News & Views
Content posted in March 2019
News Analysis | 3/29/2019 | 1 comment
While Microsoft gives Huawei an attaboy for quick response to the security flaw, it's not a good look for Huawei.
News Analysis | 3/29/2019 | 1 comment
President Trump may well be moving closer toward a proposal – pushed by Rivada Networks and others – that would have the US government build a wholesale 5G network. Meantime, opponents to the idea are beginning to ramp up their own efforts.
News Analysis | 3/29/2019 | Post a comment
The US backlash against Huawei has been good news for the company's smartphone business in the vast Chinese market.
News Analysis | 3/29/2019 | Post a comment
Shutdown of HDHomerun Premium TV, an inexpensive OTT-TV service for cord-cutters, arrives in wake of copyright lawsuit lobbed at Omniverse One World Television.
News Analysis | 3/29/2019 | Post a comment
Stockpiling of components, in the event of a US ban, tore into the Chinese vendor's operating cash flow last year, despite a bumper set of results.
News Analysis | 3/29/2019 | Post a comment
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Altice France guides for growth; Ericsson's Ekholm has a dig over spectrum sales; CityFibre heads for the Highlands.
WiCipedia | 3/29/2019 | Post a comment
This week in our WiC roundup: Hopperx1 brings the ladies of tech together once again; IBM tackles gender inequality and bias in AI; new moms have big decisions to make when it comes to taking time off work, and more.
LRTV Interviews | 3/29/2019 | Post a comment
Broadband Success Partners' David Strauss shares highlights of his firm's fresh research about the cable industry's growing forays into network automation.
The Bauminator | 3/29/2019 | Post a comment
Enabling in-app upgrades and transactions without paying a tax to Google has made Android TV's 'Operator Tier' particularly attractive, industry sources say.
The Philter | 3/29/2019 | Post a comment
Forget Apple. There's no wilder story in the world of pay-TV than the controversy surrounding Omniverse One World Television. In this podcast, we discuss how the company turned up on the cable industry's radar, scrapped with content owners and has what it said is a 100-year contract to distribute pay-TV channels.
News Analysis | 3/28/2019 | Post a comment
One of the first things that Verizon plans to do under its new consumer/business corporate structure that goes into effect next week is to merge its customer loyalty programs that are currently separated between wireless and wireline customers.
News Analysis | 3/28/2019 | 2 comments
Investors had hoped that Comcast and Charter might pose a significant threat to the likes of AT&T and Verizon in mobile. Newly reduced expectations from Wall Street indicate those hopes haven't panned out.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 3/28/2019 | Post a comment
Automation offers the best hope for managing today's vastly complex networks – so what's the hold-up?
News Analysis | 3/28/2019 | Post a comment
Softening pricing on key set-top box components could goose device margins and put a bit more financial luster on the proposed merger, analyst says.
News Analysis | 3/28/2019 | 1 comment
BT takes a big step toward a more distributed cloud as it prepares for the arrival of new edge services.
News Analysis | 3/28/2019 | Post a comment
The annual report from the UK's Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) will not make for happy reading in Shenzhen.
News Analysis | 3/28/2019 | 1 comment
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Orange tackles fake news; Liquid Telecom Kenya chooses Nokia for OTN/DWDM upgrade; Trondheim intends to be a 5G early adopter.
News Analysis | 3/28/2019 | Post a comment
Juniper hopes 5G capex investment will soothe its financial aches and pains.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 3/28/2019 | Post a comment
The good news is that service providers understand which tools and capabilities they will need to not only successfully implement 5G security services, but also differentiate them.
News Analysis | 3/28/2019 | Post a comment
Telstra wants to reinvent itself as an AWS of the telco world, and is calling on vendors to be more supportive.
News Analysis | 3/27/2019 | Post a comment
Faced with new Internet and cost challenges, operators are increasingly presenting automation as a means of improving the customer experience.
News Analysis | 3/27/2019 | Post a comment
EdgeConneX said it's seeing growing demand for edge computing from 5G and IoT. And the company isn't alone. Players ranging from Google to Equinix to Vapor IO are eyeing how best they will play at the edge.
News Analysis | 3/27/2019 | Post a comment
Bloomberg reports talks to cut 25% of the UK operator's workforce – no one should be shocked.
News Analysis | 3/27/2019 | Post a comment
After an annus horribilis, Chinese vendor ZTE is expecting to report a net profit for the first quarter of 2019.
News Analysis | 3/27/2019 | Post a comment
Cox, a Comcast X1 syndication partner, expects to deploy the new offering later this year.
