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Open Architecture & Supply Chain Diversity: Securing Telecoms into the Future

The technology that fuels connectivity powers some of the greatest innovations known to mankind – yet the supporting infrastructure behind it is failing to keep pace.  Download Mavenir’s latest white paper which identifies five key security principles designed to drive the transition to open systems...

Verizon ends its slump with strong customer numbers, service revenue growth

Carrier ended 2022 with its best customer numbers in seven years Verizon reported fourth quarter numbers with improved customers numbers and strong growth in service revenue, and company executives said that the company has entered the new year with strong momentum in both wireless and...

Second round of FCC broadband availability data collection begins

Filing window runs through March 1, 2023 As federal regulators continue their efforts to better quantify where broadband is available and where it is not, the second window for data collection of where network operators are offering broadband services opens today. The Federal Communications Commission...

‘A better outcome for everyone’: AT&T’s president of network on resiliency, risk and using sophisticated climate modeling (Part 1)

AT&T is spending around $120 million annually on network resiliency work As Hurricane Ian spun toward the Florida coast in late September, AT&T was making some risky calculations about where to stage pallets of equipment and tractor-trailers full of generators that would help power its...

thinkRF White Paper: How Mobile Operators Can Monitor Competitive Networks in Real-Time

Telecom carriers / mobile operators invest well over a billion dollars per year in their network infrastructure, operations and spectrum. It’s vital for the telecom carriers / mobile operators to access continuous and real-time competitive data to be proactive about when and where they...

AT&T, federal partners launch data portal for weather resiliency planning

A new information portal makes the climate-change-related data that AT&T uses to inform its own network resiliency planning available to communities so that they can access free, sophisticated data on anticipated local weather and climate-related hazards. The Climate Rick & Resilience (ClimRR) data...

Lumen to sell EMEA business to Colt for $1.8B

Lumen retains multinational enterprise customers under the terms of the deal Lumen Technologies announced Wednesday plans to sell its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business to Colt Technology Services in a transaction valued at $1.8 billion. The deal includes Lumen’s regional terrestrial and subsea networks, data...

Dish reports lower revenues, seeks $2B for network build-out

Dish Network reported quarterly results today that included lower year-over-year revenues and also announced that it is seeking $2 billion in financing to support its network build-out. Chairman Charlie Ergen told analysts on Dish's quarterly call that the company currently has more than 10,000...

AT&T raises forecast for midband POPs, sees strong 5G-driven revenues

Carrier's service revenues were up 5.6% year-over-year, AT&T confirms that it already has live 5G SA AT&T reported strong third-quarter results and said that its midband 5G spectrum roll-out is happening faster than expected. The carrier started off expecting to cover 70 million potential customers...

Efficiency and Automation in Network Infrastructure with Lindon Hayes of Essentia

Essentia is quickly establishing itself as a major player in the field of network infrastructure, but their high-level growth didn't materialize out of nowhere. Rather, Essentia's breakthroughs can be attributed to their culture of company-wide innovation and collaboration, fostered by CEO Lindon Hayes. Essentia...

One in five US households don’t have broadband. Most say they don’t want it.

NTIA survey finds 60% of unconnected households report that they have no need/interest in using the internet at home Over the past several decades, the U.S. Census Bureau or other agencies have been asking Americans about their use of computers and the internet. Broadband access...

Middle-mile funding applications top $5.5 billion

The federal government plans to spend $1 billion to expand so-called "middle-mile" connections between networks, as part of a $65 billion effort to build out broadband infrastructure and connect all Americans. In response, more than 235 applicants for funding asked for more than $5.5 billion...

The Sunday Brief: Glass half full or empty? (Jennifer Fritzsche, guest columnist)

Editor’s note:  We are very thankful for friends like Jennifer who are there when parental moves come into the picture.  Today’s opening picture was snapped last night as we prepared for the last leg of the “Planes, Automobiles, Hurricane, U-Haul, Trains” variant of the...

The art of assuring the private cellular network

All enterprise eyes are on the development and deployment of private 5G cellular networks, as businesses seek new flexibility and capabilities that traditional IT infrastructure has not delivered.  But how do you know that your private network is delivering on the promise of 5G? It all...

EU telcos push big tech to pay the infrastructure bill

5G and fiber buildout isn’t viable without making the biggest users pay for part of it, say EU telcos Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica and 13 other Communication Service Providers (CSPs) in Europe are clamoring for hyperscalers and other big tech companies to pick up part...

AT&T’s Stankey talks inflation, fiber and market position

Inflationary pressures continue to affect AT&T's business, but the company is seeing strong wireless growth and CEO John Stankey said that there is no single factor enabling this, but instead a multitude of them, from its FirstNet contract to its focus on fiber. Stankey...

Huawei moves Russian staff to central Asia: Report

Russian press reports indicated that some managers were relocated to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Chinese vendor Huawei decided to relocate part of its staff from Russia to central Asia amid fears of potential sanctions from the United States, according to Russian press reports. Huawei began relocating Chinese...

Ericsson launches energy-efficient, triple-band 5G radio

Ericsson says Radio 6646 is capable of doing the job of nine radios, while cutting energy consumption by 40% Ericsson has launched the Radio 6646, a new triple-band, tri-sector radio that the company claimed is capable of doing the job of nine radios, all while...

FirstNet board approves $358m budget

"Cellular devices are centric to what we're doing," LAPD commander tells the FirstNet board The First Responders Network Authority board has approved the agency's budget for fiscal year 2023, with the majority going toward network reinvestments with partner AT&T. The budget allocations fell into three categories:...

How can telecom companies enable the metaverse?

Building the network to make the metaverse work puts telcos right at the foundation The metaverse needs ubiquitous high-bandwidth, low-latency communications and will require new user equipment unlike anything that’s been used on mobile networks before. Getting the metaverse to work at scale will require...

Huawei sees slower revenue decline in H1

Huawei said that revenues from its Carrier Business Group grew 4.24% to CNY 142.7 billion in the period Chinese vendor Huawei reported overall revenues of CNY301.6 billion ($44.7 billion) in the first half of the year, down 5.9% year-on-year. In the first quarter of the year,...

Airspan revenues up 12% YoY, despite chipset challenges

Airspan says its private networks and FWA opportunities are growing, but chipset challenges remain Airspan reported second-quarter revenues up 12% year-over-year but saw a year-over-year increase in its quarterly loss as it continues to deal with chipset-related delays. The company reported second-quarter revenues of $46.9...

Deutsche Telekom continues to expand 5G, LTE networks

Deutsche Telekom highlighted that 92% of households can already access the carrier’s 5G network German carrier Deutsche Telekom said it has expanded its mobile services at 855 locations nationwide in the past seven weeks, while it added 5G capacity at 123 locations. In a release, the...

Lumen brings edge network to Europe

5ms latency promised for 70% of customers in the UK, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.  Lumen Technologies has announced the launch of its enterprise edge computing solutions in Europe. The company claims 5 millisecond (ms) latency for 70% of enterprise demand in the UK, France,...