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The 5G Factor: Lumen's New CEO Bodes Well for the Company, Mavenir and Deutsche Telekom, Starlink's Feud With the FCC, T-Mobile and Starlink Partner, T-Mobile's Got Apple Deals

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In this episode of The 5G Factor, I’m joined by my colleague and fellow analyst Ron Westfall to talk all things 5G. News, alliances, lawsuits, and new hires — there’s always a lot going on in the 5G ecosystem and that’s what this show is designed to cover.

In this episode, we cover the following:

  • Lumen’s new CEO Kate Johnson comes to the job with serious chops and serious challenges ahead.
  • Mavenir got the thumbs up from Deutsche Telekom CEO Timotheus Hötteges’ move to “work towards a Chinese-free core network infrastructure” replacing Huawei in DT’s core.
  • Starlink fights back against the FCC’s recent decision to deny the company $885.5 million in funding under the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF).
  • T-Mobile and SpaceX’s Starlink partner to leverage Starlink’s low Earth orbit satellits combined with the power of T-Mobile’s wireless network to solve connectivity issues where most needed.
  • Following Apple’s ‘Far Out’ event last week announcing the newest iPhone 14 and iWatch models, T-Mobile launched some pretty ‘far out’ deals of its own.
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