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3/9/2010  -  Nortel's LTE patents gain the attention of a Canadian licensing firm
3/9/2010  -  Vendor says China Mobile's TD-LTE network is now running and the one-channel mobile broadband technology could attract others
3/8/2010  -  Not so much a booth, more a small independent state landlocked inside Barcelona's showgrounds. But what could you see in just 10 minutes?
3/8/2010  -  HP following in Apple's footsteps, but sparring Webpad ads are strong on presentation, low on information
3/8/2010  -  State-owned Indian carrier kills its 93M-line GSM expansion plan, leaving Ericsson, Huawei, and others empty-handed, at least for now
Most Recent Post: Ray Le Maistre... What's going to be interesting to watch is the price per line that BSNL will get from vendor bids this time around. The...
by Gagandeep Kaur
3/8/2010  -  Testing shows the top speeds that can be wrung out of the network, but average download estimates of 5 to 12 Mbit/s remain the same
Most Recent Post: kaps... Congrats, Verizon, for your self-awarded gold medal! Nothing like a press release touting speeds seen only by a sole network...
3/5/2010  -  The US will get the WiFi-only device first with a more global launch later in the month
Most Recent Post: jepovic... Can anyone explain why Apple went for MicroSIM? I just don't get it. Replacing SIM-cards is not a trivial matter for carriers,...
3/5/2010  -  Can Verizon double its LTE footprint by 2012?
3/5/2010  -  As the week winds down, we pass along some photos from CeBIT 2010 in Hannover, Germany, where we found more mobile phone fun on display
3/5/2010  -  Ensuring the best customer experience is becoming critical to service providers in mature markets, but how can they achieve it?
3/4/2010  -  Fessin' up to what was already widely known, Cisco has now posted details of the MicroCell it makes for AT&T
3/4/2010  -  NSN's Business Solutions division has pulled together a compelling set of technology assets, but it currently has a cloud-shaped hole
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SAN FRANCISCO: IPWireless Wins in Wyoming - 3/9/2010
OVERLAND PARK, KS: Sprint Touts Customer Experience - 3/9/2010
MELBOURNE, FL: IntelliNet Wins Offload Patent - 3/9/2010
DOHA, QATAR: Qtel Trials Femtos - 3/9/2010
BRUSSELS: EC Consults on Spectrum Policy - 3/9/2010
KIRCHHEIM, GERMANY: Dialog Powers Sharp 3G Phones - 3/9/2010
HERZLIYA, ISRAEL: ZTE Uses Siverge Chips - 3/8/2010
NEWPORT BEACH, CA: Mindspeed, Emcore Target Base Stations - 3/8/2010
HOPKINTON, MA: Valpey Fisher Creates Microwave Group - 3/8/2010
BASKING RIDGE, NJ: VZW Maps LTE Peak Speeds - 3/8/2010
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LTE vs. Advanced 3G
Dan Jones
3/9/2010  -  2:45 PM Is HSPA good enough for now?
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Mobile Madness
Phil Harvey
3/9/2010  -  7:30 AM As consumers take control of their hardware, who's really adding value to today's mobile experience?
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Michelle Donegan
Siverge Griffin Lands at ZTE
Michelle Donegan
3/8/2010  -  4:15 PM ZTE uses Siverge's chips for backhaul products
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Free Reports
MWC 2010: New Product Recap
Tim Hills
Here's a handy guide to some of the more significant product announcements from Mobile World Congress 2010
Telecom Market Spotlight: Europe II
Tim Hills
What's up (and down) in Europe
  • Fiber
  • IPTV
  • Mobile Broadband
  • Light Reading Reveals Its 2009 Top Picks
    Phil Harvey
    Here are the products and services that we think best indicate where the communications industry is headed in the next 12 months
    Columns
    The Chips Are Up for LTE
    As more consumers buy smartphones, service providers have been rudely awakened by the growing amount of traffic that has been generated
    Heavy Lifting
    ANALYST NOTES
    Graham Finnie, Chief Analyst
    Telcos missed the boat on open applications. Will they get another chance?
    Pyramid Points
    Jose Magana (Analyst)
    High prices, lack of service bundles are curbing demand.
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    REAL WORLD RESEARCH
    OTT Video: Service Providers Face a Gathering Storm
    This report examines the spread of OTT video, weighing strategies for service providers to manage, or even profit from, this phenomenon. It also explores how other members of the value chain are dealing with online video and profiles 24 selected vendors in this space, summarizing their key products and solutions.
    LATEST RESEARCH
    Canada: Mobile Data Is Main Opportunity for Revenue Growth
    The Canadian communications market, including traditional pay-TV, generated $37.5bn in 2009, a year-over-year decrease of 1.5% that resulted from the economic downturn and decreases in the market for fixed and mobile voice services. Going forward, we expect the market to grow at a CAGR of 2.8% from year-end 2009 to year-end 2014, reaching $43.1bn in 2014.
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    Optical Transport: 40G/100G Interest Shifts Into Overdrive
    A CABLE/MSO SECTOR RESEARCH SERVICE
    Mobile Backhaul: MSOs Gear Up for a Tower Play
    A SERVICE DELIVERY RESEARCH SERVICE
    Beyond CRM: Customer Experience Management
    A SILICON & SUBSYSTEM RESEARCH SERVICE
    100 Gbit/s: New Technologies Deliver Bandwidth & Reach
    A BUSINESS-CLASS VOICE APPLICATIONS RESEARCH SERVICE
    Cloud Telephony: The Battle Over SMBs
    A DIGITAL CONTENT DELIVERY RESEARCH SERVICE
    Online Video Platform Survey: Launching the Internet Video Era
    Supervisory Signals
    Signals used for the control of various devices within an optical network
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    Events
    Tower Technology Summit
    March 23- 25, 2010
    Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas
    Policy Control, DPI & The Mobile Packet Core
    March 24, 2010
    Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas
    Ethernet Europe
    Monday & Tuesday, April 12 & 13, 2010
    London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, London
    OSS Virtual Event
    Tuesday, April 20, 2010
    xTCA and COTS Virtual Event
    Thursday, May 6, 2010
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    Alcatel-Lucent (6203), AT&T (2956), BellSouth (849), BT (1321), Cablevision (668), Cisco (6278), Comcast (2080), Cox Communications (918), Deutsche Telekom (829), eBay (Skype) (352), Ericsson (1942), France Telecom (994), Google (943), Huawei (1302), Intel (1831), Juniper (2207), Microsoft (1653), Motorola (2996), Nokia Siemens Networks (2715), Nortel (4008), NTT (183), Siemens (1362), Sprint (2035), Telefonica (506), Time Warner Cable (1033), Verizon (3563), Vodafone (1778), Yahoo (343)

