“We are going to be augmenting our [secure access service edge] portfolio working with other partners," T-Mobile's Mishka Dehgan said.

“Verizon ... they’ve got a big team and they like to own it. ... We are in the camp of bringing the right partnerships," UScellular's Kim Kerr said.

"We've seen this architecture exceed our expectations on the overall economic picture for value," Verizon's Adam Koeppe said.

The latest integration also tapped into the Linux Foundation-hosted Nephio project.

The companies claim their single-SIM platform is what makes it unique.

The service also opens up Celona’s target market to opportunities outside of the “uncarpeted enterprises” it has been targeting.

The $50 million in funding came from Digital Alpha Advisors, which has a “strategic collaboration agreement” with Cisco.

T-Mobile US gains immediate leasing access to some of Comcast's 600 MHz licenses, which have been linked to the cable giant's cellular plans.

Intel Network and Edge Group SVP and GM Sachin Katti noted that customization is often tied to workload needs or scale.

The carrier plans to spend $19 billion over the next five quarters in repurchasing its own shares and in doling out dividends to shareholders.

“Comcast is just so big. I didn't really appreciate how big it was until I joined," Ilan Eframian said.

CEO Raghu Raghuram oversaw increased revenues and net income for the vendor during its most recent fiscal quarter.

“We are going to see a rearrangement across the board, whether we like it or not," Federated Wireless CEO Iyad Tarazi said of the market.

"Broadcom to me looks like a private-equity company as much as a technology company," Technology Business Research's Alex Demeule said.

“For every dollar of wireless, there are actually $2 to $3 of wired switching opportunity for us to pursue,” Rahim told a J.P. Morgan conference.

Dell'Oro Group linked the drop to North American operators reining in their 5G spend.

Federated Wireless CEO Iyad Tarazi stated private 5G "requires you to think about the broader integration model.”

With that outcome potentially weeks away, the question could be whether VMware's business as usual remains a model for the vendor going forward.

Oracle VP Andrew De La Torre explains how Oracle's approach strips away the network technology and instead focuses on enabling business outcomes.

Dell Technologies’ Manish Singh views simplicity as the key to unlock open RAN operational opportunities for telecom operators.

“When you've got people disagreeing, when you've got a toxic political environment, it makes it really challenging,” Huawei CSO Andy Purdy said.

“Combining will strengthen our capital structure to position the company for sustainable growth moving forward,” Echostar CEO Hamid Akhaven said.

"Basically, in our monolith it’s moving a pretty large deployment into a fully distributed deployment. This accelerates that.” Cisco's Masum Mir said.

Operator executives admit growing data demands from the consumer and enterprise space “have outstripped the current capabilities of networks.”