Fire up that 1400-baud modem and enjoy how the Web used to look like when one visited the Internet homes of Comcast, Verizon, Apple, Boxee and more

Cable's got a handful of projects in the works that will prolong having to extend fiber to the premises in a big way

John Chambers takes care of some paperwork on the Friday afternoon before the Christmas holiday

Faster speeds, better offload and cheaper roaming are still paramount tasks for Wi-Fi even in an age of 4G

Jeff Reedy, Overture co-founder and 12-year exec, will leave after the first of the year

One of Microsoft's closest telco allies is hoping Windows 8 will be a hit with customers

From its acquisitions and by following chasing mobile device demand, AT&T has become the dominant name in carrier Wi-Fi

Faster speeds, smoother connections and better 4G integration are all coming for carrier Wi-Fi in 2013

Cisco might look for more acquisitions to fill gaps in its small-cell portfolio, but it's not hungry for a major wireless acquisition

AT&T continues to push the pace on its 4G LTE deployment as we round out 2012

Arris and Moto Home claim their combo would fill some important product holes. But they would also need to address some glaring overlaps

6:00 AM Well, it seems to be going everywhere, but here are some guesses as to what might come of that

3:15 AM New strategy targets cloud service providers, content companies and mobile operators, promising data center connections and more

It's time to slam the speculation engine into overdrive and highlight some deals – both big and small – that could come in the new year

Also: Senator launches Data Cap Integrity Act; Comcast's X1 remote gets a voice; TiVo swaps out CFOs

An SEC filing also reveals that Arris would be saddled with a $117.5 million break-up fee should its $2.35B deal for Motorola Home go south

We look at five operators deploying small cells next year as the 4G versions of these tiny basestations come of age in 2013

The Converged Cable Access Platform is no longer an idea, but an actual technology in the marketplace

René Obermann asks Deutsche Telekom to (eventually) terminate his contract; CFO Timotheus Höttges will succeed him in 2014

As mobile-to-mobile (M2M) and intelligent buildings growth continues, the two technologies will intersect

12:00 PM Reports suggest the company's cable-laying fleet is on its way to FT

11:00 AM The $2.35B deal for Motorola's Home business would remove Arris from the shadows of Cisco and cement Bob Stanzione's legacy

9:10 Vendor posts blog quoting its CEO as it counters security claims

Also: Comcast starts HD-DTA rollouts; Nintendo Wii U connects with pay-TV; DirecTV cranks up the TV Everywhere volume

Previously unpublished survey results give us some feel for how mobile operators feel about data caps, 4G network spending and mobile device usage

6:40 AM But what would it do with LTE?

Ericsson's antenna integrated radio (AIR) product was a hit with operators this year for improving 3G and 4G network performance

Arris's financial exposure to the TiVo-Motorola patent lawsuit is immaterial, Arris CEO Bob Stanzione stressed ... again and again and again

Just in time for the holidays, Arris picks up a little something to increase its competitiveness against Cisco

Which is worse, having Carl Icahn on your back or getting sued for alleged infringement of seven patents?

Software defined networking and network functions virtualization were 2012's big hits, but will they continue on their path in 2013?

10:30 AM Is 'digital' the new black? Wasn't it the old black?

Netgear's the first vendor to announce it has won CableLabs certification for a modem that can bond 24 downstream channels

Cloud video conferencing addresses many issues companies are facing

Also: Comcast's market cap breaches $100B; Casa lands a CCAP deal; Symmetricom's rough Q2; TWC speeds up business installs in NYC

6:50 AM Screen envy is the order of the day at Bharti Airtel's Gurgaon operations center

Also in today's EMEA roundup: Mobile ticketing collaboration in Italy; Colt counts restructuring costs; UK all set for BlackBerry 10 on 4G

4:10 PM Talk about your operational challenges – Netflix encodes a whopping 120 different versions of each movie

3:50 PM With the Chicago deployment expanded, Sprint now has LTE up in 49 markets. Here's a snapshot of 4G's state of play in the USA

Cisco buys again – this time, it's acquiring policy management specialist BroadHop

Also: thePlatform speeds up OTT video publishing; Hulu Plus crosses 3 million sub mark; Zoom lets TWC subs sidestep modem fees

Verizon is adding 16 new LTE towns and cities on Dec. 20, as it aims to complete its 4G deployment by mid-2013

US District Judge Lucy Koh ruled Monday that the jury finding against Samsung for violating Apple patents did not merit banning the sale of the products

But John Malone may have a fight on his hands as Telenet's advisors believe the Belgian MSO's worth more than what Liberty's offering

