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5G

What’s up with…. AT&T, Mavenir, Orange

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Sustainability

The $45-$80 billion circular opportunity for telcos

Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm

5G

RAN market on fire: Ericsson CEO

Cloud Native

What is up with… Dish & AWS, Verizon, Infovista + Empirix

Sustainability

Everyone wants to be a sustainability leader

Open RAN

New investor takes $500M stake in Mavenir

Open RAN

Vodafone opens its first Open RAN lab

Digital Platforms & Services

What’s up with…. Deutsche Telekom, Telenor’s 5G core, UK rural coverage

Lord Livingston of Parkhead (aka Ian Livingston, former BT CEO)

5G

UK's 5G supply chain report lauds Open RAN, retains questionable quota proposal

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6G R&I

What is 6G? The NGMN Alliance offers some foundational ideas

cogs in a machine (wikimedia)

Security

Arm will likely become a cog in a US monopoly: UK Govt to investigate NVIDIA acquisition on national security grounds

Open RAN

What’s up with… Open RAN in Indonesia, Nokia, Enea, Zoom

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6G R&I

US and Japan team on Open RAN, 6G R&D

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Access Evolution

IoT specialists are finding network security hard

Security

KPN shaken to the core by Huawei espionage allegations

Digital Platforms & Services

What’s up with… Ericsson & Vodafone, satellite broadband, Huawei

6G R&I

Germany pumps €700 million into 6G R&D

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5G

Huawei: What, me worry?

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AI, Analytics & Automation

The EU wields a big stick to prevent AI being used for ‘indiscriminate surveillance’

Digital Platforms & Services

What’s up with… Bharti Airtel, SK Telecom, Open Grid Alliance, Cato Networks

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Digital Platforms & Services

In-vehicle advertising is a dead end. Cars to get payment power instead

Digital Platforms & Services

VMware is going solo, to be spun off from Dell

Access Evolution

What’s up with… Virgin Media/O2 merger, Openreach & STL, Google Cloud

5G

Vendor diversity is a positive, but vendor quotas would be a negative