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A report from Kinetic found that speed (36%) and reliability (35%) are top internet priorities for small businesses – which are responsible for more than 40% of our country’s economic output and two-thirds of new jobs.   Telecom Ramblings shares how our new bundled fiber and voice services specifically tailored to the needs of small and medium-sized business give them an enterprise-grade experience that will scale with them as they grow.   👉Read more here: https://bit.ly/40kRKAs.

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Recently, we’ve been talking a lot about our goal to keep our customers connected to their world no matter where they are. But for some people, it’s harder to stay connected when their devices can’t keep up with demanding tasks. That’s why we’re introducing the only 5G RedCap device that’s available nationwide. With T-Mobile’s 5G SA network and in collaboration with TCL and Qualcomm, we’re powering the only 5G RedCap device in North America, bringing Wi-Fi only or 4G LTE devices onto our 5G network.     This is a game-changer for customers who need an affordable entry point into 5G with a more reliable, more secure, and faster experience compared to Wi-Fi and 4G LTE. Why? Because the 5G RedCap can turn almost any USB-C device into a 5G connected device just by plugging it in, without having to upgrade to new devices. Pretty awesome, right? Check out all the details here: https://lnkd.in/giumHqRJ

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Make it memorable with the power of 5G ⚽ 🥁 Shifting fan behavior has unlocked new revenue streams for Telcos and experience innovators alike – but how do we know what fans want? Head of Ericsson Consumer Lab research Jasmeet Sethi has provided us with valuable insights into what modern fans desire from their experiences: 📲 The Social Sharer relies on connectivity to follow and share event highlights. 👩‍💻 The Tech Enthusiast seeks advanced technology to enhance their immersion. 🅿️ The Purist enjoys the moment but depends on connectivity for logistical conveniences like ticketing and dining. These insights underscore the importance of providing robust and reliable connectivity with the power of 5G, and Telcos now have a unique opportunity to facilitate these evolving fan experiences and drive industry growth. 🚀 Dive deeper into his latest blog and discover the future opportunities from fan experiences ➡️ https://lnkd.in/euZmSeaX   #MakeItMemorable #FanExperience #StadiumExperience #5G #EventTech

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Boost Mobile and Wind River collaborate on the largest CaaS vendor changeover on an Open RAN network! Another great win for #WindRiver, and a moment of reflection. My takes from this success are three. Never give up. My colleagues had a dream (sound familiar?) and pursued it despite headwinds/adversities and delays. Perseverance and constancy gave them (and the client) the sense of being the right choice. Reputation is like a bee; it can fly but can sting you. An incumbent position is not a fixed status, it is not granted, and you need to maintain it and gain it every time. Challenge yourself. You can be Goliath tomorrow so, don’t forget you were David. Focus on what’s next, your client, be grounded, and don’t let the other determine who you are. Well done team! #WeAreWindRiver #StarlingX #CoreToEdge 🔗Learn more: https://ow.ly/iVMl30sIwTn

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I enjoyed the discussion and insights from GSMA and others on Private 5G deployment use cases and what it takes to drive adoption.

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The interim Brief is out. We discuss T-Mobile's earnings a bit and also the NTIA comments concerning non-fiber technologies made at last week's Fiber Connect conference. More inside... #sundaybrief

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🚨 Attention OEMs and VAR partnerships! 🚨 Introducing T-Priority powered by T-Mobile For Business “T-Priority: A Solution Built for Tomorrow’s Emergencies. Ready Today. T-Priority is a first-of-its-kind solution to keep first responders connected in the 5G era of public safety. The world’s first network slice for first responders helps ensure best-in-class connectivity, not just day-to-day, but also in times of extreme congestion, and supports a wide range of data-intensive applications that make up an increasing share of traffic in the day-to-day lives of first responders. …It makes sure they get lower latency and faster 5G speeds more consistently for data-intensive communications tools by giving them up to 5 times the network resources of the average user. “ - T-Mobile For Business

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Verizon is nearing a deal to acquire Frontier Communications, according to The Wall Street Journal. A play for Frontier Internet would fit into a fiber/mobile convergence strategy at Verizon and possibly spark more M&A for fiber assets among Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile.

