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Articles published in April 2010

Worldwide Cellphone Shipments Up 21%


LR Mobile News Analysis - Post a comment
April 30, 2010 : Increase in shipments is driven by demand for smartphones, according to market research

LTE Watch: Dell to Intro '4G' Phone?


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
April 30, 2010 : Dell – yes, Dell – could become a mover and shaker in the world of LTE smartphones in 2011

Uninor Unveils 'Dynamic Pricing’


News Analysis - Gagandeep Kaur - Comments (2)
April 30, 2010 : Indian mobile operator puts its back office to work with a service that uses network capacity data to determine voice call discount rates

LifeSize Shapes Up for Managed Video Services


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Comments (2)
April 30, 2010 : New LifeSize Video Center offers quick entry into distance-learning and corporate training for service providers looking to add value

CableLabs Clears Panasonic Tru2way Box


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
April 30, 2010 : Docsis modem to be paired with a Panasonic HD-DVR gets 'verified,' but when will the box see the light of day on a Comcast cable system?

India's DoT Denies Blanket Ban on Chinese Gear


News Analysis - Gagandeep Kaur - Comments (5)
April 30, 2010 : Department of Telecom denies across-the-board ban on purchase of Chinese equipment, but some procurement processes are being blocked

Neutral Tandem Takes on Ethernet Peering


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
April 30, 2010 : Neutral Tandem hopes new IT investments will attract Tier 1 providers to its Ethernet peering service

India Watch: Vendor Lockdown


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (9)
April 29, 2010 : Indian government slaps ban on Chinese equipment, mobile operators add 20 million new connections in March, and more

Spirent Rises to Cloud Testing Challenge


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Comments (2)
April 29, 2010 : T&M company launches suite of cloud computing tools that enable service providers and enterprises to test effectively in virtual world

Motorola Could Get the Tablet Habit


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (4)
April 29, 2010 : Motorola is interested in mobile tablets, with co-CEO Sanjay Jha focusing on the integration prospects for media in the home

Slow Start for TWC's Fastest Broadband


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
April 29, 2010 : MSO is starting to ramp up its wideband deployments, but only 1,000 customers signed up for its new 50-Meg service in Q1

TWC Upgrades WiMax to Business Class


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
April 29, 2010 : MSO boots up two biz-tailored WiMax tiers in Texas, with promises to extend those services to more markets later this year

Mobile Marketers: Just Do Something


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Comments (2)
April 29, 2010 : Marketers, brands search for the right strategy to kickstart an overdue mobile marketing revolution

Moto Posts Profit, Plots Smartphone Recovery


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (2)
April 29, 2010 : Motorola units deliver surprise Q1 profit, but all eyes are on device business recovery

Gadget Watch: Nokia Has Symbian 3 Phone


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (2)
April 29, 2010 : Nokia's N8 is its latest bid to steal back the smartphone limelight from Apple and Android

HP to Buy Palm for $1.2B


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (5)
April 28, 2010 : Everyone who bet on Huawei, pay up

Cloud Watch: Lots of Talk


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (9)
April 28, 2010 : IBM and Microsoft play to the cloud, while products start streaming from Interop and other shows

Comcast IDs Next WiMax Markets


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (5)
April 28, 2010 : MSO also expands Docsis 3.0 reach and moves the all-digital train forward while posting a 3.8% revenue bump in Q1

Caution Clouds Ericsson's Outlook


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
April 28, 2010 : There's too much market uncertainty for Ericsson to provide a full year outlook, but the CFO is prepared to make at least one prediction

Arris Spreads Its Wideband Wings


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
April 28, 2010 : Surge in demand for Docsis 3.0 gear helps Arris hit an international revenue record in Q1 amid slower sales to Comcast and TWC

Bharti Needs More Data Drive


News Analysis - Gagandeep Kaur - Comments (3)
April 28, 2010 : Revenues from non-voice services are certainly growing, but not by enough to arrest the Indian leader's ARPU decline

Verizon, Novell Offer ID Management for Clouds


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Post a comment
April 28, 2010 : Two companies to offer identity management as a service to enable more secure single log-in to cloud-based services for enterprises

Sprint Pins Hopes on WiMax Phone


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (2)
April 28, 2010 : As Sprint posts a Q1 loss and a decrease in post-paid subscribers, the carrier looks forward to launching a WiMax Android phone later this year

CommScope RFoG Connects With PON, EuroDocsis


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
April 28, 2010 : Vendor tweaks its cable FTTP platform to ensure upstream compatibility with PON systems and EuroDocsis environments

Backhaul Watch: AlcaLu Syncs Up


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
April 28, 2010 : In the world of wireless backhaul, the latest goings-on are about migrating to Ethernet, synchronization support, and LTE strategies

