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.
T-Mobile's CEO vowed to bolster cybersecurity; Lacework is focusing on R&D; and Equinix deployed a 5G and Edge Technology Development Center to test 5G services.
"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
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
ABI Research expects global 5G fixed wireless access to exceed 58 million residential households by 2026, while Mobile Experts predicts 66.5 million customers by that same year.
Neville Ray, T-Mobile’s president of technology, noted that “the heart of the opportunity is spectrum” the operator acquired in the 2.5 GHz band through its merger with Sprint.
“We’ve been talking about this for years and it’s time that we actually do something about it, particularly with what’s happened during the pandemic,” Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said.
OpenWiFi is a fully disaggregated system spanning access point hardware, an open source access point network operating system, and a software development kit for cloud-native apps.
“I think governments need to stop treating spectrum like a piggy bank because it actually is the opposite of what I think most governments are trying to achieve,” Cisco's