News Analysis | 5/31/2023 | Post a comment With its Graviton processors, AWS is working with Nokia and other software companies to provide an architectural choice for telcos.
News Analysis | 5/30/2023 | Post a comment The hottest chipmaker in the world right now has a product for managing radio access network and AI workloads and one of Japan's biggest telcos has bitten.
News Analysis | 5/30/2023 | Post a comment Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Portuguese authorities round on Huawei; Nokia unveils new core software; Arm touts new chip designs.
News Analysis | 5/26/2023 | Post a comment Shares in both chipmakers are up as they predict untold riches thanks to a surge of interest in AI, but some are warning of a bubble.
News Analysis | 5/25/2023 | Post a comment Still alive and kicking, the special ops bit of UK telecom incumbent BT is launching a set of immersive experiences for schools and businesses.
News Analysis | 5/25/2023 | Post a comment US server maker HPE is teaming up with one of the hottest chip startups on a product that could provide much needed competition to Intel.
News Analysis | 5/24/2023 | Post a comment The UK telecom regulator has blessed BT's controversial Equinox 2 plans to lower the wholesale price of full-fiber lines.
Morris Lore | 5/23/2023 | Post a comment BT has more to gain from slashing up to 55,000 jobs than Vodafone has from cutting 11,000, and BT's plan looks more feasible.
News Analysis | 5/22/2023 | Post a comment Marc Rouanne defends his technology choices and eyes an operationally efficient network future once Dish Network's buildout is complete.
Morris Lore | 5/18/2023 | Post a comment CEO Philip Jansen expects up to 42% of existing BT roles to have disappeared by the end of the decade, thanks partly to generative AI.
News Analysis | 5/17/2023 | Post a comment Swedish vendor Ericsson's proposal for a new lower layer split is a delaying tactic or attempt to seize control of specifications, according to sources.
News Analysis | 5/16/2023 | Post a comment Chief Network Officer Marc Rouanne said the company will initially focus on energy and spectrum efficiency starting in the second half.
Morris Lore | 5/16/2023 | Post a comment Vodafone's new boss Margherita Della Valle plans to cut 11,000 jobs in three years, raising questions about the European operator's direction.
News Analysis | 5/16/2023 | Post a comment The US supplier has been selected to provide technology for up to 10,000 rural sites for one of India's biggest operators.
News Analysis | 5/15/2023 | Post a comment Rakuten and Mavenir aim to provide feature parity with traditional RAN suppliers in the coming months.
News Analysis | 5/12/2023 | Post a comment With customers complaining they cannot use services at home or on subways, Rakuten hopes access to KDDI's 'platinum' spectrum will turn around its fortunes.
News Analysis | 5/11/2023 | Post a comment The days when rampant growth in the US could be taken for granted seem to be over for Deutsche Telekom, and Europe remains a concern.
News Analysis | 5/10/2023 | Post a comment One of the world's three big greenfield open RAN projects, 1&1 has been hurt by rollout delays it blames on Vantage Towers.
News Analysis | 5/10/2023 | Post a comment Big drops in Intel's share of core markets could presage similar problems in virtual radio access networks as the industry looks for alternatives.
News Analysis | 5/5/2023 | Post a comment The big Scandi equipment makers agree on lots of things when it comes to 4G and 5G networks, but on virtualization choices they are poles apart.
News Analysis | 5/4/2023 | Post a comment Import restrictions in Pakistan and the ongoing war in Ukraine are among various challenges confronting VEON CEO Kaan Terzioğlu.
Morris Lore | 5/3/2023 | Post a comment Operators tracked by Light Reading cut nearly 58,000 jobs last year, and many roles in the telco sector could be in the crosshairs of AI.
News Analysis | 5/2/2023 | Post a comment Funds bring total raised to $350 million in less than a year and could support expansion in Europe, where Huawei is under further pressure.
News Analysis | 4/28/2023 | Post a comment Weak demand tore into sales as Intel's customers used up existing stock, and the chipmaker is spending heavily to realize its strategic ambitions.
