The GSA has identified 45 countries that are planning 5G spectrum auctions or have already allocated spectrum for the new services.

The British telecommunications provider chose SevOne to step up the level of automation of service management it can provide to its customers.

Ericsson and Qualcomm trumpet a successful 5G data call using the 2.6 GHz frequency band.

The test produced round-trip latency of less than 100 microseconds (0.1 milliseconds) and a data transmission speed of 40 Gb/s.

And Poland arrested a Chinese Huawei employee and charged him with spying for Beijing.

Mesosphere names a new CEO to replace its co-founder; Indian software provider Sterlite Technologies hires new execs; Lattice Semiconductor expands its leadership team.

France may have been propelled to the 5G race by the U.S. and South Korea, but its 5G roadmap and competitive mobile players support its ambition to play a

AT&T deploys white box cell-site routers in production; VMware CEO lists his top 3 priorities; Huawei's CFO is arrested.

William Plummer, Huawei’s former VP of external affairs, said that company needs to diversify its leadership and not solely rely on Chinese nationals in its relations with the U.S.

The $26 billion deal sits about halfway through the FCC's informal timeline for its review process.

Some sources told the Wall Street Journal that Ericsson and Nokia have been slow to capitalize on Huawei’s woes.

But Huawei may be getting the best kind of revenge. The company says its revenues in 2018 grew 21 percent over the previous year.

While the government didn’t name the network providers, Reuters reports that HPE and IBM were among the compromised networks.

The report cited a divergent business path compared with Nokia and hinted at a potential upside for Ericsson due to continued geo-political issues for Huawei and ZTE.

According to reports, the deal was cleared after Deutsche Telekom and SoftBank offered to stop using Huawei equipment.

AT&T CTO Andre Fuetsch said the carrier is at 63 percent SDN control of its network operations that can be virtualized, pushing toward its goal of 65 percent control

The standards body insists there is no need for panic, as it announces a three-month delay in the completion of the Release 15 standard.

The South Korean carrier is to partner with MobiledgeX, building on the deal signed with DT in October 2018.

“SDN is going to be a very broad deployment,” said Telus’ Bryce Mitchell. “We made sure we included SDN within the NFV pods themselves.”

The mobile operator association uses GDP and tax arguments to persuade governments to support the allocation of sufficient mmWave spectrum for 5G at WRC-19.

Joe Cozzolino departs Cisco to join private equity firm; CenturyLink CTO joins the MEF board of directors.

OSM Release Five adds support for network slicing and employs a microservices architecture to make it a viable choice for 5G use cases.

A bunch of service providers from around the world are starting to implement ONAP code into their networks.

Government officials are fearful that telecom providers using Huawei gear in other countries will be vulnerable to spying.