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Articles published in November 2010

Verizon's LTE: What You'll Get


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
November 30, 2010 : With more LTE details from Verizon due tomorrow, LR Mobile looks at what you can expect from the '4G' service

Did Level 3 Know What It Was Getting Into?


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (20)
November 30, 2010 : It's common for CDNs to pay additional fees if the amount of traffic being swapped among peers is out of balance, industry sources say

Apple Cuts iPhone Signalling Chatter


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (8)
November 30, 2010 : Apple answers operators' call to cut down smartphone signaling traffic

Cablevision Trademarks Mobile, RS-DVR Brands


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Post a comment
November 30, 2010 : Trademark awards and recent job listings indicate MSO is close to launching two new products – 'Optimum Mobile' and 'iO DVR Plus'

AT&T, BT Spur Telepresence Interconnection


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Post a comment
November 30, 2010 : By linking the two largest telepresence networks with a scalable, automated approach, these giants may have created a new standard

Reliance Gives Impetus to LTE TDD in India


News Analysis - Gagandeep Kaur - Post a comment
November 30, 2010 : Reliance Industries is all set to go with LTE TDD, not WiMax

Euronews: Nov. 30


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
November 30, 2010 : Orange, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Magyar Telekom crack the whip in today's canter through the Euro telecom news headlines

Level 3: Comcast Erected Web Video 'Toll Booth'


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (9)
November 30, 2010 : Is Comcast violating network neutrality by charging extra for Netflix streaming? Or is a new fee just the effect of normal peering negotiations?

Zoom Moans About Comcast's Modem Tests


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
November 29, 2010 : Vendor complains to the FCC that the MSO's 'Physical and Environmental' tests have harmed its ability to sell modems at retail

ZON Turns On 360Mbit/s Internet Service


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3)
November 29, 2010 : Portuguese MSO taps Cisco gear to introduce a EuroDocsis 3.0 service that pumps out downstream bursts of 360 Mbit/s

Marvell Gets Off the Hook


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
November 29, 2010 : Even so, the lesson remains: When leaving someone a voice mail, don't make it sound like you stole things from them

Vodafone Beats Deutsche Telekom to LTE Launch


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
November 29, 2010 : In Germany, Vodafone will be the first mobile operator to offer LTE services

Comcast Hit by Regional Net Outage


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3)
November 29, 2010 : Comcast restored service outage in Boston and other East Coast systems on Sunday night, believed to be caused by DNS server issues

Symbian Shutters Its Sites


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Comment (1)
November 29, 2010 : Open-source project continues its spiral into irrelevancy as it stops offering its platform source code and turns support over to Nokia

Sprint, Clearwire Fire Up 4G in LA


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (9)
November 29, 2010 : Sprint and Clearwire launch mobile WiMax in LA early and add five other markets

Google-Backed Satellite Startup Secures $1.2B


News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (11)
November 29, 2010 : O3b Networks has raised $1.2B to bring connectivity via satellite to ISPs and telcos in emerging markets

Euronews: Nov. 29


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
November 29, 2010 : You can keep your Wikileaks – we've got hot stuff on Telecom Italia, Vodafone, NSN, and more in today's Euro telecom digest

Data Is India's Next Tariff Battlefield


News Analysis - Gagandeep Kaur - Post a comment
November 28, 2010 : With India's operators still nursing their voice tariff war wounds, the pricing battle is all set to shift to the data services market

Euronews: Nov. 26


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Comments (2)
November 26, 2010 : Intune Networks, BT, TDC, and AlcaLu are the hot potatoes in today's Euro telecom news mash-up

Allied Fiber Finds More Financing


News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Post a comment
November 26, 2010 : Two institutional investors agree to finance some of Allied Fiber's first dark fiber and facilities buildout

LR Mobile's Black Friday Re-Gifting Guide


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
November 26, 2010 : Five wireless gifts that you won't want to hang on to

MNP, Finally!


News Analysis - Gagandeep Kaur - Post a comment
November 25, 2010 : After multiple delays, mobile number portability arrives in India

IPV6, MPLS-TP Are Hot, Says Forum


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2)
November 25, 2010 : The Broadband Forum's members are showing a high degree of urgency around IPV6, and are looking for help with MPLS-TP deployments

Euronews: Nov. 25


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
November 25, 2010 : The European Commission, France Telecom, Vodafone, and BT feel mighty real in today's Euro telecom news digest

Swedish LTE Challengers Wield Unlimited Offers


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (2)
November 24, 2010 : Telenor and Tele2 take on TeliaSonera with cheaper LTE prices and unlimited data plans in Sweden

