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Smartphone Makers Promise Great Gains

02|27|13 | 2:00 | 


ZTE and LG make bold market share predictions while the LTE handset battleground moves into the enterprise, with Samsung being the aggressor
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Indy 500 Champ Scott Dixon: Speed & Teamwork

11|09|12 | 3:00 | 


8:00 AM Open-wheel racer Scott Dixon discusses why teamwork matters and how he finds balance between endurance and speed
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Ethernet Expo 2012: What to Expect

11|05|12 | 6:30 | 


What can we expect this week in New York? 100G, SDN, bar games, good info and good friends
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Bill Me, Don't Bamboozle Me

11|02|12 | 4:15 | 


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
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4G World 2012: Does LTE Add New Jobs?

10|30|12 | 3:30 | 


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
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Metaswitch Forum 2012: The CxO Show

10|12|12 | 7:00 | 


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
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HP's Saar Gillai: The SDN Advantage

10|10|12 | 6:45 | 


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
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MetroPCS: The LTE Value Play

09|20|12 | 3:00 | 


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
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Where is the Customer Service Culture?

05|22|12 | 7:15 | 


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?
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Verizon's Borderless Life: A Quick Tour

01|16|12 | 8:00 | 


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
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Verizon FiOS TV on the Xbox

01|14|12 | 6:00 | 


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
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CES 2012: Samsung Stays Connected

01|13|12 | 5:00 | 


10:00 AM With its new TVs, tablets and consumer cameras, Samsung is keeping consumers connected in a way that could make home networks less important
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AT&T's Dev Con: The Takeaways

01|10|12 | 3:00 | 


8:00 PM New devices, new network demands, developer unity and the great big iOS in the room
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Verizon FiOS: The Mobile Experience

10|08|11 | 4:00 | 


Verizon's Shadman Zafar explains how and why the carrier is making more use of mobile devices to complement its FiOS pay-TV service
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So That's What LTE Means

09|21|11 | 6:00 | 


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
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Verizon FiOS Demo: The Smartphone Remote

09|08|11 | 8:40 | 


Verizon's Shadman Zafar takes me through a demo of remote-control, VoD and video-app capabilities available for FiOS customers on a smartphone
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LTE Demo: A Socialized Life

08|29|11 | 3:00 | 


7:00 AM With a house full of connected mobile devices, Ericsson finds a friendly way to manage energy usage and home security via the Internet
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LTE Demo: Ad Hoc Video Streaming

08|26|11 | 3:00 | 


7:00 AM Ericsson shows what's possible with an advanced mobile network and how service providers could charge for short bursts of big video streaming
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Attack of the Bad Tab Ads

08|12|11 | 12:00 | 


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
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Pay TV Reaches the Mobile Masses

07|25|11 | 3:26 | 


7:25 AM Some recent moves by CNN and AT&T seem inspired by Netflix, giving consumers more options for getting content on the go (at no additional cost)
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Putting IPv6 in Perspective

07|14|11 | 10:40 | 


2:40 PM Enterprises shouldn't let themselves be stranded by waiting too long to embrace IPv6
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CTIA 2011:T-Mobile's Merger Upside

03|22|11 | 7:20 | 


11:20 AM T-Mobile seems to win even if the AT&T deal isn't approved. Phil Harvey and Sarah Reedy discuss the blockbuster merger
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CES 2011: Take a Chill Tablet

01|06|11 | 5:40 | 


10:40 AM Tablet computers are great, but will all these new devices motivate service providers to step up their efforts in home networking?
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Wall Street vs. LTE

06|24|10 | 10:30 | 


2:30 PM Investors don't seem thrilled with LTE. Is it because no one sees a clear path from bigger bandwidth to higher profits?
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The iPhone 3GS: It's Better on 2G

06|17|10 | 1:30 | 


5:30 PM On AT&T's network, the best network available for voice is indeed the 2G network. For data? Nothing beats WiFi
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AT&T's Data Caps

06|02|10 | 8:15 | 


12:15 PM Why applaud AT&T's mobile data caps? Most people will pay less for data, and video services on specialized networks might catch on
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AT&T U-verse: No OTT

05|27|10 | 1:15 | 


5:15 PM With all that's coming up with AT&T's U-verse service, the prospect of integrating over-the-top content with pay TV doesn't seem likely
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CTIA 2010: Distributed Packet Core?

03|30|10 | 2:00 | 


6:00 AM Following Light Reading's DPI conference at CTIA, Heavy Reading's Patrick Donegan explains the challenges with a distributed packet core
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CTIA 2010: Putting Handsets to the Test

03|25|10 | 5:00 | 


9:00 AM At Metrico's (poorly lit) booth, we see a way of objectively testing handset performance before the devices get to a carrier network
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CTIA 2010: Can Carriers Cash In On Mobile Payments?

03|25|10 | 3:00 | 


7:00 AM In talking to several mobile payment services, I get the feeling the carriers are missing a big opportunity to... Look! Girls!
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Real. Mobile. TV

03|24|10 | 3:00 | 


7:00 PM As with any other real TV service, the game changer appears to be having a dedicated network that can stand up to consumer demand
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Worst Demo Explanation Ever?

03|24|10 | 1:45 | 


5:45 PM At the Ericsson booth, Phil attempts to explain an unmanned demo station
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Ericsson: Mobile Data Is King

03|24|10 | 6:45 | 


10:45 AM Social media will accelerate data consumption, eventually changing how we pay for services
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Mobile Gaming at CTIA

03|24|10 | 6:20 | 


10:20 AM Mobility has changed gaming forever, especially if you have a giant, cable-connected race car in your living room
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Details on Sprint's EVO

03|23|10 | 2:15 | 


6:15 PM Sprint's new superphone seems all set for video sharing and filling up a fat 4G pipe
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Android Attack

03|23|10 | 1:30 | 


5:30 PM Phil makes an obvious point about why developers should take a look at Android, even though it doesn't have a huge market share
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Interview Tease: Sprint's Iyad Tarazi

03|23|10 | 10:45 | 


2:45 PM In our coverage of Sprint, we talk about Sprint's coverage of us. Hmmm...
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A Cell Phone Recycler

03|22|10 | 6:00 | 


10:00 PM The former CEO of Radio Shack has started a company to help recycle cell phones, and Sprint is its first customer
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Cablevision Takes On Internet Video

02|26|10 | 5:55 | 


10:55 AM Jeff Baumgartner and I fight through a bad Skype call to discuss a new service idea from Cablevision that consumers may really like
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Handicapping Clearwire

02|24|10 | 10:05 | 


3:05 PM Does Clearwire have the stuff to compete with AT&T or Verizon? Sidecut Reports analyst Paul Kapustka says they may have a different idea
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400G or Terabit?

02|23|10 | 6:20 | 


11:20 AM Craig Matsumoto says there is a debate brewing on what will be the next big bandwidth jump in the Internet's core
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Cisco, the Universe & Everything

02|15|10 | 6:05 | 


11:05 AM Way back on Feb. 5, Phil and Rayno talked about Cisco, its economic vision, and how the company seems to be evolving
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