Digital Ocean grabbed a $300M life preserver; Microsoft imported AWS logs for free; and U.S. Cellular began preparation for March 5G launch.

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%.

The companies announced a partnership to develop 5G mmWave infrastructure for enterprises and public venues.

It becomes increasingly important as operators rollout 5G networks and enterprises connect billions of new devices to these corporate networks.

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

Millicom is taking the Affirmed vEPC platform to deploy virtualized services running on top of VMware’s vCloud NFV platform to support mobile and WiFi services in Latin America.

Mavenir won 5G deals in Japan and Germany; the SASE space race is heating up; and Fortinet and Adtran teamed up to woo SD-WAN providers.

The Linux Foundation's Heather Kirksey likened OPNFV's current status to the Gartner Hype Cycle and looking to come out of the “through of disillusionment.”

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.

By leveraging Intel's x86 architecture, Adtran claims that it is now possible to quickly roll out new features, including those from third-party vendors, to existing equipment.

T-Mobile dissed "capacity hog" DSS; Fortinet scored big with Equinix SD-WAN deal; and Huawei cops to backdoor chip access.

Nokia's earnings flatline; Verizon called Huawei lawsuit a ‘PR stunt’; and Cisco liked Facebook's Wi-Fi Partner Program.

Cisco joins Nokia, Telefonica, Cambium Networks, Arista, and Ruckus Network, which already partner with Facebook on the WiFi program.

The two companies aim to develop new service delivery models for communication services providers.

If exploited, the bugs would allow an attacker to eavesdrop on voice and video calls and steal corporate data flowing through the network’s switches and routers.

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

The EU won't ban or limit Huawei from participating in 5G build outs. Instead, lingering national security questions will be left up to member nations.

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

The ban basically limits the use of Huawei equipment to the network RAN, and even then to just 35% of a total 5G build.

The software release also includes extended enterprise-class support for the SONiC open source network operating system.

The SD-WAN vendor is expanding into the Japanese market with the launch of SoftBank's SD-WAN Type X product line.

Sprint’s debt got uglier; Cisco fused IT, OT with IoT security architecture; and Altiostar linked up with NEC to crack the 5G vRAN market.

The move should also help bolster each vendor’s position within the growing vRAN space that is dominated by traditional vendors like Ericsson, Nokia, and Huawei.

Sprint’s debt continues to worsen — it grew by almost by almost 3.9% in 2019, and the operator ended the year with a total debt of nearly $34.15 billion.