Verizon expanded its fresh partnership with Deloitte to make a new platform available to retailers that rides on 5G and mobile edge computing.

“As it pertains to industrial IoT, not every application is going to require 10 Gb/s or even 5G,” Futurum Research's Daniel Newman said.

Telus said it plans to use Google Cloud to assemble a multi-access edge computing service running on the hyperscaler’s Anthos platform.

The more grandiose vision and potential success of Rakuten Mobile, and open RAN by extension, is still rooted in theoretical terms.

Lags in performance are not the result of technology choices or strategy, Rakuten EVP Tareq Amin said.

The operator closed the year with sustained performance and an outlook that puts it markedly ahead of AT&T and Verizon.

“2021 is the year during which we believe that, for all relevant and significant parts, we will complete the catch up” on 5G, CEO Pekka Lundmark said.

Andy Jassy's promotion highlights the critical nature of and growing opportunity that is Amazon Web Services.

AWS' growth, while healthy by almost any measure, marks a continuation of incremental declines in growth on a percentage basis.

The indirect impact of 5G on jobs and economic growth represents about 70% of 5G’s total potential, according to the Boston Consulting Group.

Ericsson has now inked commercial 5G contracts with 127 operators and its 5G technology is actively deployed in 79 live networks.

“No other single factor is as important as cloud in our software forecast,” Analysys Mason's Larry Goldman wrote.

OneBox MEC is designed for enterprises that want a pre-integrated system for private 5G and access to SK Telecom’s edge computing network.

“There are a lot of words to describe 2020, most of which wouldn’t be nice to say in public,” CEO John Stankey said.

A new project called Anuket, the ancient Egyption goddess of the Nile, has taken the place of CNTT and OPNFV.

Wind River Studio, which provides operators with a platform to develop, deploy, operate, and manage 5G distributed edge clouds, is now commercially available.

DriveNets CEO Ido Susan says the company is currently involved in commercial deployments, testing, and trials with “more than 36 cloud providers and network operators globally.”

“When it comes to our 5G and investing in our business, we have a big year in front of us in 2021,” Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said.

Telefónica’s Cloud Garden 2.0, which is built on IBM Cloud Pak and Red Hat OpenShift, allows enterprise customers to run their applications on premises or in a public cloud.

Ericsson 5G RAN Slicing is capable of initializing radio resources at 1-millisecond scheduling, and it supports multiple services across those allocations.

ONF is targeting the RAN for the first time to address what it considers inadequacies in other open RAN projects, including those being led by the O-RAN Alliance.

MoffettNathanson's pessimistic outlook for Dish is founded on a host of challenges the company has yet to overcome.

This surge in RAN sales will be short lived, as the market will likely peak next year and then decline through 2025.

“We believe we’re really the first major RAN supplier to bring a 5G vRAN to commercial operation,” Samsung's Alok Shah said.