Also included in our late afternoon summary of news and comment: stats from the Super Bowl of Wi-Fi and Dell'Oro projects growth for the CBRS RAN market.
CableLabs, which recently merged with SCTE and is inching toward its '4Front' event in June, said it has begun a search for a new chief marketing officer amid the departure of Rachel Beisel.
Sony-led trials indicate the next-gen broadcast signaling standard can support multiple automotive applications, and be particularly useful in canyons and mountainous areas prone to bad reception.
Ligado Networks inked a memorandum of understanding to use the Rakuten Communications Platform, but Rakuten officials wouldn't describe Ligado as an RCP customer.
According to some analysts, the FCC should announce the results of the C-band auction for 5G spectrum by Friday, February 26. If that's the case, the US market for 5G ought to soon gain more clarity.
Resilience shown at the Group's enterprise segment was one of the few bright spots.
TIM Brasil starts powering down its 2G network, as its ultra broadband revenue, using equipment from China's ZTE, soars 25% in the last quarter.
The operator managed to maintain a steady course despite the pandemic, but says it is not out of the woods yet.
A sizable chunk of the Vecima's Entra-brand distributed access architecture products came way of the company's recent acquisition of Nokia's cable access business.
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Brits turn to mobile data to survive lockdown logjam; Ericsson deploys private network with Cosmote; Proximus signs up One Bill Global as MVNO.
This week in our WiC roundup: Dolly Parton is the new face of entrepreneurship; the struggle isn't over for Google's defamed AI researcher; diverse VC funds are the future of funding; and more.
The Japanese e-commerce giant has just figured out it needs 16,603 more basestations than it had originally planned.
Nearly 61% of organizations are currently using or piloting hybrid clouds, according to a new report by NTT.
Also included in our late afternoon summary of news and comment: An update on the men caught up in Huawei's crossfire, Sling TV adds a new TV bundle and Comcast launches vaccine info resources.
Meanwhile, Hulu's live TV service lost some ground, leveling out at 4 million subs, while ESPN+ grew to 12.1 million.
President Biden is planning to pen an executive order designed in part to improve the physical production of chipsets in the US. That may come as welcome news to 5G providers.
Huawei and ZTE control most of the global market for broadband access equipment and the only 'scale' alternative is Nokia.
Q4 not bad either with channel bookings accounting for more than 35% of the full-year total.
Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin gives a quick rundown of what's coming up in the optical networking space for 2021 as he previews Light Reading's Optical Networking Symposium on February 16 and 18.
Telefonica, Orange, Telus, SK Telecom, Rakuten, Taiwan Mobile, SoftBank and Optus were among the network operators that signed on to Trump's 'Clean Networks' program. Its fate is now unclear.
