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Ericsson shakes up exec team to ‘accelerate business transformation’

Chris Houghton has been appointed to chief operating officer and Åsa Tamsons will assume the role of head of Business Area Enterprise Wireless Solutions Ericsson is shaking up its executive team with two major developments: Chris Houghton has been appointed to chief operating officer (COO),...

Lenovo buys Japanese smartphone brands from FCNT

Lenovo will use the Rakuraku and arrows brands to create a new company under its mobile business group Lenovo has completed the purchase of FCNT Ltd’s assets, which include the arrows and Rakuraku smartphone brands in Japan. Lenovo will use these new assets to create...

Cisco to buy Splunk in its largest acquisition to date

Cisco will buy cybersecurity firm Splunk for $28 billion In its largest acquisition to date, Cisco has entered an agreement to buy cybersecurity firm Splunk for $28 billion as part of a larger effort to increase recurring software revenue to its bottom line. Cisco...

The ML to GenAI continuum—Google Cloud exec on AI in telecom

It's important to look at AI holistically and to not rule out more traditional machine learning models, says Google Cloud’s VP/GM Sachin Gupta Anything can be AI (Artificial Intelligence), Google Cloud’s VP/GM Sachin Gupta, told RCR Wireless News at Google Cloud Next, which took place last week...

T-Mo Netherlands, Tele2 ‘shake off’ DT ties, rebrand as Odido

Odido CEO says T-Mobile in the Netherlands 'no longer has anything at all to do with Deutsche Telekom' As of this week, T-Mobile Netherlands is now known as Odido — a brand it established a last year — replacing both the T-Mobile and Tele2 brands on the market. The rebranding...

Huawei and Ericsson enter global patent licensing agreement

The licensing deal between Huawei and Ericsson includes 3G, 4G and 5G network infrastructure and consumer devices Huawei and Ericsson have established a new, global patent licensing agreement that includes 3G, 4G and 5G network infrastructure and consumer devices, granting global access to each other’s...

Vodafone UK claims a 92% reduction in operational carbon emissions

Vodafone UK says it has cut down its Scope 1 and Scope emissions from 86,360 tonnes to 7,154 tonnes each year In its most recent annual Carbon Reduction Plan, Vodafone UK reported that the company reduced the carbon emissions from its Scope 1 and...

DevOps: Embedding vs centralization (Reader Forum)

DevOps have been making the rounds in many technology-driven industries. Ever since the concept was introduced in the late 2000s, it has meant many different yet related things. For some, it’s a new buzzword; for others, it’s an essential part of software development. As the...

Intel terminates $5.4 billion acquisition of Tower Semiconductor

Intel announced the deal in February 2022 and hoped it would help scale its foundry services Intel has terminated the $5.4 billion deal to acquire Israel-based chip company Tower Semiconductor, citing regulatory hurdles. The deal, announced in February 2022, was intended to help scale Intel’s...

Kagan: AT&T and AT&T Mobility are losing perception battle

Perception is an important piece of the puzzle for every successful company. It is vital to communicate your story so investors, customers, the media, regulators, and in fact, everyone perceive the company as growing, moving in the right direction and doing the right thing....

Cisco to acquire Working Group Two from Telenor

Cisco helped Telenor launch Working Group Two, which offers mobile operators a cloud-based core network Cisco has revealed plans to acquire Working Group Two (WG2) from Telenor Group — which currently holds a 44.6% share in the company — for $150 million. WG2 offers mobile operators a...

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...

Dish continues to lose wireless customers, down 188,000 in Q2

Dish Network's numbers were down across the board for the second quarter of this year, and it continued to post six-figure losses for both its pay-TV and its wireless subscribers. Dish saw retail wireless net subscribers drop by about 188,000 in the second quarter,...

Kagan: Cable TV must create next sticky bundle to fight cord-cutting

Once again, the cable television industry is struggling through another episode of cord cutting. This time, cable TV companies are not only losing pay TV customers, but now they are also starting to lose Internet customers as well. So, what is the next strategy...

The three phases of generative AI in telecom, according to AWS

In June, AWS announced a $100 million investment to develop a center to help enterprises use generative AI (GenAI), the technology behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot. The AI innovation center will offer generative AI testing and training services and will be staffed by data scientists, engineers and...

Well, technically… compliance does not equal security: Treasure Data’s Aysha Khan (Ep. 104)

This week's guest, Aysha Khan, the CIO/CISO at Treasure Data, discusses the role of IT in digital transformation, how the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to remote work impacted this transformation and what enterprises are looking for when it comes to data security. https://soundcloud.com/rcrwirelessnews/well-technically-compliance-does-not-equal-security-ep-104?si=fec1a60434524a8bb493f54716f1421a&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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...

AT&T Q2 results show net profit growth, despite slowing sub adds

AT&T hit its $6 billion cost-cutting goal ahead of schedule, and is now looking to shave off another $2 billion or more Despite an only 0.9% year-over-year increase in revenue and a decrease in mobile net adds, AT&T grew its net profit in Q2,...

Virgin Media O2 to cut 10% of its workforce

In Q2 2023, Virgin Media O2 lost 15,300 broadband customers and 1,500 mobile customers Virgin Media O2 announced plans this week to cut 2,000 jobs, becoming the latest telco to do so in the U.K., following rivals BT and Vodafone, which revealed plans to axe...

Verizon Q2 results impress with subscriber numbers, free cash flow

Verizon shares rose almost 3% in pre-market trading on Tuesday Verizon’s Q2 results offered a pleasant surprise, showing a rise in wireless subscriber additions as the carrier’s aggressive 5G build out began to pay off with more users upgrading to the newest network. As a...

Well, technically… telcos need to adopt a customer, not infrastructure, first approach: Optiva’s Joy King (Ep. 103)

Joy King is the Vice President of telecoms cloud company Optiva and leads the company’s Go To Market (GTM) Strategy. She joins RCR Wireless News on the podcast for a deep dive into the changing telecom landscape, detailing how business models are shifting and...

The Sunday Brief: Lead balloon

Greetings from Nebraska and Missouri, where we finally cut the ribbon at the historic Fox Theater in Sedalia.  We are pleased to be bringing fiber to more than 11,000 homes and businesses in and around Sedalia with additional expansions to be announced.  Our reception...

All’s fair in 5G monetization (Reader Forum)

The 5G revolution has sparked a race among communication service providers (CSPs) to maximize return on their significant investments. To date, the focus has largely been on developing new 5G services and adapting their underlying business support systems (BSS) to support these offerings. However, the...