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Vodafone marked a wide expansion on its use of VMware platforms, announcing Thursday plans to deploy the vendor's full Telco Cloud Platform to handle all workloads on its 5G standalone core networks across the operator's European markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dish Network received a vote of confidence from bond investors – to the tune of $5.25 billion, which it raised in a secured debt offering this week. The company announced on Monday that it wanted to raise $4 billion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A lot of folks are wondering, rightly so, how it is that the aviation community's problems with 5G in the C-band are just now coming up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A telecom analyst with Comfirst says, "Nobody is really complaining about the delay in 5G spectrum auction." And telcos are concerned about the price of the spectrum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It's not at all surprising that Verizon and Qualcomm Technologies are among a group of vendors and operators behind a new GSMA initiative to drive awareness of 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) technology. After all, both companies have invested mightily in furthering mmWave. What would be odd is if they weren't involved in these efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rakuten's mobile business saw operating losses continue to rise this quarter as it works to expand cellular coverage and export elements of its virtualized open RAN 4G LTE network in Japan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AT&T is getting a head start on holiday offers two weeks before Black Friday, as the carrier continues its promo push to attract and retain customers. Fundamentally AT&T is sticking with its status quo, but has made a couple of tweaks, says Wave7's Jeff Moore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a first for the Nordics and Baltics, Telia has deployed a commercially available 5G standalone core in Finland, using Nokia gear. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As some folks predicted, 30 days isn't enough time for the aviation industry to sort out its concerns about the C-band spectrum that AT&T and Verizon have been preparing to deploy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Major U.S. carriers aren't the only ones hoping to challenge cable with fixed wireless service for home internet. Startup WeLink has rolled out fixed wireless service using unlicensed millimeter wave spectrum across the markets of Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Tucson, promising straight-forward pricing and symmetrical gigabit speeds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Manon Brouillette will succeed Ronan Dunne at Verizon, where she will serve as CEO of Verizon Consumer Group effective January 1, 2022, reporting directly to Chairman and CEO Hans Vestberg. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Deutsche Telekom is taking the lead on a new open RAN lab launched alongside a consortium of partners and with a EUR 17 million funding boost from the German government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rakuten isn't calling its latest research project 6G, but a new collaboration with Nagoya University and Oki Electric Industry will explore and develop technologies for next-generation autonomous networks as part of a "Beyond 5G" initiative in Japan. The effort also focuses on autonomous mobile robots and two-way video streaming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dish Network announced that it's raising about $4 billion to pay for spectrum and general corporate expenses through a senior note offering to institutional investors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

T-Mobile for some time now has been talking about the push it's making in rural areas, and that's where a lot of Walmarts are welcoming shoppers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Altice USA is looking to level the playing field as it battles Verizon in the New York metropolitan area, plotting the launch of a new Optimum Mobile offering which will allow it to match its rival's double play bundle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Regional operator UScellular lost 8,000 postpaid net customer additions in the third quarter of 2021, which includes 5,000 postpaid phone net additions, so it's looking forward to a better fourth quarter even as its competitors beat the drum on their promotions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This week's one-month delay of C-band deployments by AT&T and Verizon over FAA safety concerns has somewhat surprised analysts and raised the question of impact for carriers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The delay is a blow to Verizon and AT&T, which have been touting the new spectrum as a way to finally deliver 5G with better capacity and throughput across their national footprints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

T-Mobile reported 673,000 postpaid phone net additions for the third quarter, in line or slightly higher than analysts forecast, with growth in its Magenta brand said to be the strongest in the company's history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

T-Mobile said it's the world's first New Radio Dual Connectivity (NR DC) data call on a commercial standalone 5G network. It used a combo of 2.5 GHz and 39 GHz spectrum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dish Network reported a loss of about 121,000 retail wireless net subscribers in the third quarter of 2021 compared with loss of 212,000 in the year-ago quarter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering that AT&T and Verizon agreed to delay their C-band deployments by one month due to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) concerns, would Dish Network consider leasing some of its boatload of spectrum for a spell? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cable companies have certain advantages that allow them to do a great deal of advertising, and Wave7 Research finds they're advertising heavily. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

