Vodafone taps Nokia for European fixed-line upgrade
Nokia has bagged a significant deal involving Vodafone’s 143 million European fixed broadband customers.
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Lumina Networks turns out the lights for good
Open-source SDN startup Lumina Networks has thrown in the towel, citing slower than hoped open-source adoption, thanks in part to COVID-19.
AT&T gets Microsoft and IBM to help with its cloud homework
US telco AT&T has decided it’s time to raise its cloud game and so has entered into strategic partnerships with Microsoft and IBM.
Ericsson and Intel partner for 5G cloud platform
Ericsson and Intel have announced a new partnership which is aimed at aligning the Swedes efforts for software-defined infrastructure with Intel’s Rack Scale Design.
ETSI publishes new spec and reports on 5G tech
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute, ETSI, released a new specification on packet formatting and forwarding and two reports on transport and network slicing respectively.
Italians clearly aren’t that suspicious of Huawei
Despite governments around the world turning against Chinese vendors, Telecom Italia has agreed a new partnership with Huawei based on Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology.
Nokia gets a bunch more cash from Chinese operators
Nokia is so keen for everyone to know how well it’s doing in China that is it makes an announcement every time it wins some business.
Nokia launches some actual applications for SDN
All the hype surrounding software-defined networking is finally starting to yield some tangible results in the form of three apps from Nokia.
BBWF 2018: Consumers don’t care about tech, just connectivity – BT
Today’s consumer is demanding but disinterested. They don’t care about mobile or broadband or wifi, just top-line connectivity. To meet these demands, BT has pointed to network convergence.
US Senators hit out at India’s pro-privacy and localisation laws
Two US Senators have signed a letter addressed to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggesting new rules to tighten up data practices in the country could lead to a weakened trade relationship with the US.
Nokia plugs openness ahead of Broadband World Forum
Open is one of 2018’s buzzwords and Nokia is cashing in on the bonanza ahead of Broadband World Forum in a couple of weeks.
Microsoft looks to take Xbox experience onto mobile
Microsoft has announced the launch of Project xCloud to take the world of Xbox gaming onto mobile.
Samsung looks to reverse mid-year dip with Q3 numbers
Q2 wasn’t exactly a party for Samsung, though it seems ready to correct the dip at the first possible opportunity.
Amazon, Supermicro and Apple call BS on Chinese spying sting – someone is lying
Amazon, Supermicro and Apple have released statements denying they have ever found any malicious microchips on their hardware calling into questions the validity of Chinese espionage claims.
Banning us could hand China victory in the 5G race – Huawei
Reading between the lines, Huawei is asking the US a new question; banning us will make deployment slower and more expensive, so how will that help in the 5G race against China?
Sprint asks under-threat employees to support redundancies
In a move which perhaps indicates the Sprint/T-Mobile team is starting to get nervous, Sprint CEO Michel Combes is rousing employee support for the very merger which could potentially make them redundant.
Security could make telcos more than a utility in the smart home
With the smart home becoming more of a reality, new research from Open-Xchange suggests the largely ignored security market could be a money-spinner for the telco industry.
Only one in four businesses are ready for digital era – Vodafone
Despite dawn breaking on the digital economy, Vodafone claims only 24% of businesses globally could reasonably call themselves cyber ready, but those who are should prepare themselves for a cash boost.
AT&T launches online advertising marketplace Xandr
Two multi-billion dollar acquisitions and a funny name later, the AT&T content business vision starts to become a bit clearer.
ABI smart city warning tells all too familiar sluggish telco tale
ABI Research has warned MNOs might miss out on the $7.6 billion ‘UnTelco’ revenue opportunity if it waits for the 5G euphoria to kick in.
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