The Chinese equipment vendor’s rotating chairman said that the U.S. government has no evidence to support its claims that Huawei's equipment has been used for espionage.

The report had the U.S. ahead of three Asia-Pacific countries: China, South Korea, and Japan.

The vendors say they have more than 50 communication service providers running live production mobile networks with Ericsson VNFs on VMware’s platform.

But, the local operators will be the ones feeling the most pressure to match the world in 5G deployments.

What attendees can expect from Chinese equipment vendors Huawei and ZTE at MWC Barcelona following a year of international intrigue.

The vendor last year said it would open a software development center and ASIC design center in Austin, Texas

Huawei and ZTE's list of woes continue as Germany, Canada, Poland, and the U.S. all appear to be working to impose new bans.

Some companies left the university-based research group to re-asses their 5G efforts. There are now 14 affiliates, each chipping in $100,000 toward 5G research.

This is the latest in a series of major changes at Vodafone, which just said goodbye to a number of executives and announced large real estate changes in the

The most important 5G pilot in the EU to date, according to the report, was carried out by Elisa in Finland because it used at least two cell sites

Former Ericsson executive Ulf Ewaldsson is joining T-Mobile US’ network operations where he will serve under current T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray

The German government is said to be planning measures that would basically block Huawei from participating in future 5G networks.

The new organization, co-led by Vodafone and IBM, will provide European companies with technologies that integrate and manage multiple clouds.

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.