    4G/LTE (Sponsored by Cisco)
    3G Evolution (249), Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (245), Carrier WiFi (2715), CDMA (3G) (3767), China Mobile (37), Core Network (816), EV-DO (263), Femtocells (516), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (126), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (145), GSM/EDGE (2479), HSDPA/HSUPA (777), IMS Core (107), Long-Term Evolution (LTE) (1019), Messaging (130), Messaging (302), Mobile Advertising (147), Mobile location (98), Mobile Music (131), Mobile TV (221), Mobile Video (281), Mobile WiMax/WiBro (1993), Mobile/Wireless (6554), Municipal networks (109), Packet Core (135), Presence management (46), Radio Access Network (2908), Services (2677), TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G) (125), Transmission (95), Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB) (63), UMTS(3G) (416), Video services (4244), Videophone (197), Vodafone (1778), Voice Core (75), VOIP software (700), WiMax (1112), Wireless Backhaul (476), Wireless LAN (364)

    Broadband
    Access devices (282), Access equipment (2225), Access technologies (2412), Access test & measurement equipment (132), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (402), Cable Modems (744), Carrier WiFi (2715), Content/software downloads (244), Docsis (1153), DSL (2525), DSL chips (241), DSLAMs (709), Ethernet PONs (167), Femtocells (516), Free-space optics (39), FTTx (3615), Home gateways (675), Internet Video (992), IPTV (3595), Media adapters (26), Microsoft (1653), PON (1457), Satellite (534), Video services (4244), VOD (2793), Yahoo (343)

    Cable
    Access equipment (2225), Access technologies (2412), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (755), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (1150), Cable Modems (744), Cable/MSO equipment (2836), CableLabs (517), Cablevision (668), Comcast (2080), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (294), Cox Communications (918), Digital content (1299), Digital rights management (380), Docsis (1153), DVRs (733), Embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) (226), FTTx (3615), Gaming consoles (72), Head-ends (242), Home gateways (675), IPTV (3595), Media adapters (26), Middleware & business support systems (922), Network DVR (112), PacketCable (132), PON (1457), QAM (331), Residential (852), Set-top boxes (1746), Stored video servers (390), Time Warner Cable (1033), TV (3928), Video equipment (2505), Video services (4244), Video software (1403), VOD (2793), VOIP services (3826), Wavelength services (318)

    Ethernet
    10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1473), 100-Gbit/s Ethernet (289), Access devices (282), Ciena (62), Circuit emulation (16), Converged access (112), Ethernet chips (601), Ethernet equipment (2290), Ethernet over copper (237), Ethernet PONs (167), Ethernet services (1972), Ethernet technologies (587), Ethernet test & measurement equipment (184), Multipoint (142), Multiservice edge equipment (148), Multiservice provisioning platforms (628), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (379), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (264), Point-to-point (152), Powerline (90), Resilient Packet Ring (173), Sonet/SDH (1053), Tellabs (15), Wireless Backhaul (476)

