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Sprint’s debt continues to worsen — it grew by almost 3.9% in 2019, and the operator ended the year with a total debt of nearly $34.15 billion. Read more.

It’s Cisco’s “first-ever integrated IoT architecture,” said IoT Director Joe Malenfant. “The network has expanded to the operational side of the business because of digitization.” Read more.

The move should also help bolster each vendor’s position within the growing vRAN space that is dominated by traditional vendors like Ericsson, Nokia, and Huawei. Read more.

If the merger is blocked and the operators remain separate companies, their respective 5G plans are going to evolve considerably and quickly. Read more.

Also, CMC and Neutrona combine their SD-WAN resources; and Criterion Networks launches an SD-WAN testbed for MSPs. Read more.

Looking ahead to 2020, “our top priority is becoming the unquestioned leader" in cloud-based network detection and response, CEO Arif Kareem said. Read more.