News Analysis | 4/28/2023 | Post a comment The boss of Rakuten's telecom subsidiaries calls for a rethink of chip designs and insists he can deliver portability – provided someone is prepared to invest.
News Analysis | 4/27/2023 | Post a comment The same virtual RAN software deployed on Intel chips can now be used on AMD silicon as well, says Ericsson.
News Analysis | 4/26/2023 | Post a comment Telcos yet to make a decent return on their 5G investments are in no mood for a big splurge on the next generation.
Morris Lore | 4/24/2023 | Post a comment Swathes of the industry remain unconvinced open RAN is a fix for the big problems it originally identified.
Morris Lore | 4/21/2023 | Post a comment Tens of thousands of jobs have disappeared at AT&T since it first made its bid for Time Warner and the cuts go on.
News Analysis | 4/20/2023 | Post a comment Sales and profits grew at double-digit rates for the first quarter despite inventory adjustments in North America that affected Nokia's mobile networks unit.
News Analysis | 4/19/2023 | Post a comment Servers based on Intel's technology cost more than twice as much as proprietary kit from Ericsson and Nokia, according to EdgeQ's CEO.
News Analysis | 4/18/2023 | Post a comment Ericsson saw profits tumble on 'inventory adjustments' in North America and the costs of integrating its recent acquisitions.
News Analysis | 4/17/2023 | Post a comment After running trials with Rakuten and NEC last year, the UK operator has picked Mavenir to supply both software and radios.
News Analysis | 4/14/2023 | Post a comment The takeover of Italian developer Athonet added 5G core expertise to HPE's product line-up but raises questions about its future strategy.
Morris Lore | 4/13/2023 | Post a comment Vodafone's claim about 'decoupling' traffic growth from energy use and evidence of falling consumption by other telcos will not help those arguing Big Tech should pay network fees.
News Analysis | 4/13/2023 | Post a comment Tasked with finding new growth opportunities, Marc Overton arguably has the hardest job at the UK telecom incumbent.
Morris Lore | 4/11/2023 | Post a comment A monster report from the newly formed DSIT says neither telco covers its cost of capital while ruminating on standalone 5G, 6G and the old favorite of open RAN.
Morris Lore | 4/6/2023 | Post a comment The German telecom incumbent claims to have reduced its carbon emissions by 94% since 2017, but it depends how you measure it.
News Analysis | 4/5/2023 | Post a comment The UK arm of the telco is fighting to keep energy consumption flat, and even lower it, as data traffic mounts.
News Analysis | 4/4/2023 | Post a comment The US chipmaker reckons the RAN industry is too small to keep pace with design changes that will benefit its general-purpose processors, but not everyone is convinced.
News Analysis | 4/3/2023 | Post a comment The Chinese equipment giant hired 7,000 R&D professionals last year as it fought back against US sanctions.
News Analysis | 3/31/2023 | Post a comment After badly missing its rollout targets last year, the United Internet mobile subsidiary is under pressure.
News Analysis | 3/30/2023 | Post a comment Two antiquities of the satellite industry hope to survive the launch of newer and more sophisticated technologies by teaming up.
News Analysis | 3/29/2023 | Post a comment Open interfaces will certainly aid specialists but it's hard to see how they will necessarily bring diversity, despite what proponents and government figures say.
Morris Lore | 3/27/2023 | Post a comment The UK telecom incumbent is reportedly searching for a new boss, but it will have trouble finding one who can do any better.
Morris Lore | 3/27/2023 | Post a comment The European Union seems to be approaching the subject the way Boris Johnson approached Brexit.
News Analysis | 3/24/2023 | Post a comment After a two-year surge in sales to China, US semiconductor companies stand to lose billions in revenues as export controls are tightened.
Morris Lore | 3/23/2023 | Post a comment Lift-off for generative AI would entail huge costs and have possible ramifications for climate change.
News Analysis | 3/22/2023 | Post a comment State-of-the-art technologies have not lowered the considerable barriers to entry in the telecom sector.
News Analysis | 3/21/2023 | Post a comment Facing so many options and trade-offs, and alert to the danger of supplier lock-in, many operators have yet to be convinced about RAN virtualization.
