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News & Views Most Popular Ribbon Reels in ECI, Offloads CEO By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 11/15/2019 No wonder investors have panicked – Ribbon waves goodbye to its CEO as it announces an unexpected merger with transport network equipment specialist ECI Telecom. But why? Post a Comment Eurobites: Orange Plans New West African Backbone By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/13/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Vodafone Germany tones up with Amdocs; all change at Telecom Italia; Telia/Bonnier deal gets EU approval. Post a Comment Here Are the 25 Cities Where Dish Will Probably Build 5G First By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 11/12/2019 Dish promises to build a 5G network covering at least 70% of the US population by 2023. Based on new data from Tutela, here are the cities where Dish will probably start. Post a Comment Advertisement Sprint's Roaming Fight With Shentel Heads to Arbitration By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 11/6/2019 Shentel, a Sprint affiliate, said it can't agree to new roaming terms with the operator, so they're heading into arbitration instead. According to analysts, $5 million hangs in the balance. Post a Comment What Europe's Top Telcos Are Doing with AI By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 11/6/2019 At the Telco AI Summit Europe event in London, Tractica Principal Analyst Mark Beccue talks about how some of Europe's largest telecom operators, including BT, Orange and Telecom Italia, are using AI tools to optimize network processes – and how it isn't all tied to 5G. Post a Comment BT's Domingos on the Evolution of Network Monitoring By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 11/6/2019 At the Software-Driven Operations event in London, BT's OSS Senior Solution Architect Manager José Domingos talks to Heavy Reading's James Crawshaw about the use of open source code to develop the UK operator's latest network monitoring tools. Post a Comment Altice USA Adds a Mere 14K Mobile Lines in Q3 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/6/2019 Company expects mobile sales volumes to ramp up as it extends sales of its new mobile product beyond brick-and-mortar stores to online and digital distribution channels. Post a Comment Advertisement VMware Unveils 'Project Maestro' to Speed Network Virtualization By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/5/2019 VMware wants to help telcos launch services faster in multi-cloud environments. Post a Comment Telstra's Network & IT Transformation – Becoming a Software-Centric Organization By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 10/31/2019 For the Australian incumbent, reskilling an entire workforce is the route to a successful network and IT transformation. Post a Comment Nokia Aims for Better 5G Days as Investors Panic By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/24/2019 The Finnish vendor appears to have lost its way against Huawei and Ericsson in the 5G market and is under serious pressure to prove its doubters wrong. Post a Comment Nokia Shares Nosedive 23% on 5G Woes By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/24/2019 Finnish vendor was trading at its lowest point in at least five years this morning after a gloomy update and signs it is struggling against 5G rivals. Post a Comment Vodafone Idea Plots Cloud BSS Future With Optiva By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/22/2019 The Indian operator is trying out the BSS specialist's cloud-based charging system at its commercial operations in the Punjab as part of its back-office evolution strategy. Post a Comment Startup Wants to Help ISPs Turn Smart Home Customer Care Into a Profit Center By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/21/2019 Fresh off a $9 million funding round, Sweepr aims to help its ISP partners offer customer care as a service to makers of smart home devices and appliances. Post a Comment DT's Access 4.0 Team Loses Its Cherry & Hits the Eggnog By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/21/2019 The German operator has a long list of vendors identified for its software-enabled broadband access project. What could possibly go wrong? Post a Comment From Virtualization to Containerization By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 10/21/2019 A new set of NFV challenges is emerging as operators plan the shift towards cloud-native applications and a container-based strategy. Post a Comment Eurobites: Ericsson Adds Brain-Power to Its RAN Technology By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/21/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: VEON trials 5G in Kazakhstan; T-Systems launches private cloud trial with VMware; Openet and Evergent combine on BSS. Post a