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Top News & Views All News & Views AT&T on Track With 5G, Starts FirstNet Build By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 4/25/2018 AT&T executives said Wednesday the operator plans to be the mobile 5G leader in the US, and will spend five years fully building out the FirstNet LTE network in the ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Six Key Takeaways From Facebook's Q1 Earnings Call By Mitch Wagner, Mitch Wagner, Editor, Enterprise Cloud, Light Reading, 4/25/2018 Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook leaders used the company's earnings call Wednesday to defend its ad-supported business model, saying it helps Facebook improve ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: DanJones Well doesn't this say it all? AI has proven more readily able to detect... Google Partners Compete on Ease of Cloud Connections By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 4/25/2018 Google's new Partner Interconnect service, launched this week, means all the major cloud operators are now doing their own form of direct connection to a host of ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement New Data on Pole Prices Power 5G Debate By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 4/25/2018 As part of the working group efforts within the FCC's Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC), one subcommittee has collected data on telecom pole attachment ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) US Investigating Huawei for Sanctions Violations – Report By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 4/25/2018 Huawei is, once again, the subject of some unwanted US government attention. Post a Comment \| Read (6 comments) Latest Comment: Phil Harvey True, but we're reporting the investigation, so we do owe them right of reply.... ACG Survey: Security Top Automation Worry By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 4/25/2018 Service providers of all stripes are moving rapidly to automate their networks, says one global study, but perhaps surprisingly, security is one of their major ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast Romps With Subs Gains, Sky Bid By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 4/25/2018 Despite mounting video and voice subscriber losses, the Comcast growth engine just keeps purring along as the company ramps up its pursuit of UK satellite TV king Sky. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Vodafone-Liberty Merger Doubtful in Germany, Says Analyst By Iain Morris, News Editor, 4/25/2018 Telecom alpha males Vittorio Colao and Timotheus Höttges looked ready for a cage fight at Mobile World Congress, amid reports that Colao's Vodafone could try to merge ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Clifton K Morris I can see why DT would be apprehensive to allow Vodafone access to physical... It's Miller Time: Light Reading's Hall of Fame Poll Is Now Open By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 4/25/2018 Ilissa Miller, Founder and CEO of iMiller Public Relations, is aiming to be the first public relations executive to land in Light Reading's Hall of Fame. (See Light ... Post a Comment \| Read (7 comments) Latest Comment: Kevin Mitchell Where is the Hall of Fame? Can we visit it? Seriously, though do you... Eurobites: Comcast Formalizes £22B Sky Bid By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 4/25/2018 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. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jesigne This is great news for the industry. Can't wait to how it goes! Telstra's Programmable Network Sidesteps a Slippery Slope By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 4/25/2018 Telstra's Jim Fagan explains how service providers can apply lessons learned about automation in the cloud to delivering more automation in their networks. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Hollywood Producer Talks Cosby, Caution & Cable By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 4/25/2018 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. Post a Comment \| Read (0) No Containers Yet? No Worries By Roz Roseboro, Principal Analyst – Cloud Infrastructure & Management, Heavy Reading, 4/25/2018 Containers were the darling of 2017, positioned as the answer to all questions about anything software related. Google uses them so they must be great, right? Post a Comment \| Read (0) Bharti Infratel, Indus Towers Merge to Form $14.6B Giant By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 4/25/2018 Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers are merging to create the world's second-largest towers company, with more than a third of the country's total number of towers. