Op-Ed: Gelsinger's Best May Not Be Enough for Investors

It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year since Intel’s favorite son Pat Gelsinger ousted CEO Bob Swan to take the company’s reigns.

Is API Security the New Cloud Security?

As APIs proliferate and make up the most common communication channel for internet traffic, securing them becomes more important — and challenging — to enterprise security teams. The ubiquity of APIs massively expands organizations’ attack surfaces, and it also makes them more interconnected.

Bharti Airtel to purchase a 4.7% stake in Indus Towers

Indian MNO Bharti Airtel has said it will snap up a 4.7 percent stake in cell tower firm Indus Towers from Vodafone Idea.

UK government surprises with sensible approach to anonymous trolls

The DCMS wants to add two more things to its odious Online Safety Bill but, for once, these seem sensible and proportionate.

Ericsson, Telefonica and Samsung want to make phone calls interactive with 5G

Kit vendor Ericsson, MNO Telefonica and tech giant Samsung have collaborated on a proof of concept project which apparently allows more ‘remote interaction’ on phone calls through 5G.

Cellnex and BT sign new multi-decade partnership

Spanish infrastructure specialist Cellnex and UK telecoms group BT have extended their current MSSA (Master Site Services Agreement) with a new multi-decade deal.

SK Telecom and Samsung Complete Industry’s First 5G-4G SA Option 4 (NE-DC) Trial in 5G Commercial Network

SK Telecom and Samsung announced they have successfully completed the industry’s first 5G-4G SA Option 4 (NE-DC, New Radio–E-UTRAN Dual Connectivity) trial in SKT’s 5G Standalone commercial network.

Microsoft Manages Identity Permissions Across Multi-Cloud

Microsoft announced the public preview of its cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) services to help customers manage identity permissions in their multi-cloud environment and improve their zero-trust security posture.

AT&T Positions ‘Elastic RAN’ for Efficiency, Sustainability

AT&T claims it made another feat in its long and winding road to bring open radio access network (RAN) architecture to its 5G network with an assist from Intel.

Daily Roundup: Dish Blames 5G Open RAN Delay on Unexpected Technical Snags

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SDxCentral 2-Minute Weekly Wrap: Palo Alto Networks Wants You to Ditch SIEM

IBM Warns Ransomware Follows Cloud Migration

Despite a significant uptick in law enforcement takedowns over the last year, ransomware remains the top attack type, and its sophistication, aggressiveness, and impact are increasing as attackers followed enterprises moving the cloud, according to two recent reports by IBM X-Force and Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs.

Huawei’s Decline Catapults Ericsson to Top of RAN Market

Huawei’s 2021 revenue declines thrust Ericsson to the top of the radio access network (RAN) market, according to LightCounting. This marks the second time an industry research firm reached that conclusion in the last month.

MWC22: What the experts think will stand out

It's back. Mobile World Congress Barcelona. So what should we expect? Light Reading asked the analysts at Omdia for their predictions.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine reverberates through 5G, semiconductors, MWC

'There will be no Russian Pavilion at MWC22. Security for the event is constantly reviewed and adjusted as information emerges,' the GSMA said.

Cable One to drop 100-meg plan, migrate subs to pricier 200-meg tier

Cable operator will likely see broadband ARPU rise again as it plans to push its base of 100-meg customers to its flagship 200-meg tier, for an additional $5 per month.

Eurobites: Nokia, Atos double up on private networks

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ericsson and friends trial 5G interactive calling; Swisscom remains (climate) neutral; Telefonica and Amazon go to market.

Rakuten Mobile names Amin CEO amid warning of $4.7B funding gap

Tareq Amin moves into the top job at the Japanese company's telecom unit, promising to launch an enterprise service this year as analysts fret about funds.

The time I visited a Dish 5G cell site

On Wednesday morning I got a surprise call from a Dish representative: Did I want to take a tour of a Dish 5G cell site in the next 15 minutes? I dropped everything and did. Here's what I learned.

ETNO welcomes the EU Data Act

The European Commission has announced new laws to improve data privacy and protection, and trade body ETNO approves.

Truphone seeks to make the SIM card redundant

UK eSIM specialist Truphone is offering chip manufacturers and device makers its eSIM technology for free.

MWC 2022 is set to be the most diverse yet

Ahead of the return of the telecoms industry’s biggest trade show, analyst firm Omdia has given some collective thought to what we might end up chatting about there.

Meta makes a big noise about AI and, of course, the metaverse

US Internet giant Meta/Facebook has launched a barrage of information on AI projects it is working on, including translation systems, virtual assistants and metaverse voice command tools.