If there were any doubt, T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert made it clear during Tuesday's earnings call that the "un-carrier" doesn't see any reason to postpone the shutdown of Sprint's old CDMA network past the current March 31 deadline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lockheed Martin says its 5G.MIL program is a 5G-enabled "network of networks" that integrates military and enterprise networks, and leverages existing telecommunication infrastructure technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dish filed comments with CPUC, saying T-Mobile's President of Technology testified 14 different times about a three-year CDMA migration period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How do you negotiate with the Department of Defense (DoD) for more spectrum when so much of the DoD's activity is deemed classified? A newly formed industry group will collaborate with the DoD to explore spectrum sharing solutions that might actually make more mid-band spectrum available for commercial 5G. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As we move from 4G to 5G to 6G, there's a lot of talk about making "green" base stations that consume less power. But let's look a little more closely at what the 5G or 6G network is doing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A lot of new installations are 5G. But in the case of EE in Glasgow's subway stations, it's all about 4G. EE, which is part of BT Group, has installed and activated the Emergency Services Network (ESN) to connect 15 subway stations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AT&T's Cricket prepaid brand has grown to 12.4 million subscribers, an increase of more than 2 million in the last two years. And if you've been wondering what's going on in prepaid the past couple years, join the club. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New Opensignal results show just what a speed boost 2.5 GHz is delivering as T-Mobile deployed more of the spectrum and users connected to mid-band more often. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most consumers don't realize that even if they have a 5G smartphone, and they see the 5G icon on their phone, their voice calls still operate on carriers' LTE networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AT&T is getting ready to unleash a bunch of mid-band 3.7 GHz spectrum thanks to the C-band auction that closed earlier this year. Today, it's touting its ability to deliver both high- and low-band 5G to the GE Research campus in Niskayuna, New York. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Altiostar is now owned by Rakuten, and one of Altiostar's customers is Dish. An Altiostar exec said Rakuten's technology will be very beneficial to Dish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Q3 2021, a Cowen survey found postpaid respondents' average all-in bill size increased to near-record highs of $158. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Verizon kicked off Mobile World Congress Los Angeles with some high-flying news: Verizon is teaming with Amazon's Project Kuiper to develop connectivity solutions for unserved and underserved communities. Initially, Project Kuiper will provide cellular backhaul solutions for Verizon's data networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Verizon also unveiled a NB-IoT module that costs less than $4 and says it will allow massive sensor networks to be used more widely. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rogers Communications is touting a big first in Canada: the rollout of the country's first national standalone 5G core, which hasn't exactly taken off in a big way for its neighbor to the immediate south. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dish Network will be the first major carrier to use the Helium Network's blockchain-based incentive model – with customers deploying their own 5G hotspots using Citizens Band Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AT&T is getting prepped to deploy C-band spectrum later this year and teeing up the mid-band frequencies to join millimeter wave services under the 5G+ moniker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to Crown Castle, the 2022 expectation is 50% higher than the company's trailing 5-year average. CEO Jay Brown said the levels are unprecedented and driven by continued carrier 5G deployments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rogers Communications is touting a big first in Canada: the rollout of the country's first national standalone 5G core, with Ericsson as its vendor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

T-Mobile announced that it will extend the deadline for its CDMA network shutdown by three months, to March 31, 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2020 Nokia was named sole supplier for Taiwan Mobile's 5G network under a three-year deal. With SA 5G geared up to go, the operator is prepping for more advanced 5G services that target businesses and enterprise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Time to take advantage of the switching environment, or goose it up a bit? T-Mobile is offering to pay off what consumers owe on their phone hardware in order to get them to come over to Magenta. T-Mobile will pay off "what you owe the carriers for your smartphone up to $1,000 when you switch." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

T-Mobile brought a series of complaints before the BBB National Programs' National Advertising Division (NAD), whose rulings produced a mixed bag for the wireless carrier. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Phones contributed total postpaid net adds of 1.2 million for AT&T in Q3. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Verizon added 429,000 postpaid phone net subscribers in the third quarter, topping analyst consensus estimates and ending the quarter with 122 million total retail connections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The proceeds from the 3.45 GHz auction at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hit the agency's reserve price of $14.77 billion on Wednesday, ensuring the auction's success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]