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Articles published in March 2011

Cablevision to Stream Full TV Lineup to iPads


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (6)
March 31, 2011 : Meanwhile, TW Cable decides to remove 12 channels from its iPad lineup amid the threat of programmer-led lawsuits

Fox to TW Cable: Stop Streaming Our Stuff


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Post a comment
March 31, 2011 : Elsewhere: Cox cuts retrans deal with Lin TV, Comcast plows cash into TidalTV, and Google's 1-Gig jig is good and bad news for local ISPs

NFC Forum Brings In Google & 31 Others


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Post a comment
March 31, 2011 : The group looking to standardize mobile contactless payments adds Google to its roster, along with 31 other companies keen on NFC

Euronews: March 31


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
March 31, 2011 : The Tunisian government takes control of Orange's local unit, FT and DT continue their love-in and Microsoft takes a swipe at Google

Pentagon Calls Interference on LightSquared


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comment (1)
March 30, 2011 : Officials are reportedly calling for a 'comprehensive review' of LightSquared's potential to interfere with GPS navigation signals

Google's 1-Gig Fiber Winner: Kansas City, KS


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (34)
March 30, 2011 : Heads up, Time Warner Cable and AT&T. Googlemania is heading your way

In-App Billing Makes Android More Appealing


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Post a comment
March 30, 2011 : Operators and app stores agree that in-app billing is the best option to bring real revenues to developers – and help their own bottom lines

TW Cable's iPad App Enters Programmer Gun Sights


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Comments (2)
March 30, 2011 : Elsewhere: RadioShack shoots down Dish gun promo, Roku hits Best Buy stores, Cox could lose Lin TV, Paul Allen reveals his true feelings for Bill Gates

Verizon Readies 100G Launch in US


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
March 30, 2011 : The time for trials is over as Verizon prepares to switch on multiple 100G transport links in the US

Cisco Counters Fabric Challengers


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (10)
March 30, 2011 : Data center fabrics are proving quite the battleground, as Cisco prepares to counter the publicity Juniper's gotten for QFabric

The Other Microsoft


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
March 30, 2011 : The new relationship with Nokia is headline stuff, but there's plenty else going on in the software giant's comms division

Clearwire Finally Unveils Best Buy Service Plan


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
March 30, 2011 : Clearwire's $45-per-month mobile data service announcement comes hard on heels of Best Buy's MVNO deal with LightSquared

Euronews: March 30


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
March 30, 2011 : Telekom Austria is told to re-bid for Telekom Srbija and NSN is out-Twittered by a pop sensation in today's roundup from the EMEA region

TW Cable's Gaedtke Gallops to Google


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4)
March 30, 2011 : The exec who helped develop the MSO's controversial iPad app and connected-TV strategy is on the move again

Brocade Responds to Juniper's QFabric


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (6)
March 29, 2011 : Juniper and Brocade both want to virtualize the data center into one big switch, but their approaches aren't so similar

Cisco Purchase Could Bring Self-Service to Telcos


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Comment (1)
March 29, 2011 : Cisco is expected to share newScale's portal and self-service capabilities with service-provider customers

Survey: SMBs Crave VoIP Switch


SMB Services News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Post a comment
March 29, 2011 : US incumbents that fail to aggressively offer new IP-based services face losing almost half their SMB customer base, finds a new survey

AT&T & T-Mobile's Goliath Crushes the Davids


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Comments (3)
March 29, 2011 : Rural New Mexican carrier says he'll be out of business if AT&T/T-Mobile deal passes, while Sprint formally opposes the transaction

Netflix Canada Cuts Video Streaming Quality


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Post a comment
March 29, 2011 : Is 'Good' the new 'Good Enough'? Elswhere: Rovi loses appeal in UK, Amazon rolls streaming music, Cisco's M&A strategy gets cloudier

8 Things You Should Have Seen at CTIA 2011


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Comment (1)
March 29, 2011 : The editors pick the products, services and applications that wowed them at last week's CTIA show in Orlando

ZTE Scores LTE TDD/FDD Deal


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (3)
March 29, 2011 : Nokia Siemens and Ericsson lose out as ZTE lands a deal with Hi3G in Sweden and Denmark to roll out dual-mode LTE networks

Cox Lights Up Wireless in the Sooner State


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
March 29, 2011 : Cox Wireless is up in five markets following debut in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, with the MSO's New England region next in line

Euronews: March 29


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
March 29, 2011 : Nokia swings at Apple (again), ZTE brings LTE TDD/FDD to Europe, VimpleCom reports Q4 and Swisscom invites trouble in today's news mash-up

Big AT&T & T-Mobile 4G Buildout Ahead?


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (5)
March 29, 2011 : AT&T's buyout of T-Mobile presents it with a headache if it wants to use AWS for LTE as the smaller provider lacks towers in some rural areas

NetScout Buys Better Video Quality Management


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Comments (2)
March 28, 2011 : Psytechnics acquisition brings new capabilities for monitoring video and telepresence in a multi-vendor world

Ruckus Ready to Rumble With Docsis 3.0


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
March 28, 2011 : The Wi-Fi vendor looks to make waves in cable broadband, taking on BelAir and Cisco

Telecom Italia Gets Ready for LTE


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
March 28, 2011 : Nokia Siemens lands an LTE Italian job with Telecom Italia to modernize the carrier's mobile network with LTE-ready base stations

Cablevision Also Kicking LightSquared's Tires?


