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Omdias Dario Talmesio: Whats ahead for CSPs in 2021 1/6/2021 Light Readings Phil Harvey sat down with Dario Talmesio, research director for Omdias service provider strategy and regulation practice, to discuss some big topics that will shape the year ahead for communications service providers (CSPs). The podcast, recorded in late December, covers the industrys progress in 5G and where the world of mobile broadband is going next (01:45); the evolving role of cloud providers in the CS...

Theres no word for an updated shutdown date yet on January 6, 2021, 16:01 11 comments In context: 5G is on the way and 4G has been the standard for years, but theres still plenty of people out there with older 3G cell phones. While the slower network has been on the chopping block for years, its survived by the skin of its teeth thanks to repeated stay-of-executions from cell service providers. Verizons 3G network was set to shut down by the end of 2020. Ho...

If there was an operator award for generating the most noise and interest surrounding open RAN and cloud-native networks during 2020 then Japans Rakuten Mobile would surely win it. True, Vodafone and Telefónica have also been banging the open RAN drum loudly this year. Deutsche Telekom has been shouting a lot more about it as well, particularly since the O-RAN Alliance formed a strategic partnership with the Facebook-backed Telecom Infra Project in February. Making waves: Rakuten CEO Hiroshi M...

The COVID-19 pandemic did not demonstrably affect investments in 5G radio access networks (RAN) despite early concerns that the crisis would slow the pace of 5G growth, according to a new analyst report from Light Reading sister company Omdia. In fact, Omdia is now forecasting that 2021 will be the year that 5G RAN investments exceed those in LTE RAN, and it predicts that 5G will account for more than half of all RAN investments in 2021. In the report, "2021 Trends to Watch: Mobile Infrastructu...

Podcast: Fujitsus Dr. Femi Adeyemi is an open book on open RAN 12/30/2020 The Light Reading podcast welcomes Dr. Femi Adeyemi, the head of the wireless business at Fujitsu Network Communications. If you are not up to speed on open RAN, this is the perfect episode to get you started. Adeyemi talks about how open RAN differs from other RAN technologies and why it matters for network operators, even if theyre not looking to introduce 15 new vendors into their wireless networks just in...

The digital economy now exceeds $1.2 trillion in revenue and is driving a core and edge data center roadmap that is paired with a massively scaled connectivity roadmap. According to a new report from Light Reading sister company Omdia, high-capacity Ethernet and wave services are facilitating massive data center interconnect. Ian Redpath, practice leader, service provider networks, at Omdia, also said that tier 1 communications service providers (CSPs) are in the drivers seat of edge-compute m...

AI investment in telecom networks is finally starting to catch up with the hype. This was one of the conclusions from a new report from analyst firm and Light Reading sister company Omdia, "2021 Trends to Watch: Telecoms Operations and IT." According to Omdias research, nearly 80% of service providers see the use of AI and analytics, when it comes to the automation of network activities, as an "important" or "very important" IT project for 2021. Nearly 60% of them are planning to increase inves...

European telecoms operators may well be glad to see the back of 2020 following what has been a roller coaster year, but few are likely to expect the coming 12 months to be a bed of roses either. Indeed, Light Readings sister company Omdia has already warned that service providers should be readying themselves to deal with the knock-on effects on their businesses of continued lockdowns, quarantines and other social and economic restrictions. They must also be prepared for the longer-term effe...

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a heightened need for reliable broadband networks that can shift data traffic at breakneck speeds in a consistent manner. According to Light Reading sister company Omdia, this is all feeding into the increasingly widespread provision of broadband services with extremely high download speeds and very low latency. In a new report, titled "2021 Trends to Watch: Gigabit Broadband," Omdia said Gigabit services are now widespread, with over 300 service providers acro...

Telecom networks are far from being sentient, but they are becoming more and more responsive and automated, which helps service providers lower their operating costs. Two of the largest service providers in the US are using AI and machine learning in a variety of ways. Heres a quick glimpse of what theyve talked about doing lately with improved network monitoring and testing and whats ahead as the network edge becomes more responsive to an influx of users, devices and changing network condition...