The European Telecommunications Standards Institute accepted the work for its quantum key distribution industry specification group.

The German telecom giant purchased a 3.7% stake from Japan's SoftBank for nearly $5.8 billion, which provided it controlling interest in T-Mobile US.

The operators filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission stating they would limit the propagation of C-band signals near many airports.

Jonathan Nikols previously served as global VP of services and solutions at Hewlett Packard.

CTO Art Nichols explained the gear represented “a small fraction of the company’s data transport capability – less than 1%.”

The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority regulator initiated an advanced review phase on the deal.

The updated core IP backbone will support the carrier’s service-level agreement-capable network slicing services.

The trial was conducted in SoftBank’s AI-to-5G Lab, which it constructed last year with help from Nvidia.

CIO Wendy Pfeiffer late last week left the company. Pfeiffer had been in that position for more than six years.

The telecom giant said it was investing multi-millions of dollars to combine Wavelength running on BT’s EE 5G and 4G LTE mobile infrastructure.

The new round of cuts comes on the heels of Amazon in January announcing plans to cut 18,000 jobs.

The E2 work basically taps into the near real-time xApps running in a radio access network intelligent controller to optimize a RAN deployment.

The software package supports voice over LTE services for operators working through the shutting down of their legacy 2G and 3G networks.

The work comes as a new Dell’Oro Group report indicated Ericsson exited 2022 just behind Nokia in worldwide telecom equipment sales.

The combined efforts will be governed by a committee chaired by Cisco Networking EVP and GM Jonathan Davidson and Telenor CTO Ruza Sabanovic.

Vendor executives said it “remains on track, with Casa meeting all the key 2022 core deliveries and milestones called for in our contract with Verizon.”

Analyst Derek Kerton explained the biggest impact could be that startups have lost a bank that specialized in their specific needs.

“Our enterprise customers ... don't approach us with a I want to get into the 5G game. They approach us with what's on their mind," COO Jeff McElfresh said.

“We've had critics of fixed wireless since the day we started talking about it,” CFO Matt Ellis said.

PwC Partner Dan Hays said operators can use APIs to drive a return on their 5G investments, adding “the opportunity is really to connect the dots.”

The product grab comes on the heels of the carrier late last year launching its Cisco-powered cloud-native 5G core gateway platform.

“You're constantly finding new ways to deliver and do better, and if we didn't do that we shouldn't be in our jobs,” CEO Hans Vestberg said.

The vendor will pay $206 million in the latest fine tied to deep-running corruption allegations.

"I want every asset that we have in the company ultimately to be dedicated to that 5G layer," T-Mobile US' Neville Ray stated.