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As the dust settles around the first phase of the FCCs $9.2 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, one US Senator has taken aim at a longtime telecom provider and its plans to deploy 1Gbit/s services in West Virginia. "The stakes are simply too high to provide nearly $250 million [for services in West Virginia] to a company that does not have the capability to deliver on the commitments made to the FCC," wrote Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican from West Virginia, in a lett...

Podcast: Orange Business Services gets SASE 12/14/2020 Rob Mello, the head of strategy and transformation in the Americas for Orange Business Services, joins the podcast to discuss the carriers use of the cloud when deploying security services to enterprise customers. He discusses the relationship between the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Zero Trust Security and whether the two are mutually exclusive. He also talks about what industries are benefiting from SASE now and how g...

Charter vs. Roku Is the Latest Streaming Standoff The dispute means that many Roku customers do not have acess to Spectrum TV. Roku is still fighting with Warner over HBO Max, while DirecTV’s disagreement with Tegna and Dish Network’s with Nextstar have each continued into their third week. Now, the latest corporate disagreement that’s keeping customers from seamless streaming is between Roku and Charter Communications, the nation’s second-largest cable company, which offers cable servi...

Plume CEO on deployment milestones, M&A and rising competition 12/14/2020 Light Readings Jeff Baumgartner connected with Plume CEO Fahri Diner to get caught up on all things related to the management and security of the smart home. As part of that discussion, they chat about the drivers of the vendors latest deployment milestone – 20 million "active" households worldwide thats been fueled by an average increase of 1 million activations per month thus far through 2020. They also di...

Some of AT&Ts top networking executives have begun talking up the benefits of open RAN. "We believe that open RAN is going to be a good benefit for us, and we actually plan to implement it in our network," Scott Mair, AT&Ts president of technology and operations and one of the operators top 5G executives, said this week at the Barclay Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference. "We think its really a good technology that will become available. But its not going to happen overnig...

sys Mason report ranks Amdocs as the global leader in service design and orchestration product revenue for the third year in a row, with an estimated market share of 13 percent. Leading satellite provider SES and Amdocs won two Capacity Media Global Carrier awards for Satellite Project of the Year and also Best SDN/NFV Deployment award for the industry’s first commercial implementation of an ONAP-powered solution – Amdocs’ NFV SD-WAN Package, powered by the Amdocs Service & Network Auto...

T-Mobile on Thursday introduced the markets newest 5G moniker: "Ultra Capacity." The label will stew alongside "5G Ultra Wideband," "Extended Range 5G," "5G+," "5Ge," "5GTF," "5G Nationwide" and plain-old "5G" in the US wireless industry, ensuring that if American mobile customers arent confused yet, its only a matter of time before theyre hopelessly bewildered by operators thesaurus-toting marketing executives. "One midband Ultra Capacity 5G site can cover tens of thousands of times the area t...

/PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, December 16, Huawei Technologies USA, in partnership with Light Reading, will bring together experts on 5G for a webinar titled:...

Militarys investigation into possible white power signs flashed by students at this weekends army/navy game. well get to that in just a moment. but lets start in washington on this weeks historic vote. msnbcs garrett haake is on capitol hill. nbcs hans nichols is at the white house. mr. hake, ill start with you there on the hill. this just-released, 658-page impeachment report, it came out overnight ahead of this possible house vote on wednesday. what are the top lines in this report? >> a littl...

Drilling in russia. and that was like an existential thing for russia. that was an existential challenge to the russian economy and to putin and his ability to continue to rule that country the way that he has been ruling it now for 20 years. so, again, i know, right? light reading. breezy concept, but in terms of a window into my own thinking where we are right now thats why i wrote this book. that is a thing i think is really important. and those sanctions in response to russia invading ukrain...