Also in today's EMEA roundup: T-Mobile and Huawei demo LTE-Advanced in Austria; Rostelecom shareholder eyes Tele2; BT rolls out more fiber

5:30 PM The 3.5GHz radar band could be interesting for small-cell applications, but don't hold your breath for the military to move off that turf

With AlcaLu disclosing some detailed numbers, we can see how painful the pain points really are

Google Fiber will ring in first part of the New Year by expanding services to five more Kansas City 'fiberhoods'

Clearwire is running out of strategic alternatives if the Sprint deal does not go through

Well, there's some optical. The point is that TeraStream is taking IPoDWDM seriously and might be a showcase for Cisco's homemade transceivers

Cox's top-end Cisco boxes gain the ability to recommend video selections for up to eight individuals in a given household

Also: Ziggo and UPC drop out of LTE auction; Avail-TVN goes multi-screen with subscription VoD; Akamai names new CEO

Sprint offers $2.97 per share to buy the remaining 49% of Clearwire it doesn't already own

It's likely that Cisco will get much less than the $500M it paid for Linksys in 2003, Bloomberg reports

Also in today's EMEA roundup: Telenor hooks up in the cloud with Microsoft; AlcaLu scores in Tunisia; Orange buys Spanish MVNO

Billing spinoff Cycle30 will try to beat Amdocs and Convergys for cable deals using a system tailored for commercial services

4:40 PM At $3.38 a share, Clearwire is trading way above the premium that the Sprint offer is supposed to establish

The first earnings results following the spinoff reveal the challenges facing the SPIT vendor

11:20 AM The big three US wireless carriers appear to be better off with bandwidth than it would sometimes seem

11:10 AM The dots suggest it's Michael Willner's new company, Penthera

A six-month trial revealed that CCAP's operational impact won't be trivial, Comcast's Jorge Salinger says

Also: A bunch of firsts - Aereo strikes its first cable network deal; Comcast gets first dibs on A&E's iPad app; 3net's first cable partner

In other regional news: Alcatel-Lucent's overdraft; the impact of video; legal disputes; and so much more

A €1.615B credit facility gives vendor some breathing room as it attempts a turnaround – but is it enough?

The network infrastructure group gets scaled down, but Huawei is far from giving up on the United States

AT&T adds seven more LTE markets as it spanks Sprint in the race for the 4G silver medal

Tough network integration decisions face Sprint even if it succeeds in getting its hands on Clearwire's fat belt of nationwide 4G spectrum

A forklift upgrade to the converged platform won't be necessary until operators are delivering 1Gbit/s to service groups, the vendor claims

Some interfaces beyond OpenFlow are the really important hot spots for software-defined networking, according to the startup's CEO

Also: Verizon pushes 'FlexView' titles; former Moto exec takes reins of SeaChange platforms unit; commercial loudness rules take effect

10:15 AM Telefónica Digital's Wayra operation is opening a startup incubator in the Czech Republic

Bring me the rest of our 4G provider, say Hesse and crew, while Clearwire says it is reviewing the offer

Optical vendor ends its financial year in the red

Also: Verizon expands its 100G reach; NSN's virtual core; H3G cleared for Orange Austria acquisition; Tellabs gets SaaSy in Ireland; and more

5:00 AM The $176M acquisition of startup Contrail looks like an attempt to create an open-source movement in software-defined networking

Claiming the mini basestations could increase capacity 10X over macrocells, the FCC proposes opening up some 3.5GHz spectrum for them

The startup with some fresh ideas about how to apply software defined networking has already been snapped up for $176M in cash and stock

FCC Commissioner says old rules 'no longer make sense in an all-IP world,' as agency launches a task force that could signal the close of the copper era

5:00 PM Eric Schmidt says Google's fiber project is 'not an experiment' and hints at expansion. But what else is he really supposed to say?

1:35 PM From an 18th-story San Francisco office, Broadcom shared its ideas for a wireless near-future

1:20 PM A stocking full of personalized data plans, it seems…

Application programming interfaces can provide telcos numerous opportunities and generate billions of dollars

Cisco unveils two line cards that boost the capacity of its flagship CMTS as it develops a next-gen CCAP platform

European operator sees more potential in HP's pay-as-you-use enterprise networking model than in the managed service developed with Cisco

HP develops utility networking equipment model for telco-managed services that lumps the capex strain onto HP's books UPDATED 12:50 PM

Also: Belden buys PPC for $517M; another Apple TV rumor; Suddenlink broadens TiVo Stream offer; Comcast dunks Celtics MetroE deal

The folks who brought you the 'freemium' iPod data sleeve are taking on the big boys with 2GB of home broadband for less than $10

