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Telcos fanatical about virtualization and the avoidance of lock-in are ultimately facing disappointment.

This week in broadband builds: Charter wins $14.4 million in Florida; Treasury Department approves $151.5 million for Mississippi broadband; Ziply announces service launches - and more.

With its Graviton processors, AWS is working with Nokia and other software companies to provide an architectural choice for telcos.

Airtel Business, the enterprise arm of India’s Airtel, has a massive data centre concern, called Nxtra, in India. So far this isn’t the case in Africa, where the Airtel Group does have a massive presence, but mainly in the mobile market; it is one of the largest service providers in Africa. Apparently, that may soon change.

Light Readings Tereza Krasova joins the podcast to discuss TXO Systems role in the circular economy. We discuss the economic and environmental reverberations an increased demand for repaired and refurbished equipment in the telecom industry could create.

Google Fiber is in expansion mode, but the unit apparently wont chase after funds set aside for BEAD and other rural-focused government subsidy programs. Or at least it wont pursue those dollars on its own.

Also in todays EMEA regional roundup: Keysight and Nokia to test sub-Terahertz equipment for 6G; China Telecom to establish a quantum technology group; GSMA says progress on eliminating the gender mobile gap has stalled.

With its Graviton processors, AWS is working with Nokia and other software companies to provide an architectural choice for telcos.

We have no radio manufacturing in China, Mavenir wrote in response to questions from Light Reading. Other 5G equipment vendors made similar assurances, but the devil remains in the details.

CableLabs Randy Levensalor explained how and why the cable industry is paving a path to wireline/wireless network service convergence, and some of the challenges that lie ahead.