CEO Mike Sievert also brushed aside tardy customer payment concerns that both AT&T and Verizon said they expect will increase as the year progresses.

“This is an opportunity for us to look at ourselves and modernize some of our commercial constructs," Verizon Business CPO Debika Bhattacharya said.

Analysts claimed the 2021 cyberattack was one of the largest carrier breaches on record.

“This was a challenging quarter, and our results did not meet the expectations we have set for ourselves,” CFO Matt Ellis told investors.

CEO Pekka Lundmark said the vendor continued to see supply chain improvements as the quarter progressed and thinks they will continue to ease.

The carrier is also cutting its full-year free-cash-flow guidance from $16 billion down to $14 billion due to ongoing economic uncertainty.

Mediacom wants to launch fixed-wireless access service to expand its reach without having to deploy a more extensive – and costly – fiber footprint.

Vendors that join the program gain access to combined innovation, go-to-market support, and technical support.

CFO Jim Kavanaugh explained that the strengthening dollar resulted in a $900 million impact on the vendor’s bottom line.

The laboratory test showed the ability to onboard a network slice from the core to the radio access network in less than 35 minutes.

One feature is a 5G standalone service on DT’s Austria operations that will allow the operator to untether its 5G network from its legacy 4G LTE core.

The vendor said it will close on its long-gestating $6.2 billion purchase of Vonage before July 21.

The initial launch is around Lumen’s bare metal-as-a-service offering, and includes access to four Lumen services based around on-premises support.

The move is the first major leadership change at Red Hat following its initial integration into IBM.

“We have done one public cloud, but how do we take it to the next public cloud," Dish Wireless VP Sidd Chenumolu asked.

“While there are plenty of forced and unforced errors in our sprint that we could debate, they are part and parcel to any ambitious undertaking,” CEO Steve Papa wrote.

Juniper updated its Cloud Metro plans; data center M&A surges; and ransomware challenges security plans.

The vendor is predicting a 500% increase in metro-focused traffic between 2021 and 2027.

The vRAN platform will allow operators to replace their hardware-based 2G networks with software.

The Sweden-based telecom vendor said it “continues to work closely” with the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States to gain approval.

The upcoming vSphere+ and vSAN+ options expand VMware's Project Arctic program.

COO Jeff McElfresh restated those plans during a recent investor event, noting that traffic growth curves require a deeper fiber investment.

VMware scored a similar deal with Ericsson earlier this year to validate cloud-native functions running on top of VMware’s Telco Cloud Platform.

The Vodafone deal will see the operator modernize and migrate “a large number of its systems” to Oracle’s Dedicated Region managed cloud products.