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Telco employees surveyed by Ciena are optimistic about the impact AI will have on jobs, but the sector's workforce continues to shrink.

Light Reading's flagship awards program is still accepting entries and you have plenty of time if you start now, do your homework and give us the best possible story about your company, services, products and colleagues.

During today's outage, AT&T customers appeared to be most impacted by mobile service, with 57% of reports related to mobile phones. In addition, 32% of reports related to having 'no signal' and 11% are regarding mobile Internet.

Omdia and Dell'Oro weigh in with their latest assessments of the RAN market this year, and they're a gloomy read for kit vendors.

The latest reports suggest the Chinese vendor may be banned from 5G as the technology celebrates its tenth birthday.

Charter, Rogers and CableLabs are studying how to deliver 5G signals on HFC networks via a project called Next-Gen Radio over Coax, or 'NRoC.' It could boost network capacity and drive cable's fixed/mobile convergence strategies.

Six years since the founding of the O-RAN Alliance, the original concept has barely made an impression on the global market.

Vecima turned in a record fiscal Q3 as operators pushed ahead with DAA upgrades. Meanwhile, the company remains the stalking horse bidder for Casa Systems' cable assets ahead of a possible auction.

VEON's revenues grew 11.6% year-over-year to reach $942 million in Q1, with both the 4G and digital services customer base expanding.

Network timing and synchronization has become critical to deliver service performance and resiliency in 5G networks and beyond. In this podcast, Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin and Ciena's Bashar Abdullah discuss the relevance of the topic for network operators, its challenges and implications, and tools to efficiently deploy it.