Outdoor trial on 4G and 5G integrates ONF SD-RAN’s RIC and eight vendors’ products in ongoing field trial

Google Distributed Cloud extends hyperscalers infra to the edge and customers' data centres, strives better to accommodate European regulation

Marketing tech consolidates in lieu of 5G

Industrial-strength capacity and processing applied to edge computing

Except that it's not quite as hands-off as it looks and the consultation period could provide interesting responses from rivals.

The deal is expected to go through in Q1 2022, subject to the usual approvals. No financial details disclosed.

Study finds customer experience not a priority

As DT and TIM go high with satellite, Facebook goes low with cable

But is BT locking down its fibre optic supplies in the face of shortages?

Pushing fibre beyond the headend will increase network capacity for service delivery to premises in remoter locations

NEC's 5G massive MIMO Open RAN radio units are also listed on the new windowTIP Exchange

Britain is in 37th place, two behind Germany while Spain's hardly better

Creating a 'molte nuvole' service for private and public sectors 

Overall expected cost savings from managed cloud services in 2021 is 40%, up from 37% in 2019