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Top News & Views All News & Views Vermont's VTel Strips Out Huawei Gear, Swaps In Ericsson Equipment By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 3/21/2019 Vermont's VTel said it's replacing some Huawei equipment in its wireless network with gear from Ericsson. But this raises the question: Should the US government pay for others to make the same switch? Post a Comment \| Read (0) TV White Space Supporters Have New Reasons to Cheer By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 3/21/2019 Suppliers are making progress on new wireless applications in the TV White Spaces spectrum, but concerns remain about interference with hospital equipment. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast Targets 'Xfinity Flex' at Broadband-Only Subs By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/21/2019 In-footprint offering, at $5 per month, provides integrated access to a variety of free and subscription OTT services, offers an upgrade path to pay-TV, and runs on an X1-powered 4K/HDR-capable TV-connected device. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner I've gotten a few questions about how Comcast will price and package its pay-TV... Advertisement 5G in the USA: Spring Fever By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 3/21/2019 Chicago and Minneapolis are forthcoming mobile 5G cities for both AT&T and Verizon. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Orange's Duriez: 5G Will Multiply Opportunities for SD-WAN By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 3/21/2019 In addition to potentially increasing SD-WAN adoption, 5G could enable new use cases such as a network slice dedicated to SD-WAN. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Ready Player Stadia: Google's Gaming Platform a Scary Prospect for Telcos By Iain Morris, News Editor, 3/21/2019 Google's new gaming platform could usher in a new age of cloud gaming, with ramifications for parents and telcos worldwide. Post a Comment \| Read (0) T-Mobile is 8 Months Behind U.S. Cellular in Its Plans to Disrupt 'Big Cable' By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 3/21/2019 T-Mobile said it will charge $50/month and reach 50,000 households this year with its LTE-powered fixed wireless service. The offering is virtually identical to the one launched by U.S. Cellular almost a year ago. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Cable Access Network Capex in for a Lumpy Ride By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/21/2019 Spending expected to be sporadic as operators weigh when and how to migrate to distributed access architectures. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Apple Bid for TV Stardom Is Biggest Gamble Yet By Iain Morris, International Editor, 3/21/2019 It revolutionized the music and mobile-phone industries, but Apple will struggle to pull off the same feat in the TV market. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Openreach Seeks Feedback to Further Full-Fiber Plans By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 3/21/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Google makes it a hat-trick of EU mega-fines; data-mad customers drive Three UK's growth; Ericsson wins role in South Korean 5G bonanza. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Google Puts a Price on CBRS SAS: $2.25/Month Per Home By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 3/20/2019 One of the big mysteries in the CBRS 3.5GHz space is how much the SAS element of the system will cost. Google today provided a piece of this important financial puzzle. Post a Comment \| Read (0) An Extra Week to Enter the Leading Lights By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/20/2019 You begged... we caved. Post a Comment \| Read (0) India's Airtel, Dish Eye TV Merger to Cope With RJio By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 3/20/2019 Reliance Jio's activities in India's TV market could spur the same consolidation that has already swept through the mobile sector. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: rochell.smartric12 I have no idea how long will Airtel and Dish will continue, cause Jio is all... Verizon Faces 'Steep Climb' to Attain Attractive Return on 5G Home – Analyst By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/20/2019 Early on, 6% of residential addresses in parts of Sacramento are eligible for 5G Home, and just 3% of those eligible homes have signed up for service, MoffettNathanson finds in its analysis. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner Moffett also acknowledges in the report that there's no calculations of cost... Europe Must Pray for Sobriety in German 5G Auction By Iain Morris, International Editor, 3/20/2019 A rerun of the Italian job in Germany could derail 5G plans and the country's long-term economic prospects. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Infovista Fights to Be Heard in SD-WAN Crowd By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 3/20/2019 Infovista refreshes its Ipanema SD-WAN. But can the underdog defeat giant incumbents like VMware and Cisco? Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cellular Players Face Stiff Opposition to 5G Proposal in 6GHz By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 3/20/2019 Verizon, T-Mobile and others want the FCC to auction a portion of the 6GHz band for 5G. But a wide range of players, from cable companies like Charter to tech companies like Apple, strongly oppose that proposal, arguing 6GHz should be held for unlicensed services like WiFi. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Clifton K Morris When I read articles and requests like these, I sometimes think commercial... Eurobites: Google to Promote Android Search Rivals to Head Off Potential EU Action By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 3/20/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Merkel stays strong over Huawei; CityFibre reaches UK's south coast; Inmarsat confirms $3.3 billion takeover bid. Post a Comment \| Read (0) F5 Targets the Telco Cloud With $670M NGINX Deal By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 3/20/2019 The acquisition beefs up F5's support for containers, multi-cloud application delivery and open source software. