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Frances biggest operator has made a bold commitment to open RAN and predicted parity with traditional kit in the next four years.

This task, Chapple told Light Reading, is more of an opportunity than a challenge. "Its really familiar territory for me," he said. Chapple started his career at Nokia and then bounced among other handset makers, including HTC and Samsung. He moved over to the network operator side of the business in 2017 to manage T-Mobile US smartphone procurements. He explained that T-Mobile at that time faced many of the same challenges that Dish Network faces today in terms of obtaining suitable devices fo...

During my self-imposed quarantine away from my now typical reading diet of literary giants, I took some time to see what people were writing about the telecom world, since this is the usual time for year-end wrap-ups and new year predictions. I agree with Iain Morris that the crystal balls usefulness is stymied by the realities of todays world and appreciated his clever approach of predicting non-events. In that spirit, I will forego predictions and instead share my reactions to some of what I...

Love is blind, they say. It might explain why UK politicians have the collective hots for open RAN. Despite their unfamiliarity with the technology, and warnings from operators that have flirted with open RAN, parliamentarians from across the political divide are apparently smitten. Open RAN, they have convinced themselves, is the pure and virtuous Cinderella to the ugly network stepsisters of Ericsson and Nokia. The well-known fairy tale conveniently ended when the aristocratic foot-fetishis...

Xcel Energy and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) both announced Wednesday plans to deploy private wireless networks running on the 4G LTE standard. The news helps to underscore the US utility industrys growing embrace of private wireless networks running on cellular standards as a way to improve security and, potentially, to support new functions and services. "While LTE is a well-known and widely used technology in the consumer space, this network is being designed and implemented to meet the ...

US supplier signs exclusive IP global licensing agreement with Netsia, giving it access to RIC technology and open RAN expertise.

Theres good evidence that artificial intelligence (AI) has become a bigger reality for cable operators in the past year, as they have begun to expand the technology beyond customer care chatbots applications to include network monitoring and management duties. While adoption among MSOs is still in the early stages, its not hard to see how AIs talent for gathering and analyzing millions of data points per second can be put to use in cable networks, automating fault detection and traffic monitor...

On the first episode of The Divide - a new series from the Light Reading Podcast - Ernesto Falcon, senior legislative counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) talks with pod host Nicole Ferraro about the need for a commitment to fiber in the US and whats holding that up.

Eeros CEO discusses Wi-Fi 6, pandemic connectivity and how the company is courting service provider broadband partners.

Light Reading Inc.: Light Reading and SCTE-ISBE Team Up Again for 2021 Livelearning Webinar Series NEW YORK, NY and EXTON, PA / ACCESSWIRE / January 13, 2021 / Light Reading, the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), and SCTEs global arm, the International Society of Broadband Experts (ISBE), announced today that they have extended their partnership to bring enhanced learning and development opportunities to SCTE•ISBE members. Under the extended agreement, Light Reading and SC...