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News & Views Most Popular Apple Launches 'Massive' CDN -- Report By Mitch Wagner, West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading, 7/31/2014 Apple has gone live with its own CDN spanning the US and Europe, with interconnect deals in place with multiple ISPs, including Comcast, according to reports. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Michelle I assumed much the same. I would like to see the report on what they've been... Iliad Offers $15B for a Stake in T-Mobile By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 7/31/2014 French operator Iliad has made a brazen $15 billion bid to scupper the long-rumored Sprint-T-Mobile US merger this Thursday and to try and get a 56.6% stake in the ... Post a Comment \| Read (7 comments) Latest Comment: briandnewby We often talk of a Sprint/T-Mobile relationship, but couldn't Softbank all... Alcatel-Lucent Preps Submarine IPO, Expects Core Growth By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/31/2014 Alcatel-Lucent is planning an IPO of its submarine networks unit in the first half of 2015 to raise capital for expansion of that particular line of business into the ... Post a Comment \| Read (5 comments) Latest Comment: DOShea The comment on the oil and gas industry prospects is inteeresting, too. Have... Cloudwatt Builds Snoop-Proof Cloud By Mitch Wagner, West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading, 7/31/2014 Cloudwatt is using open source technology, including OpenStack and Juniper's OpenContrail, to build a public, sovereign cloud service that can resist surveillance ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: FakeMitchWagner Looking at recent headlines, it seems Juniper has had a run of bad news lately.... Eurobites: BT Boasts of FTTX Expansion By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/31/2014 Also in today's regional roundup: Spirent preps more M&A action as revenues rise; Telefónica suffers currency crunch; Colt's voice strategy hits sales. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Nokia Networks Buys RAN Assets in Japan By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/31/2014 In yet another sign that it has turned a corner and is brimming with confidence, mobile network infrastructure specialist Nokia Networks has struck a deal by buy the ... Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: MarkC73 Good to see Nokia hanging in there with a strategy, any speculations on what... Eurobites: BlackBerry Buys German Security Firm By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/30/2014 Also in today's regional roundup: Apollo's fat pipe; KPN reports sales decline but stock leaps; Test vendor Rohde & Schwarz buys a security specialist; and more! Post a Comment \| Read (0) Swisscom Boasts FTTX Milestone By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/30/2014 Switzerland's national operator Swisscom is now delivering "ultra-fast" broadband services of 100 Mbit/s or faster to more than 1 million customers, with about 80% of ... Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: thebulk So, they have the infrastructor in place, but now they have to utilize it properly... Eurobites: Liberty Merges Euro Operations By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/29/2014 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Orange to cut costs further as profits slide in H1; Nokia Networks teams up for wide-area 4G broadcast trial; Vodafone brings ... Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: SachinEE The bold move by Liberty Global incorporated to merge its businesses in both... Eurobites: Regulators Delve Into IoT By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/28/2014 Also in today's EMEA roundup: Huawei teams up for the European soccer season; KPN trials VoLTE; Telecom Italia joins the drones brigade. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Ray@LR I wonder how much of today's unlicensed spectrum might become licensed in the... Samsung Delays Tizen Smartphone Launch By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/28/2014 Samsung has reportedly postponed the launch of its first Tizen-powered smartphone to give it more time to attract application developers for its new home-grown ... Post a Comment \| Read (7 comments) Latest Comment: Kruz I beleive Samsung is going to limit tizen for wearables now where it can innovate... Eurobites: BSkyB Agrees $9.1B M&A Deal By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/25/2014 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Europe still weighs on Vodafone revenues; EE on course for 6 million 4G customers by year's end. