The chipmaker's success has turned its quarterly earnings into a status update on Cisco's and Juniper's latest

The company debuts a new service, with a catch

As consumer demand fades, the world's largest cellphone maker will close down multiple manufacturing sites to cut costs by about $905 million annually

The FCC could prohibit more than 100 TV stations from ceasing regular analog operations on Feb. 17

It's progress, but not as we'd like it! Heavy Reading analyst sees Europe falling further behind North America and Asia/Pacific

Time Warner Cable could split from Time Warner Inc. in mere weeks

491 TV stations intend to cease regular analog operations on February 17, the original DTV transition date. But will the FCC let them?

Israeli vendor has a taker for its new GPON platform; plus other news from the FTTH Council Europe event in snowy Denmark

Verizon CTO Richard Lynch says he will announce vendor selections for LTE at the Mobile World Congress next week

Crowds flock to Copenhagen for FTTH event

Test lab EANTC puts MPLS-TP through its paces

The new 7210 reaches Ethernet CPE territory

In a filing full of layoff talk and corporate jet cuts, we find that Nortel still plans to reward its employees who pound out patents

Connection application lets BlackBerry and iPhone users find the best times and places for data dumps

Combined, companies are worth $2.5B

Satellite TV giant tells recession to take a hike in Q4

Appeals court denies Verizon's attempt to overturn an FCC order that prevents the telco from using some controversial retention tactics

RCN is starting to wire up its systems for Docsis 3.0, taking on Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cablevision in New York and Boston

Vendor says mobile data traffic will exceed mobile voice traffic by 2010

Mobile data traffic to increase 66-fold between 2008 and 2013, by which time it will reach 2 exabytes a month, forecasts Cisco

Taking a small swipe at router vendors, IP Infusion proposes that BGP route servers get split from the router

Motorola formally enters the 'RF over Glass' sector with a deal that gives it exclusive access to Alloptic's family of MicroNodes UPDATED 2:30 PM

The loneliness of an early Latitude adopter

China's IPTV services have to stand out by being interactive and entertaining

BesTV's Ian Chin says telco IPTV in China is bundled with broadband subscriptions and comfortably coexists as an interactive supplement to a linear cable TV service in many households. But he says Chinese carriers want to soon make an IPTV subscription something that is delivered to consumer homes, office PCs, and mobile phones.

Cable engineers give high marks to platform that could enable digital set-tops to access Web-sourced video fare

Examining the upstarts hoping to break into the LTE base station market dominated by the big four RAN equipment vendors

But what might they buy with it?

A cheaper touch worldwide

MSO is in process of reclaiming analog spectrum in the Bay Area, a move that will generate headroom for more HD, VoD, and Docsis 3.0

The first 100 awards of the Grammys went online this year

As the mobile OS wars wage on, the LiMo Foundation announced Telefónica and SK Telecom are its latest operator backers

An analyst report says Motorola is picking up FiOS GPON buildouts at AlcaLu's expense

Danish incumbent to open up its network to third-party developers as it joins the growing number of Telco 2.0 early adopters

Portland cost $45M to unwire

Satellite giant may be more vulnerable to recession-driven downgrades than its rivals

Vodafone and Hutchison's 3 merge operations Down Under

thePlatform today announced that it has begun reselling CDN and cloud storage services

The company's multi-pronged strategy starts by reselling third-party services, but the carrier could roll out its own CDN

Operator's latest TV ad will make you smile

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Stations are free to flip the digital switch on February 17, but it's clear that delay backers want everyone to wait until June 12

Muni in Milledgeville!

Despite reporting dismal earnings yesterday

U-verse customers can now upgrade to a rechargeable remote. Is that the sound of one hand clapping I hear?

The recession could drive new relationships between online companies and service providers, facilitating the growth of Internet video

MSO taking a hard look at how RFoG, EPON, and 10-Gig EPON can help out in greenfields and MDUs, and aid its biz-service plans

Spanish giant Telefónica puts further faith in Chinese vendor

It's earnings season, and the forecasts are falling

By the rest of us

Danish incumbent is the latest to field-trial femtocell technology and could move to a commercial deployment by the end of 2009

Full-power broadcasters must notify the FCC by Monday if they intend to terminate analog service on or after February 17

Canadian MSO gets big bragging rights with a new Docsis 3.0 tier that enables downstream bursts that hit the magical 100-Mbit/s mark

Sanmina-SCI offers a hand, but JDSU won't be giving up on manufacturing

Perennial chart-topper sets a new record for video traffic in December

Carriers thwarted as the EU holds firm on mobile termination fees

3:10 PM -- Like some US MSOs, some cablers up north aren't giving short shrift to switched digital video...

