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News & Views Most Popular US Carriers Toy With 3-Year Phone Loans By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/23/2019 US wireless network operators are increasingly breaking up the cost of a new smartphone across three years, rather than two, to make the monthly payments easier for consumers to swallow. Post a Comment Comcast, Charter to Offer 5G Via Verizon MVNO By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/23/2019 Comcast's Xfinity Mobile and Charter's Spectrum Mobile MVNOs will offer Verizon's 5G service to their respective customers at some unspecified point in the future. Post a Comment VMware Splashes $4.8B on Strategic Acquisitions By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/23/2019 VMware is bolstering its developer support and security capabilities with the acquisitions of Pivotal Software and Carbon Black. Post a Comment Advertisement Guavus Takes Jio's Big Data Challenge By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 8/22/2019 Jio's competitive market, fast growth and expanding customer base present some interesting machine learning and analytics challenges for Guavus, its newly announced analytics partner. Post a Comment T-Mobile Resolves Video Throttling Issue Amid Another PR Dustup By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/21/2019 T-Mobile acknowledged that it recently resolved an issue affecting its video-throttling practice, a situation that arises amid a renewed debate around wireless operators' network-management efforts. Post a Comment Podcast: SES Networks Takes ONAP Sky-High By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/20/2019 The satellite network operator is looking to the Open Networking Automaton Platform (ONAP) to automate connecting its space-based network with terrestrial operators. 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 Advertisement OSS/BSS Market Snapshot: Half-Time Scores & Long-Term Outlook By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 8/9/2019 As a keen OSS-BSS observer, I like to parse financial disclosures to gauge the health of the market. Post a Comment Verizon Promises Cheaper 5G Phones, 'Tailored' 5G Service Plans By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/7/2019 Verizon's Ronan Dunne offered a few more hints about how Verizon will move forward in 5G in terms of pricing, phones and coverage. Post a Comment How Airtel Sri Lanka Revamped Its BSS By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 8/7/2019 For any operator, revamping an entire business support system (BSS) architecture in just six months and cutting IT opex by 80% as a result is a notable achievement. Post a Comment SES Takes ONAP to the Final Frontier By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/6/2019 SES Networks is using Amdocs to implement the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) on Microsoft Azure, to allow its telco customers to seamlessly extend to SES's satellite service. Post a Comment TM Forum on Telecom's AI Trends By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 8/5/2019 Aaron Boasman-Patel, the TM Forum's VP of AI, Customer Experience and Data, talks about the real-world uses of AI in the telecom sector. Post a Comment A10 Networks Is in Trouble: Company for Sale, CEO Leaving By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/1/2019 A10 Networks, which is struggling to develop a 5G, network security and analytics strategy, is now up for sale. And the founder and CEO is on his way out. Post a Comment Huawei Defies US Ban With 23% Lift in H1 Revenue By Robert Clark, 7/30/2019 Smartphones power the Chinese vendor's first-half results, but doubts about its operating system cloud the future. Post a Comment Podcast: The Fast-Moving World of SD-WAN By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 7/30/2019 Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser discusses the world of SD-WAN, why there are so many vendors and whether enterprise 'white glove' services are handled by butlers. Post a Comment Eurobites: GSMA Blasts Space Industry for Hogging 5G Spectrum By Iain Morris, International Editor, 7/30/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Proximus guides for 'nearly stable' results; Ooredoo sees revenues shrink; Giffgaff fined; MTS gets new board members; and more. Post a Comment Rakuten Mobile Preps for Shift From MVNO to 5G Network Operator By Robert Clark, 7/26/2019 After winning the MVNO game in Japan, Rakuten is poised to disrupt the small club of network operators. Post a Comment Explainability Is the Key to Trust in AI By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 7/22/2019 If AI is to play a role in communications network operations, a high degree of trust will be required. Explainable AI might be the route to gaining that trust. Post a Comment Eurobites: Telia Starts to Turn the Tanker Around in Q2 By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 7/18/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: BT sells historic HQ; Virgin and Sky extend content deal; Telefónica taps smart-metering tech. Post a Comment Eurobites: S&P Puts Vodafone on Creditwatch By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 7/17/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Tele2's earnings up 3% in Q2; Openet goes cloud-native for 5G; Inmarsat takeover comes under scrutiny. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Quickline, AirTies Team on Whole-Home WiFi Thursday, August 15, 2019 AT&T's Xandr Unit Taps Comscore for Targeted Ad Measurement Wednesday, August 14, 2019 Google Cloud & VMware Partner to Run VMWare Workloads on Google Cloud Monday, July 29, 2019 Ericsson Reports Q2 Sales Growth Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Three UK Builds 5G-Ready Cloud Core Network with Nokia Tuesday, July 16, 2019 EXFO Reports Fiscal Q3 Growth Thursday, July 11, 2019 Nuance Revs Up Brainy AI for Smart Speakers, Virtual Assistants Wednesday, July 10, 2019 ONAP 'Dublin' Boosts Scaleability, 5G & Deployment Tuesday, July 9, 2019 IBM Closes $34B Red Hat Acquisition Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Extreme to Buy Aerohive in $210M Deal Wednesday, June 26, 2019 Tomia Intros Cloud-Based Blockchain Settlement Platform Monday, June 24, 2019 MobiledgeX Launches Edge Navigator Tool, Pitches Developers Thursday, June 20, 2019 Netcracker, Shaw Broaden BSS/OSS Deal Thursday, June 6, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Nuclear Plant Security Compromised by Financially Motivated Insiders Larry Loeb, Author, 8/23/2019 Equipment at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine was used to mine cryptocurrency. (0) Newly Registered Domains Mean New Problems – Palo Alto Larry Loeb, Author, 8/23/2019 Why NRDs should matter to the security community. (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News Study Crashes Broadband's ARPU Party Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/22/2019 Findings from university researchers and The Wall Street Journal indicate that ... (1 Comment) FTTP or Next-Gen HFC? It's Complicated Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/21/2019 As cable operators weigh construction costs, the potential for service ... (2 comments) 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 ... Viasat: Connecting the Unconnected LotusFlare: Awesome Digital Experiences to Drive Growth Source Photonics CEO: Vertical Integration & Lean Models ... 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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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