    IP & Convergence
    Activation (425), Anti-virus (31), B-RASs (232), Billing systems (802), Cell/WLAN (83), Centrex (199), Circuit emulation (16), Conferencing (139), Contact centers (38), Content delivery network (CDN) (415), Content/software downloads (244), Converged access (112), Core Network (816), Customer relationship management (318), Data Integrity (130), Denial-of-service attacks (50), Edge routers (1724), Element management systems (91), Encryption (157), Endpoint security (80), Enhanced voice (90), Enterprise (653), Fault management (126), Firewalls (118), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (834), GMPLS (79), IMS (1124), IMS Core (107), Interactive advertising (231), Internet Video (992), Intrusion detection & prevention (104), Inventory management (218), IP equipment (1283), IP software (405), IPSec VPN (854), Layer 3 VPNs (209), Media gateways (371), Mediation systems (265), Messaging (130), Middleware (129), Mobile/Wireless (6554), MPLS (1803), Multicast (38), OSS (3384), OSS test & measurement (1120), Performance monitoring (403), Planning tools (84), Policy control (330), Presence management (46), Product Management (81), Provisioning (623), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (133), QOS (356), Residential (852), Revenue assurance & fraud management (396), Security (1929), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (358), Service management (299), Service-oriented architectures (325), Services (2677), Session border controllers (409), Signaling gateways (114), SIP (416), Softswitches (1107), SSL VPN (917), Telepresence (216), Traffic managers (838), URL filtering (66), User authentication (81), Video services (4244), Videophone (197), VOIP equipment (3464), VOIP services (3826), VOIP software (700), VOIP test & measurement equipment (147), VOIP VPNs (32), Web services (138), Wholesale (226), Wireless LAN (364), Wireline/Wireless (68), XML (52)

    Mobile Backhaul
    10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1473), 100-Gbit/s Ethernet (289), Access devices (282), Cell/WLAN (83), China Mobile (37), Circuit emulation (16), Converged access (112), Core Network (816), Ethernet equipment (2290), Ethernet over copper (237), Ethernet PONs (167), Ethernet services (1972), Ethernet technologies (587), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (126), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (834), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (145), IMS (1124), IMS Core (107), Mobile/Wireless (6554), Optical amplifiers (351), Packet Core (135), Point-to-point (152), QOS (356), Speciality fiber (98), Tellabs (15), Transceivers (1268), Transmission (95), Transmission fiber (420), Vodafone (1778), Voice Core (75), Wavelength services (318), WiMax (1112), Wireless Backhaul (476), Wireless LAN (364), Wireline/Wireless (68)

    Optical Networking (Sponsored by TeraXion)
    40-Gbit/s transmission (473), Alcatel-Lucent (6203), ATM switches (334), Core optical switches (770), CWDM (291), DWDM (1859), Ethernet technologies (587), Huawei (1302), Long-haul WDM equipment (680), Metro optical switches, ROADMs (1197), Metro WDM equipment (796), Multiservice edge equipment (148), Multiservice provisioning platforms (628), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (379), Multiservice switches (396), Mux/demuxes (300), Optical amplifiers (351), Optical channel monitors (93), Optical components (2854), Optical components test & measurement equipment (118), Optical equipment (2296), Optical switches & crossconnects (402), Optical technologies (439), Optical test & measurement equipment (894), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (264), PON (1457), Resilient Packet Ring (173), Sonet/SDH (1053), Sonet/SDH chips (362), Sonet/SDH test & measurement equipment (1601), Switches & OADMs (403), Transmission fiber (420), Variable optical attenuators (141), Wavelength services (318)

    Service Provider IT (Sponsored by Nokia Siemens Networks)
    Activation (425), Anti-virus (31), Application servers (200), Billing systems (802), Carrier managed (91), Cloud computing (143), Content/software downloads (244), Customer relationship management (318), Data Integrity (130), Denial-of-service attacks (50), Digital content (1299), Element management systems (91), Encryption (157), Endpoint security (80), Fault management (126), Firewalls (118), Grid networking (83), IMS (1124), IMS Control Layer (36), IMS Service Layer (36), Interactive advertising (231), Intrusion detection & prevention (104), Inventory management (218), IP software (405), IP technologies (1513), IPSec VPN (854), Managed Services (76), Media gateways (371), Mediation systems (265), Messaging (302), Middleware (129), MPLS (696), MPLS (1803), OSS (3384), OSS test & measurement (1120), Performance monitoring (403), Planning tools (84), Policy control (330), Product Management (81), Provisioning (623), QOS (356), Revenue assurance & fraud management (396), Security (1929), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (358), Service management (299), Service-oriented architectures (325), Services (2677), SSL VPN (917), Telepresence (216), URL filtering (66), User authentication (81), Vendor managed (69), Web gateways (66), Web services (138), XML (52)

    Video
    Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (245), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (755), Cable TV chips (309), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (294), Content protection (318), Digital rights management (380), DVRs (733), Gaming consoles (72), Internet Video (992), IPTV (3595), Middleware & business support systems (922), Mobile TV (221), Network DVR (112), P2P (271), Satellite (534), Set-top boxes (1746), Stored video servers (390), Telepresence (216), TV (3928), Video equipment (2505), Video services (4244), Video software (1403), Videophone (197), VOD (2793)