Wireless Watch 659 October 24: AT&T to buy Time Warner

Key Issues:

• Time Warner bid is just one move in AT&T’s bold game of 3D chess 2
• Broadband World Forum:
• ETSI backlash amid deep divisions between NFV tortoises and hares 9

Comment:

• Sprint’s ‘insourcing’ move adds to pain of Ericsson’s net loss 16
• NB-IoT goes live in Germany, but that will not signal the end for LoRa 17
• Driverless cars out, Macs back in – iPhone pressures shift Apple’s priorities 20
• Amazon may join Google in the ISP game, but in Europe 22
• Wintel results show progress in the cloud offsetting mobile failures 24

Multiplay Watch:

Sky enters UK quad play fray with belated MVNO launch 25

4G Watch:

Malaysian towerco moves into C-RAN with Nokia fronthaul 26

4G/5G Watch:

NEC sensor visualizes spectrum in real time to aid sharing 27

IoT Watch:

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon designs for cameras with machine vision 28

Spectrum Watch:

US auction ends suddenly, FCC must go to broadcasters a third time 29