As Facebook demands network improvements, operators gathered at MWC weigh the impact of the metaverse and call for new business models.

According to Meta, the 5G industry needs to support reductions in network latency, symmetrical bandwidth and a ‘common framework’ for data sharing. Good luck with that.

Howard Watson, CTIO of BT Group, discusses the operator’s shift from non-standalone to standalone 5G, why it matters for customers and the technological hurdles to standing up a 5G core.

David Bachmann, CEO of ng-voice, talks about his company’s technology and why he thinks startups have a better chance to work alongside telecom giants as 5G networks become more software-centric.

Azure Operator Distributed Services, Azure Operator 5G Core, Azure Private 5G Core and Azure public MEC solution are among the new offerings from Microsoft.

The Finnish mobile operator has made a name for itself in automation. Now it is turning to US Big Tech for the next chapter in the story.

It’s back. Mobile World Congress Barcelona. So what should we expect? Light Reading asked the analysts at Omdia for their predictions.

On Wednesday morning I got a surprise call from a Dish representative: Did I want to take a tour of a Dish 5G cell site in the next 15 minutes? I dropped everything and did. Here’s what I learned.

‘Radios have traditionally needed to be physically connected to baseband equipment,’ wrote AT&T’s Gordon Mansfield. But that’s no longer the case.

The $162M acquisition comes on the heels of Cloudflare’s purchase of CASB startup Vectrix earlier this month.