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, aswell 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 predictionsNote: “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.Tags: telecom, telecommunications, wireless, prepaid, postpaid, cellular phone, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, Verizon, AT&T, net adds, ACP, churn, retail, TracFone, Straight Talk, Visibile, Total, MobileX, Nvidia, spectrum, Open RAN, interoperability, Dish, Samsung, Ericcson, AI