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Johan von Heijne is Communications Manager, Northern & Central Europe at Ericsson. He joined the company in 2022 having previously worked at Weber Shandwick. Johan is based in Sweden.   “Family life is full-on: I have twin sons aged five and a two year old daughter. Making it work is all about being open: I will tell a colleague ‘my son is here’ if I’m on a call and a child is around.   I’ll admit that working full-time with three kids is always a challenge. So you have to think in advance and acknowledge that things will always change. You need to be super-organised and very adaptive to deal with the juggle. On a Sunday you can look ahead and plan the week but then on Monday one of the kids gets a high fever and it alters everything. So you sit down with your partner and adapt. Which meetings are most important or what commitments can you drop? Perhaps my mother will help for an hour or so. It’s like a puzzle. It works out but sometimes it’s hard. We both work full-time and have help from our parents. I realise that’s a privilege. It also helps being in Sweden which is a very progressive and supportive country for parents with generous parental leave and measures in place.   Ericsson’s a supportive environment. If I have a sick child at home, colleagues or bosses just say I hope they feel better soon. But you still have to do the work. I feel the pressure! It’s a hard equation to pull off. Having kids makes you extra efficient because you have to focus on getting things done. There’s no choice.   I put an out-of-office message on when a child is poorly and needs my attention, although I still find time here and there to work. I think it’s good practice. You’re being honest, telling it like it is. And it gives you space to take care of your child and an understanding that you might not be available all day. Recently I had an occasion where I did a Teams meeting with a child on my lap. He was sick and needed comforting. But it was an important meeting I didn’t want to miss.   When leaders are open - and vulnerable - about their family situation it gives us all a great example for how to be at work. Recently I supported our CU head Nora on a keynote she delivered at a Women in Tech conference. She told a story about a business trip where she worried about her daughter at home. I already knew Nora was an open leader, but hearing her story reminded me of the importance of role models. A leader standing up in front of 2,000 people talking about the realities of being a working parent - that’s powerful.   Of course parenting changes everything. It takes a while to accept you only have so many hours in the day. It probably took me 12 months to accept that. You need to be grounded. But I love being a Dad and am super proud of it!” #ParentsAtEricsson

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Curious about what's next in the world of telecom?   Hear from Lumen Technologies CEO, Kate Johnson, on how Lumen is embracing #AI and reshaping the industry.   Click the link to find out why Lumen is the #TrustedNetwork for AI.  #InnovateWithLumen 

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Curious about what's next in the world of telecom?   Hear from Lumen Technologies CEO, Kate Johnson, on how Lumen is embracing #AI and reshaping the industry.   Click the link to find out why Lumen is the #TrustedNetwork for AI.  #InnovateWithLumen 

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With power comes responsibility, and as T-Mobile continues to shine and transform the industry, we know our actions have an impact. Which is why we make it our responsibility to be a force for good in our business and communities.    Here are a few of my favorite Corporate Social Responsibility accomplishments from 2023: https://lnkd.in/gYmzZrsD

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Resilient network, resilient communities, and a resilient planet 🌎 In 2023, T-Mobile focused on how to use our scale and resources to benefit our customers and our planet. We’re moving forward together toward a cleaner, more equitable future. Read our full 2023 Corporate Responsibility Report here! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g9WYTnR9

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What a phenomenal week the last one turned out to be!    You know how we all try to do our bit for the planet? Like unplugging our chargers or flipping the light switch off as we leave a room? Well, our team has taken those everyday energy-saving habits and scaled them big time. And this led to Ericsson’s eco-friendly innovation being honored with the Green Future Best Practice Award at the Deutsche Telekom Campus Fair 2024! 🌍🏆   The journey that brought us here was a team effort between our MELA SCR team and the local business team on the ground, particularly the Deutsche Telekom Key Account Manager, who all poured their expertise into crafting an award submission that shone a light on our collaborative spirit and innovation. Together, they crunched the numbers and showcased how Deutsche Telekom’s network in Germany is making leaps in capacity and energy performance, all while lowering its carbon footprint with our new energy-efficient radios. We're talking a massive 60.8 GWh energy saved annually, and a reduction of 4,290 tons of CO2e. This is what modernization with a conscience looks like, and it's helping DT sprint towards their ambitious Net Zero goal by 2040.   But this isn't just about celebrating a win. It's about setting the stage for what's next. The innovation we've highlighted here is ready to be rolled out to other markets, driving sustainability and business benefits far and wide. Here's to our team's hard work and to all the exciting, earth-friendly advancements on the horizon! #Sustainability #GreenFuture #Innovation #TeamEricsson #NetZero #EnergyEfficiency #DeutscheTelekom #ClimateAction Stefan Growe | Alina Claire Ostenda | Christian Francke | Cornelia Izquierdo-B. | Souleiman Midani | Yasser Ayad | LOUISE HUGHES | Marisol Soltero | Rory Moore | Cordula Knüppel | Martin Ostermeier | Jan Thünnesen

