SFR to slim down ETSI MEC has a new leader TIP's focus on open 5G private networking, bad news for French jobs and a new face at the helm of a key ETSI group are the industry developments that top today's news roundup. The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has launched a new Solution Group focused on 5G Private Networks. The group aims to “develop a new approach to manage and operate 5G Private Networks, based on a cloud-native architecture, and making use of a new class of software management tools, based on the paradigms currently used for the cloud, but adapted to deliver the requirements of a telecom network environment.” The group will “leverage previous work contributed to TIP’s OpenRAN Project Group, on a first version of a CI/CD platform that applies traditional IT methodologies to automate integration, testing and deployment of OpenRAN software.” Telefónica will head up the effort, with David Martin Lambás, the telco’s senior manager of Connectivity Innovation, as the group’s chair. The Spanish operator will test the solution in its TIP Community Lab in Madrid before moving to field trials in Málaga. The TIP leadership had noted just last month that it planned to launch new Solution Group initiatives this year. For more on TIP’s 5G Private Networks efforts, check out these details.