U.S. Cellular is increasing capex spending in 2020 to a range of $850 million to $950 million, representing a year-over-year jump of 19.7% to 33.8%.

“We’re not going to convince anybody until you see our first market and you can touch it, and feel it, and see why it’s different,” said Dish's Charlie Ergen.

The Cisco IoT Control Center has also grown from managing 20 million IoT devices in 2016, to more than 160 million connected devices today.

"Contracting with the federal government is a privilege, not a constitutionally guaranteed right," U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant wrote.

Automotive and smart city services will account for 70% of all 5G IoT connections by 2025, according to Juniper Research.

The vendor’s Annual Internet Report projects the average 5G speed will be 575 Mb/s by 2023.

The edge is “a complication to the existing deployment of IT,” said Dell Technologies' Matt Baker.

Huawei is charged with conspiring to steal intellectual property from six U.S. companies, violating a racketeering law, and helping Iran track protesters with surveillance equipment.

Ericsson is also adding containers on a bare metal cloud infrastructure, which it claims can save operators up to 30% on operational costs compared to virtual machines.

The event was set to get underway on Feb. 24, but a wave of cancellations by network operators and vendors became too much for the event organizers to overcome.

Mavenir’s fully virtualized 4G and 5G open RAN offering became commercially available to operators in October 2019.

The operators’ quest to merge, which began almost 22 months ago, has been held up by a group of state attorneys general that filed a lawsuit in a bid

The accentuates the stock that operators are putting in new use cases and applications that can theoretically only be delivered by 5G.

GSMA, the event organizer, claims the event will still get underway in less than two weeks, but adds that it is continuing to monitor the situation and will adapt

The trio of carriers ended 2019 with almost 4.7 million 5G subscribers and shared some details about new services coming to the fore.

Neville Ray, T-Mobile US' president of technology, described the technology as late, unnecessary for its current network deployments, and a "corrosive" drain on capacity.

Irrespective of the merger’s outcome, the final quarter of 2019 was arguably its most consequential yet.

“We have faced challenges in mobile access and in cash generation,” Nokia President and CEO Rajeev Suri said.

The Trump administration has been talking about empowering U.S.-based companies to take the lead on 5G for about 18 months, but the market realities are unchanged.

“The edge is accelerated by 5G and 5G brings advantages to the edge computing scenarios,” IBM's Rob High said.

“We are the first telecommunications vendor who is bringing programmability into the operations center,” said Nokia's Miikka Karhuluoma.

The Swedish and Finnish vendors have long-standing agreements with Orange, and the new 5G contracts follow existing areas of operations.

The propositions for private cellular networks in the enterprise environment are myriad, and specific business requirements will drive interest.

“By going SDN these very big network operations are becoming extremely efficient to run, and that means unfortunately jobs," analyst Roger Entner said.