News Analysis | 3/27/2019 | Post a comment
Spanish operator wants to get rid of its domain-specific controllers and thinks standardization efforts will make that possible.
News Analysis | 3/27/2019 | Post a comment
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: BT and ADVA make quantum leap; Openet rings Canada's Bell; T-Mobile Austria activates 5G.
The Philter | 3/27/2019 | 2 comments
The launch of Apple TV+ assumes great broadband service, and that buzz may help savvy service providers connect with new customers.
News Analysis | 3/27/2019 | Post a comment
Decibel will invest in very young enterprise startups, to help 30-year-old Cisco stay fresh.
News Analysis | 3/26/2019 | Post a comment
The transition from 3G to 4G was challenging because operators had to block off chunks of spectrum specifically for the move. With 5G and the use of 'dynamic spectrum sharing,' the migration should happen much more fluidly.
The Bauminator | 3/26/2019 | Post a comment
Lacking in the innovation or disruption departments, Apple's new video playbook looks like a carbon copy of everyone else's.
News Analysis | 3/26/2019 | Post a comment
Oracle is cutting up to 14,000 people, 10% of its staff, according to reports. While the company says the layoffs are part of the shift to the cloud, cloud staff are among those feeling the axe's edge.
News Analysis | 3/26/2019 | 1 comment
Meanwhile, tensions ratchet up between the US and Europe over whether Huawei equipment poses security risk.
News Analysis | 3/26/2019 | Post a comment
C Spire president Stephen Bye is leaving to head a new company focused on in-building wireless networks. As a result, C Spire's longtime CEO Hu Meena in taking control of C Spire's wired and wireless offerings.
News Analysis | 3/26/2019 | 4 comments
Deal follows recent M&A wave in the tough global video and pay-TV market.
News Analysis | 3/26/2019 | Post a comment
Analysts are stumbling out of the auditorium after Apple's big TV reveal, and they are not overly impressed at what they have seen.
News Analysis | 3/26/2019 | Post a comment
Bids on the 24GHz 5G auction are now up to $1,409,902,875.
LRTV Documentaries | 3/26/2019 | Post a comment
This week: Jamie, Scott and Ray chew over Google's new cloud gaming venture, UK infrastructure developments and, yes, Huawei...
News Analysis | 3/26/2019 | Post a comment
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ericsson targets Industry 4.0; UK broadband's big beasts must do better; Tele2 restructures; Telia helps with smart-city planning.
News Analysis | 3/26/2019 | Post a comment
An MKM partners analyst thinks the compliance issue Nokia flagged in its annual report will cost less than €125 million ($141 million) and still prefers Nokia to Ericsson in the 5G market.
News Analysis | 3/25/2019 | Post a comment
Red Hat reports fourth-quarter revenue $879 million, up 14% year-over-year, with fiscal 2019 revenue at $3.4 billion, up 15%, crediting growth to enterprise migration to hybrid cloud.
News Analysis | 3/25/2019 | Post a comment
Alongside aggregation of on-demand and live TV services, premium Apple TV+ service will stream slate of ad-free original series.
News Analysis | 3/25/2019 | Post a comment
The Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division got its first 5G-related case, and it ruled that Verizon can't claim to have the nation's first and only 5G network.
News Analysis | 3/25/2019 | 1 comment
Verizon and the NFL launch a new 'innovation partnership' geared toward creating new 5G products and services for football fans. But the lack of details around the effort is telling.
News Analysis | 3/25/2019 | Post a comment
Spectrum Enterprise unit and non-profit group team on exploration and rollout of apps and services that use mix of wired and wireless connectivity options underpinned by a data management platform.
News Analysis | 3/25/2019 | Post a comment
A dispute over the UK's next auction of 5G spectrum could delay the rollout of 5G networks and turn ecosystem players off the UK market, according to Vodafone UK's technology boss.
News Analysis | 3/25/2019 | Post a comment
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: new UK FTTH player raises Ł75 million; EU encourages data sharing, says no to US-led Huawei gear ban; Abu Dhabi hub targets UK startups.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 3/25/2019 | Post a comment
Consumers are increasingly seeking simple, easily searchable and personalized viewing experiences anywhere, everywhere and all in one place.
News Analysis | 3/25/2019 | Post a comment
Though Mist Systems provides managed WiFi, Juniper said the company stands out by delivering network simplification and automation to enterprises and service providers.
Column | 3/25/2019 | Post a comment
The optical networking industry is at another inflection point, writes James Kisner, and the chalice some companies drink from next could point the way to everlasting revenue growth.
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