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News & Views Most Popular CenturyLink Shed 6K Workers During Crash Course Diet Last Year By Iain Morris, International Editor, 4/16/2019 The fifth-biggest US operator by sales is beating AT&T and Verizon in terms of how many jobs it cut last year, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: iainmorris This story has been updated since it was first published to include a comment... Germany's 5G Auction Riches May Equal a Big Win for China By Iain Morris, International Editor, 4/12/2019 Spending in Germany's 5G auction has now reached a point where it could hinder the rollout of next-generation mobile services. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Colt's AI Trials Provide Good News for Humans By Iain Morris, International Editor, 4/10/2019 Colt reports mixed fortunes with four trials of AI technology and predicts that humans will be needed for a long time yet. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Eurobites: Virgin Media Mulls Wholesale Access Offer as UK Fiber Market Heats Up By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 4/8/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: German 5G auction latest; Huawei gear comes under further UK scrutiny; ETNO rubbishes connected-car WiFi (again); BT wins NATO deal. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Google Sets Sail for Bandwidth Breakthrough By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 4/8/2019 Google looks likely to be first to commercial implementation of technology called space-division multiplexing (SDM) for significant bandwidth improvements. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CenturyLink Taps Streamroot for P2P Assist By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/4/2019 Says the P2P-focused agreement will help CenturyLink expand into hard-to-reach areas and augment, not replace, its global content delivery network. Post a Comment \| Read (0) German 5G Auction Bids Near €3B By Iain Morris, International Editor, 4/4/2019 Germany's spectrum auction looks set to exceed the €3 billion ($3.4 billion) threshold because of keen interest in the 2GHz band. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement AWS Hires SDN/NFV Pioneer By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 4/2/2019 SDN/NFV pioneer Tetsuya Nakamura, until recently at CableLabs, has jumped ship to Amazon Web Services. Meanwhile, another SDN/NFV pioneer from CableLabs, Don Clarke, is taking time off. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: FlyingHorse and AWS Vodafone UK Threatens Legal Challenge Over Next 5G Auction By Iain Morris, International Editor, 3/25/2019 A dispute over the UK's next auction of 5G spectrum could delay the rollout of 5G networks and turn ecosystem players off the UK market, according to Vodafone UK's technology boss. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Europe Must Pray for Sobriety in German 5G Auction By Iain Morris, International Editor, 3/20/2019 A rerun of the Italian job in Germany could derail 5G plans and the country's long-term economic prospects. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Italian Stallion, French Flop: Iliad's Talk of Asset Sales Should Worry Europe By Iain Morris, International Editor, 3/19/2019 The one-time enfant terrible of French mobile market has become a victim of hyper-competitive market conditions. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Carriers Shouldn't Panic About Facebook's Wholesale Fiber Service – Yet By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 3/18/2019 Facebook's new Middle Mile Infrastructure, providing fiber bandwidth to local and regional telcos, could threaten incumbents. But it's still early days yet. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 5G Transport, 400ZR Star at OFC19 By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/8/2019 Heavy Reading's optical expert Sterling Perrin discusses some of the major trends in transport network technology at this year's OFC event in San Diego. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Orange Business Services CEO Talks Cloud Trends, Security By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/1/2019 At MWC19, Orange Business Services CEO Helmut Reisinger discusses trends in cloud services, SD-WAN, security and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Huawei Ban Risk Is a Profit Worry for Telcos, Says BICS VP By Iain Morris, International Editor, 3/1/2019 Shutting Huawei out of Europe's 5G sector would add to the margin pressure on the region's mobile operators, warns company executive. Post a Comment \| Read (0) NCTC Plots Plan to Help Cable Ops Work Together on Broadband By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 2/25/2019 Cable industry co-op is heading up a new project to help its hundreds of tier 2/3 operator members get easier access to peering sites and reduce Internet transport costs, new VP of broadband solutions says. Post a Comment \| Read (0) US-China Tech War Looms at MWC Barcelona By Iain Morris, News Editor, 2/22/2019 The interventions by Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich in recent days show just how much will be at stake in Barcelona next week. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Telecom Italia Seeks Friends for 5G Revival By Iain Morris, International Editor, 2/22/2019 The Italian phone incumbent has announced a mobile partnership with Vodafone and is seeking a fixed-line tie-up with Open Fiber as it tries to slash costs while building a next-generation network. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cloud-Native Router Startup DriveNets Banks $110M, Takes On Cisco et al. By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 2/15/2019 Vendor already has Tier 1 traction, a founder with track record of disruption, the backing of Bessemer and has Cisco, Juniper, Huawei and Nokia in its sights. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: dwx I believe their initial use case is in Internet peering, where they are acting... TalkTalk's OSS Rationalization By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 2/6/2019 Heavy Reading's James Crawshaw talks to the team at UK operator TalkTalk about their efforts to revamp their all-important support systems. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive CenturyLink Shed 6K Workers During Crash Course Diet Last Year By Iain Morris, International Editor, 4/16/2019 The fifth-biggest US operator by sales is beating AT&T and Verizon in terms of how many jobs it cut last year, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: iainmorris This story has been updated since it was first published to include a comment... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards iainmorris, 4/17/2019 12:59:44 PM CenturyLink Shed 6K Workers During Crash Course Diet Last Year Re: CenturyLink comment This story has been updated since it was first published to include a comment from CenturyLink. FlyingHorse, 4/2/2019 4:36:44 PM AWS Hires SDN/NFV Pioneer Re: interesting times ahead for Telcos and AWS JohnBear, 3/7/2019 11:43:23 AM Windstream Claims US SD-WAN Leadership Re: Re: SD-WAN Leadership It's only a claim and one not substantiated by a 3rd party. Most of the other carriers that have sdwan are likely ahead of windstream, but do not want to claim such nonsense. It's because sdwan is a replacement... dwx, 2/18/2019 3:27:01 PM Cloud-Native Router Startup DriveNets Banks $110M, Takes on Cisco et al Re: Re: Smart I believe their initial use case is in Internet peering, where they are acting as an off-box control-plane speaking to the peers, and controlling hardware forwarding elements connecting peer to core as if they were a single... TucIm6tx, 2/18/2019 7:05:41 AM Cloud-Native Router Startup DriveNets Banks $110M, Takes on Cisco et al Re: Re: Smart Can you please explain what is the sweet spot the company had found? DNOS (AT&T) and CORD already exist. TucIm6tx, 2/18/2019 7:03:40 AM Cloud-Native Router Startup DriveNets Banks $110M, Takes on Cisco et al Re: There are many discrepancies and question marks over DN’s Story: 1. If they have a design based on BCM ASICs, this is not going to be a cheap design. Claiming 90% cost reduction over Cisco, whereas Cisco has its own ASIC, is more the questionable 2. ... Sterling Perrin, 2/15/2019 9:36:09 AM Cloud-Native Router Startup DriveNets Banks $110M, Takes on Cisco et al Re: Smart This company has found the right spot where white box is appealing for telecom and VCs have recognized this. There's a long history of dumb VC money (see "Optical Networking" circa 1999) but this is a good bet - not a sure... optical Mike, 1/27/2019 3:28:37 PM RBOCs Hungry for Fiber - Broadband - Telecom News Analysis - Light Reading Re: re: RBOCs Hungry for Fiber The link and company are no longer relevant but the technology is working very well, 6 years from BPON and GPON to the Next Gen PON of today and the Terabit systems of the future. As we said at Optical Solutions it was... GypsumFantastic, 1/10/2019 8:56:51 AM Eurobites: Sky Takes a Stake in Synamedia Re: TV licence consultation? Would rather the BBC had a public consultation about abolishing the TV licence. An outdated stealth tax. They can then charge consumers to use their iPlayer like other OTT players, and at least people then have the choice... Ray@LR, 1/8/2019 5:54:40 AM AT&T, Time Warner Shed 11K Workers in First 9 Months of 2018 Re: CWA claims AT&T cut >10k jobs in 2018 The Communications Workers of America (CWA) has issued a statement claiming that AT&T cut more than 10,000 jobs in 2018 -- see https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/following-atts-promise-invest-tax-windfall-in-us... iainmorris, 1/4/2019 8:49:47 AM AT&T, Time Warner Shed 11K Workers in First 9 Months of 2018 Re: Database now available The supporting database is now available from the link in the second paragraph of the story. MindCommerce, 12/26/2018 9:07:20 PM PCCW Global on the Need to Monetize the Edge Re: Need for Carriers to Think Out of Box with Edge Computing "We need to sell to customers directly" (like cloud providers). Do you see that carriers get that model and see a way to adopt it? "We have (speaking of PCCW), developed our own platform...where customers can order on-demand". "We... MindCommerce, 11/30/2018 12:52:07 PM Smart Cities Are a Truly Different Kind of Telco Business Re: Market Opportunities for Global Wireless Carriers in Smart Cities This is a great article and very well timed. Carriers are missing a huge opportunity by not offering a comprehensive Smart City solution package. We talked about this back in 2015, which was embodied in our Market Opportunities... DanJones, 11/14/2018 5:41:34 PM Can 5G Spur Biz Where Tax Reform Failed? Re: Depends if 5G Home takes off? Depends off 5G home takes off for VZ, and they can figure a reliable user self install for the service too. Gabriel Brown, 11/12/2018 8:54:11 AM BT Needs a Kick in the Ducts Re: A Kick in the Ducts Interesting piece Iain -- I'm not really well enough informed to comment properly. I suspect a decent argument could be made both ways. But I don't think your divorce analogy is all that useful. It's a bit like describing... 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