TiVo: $99 Premiere DVR Revving Retail


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Comments (3)
November 24, 2010 : TiVo chief says steep holiday-season hardware price cuts are helping as DVR pioneer reports losing 112,000 subs in the third quarter

Insight Battles U-Verse With $95 Wideband


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
November 24, 2010 : Insight is the latest Tier 2 MSO to boot up wideband services as it starts off with a 50Mbit/s downstream tier in three markets

Euronews: Nov. 24


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
November 24, 2010 : France Telecom, Sunrise, and Ukrtelecom are mixing it in today's Euro telecom news digest

Comverse Kobi Coughs Up $54M


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
November 24, 2010 : Fugitive Kobi Alexander shells out $53.6 million to settle with the SEC, but he's still on the run

India's Tower Sector Set to Catch M&A Fever


News Analysis - Gagandeep Kaur - Comments (2)
November 23, 2010 : India's telecom tower sector is set for a wave of consolidation activity in the coming months

Cisco, Cyan Think Beyond the Box


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (8)
November 23, 2010 : The dream of a multivendor control plane is slowly coming to life. Cisco even says it's doable now

DigiForge Teaches DTAs New Tricks


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
November 23, 2010 : Startup has built a specialized EBIF user agent that creates a uniform app environment for millions of one-way channel zappers

WiMax Operator Issues LTE RFP


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
November 23, 2010 : Russia's Yota says it's shifting to LTE as soon as possible because it doesn't want to get stuck with a 'Betamax' technology

Euronews: Nov. 23


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
November 23, 2010 : Draka, Apple, TalkTalk, and Alcatel-Lucent top the bill of fare in today's digest of Euro telecoms news bites

Draka's In Demand


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
November 23, 2010 : Dutch fiber specialist receives improved takeover offer worth nearly $1.4 billion from Chinese conglomerate

Operators Still Seeking LTE Engineers


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Post a comment
November 23, 2010 : LTE network buildouts have been in the works for years, but there's still a demand for engineering talent at the wireless operators

Wi-LAN Suit Targets Comcast, TW Cable, Charter


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
November 22, 2010 : Patent troll claims the MSOs are infringing on a patent that covers channel bonding and other features tied to Docsis modem technology

DirecTV, Dish Connect on Interactive Ads


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Post a comment
November 22, 2010 : Satellite-TV giants are close to striking a deal with a media buyer that would pipe interactive ads to homes served by both companies

Verizon Confirms December LTE Launch


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Comments (4)
November 22, 2010 : Verizon's first jab in the FauxG marketing wars, a commercial that aired last night, confirms a December 2010 launch date for LTE

Deutsche Telekom Reveals Next LTE Move


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
November 22, 2010 : Beyond the required rural broadband coverage, Deutsche Telekom plots what it will do next with LTE

Policy Player Ready to Rumble


Policy Management News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (6)
November 22, 2010 : BroadHop gets feisty over policy control

Euronews: Nov. 22


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
November 22, 2010 : Prysmian, France Telecom, and T-Systems get busy in today's digest of Euro telecom news

Prysmian Lands Draka for $1.15B


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
November 22, 2010 : A year after they faltered at the altar, fiber vendors agree acquisition terms, leaving Nexans empty-handed

Ipanema Prepares for the Cloud


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
November 22, 2010 : Adds to its application-centric service management capabilities with a remote agent that takes system intelligence to multiple locations

Verizon 150-Meg Tier Usurps Cable's Speed Crown


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Comments (28)
November 22, 2010 : Bar-raising service available to majority of FiOS's 12.5M-home footprint and coming to businesses late this year

Cox Wireless Starts Out Femto-Free


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
November 19, 2010 : MSO finds femtos 'interesting' for in-home voice coverage, but thinks WiFi is a better near-term option to handle 'data tonnage'

OS Watch: Developers Rally for Symbian


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Comments (5)
November 19, 2010 : Nokia's Ovi momentum, birds' Android issues, Woz's fighting words, and more, on this week's OS shakedown

AlcaLu Doesn't Expect LTE Small Cells Until 2011


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comment (1)
November 19, 2010 : Multi-mode LTE femtos and other small cells won't show up until 2011 at the earliest, AlcaLu says

U.S. Cellular Believes in SPIT


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Post a comment
November 19, 2010 : U.S. Cellular's ambitious customer experience makeover, The Belief Project, is underpinned by network and service provider information technology (SPIT) changes

Bharti Gets a Makeover Before 3G Launch


News Analysis - Gagandeep Kaur - Comment (1)
November 19, 2010 : Bharti Airtel decides to go for a facelift before the impending launch of its 3G services in India
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