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Week’s Articles16th May 2018

ZTE suspends operations, with ripple effects throughout the industry

Millimeter wave trials move further up the spectrum, above 95 GHz

Liberty sells key assets to Vodafone, creating challenger for DT in Germany

US utilities fight for their own private networks and spectrum

ZTE’s pain and the software network – new chances for Samsung and NEC?

Eight IoT acquisitions in a week, but this is not the sign of a bubble

Turkcell brings LTE-A to rural communities with homegrown base stations

BT chief promises commercial 5G in 18 months

Google I/O: DeepMind’s AI moves to heart of Android experience

Reliance Jio and TPG continue to unleash price wars on incumbents

BT’s chief architect pins hopes on white boxes and disaggregation

Week’s Articles9th May 2018

Will open platforms save the MNOs, or kill them?

Verizon takes steps towards a fully white box edge environment

ONF aims to open up optical transport, working with Facebook TIP

ETSI gets closer to open source bodies as OPNFV enriches platform

Open spectrum as important as open platforms to the 5G vision

Nokia promises network “between LTE and WiFi” to boost enterprise business

On back of Hutchison deal, Xiaomi re-emerges as Apple challenger

Sprint and TMO need to find common ground on network platforms, quickly

US cablecos’ greenfield advantage could wrongfoot the MNOs

South Korea plans 5G auction amid ‘universal fare’ disputes

This quarter’s tech results show IoT expectations are coming down to earth

Intel and Softbank unveil their drone platforms in the same week

InterDigital proposes more pragmatic approach to next generation VR

Ruckus acquisition starts to impact on new parent’s results

Week’s Articles3rd May 2018

TMO is a bad choice for Sprint, but shouldn’t be blocked on competition grounds

Nokia harnesses ReefShark for edge server targeted at C-RANs and IoT

Chinese tensions add to Qualcomm’s woes, will it have to split in two at last?

Stark contrast in profits for India’s largest MNO, and its newest one

Huawei may bring its own mobile OS out of the shadows again

A ZTE-style ban on Huawei would hit US companies hard

European Commission probes Apple’s $400m purchase of Shazam

Nokia, like Ericsson, pins hopes of sales and profits recovery on 5G

After losing Android copyright case to Oracle, Google re-emphasizes Fuchsia

5G and densification drives new roadmap for G.fast technologies

Tata and DTTech support mobile and IoT providers across Africa’s borders

Devices become one of Google’s key priorities for growth and capex

Week’s Articles25th April 2018

US carriers and GSMA to be probed for alleged eSIM collusion

OpenStack puts in its bid to underpin MNOs’ edge compute platforms

Ericsson remains too reliant on 5G despite some Q1 improvements

Google makes yet another attempt to fend off WhatsApp with RCS

Charter and Comcast enhance challenge to MNOs, with shared back end

European research institute demoes yet another 5G OFDM option

Orange and Telecom Italia jump on telco AI bandwagon

KDDI sets up venture fund to boost its access to 5G innovation

Taiwanese regulator warns of 5G “race to the bottom”

Microsoft launches its own OS to address security in large-scale IoT

Nokia and KDDI first to use LTE-B for vehicle communications

The US’s ATSC industry pulls back from mobile activity

FCC underwhelms with first mmWave auction plans

Korea sets the pace for infrastructure sharing, which is vital to 5G

5G trials and G.fast are brought in to save the day for Australia’s nbn

Another Apple supplier issues warning, iPhone X slowdown blamed

Week’s Articles18th April 2018

First xRAN fronthaul specs aim to break RAN vendor lock-in

MEF 3.0 enhances ONAP’s chances of becoming orchestration standard

Sprint and T-Mobile in panic merger talks, but the same barriers remain

US bars sales to ZTE – Qualcomm’s loss could be MediaTek’s gain

EU-backed project pushes boundaries of radio over fiber for 5G

Qualcomm debuts purpose-built IoT processors with machine vision

Nokia’s OZO virtual reality venture reborn as start-up Imeve

MediaTek shows NB-IoT is now ready for the ultra-low power mainstream

FON acquires XCellAir to enrich WiFi optimization platform

Crown Castle eases AT&T’s densification with streamlined sites deal

Comcast could get 3m wireless users by next year, after slow start