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Gabriel Brown EE on the other hand added 1.3 million new 4G customers. "The best quarterly... BTE Keynote: The Software-Defined Operator By Light Reading, 7/24/2014 Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Ray@LR "I had a dream... and it was not a very good one." Axel is not only at the... Eurobites: DT's Hungary Operation Cuts Jobs By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 7/24/2014 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telefónica doubles down on security; Nokia holds steady in Q2; "right to be forgotten" row continues. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Kruz Wasn't this change only supposed to affect Google and not the other seach e... Numbers Are In: LR's 2014 Salary Survey By Sarah Reedy, Senior Editor, 7/24/2014 Post a Comment \| Read (7 comments) Latest Comment: pcharles09 @SReedy, Much cheaper and quicker turnaround time since a lot of organizations... Nokia Holds Steady in Q2, Raises Outlook By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/24/2014 In a week of turmoil for the Finnish technology sector, the new-look Nokia, which began its new life in late April, has provided some stability with the publication ... Post a Comment \| Read (18 comments) Latest Comment: pcharles09 @Kruz, MSFT was slow to adapt too as well as get into the mobile game. I guess... Facebook: 30% of Users Are Mobile-Only By Mitch Wagner, West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading, 7/24/2014 Facebook is now, without a doubt, a mobile-centric company, and it has the statistics to prove it. Post a Comment \| Read (17 comments) Latest Comment: mendyk One possibility is Desktop Users Who Prefer To Interact Through Annoying Social... Eurobites: Alcatel-Lucent Upgrades Türk Telekom By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 7/23/2014 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Google not off the antitrust hook yet; TalkTalk telly on the up; Microsoft's cheaper Lumia. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Kruz I wonder how many users will opt for another Lumia devices considering all... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Iliad Offers $15B for a Stake in T-Mobile By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 7/31/2014 French operator Iliad has made a brazen $15 billion bid to scupper the long-rumored Sprint-T-Mobile US merger this Thursday and to try and get a 56.6% stake in the ... Post a Comment \| Read (7 comments) Latest Comment: briandnewby We often talk of a Sprint/T-Mobile relationship, but couldn't Softbank all... Samsung Delays Tizen Smartphone Launch By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/28/2014 Samsung has reportedly postponed the launch of its first Tizen-powered smartphone to give it more time to attract application developers for its new home-grown ... Post a Comment \| Read (7 comments) Latest Comment: Kruz I beleive Samsung is going to limit tizen for wearables now where it can innovate... Alcatel-Lucent Preps Submarine IPO, Expects Core Growth By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/31/2014 Alcatel-Lucent is planning an IPO of its submarine networks unit in the first half of 2015 to raise capital for expansion of that particular line of business into the ... Post a Comment \| Read (5 comments) Latest Comment: DOShea The comment on the oil and gas industry prospects is inteeresting, too. Have... Nokia Networks Buys RAN Assets in Japan By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/31/2014 In yet another sign that it has turned a corner and is brimming with confidence, mobile network infrastructure specialist Nokia Networks has struck a deal by buy the ... Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: MarkC73 Good to see Nokia hanging in there with a strategy, any speculations on what... Eurobites: Liberty Merges Euro Operations By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/29/2014 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Orange to cut costs further as profits slide in H1; Nokia Networks teams up for wide-area 4G broadcast trial; Vodafone brings ... Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: SachinEE The bold move by Liberty Global incorporated to merge its businesses in both... Eurobites: BSkyB Agrees $9.1B M&A Deal By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/25/2014 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Europe still weighs on Vodafone revenues; EE on course for 6 million 4G customers by year's end. