Verizon and China Unicom join Broadband Forum board as work on 5G and connected home services accelerates
2020.09.10 – VanillaPlus
‘Broadband Forum has welcomed two new members to its board of director – from Verizon and China Unicom – as its work continues to develop and standardise next-generation broadband services.
Mike Talbert, of Verizon, and Ding Hai, of China Unicom, are the latest members to join the board which includes representatives from BT, Calix, CommScope, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Huawei Technologies, InCoax, MaxLinear, Nokia, and Telecom Italia. Their appointments follow the retirement of Broadband Forum president Tom Starr, of AT&T, who has held a board position for 26 years. He is succeeded by Bernd Hesse, of Calix.
The new board members were named during Broadband Forum’s virtual Q3 meeting, where several projects around 5G and the Connected Home moved forward, and a new Open Broadband project around measurement of gigabit broadband speeds was launched.’
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