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Parallel reportedly laid off up to 80% of its staff last week. Now its working to rally its remaining customers with the promise of continued investment and support.

Andre Fuetsch, who oversees the mobile and fixed network technology direction for AT&T, is set to retire in September. The move is one of many recent departures and promotions in Ma Bells exec suites.

Vewds initial focus for smart TVs tailored for service providers is Europe, but the idea could be extended to multiple regions, including the US and Latin America, says Xperis Geir Skaaden.

Omdia analyst James Crawshaw thinks the Cardinality acquisition can help Polystar become a more significant player in the service assurance and analytics market.

KKRs bid with two other groups is said to be favorite, although the German telco could still decide to hang on to its towers portfolio.

The FCC opened its broadband data collection system to service providers. But some are worried the lengthy mapping process will leave behind those who need service the most.

Xperis bid to buy Vewd, a streaming media platform specialist, aims to accelerate its activities in the smart TV market dominated by Samsung, Roku, Amazon and Google.

The UK operator is building a golden cluster of open RAN sites in Torquay and is kicking off a hardware acceleration project in Malaga.

WCO wants to purchase the spectrum licenses that T-Mobile is leasing from schools and other educational institutions. WCOs founder, Gary Winnick, says T-Mobile is unfairly bullying those license holders.

Fierce competition from the Chinese looks like the main cause of massive layoffs, but the open RAN player had other problems, too.