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8:15 AM All the effort service providers put into a simple, powerful network experience is wasted if the bills they send to consumers are confusing and full of unnecessary jargon and analytics
7:30 AM Our salary report is making the rounds here at 4G World and carriers may need to fill very different types of jobs as more consumers start using LTE
11:00 AM Metaswitch CEO John Lazar and CTO Martin Taylor talk about the company's place in an evolving network and its future as a software-focused business
10:45 AM Saar Gillai, the CTO of HP Networking, discusses the overall opportunity for software-defined networking and HP's perspective on this new way of thinking about networks
8:00 AM As Infonetics Research says small cell volumes won't be big enough to support the current crop of vendors, I've chosen some potential M&A candidates
7:00 AM With no iPhone 5 coming this week, MetroPCS relies on unlimited data plans and contract-free devices to promote its LTE network and to communicate its value to customers
11:15 AM Service providers want to manage and measure the customer experience, but what good are data and usage stats when a customer service culture doesn't exist?
9:25 AM A big crowd gathered at the Comcast booth to check out X1, Comcast's next-gen video service, and the debut of 'Project Dayview,' a cross-platform user interface in the making
2:15 PM Consumers' expectation of privacy may be misguided, but the wireless operators have a ways to go to convince us we can trust them with our data
9:30 AM We don't either, so we asked a selection of people on the CTIA show floor what they thought this obtuse acronym from Lemko Corp. might mean and how it should be pronounced. Deemoowinnee, anyone?
The president and CTO of AT&T Labs discusses the network in the next decade and the growing importance of the cloud and mobile security. The former COO of Alcatel USA and CEO of Tellabs says AT&T should bring the cloud closer to its end consumers
3:40 PM Those in line at Chicago's Apple store had many reasons to opt for or against LTE, including the data caps, hot-spot functionality, traveling needs and overall cost
LR Mobile stopped by the Mobile Apps pavilion in Barcelona to see what's new in one-minute bursts, but we'll let you decide what's noteworthy. (There's a bit of scratchy audio at first, but please bear with it)
7:45 AM Mimicking HTC's early days, the Chinese handset maker plans a slew of new Android and Windows Phone devices that it hopes will dent the US market
8:00 AM Ahead of the annual FTTH Council Europe event in Munich, we ask Heavy Reading's Graham Finnie about next-gen PON developments and the development of FTTH services in Europe
1:00 PM At CES, I put Verizon's Eric Bruno on the spot to walk me through a day in the 'Borderless Life.' The idea is that all your network services can be available on any connected device
11:00 AM Phil checks out Verizon's FiOS TV service on the Microsoft Xbox 360. But why put a subset of its TV service on a gaming console? Verizon's Joe Ambeault explains
12:10 PM As European families look for new treats for their children this holiday season, Ixia's Tara Van Unen introduces Light Reading's international managing editor to the delights of the 's'more'
Low-latency networks are growing in popularity, so Light Reading checked in with Ethernet Expo attendees to find out if they're really living up to the hype
10:00 AM Ericsson's Keith Shank helps us take a step back and discuss what LTE means for consumers and service providers, as well as how it changes the mobile network
11:05 AM Chicago is becoming a 4G city with AT&T's LTE showing up, but the hand-off from LTE to 3G will be just as important as speed in the early days
4:00 PM The tablet computing market is so desperate to stand out against the iPad that it's taken to killing us with clutter and insulting early adopters of the technology
