"We are ashamed of our historical performance, but we confront the issues head on and we’re now investing significant resources to strengthen our future compliance program,” CEO Börje Ekholm

The FCC formally approved T-Mobile US’ merger with Sprint but the deal could still be upended by a legal challenge.

Huawei’s business continues to grow despite a sustained campaign by the U.S. government and some of its allies to cripple the Chinese vendor.

The Texas-based network software provider claims to be the only “end-to-end cloud-native vendor” for network operators.

The company is expanding into edge computing, which it estimates will be a $65 billion silicon addressable market by 2023.

Germany declined to ban any vendors from participating in the design and buildout of 5G mobile networks.

The vendor warns that revenues from currently available services, namely mobile broadband services, will remain stagnant for the next decade.

Large swaths of the Golden State this week are almost completely dark but network operators claim cellular service has been resilient.

Sprint says it is “very confident” the lawsuit brought by state attorneys general will be resolved in its favor and the merger with T-Mobile US will close.

“This is one of the first transactions driven by climate change,” said industry analyst Roger Entner of the $1.95 billion deal.

“I wouldn’t put another dime into the network," said industry analyst Earl Lum.

U.S. government officials are floating the idea of subsidizing Huawei's competitors to match the generous financing terms the Chinese vendor offers operators.

Vodafone, an early proponent of the Telecom Infra Project’s OpenRAN initiative, says it started trialing the technology in the United Kingdom.

Mavenir broadened its push into open and virtualized radio access network development with the opening of a new innovation center in Stockholm.

Ciena is acquiring Centina, a network performance management provider, in a bid to bolster its Blue Planet Intelligent Automation platform.

The nation’s fifth-largest mobile operator says parts of Iowa and Wisconsin will gain access to 5G on its network in the first quarter of 2020.

The first phase of Telefonica UK’s migration to an automated and cloud-based IP network, which it calls the Fusion Network, is now complete.

KDDI plans to begin deploying 5G services in March 2020 with equipment from Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung.

Qualcomm says there are key differences in its approach to cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and mobile edge computing. The vendor calls it “edge cloud.”

5G will deliver the greatest impact for enterprises, but the technology that will drive that won’t be available at scale until next year and beyond.

Ericsson expects to pay $1.23 billion to cover a potential settlement and related costs to resolve ethics breaches spanning six countries.

Volta Networks aims to squeeze legacy vendors’ service provider business by bringing its virtual routing software to Edgecore’s open networking switches.

Qualcomm showcased its long history of innovation in wireless technology and contends that it’s leading the industry today amid 5G deployment momentum.

Mellanox added support for the SONiC networking operating system on its Ethernet switches. The chipmaker says its approach sets it apart from incumbent vendors.