Both companies are using the same talking points that eventually swayed U.S. regulators to approve the combination of T-Mobile US and Sprint last year.

“We are the third place player in wireless,” AT&T Communications CEO Jeff McElfresh said during the operator’s analyst event today.

Microsoft suffers a zero-day attack; Arista gives SOCs an AI analyst; VMware ties its SD-WAN into Azure's public cloud.

VeloCloud customers can now use Azure's private network backbone as an alternative to MPLS or broadband.

Rural U.S. carriers most impacted by the “rip and replace” mandate have been lobbying for a government reimbursement to offset the costs of swapping out equipment considered insecure.

“The overall telecom equipment market continued to appear disconnected from the underlying economy,” Dell’Oro Group VP Stefan Pongratz wrote.

Intel CEO Bob Swan identified four key areas that he argued would enrich the lives of Americans and protect the interests of U.S. technology companies.

The appliance effectively turns an employee's home into a branch office, creating a secure VPN tunnel to the nearest corporate office or data center.

Huawei also revealed 5GtoB Suite, a body of software designed to assist 5G mobile network operators with operations and maintenance requirements for enterprises.

Despite the diametrically opposed ways in which Trump and Biden carry themselves, the pair of septuagenarians share a remarkably similar view of policy that impacts technology.

Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, Cisco, Ciena, Adtran, CommScope, Mavenir, Infinera, and Juniper are all expected to benefit from Huawei's displacement.

BT, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, and Vodafone outlined a "collective need” for an open framework based on generic hardware and software with open APIs.

T-Mobile detailed its $40B network upgrade strategy; Equinix paid $161M for India data centers; plus the latest VC/M&A news from August.

Cisco tackled rural broadband; SK Telecom tapped Samsung, Intel, and HPE to speed NFV for 5G; and T-Mobile belittles U.S. 5G.

Cisco and MuralNet's tribal network program gives rural areas an opportunity to build and deploy fixed-wireless access networks.

The partners say the call achieved a farthest-ever connection of 3.8 km and demonstrates how operators can use mmWave technology for fixed wireless access.

HPE swallowed Silver Peak to bolster its SD-WAN market position; VMware scored a Dish 5G deal; and Fortinet bought SASE startup Opaq.

“I’ve never had this level of production in terms of radio upgrades and programs running through the team,” T-Mobile's president of technology Neville Ray said.

Huawei, Nokia, and Cisco all saw their respective market share drop, while Ericsson was flat and ZTE managed to gain share.

The company claims these new appliances will help to support a wider array of operator use cases while lowering the cost of ownership.

Plus, GTT will bring its Silver Peak-powered SD-WAN to the American market, and Nokia teamed up with Batelco to launch an SD-WAN service.

The program will continually test and certify compliance with ONF’s open source software projects and OCP-recognized open hardware.

For the next 60 days, most operators have agreed to halt service terminations due to unpaid bills, waive any late fees, and open their WiFi hotspots to any person

With at least 70 SD-WAN vendors on the market, standing out from the pack can be tricky. In an effort to do so, many newer vendors are targeting SMBs.