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Top News & Views All News & Views Why Telcos Need AI & Automation in 5G Networks By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 5/21/2019 Heavy Reading's James Crawshaw gives an overview of a session he chaired at the Big 5G Event on automation, AI and the immediate uses for telcos as their networks evolve. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Who Will Buy Sprint's Boost? And Will It Even Matter? By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 5/21/2019 The proposed merger of Sprint and T-Mobile took a big step forward with support from the chairman of the FCC, but plenty of questions remain, including whether a Boost divestiture would create competition in the US market and whether anyone would buy it. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Marvell Goes Shopping to Sweeten 5G Story By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 5/20/2019 A couple of years removed from its $6B deal to buy Cavium, Marvell suddenly agrees to buy two companies so far this month. There's still 11 days left in May, folks. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Securing 5G Networks: Control Plane Evolution By Jim Hodges, Principal Analyst – Cloud and Security, Heavy Reading, 5/20/2019 NetNumber's Jee Alkebsi and Heavy Reading's Jim Hodges discuss the recent 5G Security Market Leadership Study (MLS) and what network operators are doing to offer managed security services. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Can Huawei Survive Trump? By Iain Morris, News Editor, 5/20/2019 The Chinese vendor's survival as an international force is now at stake following the latest moves by the US administration and tech companies. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Former Cisco Exec Takes Helm of EditShare By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/20/2019 Conrad Clemson named CEO as EditShare takes on a majority investment from ParkerGale and plots plan to scale up its business and migrate its media asset collaboration and management platform to the cloud. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Sprint/T-Mobile Merger Gets FCC Chairman's Approval, Albeit With Conditions By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 5/20/2019 The chairman of the FCC said he will support the merger of Sprint and T-Mobile if they meet certain network-buildout targets and sell Sprint's Boost prepaid business. The odds that the merger will be approved are now much better than before. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement 5G Man Goes OTT By Light Reading, 5/20/2019 5G man is always desperate to help... but his help isn't always needed. Post a Comment \| Read (0) ACE, Omniverse Slug It Out as Court Date Looms By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/20/2019 ACE claims it's struggling to get its mitts on a long-term contract between Hovsat & DirecTV that is key to Omniverse's streaming TV offering. Post a Comment \| Read (0) MetTel's Fox: Enterprises Need to Find Business Case for 5G By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/20/2019 Many initial 5G deployments will be private networks on enterprise premises, and service providers will need to accommodate those needs, says MetTel CTO Ed Fox in conversation with Light Reading's Mitch Wagner. Also, Fox talks about how MetTel is going big on network functions virtualization (NFV). Post a Comment \| Read (0) Google & Tech Giants Cut Huawei Adrift By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/20/2019 The Chinese equipment giant is sent packing by a host of the world's biggest technology companies and faces a huge threat to its consumer business after Google holds back some Android goodies. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: US Huawei Ban Hits European Chipmakers By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 5/20/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: France resists US pressure to play hardball with Huawei; lampposts row threatens UK's 5G rollout; ADVA lands Openreach cell site gateway gig. Post a Comment \| Read (0) The Importance of Hardware to 5G By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/20/2019 At the Big 5G Event in Denver, Gilles Garcia, EMEA comms business lead director at chip specialist Xilinx, suggests the hardware platforms needed to underpin 5G rollouts are being overshadowed by excitement over software developments. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Here's How One Tiny Wireless Carrier Is Prepping for 5G By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 5/20/2019 Carolina West Wireless counts 300 towers and roughly 90,000 customers, and is still using a circuit-switched core network. But that's not stopping the operator from preparing for 5G. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Android App Developers Get '5G Mode' By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 5/17/2019 A new API from Qualcomm promises to give Android Q app developers information about how fast users' 5G phones will go. But don't expect a 5G 'killer app' anytime soon. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: pave_lmachala The statement about bandwidth APIs seems to be an incorrect one as Google has... Huawei vs. Trump & the Casualties of War By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/17/2019 Putting Huawei on the trade blacklist would have dire consequences for the global supply chain and the operators that use its equipment. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Cloud 4G Huawei's business has developed, as every competitor with such a broad range... Service Providers Can Take Control of IoT Security By Mike O’Malley, Vice President of Carrier Strategy and Business Development at Radware, 5/17/2019 As 5G networks begin to roll out, it is worth looking at how service providers can deliver high-value, high-margin security services in a way that no one else in the IoT ecosystem can match. