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News & Views Most Popular China Operators Brace for Portability By Robert Clark, 10/21/2019 Will the introduction of mobile number portability threaten China Mobile's dominant position? Post a Comment India's RJio Is Still Adding 10M Customers a Month By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 10/21/2019 The Indian operator continues to record dramatic increases in subscriber numbers, but customers are spending less. Post a Comment T-Mobile Strikes Exclusive Mobile Video Pact With Katzenberg's Quibi By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/18/2019 Deal arrives ahead of Quibi's launch next spring, and adds a new wrinkle to T-Mobile's video game plan. Post a Comment Advertisement Singapore Sets Aggressive Standalone Target as It Launches 5G Race By Robert Clark, 10/18/2019 Singapore is pressing ahead with its rollout of 5G technology based on the newer, standalone variant. Post a Comment Chickens & Eggs Frustrate Operators' Quest for 5G Revenues By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/17/2019 Yes, wireless operators in the US and elsewhere are building 5G networks. But how exactly they're going to make money from those networks remains a bit unclear. Post a Comment Huawei Brushes Aside US Blacklist as It Boosts Sales 24% By Robert Clark, 10/16/2019 Chinese equipment giant posts dramatic growth in numbers despite US penalties. Post a Comment Hong Kong Set for 2020 5G Launch After $128M Auction By Robert Clark, 10/16/2019 5G services could arrive quickly after an auction of important midband spectrum. Post a Comment Advertisement 5G Signal Boosters Show Up Ahead of Regulations By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/15/2019 FCC regulations haven't yet caught up with startups' 5G plans. Post a Comment How NTT Started a Cycling Revolution By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/15/2019 The technology giant teamed up with one of the world's fittest men to push cycling to new limits. Post a Comment Why Many Operators Just Can't Quit 2G By Robert Clark, 10/14/2019 Like old-fashioned rock and roll, 2G just refuses to die. Post a Comment India Opens 5G Door to Huawei at IMC By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 10/14/2019 Authorities have allowed the controversial Chinese vendor to participate in demos at an industry event, suggesting it may be allowed into the country's 5G market. Post a Comment Eurobites: Openreach Talks Up the Fiber Effect By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/11/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: BT launches 5G service; Amsterdam Internet Exchange upgrades with Pluribus; Ericsson helps fight diabetes in the UAE. Post a Comment TM Pitches to Build Malaysia's National 5G Network By Robert Clark, 10/10/2019 Malaysia's fixed-line incumbent wants to be the country's only operator of a 5G network. Post a Comment BT Gives Convergence Another Bash, but 'Halo' Looks Far From Heavenly By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/9/2019 A push into bundles is not going to guarantee success for the ailing UK telco amid a blizzard of competitive and regulatory challenges. Post a Comment Eurobites: Telia & Nokia Launch 5G FWA in Finland By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/9/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nuage Networks finds SD-WAN love in Bahrain; Vodafone closes stores, but not in the UK; MegaFon sets up e-commerce JV with Alibaba and friends. Post a Comment Eurobites: Cellnex Buys Arqiva's Towers Unit for £2B By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/8/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Netcracker lands OSS deal with Deutsche Telekom; Nokia hopes to make squillions from Quillion chipset; Telia Norway goes all in with Ericsson for 5G RAN. Post a Comment Vodafone CEO 'Fast Tracks' OpenRAN in Challenge to Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/7/2019 One of the telecom's industry's top executives is backing trials of open RAN technology as a way of bringing more competition into the network market. Post a Comment China Telcos Rack Up 9M 5G Advance Subs By Robert Clark, 10/7/2019 But the telcos are not displaying enough 5G ambition for some government authorities. Post a Comment Eurobites: Openreach Trials New Approaches to FTTP By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/7/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: UAE's du happy with Huawei; Vodafone trials OpenRAN in the UK; Ericsson upgrades in Madagascar. Post a Comment Telcos Must Get More Enterprising in 5G By Angus Ward, CEO, BearingPoint//Beyond, 10/4/2019 A new study from BearingPoint shows that CSPs have a lot of work ahead of them if they are to appeal to enterprise customers. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors AT&T to Sell Puerto Rico, US Virgin Island Operations to Liberty Latin America for $1.95B Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Amid Battle With AT&T's FirstNet, Verizon Announces Public Safety Agreement With Massachusetts Wednesday, July 24, 2019 Startup UbiquitiLink Raises $5.2M to Connect Regular Cell Phones Directly to Low-Earth-Orbit Nanosatellites Wednesday, July 17, 2019 T-Mobile, Taco Bell to Open Co-Branded 'T-MoBell' Stores in 3 Cities Next Week Tuesday, July 16, 2019 Sprint MVNO I-Wireless Rebrands as Kroger Wireless Wednesday, July 3, 2019 T-Mobile Rebrands 'One' Pricing Plan to 'Magenta,' Promises to Match Rivals' Promotions Thursday, May 23, 2019 Vodafone UK Unveils 5G Plans Thursday, May 23, 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 ... (0) Keeping It Real Can Pay Off for Old-School Attacks Larry Loeb, Author, 11/14/2019 Even a previously known attack can fool the security team if it is well crafted. (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News TIP Trio Brings Containerization, LTE RAN to DOCSIS Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 11/15/2019 Telecom Infra Project (TIP) members Altran, Benetel and Phluido co-created a ... (0) BBWN Bites: UK's Labour Party Wants Socialist-Style Broadband for All Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 11/15/2019 Also today, UK's Labour Party adds broadband to communist manifesto, Google's ... (0) GO TO BROADBAND WORLD NEWS Telecom Innovators Video Showcase Amdocs: Redefining & Accelerating 5G Rollouts Antronix: Industry Leader for 40 Years & Counting Network Rising: DriveNets Adapts Hyperscaler Approach to ... 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 ... 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 ... 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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 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 ... (10 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 ... (3 comments) Europe's Big Telcos Are Getting Edgy About 5G Iain Morris , International Editor , 3/13/2019 Virtual dodgeball will not happen unless operators cut mobile latency, but that ... (10 comments) Open Conflict Over Open RAN Iain Morris , International Editor , 2/14/2019 Accusations that big kit vendors tried to throttle developments show open RAN ... (0) All Prime Reading

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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 ...