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Top News & Views All News & Views Just 29,000 5G Devices Have Been Sold in the US (So Far) By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/19/2019 According to new figures from BayStreet Research, 5G phones aren't exactly flying off the shelves. Post a Comment Crown Castle Hires Google Lobbyist to Boost DC Efforts By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/19/2019 Tower and small cell company Crown Castle moved to bolster its Beltway firepower with the addition of a new chief lobbyist who hails from Google and Microsoft. Post a Comment Australian Telcos Demand Cuts in 'Unsustainable' NBN Prices By Robert Clark, 8/19/2019 Australia's state-backed national wholesale network charges too much and provides shoddy service, say critics. Post a Comment Advertisement Dish Fiber Leads With Managed WiFi By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/19/2019 Dish has accelerated its pursuit of apartment service deals with a new offering that matches raw connectivity with a managed, property-wide WiFi network, IPTV services and, later, IoT capabilities. Post a Comment 'AT&T TV' Streams Into 10 Test Markets By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/19/2019 Billed as a 'Televisionary' offering, AT&T's new pay-TV streaming service features five tiers, paired with a 500-hour cloud DVR and access to a large VoD library. Post a Comment Eurobites: Three UK Plugs In 5G Home Broadband Service By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 8/19/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: KCOM acquisition finalized; Telia issues Russian spying disclaimer; France's digital tax feels the heat in Washington. Post a Comment US Component Makers Should Plan for Life Without Huawei By Iain Morris, News Editor, 8/19/2019 Harsh weekend words from Trump and prolonged uncertainty will spur the Chinese equipment maker as it tries to become more self-reliant. Its US suppliers should plan accordingly. Post a Comment Advertisement Did Altice Change Its Tune on Buying Spectrum? By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/16/2019 Altice said it wants to buy C-Band spectrum, which appears to represent a bit of a change from the company's previous strategy. Post a Comment Podcast: Where Does OTT TV Go Now? By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 8/16/2019 It's going to take some televisionary moves for pay-TV providers and big studio owners like AT&T to sort out what consumers want, how to package it and what to call it. Post a Comment Dish's CEO to Boost Dealers: 'We Want to Change the Way the World Communicates' By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/16/2019 The CEO of Dish Network is urging Sprint's Boost dealers to stick around with the brand while Dish works to acquire the business from Sprint. Post a Comment Mobileum Parachutes Into 'New Ballgame' With $70M WeDo Takeover By Iain Morris, International Editor, 8/16/2019 Private equity-backed roaming and security specialist has a new line-up of senior executives to manage a business that has just doubled in size. Post a Comment Eurobites: The Lost Towers of Nigeria By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 8/16/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ireland takes a closer look at Verizon Media's cookies; EU and Apple prepare for September showdown over tax bill; Sky trumpets addressable TV. Post a Comment Here's What Trump's Huawei Ban Cost US Firms in Q2 By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/16/2019 Several US companies put a dollar amount on the losses they incurred from President Trump's Huawei ban. Here's the tally. Post a Comment WiCipedia: Using Tech for Good, the Scully Effect & Google's Clock Is Ticking By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 8/16/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Coding school teaches kids to help others with tech; '90s TV reigns supreme even in the everything-automated age; computer science programs may have more accountability soon; and more. Post a Comment VMware to Acquire Veriflow for Network Monitoring By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/16/2019 Another acquisition in a summer of deals to beef up VMware's networking toolkit. Post a Comment China Operators Woo Newcomer CBN for 5G Alliance By Robert Clark, 8/16/2019 China's big mobile operators see the country's unlikely 5G new entrant as a prospective partner. Post a Comment Cisco Lays Off 488 By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/16/2019 The company seems to be making adjustments in the face of a disappointing quarterly projection; in addition to the layoffs it's also hiring, and shut down development in an emerging