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cloud Bursts: Oracle Touts Telco Triumphs, Microsoft Proclaims Partnerships & More By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/17/2019 Oracle sells to Asian telco Circles.Life; Microsoft partners with Sony on gaming; VMware acquires Bitnami for multicloud, and more telco cloud news this week. Post a Comment \| Read (0) WiCipedia: Egg Freezing, Hormone Lunches & Back to Work With Babies... Oh My! By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 5/17/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Women in Comms steals the show in Denver; moms in tech hog the headlines; women are talked over in meetings (duh); and more! Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: EU Must Pull Its 5G Finger Out, Says Ericsson's Ekholm By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 5/17/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: BT launches employee share scheme, unveils underwhelming new logo; German trade group distances itself from US stance on Huawei. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Why Telcos Need AI & Automation in 5G Networks By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 5/21/2019 Heavy Reading's James Crawshaw gives an overview of a session he chaired at the Big 5G Event on automation, AI and the immediate uses for telcos as their networks evolve. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Who Will Buy Sprint's Boost? And Will It Even Matter? By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 5/21/2019 The proposed merger of Sprint and T-Mobile took a big step forward with support from the chairman of the FCC, but plenty of questions remain, including whether a Boost divestiture would create competition in the US market and whether anyone would buy it. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Marvell Goes Shopping to Sweeten 5G Story By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 5/20/2019 A couple of years removed from its $6B deal to buy Cavium, Marvell suddenly agrees to buy two companies so far this month. There's still 11 days left in May, folks. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Securing 5G Networks: Control Plane Evolution By Jim Hodges, Principal Analyst – Cloud and Security, Heavy Reading, 5/20/2019 NetNumber's Jee Alkebsi and Heavy Reading's Jim Hodges discuss the recent 5G Security Market Leadership Study (MLS) and what network operators are doing to offer managed security services. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Can Huawei Survive Trump? By Iain Morris, News Editor, 5/20/2019 The Chinese vendor's survival as an international force is now at stake following the latest moves by the US administration and tech companies. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Former Cisco Exec Takes Helm of EditShare By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/20/2019 Conrad Clemson named CEO as EditShare takes on a majority investment from ParkerGale and plots plan to scale up its business and migrate its media asset collaboration and management platform to the cloud. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Sprint/T-Mobile Merger Gets FCC Chairman's Approval, Albeit With Conditions By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 5/20/2019 The chairman of the FCC said he will support the merger of Sprint and T-Mobile if they meet certain network-buildout targets and sell Sprint's Boost prepaid business. The odds that the merger will be approved are now much better than before. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 5G Man Goes OTT By Light Reading, 5/20/2019 5G man is always desperate to help... but his help isn't always needed. Post a Comment \| Read (0) ACE, Omniverse Slug It Out as Court Date Looms By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/20/2019 ACE claims it's struggling to get its mitts on a long-term contract between Hovsat & DirecTV that is key to Omniverse's streaming TV offering. Post a Comment \| Read (0) MetTel's Fox: Enterprises Need to Find Business Case for 5G By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/20/2019 Many initial 5G deployments will be private networks on enterprise premises, and service providers will need to accommodate those needs, says MetTel CTO Ed Fox in conversation with Light Reading's Mitch Wagner. Also, Fox talks about how MetTel is going big on network functions virtualization (NFV). Post a Comment \| Read (0) Google & Tech Giants Cut Huawei Adrift By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/20/2019 The Chinese equipment giant is sent packing by a host of the world's biggest technology companies and faces a huge threat to its consumer business after Google holds back some Android goodies. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: US Huawei Ban Hits European Chipmakers By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 5/20/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: France resists US pressure to play hardball with Huawei; lampposts row threatens UK's 5G rollout; ADVA lands Openreach cell site gateway gig. Post a Comment \| Read (0) The Importance of Hardware to 5G By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/20/2019 At the Big 5G Event in Denver, Gilles Garcia, EMEA comms business lead director at chip specialist Xilinx, suggests the hardware platforms needed to underpin 5G rollouts are being overshadowed by excitement over software developments. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Here's How One Tiny Wireless Carrier Is Prepping for 5G By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 5/20/2019 Carolina West Wireless counts 300 towers and roughly 90,000 customers, and is still using a circuit-switched core network. But that's not stopping the operator from preparing for 5G. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Android App Developers Get '5G Mode' By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 5/17/2019 A new API from Qualcomm promises to give Android Q app developers information about how fast users' 5G phones will go. But don't expect a 5G 'killer app' anytime soon. