For the next 60 days, most operators have agreed to halt service terminations due to unpaid bills, waive any late fees, and open their WiFi hotspots to any person

The executive team at the new company is primarily comprised of existing T-Mobile US leaders. Of the 18 positions announced, four will be filled by current executives at Sprint.

The operator was the most detailed among the nation’s largest telecom providers in how they are dealing with an expected increase in network traffic.

“We believe we're going to have the best, deepest coverage on the 5G perspective than any of our competitors," AT&T CFO John Stephens said.

"This is one of those moments when companies must strive more than ever to act with values and responsibility in the service of society,” said Telefónica CEO José María

A series of deals indicates that incumbent vendors like Nokia still have an important, and potentially unavoidable, role to play in modern network architecture.

The company is trying to straddle the benefits of pairing software with its HPE GreenLake platform while also embracing an open, disaggregated approach

“Edge compute is like a private data center but worse, like way worse,” NetFoundry CEO Galeal Zino said.

Bharti Airtel is preparing to deploy 5G with an “IP over Ethernet over fiber” network that it describes as the “largest hyper-complex brownfield network transformation of its kind in

SONiC is now supported on Juniper’s QFX5210 single ASIC platform, including support for leaf and spine deployments in data centers.

Google Cloud has created the Global Mobile Edge Cloud, an open cloud platform for it and network operators to jointly develop applications and a distributed edge.

Continued job losses at one of the world’s largest network operators underlines the impact software is having on those who earn a paycheck from the industry at large.

As mobile edge computing takes hold in networks around the world, multiple overlapping and seemingly redundant alliances are bubbling up to the surface.

The open RAN framework is 40% cheaper than traditional telecommunication infrastructure, according to CTO Tareq Amin.

Nokia Software CTO Ron Haberman likened the potential business models for mobile edge computing to those pursued by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Aether, pronounced “ether,” is the first open source edge cloud platform and the first open platform supporting connectivity as a service, according to ONF.

Pekka Lundmark, who currently serves as president and CEO of Fortum, an energy company also headquartered in Espoo, Finland, has been tapped to replace Suri on Sept. 1.

“They’re trying to hurt Huawei to hurt China, and they’re going so far that they're willing to risk hurting America more than they hurt Huawei," CSO Andy Purdy said.

A discussion with panelists from the U.S. Department of Defense, Huawei, a conservative think tank, and a security researcher got heated quickly.

Informed consent of genetic data is critical, but people aren’t always clear about what they are consenting to and how that data might be used down the line.

One of the near-term goals is to make cryptography more robust and ready for a post-quantum computing landscape, said NTT Research CEO Kazuhiro Gomi.

“Part of the challenge that I have is taking all of these different technologies and tying them together into one consistent tapestry,” said CenturyLink CSO Chris Betz.

Nokia is striving to deliver a “truly cloud native” software stack that can run applications in containers with full lifecycle management and deliver microservices.

The operator’s third annual survey on mobile security concluded that 43% of respondents believe their organization took unnecessary risks with mobile security in 2019.