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Gabriel Brown EE on the other hand added 1.3 million new 4G customers. "The best quarterly... Swisscom Boasts FTTX Milestone By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/30/2014 Switzerland's national operator Swisscom is now delivering "ultra-fast" broadband services of 100 Mbit/s or faster to more than 1 million customers, with about 80% of ... Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: thebulk So, they have the infrastructor in place, but now they have to utilize it properly... Apple Launches 'Massive' CDN -- Report By Mitch Wagner, West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading, 7/31/2014 Apple has gone live with its own CDN spanning the US and Europe, with interconnect deals in place with multiple ISPs, including Comcast, according to reports. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Michelle I assumed much the same. I would like to see the report on what they've been... Cloudwatt Builds Snoop-Proof Cloud By Mitch Wagner, West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading, 7/31/2014 Cloudwatt is using open source technology, including OpenStack and Juniper's OpenContrail, to build a public, sovereign cloud service that can resist surveillance ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: FakeMitchWagner Looking at recent headlines, it seems Juniper has had a run of bad news lately.... Eurobites: Regulators Delve Into IoT By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/28/2014 Also in today's EMEA roundup: Huawei teams up for the European soccer season; KPN trials VoLTE; Telecom Italia joins the drones brigade. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Ray@LR I wonder how much of today's unlicensed spectrum might become licensed in the... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards Michelle, 7/31/2014 10:27:29 PM Apple Launches 'Massive' CDN -- Report Re: Re: Just Now I assumed much the same. I would like to see the report on what they've been using all this time. briandnewby, 7/31/2014 9:55:53 PM Iliad Offers $15B for a Stake in T-Mobile Re: Re: Start of a bidding war? We often talk of a Sprint/T-Mobile relationship, but couldn't Softbank all along place an offer on T-Mobile? Why couldn't Softbank do this on its own, much like it did with Sprint, and thus begin investing in multiple... briandnewby, 7/31/2014 9:38:21 PM Apple Launches 'Massive' CDN -- Report Re: Just Now My biggest reaction to this was, "They launched this?" Isn't this a technology Apple has been using the whole time? I guess, much of Apple TV is a connection to other things, like Netflix, but I streamed/downloaded... DOShea, 7/31/2014 9:33:28 PM Alcatel-Lucent Preps Submarine IPO, Expects Core Growth Re: Oil & Gas The comment on the oil and gas industry prospects is inteeresting, too. Have talked with two other vendors in the last three months or so that mentioned the same opoortunity beginning to show itself. DOShea, 7/31/2014 9:31:42 PM Alcatel-Lucent Preps Submarine IPO, Expects Core Growth Re: Re: Submarine IPO This is indeed interesting, though maybe not as interesting as those other options. In any case, maybe good timing, as all that major submarine cable operators recently have been/soon will be forking over money for upgrades... pcharles09, 7/31/2014 7:53:48 PM Iliad Offers $15B for a Stake in T-Mobile Re: Re: Start of a bidding war? @James_B_Crawshaw, That's a good position to be in. It's also a position to aspire to be in. pcharles09, 7/31/2014 7:24:24 PM Nokia Holds Steady in Q2, Raises Outlook Re: Re: Unspectacular, but.... @Kruz, MSFT was slow to adapt too as well as get into the mobile game. I guess the two were made for wach other. James_B_Crawshaw, 7/31/2014 5:01:32 PM Iliad Offers $15B for a Stake in T-Mobile Re: Re: Start of a bidding war? Iliad's minority shareholders get nothing. Iliad's CEO (who owns 55%) gets to play Masayoshi Son for a while ... ethertype, 7/31/2014 4:54:01 PM Iliad Offers $15B for a Stake in T-Mobile Re: Why? What on earth would Iliad gain from succeeding? 4th rank in a market they don't understand at all. The opportunity to race Sprint to the bottom on price. Zero synergy. This makes no sense. Given that, I... DanJones, 7/31/2014 4:49:44 PM Iliad Offers $15B for a Stake in T-Mobile Re: Re: Start of a bidding war? But what would Iliad gain from forcing Sprint's hand, I don't get that at all. James_B_Crawshaw, 7/31/2014 4:35:55 PM Iliad Offers $15B for a Stake in T-Mobile Re: Re: Start of a bidding war? If Iliad seriously wanted to buy a 57% stake in T-Mobile US they would go to Deutsche Telekom (who owns 67%) not the board of T-Mobile US. This is just a stunt to get Sprint to make their offer earlier than anticipated.... FakeMitchWagner, 7/31/2014 2:45:53 PM Apple Earnings: Strong iPhone Sales, iPad Sales Slump, $7.8B Profit Re: Re: