Some analysts describe Ericsson’s purchase of Vonage as a surprise. “On paper it looks a little bit like square peg, round hole,” analyst Zeus Kerravala said.

A general lack of enthusiasm and trigger mechanisms to pull more people into 5G’s orbit could portend a rough slog for mobile network operators.

The U.S. share of worldwide capacity continues to decline, but this is not a case of the bigger they come, the harder they fall.

The vendor today revealed a trio of software-as-a-service offerings targeting a SaaS addressable market of a cumulative $3.1 billion through 2025.

The initiative is one of many striving to open and disaggregate network infrastructure, interfaces, and equipment that power wireless networks.

“We’re having a seven-times expansion of the addressable market and we’ve never had so many end-market opportunities for Qualcomm as we see today,” CEO Cristiano Amon said.

Ericsson’s offering is based on some open RAN specifications, but it’s not exclusive to open RAN architecture, Ericsson VP Santiago Rodriguez said.

“We’re six weeks ahead of our goal, but we’re years ahead of where our competition is today on that mid-band rollout," T-Mobile President of Technology Neville Ray said.

“Don’t go out and claim that this is an alternative to the Chinese because they’re just as involved,” Strand Consult CEO John Strand said.

The expansive deal positions VMware as Vodafone’s central nervous system for networks and IT systems.

A recent survey from GSMA Intelligence reported 67% of communications service providers expect energy costs to rise through 2024 in line with current trends.

Meta also said it wants to develop an “open and standard die-to-die interface” for data center operators to integrate open chiplets into their facilities.

There's no guarantee the one-month delay, which pushes back initial 5G network activations to the first week of January 2022, won't be extended further into next year.

Malware infection rates in North America's fixed networks have also declined throughout the course of 2021 to 2.5%, but still remain well above the low point of 1.1% in

"We're in the beta test mode and we'll progress that over the course of the next 90 days and look forward to launching Vegas sometime in the first quarter

The pairing puts the two aspiring vendors in line to capture a greater share of the RAN market if open RAN adoption picks up in the coming years.

“We’re two years ahead on the 5G race, and I'm here to tell you that in two years from now, we'll be two years or more ahead in the

Amazon Web Services captured 33% of cloud spending during Q3, followed by Microsoft Azure at 20%, and Google Cloud at 10%, according to Synergy Research Group.

The managed firewall is available to U.S.-based AT&T Business customers that use the carrier’s edge, IoT, private network, or multi-access edge computing services.

The rate of growth in Amazon Web Services continues to climb, hitting a year-over-year increase of 39% during the third quarter of 2021.

“We could have grown faster without supply chain constraints,” CEO Pekka Lundmark said during Nokia's third quarter of 2021 earnings call.

“This is the largest FDD 5G network and the most available 5G network in the world," T-Mobile's Neville Ray said.

The Symware appliance features containerized cell site routing functions and a containerized distributed unit on a single-rack, general-purpose server.

Verizon plans to use Kuiper’s technology to augment the coverage of its 5G network and provide backhaul to areas that were previously unreachable, Verizon SVP Rima Qureshi said.