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Canadian telcos ink deal to guarantee network reliability

The government also announced additional steps to improve the reliability of telecommunications networks in Canada Canadian mobile operators have reached a formal agreement to ensure and guarantee emergency roaming and other mutual assistance in the case of a major outage, the government said in a...

Scaling 5G: Sound Advice for Strategic Growth

Strategic growth for every company and industry is necessary for survival. When it comes to the telecom industry, while we have seen continuous improvement for the past couple of years, some hindrances are stopping it from reaching its full potential. Carrie Charles sits down...

Alaska Communications secures a better buyer, strikes $332 million deal

Alaska Communications paid Macquarie, GCM a $6.8 million break-up fee After taking advantage of its right to solicit "superior proposals" from third-parties, Alaska Communications has backed out of its previous deal with Macquarie and GCM and managed to secure a higher price for itself. The...

Nokia announces global virtual event for communications service providers

  Communications giant Nokia knows a thing or two about building networks, keeping people connected, and the demands placed on communications service providers heading into our new, uncharted post-COVID future. In our new reality, it is the time for real ideas and progressive thinking – not...

Keysight Webinar: Take control of the Last Mile – Optimizing your Service Level Management

Watch this webinar to discover how service providers and enterprises alike can hasten troubleshooting, monitor performance, and ensure quality-of-service across all branch locations — regardless of who is fulfilling the final mile. In this webinar you will learn how to: Ensure your branch locations are...

How service providers can compete and thrive in a cloud economy (Reader Forum)

According to the Forbes Global 2000, the top 54 telecommunications companies worldwide realized $1.5 trillion in revenue last year. While that number is certainly staggering, it paints a distorted picture of an industry that has seen flat revenues and shrinking profits over the last...

The Sunday Brief: CBRS–share and share alike

Greetings from Lake Norman/ Davidson, North Carolina, where the college football season has started.  We took in the Davidson College home opener and the Wildcats (red jerseys) defeated Georgetown 27-20 to a crowd of more than 2,300.  It was an exciting part of the...

5G can’t get here fast enough, but who will thrive when it does? (Reality Check)

It’s no surprise that the future of today’s service providers hangs in the balance. Their role as traditional communications and broadband service providers is constantly challenged and the rise of global internet powerhouses, capitalizing on services that were once their bread and butter, is...

More M&A activity on the horizon as AT&T integrates with Time Warner

New television service and ad platform come from AT&T mega-merger Last week the U.S. Department of Justice lost its bid to block AT&T's $85 billion merger with Time Warner. That hurdle cleared, what's next for the combined service provider and content producer? AT&T Chairman and...

AI for CSPs: It starts with a strategy (Reader Forum)

  AI in the service provider space today is primarily focused on machine learning — a branch of AI that focuses on the development of intelligent computer programs that can predict future events more effectively than humans. These types of programs autonomously train themselves using...

Analyst Angle: The Data Imperative — maximizing analytics to gain an edge

  Digital-first companies, such as Amazon, Netflix, Google, and Facebook, have, in some ways, perfected the art of data and analytics — using data to drive business decisions. It is increasingly hard to compete against these providers without integrating analytics into critical business practices. The...

Q&A with AT&T GM of Smart Cities business unit

Mike Zeto discusses AT&T's priorities during Smart Cities Week WASHINGTON – One year into running a dedicated smart cities business unit, AT&T GM Mike Zeto discussed the operation, lessons learned and priorities going into 2017 during the Smart Cities Week event. On the year-old business unit: "It...

Reader Forum (Olympics Edition): Are service providers Rio-ready?

The Olympic Games are set to tax the capabilities of service providers, though there are steps that can be taken ahead of such large events “We’re going on network freeze,” began the conversation with a major carrier. “We can’t proof-of-concept, trial or touch our network...

Google Fiber looking to connect small business

Initially geared toward the consumer market, Google Fiber is now targeting small business customers with internet service plans topping out at 1 gigabit per second. In a post to the company blog, John Shriver-Blake, a product manager for Google Fiber, said the new service plans, ...

Drive revenue, innovation with Amdocs smart project orchestration

Amdocs’ Network Rollout Solution provides end-to-end toolbox to increase Service Provider efficiency, agility and time to market In an era of unprecedented growth in consumer demand for bandwidth, network operators have to quickly adapt to maintain a competitive edge in an increasingly saturated market. Gaining...

Sponsored: HP Unveils NFV System for CSPs

HP NFV System provides a pre-integrated solution for carrier-grade NFV production deployments As communications service providers (CSPs) look to move network functions virtualization (NFV) from proof-of-concept to deployment, HP is ready to help with a reliable, scalable, carrier-grade platform poised to drive innovation and speed...