"There's no way we can deliver that kind of experience for our customers without millimeter wave," Verizon's Joe Russo said.

“The proposed increases in broadband benchmark speeds clearly advantage operators of fiber optic networks," PwC's Dan Hays explained.

“We're really focused on the bleeding-edge early adopter customers,” Google Fiber's Nick Saporito said.

"I don't want to sound crazy, but like vacations on the moon could be possible, and those are our big dollars,” EY's Michael Misrahi said.

Open-source SDN technology is coming to help power the fastest Wi-Fi connections.

“I love that 5G use case,” Verizon's Joe Russo said.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Broadcom's 2nd gen Wi-Fi wireless connectivity chips offer the promise of more bandwidth, speed and availability than ever before for Wi-Fi.

Satellite connectivity is beginning to make waves across the 5G space as a viable data transmission path, but hurdles remain.

The carrier will allow the satellite entity to use those spectrum assets for the private use of AT&T services.

The lapsed authority is needed to "compete in a global economy, counter Chinese technology leadership ambitions and safeguard our national security."

"No one in the U.S market has successfully aggregated two carriers in 5G SA uplink – until now," AT&T's Jason Sikes proclaimed.

The carrier paid more than $300 million for licenses that the Federal Communications Commission now can't release.

Netscout found that amplification/reflection attacks decreased by over 18% while direct-path attacks increased by the same amount.

ABI Research predicts 5G-based fixed-wireless access connections will hit 72 million worldwide by 2027, representing 35% of the total FWA market.

The firm found 46% of telecom CEOs think their company will not be economically viable in 10 years if they continue down their current operating path.

Network operators can consolidate base station layer software processing on one common virtualized platform, VP Sachin Katti said.