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This Olde Website: 2021

This year's trek down memory lane of the WWW takes us to Apple, Arris, Dell, Facebook and – hold onto your Santa hats! – a brief tour of Places Jeff Used to Work.

Orchestration ogler Oracle scoops up Federos

Continuing its recent spending spree, Oracle aims to expand its applications portfolio by adding AI-optimized assurance, analytics, and automation solutions from Federos.

Rural broadband report talks up fiber, funding and supply constraints

Here are five of the most interesting things I found in the NTCA's recent survey and report on broadband availability in rural America.

China Mobile gets green light for blockbuster $9B Shanghai IPO

China Mobile is moving quickly to IPO after approval from the securities regulator, paving the way for one of the telecom industry's biggest-ever floats.

India wants to do 6G

The last few days have seen senior Indian government officials, including the telecom minister, mention 6G on more than one occasion.

Consumer techies expect big digital things by 2030 – Ericsson

Survey of early AR/VR adopters finds many rubbing their virtual hands together in glee at prospect of various digital experiences in shopping malls by 2030.

Device upgrades to drive 5G growth in 2022 – Omdia

In developed markets, most devices telcos sell in 2022 will have 5G, giving them an opportunity to sell 5G plans if they add more value.

SeaChange, Triller sign merger pact

The $5 billion 'reverse merger' will enable privately owned Triller, a short-video app and content developer, to become a publicly listed company on the Nasdaq as TrillerVerz Corp.

Some 5G providers step back from CES

'After careful consideration and discussion, T-Mobile has made the difficult decision to significantly limit our in-person participation at this year's Consumer Electronics Show.'

Here's why the telecom industry is taking aim at Big Tech

For the first time ever, the six biggest Internet companies in the world accounted for more traffic in 2021 than all other Internet companies combined, according to Sandvine.

From the digital divide to 6G, top regulatory trends to watch in 2022 – Omdia

The analyst firm points to trends it says will be 'at the heart of regulatory activity' next year, including spectrum licensing, the digital divide and – yes – 6G.

What's the story? Streaming TV providers seek market stability

Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner explains the challenges that streaming TV providers face in keeping subscribers while achieving profitability.

Eurobites: Telent acquires Harlequin Group for private-networks push

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telefónica Tech brings security to CAVs; Ericsson eyeing Russia for basestation manufacturing, claims report; BT's speed guarantee found wanting.

Media, vendors rethinking in-person plans for CES 2022

Some media members and vendors worried about the latest COVID-19 variant are canceling plans to attend CES, casting a cloud over the tech industry's largest US trade show.

5G providers reject mandates for backup power at cell sites

'Planning and managing backup power resources thus requires case-by-case judgments that are not amenable to prescriptive rules,' Verizon told the FCC in a recent filing.

Disney+ moves into top tier of US streaming services

New top ten list from Parks Associates reveals significant changes as Disney+ moves into the top three of US OTT services, while HBO Max and Paramount+ also climb in the rankings.

AT&T sells Xandr to Microsoft

AT&T, which has been working to exit the media industry and shed related businesses, didn't disclose the sale price of its programmatic advertising business to Microsoft.

Most pay-TV subs take streaming services too – new survey

In its latest 'State of Cable' survey of 1,000 readers, CableTV.com found that 70% of them still subscribe to cable or satellite TV and that nearly all of them also subscribe to at least one streaming video service.

ZTE's device business poised to fire up growth

ZTE's device business could be the fire that lights up its rebound. The consumer unit grew by 67% in the first half to 12.4 billion yuan (US$1.95 billion).

The year in DOCSIS 4.0

With early lab trials, a first wave of interoperability testing and collaborations between key suppliers, DOCSIS 4.0 made significant progress in 2021, even as deployments remain well out on the horizon.

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