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This Week’s Articles13th December 2018

The makings of a radical new network are coming together for 2019

Nokia and China Mobile partner on Open RAN architectures for 5G

AT&T achieves major milestone in its white box cell site router program

5G must succeed indoors where 4G failed, and neutral hosts will be key

Nokia finds renewed hope in vRAN, while Ericsson deploys with TIM

ETSI and ONAP vye to address MANO for hybrid networks and slicing

China and Australia award 5G licences, Korea goes live

RJio’s havoc continues – the only Indian MNO to grow its base

Trade wars may be behind Chinese court’s injunction against iPhones

After Huawei CFO’s arrest, battles spread to Japan and Europe

Vodafone-Liberty deal in Germany faces scrutiny, but likely to succeed

Nokia and Elisa deploy water cooled base station to cut 5G energy costs

Astrocast joins a crowded field of IoT small satellite providers

MulteFire Alliance extends its remit to IoT spectrum and services

Altice to sell half of its French fiber business, upping challenge to Orange

Week’s Articles6th December 2018

AWS re:Invent: has Amazon got its sights on telco business?

Global Accelerator could allow enterprises to bypass the Internet – and telcos

AWS goes on-premise with edge cloud, stealing a telco advantage

CBRS tests latest sign of Amazon’s growing interest in connectivity

Amazon may favor wireless OEMs rather than operators for IoT alliances

ARM’s server processor push gets boost from Amazon’s Graviton 1

ETSI claims its new specs address failings of IP for advanced 5G services

Orange looks to quadruple banking revenue, expanding in Africa and Europe

Kumu’s new chip sees its focus shift from full duplex to multiband WiFi

5G was meant to be power efficient, but it could quadruple RAN energy levels

Viable vRAN comes a step closer with 802.1CM standard

EC approves Dutch MNO merger but T-Mobile still in a weak position

Blows to Huawei in UK and NZ, while ZTE may face fresh US probes

Smart home and IoT figure strongly in Ericsson and Cisco forecasts

Qualcomm sets up $100m fund for device-based AI

Nokia gets into the multi-AP WiFi game, BT launches WiFi extenders

Week’s Articles28th November 2018

Operators insist they must be free to buy 5G from Chinese vendors

ZTE shows unexpected resilience, while Samsung waits to pounce

MBBF: Huawei woos European markets, claims 22 5G contracts

US sanctions threaten China’s massive mobile memory investment

Industrial players want to buy spectrum and assert control of their 5G security

Russian operators push ahead with plans for 5G sharing

iPhone slowdown hits Foxconn, making it urgent to reduce reliance on Apple

AT&T-driven Acumos AI initiative announces first open software release

Marc Rouanne is casualty of Nokia’s latest round of restructuring

Stratto targets indoor coverage gap with Huawei partnership

Airspan bolsters fixed wireless portfolio and US presence with Mimosa buy

UK operators trial Massive MIMO, 5G broadcast and G.fast backhaul

Post-iPhone, Imagination doubles down on core automotive market

AT&T’s launch of Android TV Operator Tier will extend market outside Europe

China to spend $9bn to expand its alternative to GPS

Analysts warn the display market bubble may burst by 2020

Week’s Articles20th November 2018

Nokia signs Chinese 5G deals, success will rely on non-MNO customers too

Private cellular and edge pre-empt 5G in industrial use cases

FutureX for Industries and edge cloud systems: Nokia grows its enterprise toolkit

Ericsson must not waste potential of Edge Gravity with narrow telco focus

Qualcomm sees its 5G opportunities squeezed by Intel and judges

Packet and Vapor IO vye for towerco alliances to push edge compute

Arris to become a full infrastructure player under CommScope’s wing

Germany’s plans for minimum 5G coverage attacked by GSMA

Self-defense drives uptake of Android in successive industries

Could Disney and T-Mobile join forces in the mobile TV market?

Starry adds Quantenna WiFi 6 chips to its pitch against 5G

Satellite industry at risk of its own dotcom bust

Week’s Articles16th November 2018

Is 5G going to roll out too little, too early?

AT&T and Verizon – their race to 5G will not be a moneyspinner for years

Vestberg tears down walls between wireline and wireless at Verizon

A neutral host Dish could unite the cablecos against Verizon and AT&T

T-Mobile USA talks 5G TV, but not fixed wireless, in latest grandstanding

Verizon makes progress towards virtualized RAN at last

UK operators vye to be first to 5G, while rural 4G coverage remains neglected

Nokia and Ericsson look east for 5G manufacturing and a new cost base

India lays out plans to drive telcos back to profit on the back of 5G

Digicel: telcos are not positioned to make ROI on their 5G launches

Schneider backs unified comms standard for Industrial IoT

By staying in its niche, Sigfox is on its way to its 10m-device target

WiFi Alliance claims 5G role for 11ax, brushing off Ofcom’s attack