Wireless Watch 669: Operators warm to C-RAN

 Key Issues:

• A cable alliance to acquire T-Mobile? Malone resurrects an old idea 2
• Plugfests will rebuild confidence in NFV as operators warm to C-RAN 6

Comment:

• AT&T says Indigo will push Internet forward with secure data sharing 11
• LTE-Broadcast has broad deployment models, but still no iPhone 13
• Waymo promoted to take more strategic role in Google’s automotive push 15
• Ericsson’s new CEO celebrates with biggest deal yet from the Cisco alliance 17
• Globalstar now eyes neutral host LTE small cells for its 2.4 GHz band 18
• Wheeler fires final shots against telcos as neutrality row grumbles on 20

4G Watch:

Five-way aggregation comes to TDD, Massive MIMO to FDD 21

IoT Watch:

ETSI to drive specs for putting smart city data in context 23

Connected Car Watch:

Car giants use SmartDeviceLink to limit power of Apple and Google 24

WiFi Watch:

CES 2017: WiFi offerings jostle for operator and consumer attention 26