AT&T’s Vice Chairman Ralph de la Vega is planning to retire at the end of the year, CNET reported Thursday. The carrier’s Mexico CEO will move up to take over de la Vega’s role, and Senior Vice President of AT&T’s Business group, Kelly King will shift to head the Mexico unit.
De la Vega’s career has spanned more than four decades and included roles as COO of Cingular Wireless and president of BellSouth Latin America. As noted by CNET, de la Vega is also credited for working with late Apple CEO Steve Jobs to bring the original iPhone to AT&T.
Verizon Enterprise Solutions has been included as one of six services providers to provide coordinated, whole of government provision of telecommunications services, including internet connection services, to the Australian Federal Government.
Awarded by the Department of Finance, Verizon is able to provide network carriage, managed networks, and internet connection services.
Comcast CFO Mike Cavanagh said the operator’s progress toward launching an MVNO on Verizon’s network is “going well” so far, noting Comcast is still in “learn and explore mode.”
“It’s going well,” Cavanagh said the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York. “We have work to do to design the exact offering we want to have and lots of bits and pieces that go along with getting that right. We have an opportunity, we believe, to bring a product to our customer base. It’s obviously got to be with people that are otherwise buying products from us that we have an affinity with to begin with.”
Cavanagh noted that by the UBS conference a year from now, the operator may have some results to point toward.
Cavium, Inc., a provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for Enterprise, telco, MSP, and cloud data centers, announced an agreement with China Unicom to accelerate the design and development of Virtualized BBU (base band unit from the base station) and provide a path for 5G adoption. The collaboration will focus on commercializing vBBU systems using general purpose hardware based on Cavium’s ThunderX workload optimized data server processors which are built on ARM architecture. In addition, Cavium has joined the China Unicom CORD Industry Alliance and will drive adoption of open source architecture and technologies in China together with China Unicom.
China Unicom and Cavium also said they will work together on new innovative fronthaul solutions, system architecture, and vBBU performance and deployment. This collaboration allows Cavium to align with China Unicom’s commercial networks technology development and innovation, research feasibility of Next Generation Virtualized Wireless Access Network, perform lab and field testing, evaluate results, drive deployment of developed technologies into commercial network, carry out lab and field performance test and assessment, and accelerate pilot and application of new technical innovations in real-world networks.