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: lightreceding F5 has made a big move into the containerized applications space. Buying NGINX... FCC 24GHz 5G Auction Crosses $525M in Bids By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 3/19/2019 Carriers continue bidding heavy on metropolitan areas in the US as part of the latest 24GHz 5G auction. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Vermont's VTel Strips Out Huawei Gear, Swaps In Ericsson Equipment By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 3/21/2019 Vermont's VTel said it's replacing some Huawei equipment in its wireless network with gear from Ericsson. But this raises the question: Should the US government pay for others to make the same switch? Post a Comment \| Read (0) TV White Space Supporters Have New Reasons to Cheer By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 3/21/2019 Suppliers are making progress on new wireless applications in the TV White Spaces spectrum, but concerns remain about interference with hospital equipment. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast Targets 'Xfinity Flex' at Broadband-Only Subs By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/21/2019 In-footprint offering, at $5 per month, provides integrated access to a variety of free and subscription OTT services, offers an upgrade path to pay-TV, and runs on an X1-powered 4K/HDR-capable TV-connected device. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner I've gotten a few questions about how Comcast will price and package its pay-TV... 5G in the USA: Spring Fever By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 3/21/2019 Chicago and Minneapolis are forthcoming mobile 5G cities for both AT&T and Verizon. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Orange's Duriez: 5G Will Multiply Opportunities for SD-WAN By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 3/21/2019 In addition to potentially increasing SD-WAN adoption, 5G could enable new use cases such as a network slice dedicated to SD-WAN. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Ready Player Stadia: Google's Gaming Platform a Scary Prospect for Telcos By Iain Morris, News Editor, 3/21/2019 Google's new gaming platform could usher in a new age of cloud gaming, with ramifications for parents and telcos worldwide. Post a Comment \| Read (0) T-Mobile is 8 Months Behind U.S. Cellular in Its Plans to Disrupt 'Big Cable' By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 3/21/2019 T-Mobile said it will charge $50/month and reach 50,000 households this year with its LTE-powered fixed wireless service. The offering is virtually identical to the one launched by U.S. Cellular almost a year ago. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cable Access Network Capex in for a Lumpy Ride By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/21/2019 Spending expected to be sporadic as operators weigh when and how to migrate to distributed access architectures. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Apple Bid for TV Stardom Is Biggest Gamble Yet By Iain Morris, International Editor, 3/21/2019 It revolutionized the music and mobile-phone industries, but Apple will struggle to pull off the same feat in the TV market. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Openreach Seeks Feedback to Further Full-Fiber Plans By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 3/21/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Google makes it a hat-trick of EU mega-fines; data-mad customers drive Three UK's growth; Ericsson wins role in South Korean 5G bonanza. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Google Puts a Price on CBRS SAS: $2.25/Month Per Home By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 3/20/2019 One of the big mysteries in the CBRS 3.5GHz space is how much the SAS element of the system will cost. Google today provided a piece of this important financial puzzle. Post a Comment \| Read (0) An Extra Week to Enter the Leading Lights By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/20/2019 You begged... we caved. Post a Comment \| Read (0) India's Airtel, Dish Eye TV Merger to Cope With RJio By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 3/20/2019 Reliance Jio's activities in India's TV market could spur the same consolidation that has already swept through the mobile sector. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: rochell.smartric12 I have no idea how long will Airtel and Dish will continue, cause Jio is all... Verizon Faces 'Steep Climb' to Attain Attractive Return on 5G Home – Analyst By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/20/2019 Early on, 6% of residential addresses in parts of Sacramento are eligible for 5G Home, and just 3% of those eligible homes have signed up for service, MoffettNathanson finds in its analysis. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner Moffett also acknowledges in the report that there's no calculations of cost... Europe Must Pray for Sobriety in German 5G Auction By Iain Morris, International Editor, 3/20/2019 A rerun of the Italian job in Germany could derail 5G plans and the country's long-term economic prospects. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Infovista Fights to Be Heard in SD-WAN Crowd By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 3/20/2019 Infovista refreshes its Ipanema SD-WAN. But can the underdog defeat giant incumbents like VMware and Cisco? Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cellular Players Face Stiff Opposition to 5G Proposal in 6GHz By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 3/20/2019 Verizon, T-Mobile and others want the FCC to auction a portion of the 6GHz band for 5G. But a wide range of players, from cable companies like Charter to tech companies like Apple, strongly oppose that proposal, arguing 6GHz should be held for unlicensed services like WiFi. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Clifton K Morris When I read articles and requests like these, I sometimes think commercial... Eurobites: Google to Promote Android Search Rivals to Head Off Potential EU Action By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 3/20/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Merkel stays strong over Huawei; CityFibre reaches UK's south coast; Inmarsat confirms $3.3 billion takeover bid. Post a Comment \| Read (0) F5 Targets the Telco Cloud With $670M NGINX Deal By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 3/20/2019 The acquisition beefs up F5's support for containers, multi-cloud application delivery and open source software. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: lightreceding F5 has made a big move into the containerized applications space. Buying NGINX... FCC 24GHz 5G Auction Crosses $525M in Bids By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 3/19/2019 Carriers continue bidding heavy on metropolitan areas in the US as part of the latest 24GHz 5G auction. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards oramurphy, 3/22/2019 1:54:09 AM MWC 2018 Threatens to Be 5G New Radio Bore Re: Printer Offline Help When you see a printer offline status, this condition indicates that your computer and printer is not communicating. At this point you need some technical assistance to be understood and resolved. If you face any such Hp... ajwdct1, 3/21/2019 5:20:27 PM China Telecom's Bid for 'Leading' 5G Latency Should Unsettle US Re: Does 5G Latency include the cloud network? In some cases it certainly does (e.g. remote surgery in a village from a hospital thousands of kilometers away), but in others it doesn't (any real time critical/ultra low latency IMT 2020 use case). For the latter,... Mike Dano, 3/21/2019 4:51:06 PM Government Testing Adds 5-Month Delay (& Counting) to CBRS Re: Update Just fyi, I updated this article slightly because one ESC might not necessarily talk to another ESC or a SAS from a different vendor, and because the US Navy radar systems that use the CBRS band are used by Navy airplanes,... Jeff Baumgartner, 3/21/2019 4:23:47 PM Comcast Targets 'Xfinity Flex' at Broadband-Only Subs Re: Pay-TV upgrades & broadband data plans I've gotten a few questions about how Comcast will price and package its pay-TV upgrade options on Flex. Comcast hasn't elaborated on how it will do this, by my guess is that they'll be similar to the pricing and packaging... mrblobby, 3/21/2019 12:01:31 PM Huawei Shows 5G in Action at MWC Re: Re: Hey Ray Would you please clarify whether the Partner Perspectives series falls under your editorial purview? Because if not, I submit that these pieces should be much more clearly identified as adverts. As it is they look exactly... rochell.smartric12, 3/21/2019 11:58:00 AM India's Airtel, Dish Eye TV Merger to Cope With RJio Re: Jio is dominating. I have no idea how long will Airtel and Dish will continue, cause Jio is all set to dominate DTH industry, most of people in my society including us are moving to jio due to their free offering. Jio is a killer of airtel,... [email protected], 3/21/2019 5:19:08 AM Huawei Shows 5G in Action at MWC Re: Re: Hey Ray I know it doesn't, so no. lightreceding, 3/20/2019 10:39:59 PM F5 Targets the Telco Cloud With $670M NGINX Deal Re: F5 pulls ahead F5 has made a big move into the containerized applications space. Buying NGINX is the only way to get to DevOps teams who control the stack for these applications. 2nd place ADC vendor Citrix has struggled for several years... jafrazer, 3/20/2019 5:13:35 PM Next Stop for Versa Networks – Europe Re: Versa Partners in UK and Europe Great overall summary of the SD-WAN market and Vesa's position - we're happy to work with global operators like Verizon, Tata Communications and Centurylink that promote and market Versa technology in the UK and pan-Europe. Our... mrblobby, 3/20/2019 3:38:23 PM Huawei Shows 5G in Action at MWC Re: Hey Ray Don't you think that this "Partner Perspectives" stuff impinges on (nay, negates) your editorial independence? Clifton K Morris, 3/20/2019 2:31:14 PM Cellular Players Face Stiff Opposition to 5G Proposal in 6GHz Re: Better for WiFi use When I read articles and requests like these, I sometimes think commercial cellular companies and CTIA should be filing two requests. One request is for the spectrum itself, and the other should be a request to increase... Jeff Baumgartner, 3/20/2019 1:23:27 PM Verizon Faces 'Steep Climb' to Attain Attractive Return on 5G Home – Analyst Re: Dollars & Sense Moffett also acknowledges in the report that there's no calculations of cost per small cell, so therefore no cost per home passed or cost per home connected in the report. "We don't have the numbers to do it, and making... daveburstein, 3/20/2019 1:09:07 PM Verizon Faces 'Steep Climb' to Attain Attractive Return on 5G Home – Analyst Re: Actually, CEO has said "Whole country" Moffett's analysis is extraordinary and your writeup catches it well. But one data point to add. CEO Vestberg has said "whole country by about 2027." 25% the first few years and the rest after that when he expects prices... iainmorris, 3/20/2019 12:18:27 PM China Telecom's Bid for 'Leading' 5G Latency Should Unsettle US Re: Re: No reference to low latency in China Telecom presentation I'm not sure if we are disagreeing or just talking about slightly different things. I know from recent discussions with service providers that several big operators in Europe expect only some of the latency improvements... ajwdct1, 3/20/2019 12:01:44 PM China Telecom's Bid for 'Leading' 5G Latency Should Unsettle US Re: Re: No reference to low latency in China Telecom presentation Let's agree to disagree Iain. All 5G low latency claims I've read or heard about refer to the 5G access network- not the cloud network which is carrying many different types of traffic. In my definition, latency... 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