Also in today's EMEA roundup: BT sells remaining stake in Tech Mahindra; Ericsson's LTE debut in Africa; Kcell IPO kicks off

Dish gets approval to use its AWS-4 spectrum for mobile broadband but will 'consider its strategic options' before making its next move

A year-long R&D project is yet another sign that the carriers might need that intermediate step while waiting for 1Tbit/s

Looking back at carriers' history with Wi-Fi, Broadcom thinks it knows what it will take for near-field communications to become a hit

3:45 PM Netflix ranks the nation's 'major' ISPs, and apparently Google Fiber qualifies as one while satellite broadband providers get the cold shoulder

Mobile workers want access to cloud-based services and data, but supporting those workers creates potential new security breaches and a major challenge for enterprise, says BT Assure's Toby Weir-Jones

Controller/MAC and PHY device integration presents challenges and opportunities to 10GBase-T PHY vendors and adapter vendors

2:35 PM Hurrah! 4G auction process gets under way today as regulator Ofcom starts taking applications

Mobile operators have a number of ways to deal with 4G LTE access network constraints, says Heavy Reading Chief Analyst Graham Finnie

Also: Cablevision gets closer to selling Bresnan systems; Google Fiber's national sticker shock; Samsung backs TV app startup

Heavy Reading Chief Analyst Graham Finnie talks about the development of RAN congestion strategies and technologies

In today's EMEA roundup: Ericsson takes on tough Global Video Platform role; Huawei takes R&D to Finland; NSN trumpets LTE market-share growth

6:00 AM For all the talk of a software-and-services makeover, Cisco might not be ready to let the switch/router market fall prey to SDN

An internal Comcast broadcast drops hints about the X1 QAM/IP successor and a possible strategy to avoid future TiVo lawsuits

Software-defined networking (SDN) and OpenFlow controllers together will allow for more efficient services from data center operators

The X1, Comcast's next-gen video platform and its cloud-based UI, has launched in San Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton, Fresno and Santa Barbara

AT&T reaches 113 LTE markets as the carrier continues its fast-paced 4G deployment

U.K.-based set-top giant is first to confirm that it's bidding for Motorola's cable business, which might fetch from $1.5B to $2.5B

By acquiring Zinc.TV, TiVo gains technology that searches movies, TV shows and video clips from more than 500 online sources

New company called Connectem has developed software that will take 4G packet core networks into the cloud

Except that we found out. Because they told us. But it has a cool French name. Take that, Cisco

Also: Videon joins the Comcast RDK ranks; Yahoo links up with NBC Sports; SEC targets Netflix over Facebook post; HBO CTO is retiring

In today's EMEA roundup: Chinese giant scores with 3; Ericsson looks for new mobile chip JV partner; AlcaLu upgrades for Airtel in Africa

It's hard to call Infinera a favorite for another US Tier 1 win, but there's a chance, one analyst says

2:25 PM If Google doesn't get what it wants for Motorola's cable unit, it might reset the auction and try to sell off the parts

Putting Ericsson and Ruckus on notice, Cisco has scored a deal with PT Telekom to deploy and offload 100,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across Indonesia

Also: Cook stokes Apple TV rumors; rivals rally for green set-tops; Cablevision to bump broadband fees; Cisco & Cox make CES connection

Information technology has shifted to networks rather than computers. That means it's time for Cisco to become No. 1 in IT, CEO John Chambers says

Google has set Friday as the deadline for bidding, reports The Wall Street Journal, identifying Arris among those expected to make a play

In today's EMEA roundup: AlcaLu slips out of France's CAC 40 index; DT boosts investment, cuts dividend; Telecom Italia says no to Sawiris

The carrier outlines an ambitious spending plan that includes LTE, fiber-to-the-curb and a new mystery box

The rapid growth of LTE is being enabled by the development of highly integrated SoC devices for LTE base stations and handsets

Heavy Reading’s Sterling Perrin and Doug Junkins, CTO of NTT Communications, discuss the rapid rise of 100G transport and the drivers and requirements for a terabit transport future

So much for doing that part in-house. Akamai's CDN servers will glom onto AT&T's IP network, taking over from AT&T's own CDN

DT says T-Mobile will get Apple in 2013 – but will it get 4G LTE devices?

