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Verizon Sees Fixed 5G Opportunity Where AT&T Does Not
Verizon and AT&T have very different viewpoints on offering fixed 5G service. But both operators admit that there are lots of unknowns when it comes to 5G.
AT&T Says the 5G Secret Sauce Is in the Software
5G trials from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Waco, Texas, have helped the company fine-tune its commercial deployment plans.
Verizon Shifts Focus From 5G Fixed Wireless Trials to Commercial Launch
The operator said it is on track to launch 5G in a handful of markets later this year but is still cagey about the details. Launch cities remain a mystery.
5G Brazil Project Focuses on Global Collaboration
The group is working on several different projects focused on spectrum, 5G standards, regulations, and infrastructure.
Ericsson Hired 500 Engineers for 5G
CEO Borje Ekholm’s cost-cutting measures seem to be working. In the first quarter, the company reined in its losses and improved its gross margin.
If 5G Is Coming, Why Are Operators Touting 4G Upgrades?
Many of the big benefits of 5G, such as low latency and higher speed broadband, may not be that noticeable to consumers, analysts say.
Qualcomm Slashes Up to 1,500 Jobs
Qualcomm has been caught in the crossfire between the U.S. and China, and it's impacting the company's ability to close on its NXP purchase.
Qualcomm’s Vision Intelligence IoT Platform Features an AI Engine
The chip company’s IoT strategy includes pushing processing to the edge, instead of the cloud.
Cisco Extends Its Intent-based Networking to IoT
Cisco expects the ratio of IT people to devices to increase from 1 to 1,000 to 1 to 100,000 in just a couple of years.
xRAN, Open vRAN, and OpenRAN: What’s the Difference?
These three initiatives are all focused on virtualizing the RAN, and some of the same companies belong to all three groups. But why are there three?
xRAN Forum’s New Spec Focuses on Fronthaul
Operators want to be able to use different radio heads from different vendors and have them interoperate with existing baseband units. This spec will make that possible.
Finland’s Telia Tests 5G at a Nokia Base Station Factory
Using a video analytics application, the operator was able to monitor and analyze a video feed of an assembly line and make real-time corrections.
Siebel’s C3 IoT Platform Will Be Available on Microsoft Azure
The IoT software firm’s executive team, including its CTO and its chief product officer, are former Oracle executives.
SK Telecom Will Incorporate AI Into Its 5G Network
The South Korean operator plans to talk about 5G trials at the 5G New Horizon Symposium in Austin, Texas, next month.
Sigfox USA President Says Executive Departures Are Typical of Startups
Can the IoT market support both LPWA and cellular? Yes, says Sigfox, but forming partnerships with other IoT firms may be the best option.
China Mobile Partners With Aryaka For SD-WAN
New government restrictions over VPN usage may have an impact on SD-WAN providers that aren’t working with state-approved providers.
Intel Offloads Wind River to Investment Firm TPG
The deal ends Intel’s near decade of ownership of Wind River. The embedded software firm will keep its existing management team when it's independent.
CenturyLink Trials NFV Startup NetElastic’s Software
NetElastic’s software is tailored to telecom operators, not enterprises, and can scale quickly to handle networks with terabits of traffic.
Nokia Will Slash 353 Jobs in Network, Technology Units
Nokia total revenues dipped 1 percent to $8.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2017.
China Mobile Picks Nuage’s SDN Platform to Expand Enterprise Cloud
Nuage’s SDN deployment spans more than 10 data centers, the largest containing more than 1,000 servers.