“America is doing very well on 5G. People are always way too pessimistic, how we’re losing to China and this and that. It’s not true," economic advisor Larry Kudlow

The partnership with VMware follows a run of efforts taken by Samsung of late to join the wave of 5G network virtualization.

The Compact Core, which Samsung plans to release before the end of the year, effectively acts as a miniature standalone core for private enterprise or campus networks.

The Swedish vendor said it will release Cloud RAN, software that virtualizes the compute piece of the radio access network, during the fourth quarter of 2021.

“We’re coming into this humble, we’re coming into this in the listening mode,” Microsoft's Shawn Hakl said.

The IoT managed services platform taps into Cisco’s ability to provide near real-time visibility of all devices on an enterprise’s network.

AT&T has a “very pragmatic view of the broader economic picture and the COVID-driven challenges we face in some segments," CEO John Stankey said.

The operator’s mid-band 5G network, which it began deploying in April, currently reaches more than 200 U.S. cities and towns.

At “VMware, we’re out to be the 5G operating system. Dell is now bringing forward its infrastructure,” VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said.

Ericsson’s total revenue increased 1% year-over-year as the company swung into profitable territory.

Qualcomm's system-on-a-chip based products will adhere to open RAN standards and universally support 5G on millimeter-wave and sub-6 GHz spectrum.

Verizon’s 5G Edge has been exclusively anchored to AWS since late 2019, but a separate effort will eventually allow enterprises to deploy edge services riding on Azure.

Despite the diametrically opposed ways in which Trump and Biden carry themselves, the pair of septuagenarians share a remarkably similar view of policy that impacts technology.

Looking back on figures for the first half of 2020, Dell'Oro Group is revising some of its outlooks upward and calling others in line with expectations.

The operator is using carrier aggregation on its millimeter-wave spectrum and dynamic spectrum sharing to put its low-band spectrum in play for a “nationwide” 5G footprint.

“The surprise is really that it took Nokia so long to do this," analyst Zeus Kerravala said.

Verizon was the only mobile operator featured in the pre-recorded presentation, earning both implied and implicit praise from Apple for its burgeoning 5G Ultra Wideband network.

Analysts at MoffettNathanson wonder if “AT&T is desperately trying to raise cash lest they be sidelined for what many would describe as an existentially important C-Band auction in December.”

“We have found a void in the way other generations of technology have been addressed, both by the industry and by the government," ATIS CEO Susan Miller said.

Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, Cisco, Ciena, Adtran, CommScope, Mavenir, Infinera, and Juniper are all expected to benefit from Huawei's displacement.

“Kubernetes isn’t necessarily magic dust. You’re not going to reduce your cost with Kubernetes if you don’t manage it correctly," T-Mobile's Thom McCann said.

Cisco declined to say how many employees will be impacted by the job cuts.

Total open RAN radio shipments will surpass $47 billion by 2026, ABI Research predicts.

Pluribus Networks is preparing for deployments on a scale that is largely nonexistent today.