Vendor is pushing video as a growth engine and launching multiple cloud-centric products at this year's MWC.

AT&T announced plans this morning to launch gigabit service over FTTH in five more US markets by month's end, increasing its reach to 51 metros.

Nokia says it is the first to test Verizon's 5G spec.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nokia focuses on private mobile networks; ARM sales up under SoftBank; Sparkle wins Czech research deal; Proximus taps Neustar for analytics.

Is the current virtual reality customer experience equivalent to the significant investment?

Stock is up 27% as fourth-quarter financials beat expectations.

The executive responsible for much of Telia's digital transformation, as well as investment in next-generation technologies, is understood to have left the Swedish operator in November.

In the wake of a successful plugfest at the end of 2016, a platform that can support commercial services can be expected relatively soon.

The space agency's Office of Inspector General releases a report about NASA's bad cloud habits that are creating unnecessary risk.

Signaling a video course change, the big US telco plans to launch an OTT service this year and 'de-emphasize' its Prism TV IPTV service.

Not even Donald Trump can make Twitter profitable. Twitter is out of time to turn things around.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Italian FTTH joint venture comes under competition scrutiny; Ericsson calls for security; MPs press for inquiry into Murdoch's Sky bid.

Nokia's latest IoT move is another sign of its enterprise and service-provider ambitions.

This week in our WiC roundup: A new documentary about women who code comes to Netflix; GE's lofty goals; Elizabeth Warren stands for all women; and more.

The new antenna, made with a silicon-based process, signifies progress toward gigabit base stations and gateways in a 5G band favored by AT&T and Verizon.

As the fiber network landscape grows increasingly complex, effective network monitoring is becoming more important than ever, and key to carrier competitiveness.

In addition to a $2 billion contract with Google's cloud, Snap is buying $1 billion worth of services from AWS.

Nokia has bid to acquire Comptel for €347 million and that looks like just the start of an M&A adventure, one that seems fraught with traps.

Forcepoint has bought Imperva's Skyfence business to bolster its cloud security portfolio.

Qwilt's new Open Edge Cloud is the next evolution of its transparent caching technology for video delivery.

Spending cuts at CenturyLink could spell some misery for optical equipment makers, according to a leading analyst.

SDN is constantly evolving and that process is helped along by numerous projects and other industry developments.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Italtel gets into analytics; Colt hooks up to Azure; Telefónica makes friends in Iceland; Nokia sells G.fast in Japan.

**UPDATED** What do industry analysts think of Nokia's bid to buy fellow Finnish vendor Comptel for €347 million?

A tie-up between Vodafone and Idea could herald cost savings and put more pressure on current market leader Bharti Airtel.

Intel CEO Brian Kzranich visited the White House to announce his company would drop $7B to fill out the dormant shell of Fab 42, creating 3,000 jobs, and giving the new Prez something to crow about.

Finnish vendor says takeover of OSS specialist forms a critical part of strategic plans to develop a standalone software business.

With flexibility and speed becoming increasingly important in service development, microservice capabilities are attracting increasing attention.

Microsoft is offering customers access to the company's IP to fight patent trolls through a program called Azure IP Advantage.

The note-taking service migrated more than 4 petabytes of data from its own data centers to the public cloud.

Four acquisitions in a week all point to the growing importance of machine learning for major security system vendors.

Early CableLabs tests of coherent optics for the access network are producing speeds above 2 terabits per second.

Employees will get 20 days to grieve the loss of an immediate family member, three days off to care for a sick family member and more.

Facing a slowdown in some of its business units, Rackspace is cutting about 6% of its US workforce.

The Japanese tycoon hints at favorable regulatory changes in the US market, but will he ultimately rue his chummy relationship with Trump?

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: New EU rules on online content access; Swisscom feels the heat; Inmarsat and Actility talk IoT; 5G and energy grids.

Dan Sahar, Qwilt's co-founder, sits down with Steve Saunders of Light Reading for a conversation about Qwilt's Open Edge Cloud platform and the new role of service providers in application and content delivery.

Workday scored a major cloud victory by picking up Amazon as its latest customer for its Human Capital Management software.

Casa Systems is showing off a virtualized fixed-mobile convergence solution for cable operators seeking to deploy WiFi-First and other wireless services.

Latest high-profile exec exits don't bode well for the social network's diversity efforts, as it also struggles to make money, attract new users and combat abuse online.

Initiative aims to use blockchain to keep track of finances and logistics for import and re-export of goods and services into the busy port city.

A group of 200 tech investors, venture capitalists and startups have signed a letter to raise concerns about President Trump's executive order that restricts travel to the US.

The trio unveil VR mobile streaming tests for CBRS tech at 180mph at Vegas speedway.

Using its own internal software development team acquired with the Active Broadband buy, CenturyLink is doing a third-gen version built for speed.

64x64 MIMO for 2.4GHz networks likely to arrive in 2017.

Rancor at the FCC isn't fading with new leadership in place.

A total of 127 technology companies, including some of the biggest in the US, have signed a document opposing Trump's travel ban, but there's no sign of the major telcos.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ericsson plays part in connected car breakthrough; Allot revenues slide in Q4; Coriant lands South African deal; OBS goes to sea.

