News Analysis - Kevin Cramer - Post a comment December 31, 2007 : The best of the best from the past year on Light Reading
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 31, 2007 : VOD server and software specialist exits the VOD content aggregation biz in the UK and Ireland
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) December 31, 2007 : Satellite company will ring in the New Year by dividing in two. Pay-TV unit will be renamed 'Dish Network Corp.,' but moniker for spun-off 'EchoStar Holdings Corp.' tech unit may be short-lived
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment December 31, 2007 : Ten hard knocks for the struggling operator, from a quarterly loss to Clearwire woes and the departure of CEO Forsee
News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Post a comment December 31, 2007 : Vonage announced today that it had settled its patent dispute with Nortel, bringing an end to its legal troubles for now
News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Comment (1) December 28, 2007 : We pointed and shot. Now all you need to do is click
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 28, 2007 : New downstream CMTS modules from Arris, Cisco, and Motorola are reducing port prices by 50% or more, paving the way for faster Docsis 2.0 tiers, and the start of 100-Mbit/s services based on Docsis 3.0
News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comments (3) December 28, 2007 : What technologies are going to make a big splash in the next 12 months? We've made our list and checked it twice
News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comments (3) December 28, 2007 : What's more fun than failure?
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (2) December 27, 2007 : The top topics that got the wireless market jumping in 2007, including Apple, Google, and 'open access' in the US – and much more
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment December 27, 2007 : From FMC to IPTV to (voice) SMS and all the way to UMA, we give you this year's top services stories from the Light Reading stable
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment December 27, 2007 : Some next-gen communications stocks sizzled in 2007. Here's our list of the year's biggest gainers
News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Comments (7) December 26, 2007 : MRV subsidiary, Source Photonics, files to go public, putting the wraps on a plan it first talked about in January
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment December 26, 2007 : What was big in OSS in the past year? Check out these stories to find out how IT giants and India have been at the heart of the sector's M&A action
News Analysis - Frank Smith - Post a comment December 26, 2007 : Our P2P-lovin', MP3-stealin' little sister site, Contentinople, presents its list of stories that shook up the digital content world in 2007
LR Cable News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (6) December 26, 2007 : With Charles Giancarlo stepping down, there's no clear successor to Cisco CEO John Chambers, and analysts think there doesn't have to be
News Analysis - Post a comment December 24, 2007 : Our sister site, Byte and Switch, has stored the Top 10 storage stories for 2007. Enjoy!
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 24, 2007 : From a bandwidth crunch to a regulatory jihad and a hammer-toting granny with 'tude, cable had its hands full in '07
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment December 21, 2007 : Dutch chip maker to buy GloNav for GPS chipset technology, following in the footsteps of Atheros and Broadcom
News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Comments (9) December 21, 2007 : Lucent ran afoul of the law by spiffing Chinese carrier execs with 'training' junkets to Disneyland
News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comments (3) December 21, 2007 : Is Ma Bell kicking Tellabs to the curb? One analyst report says AT&T won't deploy new Tellabs access gear in its old BellSouth territories
News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Comments (2) December 21, 2007 : For a company in the business of shoving ads down our throats, Google sure covered a lot of odd terrain in 2007
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (6) December 21, 2007 : We told you so! Ethernet access equipment vendor plans to raise $86.25 million from an IPO on Nasdaq, and reveals its reliance on Verizon's deployment
News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Comments (4) December 21, 2007 : 100-Gig is awfully big, Smellabs is smarting, and Infinera makes all the right moves in our list of top optical networking stories of 2007
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1) December 20, 2007 : Two of Russia's growing and profitable carriers are reportedly ready to tie the knot in a $4.3B deal
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment December 20, 2007 : The firm that designed the 'Sidekick' has decided to float in 2008, partly to pay off some debt
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (12) December 20, 2007 : Chief development officer Charles Giancarlo, the heir apparent to Cisco CEO John Chambers, is leaving for a job with private equity firm Silver Lake
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 20, 2007 : A $135 million bid for Philips's set-top business could elevate Pace to No. 3 status, past Scientific Atlanta/Cisco but still behind Thomson and Moto
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment December 20, 2007 : The Korean CDN provider, which has said it wants a bigger US presence, just got a boatload of cash to help its cause
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment December 20, 2007 : Buys small IPTV integrator HyC Group for an undisclosed sum to add 110 specialist staff to its services division
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment December 20, 2007 : French consolidation continues as SFR plans €4.5B ($6.4B) acquisition of Neuf Cegetel to create a quad-play giant that will be France Telecom's main domestic rival
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 20, 2007 : A pair of MSO contracts for 100-Mbit/s service shows that the high-speed, channel-bonding early adopters continue to come from Asia and Europe
News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Comment (1) December 19, 2007 : Our look at the 15-country region profiles the ownership and services of nearly 60 carriers
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment December 19, 2007 : The FCC has 96 confirmed applicants ready to bid on the wireless broadband spectrum, with another 170 in the wings
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment December 19, 2007 : Optical upstart Infinera lands an optical backbone deal from growing UK broadband service provider Carphone Warehouse, but only after joining the part at the last moments
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 19, 2007 : Christmas came early for three suppliers after CableLabs stamped their respective CMTS gear with prized Docsis 3.0 approvals. No modem vendors passed this round, but they'll get another chance in January
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1) December 18, 2007 : The $85 million purchase of Intel's tunable-laser business gives Emcore the kind of boost it's needed to join the upper ranks of telecom suppliers
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment December 18, 2007 : Device maker reports Q2 loss on increased competition, Q3 guidance is also down
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4) December 18, 2007 : In a close vote, the agency approves a 30 percent ownership limit designed, in part, to limit an MSO's power over young programmers
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment December 18, 2007 : 3 & T-Mobile are the latest UK operators to strike up a 3G RAN sharing deal. Will O2 join in?
News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comments (2) December 18, 2007 : Sprint Nextel's search for a new CEO is over as it has appointed current Embarq CEO Dan Hesse to lead the company
News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Comments (9) December 18, 2007 : The combination of Turin and Carrier Access will benefit from complementary technology and customer bases, say analysts
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) December 18, 2007 : Alcatel-Lucent is selling its stake in fiber vendor Draka Comteq for $301M, with industry sources suggesting the money is earmarked for M&A purposes
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5) December 18, 2007 : Japanese giant is set to put PBT through its paces early next year as interest continues to grow from the world's major carriers in the controversial Ethernet technology being pushed by Nortel and BT
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment December 17, 2007 : Atheros hopes to get a slice of a new multibillion-dollar market with $54 million u-Nav acquisition, launches new 802.11n chips
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 17, 2007 : Arris makes staff cuts after closing the C-COR deal and outlines its – yaaaawn – new corporate structure
News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Comments (12) December 17, 2007 : Softswitch vendor is hanging it up, citing lack of demand for its products UPDATED 3:15 PM
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment December 17, 2007 : The Vonage legal team is being kept busy as Nortel becomes the latest company to sue the VOIP service provider for patent infringement
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (10) December 17, 2007 : After months of acquisition speculation, Turin Networks strikes a near $93 million deal to buy Carrier Access
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 17, 2007 : As expected, companies seal deal before year-end to set up broader battles against larger rivals such as Cisco and Motorola
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