Telstra wades into electricity retail battle

The Australian operator is diversifying beyond telecom into the hotly contested energy market.

MetTel CTO Ed Fox on clearing up confusion around SASE

Ed Fox explains how MetTel's own approach to SASE has evolved and which components are key to any SASE service, such as Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). In addition, Fox shares how the service provider is working with customers making the shift from copper wire networks to fiber, cellular and VOIP networks.

Spalding returns with $20M for hardened cell towers

Gen. Robert Spalding in 2018 penned documents that raised the prospect of a national 5G network. Now he's the CEO of a company selling cell towers designed to withstand a high-altitude nuclear event.

Eurobites: FTTH deployment rate slows in France

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: 1&1 signs deal with Vantage Towers; Vodafone aims for greater diversity; Zen Internet wins green gong.

The good and the bad of Amazon's private 5G

Top executives from AT&T and Verizon discussed the new private 5G offering from Amazon Web Services and how it might affect their own efforts in the space.

Ciena is simply having a wonderful Christmas time

CEO Gary Smith has come bearing some nice stocking fillers for shareholders and the outlook for next year is rosy.

Where cable is going with the edge

In this fourth and last segment of the sponsored series, we look at a few more key results from a new Heavy Reading study about the cable industry's edge computing strategy and goals.

Liberty Global's helloFiber gets going in Germany

Touting a wide range of broadband products delivering up to 1-Gig, along with phone, mobile and TV add-ons, Liberty Networks Germany is initially targeting more than 7,000 homes and businesses in Brandenburg.

TracFone deal, C-band build an 'amazing holiday gift' for Verizon's new consumer boss

'I have all the tools now,' says Manon Brouillette, the new head of Verizon's consumer group. However, she intends to amplify the strategy in place at Verizon rather than come in with wholesale changes.

The Divide: FBA's Gary Bolton on taking fiber advocacy to the states

This week: Gary Bolton, president of the Fiber Broadband Association, returns to the podcast to discuss how the fiber industry's advocacy efforts are changing as the US implements its $65 billion broadband bill. We also discuss FBA's forthcoming fiber optic technician training program.

Verizon tops mmWave cell site goal for 2021, touts C-band speed tests

Verizon says it has exceeded its year-end target of deploying 14,000 new mmWave cell sites, and has conducted field tests of C-band spectrum that delivered speeds in the range of 1.5 Gbit/s to 3 Gbit/s.

Orange warns of rising cyberattacks on mobile devices

Security Navigator picks up some worrying trends, with a 13% increase in cyberattacks overall.

T-Mobile surpasses 2021 home broadband subscriber goal

Company has exceeded a goal of singing up 500,000 fixed wireless access subscribers and remains focused on expanding that total to 7 million to 8 million in the coming years, CEO Mike Sievert says.

UK security agency joins O-RAN Alliance

Involvement in the group behind open RAN specifications comes after Germany raised security concerns about the new technology.

US cable to rake in nearly $22B in commercial services revenues in 2021

Overall revenue and customer growth slowed during the pandemic and as US cable has nabbed larger pieces of the businesses services market, but there are signs of a rebound, forecasts show.

Aryaka sizes up managed SASE, SD-WAN services

Aryaka CMO Shashi Kiran says one reason the company has updated its SASE and SD-WAN service is to achieve an 'overarching goal of simplicity' and provide more choices for enterprises trying to balance their networking and security needs for a more distributed workforce.

Australian govt. raises $1.5B in latest bout of Asia 5G auctions

The Australian sale comes shortly after Singapore and Hong Kong auctioned spectrum for the new-generation mobile technology.

Moving core to cloud for 'suckers,' tweets BT exec after AWS outage

The UK incumbent's chief architect derides recent public cloud deals after the latest preview of the Internet apocalypse.

Eurobites: Roam 'like at home' until 2032, says EU

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: FiberCop signs up another provider in Italy; TIP gets behind open RAN in the UK; how to find your stolen Volvo.

YouTube TV reaches Comcast Flex devices and XClass TVs

YouTube TV becomes the latest OTT-TV service to launch an app on Comcast's streaming product for broadband-only customers as well as its new line of nationally available smart TVs.

Businesses are accelerating network transformation programs, Charter exec says

Commercial customers are in a 'renew phase' as they move workloads into the cloud, shift to SD-WAN and continue to embrace remote access products and technologies, says Spectrum Enterprise's Bob Schroeder.

Roku and Google bury the hatchet

New multiyear deal will keep YouTube and YouTube TV on the popular streaming platform.

Omdia's Rik Turner on cloud permissions management

During the podcast, Turner discusses how CPM addresses issues such as permission sprawl and orphan accounts, and how organizations can take a more proactive approach to managed cloud access permissions.

Mobile is Charter's 'biggest single opportunity' in 2022, CEO says

With the recent launch of a new, more scalable billing system for mobile, 'We're ready to go faster,' says Charter Chairman and CEO Tom Rutledge.