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: pave_lmachala The statement about bandwidth APIs seems to be an incorrect one as Google has... Big 5G Event Keynote Panel: We Need to Talk About Edge Computing By Light Reading, 5/17/2019 Ibrahim Gedeon from Telus, Jim Poole from Equinix and Tom Tofigh from QCT discuss edge computing as part of the telco cloud at the Big 5G Event in Denver on May 8, 2019. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Huawei vs. Trump & the Casualties of War By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/17/2019 Putting Huawei on the trade blacklist would have dire consequences for the global supply chain and the operators that use its equipment. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Cloud 4G Huawei's business has developed, as every competitor with such a broad range... Service Providers Can Take Control of IoT Security By Mike O’Malley, Vice President of Carrier Strategy and Business Development at Radware, 5/17/2019 As 5G networks begin to roll out, it is worth looking at how service providers can deliver high-value, high-margin security services in a way that no one else in the IoT ecosystem can match. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cloud Bursts: Oracle Touts Telco Triumphs, Microsoft Proclaims Partnerships & More By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/17/2019 Oracle sells to Asian telco Circles.Life; Microsoft partners with Sony on gaming; VMware acquires Bitnami for multicloud, and more telco cloud news this week. Post a Comment \| Read (0) WiCipedia: Egg Freezing, Hormone Lunches & Back to Work With Babies... Oh My! By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 5/17/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Women in Comms steals the show in Denver; moms in tech hog the headlines; women are talked over in meetings (duh); and more! Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards chechaco, 5/20/2019 6:02:02 PM ZTE's New Hire Doesn't Inspire Re: Re: Perplexed I guess you've chosen not to comment on two hires at Huawei: "... Samir Jain, Obama's senior director for cybersecurity policy for the National Security Council, registered as a lobbyist for Huawei in March... XanderSpears, 5/20/2019 8:03:42 AM TiVo Might Do the Splits Re: Nice Most of the clients are invited for the video recording by all communities. The master of the video and edubirdie.org is fixed for future terms. The chance is selected for the right use of the video tools for the partici... pave_lmachala, 5/19/2019 10:53:10 PM Android App Developers Get '5G Mode' Re: Incorrect statement about bandwidth API The statement about bandwidth APIs seems to be an incorrect one as Google has opened the issue in bug tracker: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/132461546 Cloud 4G, 5/19/2019 10:20:19 PM Huawei vs. Trump & the Casualties of War Re: The impact runs deep because of cross-licensing and supply chain entanglements Huawei's business has developed, as every competitor with such a broad range of wired and wireless products must, a deep set of technology cross-licensing and supply relationships. For example, Huawei supplies 3G,... lmorris, 5/19/2019 4:13:07 AM FCC Chairman Proposes Ruling to Block Unwanted Robocalls Re: Old problems I think people need to know about this robocall problem. They have been around for years. I think the authority should be aware of this problem, too, and able to do something to stop these spammers. For anyone who get quite... MikeP688, 5/18/2019 3:39:48 PM Verizon's $4.4B AOL Buy a Digital Media Play Re: Re: Fascinating Times.... Thanks for the thought--what is interesting iw how Verizon has now pretty much "zero'd out" this play--hasn't it? Cheers... jonsnow1221, 5/18/2019 12:37:53 AM Verizon's $4.4B AOL Buy a Digital Media Play Re: Re: Fascinating Times.... By the post, we get to know how the Verizon is doing many changes in the field of technology and the thing is that I have also tried the application related to the 5g services. Epson error code e-01 susantem, 5/17/2019 9:39:51 PM China Telecom's Bid for 'Leading' 5G Latency Should Unsettle US Re: Re: No reference to low latency in China Telecom presentation It's hard to see anything that domestic operators in China (or elsewhere) are doing as a geo-political/industrial policy threat. It's not as if they are in direct competition with Verizon, Telfonica or NTT. It really doesn't... unbearable, 5/17/2019 9:07:21 PM Charter Using Mobile to Dislodge 'Inert' DSL Customers Re: How to dislodge DSL... All Charter has to do is offer a DSL price for an entry-level broadband tier (say 25mbps to be "legit") with DSL "lifetime" pricing in lieu of the never-ending expiring promo game at 200mbps "inert" folks clearly don't r... bothandeach, 5/17/2019 4:10:47 PM Huawei vs. Trump & the Casualties of War Re: Huawei: Trump Trump must go ASAP for the good of the USA and the World optical Mike, 5/17/2019 1:45:47 PM Trump Clears the Way for a Huawei Ban Re: Re: Comment from Huawei (via its US PR firm) Huawei should have been banned years ago, their lack of business ethics and policy of outright theft of intellectual property to be passed off as their own is unparalleled. MindCommerce, 5/17/2019 12:08:25 PM Android App Developers Get '5G Mode' Re: Use Case for this Capability? Testing? Is the use case for this capability only testing? Any other purpose? Gabriel Brown, 5/17/2019 4:54:54 AM 5G Car Crash Looms for Telecom Industry Re: Re: Chief Paleontologist I tend to agree with James that the headline is inflammatory. A "car crash" seems an unlikely scenario for the telecom industry. There isn't evidence in this direction. Some challenges? Yes, for sure. Like always. On consumer... hycsystembella, 5/17/2019 2:15:44 AM Lightconnect Unveils MEMS VOA Re: MEMS Optical Switch&MCS HYC Co.,Ltd（HYC), an industry-leading manufacturer of optical component, announced a 1×N MEMS optical switch, MEMS optical switch module, and MCS module,based on a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) tech... brooks7, 5/16/2019 7:43:46 PM 5G Car Crash Looms for Telecom Industry Re: Re: Chief Paleontologist @James_B_Crawshaw So, is it your opinion that Cell Phone bills are going to go up with the deployment of 5G? Otherwise, it is unclear to me how money gets made. 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