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News & Views Most Popular Comcast Sizing Up Plan to Syndicate a Virtual CMTS – Sources By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/22/2019 Comcast says it's premature to talk about how its network virtualization strategies will take shape, but industry sources say Comcast has discussed the idea of licensing its new tech to other MSOs. Post a Comment \| Read (0) ARM Suspends Dealings With Huawei – Report By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/22/2019 The chip designer joins US technology giants in freezing out China's biggest maker of network equipment. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: iainmorris This story has been updated since it was first published to include a comment... Judge Rules Against Qualcomm in Antitrust Case By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 5/22/2019 A federal judge has ruled in favor of the FTC in its case claiming that Qualcomm harmed competition in two markets for modem chips through a combination of high royalty fees and predatory licensing practices. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement CenturyLink Sharpens Up Its Ethernet Portfolio By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/22/2019 CenturyLink broadens its Ethernet service portfolio as it tidies up loose ends from its Level 3 acquisition. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Follow the Money: Optical Trends From NGON 2019 By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/22/2019 The opening sessions of this year's NGON & DCI World event in Nice focused on money matters and automation but there was little appetite to discuss the impact of global trade tensions and the US clampdown on Huawei's supply line. Post a Comment \| Read (0) BT Lines Up Western Vendors to Replace Huawei as 5G Goes Live By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/22/2019 BT is now in core network trials with Cisco, Ericsson and Nokia, its CTO tells Light Reading, and may need to introduce a new RAN vendor. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: EE Gets to 5G First, Drops Huawei 5G Phones By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 5/22/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Deutsche Telekom's honeypots highlight hacker horrorshow; Ericsson sets up 5G hub in Moscow. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Big 5G Event Panel: Maximizing 5G ROI – The Business Case for 5G By Light Reading, 5/22/2019 Verizon's Nicki Palmer, AT&T's Igor Glubochansky, C Spire's Craig Sparks, Cincinnati Bell's Tom Simpson and CTIA's Tom Sawanobori join Light Reading's Mike Dano to discuss how 5G will really pay off for carriers. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Podcast: 5G & Hollywood Are the New SVoD Couple By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 5/22/2019 In this podcast, Disney takes full control of Hulu and that could pose a bigger threat to traditional pay-TV providers. Also, nearly every single mobile network operator has a different angle on providing video services to consumers. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CableLabs Seeks to Supercharge WiFi By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/21/2019 New open source project from CableLabs focuses on 'Dual Channel WiFi' technology that can set up dedicated channels for specific apps and traffic types such as streaming video and online gaming. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Big Data Is Slowly Paying Off for Axiata By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/21/2019 The Malaysian operator uses analytics to axe capital expenditure and is eyeing further benefits from the combination of network and external data. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Investment Up but Revenues Down for French Operators in 2018 By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 5/21/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: ZTE opens cybersecurity lab in Rome; coaxial startup lands Vodafone Germany deal; payback time for UK mobile operators? Post a Comment \| Read (0) Ailing Telecom Italia Gets Serious About Cuts By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/21/2019 The Italian phone incumbent is now so ruthlessly focused on efficiency it has started referring to employees as units. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Sprint Goes Loco for 'Low Code' By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/21/2019 Sprint is using a 'low code' development platform to streamline business processes, including getting wireline customers online faster. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Who Will Buy Sprint's Boost? And Will It Even Matter? By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 5/21/2019 The proposed merger of Sprint and T-Mobile took a big step forward with support from the chairman of the FCC, but plenty of questions remain, including whether a Boost divestiture would create competition in the US market and whether anyone would buy it. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Can Huawei Survive Trump? By Iain Morris, News Editor, 5/20/2019 The Chinese vendor's survival as an international force is now at stake following the latest moves by the US administration and tech companies. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Former Cisco Exec Takes Helm of EditShare By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/20/2019 Conrad Clemson named CEO as EditShare takes on a majority investment from ParkerGale and plots plan to scale up its business and migrate its media asset collaboration and management platform to the cloud. Post a Comment \| Read (0) ACE, Omniverse Slug It Out as Court Date Looms By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/20/2019 ACE claims it's struggling to get its mitts on a long-term contract between Hovsat & DirecTV that is key to Omniverse's streaming TV offering. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Google & Tech Giants Cut Huawei Adrift By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/20/2019 The Chinese equipment giant is sent packing by a host of the world's biggest technology companies and faces a huge threat to its consumer business after Google holds back some Android goodies. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: US Huawei Ban Hits European Chipmakers By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 5/20/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: France resists US pressure to play hardball with Huawei; lampposts row threatens UK's 5G rollout; ADVA lands Openreach cell site gateway gig. