DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Carrier Networks, Dan Meyer, SDxCentral
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Verizon zaps pre-standard 6G call across 7GHz band, Ericsson equipment
The pair emphasized the trial was not a 'commercial 6G service launch'
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Verizon exec overhaul claims chief network officer Adam Koeppe
Koeppe in a LinkedIn post explained that 'it’s time to move on to the next chapter'
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AT&T, T-Mobile US, Verizon-led satellite JV is official, gains temporary leader
The chess game continues
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AT&T follows rival Verizon in tapping Corning for fiber push
New multi-year deal is valued at more than $3 billion
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AT&T Business to link Amazon Leo satellite service into managed offer
The managed part is now known, the when is still unknown
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Verizon touts latest Google Cloud AI stack use
More AI for customer interactions and network control
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AT&T taps Ericsson radios to beam its AI-linked 600MHz spectrum haul
The new Ericsson radios will include 8RX technology that supports increased uplink capacity
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SpaceX teases bold Starlink mobile plans
COO Gwynne Shotwell thinks the venture could grab a significant piece of the nearly trillion-dollar US mobile communications market
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AT&T’s FirstNet gains 5G SA access
The move will open up new features for the dedicated public safety network
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Verizon to slash thousands of corporate, retail jobs
Reuters reports most of the lost jobs will come from the sale of company-owned stores
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EchoStar top exec Hamid Akhavan resigns immediately
A move that ends an operational rollercoaster ride
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AWS injects AT&T into Interconnect connection cadre
The integration ties AT&T’s network into AWS Interconnect service
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EchoStar blames AT&T deal delay for Dish bankruptcy move
EchoStar described the bankruptcy protection move as a 'prepackaged' filing
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AT&T Business extends 400G wavelength to more than a dozen metros
Those locations will now have access to AT&T’s wavelength edgeless handoff capabilities
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Telecom CEOs flesh out satellite JV plans, continue to dismiss competitive concerns
AT&T, T-Mobile US, and Verizon execs tout combined efforts
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AT&T, T-Mobile US, Verizon eye satellite-focused spectrum-pooling JV
Details remain light
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T-Mobile US, Ericsson ramp AI-RAN efficiency efforts
The pair injected network efficiency tech into 'large-scale commercial trials'
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AT&T hit by more than 10,000 ‘copper theft incidents’ last year
To the tune of $82 million in losses
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EchoStar kills Boost 5G network gear, but eyes more spectrum
And still have licenses to sell
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Verizon slices off a piece of 5G FWA for enterprise consumption
The new service taps network slicing technology to provide consistent throughput and latency
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AT&T CEO drops physics lesson on SpaceX’s Starlink mobile aspirations
But still sees an IoT opportunity
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Verizon’s 13,000-plus job cuts will be quick and cost nearly $2bn
Most of the cuts will be completed by year-end
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AT&T unleashes multivendor open RAN test on increasingly Nokia-less commercial network
The open RAN revolution continues
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T-Mobile US Business boosts Edge connectivity, management
Moves come under shadow of broader leadership changes
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EchoStar’s cash-rich future call past Boost Mobile plans into question
Management wants to remain 'builders'
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T-Mobile US data center exec sees fiber, power hurdles
5G has speed, but power to cell sites is a challenge
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AT&T CEO admits to paying high price for EchoStar spectrum
And not all of it is immediately useful
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AT&T hits Open RAN interoperability milestone
Thanks to Ericsson and Fujitsu's 1Finity