Infinera boasts major wins in the Indian market in the last year and looks to maintain momentum in 2024.

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#Eurobites : Ofcom fines BT £2.8M for contract failings at EE and Plusnet; Orange and Vodafone do vRAN in Romania; Swisscom gets Italy go-ahead for Vodafone deal; Nokia lands Netrouting gig in the Netherlands.

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With mere days until the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) runs out of funds, Congress is considering several ways to save the program. But a funding lapse is almost guaranteed, and a path to saving ACP is still murky.

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During today's outage, AT&T customers appeared to be most impacted by mobile service, with 57% of reports related to mobile phones. In addition, 32% of reports related to having 'no signal' and 11% are regarding mobile Internet.

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Mike Thelander, of Signals Research Group, has been testing 5G networks for years. But he turned his own 5G service off. Where does he see the industry going from here?

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Light Reading's flagship awards program is still accepting entries and you have plenty of time if you start now, do your homework and give us the best possible story about your company, services, products and colleagues.

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Heavy Reading analysts Gabriel Brown and Ruth Brown toured Ericsson's massive 5G manufacturing plant in Lewisville, Texas, where it builds its equipment for the US.

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Telco employees surveyed by Ciena are optimistic about the impact AI will have on jobs, but the sector's workforce continues to shrink.

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Malaysia's five telcos will have to complete their share subscription agreements to be allowed to bid on Malaysia's second 5G network.

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Infinera boasts major wins in the Indian market in the last year and looks to maintain momentum in 2024.

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#Eurobites : Ofcom fines BT £2.8M for contract failings at EE and Plusnet; Orange and Vodafone do vRAN in Romania; Swisscom gets Italy go-ahead for Vodafone deal; Nokia lands Netrouting gig in the Netherlands.

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Comcast's 'StreamSaver' bundle featuring Apple TV+, Netflix and Peacock will be offered to pay-TV and broadband subs for $15 per month. Customers of NOW TV, a new prepaid TV product, also can buy the streaming bundle at a discount.

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Mediacom confirmed that it is testing its new mobile service with employees and expects to launch the service commercially in the coming weeks. Mediacom developed the product with Reach but has not announced its MVNO partner.

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Public and private organizations are struggling to remediate security threats fast enough once those vulnerabilities are made known, says Verizon's Chris Novak.

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Vietnam expects the number of 2G subscribers will go down to 5% of total mobile users by September this year.

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TfL has tapped Thales and Nokia to replace fiber infrastructure underpinning the Connect radio network used for applications including CCTV and security communications.

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Telstra to shed 2,800 jobs as it resets enterprise unit. The Australian operator expects $233 million in cost savings from reorganization after fall-off in demand. #techlayoffs

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#Eurobites : Ofcom sets out its upper 6GHz spectrum 'vision' for UK; Sky's van Rooyen named as new VodafoneZiggo boss; Vantiva powers Vodafone UK's Wi-Fi 6 foray; ETNO, GSMA do some more EU urging.

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Gone are the days when 6G proponents boast of holograms and teleportation. Today, amid an ongoing slowdown in 5G spending, some 6G players are taking a more pragmatic view.

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Comcast's 'StreamSaver' bundle featuring Apple TV+, Netflix and Peacock will be offered to pay-TV and broadband subs for $15 per month. Customers of NOW TV, a new prepaid TV product, also can buy the streaming bundle at a discount.

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