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This Week’s Articles18th February 2019

MWC preview: 2019 is not just the year of 5G, but the year of a new business

New MNOs must displace incumbents to drive the greatest innovation

New MNOs and industrial IoT soften the consolidation blow for vendors

Japan epitomizes the old MNOs’ need to respond to the disruptors

AT&T taps Mirantis to help refresh its Network Cloud to support 5G

Ericsson competes on advanced 5G and SDI, but also on good old pricing

Kinetic Edge Alliance: latest sign that the edge is slipping through MNOs’ hands

Apple steps up quest for its own modem as it loses German case to Qualcomm

Broadband Forum submits converged network specs to 3GPP for Release 16

Juniper refreshes its core, edge and metro offerings to support 5G

Qualcomm divests two non-core businesses in the same week

Dish insists it’s on schedule with NB-IoT, looks ahead to 5G

Ray of hope for Sigfox, as it signs deal with IBM and Peugeot

Nokia spin-off Quuppa contributes location extensions to Bluetooth

CBRS Alliance and Small Cell Forum pool efforts to drive densification

Despite strong 2018 results, market is disappointed in Quantenna’s outlook

Week’s Articles11th February 2019

As first generation 5G looks conservative, talk of 6G inevitably begins

At Turkcell, the digital platform comes first, 5G second

Ericsson finally succumbs and joins the ORAN Alliance

Google Loon’s SDN leapfrogs telco efforts, targeting satellite market

ETSI issues NFV templates to ease deployment, but has the ship sailed?

Xilinx feels the 5G boost already, while Lattice targets low power FPGA markets

Ericsson and Cisco join group calling for private networks for US utilities

Will Intel’s new CEO be capable of the radical thinking it needs?

TMO’s spat with Dish shows the US 5G race is still about sub-6 GHz spectrum

No new entrant in Swiss auction but Sunrise may bid for cableco

AirTies buys Technicolor’s Wireless Doctor to boost home WiFi platform

Europe turns to satellite in U-turn, to hit digital divide goals

Italy and UK probe Huawei, Turkcell leaps to its defense

Zigbee gets a boost in the smart home as Amazon joins board

Forget the eSIM saga, now DT is eliminating the SIM card altogether

Week’s Articles4th February 2019

Germany stands up to MNOs and aims to earmark spectrum for industrial 5G

Linux Foundation’s LF Edge looks beyond telcos for a common framework

Ericsson crawls back to health but Nokia warns of 5G slowdown

Chinese slowdown looms large in results of warring Qualcomm and Apple

Rakuten promises world’s first end-to-end cloud-native 4G network

DT proposes remedy for Huawei crisis, otherwise 5G could face two-year delay

TPG blames Huawei ban for decision to back away from mobile roll-out

Liberty Global backs away from plan to acquire Millicom in LATAM

ZTE pushes FlexE for 5G transport networks, and for future standards

LoRa hits 100 countries but Sigfox still waits for that breakthrough deal

TomTom sells telematics division to focus on mapping

USA’s 28 GHz auction nets just $702m, next mmWave sales starts in March

Telenor latest operator to dash vendor hopes of a 5G capex spike

Ikea could leverage its base to be a kingmaker in the smart home

Week’s Articles29th January 2019

Across the WiFi/5G divide, two operator-led bodies seek a converged RAN

Veon is the latest MNO to fail in the attempt to become a digital player

AT&T overhyped 5G, but it does have the most credible strategy in the USA

Huawei may exit some markets; Vodafone pauses core deployment with OEM

40Gbps mmWave and full dupex DOCSIS take their place in 5G backhaul jigsaw

Vodafone and O2 extend sharing to 5G, and look for new tower revenues

TIM’s shareholders feud after network spin-off plan stymied by regulator

Cisco forms intelligent transport partnership with Iteris – acquisition next?

The USA’s much-vaunted mmWave auction is attracting lukewarm interest

McCaw joins new advisory board to help Loon go commercial

Telefónica UK turns to Nokia to improve network uptime and user experience

Accenture promises ONAP as-a-service to speed virtualization

Week’s Articles21st January 2019

Nokia signs its second major MNO for open RAN projects, this time AT&T

Telefónica forges ahead with OSM, lower hopes for ONAP convergence

USA builds up pressure on Huawei, but Spain and India bring comfort

Qualcomm paid $1bn for iPhone exclusive, according to FTC trial testimony

USA’s 5G will be a patchwork as each operator adopts different spectrum

Ericsson’s BSS strategy has failed; like Nokia, it will make more cuts in 2019

Foxconn moves further into chipmaking as it loosens the ties to Apple

AWS invests in wireless tagging start-up Wiliot

JMA acquires Phazr to add mmWave radio to its virtualized 5G platform

Qualcomm and Visteon boost cellular V2X in its battle with 802.11p

Samsung pre-installs Facebook app with no uninstall option

Sinclair Broadcast’s ATSC 3.0 chipset may change the game for mobile TV

ZigBee and Thread Group grow closer with Dotdot over Thread certification

SK Telecom shows pressure from Netflix, expands its own OTT services