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News & Views Most Popular Cloud-Native Router Startup DriveNets Banks $110M, Takes On Cisco et al. By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 2/15/2019 Vendor already has Tier 1 traction, a founder with track record of disruption, the backing of Bessemer and has Cisco, Juniper, Huawei and Nokia in its sights. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Sterling Perrin This company has found the right spot where white box is appealing for telecom... Eurobites: Prosecutors Name Former BT Execs in Global Services Fraud Probe By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 2/14/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Brussels busy on digital commerce, copyright laws; Nokia plans AI hubs; the app that tracks Saudi women. Post a Comment \| Read (0) MWC 2019: 5G's AI Power Struggle By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 2/14/2019 5G will usher in an AI power struggle between the mobile operators and the web services giants, predicts Aditya Kaul, research director focused on artificial intelligence and robotics at Tractica. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: DavidSanders Maybe the safest way to make a poor argument is to make it so convoluted and... Advertisement Cisco: Service Provider Revenue Shrinks, Overall Revenue Grows By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 2/13/2019 Everything's looking great, says Cisco. Let's just not talk about the service provider business. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst: How Open Source Stopped Being 'Scary' By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 2/13/2019 Red Hat's boss on how open source enables innovation and the cloud, disrupts IT, and might make the world better. Also: Will the IBM acquisition threaten Red Hat's unique culture? Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Ireland's eir Plows €500M Into Fixed-Line Network By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 2/13/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: TIM collaborates with Corning; Tele2's Q4; prepaid mobile in developing economies; Kudelski forges IoT partnership. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Ericsson, Intel Combine on Software-Defined Infrastructure for 5G By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 2/12/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: US Secretary of State Pompeo pummels Huawei in Hungary; Nokia offers IoT-in-a-box; Allison Kirkby joins BT board; how to monitor your smart baby. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement MWC 2019: 5G & the Capex Question By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 2/11/2019 With 2019 set to be the year when 5G really starts to shift from slideware to the network, the head of Ovum's European telecoms team, Dario Talmesio, talks about the impact on carrier capex. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Unified Office CEO: Would You Like Extra Services With That VoIP? By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 2/11/2019 CEO Ray Pasquale isn't in the VoIP business to lower the price of phone calls. He wants to give small businesses everything they need to know – from network analytics to pizza topping preferences – on one screen. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Charter Might Paint Its Home Gateways & Devices 'Prpl' By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 2/7/2019 MSO said to be giving serious consideration to open source software stack amid discussions on how to establish a degree of coexistence between Prpl and RDK-B. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Podcast: Tacos, Telcos & Trouble By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 2/7/2019 T-Mobile is giving its customers a free taco every week. Should it also give them a roll of toilet paper? Also, and completely unrelated, what if Huawei does invent a must-have device for 5G networks – and we can't buy it in the US? Post a Comment \| Read (0) Analyst on Why CES Left a 'Bad Taste' By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 2/6/2019 Aditya Kaul, research director focused on artificial intelligence and robotics at Tractica, returned from CES with a 'bad taste' left by an overload of gimmicks and lack of substance. Post a Comment \| Read (0) TalkTalk's OSS Rationalization By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 2/6/2019 Heavy Reading's James Crawshaw talks to the team at UK operator TalkTalk about their efforts to revamp their all-important support systems. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Virgin Media, Arris Test 8-Gig Symmetrical Speeds By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 2/5/2019 Trial to involve about 50 homes will use Arris E6000 chassis outfitted with 10-Gig EPON line card and DOCSIS-based provisioning. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner Virgin Media also posted a promo video about the project. It's heavy on the... Eurobites: Beeline Beefs Up BSS With Amdocs in Russia By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 2/5/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: VEON to buy remaining shares in GTH subsidiary; Zain taps Nokia's massive MIMO; Danes expel Huawei pair. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Why Ericsson Is Joining the ORAN Alliance By Iain Morris, International Editor, 2/4/2019 The ORAN Alliance is supposed to be about ending the dominance of the big kit vendors in the radio access network. So why has the Swedish equipment giant just become a member? Post a Comment \| Read (0) Nokia Plots Job Cuts Outside Europe By Iain Morris, International Editor, 2/1/2019 Finnish equipment maker is trying to reduce annual costs to hit profitability targets for the 2020 fiscal year. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Fade to Black: UltraViolet to Shut Its Digital Locker on July 31 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 1/31/2019 New options and 'market factors' lead to decision to shut down UltraViolet as studio-backed Movies Anywhere service gains traction with digital retailers and pay-TV operators. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Nokia CEO Warns of Sluggish 5G Growth in 2019 By Iain Morris, International Editor, 1/31/2019 Nokia finishes the 2018 year on a high note but warns of a slow first quarter and a 'flattish' market this year among ongoing 5G challenges. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Denmark's Stofa Offers Glimpse of the Future HFC Network By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 1/30/2019 Danish cable operator teams with Arris on what's billed as one of the largest distributed access architecture deployments, involving 'hundreds' of remote PHY fiber nodes. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive MWC 2019: 5G's AI Power Struggle By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 2/14/2019 5G will usher in an AI power struggle between the mobile operators and the web services giants, predicts Aditya Kaul, research director focused on artificial intelligence and robotics at Tractica. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: DavidSanders Maybe the safest way to make a poor argument is to make it so convoluted and... Cloud-Native Router Startup DriveNets Banks $110M, Takes On Cisco et al. 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Steve Belgraver, 1/26/2019 4:55:00 PM Ericsson Sees Light at End of Digital Services Tunnel Re: consistently accurate billing remains very hard Ericsson's failure to make Revenue Manager a viable service is reminiscent of Vodafone's Global Enterprise's (VGE) desire of having its own Telecom Expense Management (TEM) capability when it bought Quickcomm... GypsumFantastic, 1/25/2019 12:57:26 PM Eurobites: Telefónica Confirms Talks to Offload Central American Operations Re: Vodafone UK's cull The latest Vodafone redundancies are much more than the Glasgow call centre. Also various technology staff there and technology staff in other UK offices being told Newbury or you're out. A very ruthless cull with poor terms... richardpole1, 1/22/2019 8:53:56 AM The Leading Lights Awards Are Back! Re: Great content Saved to my job umbro tel, 1/21/2019 4:56:26 AM Nokia Targets 1,330 Job Cuts in Europe Re: Re: Time to cut Rajeev Suri? What has he accomplished so far??? 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