It may sound hyperbolic, but open RAN could be the most divisive technology to confront the wireless industry in many years, perhaps decades.

Facebook is emboldened and seemingly committed as ever to tear proprietary legacy models down to its benefit and many others.

Nokia's first 5G RAN products didn't support Massive MIMO 5G layer 1 and eCPRI, Nokia's Tommi Uitto said.

“I’m sure there will be a change in tone. It’ll probably be less bombastic, but I personally don’t think that there will be major changes,” Omdia's Daryl Schoolar said.

Verizon is buying AOL for $4.4 billion. The offer of $50 per share represents a premium of 17.4 percent on AOL's Monday close of $42.59. The deal has been

Here it is, the vaunted Net Neutrality. More specifically, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has moved to declare Internet broadband a Title II services, bringing it under the umbrella

The way this Net Neutrality debate stirs up the Internet zealots, you would think that the U.S. Constitution has an article that says: "Ye should all have a right

As my monthly communcations bills start to approach my mortgage payments, I was wondering whether I was the only one that had this unique financial problem. Apparently not. Spending

A new study links gigabit-speed broadband to higher economic growth, concluding that communities with widely available gigabit access have per capita GDP that is 1.1 percent higher than communities

Is Calix Networks (CALX) back? Skeptics who have burned before might have reason for caution, but the company's earnings beat gives the optimists a reason to look forward to

Please, Mister Regulator Man, let's not let the AT&T and DirectTV deal happen. I hever want to buy my TV service from the phone company.

Nothing warms the souls of technology enthusiasts like a bunch of dark suits in Washington D.C. marching in to take control of the Internet. As the Federal Communications Commission

I don't use WhatsApp, the communications app Facebook just bought for $19 billion. My iPhone is broken and I have to wait another month for my Soviet-style telecom contract

You heard about this thing called Net Neutrality. There was a big court decision this week. Is it the beginning of the end or are the journalists just being

I have a confession to make. I've become enamored with mobile telecoms plays in the adventurous regions of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. They've got it all: Steady

Yesterday I wrote about the complacency about NSA data surveillance. Meanwhile, every day, we find out that the NSA surveillance program ran deeper and wider than anybody imagined. It

Internet video advertising company YuMe successfully went public today, raising about $46 million in total proceeds and achieving a market cap of about $320 million, but it priced 5.1

Internet video is an incredible story. Just take a look at the influence of YouTube, arguably the most successful of all Internet video startups. Google bought YouTube for $1.65B

Don't look now, but there's another crisis in Europe -- a crisis in the telecom industry. Telecom Italia is under siege. So is Telefonica. Debt levels are high, dividends

SDN Thought Leaders You Should Read About This Weekend

Let's catch up on many of the public companies and stocks we've been following:

The "Net Neutrality" debate has taken a interesting turn this week, triggered by Verizon and Google's joint statement to move toward more tiered services on the Internet.

Broadband equipment maker Calix is rallying on its first post-IPO earnings release, after it announced that revenue increased 50%.

I've been poking around Telecom New Zealand (NZT) for quite a while. It first showed up in a dividend stock screen when the dividend was paying about 8%. Forbes'