Morris Lore | 3/20/2023 | Post a comment As Ofcom weighs intervention on BT's latest pricing plans, its own data shows that BT's rivals have made scant progress in the UK's full-fiber market.
Morris Lore | 3/17/2023 | Post a comment Allowing the Vodafone and Three merger to happen will show authorities have abandoned the 'four networks good, three networks bad' credo.
News Analysis | 3/16/2023 | Post a comment The telco championing of open RAN has not been matched by support for new entrants.
News Analysis | 3/15/2023 | Post a comment Europe's biggest economy has installed a huge amount of Chinese network equipment and dismantling it to address security concerns will not be easy.
Morris Lore | 3/15/2023 | Post a comment Marketers have already run out of road on 5G and the next generation of mobile will not do anything radically different.
News Analysis | 3/14/2023 | Post a comment Whether using Intel or rival silicon, operators face lock-in and awkward compromises everywhere they turn.
Morris Lore | 3/10/2023 | Post a comment Rory Read would have to perform miracles at Ericsson to justify another $32.76 million this year.
News Analysis | 3/9/2023 | Post a comment SK Telecom says it is trying to build an AI ecosystem in the global market, working with startups such as Phantom AI.
News Analysis | 3/8/2023 | Post a comment As it quits Russia, VEON is focused on hiring software talent and addressing 'digital' opportunities in emerging markets.
Morris Lore | 3/7/2023 | Post a comment Open RAN is not ready for widespread commercial deployment, Deutsche Telekom recently said, just as Germany weighs a Huawei ban.
News Analysis | 3/7/2023 | Post a comment Executives from US platform provider Vonage have been defending the APIs logic of Swedish vendor Ericsson's $6 billion takeover.
News Analysis | 3/6/2023 | Post a comment Optical equipment maker Ciena's order backlog is nearly four times what it was pre-pandemic, and that is neither sustainable nor desirable, says its CEO.
News Analysis | 3/6/2023 | Post a comment As public-cloud giants advance into the world of network functions, operators face some difficult choices about which hosts to use.
Morris Lore | 3/3/2023 | Post a comment The show goes on, attracting its highest number of visitors since before the pandemic, but the industry is in bad shape.
News Analysis | 3/2/2023 | Post a comment The mysterious case of the chips inside Huawei's lanyards could be an embarrassment for MWC organizers.
LRTV Interviews | 3/1/2023 | Post a comment Orange's Michaël Trabbia says the company remains confident about open RAN, which it sees as part of an overall cloud transformation of the network.
LRTV Interviews | 3/1/2023 | Post a comment BT's chief security and networks officer, Howard Watson, spoke to Light Reading about ongoing conversations around net neutrality and fair contribution, saying he welcomes Ofcom's consultation on the subject. He also addressed 5G rollout, saying it is on track.
News Analysis | 3/1/2023 | Post a comment Howard Watson dismisses talk of a 6G network overhaul and chips in on the 'fair share' debate here in Barcelona.
Morris Lore | 2/28/2023 | Post a comment The talking points on Day One of this year's MWC included a logo makeover by Nokia, APIs and the growing presence of Big Tech.
News Analysis | 2/27/2023 | Post a comment The Finnish vendor was evidently preferred over Mavenir, which figured prominently in trials, but there is a role for the US company outside Germany.
News Analysis | 2/27/2023 | Post a comment 'High-risk vendors' cut off from state-of-the-art silicon will end up with network products that are bulkier and more expensive, Tommi Uitto tells Light Reading.
News Analysis | 2/27/2023 | Post a comment The industry association is unveiling its Open Gateway initiative at this year's MWC, hoping it will spur the development of new applications for telco networks.
News Analysis | 2/27/2023 | Post a comment The US chipmaker's dominant position in the nascent open and virtualized radio access network sector is under attack from some big players.
News Analysis | 2/26/2023 | Post a comment The US software giant is preparing a code-writing GPT for network operations while taking aim at the cloud platforms built by VMware and Red Hat.
