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Mike Dano

Denver, United States

Editorial Director, 5G and Mobile Strategies at LightReading

Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies for @Light_Reading from @InformaPLC mike dot dano at lightreading dot com

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  • 1 week ago | lightreading.com | Mike Dano

    New York-based telecom network construction firm Excell Communications filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week and attributed the move to the company's loss of Altice USA's business in 2023. "The breakdown with Altice required Excell to downsize dramatically. Excell was slow to take the necessary measures to adapt to its new, much smaller business.

  • 1 week ago | lightreading.com | Mike Dano

    Eben Albertyn, EVP and CTO of EchoStar and its Boost Mobile 5G network, said the operator's open radio access network (RAN) design will make it easier for Boost to embrace AI RAN technology. "The ... thing that's important to remember about open RAN is that open RAN and what people are calling AI RAN are not competitive to each other. They're orthogonal to each other," Albertyn said during a keynote session at the Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) event in Denver Wednesday.

  • 1 week ago | lightreading.com | Mike Dano

    The financial analysts at Evercore offered some new forecasts for T-Mobile's fiber ambitions, predicting the business would span 5 million customers and garner $5 billion in revenue by 2030. Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile StrategiesT-Mobile's fiber business could serve about 5 million US customers and generate up to $5 billion in revenue during the next five years, according to the financial analysts at Evercore. "Looking to 2030, we expect 14 million [fiber] passings ...

  • 1 week ago | lightreading.com | Mike Dano

    EchoStar appears to be pursuing spectrum deals that would relinquish midband spectrum in exchange for lowband spectrum. And the company may be interested in rural spectrum leasing deals too. Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile StrategiesEchoStar appears to be showing a renewed interest in lowband spectrum instead of midband spectrum. And, separately, the company may be pursuing a spectrum-leasing strategy – possibly similar to one previously employed by Verizon – in some rural areas.

  • 1 week ago | lightreading.com | Mike Dano

    Amid an ongoing push to expand US manufacturing, and in the midst of tariff-based market upheaval, Nvidia said it will make some critical AI chips at US-based plants. Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile StrategiesNvidia said it has started building its Blackwell chips for AI computing at TSMC's chip plants in Phoenix, Arizona. The company added that it plans to expand the effort to additional plants in Texas, with Foxconn in Houston and with Wistron in Dallas.

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Mike Dano
Mike Dano @mikeddano
10 Apr 25

Karim Arabi was Qualcomm's VP of R&D from 2013 to 2016. During that time it looks like he had two good ideas: One was for new technology. The second was to secretly sell that technology back to his own employer. https://t.co/3AevjzdTHq

Mike Dano
Mike Dano @mikeddano
10 Apr 25

RT @dnvolz: Scoop: In a secret summit in Geneva last December, Chinese officials tacitly acknowledged being responsible for the Volt Typhoo…

Mike Dano
Mike Dano @mikeddano
10 Apr 25

While working at Qualcomm, Karim Arabi allegedly invented some cool chip technology. So he secretly invented a company that he then used to sell the tech back to Qualcomm. https://t.co/3AevjzdTHq