thursday.

Rogers CEO talks broadband roadmap as board spat rages

Rogers Communications CEO Joe Natale outlined the operator’s plan to fend off fiber broadband competition from rival Bell Canada, highlighting the rollout of a 1.5 Gbps service tier and node splits as key tools in its arsenal. His comments, however, were largely overshadowed by a high-profile dispute between members of the company’s board of directors.

U.S. House passes 4 bills related to telecom security, open RAN

This week, the House of Representatives passed four bi-partisan communications and technology bills, which will now move to the Senate for consideration.

Public-private partnerships could fuel fiber's future

It’s no secret the U.S. is in the midst of a broadband land grab. But as operators scramble to snag their piece of the pie, it seems they are warming up to the idea of public-private partnerships as a way to boost fiber deployments.

Nokia and Orange deploy private network for Butachimie

Butachimie is a French chemical giant that makes adiponitrile and hexamethylenediamine, which in turn are used to make nylon 6.6, used in automotive manufacturing and performance fabrics. Both chemicals can be toxic to humans, and Butachimie prides itself on its safety record.

Intel Misses Q3 Guidance, CFO to Retire

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger attempted to put a positive spin on the company’s third-quarter 2021 earnings call this week, despite the ongoing chip shortage and long-time CFO George Davis’ decision to leave the company.

Intel: Chip shortage will extend to at least 2023

Intel sees shares fall as its PC chip business and margins shrink, but Gelsinger is betting big on spending its way to being a major-player foundry.

Daily Roundup: Deutsche Telekom Taps Cisco, Ciena for Network Upgrade

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NetApp Puts Security, CloudOps in One Spot

NetApp expanded its Spot portfolio to include security features. With the latest addition of Spot Security, the vendor claims customers can now control, secure, and optimize their CloudOps “all in one Spot.” 

Ericsson's DoJ nightmare takes a new twist

Swedish vendor told it was slow to provide information relating to the US$1B payment agreement from 2019.

T-Mobile blinks, delays 3G CDMA shutdown by three months

T-Mobile said it now plans to shutter its 3G CDMA network by March 31, 2022, but complained that 'partners haven't followed through on their responsibility to help their customers.'

FTC report finds ISPs 'collect troves of personal data'

In response, the NCTA called the report 'a highly distorted view' of ISP data collection policies that inappropriately attempts to lump broadband providers into the same category as the Big Tech platforms.

Sweden's Telia sees Q3 income drop 36%

Allison Kirkby's Telia sees its net income drop by 36% in the third quarter, as it sells towers and struggles through a restructuring.

Roku-Google stalemate lives on as YouTube deadline looms

Access to the core YouTube app on 'new' Roku streaming devices is in jeopardy as a battle between Roku and Google nears the six month mark.

Open RAN specs take another step forward

The O-RAN Alliance's new specs cover complex technologies, including non-real-time RAN Intelligent Controller architecture, RAN control, xhaul transport testing and open RAN security.

ADVA Q3 caught between ‘solid demand’ and supply chain squeeze

Optical networking supplier puts the blame of slimmer profit margins firmly at the door of the 'semiconductor crisis.'

5G specter still hangs over cable

Cable and mobile technologists view telco rollouts of 5G millimeter wave technology as potentially strong competition to cable broadband service, particularly in unserved and underserved areas.

AT&T job cuts hit record 12K in recent quarter

The US operator is still slashing thousands of jobs as it tries to cut about $6 billion off its expenses.

Enterprise, not 5G, powers China Mobile, Unicom earnings growth

Chinese operators are the latest to report a healthy bump in earnings and revenue.

AT&T uses Google Stadia to stream Batman game for free

AT&T again signaled its interest in cloud gaming, and cloud computing in general, by offering a Batman game for free to its customers using Google's Stadia infrastructure.

Arm, Tech Mahindra Open 5G Lab, Target Open, Virtual RAN

As open, virtual, and cloud radio access networks (RAN) gain momentum, Arm Holdings aims to cement its position as a leading enabler of 5G infrastructure.

FTC says ISPs amass troves of data from broadband users

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its findings from a more than two-year probe into broadband providers’ privacy practices, concluding operators are amassing large amounts of sensitive customer information and making it hard for consumers to opt out.

