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FCC Kicks off 5G Mid-Band Spectrum Auction — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Friday morning that they will open bidding in its most recent mid-band spectrum auction.

Auction 108 offers 8,017 new county-based overlay licenses in the 2.5 GHz band — mostly in rural parts of the country with unassigned 2.5 GHz — to support next generation wireless services, including 5G, according to a FCC news release.

The “clock-1” auction format offers only a single frequency-specific license in a category, in a county. This is similar to the clock phase of past FCC auctions, according to the FCC.

The announcement follows the “disposition of applications filed in the Rural Tribal Priority Window, which has to date resulted in the grant of 335 licenses to serve Tribal communities,” said the FCC in a news release, in efforts to bridge spectrum gaps.

“We all know there are gaps in 5G coverage, especially in rural America, and this auction is a unique opportunity to fill them in,” said FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel.

Illumio’s Zero Trust Impact Assessment provides personal evaluations of a company’s zero trust maturity. The program aims to provide security and IT decision makers with data to fine-tune developments in their organization’s cybersecurity resiliency. Read more.

Enterprise spending on cloud services in the second quarter jumped 29% compared to the same period last year, representing $54.7 billion spent on the cloud, according to Synergy Research Group (SRG). Read more.

Dell’Oro Group projects a boom in broadband spending across passive optical network (PON) equipment, fixed wireless CPE, and cable distributed access equipment, pushing the market to $23.4 billion by 2026. Read more.

The global SD-WAN market for multinational enterprises is worth $3 billion, but accounts for just 5% of the total market, according to a new report from TeleGeography. Read more.

Cloud, software, fiber, 5G core, automation and backbone optical upgrades drove a surge in Q1 telecom spend, according to MTN Consulting. Read more.

The Island Enterprise Browser simplifies the security stack, gives an enterprise complete policy control, and delivers a “more efficient, safer, and productive browsing environment,” according to a Cisco Investments blog. Read more.

Virtualization giant VMware is demanding business leaders usher in a new era of e-waste transparency as tech trash continues to grow into a larger environmental sustainability issue. Read more.

Microsoft beat Amazon as top public cloud; Amazon and Google worked to support bare metal environments; and AT&T warned of recession concerns. Read more.