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CoBank: Secular Tailwinds Support Current Fiber Optic Company Valuations
Fiber network consolidation has driven up the value of fiber optic networks for strategic buyers and infrastructure funds, says rural communications infrastructure financing company CoBank in a new report. As CoBank notes, the number of fiber networks available for acquisition has declined, causing the report authors to speculate that investors will turn their attention next… Read more
Sprint’s Earnings Report + Update on LTE Wireless Network and 5G Launch
Sprint Corp.’s third quarter earnings report showed the company’s effort to produce rapid growth and cut costs, while awaiting approval of its proposed $26.5 billion merger with T-Mobile US Inc. On Thursday January 31th, the Overland Park-based wireless carrier reported its second consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth in wireless service revenue and its sixth consecutive… Read more
IHS Markit 5G Smartphone Whitepaper; Analysts on Samsung’s Feb. 20 Galaxy 10 Launch?
IHS Markit 5G Smartphone Whitepaper: In a new complimentary white paper, “Substance behind the Hype: 5G Smartphones Primed and Ready for Fast Rollout,” IHS Markit explores how the global 5G transition is poised to take place at a faster pace than for any previous wireless generation transition. “It is easy to paint the current momentum behind 5G as the… Read more
Huawei launches 5G multi-mode chipset and 5G CPE Pro Smartphone
Huawei officially launched its 5G multi-mode chipset Balong 5000 — along with the first commercial 5G device powered by it, the Huawei 5G CPE Pro. The Chinese tech giant claims that together, these two new products provide the world’s fastest wireless connections for one’s smartphone, home, at the office and on-the-go. We don’t doubt that…. Read more
IHS Markit: SDN deployed by 78% of global service providers at end of 2018
By Michael Howard, senior research director, carrier networks, IHS Markit Highlights All of the 23 service providers surveyed reported that they will deploy SDN at some point. More than three-quarters (78 percent) of those providers will deploy or evaluate the architecture by the end of this year, growing to 87 percent by the end of… Read more
ZTE makes prototype smartphone call on China Unicom’s trial 5G network vs Huawei’s 5G NR @ 2.6GHz?
ZTE, which recently completed the 3rd phase of CMIIT IMT-2020 5G core network tests, just announced it made the a 5G mobile call using its 5G prototype smartphone on the Guangdong branch of China Unicom’s trial 5G network in Shenzhen, China. The trial was conducted in collaboration with China Unicom and involved placing a 3GPP Release 15… Read more
Singtel, Ericsson and Singapore Polytechnic launch “5G Garage”
Singapore network operator Singtel has opened Singapore’s first live 5G facility in conjunction with Ericsson and Singapore Polytechnic. The 5G facility at Singapore Polytechnic’s Dover Road campus is named “5G Garage.” It is connected to Singapore’s pilot 5G network using the 3.5-GHz spectrum allocated by regulator IMDA for 5G trials. 5G Garage will serve as a training… Read more
Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg CES Keynote: a Magic Show of 5G Hype
At yesterday’s long winded CES keynote, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg promised that 5G technology will dramatically impact all aspects of the economy. As others before him have said, “5G will usher in a 4th industrial revolution.” It will also be “a quantum leap compared to 4G” and “5G changes everything,” he said. Yet none of those claims… Read more
Cignal AI: 2018 Cloud and Colo Spending Will Exceed $1.4 Billion
Incumbent operator spending in Asia remains strong and now represents 35% of all optical hardware spending worldwide according to Cignal AI’s 3Q2018 Optical Markets Report Record spending in the cloud & colo market continued in the third quarter and it is now forecast to top $1.4 billion worldwide for the year 2018. This represents… Read more
NTT Com expands North American operations with PoP in Toronto, Canada
Japan’s NTT Communications has expanded its North American footprint with the establishment of a new point of presence (P0P) in Toronto, Canada. NTT Com Group has more than 30 companies in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and the Americas. …………………………………………………………………………………………………. NTT Com will use the new PoP to scale its offerings to ISPs, content providers and… Read more