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Comments (5)
March 28, 2011 : Elsewhere: Netflix eyes Miramax deal, TWC sub gets a $16.4M bill, Montana RadioShack offers free gun with Dish subscription

Microsoft Gives Telefónica an Apps Edge


LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
March 28, 2011 : Telefónica teams with Microsoft to offer application developers a low-cost route to millions of mobile users

TV Everywhere Starts Getting Somewhere


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
March 28, 2011 : At least, that's true when it comes to authentication systems that tie consumers to Web TV hubs and programmers' sites

Euronews: March 28


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
March 28, 2011 : Nokia's shares bounce back (a bit), Deutsche Telekom makes peace with its workers and Orange goes smart metering in today's Euro digest

Tabula Gets $108M – & Cisco


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
March 28, 2011 : The FPGA challenger always sounded like an expensive proposition, and it's making good on that promise

CTIA 2011: Wi-Fi Could Be Glue for Mega-Merger


Jonestown - Dan Jones - Post a comment
March 26, 2011 : 1:00 PM AT&T's large hot-spot network and T-Mobile's Wi-Fi calling could help get users connected in the early stages of the mega-merger

CTIA 2011: Qualcomm, Kings of Multi-Mode


Jonestown - Dan Jones - Post a comment
March 25, 2011 : 9:00 PM Qualcomm is solidifying its position at the top of multimode 4G food chain

AT&T Could Drop 40% of T-Mobile


LR Mobile News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
March 25, 2011 : Everyone's expecting concessions in the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. Turns out AT&T was expecting them too

OS Watch: RIM Embraces Android at Arm's Length


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Post a comment
March 25, 2011 : Android apps will run on the PlayBook, smartphones won't get Honeycomb and iPad growth impresses in this week's OS rundown

TW Cable, Programmers Brace for iPad App Battle


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Post a comment
March 25, 2011 : Elsewhere: Boxee preps iPad app, Georgia eyes satellite TV tax, Comcast advances to the Golden Poo 'Sweet 16,' mobile 3D gets panned

Telcordia: Telecom Needs More Marketing Savvy


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Post a comment
March 25, 2011 : Service providers have policy management tools to create new services but aren't being creative in using them to boost revenues

Netflix to Wait 90 Days for New Starz Fare


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (5)
March 25, 2011 : Netflix forced to make more concessions as streaming giant becomes increasingly competitive with MSOs and premium TV networks

Euronews: March 25


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
March 25, 2011 : C&W Worldwide issues second profits warning, Portugal Telecom extends its credit line and losers line up for the iPad 2 in today's Euronews

Nortel Sells IPv4 Addresses


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (7)
March 24, 2011 : When you've got to unload 666,624 IPv4 addresses, who can you turn to?

CTIA 2011: Show Floor Photos, Part III


Slide Shows - Phil Harvey - Comments (5)
March 24, 2011 : One more walk around the show floor yields some cool application demos at Ericsson, some ZTE handsets and a look at Huawei's booth

CTIA 2011: M2M Picks Up Momentum


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Post a comment
March 24, 2011 : As wireless operators rack up partners, M2M is another landscape that could change in a post AT&T/T-Mobile world

Apple Eyes Direct Video Streaming to TVs


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Comments (2)
March 24, 2011 : Elsewhere: Netflix offers refunds, Comcast accused of ballot-stuffing in consumer poll, Shaw cuts 500 staffers, and Charter snags some systems

Rumor: TW Cable Talking With LightSquared


LR Cable Rumors - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
March 24, 2011 : With T-Mobile off the table, TW Cable may try to use its AWS spectrum bargaining chip with the startup LTE network wholesaler

CTIA 2011: Genband Pushes Rescue Plan for Aging Switches


TDM Replacement News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Comment (1)
March 24, 2011 : Vendor leveraging its ownership of legacy switches to market a plan to transform aging digital COs into next-gen networks

CTIA 2011: Which Apps Hog the Most Data?


Light Reedy - Sarah Reedy - Post a comment
March 24, 2011 : 8:00 AM SPB's Android dashboard, which tells users what apps are busting their data caps, would be a good fit for a carrier-branded service

Euronews: March 24


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
March 24, 2011 : Telefonica goes nuts for Brazil, TeliaSonera ticks off Turkcell and French regulator sets termination targets in today's EMEA roundup

CableLabs Peeks at Picocells


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
March 23, 2011 : Now in the RFI phase, cable may develop technical specs to help 'harmonize' deployments of small cell technologies

CTIA 2011: Show Floor Photos, Part II


Slide Shows - Phil Harvey - Post a comment
March 23, 2011 : Our second batch of show floor photos features Ericsson, LG, Samsung and Cellairis
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