Google pushes fiber in San Antonio, Atlanta, Des Moines, Austin

Google Fiber has been alternately loud and quiet about its ambitions to provide high-speed, fiber-optic broadband in the United States. But the company seems to be enthused about its work currently. According to a Google Fiber website, it is working in a number of cities to roll out its service. Those cities include Atlanta, Georgia; West Des Moines, Iowa; Charlotte, N.C.; Austin, Texas; and Salt

Qualcomm fetes new RF filter for Wi-Fi, 5G

Qualcomm Technologies announced the Qualcomm ultraBAW RF filter technology for bands up to 7 GHz.

T-Mobile sweetens deal for switchers

T-Mobile is offering to pay off what consumers owe on their phone hardware in order to get them to come over to Magenta. T-Mobile will pay off “what you owe the carriers for your smartphone up to $1,000 when you switch.”

AT&T gains 928K postpaid phones in Q3

AT&T had its best quarter for adding valuable postpaid phone customers in more than a decade, and executives said wireless promotions are only one element of a broader strategy.

IBM misses Q3 expectations, but Red Hat revenue surges 17%

IBM is set to spin off its legacy IT managed infrastructure business in less than two weeks to allow it to focus more on cloud, software, AI and other emerging technology segments. But in the third quarter, revenue from these segments failed to meet analyst expectations.

Zayo might buy Uniti, Windstream

Zayo Group and others are in discussions to possibly buy Uniti and its primary client Windstream, according to unnamed sources of the Wall Street Journal.

AT&T adds 289K fiber subs in Q3 as supply chain issues resurface

AT&T executives hailed continued momentum in its fiber broadband business in Q3 as the operator added 289,000 fiber customers in Q3, but CEO John Stankey acknowledged deployments continue to be plagued by smattering of supply chain issues.

Why XDR Makes CrowdStrike’s CTO Cringe

CrowdStrike has been on an extended detection and response (XDR) tear in recent months, scooping up Humio, partnering with Google Cloud and Zscaler, forming an XDR Alliance, and now extending its machine-learning based threat detection and response across third-party data to help prevent attacks.

US military spearheads private 5G for California first responders

The project has the potential to support 5G networks anywhere they're needed, 'all while outside the range of existing cellular networks,' according to the DoD.

AT&T pushes past 5.72M fiber subs as supply chain challenges persist

Meanwhile, WarnerMedia's HBO and HBO Max base nears 70M, thanks to international expansions, helping to offset a subscriber hit resulting from the media giant's decision to halt distribution of HBO content via the Amazon Channels platform.

Deutsche Telekom Taps Cisco, Ciena for Network Upgrade

Deutsche Telekom tapped networking vendors Cisco and Ciena this week to expand network capacity, improve security, and deliver higher-speed connectivity to the European market.

Open RAN has a 2G Achilles' heel

Not many open RAN vendors can support 2G, and that technology seems likely to be around for years.

AT&T Shrinks Back to Telecom Roots

The shrinking of AT&T formally commenced during the third quarter of 2021 upon the completion of its DirecTV spin-off, and it’s poised to get even smaller before summer 2022 when it expects to close a deal to spin off WarnerMedia and combine it with Discovery.

Daily Roundup: Micron Gives Memory Biz a $150B Boost

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The 5G pricing war shifts into high gear

At the exact same time that AT&T executives were boasting that their 'aggressive acquisition and retention efforts continue to bear fruit,' T-Mobile launched a new $1,000 competitive attack.

Verizon SVP Debika Bhattacharya on the credibility conundrum for women in comms

Light Reading recently caught up with Bhattacharya during a fireside chat at Light Reading's Big 5G Event in Denver to discuss the role mentors and sponsor have played in her career, and what she sees as the current biggest barriers for women in the industry.

The Divide: How LUS Fiber makes the muni model work in Lafayette, Louisiana

This week: Ryan Meche, director of LUS Fiber, a municipal fiber provider in Lafayette, Louisiana, on why the city chose a municipal broadband model, how it's funded and how it works and the company's plans for a potential NTIA grant.