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Always scary listening to yourself, especially when "swearing in church" 😊. This is quite enjoyable since we are just speaking - ZERO corporate messaging! At least until we get right to the end when I couldn't help myself. Rakuten has a very clear customer promise... “We're trying to sell technology to people who don't care. Why are we doing that? Why are we screaming from the rooftops that you can get 5G here? Nobody cares, nobody cares, because it makes no difference to them. If we were selling hotel rooms, we'd sell a hotel room for the same price in Manhattan as we were in Oklahoma City. I mean, it's, we don't, I think we've lost touch as an industry with what we need to have as a customer promise. I think initially, because our customer promise was so tied to technology, it was a lot easier. So do voice everywhere, we're building networks that do mobile voice. So that's really simple. We've got disintermediated from the customer experience with smartphones. That's why the app economy took off and 4G was pulled through. It didn't lead it. It pulled through. We were hoping, by the way, as an industry, that someone invents something that pulls us through again. But (the fundamental problem) we haven't got a customer promise. Now, let me flip to my day job. And this conversation has had nothing to do with my day job, which is why I've enjoyed it so much. Rakuten has a very clear customer promise... Listen to the end to understand what that is. And thank you to Monica for being a wonderful host!Always scary listening to yourself, especially when "swearing in church" 😊. This is quite enjoyable since we are just speaking - ZERO corporate messaging! At least until we get to the end... Let me highlight that bit... “We're trying to sell technology to people who don't care. Why are we doing that? Why are we screaming from the rooftops that you can get 5G here? Nobody cares, nobody cares, because it makes no difference to them. If we were selling hotel rooms, we'd sell a hotel room for the same price in Manhattan as we were in Oklahoma City. I mean, it's, we don't, I think we've lost touch as an industry with what we need to have as a customer promise. I think initially, because our customer promise was so tied to technology, it was a lot easier. So do voice everywhere, we're building networks that do mobile voice. So that's really simple. We've got disintermediated from the customer experience with smartphones. That's why the app economy took off and 4G was pulled through. It didn't lead it. It pulled through. We were hoping, by the way, as an industry, that someone invents something that pulls us through again. But (the fundamental problem) we haven't got a customer promise. Now, let me flip to my day job. And this conversation has had nothing to do with my day job, which is why I've enjoyed it so much. Rakuten has a ver... Listen to the end to understand what that is. And thank you to Monica Paolini for being a wonderful host!

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Lumen: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Lumen is enjoying a Renaissance under new CEO, Kate Johnson. She recognized the hard truth that Lumen had too much debt and managed to sell the South American and European assets above fair value to Colt and one other player. Less widely known is that Lumen sold off its ILEC business to Brightspeed for $7.5 billion. In addition, she is focusing on fibre-to-the-home deployment as opposed to trying to protect legacy twisted copper wire assets. Many telecom CEOs are unable to make the hard choice of cannibalizing or selling slow growth PSTN services like POTs and DSL in order to deploy new, technologically more advanced services. But the stock market approves the strategy as far sighted. Furthermore, Johnson has recognized that Lumen should finally integrate its five networks into one. These five networks reflect purchases of distressed assets that previous CEOs made over 15 years ago, including Qwest Communications, Time Warner Telecom, Global Crossing, and others. Integration is estimated to slash network expenses by a billion USD a year. If Lumen has integrated these assets in a timely fashion, Lumen's shareholders would be about $15 billion dollars richer today. It would still have its international assets and be a global player. Kate Johnson is making Lumen's focus the AI industry. This is good marketing and investors are likely to buy it short term. Nonetheless, AI has all the marking of a gigantic bubble as the revenue potential of generative AI is limited and certainly not great enough to justify the massive investments in the sector. Large language models are simply gigantic nonlinear statistical models that ape whatever language samples are used to estimate them. Reasoning ability is extremely limited. If a model was estimated using Donald Trump's tweets, it would insist that the 2020 election was stolen and that he is the most oppressed man on the planet. This so-called AI is basically regurgitation. It will be sensible if trained on the Wall Street and New York Times or downright crazy if trained on the proceedings of the Flat Earth Society. It is likely Lumen will benefit from being a partner of the Digital Titans, but I suspect the growth benefit will peter out in a few years when AI undergoes its own crisis just like the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000. I would focus more on reducing head count as transport and transit services can be profitable, but only if the company is lean and mean. I wish Lumen the best of luck. #lumen #renaissance #integration #leverage #katejohnson #ai

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Empower your teams with #5GLaptops—without breaking the bank. 🏦 Right now is the time to begin talking about what your 2025 connectivity needs look like. 😃 As an EAE for T-Mobile for Business I can help your organization take advantage of cutting-edge tech as a manageable monthly expense. Let’s connect to talk about how you can: • Move tech spend from CapEx to OpEx • Snag credits on top laptops 💻 • Streamline vendors • Boost security 🛡️ 📧[email protected] to start that conversation today. Click to learn more. ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gx7iGDva

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Ericsson unveils a new #ConsumerLab research report that highlights a powerful trend: #5G is transforming event experiences, with a 20% higher share of 5G users reporting satisfaction with their connectivity compared to 4G users. The report also reveals that users are becoming increasingly discerning about their connections, prioritizing app quality and reliability 10 times more than speed alone. This shift in user preferences correlates with evolving traffic patterns at events, where data use now peaks dynamically with live-streaming and content sharing – levels only high-capacity 5G networks can support smoothly. As demand continues to grow, attendees are even willing to pay extra for a seamless experience, which is a good example of why high-performance programmable networks is the future. By enabling differentiated connectivity, operators can create tailored network experiences for different user needs – even in the most demanding scenarios – thereby opening up new avenues to monetize their networks’ capabilities. Explore the full report to learn more about how 5G is transforming connectivity at live events: https://lnkd.in/dqPSyqcS 🎯Follow us on Kaneshwaran Govindasamy & Global 5G Evolution 🎯Check out this week's conference #5g #monetization debate 👇🏽 🎯Click comment box subscribe our #youtube channel #5G #5G #connectivity #DifferentiatedConnectivity #MakeitMemorable #ericsson

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