Customers like AT&T's 4G but still hate the company, which has big plans for expanding its LTE network

Also: Charter's set-top plan gets more static; Cablevision's Lightpath drops 'Optimum'; Netflix says Disney deal won't jack up prices

Nokia Siemens details the products that will transfer to Redknee as part of the proposed $52M deal for its business support systems unit

Comcast has deployed, in several large markets, an Ethernet-over-Docsis 3.0 platform that offers dedicated symmetrical speeds up to 6Mbit/s

Also in today's EMEA roundup: UK's least popular man banks on 4G cash; TeliaSonera chairman departs; EE wants to borrow £350M for masts refurb

Alarmed at the billions lost in data breaches, enterprises and governments want to write security requirements into their contracts

RGB has IPO aspirations of its own, but the CEO says his company won't fall into the trap of going public before it's truly ready

The $130M purchase of Endace taps a hot market and could help Emulex fulfill its networking ambitions

The company's software-defined networking architecture takes a whole new approach to provisioning and planning the data center

UK mobile operator Everything Everywhere offers insight into how it launched the country's first 4G service and what it has learned so far

Poor sales coverage contributed to another net loss at the multi-screen video firm, which has also lost its COO amid a restructuring

NFC tests are underway in Austin and Salt Lake City, but the challenge is to get the technology in mobile devices, says AT&T Mobility CEO

Also: Analyst says Starz was wise to step away from Disney bidding; Synacor connects with Zynga; Cable Show starts its paper chase

After 20 years of providing business services, Cox Business is still seeing double-digit growth rates, driven by SMB sales and sustained by a strong local presence, says SVP Phil Meeks

The $52M acquisition of Nokia Siemens's BSS assets would give Redknee the scale its CEO has been craving

In today's EMEA roundup: NSN's "non-profitable field service subsidiary" faces the axe; Redknee to buy NSN's BSS unit; Telenor probe

Still smarting from criticism that the 7950 XRS isn't a 'core router,' AlcaLu is playing up its Telefónica win –- which is in the core, of course

Redknee steps up as the buyer for NSN's business support systems business in a deal worth up to $52M

More hints are emerging about Sprint's 4G LTE plans for the coming months with a few NY cities slated for upgrades

Can telcos compete with Google and Apple? TMF thinks they can and it's fighting on multiple fronts to get them ready

AT&T, Sprint and DT say they want to build M2M platforms for others to deliver applications over; Verizon may be a different story

Netflix will pay up to obtain the rights to Disney flicks during the coveted pay-TV window

2:55 PM Can we put the dropping of underperforming cable networks next to switched digital video, analog reclamation and advanced compression?

'You don't make up the kind of lead we've got within a couple of quarters,' Verizon's CEO boasts of the operator's 441-market LTE footprint

Also: Cablevision streams to Androids; Sony TVs connecting with interactive ads; Elemental touts revenue surge

Kevin O'Toole of Comcast Business Services explains how the operator is beginning to use Ethernet-over-coax to complement a Metro Ethernet platform it's using to target mid-sized business customers

Verizon CEO says copper lines damaged by the superstorm Sandy in New York and New Jersey will be replaced by the company's FiOS platform

Operator launches public-access small-cell service offering free 3G data in restaurants and cafés in Greece

The DWDM vendor's win with a Tier 1 US carrier is finally out in the open

Also in today's EMEA roundup: French rivals discuss network sharing; Nokia to sell and lease back Espoo HQ; not-so-testing times for Anite

The private-equity spinoff of Nokia Siemens's optical business is about consolidation, but some wonder if that's the wrong play

CEO Tom Rutledge says Charter's positioned to reverse its relatively low service penetrations but downplayed the role M&A will play

The cut of 40 employees comes seven months after the set-top silicon company's headcount doubled via its acquisition of Trident Microsystems

Looking to migrate more from wireline to wireless, AT&T is looking at launching next-generation 4G LTE next year, say TBR analysts

The No. 2 US MSO has quietly expanded a usage-based broadband policy targeted to relatively light Internet users

Making voice calls over LTE networks reduces smartphone battery life by half, according to a study by Metrico Wireless

The former Vyyo is selling off its assets, but at least one group hopes to revive the company's bandwidth-expanding technology

AT&T is now up to 109 towns and cities with new 4G LTE networks deployed

Also: Cogeco finishes Atlantic Broadband buy; TW Cable blunts Google Fiber's assault with Wi-Fi; Belden sells coax unit for $265M

Microwave vendor beefs up backhaul portfolio to meet operator requirements for Heterogeneous Network rollouts

Nokia Siemens Networks is offloading its optical division, including its 100G assets, to the private equity firm that bought Sycamore

Also in today's EMEA roundup: NSN sells optical business to Marlin; C&WC offloads its islands; Vodafone integrates C&WW

6:00 AM Light Reading's 'State of the Market: Ethernet Expo' report is now available, and a special virtual Ethernet Expo starts tomorrow

TWC is using WeFi's client software to help broadband customers locate the best-performing Wi-Fi hotspots when they're on the move