In this 157th episode of The G2 on 5G, Anshel and Will Cover:

1. Tareq Amin out at Rakuten - is there trouble in ORAN paradise?

2. Dish and Echostar Merger Is Happening in an All-Stock Merger, Old CEO is out

3. Intel + Samsung vRAN collaboration

4. Qualcomm hits a new Sub-6 record speed at 7.5 Gbps with 300 MHz over 4x CA

5. Cisco buys mobile core vendor WG2 for $150M6. SES completes early Phase II clearing of C-Band spectrum