North America

Smart Cities

Qualcomm Launches Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program

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Spectrum

Next phase of US 24-GHz auction won't add much to $2bn total

Blockchain

PROOF OF CAPITAL LAUNCHES $50M BLOCKCHAIN VENTURE FUND

Transport and Logistics

DOCOMO, DOCOMO USA and ITOCHU LOGISTICS to Trial IoT Solution for Delivery-fleet Management in United States

Policy & Regulation

FCC Chairman Opposes China Mobile's Telecom Services Application

Security

T-Mobile and Comcast FIRST to Give Customers New Anti-Robocalling Feature

Media & Entertainment

AT&T sells off Hulu stake as the streamers get themselves vertically integrated

5G

Verizon kicks off search for biggest and brightest 5G ideas with launch of “Built on 5G Challenge”

Telco & CSP

Hulu buys AT&T’s minority stake in joint venture

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5G

The 5G race is far from over, declares President Trump

Mobile

AT&T “Ready to Go” brings the retail experience when and where you choose

5G

FCC seeks comment on bidding procedures for third 5G spectrum auction

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5G

The 5G race is apparently over, so what about pricing?

Guru Parulkar, ONF © The Linux Foundation

White Boxes & Merchant Silicon

Telco white-box switches receive a boost as ONF takes on P4

Cloud

Qualcomm brings power efficient Artificial Intelligence inference processing to the Cloud

Smart Cities

San Diego Mayor Faulconer and Verizon announce multi-million dollar agreement to accelerate small cell, fibre and smart city deployments

Mobile

Qualcomm announces the New Snapdragon 730, 730G and 665 mobile platforms for high and mid tier global devices

5G

Telus secures new 600MHz spectrum licences

Andre Fuetsch, CTO, AT&T © TelecomTV

Open Software

Telcos need to take ownership of open source or risk losing a golden opportunity

5G

Bell update on federal auction of 600MHz spectrum

Media & Entertainment

T-Mobile and Amazon to Bring Prime Video to TVision Home

Privacy

TNS and Metaswitch Announce Immediate Availability of Hosted Robocall Blocking Service Based On STIR/SHAKEN

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AI & ML

Calls for Amazon to stop selling its facial recognition technology

5G

Opening Up for 5G and Beyond: Open Source and White Box Will Support New Data Demands