News Analysis | 2/24/2023 | Post a comment Swedish equipment maker says most cuts will happen in the first half of this year as it aims to reduce costs and protect margins.
News Analysis | 2/24/2023 | Post a comment The company building Germany's fourth mobile network says Vodafone-owned Vantage Towers is holding up its plans.
News Analysis | 2/23/2023 | Post a comment The Spanish incumbent will undoubtedly grumble at MWC about the unfairness of life, and yet its boss is well satisfied with the latest numbers.
Morris Lore | 2/22/2023 | Post a comment The chatbot that has taken the world by storm is now being assessed for use in a range of telco operations.
News Analysis | 2/21/2023 | Post a comment The German incumbent is not giving up on open RAN, but it has now comprehensively ruled out any chance of a major investment this year.
News Analysis | 2/21/2023 | Post a comment The Finnish vendor beat other RAN vendors on market share gains last year despite the emergence of several new rivals.
Morris Lore | 2/20/2023 | Post a comment The headcount reduction of 12% comes after T-Mobile's former CEO promised the deal would be 'jobs-positive' from the outset.
Morris Lore | 2/20/2023 | Post a comment Energy efficiency and environmentalism are expected to be major themes at this year's show, but swaths of the industry look dirtier than ever.
News Analysis | 2/15/2023 | Post a comment The performance-boosting technology developed by Cohere is to be made available as an app on Mavenir's RIC.
Morris Lore | 2/14/2023 | Post a comment The failure of 5G to lift telco revenues puts a company that depends on 5G network equipment sales in a very awkward position.
News Analysis | 2/13/2023 | Post a comment Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone spy an opportunity to usurp disreputable Big Tech players in the advertising ecosystem.
News Analysis | 2/13/2023 | Post a comment Fredrik Jejdling worries about technology 'bifurcation' and acknowledges that Intel's chips have narrowed the performance gap with his own silicon.
News Analysis | 2/9/2023 | Post a comment With the mobile technology now available to 60% of the UK population, BT is turning its attention to rural coverage.
Morris Lore | 2/8/2023 | Post a comment Officials come out with some meaningless comments about the single telecom market and realize national governments have been ignoring them about China.
News Analysis | 2/7/2023 | Post a comment A new waveform backed by the software company could take 6G to a hypersonic level.
News Analysis | 2/7/2023 | Post a comment The UK operator cannot afford to sit back and wait, says its chief network officer, but the technical challenges are considerable.
News Analysis | 2/6/2023 | Post a comment The US software company has seen revenues grow from just $7 million in 2020 and now boasts 30 customers worldwide, according to CEO Pardeep Kohli.
News Analysis | 2/2/2023 | Post a comment The UK telecom incumbent says it is now building and connecting full-fiber customers 'like fury' and the signs are not promising for many infrastructure rivals.
News Analysis | 2/1/2023 | Post a comment Margherita della Valle joins European telco bosses demanding a 'fair contribution' from Internet giants after saying her company can do better.
Morris Lore | 1/31/2023 | Post a comment The US operator sets a net-zero target for 2040 but the emissions over which it has most control rose sharply in 2021.
News Analysis | 1/30/2023 | Post a comment Months after complaining about open RAN wariness among brownfield operators, the Japanese company reports losses at its networks division.
News Analysis | 1/30/2023 | Post a comment The Canadian operator is stumping up funds for trials of Cohere's capacity-boosting network software and 6G candidate.
News Analysis | 1/27/2023 | Post a comment A leading analyst says the US chipmaker faces an existential threat from Arm after it reports another shocking set of results.
News Analysis | 1/26/2023 | Post a comment The Finnish equipment maker reports sales growth and profitability at all its major business units and now aims to build on a 5G turnaround.
News Analysis | 1/25/2023 | Post a comment AT&T and Verizon have now cut nearly 170,000 jobs in the last seven years and they are apparently not done yet.
News Analysis | 1/25/2023 | Post a comment The high-band spectrum can provide a capacity boost in hotspots and support an array of new applications, but the business case remains unclear.
