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Articles published in March 2010

Gadget Watch: Between CTIA & the iPad


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
March 31, 2010 : Set your alarm clocks on Friday night: The iPad and iPhone make gadget news now that CTIA is over

100G Startup Bags $7.2M


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
March 31, 2010 : MultiPhy is working on 100G chips, but what's interesting is its potential for a different kind of 40G play UPDATED 4/1 7:50 AM

Comcast Courts Early 3DTV Adopters


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Post a comment
March 31, 2010 : Only 'thousands' of consumers likely to be equipped to view The Masters in 3D, but Comcast hopes to set the stage for more 3DTV activities to come

India Watch: 3G Update, Ericsson Bumper Deal


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
March 31, 2010 : More details on the spectrum auction hopefuls, plus news of a lucrative network expansion deal for Ericsson

WOW Gets D3 Ball Rolling


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
March 31, 2010 : Competitive cabler WideOpenWest has 'converted' 20% of its gear for Docsis 3.0, but is mum on what speeds will grace its wideband products

AsiaWatch: LTE Action Heats Up


News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
March 31, 2010 : NTT DoCoMo gets commercial LTE equipment, Singapore ponders new spectrum for 4G, and TD-LTE tests in China carry on

Huawei Doubles Profits in 2009


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
March 31, 2010 : The Chinese vendor benefits from exchange rate fluctuations that send its net income up by 133%

Verizon, IBM Offer Cloud-Based Data Backup


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Post a comment
March 31, 2010 : New service would replace tape backups and target large enterprises with major data footprint

Rumor: The CDMA iPhone Rides Again


Rumors - Dan Jones - Post a comment
March 30, 2010 : There's more chatter about a CDMA iPhone coming to Verizon sometime in the Fall

Qwest, IBM Team to Secure SMBs


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Post a comment
March 30, 2010 : New managed security and network management services aimed at enterprises with fewer than 15,000 employees

EPIX Gains Traction With 'TV Everywhere' Model


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Post a comment
March 30, 2010 : Premium programmer still has some big deals to land, but its hybrid, broadband-enhanced distribution model has helped it score early on

Vertical Integration Takes Its Lumps


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (5)
March 30, 2010 : Optical systems vendors might be considering vertical integration, but vendors at OFC/NFOEC had plenty of arguments against the idea

Bharti Secures $10.7B African Acquisition


LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
March 30, 2010 : Indian carrier seals $10.7B acquisition of Zain's African operations, making it one of the world's largest mobile operators

India's Smartphone Battlezone


News Analysis - Gagandeep Kaur - Comments (4)
March 30, 2010 : As data services become more popular and 3G approaches, competition in India's smartphone sector is heating up, with HTC stoking the flames

Suddenlink Unleashes 107-Meg Wideband Tier


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
March 30, 2010 : MSO takes the wraps off the fastest downstream D3 tier in the US, targeting the $107 per month service to three Texas markets where it tangles with AT&T U-verse UPDATED 10:25 AM

Ubiquisys Busts $100 Femto Barrier


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
March 30, 2010 : UK femtocell firm Ubiquisys claims it has broken through the $100 wholesale price barrier for the little home base stations

Harbinger Preps LTE Via Satellite


LR Mobile News Analysis - Post a comment
March 30, 2010 : Private equity firm plans to build a national LTE network using a combination of terrestrial and satellite equipment

CTIA 2010: Distributed Packet Core?


The Philter - Phil Harvey - Comment (1)
March 30, 2010 : 6:00 AM Following Light Reading's DPI conference at CTIA, Heavy Reading's Patrick Donegan explains the challenges with a distributed packet core

OFC/NFOEC 2010 in Pictures


Slide Shows - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
March 29, 2010 : With help from 100G and a bit of economic recovery, OFC/NFOEC got some of its luster back

RIM Buys Up App Partner


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
March 29, 2010 : RIM snaps up popular BlackBerry app developer Viigo

Clearwire Paves Way for LTE in US


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (5)
March 29, 2010 : Clearwire has asked the 3GPP standards body to start work on specs that will enable TD-LTE to be deployed in US at 2.6GHz

SPIT Watch: Comarch Eyes Expansion


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
March 29, 2010 : Euro SPIT player targets international growth, with a particular focus on Central Europe and Asia/Pacific

DirecTV Gets More 3DTV Game


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
March 29, 2010 : DirecTV is first to sign up for ESPN 3D, a part-time network that will complement a trio of 3DTV channels the satco will introduce this June

Ericsson Boasts Major China Deals


LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
March 29, 2010 : Swedish giant announces framework supplier deals with China Mobile and China Unicom worth a potential $1.8 billion

Shaw Vetting FTTH for All New Builds


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
March 29, 2010 : Shaw's 1-Gig trials in Vancouver and Calgary will lay the foundation for an FTTH architecture the MSO intends to someday use in greenfield situations

Rumor: Sistema Eyes Telekom Austria


Rumors - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
March 29, 2010 :

CTIA 2010 Photos: Meet the Editors/Analysts


Slide Shows - Post a comment
March 29, 2010 : More than 100 execs from dozens of companies mingled with Light Reading editors and Heavy Reading analysts last week at CTIA

Suddenlink: US Cable's New Speed King?


