Irrespective of the merger’s outcome, the final quarter of 2019 was arguably its most consequential yet.

“We have faced challenges in mobile access and in cash generation,” Nokia President and CEO Rajeev Suri said.

Nick Reed said a delay of up to five years could result if it has to replace Huawei equipment that is already installed across its European footprint.

Arista Networks buys Big Switch; VMware loses $237M patent infringement lawsuit; and Nokia cuts 180 jobs with more to come.

Big Blue CEO is out, and IBM's C-Suite has turned red; AWS sales hit $10B; and Orange tapped Ericsson and Nokia for 5G RAN.

The propositions for private cellular networks in the enterprise environment are myriad, and specific business requirements will drive interest.

Also, CMC, Neutrona combine their SD-WAN resources; and Criterion Networks launches an SD-WAN testbed for MSPs.

“Today, we are a leader in 5G with 78 commercial 5G agreements with unique operators and 24 live 5G networks on four continents," CEO Börje Ekholm said.

DigitalOcean drowned jobs in restructuring efforts; McAfee ousted CEO; Oracle set a record-breaking critical patch update, fixed 334 bugs.

While there have been many twists and turns in the 20 months since the deal was announced, the nation’s third- and fourth-largest operators are effectively no closer to being

Amid double-digital growth in 2019, Ciena CEO Gary Smith says Infinera's 600G optics lack the competitive advantages necessary to steal away market share from Ciena.

“Through slush funds, bribes, gifts, and graft, Ericsson conducted telecom business with the guiding principle that ‘money talks,’” said U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman.

Current COO Joerg Erlemeier will leave the company after a 25-year run on Jan. 1. His functions will be distributed to other leaders within the company.

In a separate report, Ericsson says the global number of 5G subscriptions will top 2.6 billion by the mid-2020.

Almost four months after announcing that its founding CEO was on his way out, A10 Networks selected Dhrupad Trivedi to lead the company.

The move marks the end of John Legere’s run at the company, which began in September 2012.

The effort involves 6,000 new cell sites and will fulfill a condition that the operators agreed to as part of Germany's 5G spectrum auction.

Every important measure of financial performance is down, including active accounts, revenue, net income, and free cash flow.

“We now expect the merger will be permitted to close in early 2020,” CEO John Legere said on an earnings call.

AT&T isn’t fully out of the woods, but it has made good progress on its plan to reduce total debt and shed some under-performing businesses, according to analysts.

Databricks secured a $400 million Series F funding round in tandem with a new chief financial officer: former Splunk CFO Dave Conte.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai echoed other speakers’ about the need for more low-, mid-, and high-band spectrum.

"We are ashamed of our historical performance, but we confront the issues head on and we’re now investing significant resources to strengthen our future compliance program,” CEO Börje Ekholm

Germany declined to ban any vendors from participating in the design and buildout of 5G mobile networks.