News & Views
Content posted in April 2018
Jonestown | 4/30/2018 | 1 comment A US 5G lead, more jobs and cheaper services all sound good, if not bigly, but is it all just promises right now?
News Analysis | 4/30/2018 | Post a comment The network operator is using Cisco and Juniper boxes, but will decouple the control planes to bring business and consumer services into one edge device.
Morris Lore | 4/30/2018 | 13 comments Consumers, industry employees and equipment vendors must all hope that regulators block a T-Mobile merger with Sprint.
News Analysis | 4/30/2018 | Post a comment Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: German cable operators could face change in network access rules; Jan Frykhammar joins Openet board; Timotheus Höttges on that merger.
MariNation | 4/30/2018 | Post a comment How much will it cost to add intelligence to the network edge?
Breznick Unbound | 4/30/2018 | Post a comment In a Big Communications Event panel, AR and VR experts will examine whether immersive media experiences offer realistic new revenue opportunities for service providers.
News Analysis | 4/30/2018 | 21 comments But the companies will need every ounce of spectrum to succeed.
LRTV Interviews | 4/30/2018 | Post a comment In this interview, SES's Thomas Wrede discusses what the satellite operator has learned from its trials of VR video with SP customers.
Mentor Monday | 4/30/2018 | 1 comment When Jennifer Kyriakakis didn't like the culture of the large company that acquired the business she was working for, she broke away and created her own with a focus on innovation.
News Analysis | 4/30/2018 | 1 comment Boingo Wireless and Comcast Business make the shortlist for our NFV deployment strategy award.
News Analysis | 4/27/2018 | 1 comment Investors may be worried about the wrong things.
Morris Lore | 4/27/2018 | 10 comments US authorities were said this week to be investigating Huawei for violating sanctions against Iran. Treating it like ZTE would trigger turmoil.
News Analysis | 4/27/2018 | 1 comment US mobile operators are close to reaching agreement on the terms of a deal, according to reports.
News Analysis | 4/27/2018 | 1 comment Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Comings and goings at Telecom Italia; Orange active in Africa; Proximus hits 2.94 Gbit/s in 5G trial; Facebook CTO gets a UK grilling.
Wagner’s Ring | 4/27/2018 | 1 comment In which we receive an alarming email from Oracle.
WiCipedia | 4/27/2018 | Post a comment This week in our WiC roundup: The NY Times' first female CIO; female founders get funding; women are needed in connected car jobs; and more.
News Analysis | 4/26/2018 | 1 comment AWS isn't just growing fast; growth is accelerating.
News Analysis | 4/26/2018 | 3 comments Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud group, which includes server, enterprise products and services, reported that its revenues were up 17% to $7.9 billion.
News Analysis | 4/26/2018 | 1 comment FCC says agency is ready for 24GHz, 28GHz and 39GHz auctions in 2019, and has plans to open up the 3.7GHz to 4.2GHz band for 5G.
The Philter | 4/26/2018 | 2 comments Here, over three nostalgia-soaked pages, are the telecom heroes and villains that have made it into the Light Reading Hall of Fame since its inception in 2010.
News Analysis | 4/26/2018 | Post a comment AT&T CFO John Stephens explains the company's plans to wring greater profits out of its OTT video service by launching new features and cutting capex and opex.
MariNation | 4/26/2018 | 1 comment The set-top is Comcast's primary consumer interface, but it's not the best tool for smart home control.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 4/26/2018 | Post a comment Open source is a product development model that should unleash faster innovation but may require business model changes for many vendors.
News Analysis | 4/26/2018 | Post a comment John Stephens tells financial analysts there's a positive trend in AT&T's business revenues, even with another quarterly decline.
News Analysis | 4/26/2018 | 21 comments The increasingly tough US line against Huawei and ZTE form part of the resistance to China's state-driven, quasi-protectionist industry policies.
News Analysis | 4/26/2018 | 4 comments Qualcomm blames its legal battles with Apple and another licensee for a fall in profits but managed to grow sales thanks to its chips business.
