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AT&T Building Coalition to Speed Up 5GAT&T is taking the 5G bull by the horns with Wednesday's announcement that it will work with other leading technology companies to clear up 5G standards issues. In particular, AT&T's Tom Keathley, senior vice president of wireless network architecture and design, said "interim and fragmented pre-standard specifications can distract from the ultimate goal" of getting 5G standards ready for deployments once standards body 3GPP completes the first release of the official specifications. AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) said preliminary discussions were underway with China Mobile Ltd. (NYSE: CHL), Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE: DT), Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC), Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. , KDDI Corp. , LG Electronics Inc. (London: LGLD; Korea: 6657.KS) , Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), NTT DoCoMo Inc. (NYSE: DCM), Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM), Samsung Corp. , SK Telecom, Telstra Corp. Ltd. (ASX: TLS; NZK: TLS) and Vodafone Group plc (NYSE: VOD). "We're joining other tech leaders to find and resolve key standards issues early and bring 5G to market sooner," Keathley said in a prepared statement. While standards body 3GPP probably won't complete the first phase of standards until 2018, AT&T and Verizon have been very vocal about their 5G trials and plans. (See Top Execs Talk 5G With Telco Transformation and Greendyk: Network Slicing Key Feature for AT&T's 5G Core.) On Tuesday, Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and SK Telecom (Nasdaq: SKM) announced they were deepening their partnership to work on turning 5G technical specifications into global standards. (See Verizon, SK Telecom Extend 5G Partnership.) — Mike Robuck, Editor, Telco Transformation |
The winners from the holiday edition of Telco Transformation's caption contest are announced.
It's the final cartoon caption contest of the year for Telco Transformation.
Comcast and AT&T are among the first companies to pass out bonuses to employees after tax reform legislation passes.
Disney is upping its streaming video game with its deal with 21st Century Fox.
CenturyLink's survey also asked IT professionals about SD-WAN, Ethernet and MPLS.
On-the-Air Thursdays Digital Audio
ARCHIVED | December 7, 2017, 12pm EST
Orange has been one of the leading proponents of SDN and NFV. In this Telco Transformation radio show, Orange's John Isch provides some perspective on his company's NFV/SDN journey.
Special Huawei Video
Huawei Network Transformation Seminar The adoption of virtualization technology and cloud architectures by telecom network operators is now well underway but there is still a long way to go before the transition to an era of Network Functions Cloudification (NFC) is complete. |
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