Blogs
News Analysis | 5/31/2023 | Post a comment With its Graviton processors, AWS is working with Nokia and other software companies to provide an architectural choice for telcos.
News Analysis | 5/30/2023 | Post a comment The hottest chipmaker in the world right now has a product for managing radio access network and AI workloads and one of Japan's biggest telcos has bitten.
News Analysis | 5/30/2023 | Post a comment Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Portuguese authorities round on Huawei; Nokia unveils new core software; Arm touts new chip designs.
News Analysis | 5/26/2023 | Post a comment Shares in both chipmakers are up as they predict untold riches thanks to a surge of interest in AI, but some are warning of a bubble.
News Analysis | 5/25/2023 | Post a comment Still alive and kicking, the special ops bit of UK telecom incumbent BT is launching a set of immersive experiences for schools and businesses.
News Analysis | 5/25/2023 | Post a comment US server maker HPE is teaming up with one of the hottest chip startups on a product that could provide much needed competition to Intel.
News Analysis | 5/24/2023 | Post a comment The UK telecom regulator has blessed BT's controversial Equinox 2 plans to lower the wholesale price of full-fiber lines.
Morris Lore | 5/23/2023 | Post a comment BT has more to gain from slashing up to 55,000 jobs than Vodafone has from cutting 11,000, and BT's plan looks more feasible.
News Analysis | 5/22/2023 | Post a comment Marc Rouanne defends his technology choices and eyes an operationally efficient network future once Dish Network's buildout is complete.
Morris Lore | 5/18/2023 | Post a comment CEO Philip Jansen expects up to 42% of existing BT roles to have disappeared by the end of the decade, thanks partly to generative AI.
News Analysis | 5/17/2023 | Post a comment Swedish vendor Ericsson's proposal for a new lower layer split is a delaying tactic or attempt to seize control of specifications, according to sources.
News Analysis | 5/16/2023 | Post a comment Chief Network Officer Marc Rouanne said the company will initially focus on energy and spectrum efficiency starting in the second half.
Morris Lore | 5/16/2023 | Post a comment Vodafone's new boss Margherita Della Valle plans to cut 11,000 jobs in three years, raising questions about the European operator's direction.
News Analysis | 5/16/2023 | Post a comment The US supplier has been selected to provide technology for up to 10,000 rural sites for one of India's biggest operators.
News Analysis | 5/15/2023 | Post a comment Rakuten and Mavenir aim to provide feature parity with traditional RAN suppliers in the coming months.
News Analysis | 5/12/2023 | Post a comment With customers complaining they cannot use services at home or on subways, Rakuten hopes access to KDDI's 'platinum' spectrum will turn around its fortunes.
News Analysis | 5/11/2023 | Post a comment The days when rampant growth in the US could be taken for granted seem to be over for Deutsche Telekom, and Europe remains a concern.
News Analysis | 5/10/2023 | Post a comment One of the world's three big greenfield open RAN projects, 1&1 has been hurt by rollout delays it blames on Vantage Towers.
News Analysis | 5/10/2023 | Post a comment Big drops in Intel's share of core markets could presage similar problems in virtual radio access networks as the industry looks for alternatives.
News Analysis | 5/5/2023 | Post a comment The big Scandi equipment makers agree on lots of things when it comes to 4G and 5G networks, but on virtualization choices they are poles apart.
News Analysis | 5/4/2023 | Post a comment Import restrictions in Pakistan and the ongoing war in Ukraine are among various challenges confronting VEON CEO Kaan Terzioğlu.
Morris Lore | 5/3/2023 | Post a comment Operators tracked by Light Reading cut nearly 58,000 jobs last year, and many roles in the telco sector could be in the crosshairs of AI.
News Analysis | 5/2/2023 | Post a comment Funds bring total raised to $350 million in less than a year and could support expansion in Europe, where Huawei is under further pressure.
News Analysis | 4/28/2023 | Post a comment Weak demand tore into sales as Intel's customers used up existing stock, and the chipmaker is spending heavily to realize its strategic ambitions.
