Despite the calamity brought on by COVID-19, Dish still plans to launch 5G service in a single market with a network core before the year ends.

T-Mobile US expanded its 5G network running on 600 MHz spectrum by activating 1,600 sites during the quarter and an additional 1,000 sites in April.

"Our network teams both kept the current systems running smoothly and have continued to deliver on our long-term innovation strategy," AT&T's Scott Mair said.

Much of that poise relies on the success of Oracle’s Gen 2 Cloud, a bare metal framework that it started building in 2016 and released in 2018.

The group has support from seven operators and 24 vendors, though it's noticeably lacking support from the three largest RAN vendors.

Complexities were abundant and corralling vendors for a virtualized, cloud-native, open radio access network required intensive work.

Today’s 5G networks are effectively piggybacking on 4G LTE, but T-Mobile and others soon plan to change that framework.

“You need to be the owner of your own destiny and this disaggregation strategy needs to be looked at as a holistic end-to-end story,” said Rakuten Mobile's Tareq Amin.

China Mobile donated XGVela, which has also gained support or interest from China Unicom, China Telecom, ZTE, Ericsson, Nokia, Intel, and Red Hat.

The company maintains that sales will increase in the second half of the year, but warned that the biggest challenges from the coronavirus outbreak will hit during the current

“As a result of COVID-19, we’re getting a glimpse of what the future for the internet is today," said Cisco's Jonathan Davidson.

The software vendor claims this framework can deliver a tenfold reduction in total cost of ownership.

It’s the largest swath of spectrum allocated for WiFi since 1989, and it comes as WiFi 6 begins to proliferate in routers and silicon.

Verizon’s 5G network was live in 34 U.S. cities at the end of the quarter, and CEO Hans Vestberg said 5G deployments are still on track.

The race to blanket Germany with 5G got underway last July and market leader Deutsche Telekom now says its 5G network will reach more than half of the country’s

Ericsson closed Q1 with 86 commercial 5G contracts and 29 live 5G networks. It activated an additional two 5G networks this month.

“AT&T’s been through a lot of other crises before and each time you’ve seen us emerge in a stronger position and I’m confident we’ll do it again with this

Cognitive WiFi provides visibility into WiFi users’ experience and initiates root cause analysis to make recommendations for resolution.

The Chinese juggernaut reported a 1.4% year-over-year increase in revenue during Q1 totaling almost $25.8 billion.

Regional operator GCI claims it has invested “tens of millions of dollars” in the Anchorage area to deploy 5G.

The hostile takeover bid follows a previous report that claimed the company was considering potential asset sales or mergers to improve its outlook.

Snowball Edge Storage devices now feature 40 virtual CPUs compared to 24 in the previous version and 80 gigabytes of memory.

The rapid reversal is significant because the convergence of 5G, networks especially suited for IoT, and device proliferation was expected to bolster the technology before the pandemic hit.

Xilinx announced the Versal adaptive compute acceleration platform in September 2019 and said it will be generally available in Q4.