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Week’s Articles6th August 2018

Nokia’s $3.5bn deal with TMO does not signal a 5G windfall for OEMs

The USA’s MNOs need to fear cableco’s inside-out strategy

Nokia denies US setback as it loses some Verizon 5G markets

The US telcos have little in common now except 5G, as Verizon backs off video

Qualcomm turns in strong results despite impending loss of iPhone

Nokia and Ericsson pin hopes on 5G to catch up with Huawei

ONF looks to create broad platform around CORD, ORAN and edge compute

UK loads risk onto its fiber and 5G plan, by ignoring potential of G.fast

Xilinx acquires DeePhi as a new weapon in FPGA war with Intel

FCC announces plans for two auctions of high frequency 5G spectrum

ARM acquires Treasure Data as final piece in its Pelion IoT Platform

Ford follows GM and separates its self-driving vehicles activities

Telia responds to Tele2’s content moves by snapping up broadcaster

India and Hong Kong look to cut the cost of 5G spectrum

Cloud management is the shining star of the home WiFi market, says report

iPhone X drives strong quarter for Apple, though Huawei overtakes in volumes

Week’s Articles27th July 2018

Qualcomm’s $44bn NXP deal collapses, a victim of the US-China trade wars

GE Digital follows telcos in giving up the fight with AWS in the cloud

Qualcomm squeezes mmWave into a handset in a key 5G milestone

Intel surrounds x86 with FPGAs and structured ASICs, to pursue 5G and IoT

EHT effort could challenge 5G latency and push WiFi into 6 GHz band

More or fewer MNOs – which way will Europe swing?

Samsung’s homegrown GPU will add to woes for merchant chip industry

Europe’s operators to make drastic cuts in order to afford 5G

Here signs its second LPWAN partner for low power location services

Apple’s autonomous car project still alive, if lawsuits are any indicator

Quantenna pushes wireless motion sensing in WiFi chips

Confusion reigns as ZTE regains business at Wind Tre

Will Vodafone be the one to make a telco breakthrough in SHaaS?

Roku launches speaker to defend its smart TV turf from Amazon Echo

Week’s Articles20th July 2018

ETSI MEC grasps for relevance with appeal to non-MNO cloud providers

Cloud giants start to make the rules for telco networks, as AWS eyes switches

‘5G’ plans by USA’s cablecos will help decide WiFi’s future role

Ericsson nudges back into profit, the first for almost two years

Google hints at Android charges after record EC fine

London Mayor unveils five-point plan amid Europe’s rush to smart cities

Korea moves to avoid “excessive competition” in 5G, with lessons for Europe

As some MNOs prepare to turn off 2G, LTE still only has 39% share

Rise of platooning pushes for EU decision on V2X standards

CBRS-like scheme could end battle for USA’s 4.9 GHz safety band

Fontech starts to make use of its XCellAir purchase to improve WiFi QoE

Google Assistant scores a big win with Dish Network

Week’s Articles13th July 2018

Nokia pursues China’s vertical industry business, with partners old and new

Hopes of a breakthrough in US small cell siting fade amid MNO fury

Facebook abandons drone project but Google promotes Loon

DT takes steps towards stateless and multivendor VNFs

ZTE reprieved, but US-China trade tensions threaten “bruising zero-sum game”

Coriant aims to break out of mobile backhaul with OS for white box routers

Starry raises $100m to extend its WiFi FWA services and technology

China Mobile issues 5G device guidelines, plans smartphones next year

Semtech and Unicom push LoRa in China, while US providers make headway

Baidu chooses Intel Mobileye for Apollo open source self-driving car platform

World Broadcasting Union joins battle to keep C-band for satellite

Liberty Global harnesses WiFi for a low cost approach to service upgrade

Telefónica may plan fixed line sell-off and to focus on mobile-first TV

Has Intel lost its chance to be in the first 5G iPhones?

Week’s Articles5th July 2018

Operators wrest back control from vendors in the 5G balance of power

Reliance Jio buys Radisys to boost its weight in the 5G platform

Open RAN platforms move closer to reality, but no common network in sight

Telcos are sidelined at the edge as IEEE goes with OpenFog

Charter ups the pressure on the telcos with Spectrum Mobile launch

ETSI’s network AI group identifies use cases, plans full architecture

ZTE gains temporary lifeline in the US but crisis costs it Italian contract

‘Commercial 5G’ claims mount up, as more operators eye the FWA case

CEVA supports upgrade to NB-IoT with new Dragonfly design

Regulators need to keep pace with the new thinking on 5G spectrum

After seven years, Apple’s patent dispute with Samsung is over

WiFi Alliance starts WPA3 certification to toughen up security

EE ventures into the UK’s unwelcoming smart home market