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
March 26, 2010 : MSO 'did not issue' possible leaked announcement that it is launching a 107-Meg Docsis 3.0 tier in Texas on Monday

SPIT Watch: Telco 2.0 Tools & M&A


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
March 26, 2010 : The TM Forum's latest efforts help carriers adapt, Amdocs buys again, and other news from the world of Service Provider IT (SPIT)

TiVo-Dish DVR Skirmish Nears End Game


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
March 26, 2010 : Judge extends stay on Dish's injunction to April 30, putting the satellite player a step closer to a DVR cull or more sanctions

Nokia Snaps Up Microbrowser Maven


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comment (1)
March 26, 2010 : Buyout of Chicago transcoding company should enable Nokia to add more Internet services to its low- and mid-tier handsets

IPTV Forum: ETB Plans Telco TV Debut


News Analysis - Post a comment
March 26, 2010 : For Colombia's incumbent fixed carrier, the best form of defense looks to be an assault on the triple-play market

CTIA 2010: Where's Carrier Support for 3G iPad?


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comment (1)
March 26, 2010 : We found microSIMs for the 3G iPad on the CTIA show floor, but so far there's little sign of carrier support for the 3G tablet beyond AT&T

CTIA 2010: Vegas Gadget Revue


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
March 26, 2010 : CTIA wasn't just about the Sprint WiMax phone, even if it felt like that sometimes

Time Warner Cable Flies WiFi in NYC


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
March 25, 2010 : MSO's two-pronged WiFi play hooks into a budding homegrown network and to Cablevision's much larger WiFi canopy

CTIA 2010: The LTE Smartphone Scramble


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
March 25, 2010 : No matter which US carrier launches smartphones first, Samsung could be a big winner in the next-gen race

Qwest Seeks $350M for Rural Broadband Push


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
March 25, 2010 : Telco seeks stimulus funds to extend download speeds up to 40 Mbit/s to 500,000 broadband-starved homes, schools, and businesses

IPTV Forum: Optimus Hails New Discovery


News Analysis - Post a comment
March 25, 2010 : Portuguese operator is adding Orca Interactive's content discovery and recommendation tools to its service to gain an edge on its many rivals

OFC/NFOEC: For ROADMs, Less Is More


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (7)
March 25, 2010 : In the ROADM world, gridless could be the next big thing after colorless and directionless – and like a lot of optical tricks, it's an old one

CTIA 2010: Femto Spotting in Vegas


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
March 25, 2010 : AT&T's national rollout announcement is the headline femto event at CTIA, but it's not the only femto fun going on in Vegas

Bharti Closes In on African Acquisition


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
March 25, 2010 : After two aborted attempts to expand into the mobile-hungry African market, Bharti Airtel looks set to close its purchase of Zain Africa

CTIA 2010: Putting Handsets to the Test


The Philter - Phil Harvey - Post a comment
March 25, 2010 : 9:00 AM At Metrico's (poorly lit) booth, we see a way of objectively testing handset performance before the devices get to a carrier network

India 3G: What's That Spectrum Worth?


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
March 25, 2010 : How much will the Indian government raise from the upcoming spectrum auction? Maybe not as much as it had hoped, says analyst

OFC/NFOEC: Startups Chase 100G


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2)
March 25, 2010 : Even in a crowded optical market, the promise of a difficult problem sparks the startup bug

CTIA 2010: Can Carriers Cash In On Mobile Payments?


The Philter - Phil Harvey - Post a comment
March 25, 2010 : 7:00 AM In talking to several mobile payment services, I get the feeling the carriers are missing a big opportunity to... Look! Girls!

CTIA Update: Day Three at CTIA


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
March 25, 2010 : Here is the final installment of Light Reading's handy show guide for surviving CTIA 2010 in Las Vegas

Real. Mobile. TV


The Philter - Phil Harvey - Post a comment
March 24, 2010 : 7:00 PM As with any other real TV service, the game changer appears to be having a dedicated network that can stand up to consumer demand

CTIA 2010: T-Mobile Talks Up 3G in the USA


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
March 24, 2010 : DT CEO says T-Mobile USA may soon offer the 'most competitive' 3G network in the US

Cablevision, Verizon Set Stage for 3DTV Battle


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3)
March 24, 2010 : Cablevision enters the 3DTV era tonight, while rival Verizon prepares to offer 3D content via FioS TV by the 2010 holiday buying season

Worst Demo Explanation Ever?


The Philter - Phil Harvey - Comment (1)
March 24, 2010 : 5:45 PM At the Ericsson booth, Phil attempts to explain an unmanned demo station
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