The market research firm predicts public cloud spending will reach nearly $600 billion by the end of 2023.

The community also said it increased activities with other industry bodies and standards development organizations throughout 2021.

A quartet of F5’s “BIG-IP Next” branded cloud-native network functions are slated to be available on Rakuten Symphony later this year.

The Pentagon has reached out to Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle on the newly named Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability initiative.

The crisis and assumed penalties that will be levied against Ericsson have slashed the Swedish company’s value by at least 25%.

“Cisco clearly came out on top, gaining 0.7% share in a market worth $231.4 billion," MTN Consulting's Matt Walker said.

Huawei remains saddled with a series of restrictions that make it impossible for it to conduct business in many countries and access critical parts.

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook lead global data center capacity and are poised to activate the largest number of new data centers through 2026.

"5G hype has been out of control, and there are a lot of people wondering where the breakthrough 5G innovations are," T-Mobile's Neville Ray said.

Open RAN still faces significant challenges around specifications development, testing, and integration across multiple layers and players.

While the threat of cyberattacks remains omnipresent, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has the U.S. and its allies on heightened alert.

The timing is critical because some shareholders have called for Börje Ekholm’s removal heading into Ericsson’s annual general meeting later this month.

Integration and interoperability between different services, products, and vendors remains a key sticking point for open RAN.

Wireless carriers generated 5.5% more in revenues last year, but capex surged 10.1%, according to MTN Consulting.

Nvidia coughed up a $1.25 billion breakup fee after abandoning a deal to acquire Arm, but that apparently wasn’t enough to delay massive job losses.

Wireless network operators largely view sustainability in terms of dollars and cents rather than a pressing need to shift to renewable energy.

While AT&T’s fiber aspirations generally match those of Verizon, the operator differs significantly with respect to fixed wireless access.

T-Mobile plans to remove about 80% of Sprint’s cell sites and upgrade the remaining sites it’s keeping from the portfolio.

“Mobile networks aren’t mobile for very long. They have to get to a wired infrastructure,” Cisco EVP Jonathan Davidson said.

Verizon reaffirmed plans to deploy its 5G core this year, but wireless customers won’t gain access to standalone mode until 2023, VP Bill Stone said.

"Instead of war games our leaders should be sitting down together and thinking about" climate change, Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark said.

Rakuten Symphony made inroads with multiple industry stalwarts at MWC Barcelona 2022, indicating growing momentum and respect in the telco space.

“Operators are using the cloud to transform the core of their businesses now," AWS CEO Adam Selipsky said.

AT&T’s commitment to Microsoft for all things cloud, not exclusive but increasingly broad, also grew this week.