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive 5G Car Crash Looms for Telecom Industry By Iain Morris, News Editor, 5/16/2019 Failure to transform their businesses, highlighted at this week's Digital Transformation World event in Nice, is fast catching up with the telcos. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: Gabriel Brown I tend to agree with James that the headline is inflammatory. A "car crash"... Android App Developers Get '5G Mode' By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 5/17/2019 A new API from Qualcomm promises to give Android Q app developers information about how fast users' 5G phones will go. But don't expect a 5G 'killer app' anytime soon. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: pave_lmachala The statement about bandwidth APIs seems to be an incorrect one as Google has... ARM Suspends Dealings With Huawei – Report By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/22/2019 The chip designer joins US technology giants in freezing out China's biggest maker of network equipment. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: iainmorris This story has been updated since it was first published to include a comment... Charter Using Mobile to Dislodge 'Inert' DSL Customers By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/16/2019 Company CFO Chris Winfrey expands on Charter's strategy to use Spectrum Mobile as a growth driver for its home broadband service. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: unbearable All Charter has to do is offer a DSL price for an entry-level broadband tier... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards iainmorris, 5/22/2019 2:45:29 PM ARM Suspends Dealings With Huawei – Report Re: Update from Huawei This story has been updated since it was first published to include a comment from Huawei. vigneshtech, 5/22/2019 6:59:00 AM Mobile Services Are Next Uber Trend Re: On Demand Taxi Solutions Great article. Our trend is beyond Uber who introduced a scintillating technology for people to book taxis. At the time, there are also other companies came into existence who build an on-demand taxi dispatch software for... lily882, 5/22/2019 3:16:48 AM Huawei Has Billions Riding on Claim to Be 5G Patents Powerhouse Re: 5G era The situation is not so clear now. It is not just the technology. There are many eyes are on it. jackdom, 5/21/2019 5:43:25 PM Adobe to Acquire Magento Commerce Re: Future of the B2B and B2C ecommerce solution leader Magento was the only "Enterprise" e-commerce solutions that were "single" in the market. The others (Demandware, Hybris, Sterling, ...) have been acquired in recent years by SAP, IBM ORACLE and SALESFORCE. There... pave_lmachala, 5/19/2019 10:53:10 PM Android App Developers Get '5G Mode' Re: Incorrect statement about bandwidth API The statement about bandwidth APIs seems to be an incorrect one as Google has opened the issue in bug tracker: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/132461546 lmorris, 5/19/2019 4:13:07 AM FCC Chairman Proposes Ruling to Block Unwanted Robocalls Re: Old problems I think people need to know about this robocall problem. They have been around for years. I think the authority should be aware of this problem, too, and able to do something to stop these spammers. For anyone who get quite... MikeP688, 5/18/2019 3:39:48 PM Verizon's $4.4B AOL Buy a Digital Media Play Re: Re: Fascinating Times.... Thanks for the thought--what is interesting iw how Verizon has now pretty much "zero'd out" this play--hasn't it? Cheers... jonsnow1221, 5/18/2019 12:37:53 AM Verizon's $4.4B AOL Buy a Digital Media Play Re: Re: Fascinating Times.... By the post, we get to know how the Verizon is doing many changes in the field of technology and the thing is that I have also tried the application related to the 5g services. Epson error code e-01 susantem, 5/17/2019 9:39:51 PM China Telecom's Bid for 'Leading' 5G Latency Should Unsettle US Re: Re: No reference to low latency in China Telecom presentation It's hard to see anything that domestic operators in China (or elsewhere) are doing as a geo-political/industrial policy threat. It's not as if they are in direct competition with Verizon, Telfonica or NTT. It really doesn't... unbearable, 5/17/2019 9:07:21 PM Charter Using Mobile to Dislodge 'Inert' DSL Customers Re: How to dislodge DSL... All Charter has to do is offer a DSL price for an entry-level broadband tier (say 25mbps to be "legit") with DSL "lifetime" pricing in lieu of the never-ending expiring promo game at 200mbps "inert" folks clearly don't r... MindCommerce, 5/17/2019 12:08:25 PM Android App Developers Get '5G Mode' Re: Use Case for this Capability? Testing? Is the use case for this capability only testing? Any other purpose? Gabriel Brown, 5/17/2019 4:54:54 AM 5G Car Crash Looms for Telecom Industry Re: Re: Chief Paleontologist I tend to agree with James that the headline is inflammatory. A "car crash" seems an unlikely scenario for the telecom industry. There isn't evidence in this direction. Some challenges? Yes, for sure. Like always. On consumer... brooks7, 5/16/2019 7:43:46 PM 5G Car Crash Looms for Telecom Industry Re: Re: Chief Paleontologist @James_B_Crawshaw So, is it your opinion that Cell Phone bills are going to go up with the deployment of 5G? Otherwise, it is unclear to me how money gets made. We already have essentially 100%... James_B_Crawshaw, 5/16/2019 6:08:08 PM 5G Car Crash Looms for Telecom Industry Re: Chief Paleontologist Given the dinosaur reference perhaps we should be talking about paleontology instead of archaeology. But if you compare with the energy (electricity and gas) sector or financial services then telco IT doesn't actually look... susansem, 5/15/2019 11:30:04 PM Nice Turns Nasty as Vendors Face Fire Over Cloud-Native Claims Re: Re: takes time for Core Software to be cloud native and to be mainstream. There are some vendors who do offer cloud-native software in the core but the trust, expertise and ability to offer end to end solutions across the network are lacking. Finally, the investments required to change over... More Message Boards		Security Now Suppliers Cut Off Huawei Larry Loeb, Author, 5/22/2019 If Android is to 'fork' following Huawei's isolation, the enterprise needs to ... 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