The trial, which was conducted in Texas, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, “reached speeds commensurate with more traditional baseband-radio configurations,” Verizon's Mike Kondratiuk said.

“We’re on track to build 7,000 to 8,000 sites by year end and we’re on plan to launch the first 46 markets,” Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said.

Massive MIMO radios integrated with a fully virtualized baseband supporting C-band spectrum is an important distinction at this juncture in the 5G development cycle.

“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.

“A key use case for government that the Lumen/T-Mobile fixed wireless solution addresses, is continuity for mission-critical communications,” T-Mobile VP David Bezzant said.

Amid declining relations in China, Ericsson did what millions of broken hearted have done before — it sought and received reassurance from a longtime friend.

The deal positions Ericsson as Verizon’s top RAN supplier for the foreseeable future.

While Bell's early efforts with AWS are centered around 5G edge services, Google Cloud’s contributions will start inside the operator's network infrastructure.

KT’s 5G SA core deployment brings the total global footprint of 5G SA cores to nine. T-Mobile US activated the world’s first 5G SA network operating on a 5G

The carrier claims its mid-band 5G network will cover up to 75 million people by the end of 2022, and 200 million U.S. residents by the end of 2023.

“Just because you turn off the lights doesn’t mean the cockroaches aren’t there. You just can’t see them,” Cisco's Bob Everson said.

AT&T Network Edge remains intact and how that system evolves or potentially changes hands like its cloud technology will impact AT&T’s points of access and opportunity at the edge.

The pandemic caught almost everyone off guard, and ETSI, like most organizations, wasn’t prepared for a completely remote work environment.

Nokia ended 2020 with a 17% share of the market on $758 million in related revenue, followed by Huawei with a 12% market share on $544 million in revenue.

Google said it intends to activate at least 15 zones across major U.S. cities during the next few years, starting with Chicago later this year, followed by Atlanta, Dallas,

Thomas Noren, head of Ericsson’s dedicated networks business, described Ericsson Private 5G as “a scaled down version of a mobile network” that can be integrated with enterprise IT systems.

Deutsche Telekom kicked off the event by activating its “O-RAN Town” in Neubrandenburg, Germany, with sites supporting massive multiple-input, multiple-output technology.

The underlying trend and realization AT&T confronted is clear: mobile network operators, no matter how invested and talented in cloud computing, are no match for the might of hyperscalers.

“I think telecommunications is being reinvented in front of us,” incoming AWS CEO Adam Selipsky said.

Ericsson, like Nokia, expanded its partnership with Google Cloud after previous activities involving network operators’ migration to cloud-native, container-based services.

“The reality is that operators are at a crossroads,” IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said.

“The digital world has wiped away the old rules of the analog world,” Telefónica CEO José María Álvarez-Pallete López said.

"We are going to focus on what we refer to as the 5G physical layer, or 5G layer one of the protocol stack,” Qualcomm's Gerardo Giaretta said.

Rakuten claims the new architecture allows it to deploy services in 40 days, compared to 100 days today, and reduce power consumption by almost 30%.