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GUEST OPINION: While the rapid advance of 5G communications delivers comprehensive benefits for communication service providers (CSPs), the new technology also presents challenges in security and cost.

Ciena has entered into a definitive agreement with AT&T to acquire its Vyatta virtual routing and switching technology.

General Motors and AT&T will bring 5G cellular connectivity to millions of GM vehicles coming off the assembly line over the next decade in the United States. GM and AT&T are working together with a fifth-generation cellular network architecture to meet the needs of an all-electric and autonomous future, the companies said.

AT&T and Google Cloud, in the US, announced new solutions across AT&T’s 5G and Google Cloud’s edge computing portfolio, including AT&T’s on-premises Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) solution, as well as AT&T Network Edge capabilities through LTE, 5G, and wireline.

Citrix has appointed Martin Creighan to the role of ANZ managing director.

Set to explore new 5G applications and drive further adoption, AT&T has officially opened its 5G Innovation Studio is Plano, Texas to accelerate the path to market for new 5G-centric product offerings and key initiatives including exploring use of drones and modernising sports entertainment with holograms.

Member experts from AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Huawei, Maxlinear and Verizon elected at Q1 meeting part of overall team helping to directly impact the entire future of the broadband eco-system for service providers and the broadband user’s experience.

In Australia, Telstra is shutting off its 3G network in June 2024, after already having switched off 2100MHz 3G services in 2019, while in the US, Verizon will switch off its 3G CDMA network at the end of 2022, generally so that 3G frequencies can be redeployed for 5G.

A day after Microsoft's cloud services but the dust, Apple followed in its wake with a three-hour outage affecting iCloud, Apple TV, Apple Music and other apps.

Google Cloud is partnering with telecommunications companies to harness 5G as a business services platform, with the unveiling of its Global Mobile Edge Cloud (GMEC) strategy, aimed at delivering a portfolio and marketplace of 5G solutions built jointly with the telcos - including network-centric applications and a global distributed edge for optimally deploying these solutions.

South Korean giant Samsung dominated sales of 5G NR-capable smartphones in the US last year, accounting for 74% of the total of just under two million devices sold, the tech analyst firm Counterpoint Research says.

A number of American technology companies such as Microsoft, Dell and AT&T have joined an effort sponsored by the White House to create advanced software for 5G networks in order to reduce the dependence on Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies.

Revenue opportunities for mobile operators, outside of voice, messaging and mobile data termination, will reach US$120 billion by 2024 - up from US$67 billion this year, according to a new report.

Drone detection and geolocation tracking solution provider Vorpal is collaborating with Microsoft and AT&T to try and develop a means of stopping air mishaps being caused by drones around areas where civilians are present.

The chief technology officer of US telco T-Mobile has taken a swipe at the company's competitors, Verizon and AT&T, both of which have launched 5G offerings in the US ahead of T-Mobile.

Google has mounted a defence of the way it scrutinises the activities of third-party add-ons within its Gmail email service, telling a number of US senators in a letter on Thursday that most add-ons which had malicious intentions were caught in a review before they were allowed to be deployed.

Telstra Broadcast Services has expanded the reach and scale of its Global Media Network in Europe by building out its partner ecosystem to include GlobalConnect, TDF Group, NEP, MTI Teleport Munchen and SIS Live, with more partners due to join by the end of the year.

The four big US mobile carriers — AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon — have announced they are setting up a Mobile Authentication Taskforce that will implement an initiative named Project Verify which will, according to them, be the future of mobile authentication.

Facilities owned by American telecommunications giant AT&T in eight US cities are being used by the NSA to monitor billions of emails, phone calls and online chats that pass through US territory.

Five telecommunications service providers in the Asia Pacific — excluding Telstra — have been designated as “leaders” of the next-generation of telecoms providers for their strong regional network presence, delivery of software-defined technologies and a comprehensive suite of enterprise cloud and managed ICT service offerings.