Are you watching, Europe? Dutch incumbent shows what can be done by joining in with municipal fiber access rollout in Amsterdam

We heart the heartland

The Ethernet-over-bonded copper pair market has been holding up fairly well, fueled by the promise of a quick return on investment

Telcos are showing progress against cable

No, not the software kind

What does it mean for Clearwire?

Not convinced TWC is attacking competition with a sense of urgency, analyst cuts stock to 'Sell'

MSO confirms it will impose monthly Internet usage caps, but the new ceilings won't apply to Charter's new Docsis 3.0 service

Router and service provider sales are down but not out. Meanwhile, Cisco is still promising an aggressive consumer push

With restructuring underway, Nortel is taking its Metro Ethernet Networks division off the block

An interesting little snippet

Ahead of MWC, Nokia Siemens unveils a software-defined, multi-standard base station that supports GSM, UMTS, and LTE

Nortel's president of carrier networks, Richard Lowe, says vendor is committed to LTE and wireless

But they're taking a tally just in case

Canadian MSOs whipping up wideband trials and deployments

Dragged down by the world economy, Cisco says its Q3 sales will drop a stunning 15% to 20% from a year ago

With House and Senate approval in hand, bill now awaits the signature of President Obama, who's already in favor of the four-month delay

Time Warner and Disney report disappointing results

Wall Street's not expecting much from the telco equipment sector next quarter

And other itidbits from this morning's earnings call

What's up, and what might be down

MSO is cutting 1,250 jobs to further reduce costs, but also expects to deploy WiMax service in 'at least one market' this year

Ten years from now, the average household will be running a 1-Gbit/s fixed Internet connection – the only question is how to get there

But a cool (yet creepy) location feature is coming to the G1

The 'real' 100-Gig era can't begin until someone has a 'real tester'

MSO adds subs in most product categories, but the rate of growth dipped in the midst of a tough economy and surging competition

Goodwill impairment charge sends Alcatel-Lucent's full year numbers deep into the red as it gears up for a tough 2009

Nortel's bankruptcy put a dent in Alvarion's revenues while restructuring charges led the vendor to post a Q4 loss of $4.8M

Web video firm worries Cox's traffic management will treat its P2P-based service as a 'second-class citizen'

Does the new Yahoo CEO have a press management problem?

Last call for the Mobile Devices unit?

Even Moto's set-top unit didn't get through Q4 unscathed

2009 will provide a vital opportunity for SIP services to demonstrate their full potential, and SIP trunking will be an important test case

Chinese vendor joins five other equipment vendors at Verizon and Vodafone's joint LTE trial

Putting a percentage on cuts and personal reevaluation

Will Android do it for Motorola in '09?

Moto's device chief has no idea when it will stop raining red ink

Moto posts a $3.6B loss for Q4, cuts its dividend, and says goodbye to its CFO

Edge routing startup says it has a more flexible capacity management tool than many similar ones used by operators today

FPGA company sees a chance to chip into an increasingly expensive ASIC market

Hulu's secret is finally revealed in Super Bowl commercial

Comcast: initial investigation suggests porn-interrupted Super Bowl moment 'was an isolated malicious act'

Apple wants Adobe to craft a specific version of Flash that will retain much of the functionality of the desktop version

How desperate is your gift search?

Q1 is going to come in light, possibly the result of U-verse delays. Prep the layoff machine

AT&T-DirecTV 'quad-play' bundle puts cable in the crosshairs, but Dish will likely feel the pinch in the short-term

Getting interactive with IPTV will take time, patience, and just the right content

Comcast says its VoIP service does not fall under the new system it is using to manage high-speed Internet traffic UPDATED 2/3 4:30 PM

Deutsche Telekom's head of new media, Randolph Nikutta, tells us that the future of IPTV could be quite stunning. In an interview taped late last year, Nikutta told us the telco is rolling out interactive features in its IPTV service over the next few years, primarily with sports programming. But, he says, the technology exists to allow viewers to be their own directors in the next five to 10 years.

Digging into Qualcomm's Q4 'Earnings Quality'

Did everyone forget how to use their DVRs?

Golddiggers Anonymous

The 'virtualization' buzzword comes to telecom, where Juniper says it's got a better alternative to virtual routers

Sources say a sale of the Shenzhen, China, manufacturing facility is imminent