News Analysis | 4/28/2023 | Post a comment The boss of Rakuten's telecom subsidiaries calls for a rethink of chip designs and insists he can deliver portability – provided someone is prepared to invest.
News Analysis | 4/27/2023 | Post a comment The same virtual RAN software deployed on Intel chips can now be used on AMD silicon as well, says Ericsson.
News Analysis | 4/26/2023 | Post a comment Telcos yet to make a decent return on their 5G investments are in no mood for a big splurge on the next generation.
Morris Lore | 4/24/2023 | Post a comment Swathes of the industry remain unconvinced open RAN is a fix for the big problems it originally identified.
Morris Lore | 4/21/2023 | Post a comment Tens of thousands of jobs have disappeared at AT&T since it first made its bid for Time Warner and the cuts go on.
News Analysis | 4/20/2023 | Post a comment Sales and profits grew at double-digit rates for the first quarter despite inventory adjustments in North America that affected Nokia's mobile networks unit.
News Analysis | 4/19/2023 | Post a comment Servers based on Intel's technology cost more than twice as much as proprietary kit from Ericsson and Nokia, according to EdgeQ's CEO.
News Analysis | 4/18/2023 | Post a comment Ericsson saw profits tumble on 'inventory adjustments' in North America and the costs of integrating its recent acquisitions.
News Analysis | 4/17/2023 | Post a comment After running trials with Rakuten and NEC last year, the UK operator has picked Mavenir to supply both software and radios.
News Analysis | 4/14/2023 | Post a comment The takeover of Italian developer Athonet added 5G core expertise to HPE's product line-up but raises questions about its future strategy.
Morris Lore | 4/13/2023 | Post a comment Vodafone's claim about 'decoupling' traffic growth from energy use and evidence of falling consumption by other telcos will not help those arguing Big Tech should pay network fees.
News Analysis | 4/13/2023 | Post a comment Tasked with finding new growth opportunities, Marc Overton arguably has the hardest job at the UK telecom incumbent.
Morris Lore | 4/11/2023 | Post a comment A monster report from the newly formed DSIT says neither telco covers its cost of capital while ruminating on standalone 5G, 6G and the old favorite of open RAN.
Morris Lore | 4/6/2023 | Post a comment The German telecom incumbent claims to have reduced its carbon emissions by 94% since 2017, but it depends how you measure it.
News Analysis | 4/5/2023 | Post a comment The UK arm of the telco is fighting to keep energy consumption flat, and even lower it, as data traffic mounts.
News Analysis | 4/4/2023 | Post a comment The US chipmaker reckons the RAN industry is too small to keep pace with design changes that will benefit its general-purpose processors, but not everyone is convinced.
News Analysis | 4/3/2023 | Post a comment The Chinese equipment giant hired 7,000 R&D professionals last year as it fought back against US sanctions.
News Analysis | 3/31/2023 | Post a comment After badly missing its rollout targets last year, the United Internet mobile subsidiary is under pressure.
News Analysis | 3/30/2023 | Post a comment Two antiquities of the satellite industry hope to survive the launch of newer and more sophisticated technologies by teaming up.
News Analysis | 3/29/2023 | Post a comment Open interfaces will certainly aid specialists but it's hard to see how they will necessarily bring diversity, despite what proponents and government figures say.
Morris Lore | 3/27/2023 | Post a comment The UK telecom incumbent is reportedly searching for a new boss, but it will have trouble finding one who can do any better.
Morris Lore | 3/27/2023 | Post a comment The European Union seems to be approaching the subject the way Boris Johnson approached Brexit.
News Analysis | 3/24/2023 | Post a comment After a two-year surge in sales to China, US semiconductor companies stand to lose billions in revenues as export controls are tightened.
Morris Lore | 3/23/2023 | Post a comment Lift-off for generative AI would entail huge costs and have possible ramifications for climate change.
News Analysis | 3/22/2023 | Post a comment State-of-the-art technologies have not lowered the considerable barriers to entry in the telecom sector.
News Analysis | 3/21/2023 | Post a comment Facing so many options and trade-offs, and alert to the danger of supplier lock-in, many operators have yet to be convinced about RAN virtualization.
