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News & Views Most Popular WiCipedia: Diverse Boards Are the Future & UK Gov't Deals With Online Abuse By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 8/23/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Silicon Valley is out of touch; board diversity makes headway; how to be heard in meetings; and more. Post a Comment VMware Splashes $4.8B on Strategic Acquisitions By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/23/2019 VMware is bolstering its developer support and security capabilities with the acquisitions of Pivotal Software and Carbon Black. Post a Comment Here's How T-Mobile Reduced LTE Congestion by 71% By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/22/2019 T-Mobile's CTO Neville Ray built a traffic-forecasting tool in conjunction with Speedtest provider Ookla that the company said helped direct fully $10 billion in network spending over the past five years. Post a Comment Advertisement Mobileum Parachutes Into 'New Ballgame' With $70M WeDo Takeover By Iain Morris, International Editor, 8/16/2019 Private equity-backed roaming and security specialist has a new line-up of senior executives to manage a business that has just doubled in size. Post a Comment Eurobites: The Lost Towers of Nigeria By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 8/16/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ireland takes a closer look at Verizon Media's cookies; EU and Apple prepare for September showdown over tax bill; Sky trumpets addressable TV. Post a Comment WiCipedia: Using Tech for Good, the Scully Effect & Google's Clock Is Ticking By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 8/16/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Coding school teaches kids to help others with tech; '90s TV reigns supreme even in the everything-automated age; computer science programs may have more accountability soon; and more. Post a Comment Podcast: Prof. Nick Feamster Explains Machine Learning for Telcos By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 8/13/2019 Machine learning is primed to help service providers run more efficient and effective networks, but first the good ideas have to make their way from the lab to the real world – and that's a big challenge, according to the University of Chicago's Nick Feamster. Post a Comment Advertisement CenturyLink Drops 'Several Hundred Million' Dollars on Edge By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/12/2019 CenturyLink is building out more than 100 initial edge compute locations across the US and providing hybrid cloud and managed services. Post a Comment WiCipedia: NASA's Beauty Queen & Coding for a Cause in OKC By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 8/9/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: A coding school with heart; brains and beauty win the crown; diversity efforts are not enough; and more. Post a Comment How Airtel Sri Lanka Revamped Its BSS By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 8/7/2019 For any operator, revamping an entire business support system (BSS) architecture in just six months and cutting IT opex by 80% as a result is a notable achievement. Post a Comment TM Forum on Telecom's AI Trends By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 8/5/2019 Aaron Boasman-Patel, the TM Forum's VP of AI, Customer Experience and Data, talks about the real-world uses of AI in the telecom sector. Post a Comment WiCipedia: Smile to Get Ahead, Coding Ninjas & 'Women in Tech' Need a New Moniker By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 8/2/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: You better smile if you want to work in tech; job descriptions need an overhaul; is being called a 'woman in tech' offensive?; and more. Post a Comment A10 Networks Is in Trouble: Company for Sale, CEO Leaving By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/1/2019 A10 Networks, which is struggling to develop a 5G, network security and analytics strategy, is now up for sale. And the founder and CEO is on his way out. Post a Comment Big Blue Turns Red for Multicloud By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/1/2019 IBM reveals details of how it's using Red Hat software as the foundation for its multicloud strategy, following its $34 billion Red Hat acquisition. Post a Comment VMware Snags Uhana for AI-Driven Mobile Network Optimization By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 7/26/2019 Uhana uses deep learning and real-time AI to optimize carrier mobile networks and applications. Post a Comment WiCipedia: Rad Projects, Femtech Entering Heyday & CES Confirms Diversity Changes By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 7/26/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Bumble gets mixed up with the wrong crowd; a new coding book for young girls makes tech fun; femtech gets its day in the sun; and more. Post a Comment Explainability Is the Key to Trust in AI By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 7/22/2019 If AI is to play a role in communications network operations, a high degree of trust will be required. Explainable AI might be the route to gaining that trust. Post a Comment Eurobites: S&P Puts Vodafone on Creditwatch By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 7/17/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Tele2's earnings up 3% in Q2; Openet goes cloud-native for 5G; Inmarsat takeover comes under scrutiny. Post a Comment Podcast: ClearSky Data CEO Ellen Rubin Knows Where Your Data Is By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 7/16/2019 Ellen Rubin joins the Light Reading podcast to discuss edge computing and the new need for data management in more places as the world goes from static storage to mobile, multicloud madness. Post a Comment Eurobites: Israel Sets 5G Spectrum Auction in Motion By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 7/15/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Huawei requests level laying field in Italy; ADVA adds a dash of AI to satellite signaling analytics; Galileo crashes and burns; Telenor's Q2 dented by Bangladeshi 'errors.' Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors VMware Reports $2.44B Revenue, Up 12% YoY, Acquiring Pivotal & Carbon Black Thursday, August 22, 2019 Three UK Builds 5G-Ready Cloud Core Network with Nokia Tuesday, July 16, 2019 EXFO Reports Fiscal Q3 Growth Thursday, July 11, 2019 Google to Buy Looker for $2.6B Thursday, June 6, 2019 Informa Agrees Asset Swap With IHS Markit Wednesday, May 22, 2019 HPE to Acquire Cray for $1.3B Friday, May 17, 2019 605 Adds Former Fox, Rentrak Execs Monday, April 15, 2019 Spirent Appoints New CEO Tuesday, April 2, 2019 Ericsson Reflects on 2018, Boasts Leading 5G Position Friday, March 29, 2019 Matrixx Software Appoints New CTO Monday, March 18, 2019 OpenVault Nets Deal With Grupo TVCable Tuesday, February 19, 2019 Veteran Media Execs Join Ssimwave Tuesday, February 12, 2019 Allot Reports 2018 Sales Hike Wednesday, February 6, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Nuclear Plant Security Compromised by Financially Motivated Insiders Larry Loeb, Author, 8/23/2019 Equipment at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine was used to mine cryptocurrency. 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Three CEO: We'd Rather Take Huawei Risk Than Miss 5G Rewards

Three UK has just launched a major 5G-led assault on the living room. If all goes to plan, the smallest of the country's four mobile network operators will emerge ...