More than 6,000 employees, or 6.4% of Nokia’s workforce at the beginning of 2020, were cut or laid off by the company during the year.

“We continue to transform the company through maintained focus on research and development,” CEO Börje Ekholm wrote in Ericsson's annual report.

The Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative was initially a joint initiative between AT&T, T-Mobile US, Verizon, and Synchronoss, but has effectively stalled or been abandoned as a group effort.

Equinix Metal is a bare metal IaaS product that partners like VMware, Google Anthos, or Red Hat can provide runtimes, applications, and other upper layer services upon.

Microsoft pushed Azure Arc to general availability; U.S. Sen. Klobuchar called for big tech regulation; Cisco revealed private 5G network vision.

“We really think that simplicity wins, so we’ve been working with leading carriers and leading enterprises just to understand how we can simplify it,” Cisco's Jonathan Davidson said.

“We sit at a critical point where there are significant architectural changes that are starting to happen that will fundamentally transform" network infrastructure, Cisco's Jonathan Davidson said.

The shedding of DirecTV “sharpens our focus on the strategic businesses that are key to growing our customer relationships across 5G, wireless, fiber, and HBO Max,” AT&T CEO John

Some of Dell Technologies’ optimism is fueled by its 2019 pledge to shift to cloud-delivered IT services that it rebranded last fall as Project Apex.

The bills now due to the federal government will cause considerable financial strain on all three nationwide operators with each assuming major debt that could hamper or otherwise delay

“CI/CD is evolving from a one-solution-for-all in a homogenous environment to multiple solutions for different operators," Dell'Oro Group's Dave Bolan said.

Fujitsu’s purchase of Marvell silicon will be of particular interest to operators awaiting delivery of its 5G open RAN equipment, like Dish Network.

HPE also combined all of its telco-related software and hardware into a new business unit called Communications Technology Group.

Samsung, ZTE, and NEC garnered second-tier rankings, followed by Cisco, Fujitsu, Mavenir, and FiberHome.

Palo Alto Networks claimed XDR protected it from SolarWinds; Ex-CISA chief warned cybercriminals; and Google spurred a 5G initiative with Intel.

Integration, validation, and testing of network functions and use cases are among the biggest hurdles facing 5G operators.

"We’re not going to be running in the first city. We’ll be crawling and then hopefully we’ll get up and be walking by the end of the year," Dish's

The gear features the Swedish vendor’s next-generation custom silicon, which it now calls Ericsson Silicon.

Early 5G hype focused on mmWave because it can deliver gigabit-plus speeds, lower latency, and fantastical use cases, but the economics don’t bear out and are unlikely to until

The spectrum bills likely awaiting Verizon and AT&T place even greater pressure on both operators to build 5G enterprise revenue.

Technical and engineering complexities notwithstanding, virtualization, in an ironic twist, also requires operators to balance human involvement and adoption.

vRAN runs into a mosaic of technical limitations as it climbs into higher spectrum.

Paragon Automation now serves as the brand name for all of Juniper’s WAN automation products.

Multiple changes and less obvious signs suggest AT&T has relinquished its leadership role on virtualization, according to LightCounting.