Telenet gives Ericsson a bigger 5G role

Liberty Global-owned Belgian operator appears to have fully pivoted away from Chinese supplier ZTE.

More 5G means greener society – report

New report from trade association Mobile UK says government can burnish their green credentials by doing more to promote 5G.

CommScope takes partnership path to DOCSIS 4.0

CommScope and a pair of partners are developing chipsets and a network architecture for DOCSIS 4.0 that aims to expand the ecosystem for vendors and MSOs. It should also prevent Broadcom from cornering the market.

Vodafone plans software blitz to cut IT spend and cloud risks

The operator is to add another 7,000 software experts to its team by 2025 as it aims for more technology independence.

Google Pixel 6 debuts alongside carrier promotions

Google’s new Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro smartphones debuted this week alongside promotions from the three largest U.S. carriers.

3.45 GHz auction surges past $14.77B reserve price

The proceeds from the 3.45 GHz auction at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hit the agency’s reserve price of $14.77 billion on Wednesday and then some, ensuring the auction’s success.

C Spire boosts Alabama fiber position with Troy Cablevision buy

Regional U.S. operator C Spire inked a deal to buy Alabama broadband provider Troy Cablevision, netting hundreds of miles of fiber as it works to expand its footprint in the state.

Cisco says too many DOCSIS options are clouding cable’s future

Cable has its work cut out fending off advances from fiber overbuilders, but Cisco CTO of Broadband Technologies John Chapman warned a long list of DOCSIS options could slow operator decision-making and, ultimately, deployments of next generation technology.

Ericsson injects intelligent data analytics for 5G core

Ericsson on Wednesday launched a new network data analytics function for the 5G core, which it says can reduce costs and enable automation capabilities for better service quality.

Verizon beats net add expectations in Q3

Verizon added 429,000 postpaid phone net subscribers in the third quarter, topping analyst consensus estimates and ending the quarter with 122 million total retail connections. Wireless service revenue was $17.1 billion, a 3.9% increase year over year. Retail postpaid phone churn was 0.74%. The company ended the third quarter 2021 with free cash flow of $17.3 billion. Verizon also said more than 25%

Verizon adds 129,000+ wireline and fixed wireless subs in Q3 21

During Verizon’s third quarter 2021 earnings call this morning, company executives talked quite a bit about fixed wireless access (FWA) as well as its wireline service Fios. And Fios is not something Verizon has talked about much the last few years.

Micron Gives Memory Biz a $150B Boost

Micron Technology will invest $150 billion in semiconductor research and development and manufacturing over the next 10 years.

Marc Ganzi, through Zayo, could buy Windstream, Uniti next – reports

A group of investors – including Zayo and its parent company DigitalBridge, and fronted by Marc Ganzi – are reportedly exploring to acquire broadband network owner Uniti Group and its Windstream business.

Verizon beats Q3 expectations, but troubles in wireless loom

'Despite a relatively healthy third quarter report – albeit against relatively easy year ago comps – there are reasons for disquiet,' wrote the financial analysts at MoffettNathanson.

Verizon’s 5G Story Rides on Mid-Band Upshot

Verizon’s 5G story remains half baked, and the upshot hangs on its ability to achieve mid-band 5G deployment targets.

Alibaba in the race to rescue failed chip firm Unigroup

Tsinghua Unigroup, one of the biggest chip-makers, was forced into bankruptcy after accumulating debts of at least 100 billion yuan ($15.3 billion).

VMware VP: ESG Confronts Regulatory ‘Wild West’

Corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting has risen in prevalence, but its relative youth presents regulatory challenges that VMware’s ESG VP Nicola Acutt likened to the lawlessness of the old Wild West. 

Splunk, Mandiant CEOs Urge Unified Cyber Battlespace View

Detecting and stopping the next SolarWinds attack requires a unified view across organizations’ entire attack surface, according to the CEOs of Splunk and Mandiant.

Daily Roundup: Cohesity Amps Up Ransomware Protection, Targets Data Exfiltration

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Andromeda bidders avoid auction failure – but now the real work begins

With more than $15 billion in winning bids, the FCC's 3.45GHz-3.55GHz spectrum auction officially passed its reserve price. Now, though, auction winners will need to buy more radios.

