Light Reading CEO Steve Saunders talks virtualization, cloudification and standards with Deutsche Telekom's Axel Clauberg at Mobile World Congress.

2015 will be a big year as Mavenir says all four US operators will launch RCS, backing up statements a T-Mobile VP made about its plans.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ericsson and Telefonica's NFV coziness to continue; MTN profits rise on data growth; Deutsche Telekom to push Microsoft's Lumia.

At Mobile World Congress, Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg discusses telco data center technology, business models, small cells and more.

Brocade got into the mobile business six months ago. With the acquisition of Connectem, announced this week, Brocade aims to dominate.

Latest deal makes Japanese telecom giant third largest data center operator in Europe and extends reach of its one-stop global ICT strategy.

After signing a major European outsourcing deal with Ericsson, Orange is now considering its options in Africa.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler didn't add too much clarity to how Title II would be enforced during his MWC keynote, noting only that it'd be on a case-by-case basis.

In its latest report, Infonetics Research predicts that DOCSIS channel shipments will slip 7% in the first quarter, largely because of Comcast's pending takeover of Time Warner Cable, after a stellar 2014.

Everyone wants to have a say in how 5G will develop, with many different groups outlining their visions of 5G and vowing to play nice with the other groups.

5G promises to improve your life, not just speed your mobile Internet connection.

Pace has filed documents with the FCC showing a new gateway device designed for Comcast's next-generation X1 IP video platform.

CenturyLink Cloud is bringing a new open source estimator and other functionalities to its channel partners, which account for "a big chunk" of cloud sales.

Light Reading CEO Steve Saunders talks transformation and virtualization -- including Light Reading's independent testing of the vendor's virtualization solutions -- with Cisco CEO John Chambers at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Hybrid to address digital divide while German incumbent looks to 'super-vectoring' and G.fast for big bandwidth boost.

Siva Ananmalay, Ericsson, and Steve Saunders, Light Reading, discuss the importance of monetization, personalization and customer loyalty at The New IP event in San Jose, Calif.

Cisco CEO predicts the digitization of everything will change, like, everything!

With its use cases wrapped up, the Forum is tackling LTE-U, virtualization, 5G and other technology trends affecting the mini-RANs.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Deutsche Telekom begins move to New IP; CityFibre plans Edinburgh network; deadline set for Danish merger decision.

The results from tests undertaken by EANTC of Cisco service provider virtualization software show that the New IP world is very much here.

Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei are squaring up to each other - in a polite way - with rival 5G radio access technologies.

The GSMA estimates 90,000 attendees for this year's packed show, and that makes for one big cab line!

All three service providers are looking to NFV to increase agility and penetrate the SMB market, Cisco says.

The service provider is looking to HP to provide hardware, software and services, combining the vendor's strengths in carrier and IT networks. Or at least that's what HP says.

VoIP pioneers Jeff Pulver, Bryan Martin and Daniel Berninger, and Telecosm author George Gilder say the FCC's move is bad for Internet innovation.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg plays down concern that Internet.org is benefiting consumers but not operators.

Brocade plans to broaden its software-based mobile networking portfolio with the acquisition of the privately held provider of virtual EPC technology.

NXP's $11.8 billion acquisition of Freescale is the latest of many moves taming the wild semiconductor sector.

Google SVP Sundar Pichai said at MWC that the software giant won't be a carrier at scale, but will work with its wireless partners to offer its service to innovate on communications.

Even the best specialized routers can't keep pace with the 100,000-plus % increase in mobile data traffic, Donovan tells MWC.

As predicted in news reports last week, HP will shell out up to $3 billion for WiFi networking specialist Aruba Networks to advance its enterprise networking ambitions.

The FCC wants to know from programmers if Comcast and Time Warner Cable have used cash incentives in negotiations to lock online video rivals out of content licensing deals.

Germany's incumbent carrier has burnished its reputation as an IP leader with the simultaneous launch of cloud-based services in three European countries.

GSMA's Mobile Connect digital identity service gets some love as operators call for better privacy and security rules.

AT&T isn't afraid of getting its hands dirty when it comes to the Internet of Things.

VP says the carrier wants to take advantage of its spectrum with LTE-U, but doesn't have a real need for small cells outside of niche, congested urban areas.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: VimpelCom sells controlling stake in towers firm; Ericsson directs the traffic; Bouygues CEO not dead.

JDSU's latest location report shows that 1% of LTE users are consuming 56% of mobile data, and it's happening in less than 1% of the area a mobile network covers.

The Finnish vendor claims to have secured a bigger LTE FDD contract with China Telecom than any other non-Chinese player.

My visit to this year's Mobile World Congress is going to dominated by three Cs – cloud, cells and coffee.

Light Reading has arrived in Barcelona in time for some sightseeing and cocktails with 100 of our closest friends ahead of the big show.

VMware vCloud for NFV lets carriers run clouds on OpenStack side-by-side with VMware's own vCloud.

UC company will use the VoLTE and RCS enabler to expand its business with mobile operators, plus more M&A at MWC.

In a significant coup for the specialist startup, SpiderCloud's entire small cell portfolio will be rebadged and resold by Cisco.

Spanish incumbent looks to carrier aggregation for performance improvements ahead of 5G deployment.

Outlines how its programmable network allows enterprises, network, and cloud providers to connect to each other rapidly.

According to Light Reading's poll of 900 readers, NFV and SDN, followed by 5G and the IoT, will dominate headlines at this year's mobile extravaganza in Barcelona.