Project Clearwater, due to launch this month, could speed up development of cloud-based IMS. Whether that's what everyone wants remains to be seen...

Interconnecting carrier networks so that 4G calls can be made across separate operator networks will be crucial to the growth of VoLTE

It's gonna be a stats-and-specs rumble at Interop

AT&T now has 207 LTE markets live as it races to cover nearly 90% of Americans with 4G by the year's end

It's not tracking mobile-device viewing yet, but Nielsen is at least trying to measure online TV viewing habits

Verizon will be network-ready for VoLTE this year, CTO says, but the marketing team will decide when it goes live

Carsten Rossenhövel, managing director of European test lab EANTC, gives his take on the hot topics discussed at Ethernet Europe

The upcoming X1 video service has Comcast preaching the benefits of open source and the cloud

Also in today's EMEA news roundup: EC climbs down over copper access tariffs; BICS uses FraudView; Pontefract cakes!

But it's one split that benefits both operators and their customers

Chinese giant has its work cut out to become a consumer brand giant in the smartphone sector but it's ready for the fight

A handful of announcements tie the Vyatta acquisition and the application delivery controller (ADC) business to the rest of Brocade's data-center story

Gives operators a role in the move toward embedding real-time communications in browser-based apps

Make way for SoftCOM, as Huawei's long-term forecasts imply a diminishing impact for wireline and wireless hardware

AT&T wants a product marketing master to help it develop voice-over-LTE services due to be launched this year

Quarterly net profit masks a dip in sales but there's better news on the 4G horizon

3D video-on-demand comes to the US. Will anyone care?

UBS analyst suggests $130-$137B should be table stakes for Verizon bid for outright ownership of Verizon Wireless

New home gateway being offered by Comcast clocks in at 270 Mbit/s over Wi-Fi

Review of managed services deals has resulted in lower headcount and a number of contract cancellations, though new deals are still being struck

Also in today's EMEA roundup: Vodafone/Verizon speculation latest; Telenor buys Bulgarian mobile operator

Operators are asking for software, not hardware, and the vendor community is ready to meet their needs

Cable needs to pay as much attention to fiber plant test and measurement as it has done to HFC testing, says Travis Murdock

UK's telecoms regulator stages a pilot in preparation for a 2014 white spaces roll out across the country

A focus on high-end switches got Extreme some kudos but apparently wasn't enough to keep Oscar Rodriguez in the CEO's office

AT&T finally rolls Digital Life home security & automation service in 15 markets in US, promising 50 by year's end and location-based capabilities to come

Also in today's EMEA roundup: It's crunch time for AlcaLu's Combes; Telenor revenues down; NSN combines 10G with 100G

As first-quarter losses hit $460 million, new CEO Michel Combes reviews AlcaLu's assets and operating model

Is AlcaLu's new CEO about to start a technology garage sale?

The retail market for TV hardware is heating up

AT&T turns on six new LTE markets as it ups the pace on its 4G build-out

TWC loses video subs to rivals but adds broadband users in Q1

Also in today's EMEA roundup: NSN does 100G in Poland; AlcaLu scores African deals; Colt pops over to Cork

Everything seems to be going according to plan, as the optical company says it's on track to grow sales by nearly 20% this year

MuleSoft acquires online Web API catalog ProgrammableWeb as AlcaLu streamlines its apps strategy

MetroPCS shareholders approve the sweetened T-Mobile USA merger deal

Google brings Fiber TV control to the iPad, plans more social functions

Sprint is getting ready to switch off the Nextel network and move LTE onto 800MHz in Q4

AT&T's U-verse customer gains add to the pressure imposed by Verizon's FiOS first-quarter numbers

Mobile networks market leader saw its margins and profits take a hammering in Q1 but it's still confident about future profitability

Also in today's EMEA roundup: France Télécom, Ericsson and Virgin lift lid on their first quarters; Ofcom rethinks spectrum distribution

That's a 2018 figure. It might still sound high, but there's a reason for that

Suddenly, US telecom is 'not a market that we pay much attention to,' a Huawei official says – which actually makes sense

