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O2 has named Omar Calvo its director of radio engineering following the departure of Brendan OReilly, its chief technology officer (CTO), in January. The UK mobile operator owned by Spains Telefónica is splitting the CTO role in two, Light Reading has learned. Calvo will have full responsibility for the radio part of the network while Jorge Ribeiro oversees core network and IT infrastructure, a job he was previously doing under OReilly. The update comes after OReilly left O2 at the start of ...

Starry spent $48 million on 24GHz licenses in 2019. Now, the company is working with T-Mobile to test its own equipment for transmissions in that band on the way toward final certification and deployment.

For this years International Womens Day, Light Readings Women in Comms Mentor Spotlight features Patricia Martin, SVP of service assurance at Cox Communications. Martin has worked for Cox for more than 15 years, rising from a senior manager to a director of network services, to VP and later senior vice president. While at Cox, Martin has revamped the cable companys Network Operations Centers (NOCs), improved the process of monitoring and responding to network events or incidents, and led the ch...

In a repeat of what happened last year, one of the shows biggest exhibitors has said it will not be attending.

History repeats itself as Ericsson withdraw from flagship tech event 

For nearly 20 years, Thermo Companies has been quietly making investments in the telecom space by mixing together a blend of 5G assets that includes midband spectrum holdings, fiber transport and technologies related to spectrum efficiency. However, its unclear what the investment firms end goal is. "These investments dont work together like a perfect puzzle at this point. We are trying to get them to be, but we arent there yet," said Kyle Pickens, VP of strategy at Globalstar and a partner at ...

US-based Infinera has made another step forward with its prototype XR Optics technology, flagging what it claimed was a successful trial with the UKs Virgin Media. According to official feedback from the pilot, transfer rates of up to 400 Gbit/s were achieved in a single fiber. The results were impressive enough for Virgin Media to conclude that XR Optics "could" deliver 400Gbit/s symmetrical services over existing PON network deployments. This is a reference to capacity rather than end-user sp...

The mother of all telecom trade shows has just unveiled details of a health-and-safety plan that will either encourage or deter attendees.

The organizers of Mobile World Congress, currently scheduled for late June in Barcelona, still say they expect to welcome up to 50,000 people, announcing ambitious health and safety measures today that assume a COVID breakout will not shut down the show. The GSMAs "Committed Community" plan, revealed first by Mobile World Live, involves every attendee being required to get a rapid COVID test every 72 hours, along with "contact tracing, touchless environments, revamped catering, occupancy monito...

Podcast: MNJs COO on SD-WAN and MPLS market trends 3/4/2021 MNJ Technologies COO Ben Niernberg returns to the Light Reading podcast to discuss predictions for growth in the MPLS and SD-WAN markets. According to a recent Avant Communications report, over 60% of enterprises plan to increase or significantly increase their SD-WAN usage this year and 59% plan to increase MPLS usage in 2021. Niernberg shares his perspective on these results, explaining that enterprises plan to increas...