Its Z-Brain tech automates day-to-day management and long-term planning for hybrid clouds.

Nominum's Craig Sprosts talks about the fast-changing landscape of cybersecurity with Steve Saunders of Light Reading. Sprosts touches on the trend of the rise of ransomwares, rivals of IoT base attacks, and mobile network security. He also discusses the realization of the importance of IoT security after a recent cyber attack that paralyzed several major Internet sites.

The takeover should help the smallest of the UK's four mobile network operators to address its spectrum shortcomings.

Juniper co-founder Pradeep Sindhu says he's stepping aside as CTO to focus on his position as CEO of a new startup, Fungible, which is working on cloud data centers.

Researchers at the University of Hiroshima claim a transmitter system delivered 105 Gbit/s over a single 300GHz channel.

Telcos hope that playing nicely with the Donald will bring rewards, but they may ultimately regret his regime.

The acquisition allows Stratoscale to add database cloud services to its portfolio.

Cable content protection will never be the same.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: TDC in the doldrums; fiber for Namur; ADVA targets climate change; UK boards lack IT expertise.

Automates day-to-day management and long-term planning for hybrid clouds.

Italian incumbent brings a long period of domestic decline to an end and looks forward to continued growth.

While some experts predict AI will take all the jobs, others say technology creates more jobs than it destroys.

Artificial intelligence will create new categories of work even as it destroys others, say advocates. But not everybody's so sure of a bright AI future.

Optical vendor appears to have reduced its headcount again but this time by a significant number.

Snap's IPO filing shows that the company is placing its faith, and dollars, in Google's cloud services.

Cox isn't licensing the new Comcast digital home solution to power its premium Panoramic WiFi service. At least not yet.

The TIA is adding to its exec ranks but is still looking for a new CEO after it ousted Scott Belcher.

A new Synergy Research report shows that AWS still dominates the public cloud space, with Microsoft, Google and IBM fighting for second place.

The latest dotcom darling could be valued at up to $25 billion, but there are big concerns about its business model.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Proximus digitizes Antwerp's port; BT seeks cybersecurity innovation; Telecom Italia signs movies deal.

The South Korean operator is under pressure to show there is money to be made from technology diversification.

This week in our WiC roundup: Federal IT jobs for women; Super Bowl ads get less sexist; bye bye brogrammers; and more.

Revenue growth slowed to 47% year-over-year in Q4 2016, from 69% year-over-year in the year-ago quarter. But who wouldn't like 47% revenue growth?

Qualcomm runs down some of the technologies that will evolve into the 5G radio standard.

Google is targeting Microsoft users by offering additional support for Windows Server and SQL Server, including disaster recovery.

What does Facebook want to be when it grows up?

Verizon traveled a rocky road in enterprise cloud and has struck a deal to sell its business, Light Reading believes.

Did you have an incredible 2016? Then you need to enter the industry's most prestigious awards program, the Leading Lights, now in its 13th year – it really does have something for everyone!

Finnish vendor is getting ready to introduce a next-generation IP routing product as part of its push into 'adjacent' vertical markets.

Formal launch of ECOMP in open source is chance to tout its advantages, but are they enough to unite the telecom industry?

HPE's acquisition of behavioral and security analytics startup Niara is its third acquisition of 2017.

Operator says it will have 1Gbit/s downloads in some places in 2017.

Nokia is maintaining its strategic emphasis on network security and may have some plausible claims to be ahead of its major vendor rivals – but it still has a lot of questions to answer.

Fresh off a solid financial quarter, VMware is updating its virtual networking technology.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ooredoo lands in Sicily; Sky and Discovery settle their differences; mobile research revealed; some better news for refugees.

Service provider says full-year earnings will be at the lower end of previously issued guidance because of difficulties in two key markets.

Finnish vendor heralds good progress on cost savings and the implementation of its new strategy.

A deal involving T-Mobile could help Deutsche Telekom to fund broadband improvements in its heartlands.

Ma Bell gets 39GHz spectrum that can be used for 5G tests and possible next-gen services in the future.

'Different' approach is built on being more open and engaging with customers, vendors and partners.

New York AG claims Charter isn't providing the broadband speeds that subscribers are paying for.

Verizon has completed its $1.8 billion purchase of XO's fiber business, setting the stage for 5G.

Chinese authorities are promoting new ownership models in order to raise capital.

Cisco's Annual Cybersecurity Report 2017 said that organizations suffered serious cybersecurity losses in 2016 – and the bad guys are coming for your server in 2017.

Dutch incumbent believes it is nearing the end of the long road to financial stability and if the coming year provides further proof points then it might be an attractive takeover target.

iPhone maker forecasts a doubling in the size of its services business in the next four years but is increasingly dependent on the iPhone.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Dido Harding steps down at TalkTalk; wholesale roaming caps finally agreed; Sky moves content closer with Nokia's Velocix; Hitler's phone up for auction.

Cisco is adding a set of security policy features to its Tetration analytics platform to help the IT department keep better tabs on applications within a cloud or data center.

UK fixed-line incumbent is trying to ward off calls for its dismemberment amid a financial crisis.

Utilities trials are coming for the sorta 5Gish powerline technology, AT&T says.