cable data networking technology. Post a Comment Is the Worst Over for US Pay-TV? By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/15/2019 As the rate of US video subscriber losses accelerated to a record high in Q2, a top analyst wonders if those losses are about to slow down and stabilize. Post a Comment Orange's Isch on Keeping SD-WAN Secure & Simple By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 8/15/2019 In a recent podcast with Light Reading, John Isch discusses how Orange 'co-innovates' with SD-WAN customers, and shares several case studies on what this process looks like by describing collaborations with its SD-WAN customers Siemens and Sony. Post a Comment Reliance Jio Plans Major NB-IoT Launch in India in Jan. 2020 By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 8/15/2019 The operator plans to have at least a billion IoT devices operating on the network within 2 years. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Just 29,000 5G Devices Have Been Sold in the US (So Far) By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/19/2019 According to new figures from BayStreet Research, 5G phones aren't exactly flying off the shelves. Post a Comment Crown Castle Hires Google Lobbyist to Boost DC Efforts By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/19/2019 Tower and small cell company Crown Castle moved to bolster its Beltway firepower with the addition of a new chief lobbyist who hails from Google and Microsoft. Post a Comment Australian Telcos Demand Cuts in 'Unsustainable' NBN Prices By Robert Clark, 8/19/2019 Australia's state-backed national wholesale network charges too much and provides shoddy service, say critics. Post a Comment Dish Fiber Leads With Managed WiFi By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/19/2019 Dish has accelerated its pursuit of apartment service deals with a new offering that matches raw connectivity with a managed, property-wide WiFi network, IPTV services and, later, IoT capabilities. Post a Comment 'AT&T TV' Streams Into 10 Test Markets By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/19/2019 Billed as a 'Televisionary' offering, AT&T's new pay-TV streaming service features five tiers, paired with a 500-hour cloud DVR and access to a large VoD library. Post a Comment Eurobites: Three UK Plugs In 5G Home Broadband Service By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 8/19/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: KCOM acquisition finalized; Telia issues Russian spying disclaimer; France's digital tax feels the heat in Washington. Post a Comment US Component Makers Should Plan for Life Without Huawei By Iain Morris, News Editor, 8/19/2019 Harsh weekend words from Trump and prolonged uncertainty will spur the Chinese equipment maker as it tries to become more self-reliant. Its US suppliers should plan accordingly. Post a Comment Did Altice Change Its Tune on Buying Spectrum? By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/16/2019 Altice said it wants to buy C-Band spectrum, which appears to represent a bit of a change from the company's previous strategy. Post a Comment Podcast: Where Does OTT TV Go Now? By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 8/16/2019 It's going to take some televisionary moves for pay-TV providers and big studio owners like AT&T to sort out what consumers want, how to package it and what to call it. Post a Comment Dish's CEO to Boost Dealers: 'We Want to Change the Way the World Communicates' By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/16/2019 The CEO of Dish Network is urging Sprint's Boost dealers to stick around with the brand while Dish works to acquire the business from Sprint. Post a Comment Mobileum Parachutes Into 'New Ballgame' With $70M WeDo Takeover By Iain Morris, International Editor, 8/16/2019 Private equity-backed roaming and security specialist has a new line-up of senior executives to manage a business that has just doubled in size. Post a Comment Eurobites: The Lost Towers of Nigeria By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 8/16/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ireland takes a closer look at Verizon Media's cookies; EU and Apple prepare for September showdown over tax bill; Sky trumpets addressable TV. Post a Comment Here's What Trump's Huawei Ban Cost US Firms in Q2 By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/16/2019 Several US companies put a dollar amount on the losses they incurred from President Trump's Huawei ban. Here's the tally. Post a Comment WiCipedia: Using Tech for Good, the Scully Effect & Google's Clock Is Ticking By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 8/16/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Coding