Morris Lore | 3/20/2023 | Post a comment As Ofcom weighs intervention on BT's latest pricing plans, its own data shows that BT's rivals have made scant progress in the UK's full-fiber market.
Morris Lore | 3/17/2023 | Post a comment Allowing the Vodafone and Three merger to happen will show authorities have abandoned the 'four networks good, three networks bad' credo.
News Analysis | 3/16/2023 | Post a comment The telco championing of open RAN has not been matched by support for new entrants.
News Analysis | 3/15/2023 | Post a comment Europe's biggest economy has installed a huge amount of Chinese network equipment and dismantling it to address security concerns will not be easy.
Morris Lore | 3/15/2023 | Post a comment Marketers have already run out of road on 5G and the next generation of mobile will not do anything radically different.
News Analysis | 3/14/2023 | Post a comment Whether using Intel or rival silicon, operators face lock-in and awkward compromises everywhere they turn.
Morris Lore | 3/10/2023 | Post a comment Rory Read would have to perform miracles at Ericsson to justify another $32.76 million this year.
News Analysis | 3/9/2023 | Post a comment SK Telecom says it is trying to build an AI ecosystem in the global market, working with startups such as Phantom AI.
News Analysis | 3/8/2023 | Post a comment As it quits Russia, VEON is focused on hiring software talent and addressing 'digital' opportunities in emerging markets.
Morris Lore | 3/7/2023 | Post a comment Open RAN is not ready for widespread commercial deployment, Deutsche Telekom recently said, just as Germany weighs a Huawei ban.
News Analysis | 3/7/2023 | Post a comment Executives from US platform provider Vonage have been defending the APIs logic of Swedish vendor Ericsson's $6 billion takeover.
News Analysis | 3/6/2023 | Post a comment Optical equipment maker Ciena's order backlog is nearly four times what it was pre-pandemic, and that is neither sustainable nor desirable, says its CEO.
News Analysis | 3/6/2023 | Post a comment As public-cloud giants advance into the world of network functions, operators face some difficult choices about which hosts to use.
Morris Lore | 3/3/2023 | Post a comment The show goes on, attracting its highest number of visitors since before the pandemic, but the industry is in bad shape.
News Analysis | 3/2/2023 | Post a comment The mysterious case of the chips inside Huawei's lanyards could be an embarrassment for MWC organizers.
LRTV Interviews | 3/1/2023 | Post a comment Orange's Michaël Trabbia says the company remains confident about open RAN, which it sees as part of an overall cloud transformation of the network.
LRTV Interviews | 3/1/2023 | Post a comment BT's chief security and networks officer, Howard Watson, spoke to Light Reading about ongoing conversations around net neutrality and fair contribution, saying he welcomes Ofcom's consultation on the subject. He also addressed 5G rollout, saying it is on track.
News Analysis | 3/1/2023 | Post a comment Howard Watson dismisses talk of a 6G network overhaul and chips in on the 'fair share' debate here in Barcelona.
Morris Lore | 2/28/2023 | Post a comment The talking points on Day One of this year's MWC included a logo makeover by Nokia, APIs and the growing presence of Big Tech.
News Analysis | 2/27/2023 | Post a comment The Finnish vendor was evidently preferred over Mavenir, which figured prominently in trials, but there is a role for the US company outside Germany.
News Analysis | 2/27/2023 | Post a comment 'High-risk vendors' cut off from state-of-the-art silicon will end up with network products that are bulkier and more expensive, Tommi Uitto tells Light Reading.
News Analysis | 2/27/2023 | Post a comment The industry association is unveiling its Open Gateway initiative at this year's MWC, hoping it will spur the development of new applications for telco networks.
News Analysis | 2/27/2023 | Post a comment The US chipmaker's dominant position in the nascent open and virtualized radio access network sector is under attack from some big players.
News Analysis | 2/26/2023 | Post a comment The US software giant is preparing a code-writing GPT for network operations while taking aim at the cloud platforms built by VMware and Red Hat.
