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Articles published in April 2008

Reliance Profits Rise 47%


LR Mobile News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Comment (1)
April 30, 2008 : Reliance Communications, India’s second largest mobile operator, reports 46.8% rise in fiscal Q4 profits, beating analysts' expectations, and a full year rise of 70.8%

Huawei Bites at the IP Core


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (9)
April 30, 2008 : Chinese vendor lifts the lid on its clustered core IP router platform that's already in use at China Telecom, claiming up to 10-Tbit/s switching capacity in a 10-unit configuration

Clearwire's Rumor Ride


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
April 30, 2008 : Unstrung rounds up the rumors and sighs that have been causing Clearwire's stock price to shift consistently over the last month, including more partnership details and even M&A talk

Britt: Wireless Broadband 'Interesting'


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
April 30, 2008 : Time Warner Cable CEO says there's little need for a traditional quad play, but sees more potential in offering a high-speed broadband wireless service

Arris Settles Down


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
April 30, 2008 : Cable vendor posts an in-line quarter with increased visibility into MSO Docsis 3.0 deployment plans, but echoes that switched digital video activity isn't moving as rapidly as anticipated

RadiSys Soars After Q1


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
April 30, 2008 : The ATCA vendor is starting to reap some benefits from acquiring Intel's business, as the Q2 outlook is enough to raise the stock 20%

CDMA Hits AlcaLu's Wireless Biz


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
April 30, 2008 : Drop in CDMA revenues overshadows progress in GSM and WCDMA businesses in Alcatel-Lucent's Q1 results

AlcaLu Posts Loss, Warns on Full Year


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4)
April 30, 2008 : Alcatel-Lucent says 2008 revenues will go down and unveils some worrying trends in its carrier business as it reports a net loss of €181M

Cricket Goes on IP Shopping Spree


News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Post a comment
April 30, 2008 : Wireless carrier buys equipment from Genband and Acme Packet to bolster services over its all-IP core

India Crosses 10M Mobile Adds in March


LR Mobile News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Post a comment
April 30, 2008 : India's wireless operators signed up a record 10.16 million new subscribers in March, overtaking the US as the second largest mobile market behind China

Is AlcaLu Seeking a New CEO?


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (14)
April 29, 2008 : Industry sources and the French media believe the Alcatel-Lucent board is looking for a new CEO to replace Pat Russo, with outgoing BT CEO Ben Verwaayen one potential target for the recruitment team

Wireless Camps Prep Fresh 4G Battle


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (2)
April 29, 2008 : An ITU call for proposals for IMT-Advanced technologies sparks a new standards battle between WiMax and LTE, but the process could end up bringing the technologies closer together

Comcast Boosts Biz Service Speed


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
April 29, 2008 : At 16 Mbit/s down and 2 Mbit/s upstream, MSO doubles down on the Docsis-based Internet speeds offered to small and mid-sized businesses

Matisse Targets the Enterprise


News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Comments (6)
April 29, 2008 : Touting the benefits of virtualization, optical Ethernet specialist targets a market with faster deployment times than the telcos

Calix Joins MDU ONT Party


News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comments (2)
April 29, 2008 : Calix is serving up GPON ONTs that it says simplify the process of deploying FTTP in apartment complexes

Fighting FiOS With Fiber


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (19)
April 29, 2008 : How can cable operators keep up with the speeds and capacity offered by telco-led fiber-to-the-premises deployments? By adding more fiber to their network diet, of course

It's All Sprint's Fault


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comment (1)
April 28, 2008 : When in doubt, blame the struggling cellular operator for poor numbers and problem services. It's all the rage!

Web 2.0 Expo Photos, Part II


Slide Shows - Phil Harvey - Comment (1)
April 28, 2008 : A final batch of photos from the Web 2.0 Expo, which closed Friday in San Francisco

All-IP Architectures Square Off


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
April 28, 2008 : Operators need to evolve to flat, all-IP architectures, but how to do it is much debated, finds Heavy Reading

Sycamore Suffers Sales Shortfall


News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Post a comment
April 28, 2008 : Company says third-quarter sales will come in well below expectations, most likely due to a shortfall in orders from Sprint

Verizon to Raise Prices, Cut Jobs


LR Cable News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comments (10)
April 28, 2008 : Verizon's CFO tells analysts that the company will raise prices with FiOS and continue to reduce staff to lower costs

Wireless Fuels Verizon's Q1


News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comments (3)
April 28, 2008 : Verizon now has 1.2 million FiOS TV subscribers, but wireline services overall were a drag on Q1 2008 results while wireless again performed exceptionally

Ciena 4200 Wins at Embarq


News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Comments (3)
April 28, 2008 : Ciena's 'converged Ethernet' transport platform chosen for deployment throughout Embarq's North American footprint

Web 2.0 Expo Photos, Part I


Slide Shows - Comments (3)
April 25, 2008 : Some views from the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, where the Internet's brightest minds meet yearly to figure out what to do with all this bandwidth we've got