school teaches kids to help others with tech; '90s TV reigns supreme even in the everything-automated age; computer science programs may have more accountability soon; and more. Post a Comment VMware to Acquire Veriflow for Network Monitoring By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/16/2019 Another acquisition in a summer of deals to beef up VMware's networking toolkit. Post a Comment China Operators Woo Newcomer CBN for 5G Alliance By Robert Clark, 8/16/2019 China's big mobile operators see the country's unlikely 5G new entrant as a prospective partner. Post a Comment Cisco Lays Off 488 By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/16/2019 The company seems to be making adjustments in the face of a disappointing quarterly projection; in addition to the layoffs it's also hiring, and shut down development in an emerging cable data networking technology. Post a Comment Is the Worst Over for US Pay-TV? By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/15/2019 As the rate of US video subscriber losses accelerated to a record high in Q2, a top analyst wonders if those losses are about to slow down and stabilize. Post a Comment Orange's Isch on Keeping SD-WAN Secure & Simple By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 8/15/2019 In a recent podcast with Light Reading, John Isch discusses how Orange 'co-innovates' with SD-WAN customers, and shares several case studies on what this process looks like by describing collaborations with its SD-WAN customers Siemens and Sony. Post a Comment Reliance Jio Plans Major NB-IoT Launch in India in Jan. 2020 By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 8/15/2019 The operator plans to have at least a billion IoT devices operating on the network within 2 years. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Altice USA Adds CuriosityStream 33 minutes ago Verizon, Charter to Speak at CBRS Alliance Launch Event in September 3 hours and 51 minutes ago The Roku Channel Tunes In 'Kids & Family' Destination 4 hours and 17 minutes ago Wurl Connects With Outside TV 4 hours and 30 minutes ago Xumo TV Gains Access to Comcast X1 Boxes, Android TV Devices 4 hours and 31 minutes ago Keysight Joins 6G Flagship Program at University of Oulu in Finland 15 hours and 26 minutes ago Mobilitie Gets $1B for 5G From Unnamed 'Foreign Investment Fund' Friday, August 16, 2019 Quickline, AirTies Team on Whole-Home WiFi Thursday, August 15, 2019 Cisco Reports $13.4B Q4 Revenue Up 6% YoY Wednesday, August 14, 2019 Common: We've Reached 100,000 People With 300Mbit/s Wireless at 1/50th the Cost of Fiber Wednesday, August 14, 2019 Infinera Reports Q2 Wednesday, August 14, 2019 Radcom Reports Q2 Wednesday, August 14, 2019 Wurl Courts New Content Deal for Samsung TV Plus Wednesday, August 14, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now CTF Protocol Serves as a Low-Level Way to Take Over Windows Machines Larry Loeb, Author, 8/16/2019 There is a protocol in Windows that has been around since the days of Windows XP, ... (1 Comment) Security Assurance Is a Long-Term & Ongoing Investment Steve Durbin, Managing Director, Information Security Forum, 8/14/2019 Establishing a business-focused security assurance program is a long-term, ... (1 Comment) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News BBWF Interview: NOS's Manuel Eanes on the Smart Home Opp for Telcos 8/19/2019 Five years ago, NOS board member Manuel Ramalho Eanes helped steer the Portuguese ... (0) BBWN Bites: Operators Get a Clue From Broadband Usage Data Before Cord-Cutters Cut Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 8/19/2019 Residential subscribers typically increase bandwidth usage exponentially in the ... (0) GO TO BROADBAND WORLD NEWS Telecom Innovators Video Showcase New 5G Network Security Threats Sigma Systems at Digital Transformation World 2019 Ciena Talks Converged Interconnect Networks at Cable ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A Secure Foundation for the ... 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MobiledgeX's Jason Hoffman: State of the Edge The 5G Connectivity Challenge Network Intelligence & Automation in Mergers & Migrations Why Telcos Need an Elastic Services Platform Why Hardware Still Matters in the SDN Era Why Is Autonomous Operations Key to Your Network Evolution? Ribbon's Kevin Riley Talks New Company Brand, Latest ... The Cumulus Networks Success Story CloudPassage Ensuring Next-Level Container Security EXFO: Next-Level Assurance Solutions & Automation EXFO: Automate or Stagnate RAD Shares Insights on Latest Developments in vCPE & ... 