Daily Roundup: Kyndryl Adds AWS to Managed Cloud Menagerie

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Dish Blames 5G Open RAN Delay on Unexpected Technical Snags

Dish Network remains a company straddling the realms of fiction and reality as it faces a deadline to provide 5G service to at least 20% of the U.S. population by the beginning of this summer. It has no operator-owned and commercially available network to speak of today. 

CloudBolt: Has the Cloud Hit a Wall?

The cloud‘s era of domination is well underway, but the pace of growth has hit a wall, according to a recent CloudBolt Industry Insights (CII) report.

Arrcus Aims ‘Entry Points’ at Cisco, Juniper Gear Users

Hyperscale networking software vendor Arrcus closed the year 2021 with a tripling of bookings and a 30% headcount increase in the fourth quarter alone. CEO Shekar Ayyar attributes part of the growth to the strategy of winning customers from larger rivals — such as Cisco, Arista Networks, and Juniper Networks — through entry points.

Dish and DirecTV's pay-TV biz will 'just melt away' without a merger, Ergen says

Dish chairman again calls a merger 'inevitable' as his company loses another 273,000 pay-TV customers in Q4 2021.

The US shows job-slashing DT the money

Without a fast-growing US business and thousands of job cuts, Germany's incumbent would probably be investing far less in Europe.

Dish IDs more 5G markets, strikes deal with T-Mobile to resolve CDMA shutdown

Declaring 2022 a 'year of execution' for its budding wireless business, Dish will shell out $2.5 billion in capex this year as it plans to meet a deadline to cover 20% of the US with 5G by June.

Telefónica says 'hola' to cash dividend

Scrapping of scrip dividend reflects growing confidence at the Spanish group after Q4 and FY21 results exceed expectations.

AT&T touts progress toward open RAN with Intel

'Radios have traditionally needed to be physically connected to baseband equipment,' wrote AT&T's Gordon Mansfield. But that's no longer the case.

Bouygues Telecom on course to meet 2026 goals

French operator meets 2021 guidance figures and forecasts further growth for 2022.

WOW's greenfield fiber expansion zeroes in on central Florida

Operator plans to build FTTP networks reaching 40,000 homes in the Orlando suburb of Orange County, building on an earlier expansion that is targeting 60,000 homes in Seminole County.

Eurobites: EU proposes a more level playing field for data access

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telecom Italia considers sale of Inwit stake; Orange bod joins TIP board; Transatel trumpets SIM advance.

Intel hits back as rival open RAN chips take shape

As Marvell and Qualcomm launch new 'inline' accelerators, Intel makes improvements to its Xeon processor range.

Cloudflare adds SASE email security with acquisition of Area 1 Security

The $162M acquisition comes on the heels of Cloudflare's purchase of CASB startup Vectrix earlier this month.

Xperi set to do the splits this fall

TiVo's parent company plans to go through a long anticipated plan to separate its product business and its intellectual property and licensing business.

COVID-19 weighing on Hong Kong telco SmarTone

The pandemic is weighing heavily on Hong Kong's telcos, with SmarTone's CEO Allen Fung describing it as 'a quite difficult period' as profits fall.

Ofcom wants to crackdown on scam calls and texts

UK communications regulator Ofcom has proposed new regulation to stop scammers using fake phone numbers and making ‘spoof calls’.

DT chosen to help create global heath passport

Among the many precedents set by the Covid pandemic is the requirement to be vaccinated before you’re allowed to travel and that’s set to become a global standard.

TIM is reportedly going to decide on KKR bid by mid-March

A special committee within the artist formerly known as Telecoms Italia is expected to make a call on the KKR takeover bid by mid-March, a source has told Reuters.

Daily Roundup: Benu Teams With AWS on Telco SASE

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Kyndryl Adds AWS to Managed Cloud Menagerie

In a deal that will surprise no one, Kyndryl today penned a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), rounding out the managed service provider’s cloud portfolio.

Why Snyk (Probably) Paid Millions for Fugue

Most cloud security companies see application deployment as the start of the security journey, but in reality it’s the middle, says Snyk founder Guy Podjarny. “We think of code as the beginning, and we understand we need to go all the way to what is deployed,” he explained.

Arista Bakes NDR Into Switches for AI Threat Hunting

Arista Networks today embedded the network detection and response (NDR) capabilities from its recent Awake Security acquisition into its campus switches to provide broader visibility, automated threat hunting, and risk mitigation.

Can Cybersecurity Offer Greener Pastures in the Great Resignation?

