Scott Bicheno

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Author of Identity Crisis (https://t.co/MuTOP30DpL) and editor of https://t.co/01Nq04ebpb. My views are somebody else's and they want them back.

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Operator capex declined by 8% last year with little sign of recovery

2 weeks ago | telecoms.com | Scott Bicheno

Preliminary numbers from analyst firm Dell’Oro reveal that global operator investment levels fell last year, and that was before the US initiated a global trade war. Dell’Oro describes worldwide telecom capex as ‘the sum of wireless and wireline/other telecom carrier investments’.
A Discussion of the Current Status of the Open RAN Market

3 weeks ago | mavenir.com | Scott Bicheno

*Guest Blog by Scott Bicheno, Editorial Director of Telecoms.comAt the recent Mobile World Congress event Telecoms.com moderated a panel discussion hosted by Mavenir with the aim of providing a status update on Open RAN. Scott Bicheno, Editorial Director of Telecoms.comOpen RAN has reached an inflection point. The initial hype has subsided and the concept has evolved.
Ericsson has an executive reshuffle as Jejdling calls it a day

1 month ago | telecoms.com | Scott Bicheno

Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has taken the opportunity created by the departure of its head of networks to do a broader structural rejig. Fredrik Jejdling has been the head of Ericsson’s biggest business unit – networks – for over seven years and thus has been the mastermind of its 5G strategy. The announcement infers that Jejdling is leaving of his own volition, presumably because he just fancies doing something different, and we currently see no reason not to take that at face value.
Apple pledges massive investment in the US following Trump tariff threats

1 month ago | telecoms.com | Scott Bicheno

US gadget giant Apple has announced it will spend half a trillion dollars in the US over the next four years. Framed as its largest ever spend commitment, Apple revealed plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the US over the next four years. That timeframe coincides with the duration of the Trump presidency and the announcement comes days after Apple CEO Tim Cook had a meeting with Donald Trump.
FTC opens Big Tech censorship probe as Musk politicises community notes on X

2 months ago | telecoms.com | Scott Bicheno

The US Federal Trade Commission has launched a public inquiry into how tech platforms treat their users according to the content of their speech. ‘Censorship by technology platforms is not just un-American, it is potentially illegal,’ states the FTC press release.
Apple finally makes its own 5G modem

2 months ago | telecoms.com | Scott Bicheno

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2 months ago | telecoms.com | Scott Bicheno

Scott BichenoAs the Editorial Director of Telecoms.com, Scott oversees all editorial activity on the site and also manages the Telecoms.com Intelligence arm, which focuses on analysis and bespoke content. Scott has been covering the mobile phone and broader technology industries for over ten years. Prior to Telecoms.com Scott was the primary smartphone specialist at industry analyst Strategy Analytics’.
Trump promises massive tariff escalation as US hostility towards Europe grows

2 months ago | telecoms.com | Scott Bicheno

Following a short announcement, US President Trump held an extensive Q&A session with press that mainly focused on his foreign policy actions. Of most immediate significance to the business world were questions about the tariffs that Trump plans to impose on imports to the US. As he had promised to do in his election campaign, Trump sees tariffs as one of the main ways to manipulate global trade to America’s advantage.
Huawei tries to generate buzz with (sort of) global launch of double foldy phone

2 months ago | telecoms.com | Scott Bicheno

“After months of anticipation, the HUAWEI Mate XT | ULTIMATE DESIGN is now ready to make its debut worldwide,” gushes the Huawei press release. While we’re willing to price in a degree of hyperbole around a gadget launch, the lack of subsequent substantial information did rankle somewhat. We’re asked to believe the global pining for a phone that folds not once, but twice, started when the Mate XT was introduced in China last September.
Omdia expects 2025 to be ‘a year of stabilization for the RAN market’

2 months ago | telecoms.com | Scott Bicheno

The latest numbers from analyst firm Omdia reveal what a tough year 2024 was for the radio access networks kit market but look forward to a momentum shift this year. Omdia has calculated that the total global RAN market (which includes hardware and software but not services) was just over $35 billion last year, which represented a 12 percent decline on the previous year. The good news for RAN vendors is Omdia reckons that decline will end this year and we might even see a tiny bit of growth.