Category: Communications Networks

In this episode of The 5G Factor, The Futurum Group’s Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall look at the recent developments in the 5G ecosystem including Dish slowing 5G spend and also attempting to throw a wrench in T-Mobile’s spectrum purchase, the politicization of the spectrum auctions and the impact on the 5G ecosystem, and the recent availability on AWS of Qvantel’s new Flexx BSS and how that is designed to help CSPs path to monetization.
The Six Five team discusses T-Mobile's latest earnings.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess T-Mobile’s Q1 2023 results and why they expect T-Mobile to fulfill its uplifted 2023 guidance as the company is consistently outperforming its key rivals across the most important categories, including financial, technical, and customer attraction and retention. The acquisition of the Mint Mobile, Ultra Mobile, and Plum assets in accord with major collaboration initiatives involving key partners such as Deutsche Telekom and Cisco further strengthen T-Mobile’s competitive edge and warrant for raising its outlook through end of year.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess Juniper’s financial results for fiscal Q1 2023, which showed solid revenue results, generating YoY growth across all customer solutions and all geographies as well as why Juniper’s strategic focus on advancing experience-first networking and cloud metro portfolio innovation can enable the company to expand its market influence and presence across key segments such as 5G, data center, and enterprise environments throughout 2023.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer explore why they see Nokia bolstering its overall competitive position, especially across the mobile ecosystem, through its six strategic pillars underpinned by key enablers, can help swiftly broaden Nokia’s overall digital ecosystem influence and presence.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer explore why they see Nokia bolstering its overall competitive position, especially across the mobile ecosystem, through its six strategic pillars underpinned by key enablers, can help swiftly broaden Nokia’s overall digital ecosystem influence and presence.
In this episode of The 5G Factor, Futurum’s Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover what’s new in the 5G ecosystem, including news about T-Mobile and Samsung, Nokia’s refreshed brand and strategy and why that’s significant, Vodafone and Raspberry Pi, and a peek at our findings in our latest market insight report on 5G and Sustainability.
The Futurum Group’s Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall assess Nokia’s fiscal Q1 2023 results, highlighted by Nokia delivering a solid start to 2023 with Q1 net sales growing nine percent in constant currency due primarily to India 5G, Optical, and Enterprise delivering robust performance, as well as how ongoing portfolio-wide energy efficiency initiatives bolster Nokia’s strategic goal of turning ESG fulfillment into an enduring competitive edge.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores why OCI and Druid Software can make inroads in the tightly contested private 5G network market through OCI’s support of flexible shapes for telco workloads including right-sizing the number of cores and amount of memory in 1-core or 1-GB increments when enterprise and telco customers use or resize Compute instances. 2023 represents a good year for OCI and Druid to win mindshare and expand their presence in the still burgeoning private 5G network market.
The Futurum Group's Ron Westfall examines why the partnership between VMware and Mavenir can both help fuel and benefit from Open RAN’s worldwide market momentum. CSP initiatives, such as fulfilling government net zero emission targets and mandates, can help fasten adoption of Open RAN in 2023 and into the foreseeable future. Combined with the strategic backing of major CSP operators seeking less reliance on proprietary RAN solutions and more supplier flexibility, the prospects for the VMware-Mavenir duo are brightening in 2023 and throughout the 2020s.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer assess why the Juniper Cloud Metro portfolio and approach is ready to play an integral role in advancing customer sustainability initiatives, especially as operators as well as the entire mobile ecosystem are strategically committed to meeting their top priority sustainability goals including net zero emissions.
Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall discuss the 5G ecosystem and how Juniper's Cloud Metro represents substantial growth potential, especially when it comes to enterprise data.Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer assess why Juniper Cloud Metro portfolio does the heavy lifting for operators including pooling of server, storage, and switching capabilities throughout cloud fabrics and multicloud implementations as well as scale up and scale out capabilities in the support of nascent network slicing and microservices applications.

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