Verizon has 150,000 fixed wireless access subs

In its first disclosure of fixed wireless access subscriber figures, Verizon said it added 55,000 FWA subs in Q3 2021, representing about 42% of the 129,000 net broadband subscribers it added in the period.

Cox preps for high-split trials in 2022

Big US cable operator aims to start high-split spectrum upgrade trials and accelerate rollouts of mid-split upgrades as it seeks to create more upstream capacity in its HFC plant.

Netflix shows why telcos should fear AWS

The streaming service is more popular than ever and its share price has soared, but its public-cloud arrangements carry enormous risk.

Google Fiber's 2-Gig footprint expands

San Antonio is the latest Google Fiber market to get access to a relatively new service tier that pumps out 2Gbit/s downstream and 1Gbit/s upstream for $100 per month.

Ericsson preps for expanded enterprise push

The strong upswing of 5G deployments is likely to flatten out in coming years, according to Ericsson chief executive Börje Ekholm, who said the vendor plans to focus expanding more deeply into the enterprise space - a market it expects to drive extended network investment plus new opportunity.

Strategy Analytics tips telecoms to catch 50G fever in 2023

Strategy Analytics answered the question of what it believes will follow 10G as the next generation of passive optical networking (PON) technology, predicting operators will skip a step up to 25G and make the leap straight to 50G starting in 2023.

Windstream looks to 400G pluggable future with II-VI partnership

Windstream Wholesale has partnered with II-VI Incorporated, which provides engineered materials and optoelectronic components, to co-develop next-generation transceivers that the companies said will streamline deployment of 400 gigabit services while significantly reducing costs, power consumption and network complexity.

China losses hurt Ericsson Q3 sales, supply chain issues surface

Missing out on significant 5G contracts in China hurt Ericsson’s sales in the third quarter, but the vendor partly offset that with growth in other markets, despite starting to feel impacts from supply chain issues.

Verizon rebuked for some 5G ad claims

The great pumpkin standoff was just the latest in a series of jabs T-Mobile has made about the size of its rivals’ 5G networks. T-Mobile brought a series of complaints before the BBB National Programs’ National Advertising Division (NAD), whose rulings produced a mixed bag for the wireless carrier.

Underline offers a fresh take on open access fiber in the U.S.

Already common in Europe, open access networks are just beginning to gain traction in the U.S. While players like SiFi Networks and UTOPIA Fiber have adopted a wholesale-like model, newcomer Underline Infrastructure is taking a bit more of a hands-on approach.

Cato Networks scores $200M to juice SASE platform

Cato Networks secured $200 million in fresh funding to help it further develop and scale its cloud-based secure access service edge (SASE) platform, raising its total financing to more than half a billion dollars.

Airtel and Jio spar for 2G subscribers in India

India's top two service providers, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, are now involved in a massive battle to acquire a greater share of the 2G subscribers as they get ready to move to 4G. 

Virgin Media O2 chooses Samsung for 5G trials

The U.K.’s Virgin Media O2 has tapped Samsung Electronics to conduct 4G and 5G trials in its commercial network. The trials aim to assess the interoperability between Samsung’s newer technology with Virgin Media O2’s 2G and 3G legacy networks.

Boingo scores CBRS deal with San Diego Padres

Boingo Wireless is supplying the San Diego Padres with a Citizens Band Radio Services (CBRS) private network at Petco Park in San Diego.

Phoenix plots further growth with West Indies tower deal

Tower company enters into agreement with Altice-owned Outremer Telecom to buy 203 towers and new towers over 10 years.

IBM has acquired Volta Networks as it muscles up in automation

Big Blue has made Volta a part of its takeover strategy and can already cite customers for its technology, including Dish and Telefónica.

Supply chain squeeze hasn't dimmed demand for high-end 5G phones

The supply chain crisis is certainly making a dent on smartphone shipments but the 5G outlook is unchanged.

Hacking group LightBasin broke into at least 13 mobile networks – report

The cybersecurity research firm said hackers were able to access subscriber information and call record details. However, the firm did not disclose the mobile network operators that were hacked.

