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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 | Robert Clark

With China's tech sector still dealing with the fallout from the shock new restrictions on Nvidia chips, Huawei is pitching a new cloud architecture that it says offers comparable performance. A Huawei Vice President Zhang Xiuzheng told a launch event last week the company expected to deploy "tens of thousands" Huawei Cloud CloudMatrix 384 super nodes in the first half of this year.

1 week ago | lightreading.com | Iain Morris

A cozy relationship with Huawei in the Trump era looks increasingly awkward for Deutsche Telekom while it generates a growing share of its profits in the US. Time in the job hasn't made Europe's longest-serving telecom chiefs sound fonder of the region they call home. Börje Ekholm, now into his ninth year at Ericsson, derides Europe as a "museum" and seems happiest when he's in the US, where the Swedish vendor last year bagged 40% of its revenues and probably an even bigger share of its profits.

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 ...