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News Analysis Robert Clark 3/3/2021 Asia-Pacific operators are leading the world in the transition to next-generation PON, analysts say. They are being driven by their huge installed base and the growing demands on existing networks, but are also attracted by widening PON use cases and long-term strategic planning, experts told the Light Reading Next-Gen Broadband APAC event conference. "What we're seeing now in the region is a very strong shift and a very clear shift toward 10G," said Jeff Heynen, Dell'Oro VP for broadband access and home netwo...

In 1BC (before coronavirus), when Donald Trump was tussling with the Chinese, KPN did a very unusual thing. As Trump's campaign put the heebie-jeebies up Europeans, prompting a few operators to back away from Chinese suppliers, the Dutch telco incumbent struck a 5G deal with Huawei. Its counterintuitive decision meant that Ericsson, the Swedish vendor now profiting in Europe at Huawei's expense, would have to be removed from KPN's existing radio access network. It was an old-fashioned move that seemed driven by commercial reality rather than geopolitics. "The decision on our mobile moderniza...

News Analysis Robert Clark 3/2/2021 Broadband operators can expect higher upstream traffic post-COVID, even as downstream returns to previous levels. That's one of the lessons from Australia and New Zealand, where the pandemic is mostly contained and lockdowns have been lifted. Look up: If Australia and New Zealand are anything to go by broadband operators can expect upstream to stay up post-pandemic. Ray Owen, CTO of NBN Co., said while downstream traffic was returning "to where we expected it to be," upstream data volumes were still significa...

News Wire Feed Light Reading 3/1/2021 LOS ANGELES – Boingo Wireless, Inc. ("Boingo" or "the Company") (NASDAQ: WIFI), the leading distributed antenna system ("DAS") and Wi-Fi provider that serves carriers, consumers, property owners and advertisers worldwide, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement and plan of merger to be acquired by an affiliate of Digital Colony Management, LLC ("Digital Colony"). Upon completion of the transaction, Boingo will transition from a public company to a privately held company. Under the te...

Try as he might, Timotheus Höttges simply cannot enthuse shareholders about the performance of Deutsche Telekom, the company he manages. "2020 was a record year for Deutsche Telekom," he proclaimed on a call with reporters today, reeling off a list of impressive achievements. Sales and profits have soared, customer numbers have grown and dividends are still paid. Yet the German incumbent's share price remains about 5% lower than it was five years ago, when Höttges was far less ebullient. Net debt remains a worry. At €120.2 billion (US$145.6 billion), it exceeds Deutsche Telekom's market c...