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News & Views Most Popular 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 5G Isn't Going Indoors Anytime Soon By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/21/2019 Around 80% of all mobile data traffic is consumed indoors and the fastest variety of 5G spectrum, millimeter-wave, won't get into your home or office in the near future. Post a Comment Did Altice Change Its Tune on Buying Spectrum? By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/16/2019 Altice said it wants to buy C-Band spectrum, which appears to represent a bit of a change from the company's previous strategy. Post a Comment Advertisement Here's What Trump's Huawei Ban Cost US Firms in Q2 By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/16/2019 Several US companies put a dollar amount on the losses they incurred from President Trump's Huawei ban. Here's the tally. Post a Comment Eurobites: Huawei Commits to UK, Despite Everything By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 8/15/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Swisscom revenue slides in H1; BT to delist from NYSE; more holograms; 5G ice-cream scoop. Post a Comment Verizon to Test Aggregation Across CBRS, 1900MHz, 700MHz & AWS Spectrum By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/14/2019 Verizon is planning to conduct tests that would combine transmissions across CBRS spectrum and its existing licensed spectrum bands, including 1900MHz, AWS and 700MHz. Post a Comment Eurobites: Vodafone Launches 5G in Ireland By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 8/14/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Drei and ZTE fire up 5G in Austria; 5G mmWave network to be tested in Moscow; UK MVNO targets those with hearing loss. Post a Comment Advertisement Nokia Delays Sprint's 5G Rollout By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/13/2019 Sprint is using three vendors for 5G and two of them have already launched commercial service on their gear. Where's Nokia? Post a Comment Eurobites: Hands-Free Heads for the UK Hard Shoulder By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 8/13/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: French broadcasters receive approval for Netflix-challenging Salto service; tough Q2 for Denmark's TDC; EE rules the RootMetrics ratings roost. Post a Comment Nokia, Ericsson, Cisco Pull US Operators Toward Standalone 5G By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/12/2019 T-Mobile, Verizon and other operators are working with a range of vendors to smooth out the move from 'non-standalone' to 'standalone' 5G. Post a Comment Eurobites: Bolton Arrives in UK to Turn the Huawei Thumbscrews By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 8/12/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: DT and friends go password-free with Mobile Connect; O2 complains about 5G auction terms; Telenor enables soufflé-defined networking. Post a Comment Charter Sets Employee Tests for 'Spectrum Connectivity Platform' By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/2/2019 Software for broadband devices, believed to support OpenWRT, designed to help customers manage and optimize in-home WiFi, tweak router settings and pause Internet connectivity. Post a Comment Power Brokers: Utilities Explore Their Role in 4G & 5G By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/2/2019 Utility companies like Duke and Xcel are already major players in the telecom market. Now they're looking at how they might participate in 4G and 5G. Post a Comment 5G Customers Use More Data Than 4G Customers By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/1/2019 What effect might 5G services have on networks? Data out of South Korea certainly indicates that 5G customers, at least initially, will use more data than 4G customers. Post a Comment Get Ready for the 5G Retail Robots! By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 7/31/2019 AT&T has hooked up with Badger Technologies to test retail robots powered by millimeter wave 5G and edge computing. Post a Comment Is Light Communications a Solution in Search of a Problem? By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 7/30/2019 LiFi is the latest effort to bring optical wireless communications into the commercial communications networking fold. Post a Comment CONFIRMED: Altice Mobile MVNO Priced at $25/Line for Employees By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 7/23/2019 Altice confirmed that its mobile offering is currently available to employees at $25 per line. That price is below what Comcast, Charter and Sprint charge for unlimited services. Post a Comment Huawei Culls US R&D Workforce, Blames Trade Restrictions By Iain Morris, International Editor, 7/23/2019 Around 70% of Futurewei's employees will lose their jobs, the Chinese equipment giant has confirmed, with US trade restrictions to blame. Post a Comment Eurobites: UK Government Gets Jumpy Over Inmarsat Sale By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 7/23/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Intracom Telecom lands Italian FWA job with Open Fiber; Openreach reduces wholesale FTTP prices; Ericsson and Swisscom join the 5G Dots. Post a Comment 3.5GHz CBRS Band Deployments Face Yet Another Delay By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 7/18/2019 The NTIA is still testing spectrum sharing in the 3.5GHz CBRS band. Such testing has delayed commercial operations in the band for almost a year. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Did Altice Change Its Tune on Buying Spectrum? By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/16/2019 Altice said it wants to buy C-Band spectrum, which appears to represent a bit of a change from the company's previous strategy. Post a Comment 5G Isn't Going Indoors Anytime Soon By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/21/2019 Around 80% of all mobile data traffic is consumed indoors and the fastest variety of 5G spectrum, millimeter-wave, won't get into your home or office in the near future. Post a Comment Here's What Trump's Huawei Ban Cost US Firms in Q2 By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/16/2019 Several US companies put a dollar amount on the losses they incurred from President Trump's Huawei ban. Here's the tally. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Amdocs Buys Wireless Network Engineering Company TTS Wireless for $50M Monday, August 12, 2019 VeEX Teams for Financing Program Tuesday, August 6, 2019 Ssimplus VoD Monitor Inspector to Debut at IBC Tuesday, July 16, 2019 Niko Picks Eurofins for Smart Home & IoT Test Automation Tuesday, July 16, 2019 Three UK Builds 5G-Ready Cloud Core Network with Nokia Tuesday, July 16, 2019 EXFO Reports Fiscal Q3 Growth Thursday, July 11, 2019 Mesmer Raises $15M To Automate Mobile Software Development Wednesday, July 10, 2019 ADVA, Nokia Demo 5G Synchronization Wednesday, July 3, 2019 SSIMWAVE Adds Video QoE Expertise Tuesday, June 25, 2019 MobiledgeX Launches Edge Navigator Tool, Pitches Developers Thursday, June 20, 2019 Telefónica, Bank of Santander, ZTE Team on 5G Banking Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Ericsson Enhances Its 5G Portfolio Monday, June 17, 2019 Dev Systemtechnik Touts DOCSIS 3.1 Remote PHY Interop Thursday, June 13, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Fintech Startups Get Sloppy With Application Security Larry Loeb, Author, 8/20/2019 Some startups need to shape up or ship out. 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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 A User Review of EE's 5G Network in London Gabriel Brown , Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading , 8/1/2019 Everyone's talking about 5G services, but do they measure up to the hype? We ... (1 Comment) 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) How Radcom's Pricing Model Is Set to Disrupt the Market Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 2/7/2018 Radcom's VNF pricing model looks set to excite network operators and drain the ... (5 comments) TCS Pivots to Products, Plans M&A Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 2/6/2018 Systems integration giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is transforming itself ... (0) All Prime Reading

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Three CEO: We'd Rather Take Huawei Risk Than Miss 5G Rewards

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