News Analysis | 2/24/2023 | Post a comment Swedish equipment maker says most cuts will happen in the first half of this year as it aims to reduce costs and protect margins.
News Analysis | 2/24/2023 | Post a comment The company building Germany's fourth mobile network says Vodafone-owned Vantage Towers is holding up its plans.
News Analysis | 2/23/2023 | Post a comment The Spanish incumbent will undoubtedly grumble at MWC about the unfairness of life, and yet its boss is well satisfied with the latest numbers.
Morris Lore | 2/22/2023 | Post a comment The chatbot that has taken the world by storm is now being assessed for use in a range of telco operations.
News Analysis | 2/21/2023 | Post a comment The German incumbent is not giving up on open RAN, but it has now comprehensively ruled out any chance of a major investment this year.
News Analysis | 2/21/2023 | Post a comment The Finnish vendor beat other RAN vendors on market share gains last year despite the emergence of several new rivals.
Morris Lore | 2/20/2023 | Post a comment The headcount reduction of 12% comes after T-Mobile's former CEO promised the deal would be 'jobs-positive' from the outset.
Morris Lore | 2/20/2023 | Post a comment Energy efficiency and environmentalism are expected to be major themes at this year's show, but swaths of the industry look dirtier than ever.
News Analysis | 2/15/2023 | Post a comment The performance-boosting technology developed by Cohere is to be made available as an app on Mavenir's RIC.
Morris Lore | 2/14/2023 | Post a comment The failure of 5G to lift telco revenues puts a company that depends on 5G network equipment sales in a very awkward position.
News Analysis | 2/13/2023 | Post a comment Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone spy an opportunity to usurp disreputable Big Tech players in the advertising ecosystem.
News Analysis | 2/13/2023 | Post a comment Fredrik Jejdling worries about technology 'bifurcation' and acknowledges that Intel's chips have narrowed the performance gap with his own silicon.
News Analysis | 2/9/2023 | Post a comment With the mobile technology now available to 60% of the UK population, BT is turning its attention to rural coverage.
Morris Lore | 2/8/2023 | Post a comment Officials come out with some meaningless comments about the single telecom market and realize national governments have been ignoring them about China.
News Analysis | 2/7/2023 | Post a comment A new waveform backed by the software company could take 6G to a hypersonic level.
News Analysis | 2/7/2023 | Post a comment The UK operator cannot afford to sit back and wait, says its chief network officer, but the technical challenges are considerable.
News Analysis | 2/6/2023 | Post a comment The US software company has seen revenues grow from just $7 million in 2020 and now boasts 30 customers worldwide, according to CEO Pardeep Kohli.
News Analysis | 2/2/2023 | Post a comment The UK telecom incumbent says it is now building and connecting full-fiber customers 'like fury' and the signs are not promising for many infrastructure rivals.
News Analysis | 2/1/2023 | Post a comment Margherita della Valle joins European telco bosses demanding a 'fair contribution' from Internet giants after saying her company can do better.
Morris Lore | 1/31/2023 | Post a comment The US operator sets a net-zero target for 2040 but the emissions over which it has most control rose sharply in 2021.
News Analysis | 1/30/2023 | Post a comment Months after complaining about open RAN wariness among brownfield operators, the Japanese company reports losses at its networks division.
News Analysis | 1/30/2023 | Post a comment The Canadian operator is stumping up funds for trials of Cohere's capacity-boosting network software and 6G candidate.
News Analysis | 1/27/2023 | Post a comment A leading analyst says the US chipmaker faces an existential threat from Arm after it reports another shocking set of results.
News Analysis | 1/26/2023 | Post a comment The Finnish equipment maker reports sales growth and profitability at all its major business units and now aims to build on a 5G turnaround.
News Analysis | 1/25/2023 | Post a comment AT&T and Verizon have now cut nearly 170,000 jobs in the last seven years and they are apparently not done yet.
News Analysis | 1/25/2023 | Post a comment The high-band spectrum can provide a capacity boost in hotspots and support an array of new applications, but the business case remains unclear.
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