Cohesity Amps Up Ransomware Protection, Targets Data Exfiltration

Cohesity unveiled several new data security, governance, and vaulting capabilities housed under its data management-as-a-service (DMaaS) portfolio in this week’s Cohesity Connect event. The vendor claims the new services help customers fight sophisticated ransomware attacks. 

Is the sun finally starting to shine on 5G?

'It's been a profitable business,' said Elisa's Kimmo Pentikäinen of the operator's 5G launch. In its most recent financial report, the operator reported a gain of $3.50 per month per customer from 5G.

Splunk Claims Comprehensive SOC Platform, Adds Threat Intel

Splunk rolled out new enterprise security capabilities at its annual .conf event that it says provide a full security operations center (SOC) platform with threat intelligence, security analytics, and automation.

Netflix adds 4.4M subs in Q3, pushes global total to 213.56M

Netflix, which expects to add another 8.5 million subs in Q4, says it will soon measure engagement of titles on an hours-viewed basis rather than the current one based on viewership among subscriber households.

Prosimo Combats Multi-Cloud Migraines With AIOps, Zero Trust

Multi-cloud networking and security startup Prosimo today added artificial intelligence operations (AIOps)-enhanced networking and zero-trust security functionality to its multi-cloud platform.

Daily Roundup: AT&T, DT, Dish Issue Lackluster 5G Grades

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Xiaomi to churn out cars from 2024

China's Xiaomi, eyeing a burgeoning Chinese electric vehicle market, says it is joining the fray and making its own cars from the first half of 2024.

Comcast goes out of footprint with XClass TV

A pair of 4K-capable Hisense TVs powered by Comcast's streaming platform will be sold nationwide via Walmart.com and Walmart stores. Pay-TV apps from Comcast and Charter will launch on XClass TVs in the coming months.

Ericsson Suffers $418M Sales Decline in China

Ericsson today reported earnings that underline key trends in the mobile network infrastructure market, including the impact of ongoing tensions between China and some Western countries, the supply chain crunch, and growing enthusiasm for enterprise 5G.

Samsung will struggle to replace Ericsson or Nokia at O2

The South Korean vendor, short on legacy technologies, is shouting about 4G and 5G trials with Virgin Media O2.

China culls unprofitable 5G use cases as it narrows focus

After throwing resources at thousands of industry use cases in the past two years, the China 5G industry has abandoned most of them to narrow its focus.

Cato captures $200M in largest funding round

Cato's largest funding round so far brings the SASE provider's total financing to $532 million.

Foxconn unveils EVs, angling to make the Apple Car

Biggest iPhone assembler Foxconn, which has long eyed making the Apple Car too, has unveiled concept electric vehicles to bolster its carmaking chops.

Boingo touts new private wireless deal with San Diego Padres

Boingo's private LTE network in CBRS spectrum for the San Diego Padres will help move the team's payments and ticketing systems off congested public networks and onto a dedicated network.

Aruba Drops DPU-Accelerated Switches, Pushes Zero Trust to Edge

Aruba Networks tapped data processing unit (DPU) vendor Pensando today to accelerate its latest switch series.

Ericsson hurt by China and chips crunch, but profitability soars

Swedish equipment maker reports component problems and the loss of China business, but its gross margin is at record levels.

Tele2 hails growing momentum in Q3 2021

Swedish operator sees continuing good momentum but remains on the post-pandemic recovery path in the consumer market.

Can Immersion Cooling Curb Data Center Carbon Footprints?

Data center immersion cooling, or the process of submerging servers into a heat-absorbing mineral oil, exists in a very small portion of the market. But the adoption of immersion cooling is nearing its tipping point as thermal management becomes a growing concern within data centers, according to Dell’Oro Group analyst Lucas Beran.

Interview with Rakuten Symphony's Rahul Atri

Rahul Atri is managing director of Rakuten Symphony. He was interviewed by Fierce Wireless’ Editor Bevin Fletcher on September 28, 2021 at Fierce’s Network Automation Week virtual event. Atri talked about network slicing and automation

Ting Internet enters Arizona market with Simply Bits acquisition

Ting Internet expanded the reach of its broadband service into the state of Arizona, purchasing local fiber and fixed wireless access (FWA) provider Simply Bits for an undisclosed sum.

