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News & Views Most Popular BT Puts G.fast at Heart of Ultra-Fast Broadband Plans By Iain Morris, News Editor, 1/30/2015 UK fixed-line incumbent BT has revealed plans to roll out a nationwide ultra-fast broadband service using the bandwidth-boosting G.fast standard. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: thebulk More speed is always good, infrastructor needs to be in place though to support... Eurobites: Vodafone Spain Checks Out 400G With Alcatel-Lucent By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/30/2015 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Tele2 sales up in Q4; Jay-Z buys Scandinavian streaming service; startups in ice-holes. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Susan Fourtané Paul, Here you have a little preview of what it was the Polar... How 2 Meta-Trends Will Drive Telecom in 2015 By Danny Dicks, 1/30/2015 Long Term Evolution (LTE) investment and virtualization/cloudification are the two meta-trends that will drive the telecom industry in 2015. Even wireline networks ... Post a Comment \| Read (5 comments) Latest Comment: thebulk That is an interesting point on taxing the resources as a whole. BT Plots G.fast Rollout, Mobile Launch By Iain Morris, News Editor, 1/30/2015 BT has announced plans to run large-scale trials of G.fast, the next-generation fixed broadband technology, this summer and said it looked forward to launching ... Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: MikeP688 I'm jealous as I read through this and I was jumping over joy over the increased... Nokia CEO Defends Licensing Outlook By Iain Morris, News Editor, 1/29/2015 Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri has insisted the outlook for intellectual property licensing has not weakened amid investor concern about a sharp fall in operating margins at ... Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: smkinoshita "On a completely separate note, it's funny to me how companies like Nokia don't... Eurobites: Sky Goes Mobile With O2 By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/29/2015 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telefónica buys stake in Indra; ETNO calls for level playing field with OTT crowd; Cinven bids for Telekom Slovenia. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: macster See subject of this post. Self-explanatory. Pain in Spain & Eurasia Hits TeliaSonera By Iain Morris, News Editor, 1/29/2015 Sweden's TeliaSonera has reported a decline in operating profit on flattish revenue growth after being hit by price-based competition in Spain and mounting economic ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: nasimson It seems that despite being #1 and #2 in most markets, Telia Sonera... Nokia Ends 2014 on a High By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 1/29/2015 Nokia ended 2014 with a flourish, improving sales across all parts of its business, generating profits and predicting further growth in the coming year. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: nasimson > "Looking ahead, while 2014 was a year of reinvention, > we see 2015... CommScope Agrees $3B Takeover of TE Network Assets By Iain Morris, News Editor, 1/28/2015 Ending speculation about the likelihood of a deal, CommScope has agreed to pay $3 billion for most of TE Connectivity's networks business with the aim of boosting its ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Amdocs Ramps Sales, Adds Customers By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 1/28/2015 Amdocs clearly hasn't hit its peak yet. The Service Provider Information Technology (SPIT) giant reported record quarterly revenues of $906.3 million for its fiscal ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Ray@LR The CEO is also not discounting further acquisitions to help boost growth further,... Eurobites: EU Roaming Charges Demise Delayed? By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/28/2015 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Apple revenues 20% up in Europe; Norwegian government cuts stake in Telenor; retailer goes OTT in France. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Kruz Apple's stock is at its best and its profit is nothing but amazing. It also... Bumper iPhone Sales Boost Apple Profits By Iain Morris, News Editor, 1/28/2015 Bumper sales of the iPhone delivered the biggest quarterly net profit in corporate history for Apple in the October-to-December quarter, as the gadget maker continued ... Post a Comment \| Read (7 comments) Latest Comment: Joe Stanganelli @Mitch: Not so sure about that. I'd suggest it's an iPhone and iPad company,... Colt Bigs Up the Benefits of Virtual CPE By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 1/27/2015 Colt's virtual CPE strategy has been an unqualified success leading to financial and resource efficiencies and enhanced customer experience, according to a senior ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Ray@LR This is so early in the game that it's hard to tell just how significant Colt's... Helping Millimeter Wave Achieve Its Potential By Patrick Donegan, Chief Analyst, 1/27/2015 Millimeter wave equipment capable of delivering multi-Gbit/s wireless broadband links has been available for more than 10 years. E-Band Communications and BridgeWave ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) CommScope Eyes $3B Takeover of TE's Networks Unit By Iain Morris, News Editor, 1/27/2015 US networks vendor CommScope is eyeing a $3 billion takeover of TE Connectivity's network equipment business, according to reports. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: iainmorris Interestingly, Jefferies also notes that CommScope finally generated about... Eurobites: Providers Square Up to Net Neutrality By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/27/2015 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Dutch regulator issues net neutrality fines; TE Connectivity close to sale of network gear unit; Bell Labs' HetNet boasts. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: Joe Stanganelli I once saw them open for Fraunhofer and the HetNets. The Rise of Virtual CPE By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 1/27/2015 Post a Comment \| Read (5 comments) Latest Comment: ajay_s Agree that Virtual CPE is likely one of the first areas of deployment for NFV.... Ericsson Feels US Capex Squeeze in Q4 By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 1/27/2015 Ericsson's global scale helped it cushion the blow of an ongoing capex squeeze in North America, its largest geographic market by sales, in the fourth quarter and ... Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: AlokT518 Ericsson's SEK 228B revenue in 2014 is flat y-o-y in SEK terms. However,... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Bumper iPhone Sales Boost Apple Profits By Iain Morris, News Editor, 1/28/2015 Bumper sales of the iPhone delivered the biggest quarterly net profit in corporate history for Apple in the October-to-December quarter, as the gadget maker continued ... Post a Comment \| Read (7 comments) Latest Comment: Joe Stanganelli @Mitch: Not so sure about that. I'd suggest it's an iPhone and iPad company,... How 2 Meta-Trends Will Drive Telecom in 2015 By Danny Dicks, 1/30/2015 Long Term Evolution (LTE) investment and virtualization/cloudification are the two meta-trends that will drive the telecom industry in 2015. Even wireline networks ... Post a Comment \| Read (5 comments) Latest Comment: thebulk That is an interesting point on taxing the resources as a whole. The Rise of Virtual CPE By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 1/27/2015 Post a Comment \| Read (5 comments) Latest Comment: ajay_s Agree that Virtual CPE is likely one of the first areas of deployment for NFV.... TM Forum Gets New CEO By Elizabeth Miller Coyne, Editor, 1/26/2015 TM Forum is changing up its leadership again by appointing long-time board member Peter Sany as president and CEO starting March 1. Sany, the Forum's fourth CEO in ... Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: kdilbeck570 Carol, I would like point out that TM Forum has been conducting a number of... Eurobites: Providers Square Up to Net Neutrality By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/27/2015 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Dutch regulator issues net neutrality fines; TE Connectivity close to sale of network gear unit; Bell Labs' HetNet boasts. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: Joe Stanganelli I once saw them open for Fraunhofer and the HetNets. Ericsson Feels US Capex Squeeze in Q4 By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 1/27/2015 Ericsson's global scale helped it cushion the blow of an ongoing capex squeeze in North America, its largest geographic market by sales, in the fourth quarter and ... Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: AlokT518 Ericsson's SEK 228B revenue in 2014 is flat y-o-y in SEK terms. However,... Nokia CEO Defends Licensing Outlook By Iain Morris, News Editor, 1/29/2015 Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri has insisted the outlook for intellectual property licensing has not weakened amid investor concern about a sharp fall in operating margins at ... Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: smkinoshita "On a completely separate note, it's funny to me how companies like Nokia don't... BT Plots G.fast Rollout, Mobile Launch By Iain Morris, News Editor, 1/30/2015 BT has announced plans to run large-scale trials of G.fast, the next-generation fixed broadband technology, this summer and said it looked forward to launching ... Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: MikeP688 I'm jealous as I read through this and I was jumping over joy over the increased... Eurobites: Vodafone Spain Checks Out 400G With Alcatel-Lucent By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/30/2015 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Tele2 sales up in Q4; Jay-Z buys Scandinavian streaming service; startups in ice-holes. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Susan Fourtané Paul, Here you have a little preview of what it was the Polar... Amdocs Ramps Sales, Adds Customers By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 1/28/2015 Amdocs clearly hasn't hit its peak yet. The Service Provider Information Technology (SPIT) giant reported record quarterly revenues of $906.3 million for its fiscal ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Ray@LR The CEO is also not discounting further acquisitions to help boost growth further,... Nokia Ends 2014 on a High By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 1/29/2015 Nokia ended 2014 with a flourish, improving sales across all parts of its business, generating profits and predicting further growth in the coming year. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: nasimson > "Looking ahead, while 2014 was a year of reinvention, > we see 2015... Pain in Spain & Eurasia Hits TeliaSonera By Iain Morris, News Editor, 1/29/2015 Sweden's TeliaSonera has reported a decline in operating profit on flattish revenue growth after being hit by price-based competition in Spain and mounting economic ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: nasimson It seems that despite being #1 and #2 in most markets, Telia Sonera... Eurobites: Sky Goes Mobile With O2 By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/29/2015 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telefónica buys stake in Indra; ETNO calls for level playing field with OTT crowd; Cinven bids for Telekom Slovenia. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: macster See subject of this post. Self-explanatory. Eurobites: EU Roaming Charges Demise Delayed? By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/28/2015 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Apple revenues 20% up in Europe; Norwegian government cuts stake in Telenor; retailer goes OTT in France. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Kruz Apple's stock is at its best and its profit is nothing but amazing. It also... PICs Get the Laser Treatment By Ken Wieland, contributing editor, 1/26/2015 A new manufacturing process, impressively dubbed as Ultrafast Laser Plasma Implantation (ULPI), might well usher in a new breed of photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: DHagar Ken, sounds fascinating. Over and above the more efficient process, lower... ETSI Throws Weight Behind mWT By Iain Morris, News Editor, 1/26/2015 Standards body ETSI has set up a new Industry Specification Group (ISG) to investigate the use of millimeter Wave Transmission (mWT), arguing the technology can ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: danny_be Millimeter wave frequencies were the Antarctica of telecoms before Siklu –... Colt Bigs Up the Benefits of Virtual CPE By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 1/27/2015 Colt's virtual CPE strategy has been an unqualified success leading to financial and resource efficiencies and enhanced customer experience, according to a senior ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Ray@LR This is so early in the game that it's hard to tell just how significant Colt's... CommScope Eyes $3B Takeover of TE's Networks Unit By Iain Morris, News Editor, 1/27/2015 US networks vendor CommScope is eyeing a $3 billion takeover of TE Connectivity's network equipment business, according to reports. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: iainmorris Interestingly, Jefferies also notes that CommScope finally generated about... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards Susan Fourtané, 2/1/2015 10:14:14 AM Eurobites: Vodafone Spain Checks Out 400G With Alcatel-Lucent Re: Polar Bear Pitching Paul, Here you have a little preview of what it was the Polar Bear Pitching in Oulu last year. :D They seemed to have had a lot of fun. Of course right after the little swim they went to sauna. -Susan... thebulk, 1/31/2015 4:34:55 PM How 2 Meta-Trends Will Drive Telecom in 2015 Re: Re: Nail on head That is an interesting point on taxing the resources as a whole. smkinoshita, 1/31/2015 4:30:16 PM How 2 Meta-Trends Will Drive Telecom in 2015 Re: Re: Nail on head @thebulk -- It used to be that my hard drives wouldn't be this full (I had to delete some old stuff to make room; I haven't needed to do that in years) and there's a lot of data out in the cloud these days. I haven't... thebulk, 1/31/2015 2:34:15 PM How 2 Meta-Trends Will Drive Telecom in 2015 Re: Re: Nail on head @smkinoshita, how much do you see your personal data growing by? MikeP688, 1/31/2015 1:38:29 PM T-Systems Looks to Restructuring for Recovery Re: Re: T-Mobile merger with Deutsche Telekom? It seems that D-Telekom needs to mind its' home turf and look at somehow disposing of it..and that's the crux of its' CEO. I think T-Mobile's long-term viablity has been a challenge ever more (and we've deliberated... MikeP688, 1/31/2015 1:34:57 PM Gaining 2020 Vision: Executive Summit Report Re: Will the "takeaways" be realized though? As I read thru this retrospective (and more deliberations is needed of course), the focus on the customer for me was quite gratifying to see. Although the issue of choice is becoming quite narrow, the fact that the... smkinoshita, 1/31/2015 1:30:34 PM Nokia CEO Defends Licensing Outlook Re: Re: Instructions unclear. Keyboard stuck. "On a completely separate note, it's funny to me how companies like Nokia don't get anywhere approaching the massive level of scrutiny