Cisco Intros SDV Tuning Adapter


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4)
April 25, 2008 : Cisco is teeing up a first-generation 'tuning adapter' that will let one-way, CableCARD-based, digital TVs and some TiVo DVRs get channels offered via switched tiers

Bharti Profit Climbs on Subs Growth


LR Mobile News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Post a comment
April 25, 2008 : India's Bharti Airtel reports 37% increase in profits as mobile subscribers approach 62M; denies reports it's mulling a bid for pan-African player MTN

Concurrent Seeks Reverse Stock Split


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
April 25, 2008 : If approved by shareholders, one-for-10 split might revive video-on-demand company's struggling stock, which hasn't sniffed the $1 mark since mid-November

Vonage Takes Step Toward Recovery


News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Post a comment
April 25, 2008 : Vonage has a possible agreement in place to refinance much of the debt that has plagued its balance sheet

ZTE Pumps Up Sales


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
April 25, 2008 : Chinese vendor sees Q1 sales increase by 44%, with mobile and fixed equipment revenues contributing to the growth, but profit margins are still small

Is RIM Behind the Curve in 3G Handsets?


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
April 25, 2008 : Industry watchers are wondering when RIM will unveil its Curve 9000 series and if it can avoid getting crushed under 3G iPhone hype

Ericsson Spreads Q1 Joy


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
April 25, 2008 : Swedish giant sees its stock leap by nearly 25 percent following its better than expected first quarter results, though the CEO says conditions are still tough

Juniper Sails Through Q1


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (5)
April 24, 2008 : Even with some enterprise spending fading, Juniper says business was good last quarter, with new products starting to ship

Dish Preps for Mobile TV


LR Cable News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Post a comment
April 24, 2008 : Dish Network is trialing a mobile broadcasting technology with Alcatel-Lucent gear that could turn into its much desired mobile TV service offering

Adtran & Tellabs: A Tale of Two Access Stories


News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comments (19)
April 24, 2008 : One is enjoying success while the other is struggling in the unforgiving broadband access space. Why the discrepancy?

Harmonic: Waiting on SDV


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
April 24, 2008 : Harmonic says QAM sales and deployments remain solid, but acknowledges that installs linked to cable switched digital video deployments aren't ramping up as quickly as originally expected

Reliance Plots Global WiMax Rollout


LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
April 24, 2008 : Indian operator buys into startup and plans to invest $500M over three years to build WiMax operations in up to 50 countries

Qwest Moves Quickly With FTTN


News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comment (1)
April 24, 2008 : Qwest has launched two new broadband services that will run on its new $300M FTTN network less than six months after announcing the project

The iPhone's Fat ARPU


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comment (1)
April 24, 2008 : AT&T gets 'over $90' a month from the average iPhone user on its network, displaying the ARPU power of integrated devices

TV & Storage Play Web 2.0


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3)
April 24, 2008 : It's not all Twitter and Facebook at the Web 2.0 Expo – video service providers and their TV-watching customers can find startups targeting them, too

Foundry Cranks Up FastIron


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3)
April 24, 2008 : New enterprise boxes pack a level of route density that service providers could find useful, Foundry says

Infinera Minds the GAAP


News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Post a comment
April 24, 2008 : Optical vendor will move to generally accepted accounting principles in 2009, but expect more wonky financials in the meantime

Apple Sells 1.7M iPhones in Q2


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
April 23, 2008 : Apple hits iPhone sales targets dead-on, while Macs drive revenues to $7.5 billion for Q2

MSOs Pivoting Away From Sprint JV


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
April 23, 2008 : Comcast, Cox, and Time Warner confirm that they are severing ties to the wireless joint venture, citing operational complexities and the view that such a service, as-is, can't scale nationally

There's a 'Nu' Cable Player in Town


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
April 23, 2008 : Former Broadstripe exec takes helm of NuLink, an operator formed via the $70M purchase of Newnan Utilities's cable assets

Level 3 Surges on Positive Outlook


News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Post a comment
April 23, 2008 : Are Level 3's integration woes behind it? The company's stock climbs nearly 18% on improved installation capacity and reaffirmed guidance

O2 Germany Rips Out Nortel


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
April 23, 2008 : O2 Germany says Auf Wiedersehen to Nortel as it expands its GSM and UMTS networks with Huawei and Nokia Siemens

FCC Snubs Net Neutrality


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
April 23, 2008 : Chairman Kevin Martin has decided that no new Internet regulations are necessary, but that doesn't mean Comcast is out of the woods

Calix IPO Still on Hold


News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Comment (1)
April 23, 2008 : Appointment of new finance chief does not mean Calix is gearing up to go public, says CEO Carl Russo

TowerStream: First With 802.16e in the US?


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (5)
April 23, 2008 : Business services operator could be the first to market with commercially deployed mobile WiMax technology, but there's a twist...

Comptel Snaps Up Axiom


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
April 23, 2008 : OSS firm Comptel adds broadband fulfillment capabilities to its existing mobile software strengths by acquiring Axiom Systems in a deal that could be worth up to £23M
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