The Great Resignation comes up in every conversation VMware President Sumit Dhawan has with every CIO, he said at a recent technology conference: “The talent shortage is severe.” And while it’s not a new pain within the cybersecurity industry, it remains particularly acute.

Dish is still working on 911 service for its 5G network

Providing 911 services 'turns out to be a little harder than we thought,' Dish Network's Charlie Ergen said during a keynote appearance here at the NATE Unite conference.

Frontier keeps supply-chain constraints in check as fiber build broadens

CEO Nick Jeffery says Frontier has 'good supply resilience' as the company reiterates a plan to expand its FTTP footprint by 1 million locations in 2022, and to cover about 10 million locations by 2025.

Mediacom explores move into mobile

Mediacom Chairman and CEO Rocco Commisso also notes that the cable operator is gearing up to launch '10G' services across its footprint.

HPE muscles in on 5G private networks

Claims Wi-Fi interworking, enterprise self-service capabilities and a pay-as-you-go business model are market differentiators.

Eurobites: Vodafone aims squarely at device 'circularity'

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nokia offers more managed services; WHO gig for T-Systems; EU helps Ukraine against Russian cyberattacks.

Dish, Lockheed, Intel help build 5G network for US Marines

'We believe 5G SA [standalone] open RAN private networks will enable the DoD to achieve the balance of control, security and flexibility that they're looking for,' Dish said.

Big spender Telefónica Deutschland still lags on 5G

The mobile network does not expect to cover half the German population until the end of this year and its investments have chewed into profits.

As Cato plans for IPO, company to grow headcount by 40%

More insight into Cato's financials could be coming soon - the company plans to go public in a few years, said Cato VP Eyal Webber-Zvik.

DOCSIS pioneer Tom Cloonan retires as big changes at CommScope continue

Cloonan, who most recently served as interim CTO at CommScope, is a cable industry engineering exec who has played a key role in the evolution of DOCSIS – from 1.0 to 4.0.

América Móvil launches 5G in Mexico

Telcel launches services in 18 cities and targets 120 cities by the end of the year.

Will KT change slush fund culture after latest brush with law?

KT Corp has copped a $6.3 million fine from the SEC for running a slush fund and paying bribes - the latest in a series of brushes with the law.

Federated finds new funding as investors challenge its chairman

Activist investors got the knives out when the private networks startup, now valued at $288M, didn't haul in as much revenue last year as its chairman's investment company promised.

Verizon and AWS team up over 5G powered 4K streaming

The ensemble of organisations with varying specialities have been working on way to broadcast 4K footage without satellites through networks and direct to 5G devices.

Nokia is going big on software at MWC 2022

Finnish kit vendor Nokia is drip-feeding product announcements in the week leading up to Mobile World Congress and, so far, they’re focused on the software side of things.

UK government kowtows further to the US over Huawei

The UK wants to introduce further laws to ensure our telecoms sector does exactly what it’s ordered to do by US sanctions against Huawei.

AT&T throws its weight behind Ericsson’s 5G Startup Program

US MNO AT&T has joined Swedish kit vendor Ericsson’s 5G Startup Program, which claims to help operators make more money out of 5G.

Daily Roundup: Ericsson Touts 5G RAN Efficiency Gains

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Benu Teams With AWS on Telco SASE

Benu Networks teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) today to expand its telecom-focused secure access service edge (SASE) and broadband network gateways (BNG) beyond the reach of operators’ existing infrastructure.

Forcepoint Embraces Gartner’s SSE Security Model

Forcepoint revamped its cloud security portfolio today with a new service it bills as an “easy button” for securing distributed and hybrid workforces.

Dell Paves 2022 Telco Cloud Roadmap

Dell Technologies today expanded its pool of tools and services for telco clouds, workloads, network cores, and radio access network (RAN) architecture.

How CIOs Reckon With Talent Upheaval

Being miserable, underappreciated, and stressed at work can and will often lead to burnout, but it can be downright demoralizing when a global pandemic gets added to the mix.

Palo Alto Networks Wants You to Say Goodbye to SIEM

Palo Alto Networks today rolled out a new artificial-intelligence (AI) based platform to automate threat detection and remediation that its CTO and founder Nir Zuk says replaces legacy security information and event management (SIEM) tools.

Charter sharpens its business services edge

Spectrum Enterprise, Charter's business services unit, is using Cisco's Meraki platform to tack on critical support for remote workers and teleworkers and for secure connections to AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

AT&T inks last-minute 3G roaming deal with T-Mobile

AT&T is planning to shutter its 3G network today, February 22. But the company appears to have recently inked a 3G roaming deal with T-Mobile that could provide a lifeline to affected customers through July.

