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Top executives from LTD Broadband zoomed to Washington last week with a simple message: We can do it. "LTD looks forward to connecting rural Americans to its RDOF‐supported Gigabit fiber broadband network," the company wrote of its recent meeting with FCC officials. "LTD can meet the high standards expected of RDOF winners, to the benefit of those in rural America that desire Gigabit service." The meeting, conducted virtually on Friday, was an important one. It featured LTD CEO Corey Hauer a...

When President Biden proposed up to $100 billion to expand broadband availability in the US as part of his $2 trillion infrastructure plan, some critics argued that broadband shouldnt be included in infrastructure spending, and that the figure was far too high anyway. A group of top Senate Republicans released their own proposal Thursday, addressing both of those concerns. Their proposal does include funding for broadband, to the tune of $65 billion. While thats obviously less than what Biden h...

Deployment of the 5G core is the next big step in 5G networks. It will enable standalone (SA) operation and new service types. This new core will be deployed on software-defined infrastructure and should be automated by design. Automation of the 5G core is required. First, because operators do not yet know which services will take off and achieve commercial success at scale and which will emerge as valuable but niche. And second, because operators must reduce the cost of production to remain c...

The company building Americas fourth mobile network does not appear to share policymakers concerns about the dominance of the public clouds.

The media thrives on doom-laden tales of carnage and financial catastrophe, as the coronavirus pandemic has amply demonstrated. The fact that a 19th-century company is growing and profitable hardly makes for a gripping story. So the news that Swedens Ericsson is through its turnaround and has few challengers is about as exciting as a tennis tournament in which the best player returns everything and his top rivals have frailties. Ericsson is starting to look like Björn Borg at Wimbledon. After...

Adtran is taking a bigger stab at the enterprise IoT market with a new LoRaWAN Gateway powered by the long-range/low-power connectivity platform. Adtran said the new product, dubbed the 7310-08 LoRaWAN IoT Gateway, can connect to a multitude of low-bandwidth sensors and put partners in position to deploy a LoRaWAN overlay network. Adtrans new LoRaWAN gateway is designed for indoor deployments. (Image source: Adtran) The company will use the new product to focus on smart building applications...

The dream of an open RAN ecosystem is to broaden the vendor landscape so that service providers can mix and match best-of-breed suppliers with ease. That requires rigorous standardization and the only accepted authority to do that is the O-RAN Alliance. Some would suggest standardization is not required; however, such approaches inevitably imply complex pairwise contracts and interoperability efforts – resulting in a different form of lock-in and counter to the fundamental stated objectives. S...

In January, equipment vendor Ubiquiti told customers to reset their passwords due to a security breach involving a third-party cloud provider. The announcement appeared to be a relatively routine security warning. Such alerts among equipment vendors have become increasingly common as the noise around cybersecurity continues to rise. However, the situation took on added weight when security researcher Brian Krebs reported last month that the issue was in fact a "catastrophic" security breach, ci...

Long, long ago, in the far-off year 2019, the four (at the time) US carriers came together to announce a single partnership. They would work together on a