Telefónica Tech, Fortinet target SD-WAN for remote workers

Telefónica's digital business unit, Telefónica Tech, and the cybersecurity firm Fortinet today announced a new global managed software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) service targeted to the work-from-home sector.

3.45 GHz auction blasts past $7B

All eyes are on the 3.45 GHz spectrum auction this week as its success or failure hinges on making the reserve price set by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Mastering Monetization by Focusing on Experience

Mastering Monetization For consumers and businesses alike, there is no longer fixed or wireless, voice, data or video – only devices and applications.  Customers expect the applications they want to work on any device at any time. Network connectivity is now as ubiquitous as electricity and transportation. The challenge, then, for operators as they continue to invest in technology is how to become

Sinclair hit by ransomware attack

Lisa Plaggemier with the National Cybersecurity Alliance says the attack on Sinclair is another wake-up call for the industry, and another reason for media companies to treat cybersecurity like any other risk to the business.

VMware Security Chief: There Is No Zero-Trust Pill

Ransomware is top of mind for every executive these days, and VMware’s customers are no different.

AT&T, DT, Dish Issue Lackluster 5G Grades

AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile US, and Dish Network executives gave wildly divergent grades to current 5G deployments, though they all seem to agree that more needs to be done in order to support next-generation use cases.

VMware's SASE Blows Into Windstream

Windstream Enterprise today added VMware’s secure access service edge (SASE) platform to its managed service portfolio.

VMware zeroes in on data management, security and carbon emissions

During VMworld, VMware launched several initiatives to assist its cloud provider partners in delivering managed security services and simplified app management to end users.

Daily Roundup: Pica8 Packs Network Control, Switch for 'Software Cisco' Goal

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Vewd CEO pushes Operator TV play

Starting in Europe with a partnership with Vestel, Vewd intends to take its 'Operator TV' program to other regions around the globe, CEO Aneesh Rajaram says.

Verizon, AT&T dial back promotions amid cable onslaught

Verizon stopped offering its most aggressive smartphone promotion to its existing customers, but continues to offer it to new customers. Meantime, AT&T reduced its smartphone discount from $1,000 to $800.

Tucows adds fixed wireless to Ting's fiber toolkit

Ting Internet, from Tucows, announced it will acquire fixed wireless operator Simply Bits. 'We recognize the value of fixed wireless as an additional tool in our connectivity toolkit,' explained an executive.

Alcatel-Lucent Taps Versa for SD-WAN, SASE Play

Versa Networks’ SD-WAN and secure access service edge (SASE) platforms are now part of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise’s network portfolio.

Deutsche Telekom Tests ONF’s Specialized Open RAN Framework

Deutsche Telekom started a live trial in Berlin to put the Open Networking Foundation’s (ONF) SD-RAN open radio access network (RAN) project to the test. ONF embarked on the open RAN space to better integrate and create interoperability across xApps and fuel the development of applications for the near real-time RAN intelligent controller (nRT-RIC).

Virgin Media O2 sparks into converged life with Volt

UK operator launches its first fixed-mobile convergence offering, but PP Foresight analyst warns of low consumer appetite for buying numerous services from one provider.

Telefónica freed from fiber regs in more areas

Spanish competition regulator CNMC approves changes that give telco greater freedom to compete on fiber throughout the nation.

Left alone by US, state-backed ZTE is more profitable than ever

Free to buy American technology, the smaller of China's two equipment vendors is still on a roll.

Telefónica Wraps Fortinet Into SASE Strategy

Spain-based telecommunications giant Telefónica expanded its relationship with longtime security partner Fortinet today to deliver SD-WAN and secure access service edge (SASE) functionality to its Telefónica Tech customers.

Arm wrestling with Intel over open RAN as it sets up 5G lab

The UK-based firm is opening a new 5G lab focused on open RAN technology as it continues to battle America's biggest chipmaker.

TelcoDR sets up $1B fund for public cloud mission

Made famous by this year's MWC, public cloud evangelist Danielle Royston now has $1 billion at her disposal to buy and develop telecom software.