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

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.