and criticism for outsourcing to Foxconn like Apple does." Probably just due to visibility... MikeP688, 1/31/2015 1:26:03 PM Eurobites: Vodafone Spain Checks Out 400G With Alcatel-Lucent Re: Despite all the Europe Has to Contend with.... ....It is always quite amazing to see the vibrancy of the Europe Tech Scene. Jay Z's move was especially an eye opener for me--I wonder where he wants to go with it--does he want to do a "Dr Dre" Move? &nbs... MikeP688, 1/31/2015 1:23:22 PM BT Plots G.fast Rollout, Mobile Launch Re: Re: A quick move on G.fast I'm jealous as I read through this and I was jumping over joy over the increased broadband speed I upgraded my service to thru AT&T. The question , as our Editor in Chief noted, is whether they can sustain it... smkinoshita, 1/31/2015 1:06:34 PM How 2 Meta-Trends Will Drive Telecom in 2015 Re: Re: Nail on head "The reasons the metro network is being modernized is to support business requirements for better cloud services and to support greater data volumes generated by LTE subscribers." Personally I think the greater data volume... nasimson, 1/30/2015 9:29:23 PM Telekom Austria Adds Ethernet PoPs in UK, Turkey Re: Turkish will be one of them. > Erdem is particularly delighted about the newly established > cooperation as it allows it to continue this trend, while enabling > the Turkish provider to further push ahead with its plan to turn > Istanbul... ajay_s, 1/30/2015 6:30:11 PM The Rise of Virtual CPE Re: vCPE Agree that Virtual CPE is likely one of the first areas of deployment for NFV. Have seen folks use the term in the context of both residential and enterprise oriented services, and certainly opertaor activity in both seg... thebulk, 1/30/2015 11:10:36 AM BT Puts G.fast at Heart of Ultra-Fast Broadband Plans Re: Speed More speed is always good, infrastructor needs to be in place though to support it long term. Some of the upgrades providers do feel like bandaids at times. thebulk, 1/30/2015 10:11:59 AM How 2 Meta-Trends Will Drive Telecom in 2015 Re: Nail on head I think you are getting it right with this. backhaul and cloud are going to be the big drivers this year, they have to be because for providers there is not much else left for them to tap into. Ray@LR, 1/30/2015 4:42:29 AM BT Plots G.fast Rollout, Mobile Launch Re: A quick move on G.fast Looks like BT is going to sweat that copper tail for a long time yet! THis is going to be examined very closely by a lot of the other European incumbents. patricknmoore, 1/29/2015 10:37:57 PM The Rise of Virtual CPE Re: Re: Makes Sense Totally agree, both on the challenges of the firmware/software architecure on the CPE and that this is all about extending the network and cloud into the customer premise. It is one of the most exciting areas right... Joe Stanganelli, 1/29/2015 10:15:55 PM Nokia CEO Defends Licensing Outlook Re: Instructions unclear. Keyboard stuck. My initial reaction to this headline: "Well, why wouldn't they use Outlook for their email???"On a completely separate note, it's funny to me how companies like Nokia don't get anywhere approaching the massive level of scrutiny... macster, 1/29/2015 2:37:36 PM Eurobites: Sky Goes Mobile With O2 Re: Sky Mobile: Too little, too late See subject of this post. Self-explanatory. nasimson, 1/29/2015 11:30:24 AM Nokia Ends 2014 on a High Re: Nokia - as once was > "Looking ahead, while 2014 was a year of reinvention, > we see 2015 as a year of execution," said Suri in Nokia's > official financial statement issued early Thursday morning. 2014 was a year of reinvention &... nasimson, 1/29/2015 10:41:01 AM Pain in Spain & Eurasia Hits TeliaSonera Re: to get back on growth curve .. It seems that despite being #1 and #2 in most markets, Telia Sonera is in a difficult position to get back on growth curve. Even the Norwegian market consolidation would not be smooth as Telenor, the incumbent operator... Kruz, 1/29/2015 10:07:30 AM Eurobites: EU Roaming Charges Demise Delayed? Re: Apple Apple's stock is at its best and its profit is nothing but amazing. It also seems that this is going to get better with Apple Watch set to be revealed and with Apple Pay planning to launch on the larger scale. More Message Boards		The New IP Article: Brocade's Kelly Herrell on The New IP Stephen Saunders , 1/30/2015 (3 comments) Article: Connected Car: From End Game to Enabler Elizabeth Miller Coyne , Editor , 1/30/2015 Connected cars used to be the end game for service providers, but with the ... (6 comments) GO TO THE NEW IP 2014 Awards Megaphone Moment Rants, raves, and opinions Blow off some steam Latest 1/29/2015 4:42:11 PM Google's new MVNO plans - can swap T-Mobile and Sprint ... Bill Van 1/26/2015 8:33:46 PM Snowpocalypse Now! DanJones 1/16/2015 11:47:13 AM Sprint Spectrum Data jdiscala 1/8/2015 11:46:54 AM Public and private clouds iainmorris 1/5/2015 12:58:08 AM IOT/M2M- City Surveillance Dayyala 1/3/2015 12:16:18 AM Samsung to use Tizen `johnethan 12/24/2014 2:49:39 PM What will you do with 10Gig Internet at the home MarkC73 11/21/2014 10:20:50 AM Aereo dynamics mendyk Tip Us Off! Send us your tip and we'll send you a t-shirt. *Anonymity assured (within reason). 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