The operator is no stranger to early adoption — it previously laid claim to the world’s first commercially available mobile 5G network in December 2018.

Huawei is desperate to change global perceptions of its business and is willing to license its 5G technology, including patents, to a company based in the West.

Operators moving to virtualized architectures can save 40% in capex, according to a study by Arthur D. Little, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, and Telefónica.

Verizon says 13 NFL stadiums will have 5G service when teams square off for week-one action.

The companies are scrambling to get 5G service up and running in America’s most populated cities after missing last month's deadline.

These include software engineers, managers, and technical leaders and follow 462 layoffs last November.

Dell Technologies and AT&T also plan to speed up the release of Airship 2.0, which is expected to be released in the first half of 2020.

GTT Communications' stock price plunged to its lowest level in more than five years in the aftermath of the company's dismal Q2 earnings reported last week.

Cisco, which originally made the $5 billion commitment for 5G in February, is also building strategies and programs to prepare its workforce for new jobs and opportunities that 5G

The vendor is finally starting to see revenue from 5G equipment sales and said it now has 45 5G contracts.

The announcement dovetails a similar contract BT landed in June with Juniper Networks to support its move to a cloud-based, unified and virtualized network infrastructure.

The acquisition includes KPN International’s long-haul fiber routes and metro rings in London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Frankfurt, Germany and will expand GTT’s network across 21 European countries.

The interoperability test between 5G Standalone Core and 3GPP standards for network slicing and other technologies was a first in South Korea and for the operator and vendor.

The partnership will reduce the time and costs associated with operationalizing VNFs, anticipate VNF technical requirements, and bring telecom operators into the innovation loop.

The firms say the technology adheres to 5G standards and network requirements.

Despite touting the advanced nature of its factory and the fact that it will be 'operational in early 2020,' Ericsson has not yet said where that factory will be

SK Telecom has during the last couple months inked collaborative development deals with Microsoft, Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, LG, and now Deutsche Telekom.

The China-based vendor has the strongest 5G mobile base station portfolio, according to a new report, as Huawei claims to have built two-thirds of commercially launched 5G networks.

MEF says more than 50 services providers and technology vendors globally support the adoption of LSO Sonata APIs. These also include CenturyLink, Equinix, Cisco, Ericsson, Orange, Verizon, and Vodafone.

Industry association seeks to debunk ‘false claims’ that it says threaten the future of 5G.

Huawei has for the first time quantified how much the United States-led campaign against the company will impact its financial results.

Some analysts now think the deal's approval chances are at less than 50%.

Other operators are expected to join the roaming arrangement in the coming months.

The vendor inked a deal to sell its majority stake in Huawei Marine Systems, an undersea cable joint venture, for an undisclosed sum.