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Kagan: How Wi-Fi, Private Wireless, FWA can use coopetition to win

Coopetition is when competitors work as partners and both win Over the years, we have been watching the wireless and telecom industry change and expand into new technologies like Private Wireless, Wi-Fi 7 and FWA. Plus, other new tech like AI, IoT and much more...

Kagan: AI and 5G wireless coopetition have begun

Coopetition with 5G and AI will impact wireless and other industries A few decades ago, there was something new and interesting happening and we gave it a name. We called it coopetition. This is when competitors find a reason, even a need, to work together...

Kagan: How Qualcomm is dealing with growing China problem

Bloomberg has reported that Qualcomm has just suffered another significant stock decline. They have in fact been struggling for several different reasons over the past several years. The good news is, they remain one of the few leaders in the smartphone chip market, worldwide....

Verizon to shut down BlueJeans

Verizon purchased BlueJeans in 2020 for $400 million Verizon is shutting down its video conferencing service BlueJeans three years after purchasing it for $400 million as a way to bolster its position in the enterprise communications space. Verizon bought the platform during the COVID-19 pandemic, which...

BT Group names Allison Kirkby as next CEO

Kirkby, who has been a non-executive director at BT since 2019, will assume the role of CEO at the end of January 2024 Allison Kirkby, the current chief executive of Swedish telecoms company Telia, will leave her post to assume the role of BT’s first female chief...

‘The one to watch’ — T-Mobile US leads Q2 with highest postpaid phone adds

T-Mobile US reported postpaid phone additions of 760,000 in Q2, the most in a quarter over the past eight years T-Mobile US had a knockout Q2 2023, reporting postpaid phone additions of 760,000, the most in a quarter over the past eight years and much...

To meet expectations of PE firms, CSPs must diversify business models and embrace collaboration (Reader Forum)

Over the past four years, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) have merged or sold their network assets to help address the issue of a lack of differentiation and counteract the gradual decline of their stock market valuations. Many have turned to private equity firms to...

Proximus to acquire India’s Route Mobile for $721 million

Proximus Opal provides cloud-based telecom platforms for enterprise customers such as Salesforce and TikTok creator Bytedance Proximus Opal, a unit of Belgian telecom service provider Proximus Group, announced plans to buy an almost 58% stake in cloud communications platform-as-a-service company Route Mobile, to the tune...

Kagan: Line blurs between industry analysts and tech influencers

Over three decades as a Technology Industry Analyst, my brand has now expanded to the Tech Influencer space. Over that time, I have learned many important lessons, which every marketing executive needs to know. The marketplace is getting noisier and more chaotic. Today, the...

Vantage Towers finds new CEO in ex-Ericsson, T-Mo US exec

Christian Hillabrant will be responsible for Vantage Towers' digital transformation across Europe Vantage Towers has named Christian Hillabrant, former T-Mobile US and Ericsson executive, as its next CEO. The company’s current interim CEO Thomas Reisten, who took the job when former CEO Vivek Badrinath revealed...

BT to cut 55,000 jobs, will replace some with AI

BT said it will cut more than 40% of its workforce by 2030 BT Group has revealed plans to cut up to 55,000 jobs — more than 40% of its workforce by 2030. While CEO Philip Jansen told press that the company is looking become “leaner,”...

Verizon CMO to depart after eight years

The development comes just a few months after several other executive shakeups at Verizon Verizon Chief Marketing Officer Diego Scotti is stepping down after eight years in the role, according to numerous reports. The development comes just a few months after several other executive shakeups at the...

Oppo shutters in-house chip unit amid market uncertainties

Oppo established its in-house chip unit, called Zeku, in 2019 With the global semiconductor market still facing shortages, political tension and other setbacks, Chinese smartphone maker Oppo has announced the abrupt closure of its in-house chip design unit. "Due to the uncertainties in the global...

The rise of multicloud networking and Connectivity-as-a-Service (Reader Forum)

It’s hard to imagine an application today that isn’t reliant on connectivity to different clouds, multiple microservices and highly distributed users. To paraphrase the poet John Donne for our modern IT world — “No application is an island, entire of itself.” A simple migration...

How sustainability can shape the telecommunications sector (Reader Forum)

Telecommunications, specifically 5G, is widely recognized as a cornerstone of the Intelligent Industry and a driver of digital innovation. And as we continue to push towards a smarter, more advanced society, sustainability efforts are at the top of the telco priority list. Why is this...

‘More hype than realism’ — Spirent head of market strategy unpacks private networks

The main business driver for private networks is security, according to a Spirent report It comes as no surprise that talk of private wireless was rampant at Mobile World Congress 2023, and while Steve Douglas, head of market strategy at Spirent Communications, was impressed by...

Kagan: Is private wireless overhyped?

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year, there was a panel discussion around whether private wireless is a real growth opportunity or is overhyped. That’s a very interesting question and I think it is worth exploring. So, let’s peel the layers of the...

Iliad, WindTre finalize joint venture to close digital divide in Italy

Iliad and WindTre will each hold a 50% stake in the new entity, which has been dubbed Zefiro Net Italian operators Iliad and WindTre have finalized their joint venture, called Zefiro Net, aimed at reducing the country’s digital divide in Italy. Per the deal, the pair will...

Kagan: Companies need to be heard over loud industry noise level

As we enter 2023, some key questions every executive struggle’s with is how to raise their company’s profile; how to become a respected thought leader in the industry; how to capture the attention of investors, the media, workers, top executives, regulators and more. This...

Deutsche Telekom invests $25M in cloud start-up

Teridion Technologies provides multi-cloud WAN systems to connect business premises to cloud centers Deutsche Telekom has invested $25 million in Teridion Technologies, a cloud connectivity software start-up that the operator has been working with since early 2022, to strengthen its connectivity offering to enterprises. Per...

UK5G survey finds UK businesses are prepared to adopt 5G

The survey showed that 45% of surveyed businesses are planning to make investments in 5G by 2023 A survey carried out by UK5G, which focuses on accelerating the adoption of 5G in the U.K., found that 70% of the surveyed businesses are now using 5G...

Find the right fixed wireless partner: Here’s my checklist (Reader Forum)

Every fixed wireless network operator will say they want to build a network that’s resilient, easy to operate and performs up to expectations. That’s the easy part. But today, choosing a partner that can help turn that promise into practice has never been harder. As...

Five lessons from three years in the public cloud (Reader Forum)

As a company, three years ago, we decided to head toward the public cloud — and do so in a very public and aggressive way. It was seen as an interesting move, perhaps too far ahead of its time, but an idea worth keeping...

Ericsson suspends business in Russia ‘indefinitely’

On February 24th, Russia invaded Ukraine in an internationally condemned act of aggression Following international sanctions, Ericsson announced that it has halted operations in Russia as a result of its invasion of Ukraine. The pause, said the vendor, will last “indefinitely.” In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine...