Just to get your week kick-started, Dean Bubley of Disruptive Wireless has a rant about 5G myths….

 Will OpenRAN's mainstream adoption spell the end of an era for incumbent vendors or is the technology too immature to meet customers’ demands? Graeme Neill reports.

Helmut Reisinger, CEO of Orange Business Services, recently talked to Annie Turner the division’s evolution and progress over the last highly eventful year.

Steve Jarrett, SVP of the new Data and AI unit, and Emmanuel Lugagne-Delpon, SVP at Orange Labs Networks, recently gave a virtual briefing to describe some ways Orange is using or experimenting with AI.

Public cloud companies (and others) are eying the edge computing market, and allying with operators, as well as readying to compete against them. This a critical time for telcos.

Martha Suárez, President of the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance, says demand for wireless broadband is ever-growing in Europe, so it is crucial to identify new mid-band spectrum for unlicensed access.

At the end of April 2020, Dutch operator VodafoneZiggo became the latest to offer a commercial 5G service. The launch stands out as the Netherlands has not formally awarded licences for 5G spectrum writes Kester Mann, Director, Consumer and Connectivity at CCS Insight.

Do you know your Kubernetes from Kafka? Your data pipelines from Elastic Search? If there's anything NFV has taught us, it’s don’t create a bespoke, sector-specific solution when a proven, general-purpose one exists. Steve Legge, COO, NetNumber, talks to Annie Turner.

Understanding how much 5G improves mobile experience is critical to consumers who are considering upgrading to 5G and for the mobile industry to plan how quickly to invest in it, explains Ian Fogg, VP Analysis at Opensignal.

5G promises to be faster and lower latency, enabling multiple new use cases, business models and services. But, asks Kate O’Flaherty, how secure is it really and what’s being done to address vulnerabilities?

In the last year, 5G has emerged from the fog of hype into the comparative normality of the marketplace, but respondents feel there are still a number of serious concerns about the technology, writes Graeme Neill.

John Grant, Chairman of ISG NIN, ETSI, explains why we need to be less reliant on IP in future and alternatives to the venerable protocol suite that served us so well for so long.

Senior execs from Cisco, Ericsson Intel, Mavenir and Metaswitch (now acquired by Microsoft) cleared a lot of fog discussing developments and obstacles in operators’ move from virtual to cloud-native at a roundtable sponsored by Red Hat.

Post-Covid-19, the ground may be less firm under the feet of platform-based hyperscale firms – operators would do well to learn lessons about personalisation now.