"We are building multiple, multi-billion dollar businesses in areas like edge and telco,” Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said.

“Much remains to be completed for some of the broader elements that sit at the cross-section of wireless, networking, and cloud industries," VMware's Benoit Pelletier said.

"If in its current form it actually does make its way into law, that’s going to change the landscape of the broadband business in this country,” AT&T CEO John

Nokia’s participation appears to be an expansion of Equinix’s 5G and edge computing proof-of-concept center it opened in Dallas last year.

“I'm not going to be satisfied until we are second to none globally when it comes to cybersecurity and we knew we needed help," T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert said.

“All in all, we are creating a market where nobody else is right now. I mean we have created this market," Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said.

If AT&T wants to be known as a software pioneer, it sure has an odd way of showing it.

IDC now forecasts annual recurring revenue generated from foundational cloud services to surpass $300 billion in 2025, up from less than $100 billion in 2020.

Mavenir CTO Bejoy Pankajakshan described Dish’s strategy as a “hybrid deployment on Amazon Web Services where the central unit goes on AWS and the distributed unit part stays with

"Finding the right, highly technical, hands-on leader that can build a scalable organization whose foundation is built on software skills has been one of my biggest personal challenges in

Cisco’s software subscription business has grown 253% during CEO Chuck Robbins’ six-year run at the helm.

Did the group think it could simply call Nokia’s bluff and make the issue go away? Cooler heads did not prevail. The stink from this fiasco lingers.

Ericsson beat Nokia to earn the No. 2 spot with a 15% market share followed by Nokia’s 14.9% take during the first six months of the year, according to

Nokia said its 5G standalone core is currently deployed in more than 70 networks globally, but very few of those are commercially available.

“The challenge is it’s not standardized. It’s an association. Because things are not standardized, no standards, you don’t get cooperation, you don’t get competition, you don’t get innovation," Huawei

While NEC’s 5G effort with AWS is new, the company has been pushing heavily into the arena for years as it aims to grow beyond its traditional footprint in

“The Nokia announcement is part of an effort to make open RAN a political issue,” Monica Paolini, principal analyst at Senza Fili, told SDxCentral.

“The telco opportunity is the most interesting right now as the competitive landscape is wide open,” ZK Research analyst Zeus Kerravala said.

The managed services offering integrates Verizon 5G Edge with Microsoft Azure Stack Edge and layers in additional features, depending on enterprise requirements.

“RIC is like the brain for open RAN, and we also call it essentially the operating system of the RAN,” Juniper Networks' Jai Thattil said.

“We’re now entering the second wave of digital transformation, which is the transformation of OT,” Wind River CEO Kevin Dallas said.

The operator said it remains on track to add 1.2 million fiber connections before 2022, leading up to 10 million connections by the end of 2024.

Nokia appears to have been spooked by a trio of Chinese companies in particular — Kindroid, Phytium, and Inspur — that are restricted by the U.S. government.

“To say we are disappointed and frustrated that this happened is an understatement,” T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert wrote.