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Articles published in May 2008

Nortel: There's More to PBT Than BT


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2)
May 30, 2008 : Nortel is disappointed at BT's decision to relegate PBT to a bit part player and make MPLS the star in its 21CN network, but says there are other opportunities for its carrier Ethernet portfolio

Britt: Docsis 3.0 Coming to NYC


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
May 30, 2008 : Following some Wideband tests last year, the MSO is shoring up for a big showdown with Verizon in the Big Apple using the speedy Docsis 3.0 platform

SeaChange Software Strategy Surges


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
May 30, 2008 : VOD vendor reshuffles operating division as it beats the street in Q1, buoyed by additional backoffice software deployments with two big customers – Comcast and Cox

AlcaLu Investors Vote for Change


NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (11)
May 30, 2008 : Shareholders at AlcaLu's annual meeting approve all the resolutions, including a couple that relate directly to the CEO hot-seat currently warmed by Pat Russo

India Wrap: Tensions & Tribunals


LR Mobile News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Comment (1)
May 30, 2008 : Tensions between Department of Telecom and the regulator, plus news of Spice Telecom and RIM, round out a week of activity in India

PBT Sidelined at BT


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (41)
May 29, 2008 : The verdict is in at BT: PBT has been found guilty of being a one-trick pony, so it's being sidelined in favor of MPLS

Huawei Goes Indie for OSS


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
May 29, 2008 : Chinese giant spins off its telecom software assets into an independent operation, Huawei Software, as it looks to capitalize on carriers' IT transformation plans

Roberts Clearer on Clearwire Strategy


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
May 29, 2008 : Spectrum assets, roaming capabilities, and a wholesale deal all helped Comcast's CEO decide to invest in the new Clearwire

Hackers Smack Comcast.net


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
May 29, 2008 : Hackers messed with the MSO's Network Solutions account, but there's no evidence that customer information or data was lost or compromised

TiVo Sees Dish Drama Dissolving


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
May 29, 2008 : DVR patents are 'hardly of national significance,' so Dish's suit has little chance to get heard by the Supreme Court, a TiVo exec says

Sycamore's Freefall Continues


News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Post a comment
May 29, 2008 : As expected, Sycamore's revenues fell more than 50 percent due to instability from one major customer. The vendor now says it will almost assuredly miss its 2008 revenue targets

Cisco: WiFi & Beyond


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
May 28, 2008 : Cisco's 'Vision' strategy could see its WiFi empire rubbing shoulders with other networks

C&W Eyes Ethernet Acquisition


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
May 28, 2008 : Cable & Wireless is in discussions to buy UK enterprise services provider THUS in a bid to bolster its British business and get a piece of the growing Ethernet services market

Google: The Mobile Web Sucks


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (9)
May 28, 2008 : The mobile Web has so far failed to inspire users and the 'amazing app' has yet to be invented, says Google

China Mobile Wants More 3G Phones


LR Mobile News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Post a comment
May 28, 2008 : With the future of Chinese 3G clearer, China Mobile has opened the second phase of a tender for TD-SCDMA devices

Bell Canada to Appeal High Court Ruling


News Analysis - Post a comment
May 28, 2008 : A ruling earlier this month threatens to block the $52B takeover of BCE by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and a group of US firms

4G Drives All-IP Mobile Networks


LR Mobile News Analysis - Gabriel Brown - Post a comment
May 28, 2008 : As operators evaluate next-generation wireless technology, the evolution path from 3G tops the agenda, but how consolidated will all-IP networks really be?

Sony Supports tru2way


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
May 27, 2008 : Sony and six major US MSOs sign a memo involving tru2way that could result in TVs that get cable services with no need for a set-top

Do the Telcos Fear tru2way?


News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Post a comment
May 27, 2008 : With cable MSOs rolling out tru2way and vendors showing support for the platform, AT&T says it has 'been there done that' while Verizon feels a little left out

Google's Mobile Software Focus


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comment (1)
May 27, 2008 : Job postings by the search giant reveal possible Clearwire work and a desire to further mobilize YouTube

Verizon Downloads 'Starz Play' Deal


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
May 27, 2008 : A big telco, not a cable operator, becomes the first to launch a subset of Starz's Internet VOD service. Verizon is marketing Starz Play to broadband subs for $5.99 month

Sarin Steps Down as Vodafone CEO


LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
May 27, 2008 : Arun Sarin announces his retirement as Vodafone reports strong annual financials and outlook. The boy done good, says analyst

Zeugma Rethinks Edge Routing


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (20)
May 27, 2008 : The Canadian startup comes clean with its new twist on the router, adding computing blades to help carriers compete against Web-speed services

Spying Scandal Rocks Deutsche Telekom


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
May 26, 2008 : CEO 'shaken to core' by allegations of illegal use of call records by German carrier giant's internal security staff as they hunted down the source of company information leaks

Reliance Snaps Up Vanco


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4)
May 26, 2008 : Ambitious Indian carrier opens its wallet once more to buy troubled virtual VPN provider Vanco, which had fallen from grace following an accounting review

China to Get 3G – At Last!


LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
May 26, 2008 : It's been a long time coming, but China is ready to issue 3G licenses as part of its telecom market restructuring process

Ericsson: Ready to Ramp GPON


News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comments (3)
May 26, 2008 : Ericsson's North American CTO says the company's GPON deployments at AT&T are coming in late 2008 or early 2009

India's Videocon Plans Mobile Launch


LR Mobile News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Comment (1)
May 23, 2008 : A rollout in August will launch an ambitious plan for Videocon to capture 10 percent of India's mobile market – and build its own handsets, too

Oh Canada: BCE Buyout Falls Apart


News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Post a comment
May 23, 2008 : Bell Canada's privatization bid is on the brink of collapsing amid shaky financing and an appeals court ruling

Providence Gets Big IDEA Stake


LR Mobile News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Post a comment
May 23, 2008 : Providence Equity Partners splashes out $640M for a 20% stake in an IDEA Cellular subsidiary that's expanding its GSM coverage in India

Last Night at the Operax


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
May 23, 2008 : The fat lady's doing her vocal exercises as policy control specialist Operax has reportedly run low on cash

Time Warner Cable Joins the MoCA Club


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
May 23, 2008 : MSO has not set a rollout plan, but based on Cisco's large-scale production plans for MoCA-powered set-tops, don't expect a whole bunch of whole-home DVR activity to hit until next year

Major Vendors Kiss OSS


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
May 22, 2008 : The big box players, including AlcaLu, Cisco, NSN, and Nortel are talking up their OSS credentials as the telecom software sector converges on Nice, France, for its annual jamboree

Secustream Skirts DRM Debate


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
May 22, 2008 : A tiny Norwegian startup, getting acquired by a Telenor subsidiary, says it's got a non-DRM alternative for video security

Comcast CTO: Manage People, Not Protocols


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
May 22, 2008 : In an exclusive video interview, Comcast CTO and EVP Tony Werner offers some conceptual details about the MSO's upcoming bandwidth capacity management system

Mobile Subscriber Growth Boosts Telekom Malaysia


LR Mobile News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Post a comment
May 22, 2008 : Telekom Malaysia boosted revenues by 10.6% during Q1 and looks to add more operators to its newly created emerging markets mobile unit, TM International

PHOTOS! The Cable Show, Part II


NCTA News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Comments (2)
May 21, 2008 : Our second photo series from The Cable Show finds no shortage of sports legends, TV journalists, and sexy show hosts. Yes, indeed, content is king

PHOTOS! The Cable Show, Part II


Slide Shows - Post a comment
May 21, 2008 : Our second photo series from The Cable Show finds no shortage of sports legends, TV journalists, and sexy show hosts. Yes, indeed, content is king

Cisco Doubles Up for Cable


NCTA News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
May 21, 2008 : The digital terminal adapter (DTA) isn't the only digital-to-analog subscriber-side box Cisco is developing

BSNL Gets Temporary GSM Fix


LR Mobile News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Post a comment
May 21, 2008 : Motorola is delivering GSM equipment to BSNL for some temporary capacity relief and confirms its bidding on the carrier's new mega tender

Time Warner Cable Leaving the Nest


NCTA News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
May 21, 2008 : Mother ship looks to score a hefty dividend in the long-awaited deal that's likely to close late in the year

PicoChip Unveils LTE Femto Design


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
May 21, 2008 : PicoChip takes the wraps off new reference designs for LTE femtocells and picocells

PHOTOS! The Cable Show, Part I


Slide Shows - Post a comment
May 21, 2008 : While cable bigwigs debated technology standards in the conference sessions, The Cable Show's expo floor in New Orleans featured rows and rows of fresh content and shows

PHOTOS! The Cable Show, Part I


NCTA News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Comments (6)
May 21, 2008 : While cable bigwigs debated technology standards in the conference sessions, The Cable Show's expo floor in New Orleans featured rows and rows of fresh content and shows

4G: Can't Stand the Rain


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (4)
May 21, 2008 : ...against my antenna, causing packet loss and latency

Vendors Unite on Femtocell Architecture


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
May 21, 2008 : Femto Forum members agree on a common femtocell architecture and plan to submit specification proposals to standards bodies next week

Qualcomm Invests in ip.access


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
May 21, 2008 : Qualcomm makes strategic investment in femtocell vendor ip.access, but plans for femtocell chipsets remain unclear

Is Nuova Needling Cisco's Brass?


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (5)
May 20, 2008 : Some say it's possible that the Nuova buyout caused friction that led to Jayshree Ullal's recent departure. Others says it's just a sign of Cisco's newest phase

ISPs Say They Won't Block P2P


News Analysis - Post a comment
May 20, 2008 : At the Streaming Media East conference, Comcast and Verizon say they won't throttle traffic from peer-to-peer networks

Ex-Moto CTO Tabbed to Run Sonus


News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comments (5)
May 20, 2008 : Hassan Ahmed is stepping aside, becoming chairman while Motorola's former chief strategist prepares to take the reins as CEO
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