Carrier will begin supporting a limited HD voice experience in the next month or two

But you may have to wait until the fall for anything new from the iPhone maker

AT&T says it will now cover 90 percent of 300M Americans it wants to blanket with 4G LTE by the end of 2013

A bit player in the bigger Ethernet world, Vitesse continues pushing for a leading role at the Carrier Ethernet edge

Who will pass the fences first? Bidding in this wireless horse race starts at $25.5 billion

Bostonians can now access Aereo's over-the-air broadcasts online, while CBS invests in competitor Syncbak

Verizon appears likely to be the US carrier that will get to debut Nokia's latest attempt at a flagship Windows phone

Operator plans dense 4G LTE TDD coverage, combining macro and micro cells to build a giant wireless Internet access network

Also in today's EMEA roundup: France Telecom's credit rating down a notch; Polish operator plans layoffs; KPN cancels dividend

ISP in Gold County, California, claims first wide-scale commercial deployment of white-spaces networking technology

Private equity consortium set to acquire extensive global network and Ethernet services business

Even with the competing Dish & SoftBank merger offers, Sprint really needs to keep focused on deploying 4G LTE as fast as possible

Are you watching, Europe?

Two-year waiver gives Charter Communications some breathing space

Software vendors and especially chip vendors are hoping to enable the next generation of Ethernet/OpenFlow switches, all in the name of SDN

As the cable sector licks its 2012 wounds, Verizon is improving its FiOS take-up rate in existing fiber markets

Also in today's EMEA roundup: Telefónica and Samsung up to something; mixed results in Saudi Arabia; 4G ignorance is bliss in UK

The Open Networking Summit has climbed the hype curve, but the conference should cling to its roots as a techie discussion forum for software-defined networking

The SDN conference had a growth spurt this year, with bigger keynotes, fancier food and a whole lot more people

After the bombings in Boston, questions are being raised about whether carriers should further harden cellular networks

Analysys Mason breaks down the mixed-up state of wireless M&A in the US

With the acquisition of Motorola Home completed, Arris has unveiled its new management team

Sprint confirms 21 new 4G LTE markets up, now has 88 live towns and cities with the new tech online

Also in today's EMEA roundup: TeliaSonera sees sales, profits slip; Elisa likewise; Nokia shares slump in wake of Q1 results

Security concerns scupper China Mobile investment in Taiwanese operator

Keeps itself in profit even though Q1 sales are down

Huawei reportedly among the main vendor winners

How much of a meritocracy is OpenDaylight? Big Switch wants to find out, by submitting some of its proprietary code to the open-source pool

Heavy Reading Senior Analysts Stan Hubbard and Patrick Donegan share their key takeaways from the Ethernet Europe 2013 event in Frankfurt

Verizon CFO says that the operator buys spectrum to use it, not to keep it from competitors

He's baaaaaaaaack!

Arris becomes largest set-top provider in the US as it closes Motorola Home deal with Google

After a few months away, Sarah Reedy is back on the Light Reading team

That means 3G CDMA will start disappearing from Verizon 4G LTE devices sometime next year

Also in today's EMEA roundup: Huawei plans Euro recruitment; single EU telco market plan accelerated; KPN gets a Grip on Tibbr

There are currently more questions than answers when it comes to how operators will bill for LTE data roaming

Openwave Mobility powers new video and tethering-based pricing plans, joins forces with Sandvine

Google's 1 Gbit/s fiber service is coming to Provo, Utah as it plans to buy and upgrade a local network

Social networking giant will provide apps developers with broad range of TV/movies data using the Rovi Video solution

Time Warner Cable and Cablevision both proceed apace with their TV Everywhere developments

Sprint encourages users to hunt for signals from its new network in the City of Angels

At the Ethernet Europe 2013 show in Frankfurt, we asked attendees what topics attracted them to the event and where they see the market going

There's a lot of excitement among Carrier Ethernet service providers around the potential for bandwidth-on-demand offerings

This despite vendors' reluctance to put their heads above the parapet. In other EMEA news: Interoute deploys Infinera's super-channels; Telkom coughs up; Ziggo revenues flat

It's about the bundle in the near term, but Sprint and Dish could build a powerful mobile video service

The coalition's chairman says all these companies plan to further the SDN cause and don't have a 'nefarious' angle

Some key news, views and developments you should know about from this year's Ethernet Europe event in Frankfurt

Operators want NFV to dramatically lower costs, but that's a tough proposition – maybe even an existential threat – for many vendors

Now that the major players such as Cisco are full-blown SDN fanatics, what happens to the technology? And is vendor lock-in a danger?