Comment Broadband World Forum: What's Beyond the Fiber? By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/17/2019 I've been in Amsterdam this week at the annual Broadband World Forum event – here's what sunk into my grey matter. Post a Comment Remembering Analyst Michael Howard By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/17/2019 One of the industry's most well known and respected figures, analyst Michael Howard, has passed away. Post a Comment Ericsson Lifts Outlook as It Targets a Bigger Role in China By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/17/2019 Swedish equipment vendor expects 2020 sales to be at least 9% higher than last year's figure and has also raised guidance for profitability. Post a Comment Optiva CEO Danielle Royston Uses the Cloud to Stand Out From the Crowd By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 10/16/2019 For Royston, the path to becoming a more profitable telco starts by revitalizing the company's approach to billing, charging and business intelligence. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Ribbon Reels in ECI, Offloads CEO By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 11/15/2019 No wonder investors have panicked – Ribbon waves goodbye to its CEO as it announces an unexpected merger with transport network equipment specialist ECI Telecom. But why? Post a Comment Here Are the 25 Cities Where Dish Will Probably Build 5G First By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 11/12/2019 Dish promises to build a 5G network covering at least 70% of the US population by 2023. Based on new data from Tutela, here are the cities where Dish will probably start. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors AT&T Expands Deal With Amdocs Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Charter Connects With Plume's OpenSync Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Altice USA Revenues Inch Up to $2.44B in Q3 Tuesday, November 5, 2019 ZephyrTel Buys Accuris Networks for OSS/BSS Monday, October 28, 2019 Amdocs Announces RevenueONE for 5G Billing Monday, October 28, 2019 Netcracker, Vast Broadband Extend Deal Tuesday, October 22, 2019 Orby TV Picks Globecast for Broadcast Media Operational Services Wednesday, October 16, 2019 CSG Rolls Its BSS Into the Cloud, With Help From AWS Tuesday, October 15, 2019 Cujo AI, AirTies Broaden Their Data Deal Monday, October 14, 2019 Sweepr Rakes In $9M 'A' Round Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Deutsche Telekom Picks Netcracker for Next-Gen OSS Tuesday, October 8, 2019 OpenVault Extends, Expands WOW Deal Tuesday, October 1, 2019 U Mobile Overhauls Its BSS With Whale Cloud Tuesday, September 24, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Problems With EU Payment Security Persist Oliver Schonschek, Security Now News Analyst, 11/14/2019 Proposed new security procedures within the EU have troubled some payment service ... 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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A Secure Foundation for the ... Viasat: Connecting the Unconnected LotusFlare: Awesome Digital Experiences to Drive Growth Source Photonics CEO: Vertical Integration & Lean Models ... MobiledgeX: Who Benefits From Edge Computing? Why Is 5G Different? VMware Service Assurance: Reducing Operational ... Architect Digital-Ready Infrastructures Using SDN & NFV Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... PacketFabric: Leading the Way in Highly Scalable Network ... Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... Semtech: LoRa Technology Enabling Proven, Flexible IoT ... Versa's CEO, Kelly Ahuja: Securing & Software-Defining ... How Lumina Is Redefining SDN Aryaka's Gary Sevounts: Advantages to Consuming SD-WAN ... Calix's Shane Eleniak: How Data Analytics & Software ... 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 Prime Reading DT's Terastream: A Bigger Splash? Iain Morris , International Editor , 9/13/2018 Deutsche Telekom's once-ballyhooed Terastream initiative, which turned seven this ... (3 comments) NFV Is Down but Not Out Iain Morris , International Editor , 5/22/2018 NFV has failed to live up to the original expectations five years after it was ... (33 comments) Leading Lights 2018: The Finalists Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 4/11/2018 Light Reading is thrilled to announce the finalists for this year's Leading ... (0) Robot Wars: Telecom's Looming AI Tussle Iain Morris , International Editor , 3/14/2018 Telcos performing routine chores will be ripe for AI-based automation. But whose ... 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Meet the Execs Tapped to Build & Sell Dish's 5G Network

Dish Network last week announced it hired Marc Rouanne (of Nokia) and Stephen Bye (of Sprint) to build and sell its planned 5G network. Both executives spoke with ...