This Week: Best Plans for the Best Customers, NVidia Dabbles in OpenRan

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss Verizon's recent wireless plan updates, as

well as Nvidia's acquisition of spectrum to test Open RAN.

00:25 Verizon's new plan updates may reduce churn

02:11 Prepaid and retail struggles continue

04:03 Verizon's overall strategy

04:28 Nvidia's spectrum acquisition and Open RAN predictions

Note: “Roger erroneously added that OpenRAN efforts only began to stabilize once Dish Network brought on established open RAN vendor Samsung, “which took over a lot of that stack.”” Mavenir continues to play a significant role in Dish’s 5G Open RAN network.

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