Some major cable companies are now encrypting basic digital cable signals following the FCC lifting a ban last year

Ethernet Europe is in full swing in Frankfurt – find out what's hot

Also in today's EMEA roundup: Vodafone jobs go in Germany; Deutsche Telekom tweaks tariffs; Ofcom's take on 5G

There's a subtle difference, you know. A mobile-app startup opens its online platform to all, turning anyone and everyone into an app developer

The WSJ says Verizon wants to lease 2.6GHz spectrum from Clearwire for up to $1.5B

They're the top-ranked telecoms suppliers to the US government, so they could have the most to lose in the sequester

In an unusual little handoff, AppliedMicro is sending its OTN subsidiary to an FPGA team

Enabling TV, video, broadband and wireless on one bill is the logic behind $25.5B Sprint merger bid, Dish CEO says

The cable giant is ready to have some consumers try their hands at IPv6

John C. Malone can now claim to have the largest cable operation in the world

Chinese vendor develops in-house components to help drive down cost of 100Gbit/s transport systems

Dish puts in a bid for Sprint to try to head off the SoftBank merger

Also in today's EMEA roundup: MTS launches femtocell services; KT backs off from Maroc Telecom; UK spectrum auction probe

Sprint is finally expanding its 4G LTE footprint into more big cities in the US

What happens now that big vendors have caught on to software-defined networking? Dan Pitt, executive director of the Open Networking Foundation, gives us his thoughts about the new landscape

Reports of zealous Z10 returns are 'false and misleading,' BlackBerry says, and it's taking the matter to the feds

Operators are joining OTT vendors in decoupling texting from the smartphone

DoJ approves Arris's game-changing acquisition of Motorola Home business from Google

Turmoil continues at wireless broadband equipment vendor

Also in today's EMEA roundup: Deutsche Telekom's improved offer for MetroPCS finds favor; Telefónica and KPN look at sharing German networks

Profit warnings from Fortinet and F5 Networks could be indicative of increased competition and US government spending cuts in mobile security

Sometimes the simple ideas are the best

The Aereo dispute could be the catalyst that results in the end of 'free' TV

A startup from Light Reading's early days finds a home after 13 years and a whole lot of fundraising

SDN specialist throws down open-source controller gauntlet

There's talk of a user interface for set-top boxes in a new version of Microsoft's games console

Mobile music, messaging, monitoring and health apps are favored by VCs in March

Also in today's EMEA roundup: AlcaLu powers DE-CIX Apollon Ethernet platform; KPN share sale gets green light; Ciena's new EMEA man

Some key bottlenecks need to be resolved for SDN to be successful, so it remains more pipe dream than reality today

The Open Networking Foundation's executive director explains his group's plans for OpenFlow and SDN in the coming year, and how the ONF relates to OpenDaylight

Cable operator boasts improvements in energy efficiency at SCTE Forum

BlackBerry's second BB10 phone gets a keyboard but no US launch date yet

AT&T launches six new LTE markets and plots 77 new towns and cities for summer 4G updates

There's TV almost everywhere as Adobe customers intro some of its Primetime multi-screen technologies

'Catch us if you can!' says the UK's only 4G operator as it re-farms its 1800MHz spectrum to double its average LTE speeds

Also in today's EMEA roundup: Colt targets SMEs; Deutsche Telekom gets VDSL2 green light; France Télécom boss in tax huff

Huawei is trying to get down with the kids by sponsoring a Jonas Brothers tour in the US. Yes, really!

Google is taking its fiber broadband service to Texas - yeehaw!