Interop Wrap: Latency Craze


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (6)
April 27, 2010 : 40G is at the show, sure, but other announcements talk about low latency, management systems, and chip capabilities

Verizon Beats Back Cable With YouTube Tilt


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Comments (6)
April 27, 2010 : Verizon will play up FiOS TV's new YouTube capabilities in ads aimed at attracting cable and satellite TV subs

App Insights: Nokia Ovi Store Professes Relevance


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Comments (6)
April 27, 2010 : As it does every year, Nokia sets out to prove there’s more to mobile apps than Apple

Handsets, Services Boost ZTE's Q1


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
April 27, 2010 : Chinese vendor reports 14% leap in revenues as device and services sales grow significantly, while infrastructure sales stay roughly flat

Verizon Teams With Riverbed to Optimize Apps


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Post a comment
April 27, 2010 : Riverbed's WAN optimization becomes a pay-as-you-grow managed service, as Verizon turns its eye towards application performance

Boxee CEO: MSOs Should 'Go Over-the-Top'


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Comments (14)
April 27, 2010 : Avner Ronen says cable ops should loosen their local ties and use broadband to pipe video services outside their service footprints

Open House at Casa Systems?


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4)
April 27, 2010 : SeaChange's divestment in the CMTS firm fuels talk that Casa's on the block and has attracted looks from AlcaLu, Huawei, and Juniper

Reliance Taps GetJar for Free Mobile Apps


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Comments (4)
April 27, 2010 : App Stores and smartphones are quickly becoming table stakes in India’s competitive wireless market

Google Leans on Vodafone in Europe


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (2)
April 27, 2010 : Analyst says Google is still learning how to operate in the device market as the online giant teams with Vodafone for the European Nexus One launch

Tellabs Busts Out in H1


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4)
April 27, 2010 : Stock soars as Tellabs beats first-quarter expectations, predicts a big hike for the second quarter, and talks up the mobile packet core

Freescale Gathers Software Muscle


LR Mobile News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (11)
April 26, 2010 : Close-knit partnerships announced today are aimed at the increasingly complex job of programming multicore processors

Satellite Guys Start Building Their Own Canoe


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
April 26, 2010 : DirecTV and Dish join forces to create an interactive advertising platform that could beat cable's Canoe to market

Cable Ponders Life After Docsis


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3)
April 26, 2010 : CableLabs's post-Docsis research looks at gigabit speeds without channel bonding — and that could require new chips and systems

Positive Progress Predicted for Mobile Payments


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Comments (4)
April 26, 2010 : The mobile Web/mobile app combo could mean big bucks for retailers and, eventually, mobile payment facilitators

Rumor: Giants Crash AT&T Femto Party


Rumors - Michelle Donegan - Comments (3)
April 26, 2010 :

Rumor: MTN Back on M&A Trail


Rumors - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
April 26, 2010 :

Nokia Ups Its Game in India


News Analysis - Gagandeep Kaur - Comment (1)
April 26, 2010 : Nokia offers its mobile email service for free and unveils new devices as it looks to snatch back the smartphone initiative in India

All About the FCC's AllVid


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (6)
April 23, 2010 : It's all still pie-in-the-sky thinking, but the FCC has outlined its vision for a proposed successor to the troubled CableCARD

Infinera Puts 100G Coherent on Pause


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (14)
April 23, 2010 : No slave to fashion, Infinera is reportedly not going to have a 100G coherent offering out for two or three years

Subex Readies a Rebound


News Analysis - Gagandeep Kaur - Comment (1)
April 23, 2010 : After a tough year the Indian telecom software specialist is gearing up for growth

Wireless Not in the Cards for CenturyLink, Qwest


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Comments (3)
April 23, 2010 : CenturyLink’s Qwest acquisition will help it compete in the dying landline business, but wireless may not be an option

Insight Joins the DTA Dance


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3)
April 23, 2010 : MSO's all-digital project in Lexington will pave the way for about 100 HD channels, Docsis 3.0, and whole-home DVRs

Carriers Beat Facebook to Location Game


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Comments (2)
April 23, 2010 : The carriers may have made more noise with location, but Facebook is expected to come out on top in the end

Carrier Caution Cuffs Ericsson in Q1


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
April 23, 2010 : Even North American revenues couldn't arrest the decline, as Ericsson's hit by lower capex in growth markets, and supply chain issues, in Q1

Optical Firm Preps Hong Kong IPO


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
April 23, 2010 : O-Net, a Shenzhen-based vendor of passive optical components, expects to raise nearly $60M when it goes public next week
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