iPAD, less frequently Kruz - A company with a 10-point lead over its nearest competitor is by definition by far the market leader. Which is not to say that position is secure. The tablet story is an intersting one. It's possible... FakeMitchWagner, 7/31/2014 1:55:07 PM Alcatel-Lucent Preps Submarine IPO, Expects Core Growth Re: Submarine IPO When I read the headline, I thought they were going to either IPO a submarine, or hold the IPO underwater. But this is interesting too. rgrutza600, 7/31/2014 11:50:37 AM Alcatel-Lucent Preps Submarine IPO, Expects Core Growth Re: optical transport I dont' know why they would stay in optical transport. It appears to be a huge money loser for them. As indicated from this LightReading story. Alcatel-Lucent's Optical Margins Don't Impress http://www.... MarkC73, 7/31/2014 11:17:30 AM Alcatel-Lucent Preps Submarine IPO, Expects Core Growth Re: Reactions to the quarterly report Overall, I feel that Combes is doing what needs to be done as well as succeeding at doing it. It's a tough environment in a company that is very diverse in culture. Not everything is going perfectly but on a... MarkC73, 7/31/2014 11:03:22 AM Nokia Networks Buys RAN Assets in Japan Re: Re: Marketing territories Good to see Nokia hanging in there with a strategy, any speculations on what they might do next? FakeMitchWagner, 7/31/2014 11:02:57 AM Cloudwatt Builds Snoop-Proof Cloud Re: Bad news Looking at recent headlines, it seems Juniper has had a run of bad news lately. This win, though probably small, is a nice change of pace. Does OpenContrail have any other significant customer or enterprise wins? SachinEE, 7/31/2014 10:37:40 AM Eurobites: Liberty Merges Euro Operations Re: The Merger The bold move by Liberty Global incorporated to merge its businesses in both Switzerland and Austria is sure to earn them a great profit. By creating a single operation by the merger, they are cutting on costs that they... SachinEE, 7/31/2014 10:36:03 AM Nokia Networks Buys RAN Assets in Japan Re: Marketing territories It is evident that Nokia is trying to safe guard its position in Japan and make it a strong hold. There being high competition in Japan makes it necessary for Nokia to buy assets and contracts making it easier to have most... Kruz, 7/31/2014 9:53:42 AM Nokia Holds Steady in Q2, Raises Outlook Re: Re: Unspectacular, but.... Nokia thought it was a flagship device, consumers didnt follow. Nokia/MSFT has yet to understand the changing needs of the market. 920 is bulky and you could feel it in the pocket, for example. Nokia was too slow to adapt... mendyk, 7/31/2014 9:43:22 AM Nokia Networks Buys RAN Assets in Japan Re: Re: Nokia Networks Buys RAN Assets in Japan Kiretsu -- a good arrow to have in the quiver. More Message Boards		Regional News Asia Europe India Alcatel-Lucent Preps Submarine IPO, Expects Core Growth Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/31/2014 Vendor reveals plan to raise capital from an IPO of its submarine cables business ... (5 comments) Nokia Networks Buys RAN Assets in Japan Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/31/2014 Improves its position with NTT DoCoMo with the planned acquisition of Panasonic's ... (4 comments) More From Asia Iliad Offers $15B for a Stake in T-Mobile Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 7/31/2014 Merger prospects for the "Uncarrier" get interesting as the French operator ... (7 comments) Alcatel-Lucent Preps Submarine IPO, Expects Core Growth Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 7/31/2014 Vendor reveals plan to raise capital from an IPO of its submarine cables business ... (5 comments) More From Europe Apple Earnings: Strong iPhone Sales, iPad Sales Slump, $7.8B Profit Mitch Wagner, West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading, 7/22/2014 Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company remains optimistic about the iPad despite ... (16 comments) Tata Eyes Subsea's 400G Future Dan O'Shea, Managing Editor, 7/2/2014 Hon Kit Lam of Tata Communications discusses the subsea cable operator's recent ... (0) More From India Megaphone Moment Rants, raves, and opinions Blow off some steam Latest 7/31/2014 11:54:48 PM Fabulous To See The IPO Vibrancy MikeP688 6/30/2014 6:38:22 PM Level 3 to buy TW Telecom MarkC73 6/30/2014 6:37:14 PM Aereo Flash Poll wanlord 6/25/2014 2:35:46 PM Profile Picture balockay 5/30/2014 8:13:32 PM Com-tastic mendyk 5/28/2014 3:13:19 PM Aloha Google! MarkC73 5/22/2014 2:10:42 PM Aereo Case wanlord 5/21/2014 5:16:16 PM Kick (in the nuts) Starter mendyk Tip Us Off! Send us your tip and we'll send you a t-shirt. *Anonymity assured (within reason). 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