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As SVP, network engineering and technology, Portfolio will oversee the architecture and engineering of Charters core access network. Charter also upped two in its product/tech org: Gary Koerper and Mike Baldino.

Also in todays EMEA regional roundup: Vodafone gets edgy in Salford; Somalia issues first licensed spectrum; Norway bolsters subsea cable security.

At Qualcomms Snapdragon Summit, Verizon VP Brian Mecum responded to T-mobile ads: Thats their focus, good for them. His focus seems to be on the big things in store for C-band.

AT&T updated its online coverage maps to show where its offering midband 5G services. The operator hopes to cover around 130 million people with its midband network by the end of this year.

Sale of Russian operations via an MBO will halve the groups annual revenues based on 2021 figures.

In a muddy corner of England, the UKs telecom incumbent is plotting its future in a world of drone-filled skies and farming robots.

The optical networking vendor adds pieces to complement its routing and switching portfolio in a market thats still heating up.

CTO Ruy Pinto met up with Light Reading on site at Boeing Satellite in El Segundo, California, earlier this month with an update on the scheduled O3b mPower satellite launch.

Europes operators are not keen to run their telco workloads on expensive and suboptimal systems owned by US hyperscalers.

This week in broadband builds: Comcast Business expands in Virginia, NTIA awards $225 million for tribal broadband, Wave 7 progress in North Carolina, TDS Telecom in Wisconsin - and more.