WOW enters the wireless game with Reach Mobile

Competitive cable operator will offer discounted mobile services to broadband customers through a new partnership with Reach Mobile that will ride the T-Mobile network.

India likely to hold 5G auctions in May

It's finally happening - but only if the Telecom Regulatory Authority and the Department of Telecommunications get their ducks in a row by the end of March.

Frontier goes big with 2-Gig

In a move that puts pressure on Comcast and Charter, the telco has made good on its promise to launch a symmetrical 2-Gig service across its expanding FTTP footprint. Frontier's 2-Gig tier starts at $149.99/month.

Eurobites: Deutsche Telekom gets on Zoom

Also in twosday's EMEA regional roundup: Telekom tests GenCell's power backup; Movistar Plus+ integrates Twitter content; Colt chooses Infovista for VoIP service assurance.

How one Dallas store owner illegally blocked her employees' calls

The FCC said the store owner 'offered to sell the signal jammer to the agent. The agent declined the offer and issued a Notice of Unlicensed Radio Operation ... that the operation of a signal jammer is illegal.'

Telstra, TPG strike ten-year network-sharing, spectrum deal

Telstra has struck a network-sharing deal with TPG Telecom worth as much as A$1.8 billion (US$1.3 billion) in revenue over ten years.

Huawei to be stopped from selling fiber products in UK

British government tightens some of its restrictions on the Chinese vendor but gives operators more time to make changes after pandemic disruption.

DT preps 'multivendor' open RAN rollout starting in 2023

The German telco says it has launched a request for quotation after being encouraged by lab progress on making open RAN more energy efficient.

Beamforming specialist Cohere pockets $46M in funds

Intel, Juniper and VMware are among the companies stumping up investment this time round.

Deutsche Telekom and GenCell complete ‘zero emission’ mobile site fuel cell tests

German MNO Deutsche Telekom and green power manufacturer GenCell have completed joint lab tests of a hydrogen-based backup power system for mobile sites called GenCell Box.

Telstra and TPG Telecom reach agreement over network and spectrum sharing

Two of the three Australian mobile network operators have agreed to share network assets for the next decade.

DT dispatches Robbie Williams and an AI Beethoven to MWC

German MNO Deutsche Telekom will kick off Mobile Word Congress with a collaboration between Robbie Williams and an AI facsimile of Beethoven, in what is definitely not a publicity stunt.

Ericsson and DT reckon they’ve cracked global network slicing

Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has teamed up with German operator group Deutsche Telekom to demonstrate a new network slicing proof of concept.

Telefonica will replicate its MWC stand in the metaverse

Spanish MNO Telefonica is planning to go big on the very much in-vogue metaverse concept at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona next week.

Will the Great Resignation Drive a Managed Services Renaissance?

As enterprises struggle to find full-time employees to fill critical infrastructure roles in networking and cybersecurity, many are turning to managed service providers to fill the gap.

MFS gains ground and fintech forecasts keep climbing in Africa

SPONSORED: Omdia's Thecla Mbongue - Omdia's forecast for mobile financial services (MFS) in Africa shows that the number of subscriptions will double within the next five years. Governments all over the continent are now acknowledging that financial technology (fintech) is at the center of Africa's digital transformation.

AI will be high on the regulatory agenda in 2022

SPONSORED: Omdia's Sarah McBride - Regulators will shift focus onto addressing areas where there is a conflict of interest between AI applications and existing regulation.

2022 will see 5G starting in earnest in Latin America

SPONSORED: Omdia's Ari Lopes - Several countries in the region delayed plans for 5G due to COVID-19, however, 2022 starts with operators in Chile and Brazil building new 5G networks and Omdia expects more countries to follow in 2022.

T-Mobile venture aims to bring 'uncarrier' simplicity to enterprise IoT

T-Mobile's new T-IoT service, a joint venture with its German parent Deutsche Telekom, promises global connectivity and management for connected devices.

Nokia takes a SaaSy approach to carriers

Finnish vendor expands its SaaS offering with new security and analytics services, with more to come in 2022 and 2023.

Eurobites: Deutsche Telekom looks to disrupt IoT with 'T-IoT' launch

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nokia's SaaS launches; TIM refutes press claims over FiberCop; South Africa spectrum bidders named.

Roku shares take a beating as supply chain constraints cut into TV sales

Roku's stock took a 22% haircut Friday, a day after the streaming platform giant missed target for Q4 and saw average streaming hours fall.

Is Huawei really selling its autonomous driving business?

Huawei in talks to sell smart driving business to VW - report.