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News & Views Most Popular Chill Out! Netflix Is Fine, Analyst Says By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/14/2019 Concerns about new direct-to-consumer competition alongside pressure on Netflix's pricing power is misunderstood or overblown, contends LightShed Partners analyst Richard Greenfield. Post a Comment NTT's Mega-Merger, Brand-Cutting Plan for Another $4B in Sales By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/14/2019 Japan's NTT is uniting 28 enterprise-focused brands in its bid to grow at twice the market rate and deliver a boost to profitability. Post a Comment F5G: Huawei's Bid to Dominate Optical Access By Robert Clark, 10/14/2019 The Chinese equipment giant has a new plan for shaping the development of optical access technology. Post a Comment Advertisement Why Many Operators Just Can't Quit 2G By Robert Clark, 10/14/2019 Like old-fashioned rock and roll, 2G just refuses to die. Post a Comment India Opens 5G Door to Huawei at IMC By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 10/14/2019 Authorities have allowed the controversial Chinese vendor to participate in demos at an industry event, suggesting it may be allowed into the country's 5G market. Post a Comment Equinix Debuts $1B+ Hypercloud Gambit By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/11/2019 Equinix is looking to host data centers for hypercloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, in a joint venture with a Singaporean investment fund. Post a Comment TM Pitches to Build Malaysia's National 5G Network By Robert Clark, 10/10/2019 Malaysia's fixed-line incumbent wants to be the country's only operator of a 5G network. Post a Comment Advertisement Europe Sounds Alarm About 'Single Supplier' 5G Deals By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/10/2019 Recent deals signed by the likes of Telia, Three and Telecom Italia are under an uncomfortable spotlight after the publication of a new report about 5G security. Post a Comment China Optical Vendors Take a Hit From Fiber Glut By Robert Clark, 10/9/2019 Fiber saturation has dampened demand this year, but the arrival of 5G means the downturn may be short-lived. Post a Comment Eurobites: Telia & Nokia Launch 5G FWA in Finland By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/9/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nuage Networks finds SD-WAN love in Bahrain; Vodafone closes stores, but not in the UK; MegaFon sets up e-commerce JV with Alibaba and friends. Post a Comment MyRepublic: 'Redefining the Economics of Telco' By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 10/8/2019 Fixed broadband service provider developed its own OSS and BSS systems, a move that gives it cost efficiencies compared with traditional systems and advanced data analysis capabilities, according to its executives. Post a Comment Telia Norway Goes All Ericsson on 5G & Dumps Huawei By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/8/2019 The Norwegian operator will eventually have an all-Ericsson radio access network for all the different technologies, a senior executive tells Light Reading. Post a Comment US May Fund Ericsson, Nokia in Huawei Fight – Report By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/8/2019 The Trump administration is also taking a close interest in open RAN technologies, and proponents such as Altiostar, as it looks to support alternatives to the Chinese equipment giant. Post a Comment Vodafone CEO 'Fast Tracks' OpenRAN in Challenge to Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/7/2019 One of the telecom's industry's top executives is backing trials of open RAN technology as a way of bringing more competition into the network market. Post a Comment China Telcos Rack Up 9M 5G Advance Subs By Robert Clark, 10/7/2019 But the telcos are not displaying enough 5G ambition for some government authorities. Post a Comment Eurobites: Openreach Trials New Approaches to FTTP By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/7/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: UAE's du happy with Huawei; Vodafone trials OpenRAN in the UK; Ericsson upgrades in Madagascar. Post a Comment Telcos Must Get More Enterprising in 5G By Angus Ward, CEO, BearingPoint//Beyond, 10/4/2019 A new study from BearingPoint shows that CSPs have a lot of work ahead of them if they are to appeal to enterprise customers. Post a Comment For Trump's Attack Dogs, There's No Stopping Huawei By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/4/2019 Most governments and operators have shown little inclination to heed US warnings about the consequences of using Chinese suppliers. Post a Comment VEON Digs Into Digital Diversity By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 10/4/2019 The Eurasian operator has flipped its digital strategy to give greater autonomy to its geographically diverse operating companies. Post a Comment The 'Ostiguide' to Observability By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 10/4/2019 At 5G Asia, Accedian's founder and Executive Chairman Patrick Ostiguy explains the difference between 'observability' and visibility for monitoring and service assurance of 5G networks. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive US May Fund Ericsson, Nokia in Huawei Fight – Report By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/8/2019 The Trump administration is also taking a close interest in open RAN technologies, and proponents such as Altiostar, as it looks to support alternatives to the Chinese equipment giant. Post a Comment Eurobites: Telia & Nokia Launch 5G FWA in Finland By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/9/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nuage Networks finds SD-WAN love in Bahrain; Vodafone closes stores, but not in the UK; MegaFon sets up e-commerce JV with Alibaba and friends. Post a Comment Telia Norway Goes All Ericsson on 5G & Dumps Huawei By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/8/2019 The Norwegian operator will eventually have an all-Ericsson radio access network for all the different technologies, a senior executive tells Light Reading. Post a Comment F5G: Huawei's Bid to Dominate Optical Access By Robert Clark, 10/14/2019 The Chinese equipment giant has a new plan for shaping the development of optical access technology. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Sequans' IoT Chips Approved for Use by 3 Largest Japanese Mobile Operators 12 hours and 9 minutes ago You.i TV Nets UI Deal With Australia's Network 10 Thursday, October 10, 2019 Equinix & GIC Launch $1B+ European Data Center JV Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Cujo AI Passes 500M Monitored, Protected Devices Tuesday, October 8, 2019 NTT DoCoMo Validates Altair's NB-IoT/Cat-M Chipset Monday, October 7, 2019 KDDI Picks Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung for 5G Monday, September 30, 2019 Operators Flock to GSMA's APAC IoT Partnership Programme Monday, September 30, 2019 Despite Rough Q2 for Cable, Global Broadband Access Gear Revenue Rises 3% Thursday, September 26, 2019 U Mobile Overhauls Its BSS With Whale Cloud Tuesday, September 24, 2019 Common NFVI Telco Taskforce (CNTT) Boasts Reference Milestone Monday, September 23, 2019 MobiledgeX Boasts Operator, Developer Traction Friday, September 20, 2019 Motion Picture Association Goes Global Wednesday, September 18, 2019 Samsung, SK Telecom Team for 8K TV Powered by 5G Monday, September 9, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now CISO No Longer the Last Word on Security – Radware Larry Loeb, Author, 10/14/2019 The rise of DevSecOps may be the reason that 70% of respondents to Radware's ... 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MobiledgeX's Jason Hoffman: State of the Edge The 5G Connectivity Challenge Network Intelligence & Automation in Mergers & Migrations Why Telcos Need an Elastic Services Platform Why Hardware Still Matters in the SDN Era Why Is Autonomous Operations Key to Your Network Evolution? Ribbon's Kevin Riley Talks New Company Brand, Latest ... 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 ... 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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 Ericsson, Huawei & Nokia Are Facing an 'Oil Crisis' Upheaval Iain Morris , International Editor , 7/31/2019 Years of consolidation have left the global mobile network market largely in the ... (15 comments) Europe's Long Walk to 5G Iain Morris , International Editor , 7/11/2019 Europe's path to 5G is littered with regulatory and financial obstacles. But ... (7 comments) Huawei Has Billions Riding on Claim to Be 5G Patents Powerhouse Iain Morris , International Editor , 4/2/2019 As both a licensor and licensee of cellular technology, Huawei has more at stake ... 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