This Week: How Network Virtualization Changes the Economics of Wireless

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology.

0:26: Dish’s plans in the virtualized network space and how they’re working with AWS.

6:00: Comparing Facebook’s data center model to AWS.

8:40: With this big change in the way computing is done, what is likely to happen to other networks and carriers - and who owns the equipment?

12:54: Differing corporate cultures impact each carrier’s strategy and speed of implementation in switching over to a virtualized network.

15:14: The economics of MVNOs favor large players and network operators: will virtualization change that dynamic?

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