News Analysis | 4/26/2018 | 1 comment Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telefónica, Orange and KPN reveal Q1 earnings; Ericsson lands Italian virtualization job.
News Analysis | 4/26/2018 | 5 comments Finnish vendor insists the second half of 2018 will be much better than the first half as customers start to invest in long-awaited 5G networks.
Que Sera Sarah | 4/26/2018 | 1 comment Libelium and Movandi and their founders are pioneering new technologies that are already changing the game for IoT and 5G, respectively, making them startups you want to keep an eye on in 2018 and beyond.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 4/26/2018 | 1 comment LTE and future 5G networks are evolving in a way that overcomes previous barriers to the use of standardized public-network technologies for private applications, and there is better support for features needed in mission-critical use cases.
News Analysis | 4/26/2018 | Post a comment Cloud applications have an insatiable appetite for east-west bandwidth inside the data center, as well as between data centers. What can service providers do about that?
News Analysis | 4/25/2018 | Post a comment Market punishes AT&T for miss, but Ma Bell lauds 5G progress.
News Analysis | 4/25/2018 | 1 comment Facebook is doubling down on its ad business, and using AI to moderate hate speech and other inappropriate content.
News Analysis | 4/25/2018 | Post a comment Network operators take different approaches to using new Google Partner Interconnect.
News Analysis | 4/25/2018 | Post a comment The cost of 5G deployments depends in part on the cost of pole attachment fees.
News Analysis | 4/25/2018 | 6 comments The WSJ reports that Huawei is in the Justice Department's crosshairs for its activities related to selling goods and services to Iran.
News Analysis | 4/25/2018 | Post a comment Automation takes human error out of the equation but adds the ability to screw things up much faster.
News Analysis | 4/25/2018 | Post a comment Despite growing video subscriber losses, Comcast racks up big overall customer and revenue gains as it formalizes its $31 billion bid for Sky in the UK.
News Analysis | 4/25/2018 | 1 comment For all the banker excitement about a possible tie-up between Vodafone and Liberty, any deal in Germany seems highly unlikely.
The Philter | 4/25/2018 | 8 comments The giants of cloud computing and the divergent minds of our regulatory body politic are well behind a PR entrepreneur who filled in her own nomination. How 2018 is that?
News Analysis | 4/25/2018 | 1 comment Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Apple starts paying Irish back-taxes; Nokia gets edgy; Atos hooks up with Google for AI; Elisa trumpets NB-IoT network.
LRTV Documentaries | 4/25/2018 | Post a comment Telstra's Jim Fagan explains how service providers can apply lessons learned about automation in the cloud to delivering more automation in their networks.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 4/25/2018 | Post a comment Containers seemed poised to take over the Earth, but they've proven slow to implement. Find out how people are implementing containers on real-world service provider networks at the Big Communications Event in Austin next month!
Women in Comms Introduction Videos | 4/25/2018 | Post a comment Executive Producer Janet Leahy shares her story with WiC, offers advice for the cable industry to better support women and gives us a sneak preview of what she's working on next.
News Analysis | 4/25/2018 | Post a comment Indian operators merge their infrastructure assets to form the world's second-biggest towers company.
News Analysis | 4/25/2018 | Post a comment Competition and adverse regulatory measures continue to squeeze the Indian operator's profits.
News Analysis | 4/25/2018 | 1 comment The new G Suite and Gmail security capabilities aren't bulletproof, but they add an extra layer of control.
News Analysis | 4/24/2018 | 1 comment The Google parent is spending hard to catch up on with Amazon in the home and cloud, and driving its businesses forward, including YouTube, hardware and Waymo self-driving cars.
LRTV Documentaries | 4/24/2018 | Post a comment Is convergence a sound business strategy? Or is it best to stick with what you know? Also: Who'd be a Chinese vendor? Discuss. And they do.
Kelsey's Grammar | 4/24/2018 | Post a comment At BCE, panelists will discuss changing consumption models for SD-WAN, new approaches that vendors and carriers are taking in deploying SD-WAN, standards efforts and interoperability challenges and more.
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