100GbE in Action & More at MEF17 ADLINK Talks About OCP & Next Generation Telecom ... LINX Talks Open Networking & OcNOS Nominum & Security for Small to Midsized Businesses C-V2X Is Getting Ready for Commercialization With ... Ixia Launches World’s First 400GE Testing Solutions Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs Integrate the RF Signal Chain Pluribus: SDN & Beyond Cloud, Security, AI & IoT Are Driving the Need for ... Masergy's NFV Journey Mavenir on RCS Cloud Platform & Multi-ID Keep Connected IoT Devices Under Control With Allot Metaswitch: Defining the Cloud Native Core Accelerating IP/Optical Network Visibility & Control Making 5G NR a Reality With Qualcomm Act on Your Intelligence With Amdocs aia! Making 5G New Radio (NR) a Reality Accelerating C-V2X Toward 5G for Autonomous Driving Dan Sahar of Qwilt on Open Edge Cloud Platform Nominum's Craig Sprosts on DNS & Cybersecurity Trends Versa: A Lot More Than SD-WAN SmartNICs & the Future of Network Virtualization Introducing the Next-Generation ONT (Optical Network ... A10 Networks on Service Providers' Industry Needs Check Point on Cybersecurity Accelerating Telecom Digital Transformation With Nominum DNS VeEX Test & Measurement Solutions Versa Networks' Kumar Mehta on SD-WAN Managed Services The Era of Agile Optics Has Arrived Atrinet's NetACE – Migration to NFV & SDN With ... Vodafone Live NFV Use Cases Powered by Amdocs Sonus in VellOS Mellanox Open Composable Networks Network Security Orchestration Sonus in the Cloud Sonus Strategy Netronome's Server-based Networking Platform Nexius: The Strategy & Science of Data Analytics Overture Networks NFV Solutions ECI's Elastic Network Masergy: Transforming Enterprise IT Arbor Networks on ISP Traffic Visibility ECI's LightSec: Comprehensive Cyber Security Solution ECI’s LightApps: Intelligence for Networks Service Gateway Virtual Edition SDN Management & Orchestration in the WAN Sedona Systems: Multi-Layer Applications Platform NFV – a Catalyst for Business Services Growth Telefónica: In Search of Virtual Simplicity Affirmed Networks Highlights NFV in Mobile Core Close-up on ConfD NetNumber Founder on Managing Signaling Control Tail-f, Cisco & What the Future Holds Sonus Shakes Up SD-WAN Automate, Scale & Create With Juniper's vCPE Solution Metaswitch's New CEO Martin Lund Discusses His Role ActiveVideo's Cloud Virtualization Technology Nominum on Leveraging the Power of DNS to Deliver ... Palo Alto Networks on Expanding in the Carrier/Service ... Infoblox on DNS Threat Index The Netformx Ecosystem Versa Networks on Leveraging VNFs Nuage Networks on Operationalizing SDN Mellanox's New 25/50/100Gb/s Ethernet Products Arista's CloudVision VIEW FULL VIDEO SHOWCASE Heavy Reading New Open Workgroup to Accelerate Edge Computing By Simon Stanley, 1/2/2019 Developing an open architecture for domain-specific accelerators could empower service providers to accelerate edge computing and related applications. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CORD and VCO: Paths to the Next Generation Central Office March 2019 The CORD AND VCO Report examines the NGCO phenomenon, prominently including the progress of CORD and the emergence of VCO as operator open-source reference designs See Details An SD-WAN Overview: Issues and Prospects February 2019 An SD-WAN Overview: Issues and Prospects provides an overview and reviews significant issues in relation to the emergence of SD-WAN. It looks at the meaning of SD-WAN, its major drivers and benefits, and the structure of the market and its participants – especially between software and hardware vendors and service providers (SPs). See Details The Rise of PAM4 and 64QAM: A Competitive Analysis of Optical Modules & Components February 2019 The Rise of PAM4 and 64QAM: A Competitive Analysis of Optical Modules & Components identifies key networking, optical module, and semiconductor technologies, and details their application to 25G, 100G, 200G, 400G, and 600G ports, identifying and analyzing the full spectrum of vendors developing optical modules and components. See Details All Heavy Reading Reports Prime Reading Is NFV Headed for a Cliff? Mitch Wagner , Executive Editor, Light Reading , 8/7/2019 Are telcos solving NFVs big problems or making them worse? Critics say a ... (1 Comment) A User Review of EE's 5G Network in London Gabriel Brown , Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading , 8/1/2019 Everyone's talking about 5G services, but do they measure up to the hype? We ... (1 Comment) Ericsson, Huawei & Nokia Are Facing an 'Oil Crisis' Upheaval Iain Morris , International Editor , 7/31/2019 Years of consolidation have left the global mobile network market largely in the ... (6 comments) Europe's Long Walk to 5G Iain Morris , International Editor , 7/11/2019 Europe's path to 5G is littered with regulatory and financial obstacles. But ... (2 comments) All Prime Reading