News Corp CEO says that Fox Network could go to a subscription model if Aereo continues to retransmit its shows in NYC

Telecom NZ ignores incumbent Alcatel-Lucent in favor of Huawei for its LTE rollout, citing technical superiority

Also in today's EMEA roundup: Nokia and friends fight Android 'Trojan horse'; AlcaLu does vectoring in Tunisia; Vodafone goes with OpenCloud

India's Reliance Communications has struck a key partnership and is set to offload a major asset as it revamps its portfolio

Mobile video optimization is attracting interest as startups help operators tackle their biggest challenge

Vendors still aren't seeing the money in the long, slow slog to deploying 3G and 4G small cells

Google could be buying a company that operators hate with its rumored $1B deal for WhatsApp

Don't let marketing trickery sway you – the 3GPP defines LTE-Advanced as Release 10 onwards

Former News Corp. president who helped to launch Hulu lowballs a bid for the online video service

Global economic slowdown? That doesn't feature in Huawei's crystal ball

Ericsson bolsters its video/IPTV capabilities with purchase of Microsoft's Mediaroom business in a deal valued at more than $100 million

Also in today's EMEA roundup: Telefónica borrows BlackBerry money; Tele2 goes shopping; Nokia heads down Catwalk

The fate of China's popular WeChat app will set the tone of the debate swirling around OTT service charges.

Cardless content security options are growing for cable operators, according to new research from ABI

Also in today's EMEA roundup: Telecom Italia considers mobile M&A; Nokia closes Shanghai store; UK trial finds 4G TV interference not too bad

In-vehicle video is taking off, but quality requirements are causing some carmakers to consider Ethernet

Zuckerberg & Co. attempt to drive more revenue with an Android phone that's one big Facebook app in your pocket

From the Ethernet Technology Summit, a couple of different ways to view how Cisco relates to SDN

A bird's-eye view of the goings-on at the Silicon Valley cloud fest

AT&T's HSPA+ metrocells are getting ready for nationwide prime time, with the operator testing combo LTE/3G & Wi-Fi units in the lab

TWC wants in on bid to turn NC's Research Triangle into a gigabit community

The next few months will likely see some changes in ownership structure at Nokia Siemens Networks

Also in today's EMEA roundup: FT pushes on with LTE rollout; Google gets creative with white spaces; new boss for SFR

It's a tough decision unless you start considering pesky details such as cost

Combining Wi-Fi and 3G, easing deployment with software smarts and a path to LTE were key deciding factors in Cisco's Ubiquisys buy

Another 14 LTE markets join the AT&T roster

The Web TV startup is making waves in the pay-TV industry, and its latest court victory gives it the legal precedence to disrupt the pay-TV model we've all come to know and tolerate

Sort of. NFV itself might be just about 'pointing to standards,' but the virtualization underlying it is crucial to telecom's future, Marcus Weldon argues

Cisco to buy Ubiquisys - not femto partner ip.access - for 3G & 4G LTE small cell portfolio

Also in today's EMEA roundup: European agencies gun for Google; Bahrain halts LTE auction; Swisscom on a 4G roll

As 4G needs shift from sheer coverage to capacity and performance, could we see optimization software emerge as a key area of spending?

Despite some documented technological setbacks, subscriber data management still offers numerous benefits for operators, including more effective data management

Program guide app specialist Rovi boasts success in Canada

Carrier plans to support HD voice later this year as part of its VoLTE rollout

The cable industry doesn't like a proposed tweak to the definition of 'unserved' regions

Spin-in Nuage Networks thinks it's outdone Nicira with an SDN product that focuses on Layer 3 and with intentions to scale beyond the data center

Also in today's EMEA roundup: Tele2 sells Russian unit; FT outsources African towers; Vodafone gets the hump in India

The core-router hopeful has found a big-name friend. That's further than a lot of router startups get

Big vendors are reportedly banding together to unify SDN's approach but is it more about steering the conversation?

Turns out those triple-play packages really do work, as Verizon and AT&T are no doubt happy to find out

TV startup Aereo is now reportedly mulling deals with carriers

MetroPCS urges shareholders to approve its T-Mobile merger as major representive firms advise against it