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Fierce Competition Batters Airtel Profits Again By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 4/25/2018 India's Bharti Airtel has suffered a 78% plunge in net profit for the quarter ending March 2018 due to intense competition in India's mobile market and adverse ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Google Launching G Suite 'Confidential Mode,' Including Self-Destructing Email By Mitch Wagner, Mitch Wagner, Editor, Enterprise Cloud, Light Reading, 4/25/2018 Google is introducing an array of new security features for G Suite email, as well as consumer Gmail, including the ability to delete messages you've already sent, ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Alphabet Splashes $7.7B on Capex Spree By Mitch Wagner, Mitch Wagner, Editor, Enterprise Cloud, Light Reading, 4/24/2018 Google's parent company, Alphabet, smashed its piggy-bank to spend $7.7 billion on capital investments in the first quarter of 2018, up from $2.4 billion ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: mehdi1973us Alphabet have a very innovated R&D and slaes and marketing system. The Telecoms.com Podcast: Come Together? By Light Reading, 4/24/2018 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. Post a Comment \| Read (0) How Will SPs Adapt to SD-WAN 3.0? By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 4/24/2018 SD-WAN emerged as a way for enterprise and SMB customers to cut network costs. But the real benefits of SD-WAN are "network flexibility or redundancy, dynamic ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Verizon Targets OTT Video at 5G Markets By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 4/24/2018 Despite speculation to the contrary, don't expect to see Verizon launch a new full-fledged OTT video service until it starts rolling out residential 5G in a few ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: DanJones I bet they'll ramp the hell out of rollout in 2019, especially if they make... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive AT&T on Track With 5G, Starts FirstNet Build By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 4/25/2018 AT&T executives said Wednesday the operator plans to be the mobile 5G leader in the US, and will spend five years fully building out the FirstNet LTE network in the ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Six Key Takeaways From Facebook's Q1 Earnings Call By Mitch Wagner, Mitch Wagner, Editor, Enterprise Cloud, Light Reading, 4/25/2018 Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook leaders used the company's earnings call Wednesday to defend its ad-supported business model, saying it helps Facebook improve ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: DanJones Well doesn't this say it all? AI has proven more readily able to detect... Google Partners Compete on Ease of Cloud Connections By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 4/25/2018 Google's new Partner Interconnect service, launched this week, means all the major cloud operators are now doing their own form of direct connection to a host of ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) New Data on Pole Prices Power 5G Debate By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 4/25/2018 As part of the working group efforts within the FCC's Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC), one subcommittee has collected data on telecom pole attachment ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) US Investigating Huawei for Sanctions Violations – Report By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 4/25/2018 Huawei is, once again, the subject of some unwanted US government attention. Post a Comment \| Read (6 comments) Latest Comment: Phil Harvey True, but we're reporting the investigation, so we do owe them right of reply.... ACG Survey: Security Top Automation Worry By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 4/25/2018 Service providers of all stripes are moving rapidly to automate their networks, says one global study, but perhaps surprisingly, security is one of their major ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast Romps With Subs Gains, Sky Bid By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 4/25/2018 Despite mounting video and voice subscriber losses, the Comcast growth engine just keeps purring along as the company ramps up its pursuit of UK satellite TV king Sky. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Vodafone-Liberty Merger Doubtful in Germany, Says Analyst By Iain Morris, News Editor, 4/25/2018 Telecom alpha males Vittorio Colao and Timotheus Höttges looked ready for a cage fight at Mobile World Congress, amid reports that Colao's Vodafone could try to merge ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Clifton K Morris I can see why DT would be apprehensive to allow Vodafone access to physical... It's Miller Time: Light Reading's Hall of Fame Poll Is Now Open By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 4/25/2018 Ilissa Miller, Founder and CEO of iMiller Public Relations, is aiming to be the first public relations executive to land in Light Reading's Hall of Fame. (See Light ... Post a Comment \| Read (7 comments) Latest Comment: Kevin Mitchell Where is the Hall of Fame? Can we visit it? Seriously, though do you... Eurobites: Comcast Formalizes £22B Sky Bid By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 4/25/2018 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. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jesigne This is great news for the industry. Can't wait to how it goes! Telstra's Programmable Network Sidesteps a Slippery Slope By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 4/25/2018 Telstra's Jim Fagan explains how service providers can apply lessons learned about automation in the cloud to delivering more automation in their networks. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Hollywood Producer Talks Cosby, Caution & Cable By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 4/25/2018 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. Post a Comment \| Read (0) No Containers Yet? No Worries By Roz Roseboro, Principal Analyst – Cloud Infrastructure & Management, Heavy Reading, 4/25/2018 Containers were the darling of 2017, positioned as the answer to all questions about anything software related. Google uses them so they must be great, right? Post a Comment \| Read (0) Bharti Infratel, Indus Towers Merge to Form $14.6B Giant By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 4/25/2018 Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers are merging to create the world's second-largest towers company, with more than a third of the country's total number of towers. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Fierce Competition Batters Airtel Profits Again By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 4/25/2018 India's Bharti Airtel has suffered a 78% plunge in net profit for the quarter ending March 2018 due to intense competition in India's mobile market and adverse ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Google Launching G Suite 'Confidential Mode,' Including Self-Destructing Email By Mitch Wagner, Mitch Wagner, Editor, Enterprise Cloud, Light Reading, 4/25/2018 Google is introducing an array of new security features for G Suite email, as well as consumer Gmail, including the ability to delete messages you've already sent, ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Alphabet Splashes $7.7B on Capex Spree By Mitch Wagner, Mitch Wagner, Editor, Enterprise Cloud, Light Reading, 4/24/2018 Google's parent company, Alphabet, smashed its piggy-bank to spend $7.7 billion on capital investments in the first quarter of 2018, up from $2.4 billion ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: mehdi1973us Alphabet have a very innovated R&D and slaes and marketing system. The Telecoms.com Podcast: Come Together? By Light Reading, 4/24/2018 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. Post a Comment \| Read (0) How Will SPs Adapt to SD-WAN 3.0? By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 4/24/2018 SD-WAN emerged as a way for enterprise and SMB customers to cut network costs. But the real benefits of SD-WAN are "network flexibility or redundancy, dynamic ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Verizon Targets OTT Video at 5G Markets By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 4/24/2018 Despite speculation to the contrary, don't expect to see Verizon launch a new full-fledged OTT video service until it starts rolling out residential 5G in a few ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: DanJones I bet they'll ramp the hell out of rollout in 2019, especially if they make... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Virtuapedia Indexes The Future of Virtualization Index project provides CSPs with a clear and concise set of benchmarks to measure their progress in the migration to virtualized networks using a series of surveys involving more than three dozen of the world's most important CSPs. Message Boards jacobhill, 4/26/2018 1:11:12 AM OpenDaylight Expands 2015 Internship Program Re: Re: Education Our qualified team with its all the efforts work out on the requirements that you have provided and make the effective use of their research and writing skills. Our every dissertation writer is capable of producing quality... Michelle, 4/25/2018 10:29:42 PM Google & Netflix Launch 'Kayenta' for Cloud-Scale Continuous Software Delivery Re: Re: Full speed I hadn't thought of it that way, but you're right. It feels as though nobody is paying attention to update results. TV Monitor, 4/25/2018 8:58:26 PM Verizon Preps Fixed 5G but Mobile Gigabit-Speed Downloads May Not Arrive Until 2019 Re: Re: 1st 5G phones in 1H19 There are "multiple" variants of X50 chipset, some does Sub 6 Ghz only, some does both Sub-6 Ghz and 28 Ghz. I too was shocked to find out about this. Anyhow, the X50 won't be available to OEMs until next year, so it takes... DanJones, 4/25/2018 8:09:10 PM Verizon Preps Fixed 5G but Mobile Gigabit-Speed Downloads May Not Arrive Until 2019 Re: Re: 1st 5G phones in 1H19 Checked with Qualcomm for another story I'm working on, 28Ghz & sub6 smartphone support in first wave of Qualcomm chipsets not 1H 2020 DanJones, 4/25/2018 8:05:21 PM Six Key Takeaways From Facebook's Q1 Earnings Call Re: AI Well doesn't this say it all? AI has proven more readily able to detect nudity than hate speech. "It's easier to build an AI system that can detect a nipple than what is linguistically hate speech," Zuckerberg said. Zuck... Phil Harvey, 4/25/2018 6:16:38 PM US Investigating Huawei for Sanctions Violations – Report Re: Re: Weird True, but we're reporting the investigation, so we do owe them right of reply. And, of course, they can't/won't say much given the stakes, but we will always ask. rocket101, 4/25/2018 6:06:22 PM US Investigating Huawei for Sanctions Violations – Report Re: Re: Weird Huawei's reply is NOT needed. Are they buying components from US vendors and selling the telecom gear/phones to IRAN? If yes, than they are in violation of US sanctions policy. You can defend Chinese vendors, but truth needs... DanJones, 4/25/2018 5:53:16 PM US Investigating Huawei for Sanctions Violations – Report Re: Re: Weird Or that the govt. should ban Facebook! Hahahaha. Phil Harvey, 4/25/2018 4:29:33 PM US Investigating Huawei for Sanctions Violations – Report Re: Re: Weird I included the quote because I did find it both fascinating and really far-reaching. As ever with this sort of thing, American companies can be guilty of all the things he's listed, but they'll get a pass. Also, a programming... mendyk, 4/25/2018 4:10:39 PM US Investigating Huawei for Sanctions Violations – Report Re: Weird "equipment [that] can allow hostile foreign