"It's about being experts who understand what our business customers face," Alicia Dietsch, SVP of business marketing for AT&T, said.

The carrier is looking at different spectrum models to power a “nonstandard-based solution” or multi-dwelling unit strategies.

CEO Mike Sievert: "For the market we’re trying to serve, [FWA is a] profitable, accretive, incremental business with little to no capital allocated."

The deal is a “foundational contract extension” in his firm’s now 10-year relationship with Verizon, Synchronoss CEO Jeff Miller said.

“This journey of ‘re-shaping’ the [radio access network] was never expected to be smooth and many challenges remain," Dell'Oro Group notes.

The pending deal this week gained regulatory approval from the United Kingdom, which followed European Commission approval last week.

Verizon Business added international IoT management capabilities, making it easier for enterprises to deploy and manage devices overseas.

The 5G SA core market continues at a near standstill despite significant revenue-generating opportunities the technology can support.

The program has hit political potholes that have slowed the approval process and left operators holding the money bag.

This is an area that remains the most immature, but one that Amazon Web Services' Ishwar Parulkar is “most excited about.”

The private 5G network space continues to show growth potential; however, economic and industry challenges are dragging on that opportunity.

The challenge with millimeter-wave spectrum is that it has very limited propagation characteristics compared to low- and mid-band spectrum.

EdgeNectar has a deal with a Silicon Valley-based real estate company to install its 5G-based fixed-wireless access service in a handful of buildings.

“This is an investment in the future,” Nokia's Mark Atkinson said.

AT&T recently expanded its enterprise work with Cisco that includes increased security for SD-WAN services.

Cisco scooped up another network observability company, acquiring U.K.-based SamKnows to integrate into its ThousandEyes platform.

The vendor will remain committed to OpenStack until “I turn off the last LTE [virtualized network function] that’s running on it," exec Ian Hood said.

The carrier reported that its 5G network now covered more than 70% of the U.S. population, or more than 240 million people.

“We are now at a phase where we are building custom services for telcos,” Amazon Web Services' Ishwar Parulkar said.

As their influence grows it could impact how they continue to operate within what is hoped to be an open ecosystem.

The 5G-as-a-service offering provides a managed onramp for enterprises that want to add advanced 5G technical capabilities to their private network.

Apple's Vision Pro could be an inflection point in the virtual reality, augmented reality and extended reality space.

CEO Börje Ekholm recently told investors the vendor was “starting to see some very interesting use cases for our dedicated networks in manufacturing.”

“The reality is that there is just a couple of large operators right now that are driving the market," Dell'Oro Group's Stefan Pongratz said.