powers to inject viruses and other malware, steal Americans' private data, spy on US businesses, and more" -- I don't know the context of this quote from Chairman Pai, but on the... rocket101, 4/25/2018 3:20:12 PM US Investigating Huawei for Sanctions Violations – Report Re: Where are the Huawei Supporters arguing US is afraid of Competition? Where are the Huawei Supporters arguing US is afraid of Competition? Also, Lightreading author Iain Morris articles about Huawei acheivements? What do you have to say now? Please speak up. If the news is... TV Monitor, 4/25/2018 2:55:44 PM Verizon Preps Fixed 5G but Mobile Gigabit-Speed Downloads May Not Arrive Until 2019 Re: Re: 1st 5G phones in 1H19 Yes, the Galaxy S10 5G edition due out in March 2019 to coincide with the Korean 5G launch. This will be the only phone compatible with 28 Ghz 5G until 2020, since 5G phones using Qualcomm's 28 Ghz X50 won't hit markets... Clifton K Morris, 4/25/2018 2:46:36 PM Vodafone-Liberty Merger Doubtful in Germany, Says Analyst Re: Huge issue to legacy networks I can see why DT would be apprehensive to allow Vodafone access to physical network infrastructure throughout Germany. Cable technology's speeds and upcoming technology in assymetrical DOCSIS 3.1 (perhaps it will be called... Kevin Mitchell, 4/25/2018 2:07:40 PM It's Miller Time: Light Reading's Hall of Fame Poll Is Now Open Re: HoF Where is the Hall of Fame? Can we visit it? Seriously, though do you have a page of all time inductees? mendyk, 4/25/2018 1:57:12 PM Google & Netflix Launch 'Kayenta' for Cloud-Scale Continuous Software Delivery Re: Re: Full speed It's almost like Microsoft has outsourced its update operations to Homer J. Simpson LLC. No matter how smart tech companies think they are, they are prone to fall into the same efficiency traps as legacy businesses. Michelle, 4/25/2018 1:52:00 PM Google & Netflix Launch 'Kayenta' for Cloud-Scale Continuous Software Delivery Re: Re: Full speed I think you may be right. Time spent troubleshooting problems after an update is on the uptick. Not every update is trouble, but the ones that are take up far too much time for users. It's a sad state of affairs, really. Jesigne, 4/25/2018 12:25:33 PM IBM's Bouncing Back – Why the Stock Drop? Re: Never easy Well it's definitely never easy to anticipate the movement of stock. I guess we always can find something to explain the drop afterwards. In France, we call that the breaking bad effect...because Internet value always turn... Jesigne, 4/25/2018 11:35:39 AM Leading Lights 2017: The Winners Re: Re: Double Threat Guys - - AT&T - - The Power of & Congratulation to Casix. It's definitely a great job! In french we say " changer de vie " to congrat someone! Jesigne, 4/25/2018 11:18:05 AM Eurobites: Comcast Formalizes £22B Sky Bid Re: Great news! This is great news for the industry. Can't wait to how it goes! Jesigne, 4/25/2018 11:15:20 AM It's Miller Time: Light Reading's Hall of Fame Poll Is Now Open Re: Re: Oversight? Yes, I hope too. Phil Harvey, 4/25/2018 11:05:18 AM It's Miller Time: Light Reading's Hall of Fame Poll Is Now Open Re: Re: Stupid question https://www.imillerpr.com/about-us/who-we-are/ilissa-miller Duh!, 4/25/2018 11:01:24 AM It's Miller Time: Light Reading's Hall of Fame Poll Is Now Open Re: Stupid question Who is Ilissa Miller? mendyk, 4/25/2018 10:23:20 AM It's Miller Time: Light Reading's Hall of Fame Poll Is Now Open Re: Re: Oversight? Yeah, Zuckster is the obvious poster manchild for data abuse in general. It's just that he's like a tech Kardashian - I think we've seen enough of him for a long while. Phil Harvey, 4/25/2018 10:04:55 AM It's Miller Time: Light Reading's Hall of Fame Poll Is Now Open Re: Re: Oversight? My fav thing about him is that El Reg refers to him as "data-slurp boffin Aleksandr Kogan." Also, he's not in the poll but he might be in the discussion overall. I think Zuck's a better pick for his overall Zuck-i-ness,... mendyk, 4/25/2018 9:42:21 AM It's Miller Time: Light Reading's Hall of Fame Poll Is Now Open Re: Oversight? I was hoping that Aleksandr Kogan would have made the nominee list. There's always next year. mendyk, 4/25/2018 8:47:27 AM Telco Journey to Cloud-Native: We Want What They've Got Re: Re: Destinations There's a Tir Na Nog near the bus station in NYC. Also one near the train station. 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Advancing the Telco Cloud: Q&A With VMware's Shekar Ayyar

Light Reading founder Steve Saunders talks with VMware's Shekar Ayyar, who explains why cloud architectures are becoming more distributed, what that means for workloads, and why telcos can still be significant cloud services players.

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A CSP's digital transformation involves so much more than technology. Crucial – and often most challenging – is the cultural transformation that goes along with it. As Sigma's Chief Technology Officer, Catherine Michel has extensive experience with technology as she leads the company's entire product portfolio and strategy. But she's also no stranger to merging technology and culture, having taken a company — Tribold — from inception to acquisition (by Sigma in 2013), and she continues to advise service providers on how to drive their own transformations. This impressive female leader and vocal advocate for other women in the industry will join Women in Comms for a live radio show to discuss all things digital transformation, including the cultural transformation that goes along with it.

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