6:15 PM LG-Nortel doesn't want two boxes in your home

5:50 PM Just some Friday speculation...

AT&T saw a 41% increase in iPhone connections at wireless hotspots last quarter

4:45 PM The site is cashing in on a wedding dance video posted by a user

1:50 PM Plus updates to our LTE and 40- & 100-Gbit/s reports

Nagravision joins the fray while Evolution officially seeks an FCC pass for a hi-def digital terminal adapter

The established managed network services players are years ahead of Huawei with their outsourcing capabilities, claims top NSN executive

Vendor notches big cable modem termination system sales in the second quarter, but Docsis-based CPE shipments are slowing down

1:10 PM Of new products, KDDI, and Cox

1:05 PM WiMax's biggest competitor: WiFi

Ron Martin, hired to beef up ADVA's cred with North American carriers, has moved on

4:50 PM After a disappointing Q2

Tier 2 and 3 cablers messed with Texas this week. Here's some visual proof

4:10 PM And survey finds that quality matters and lots of content owners haven't felt the Internet's embrace

3:45 PM 2H09 is looking grim for most of Europe's incumbents

Moto suprises with a Q2 profit, but all eyes are on its first Android launches in Q4

1:30 PM Alcatel-Lucent CEO gets excited about LTE

Alcatel-Lucent is getting stronger, says CEO Ben Verwaayen, who predicts big things in North America and with LTE

Subscription growth slows in Q2 amid a tough economy, but results show that Verizon isn't kicking Cablevision in the teeth

Sale of Thales stake pulls AlcaLu into the black, and CEO cites 'positive trends,' but the carrier division continues to suffer

6:00 PM The cheddar has landed

5:40 PM Sprint's turnaround is long and so very slow, so investors may get restless again

5:15 PM Vendor says deals could come in early next year

4:50 PM Is a revamp afoot at the femto pioneer?

MSO expects to launch mobile WiMax in four markets by year's end, with Dallas and Charlotte, N.C., the first to be identified

3:50 PM Together at last

APAC will continue to be the most important of the three regional fiber-to-the-home markets in the near term, finds Heavy Reading

2:30 PM Cashing in on the simian craze

2:00 PM And Cisco, again, is the richer for it

1:40 PM Cable gets its name on an AT&T-sponsored event

1:20 PM Boston Mayor and telco spar over the reasons

1:00 PM Why focus on your audience when you can cover the planet?

The final payoff may be worth it, but cable operators that apply for a piece of the $7.2B Recovery Act funds had better be ready to lawyer up

Third-ranked US operator posts a bigger-than-expected loss, but monthly wireless subscriber defections may be slowing down

The demands of dealing with major carriers pushed CDN specialist Velocix into the arms of Alcatel-Lucent, and for a low price too

Courts clear Ericsson's $1.13 billion acquisition of Nortel assets, but the deal may still need approval from the Canadian government

5:50 PM The Avici story comes to an end

4:50 PM Includes YouTube and others

Comcast launches second WiMax market with more to follow in 2009

3:35 PM Bad news for cable?

The CDMA operator and inventor create a machine-to-machine venture that will take the market beyond niche status and likely bolster CDMA revenues

Moto and the Comcast Media Center are leading with deals, but other suppliers and integrators are also making hay with Tier 2 and 3 MSOs

Alcatel-Lucent pumps up its services and video capabilities with the acquisition of content delivery network specialist Velocix

Ericsson's new CDMA president, Magnus Mandersson, talks to Unstrung about his company's $1.13 billion move on North America

Has Alcatel-Lucent hired a giant robot that can turn itself into a truck to help it with its transformation strategy? (No)

8:45 AM For an equity value of $483 million

EchoStar is in discussions to licence its 'SlingLoaded' place-shifting tech to outside set-top suppliers and digital TV makers

Touching on another hot issue in cable circles, the edge router startup adds a bandwidth boosting application controlled by the subscriber

Denying reports that it's struggling, tunable laser vendor Santur picks up $13 million to nurture a possible 100-Gig product suite

Swedish vendor makes the case for spending $1.13 billion on Nortel's wireless assets

Tellabs CEO Rob Pullen says he won't be bidding to buy Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks division as he discusses second-quarter earnings

Small and mid-sized cablecos aren't immune to the bad economy, with most saying that growth remains slowest in the voice category

2:25 PM Pat Russo can drive a hard bargain!

Former Alcatel-Lucent man Mike Quigley is put in charge of Australia's national broadband network project

Wireless and FiOS are still strong, but Verizon is looking to cut 8,000 more jobs in its wireline business after profits shrink in Q2

11:15 AM NSN is fallback for Nortel assets if courts reject Ericsson bid

Vendor claims 'Converged Video Exchange' will let cable ops deliver and manage video services to IP-based boxes and to more screen types

10:10 AM So says Thomson, the maker of the new IP-fueled 'communications hub'

9:35 AM Back away from the canary, sir!

What is MEF president Nan Chen's newest Ethernet startup? We're willing to take a guess

For $1.13B, Ericsson beats out Nokia Siemens to take ownership of CDMA and LTE assets, pending court approval

5:30 PM Charter gets more time, another operator wires up for wideband, and a glance at the cable set-top waiver wire

What a difference the iPhone 3GS – and an asset buyout – makes for AT&T in the race for cellular subscribers

A reported Ethernet services contract is still up in the air, with Juniper a contender

3:45 PM The latest financials from KPN, Telenor, and TeliaSonera

3:40 PM Chicago will be Clearwire's real test

As foreign investors find themselves locked in to their mobile startups, Bharti Airtel ratchets up its profits

Between Docsis 3.0 (next year, anyway) and the shift to HD programming, the chipmaker says cable's a good place to be

NOON Another Nortel exec finds a new home

11:40 AM Mobile data revenues are up nearly 20 percent

The global downturn is squeezing Ericsson, but its professional services business is making up for pressure on network sales

7:50 AM The real bidding war for the wireless assets starts (and probably ends) today

7:00 PM There's a Taco Bell moon a'rising

Service provider spending might be stabilizing, but Juniper isn't willing to call it an upturn yet

MSOs still don't think over-the-top video's about to devour their video business model, but they're clearly bracing for that threat

5:15 PM A snapshot of the former Bookham and Avanex's debut on the earnings-call circuit

4:45 PM Disney CEO Robert Iger thinks so

4:10 PM AT&T reports Q2, including fewer U-verse customer gains

You've got to spend a dollar to make a dollar, AT&T finds, as its second-quarter revenues are dragged down by the iPhone 3GS launch

2:00 PM The bell has rung for 21CN's 'Class of 2004'

12:30 PM Giant Swede stirs up Nortel auction

NOON Jon Stewart dons the Cronkite mantle

10:55 AM It's déjà vu all over again

9:50 AM NSN and Allot offer alternative views of mobile data traffic

Comcast among operators that will use Fairshare 2.0, a more scalable traffic management system that enables application-specific policies

Ericsson has submitted a bid for Nortel's CDMA and LTE assets and is now preparing to participate in Friday's auction

One analyst reports Alcatel-Lucent nabbed a $150M Ethernet services deal away from Juniper

A deal with Javelin (née Vyyo) has Arris selling 3 GHz gear to Cox, and possibly to other MSOs later

Qualcomm now says it will deliver MDM LTE samples in Q3 2009, which could mean proto-4G PC cards won't arrive until late in 2010, a chip analyst says

2:10 PM Plenty of people are window-shopping these days

Vodafone picks up BT's consumer and small biz customers and a deal for wholesale broadband services too

12:55 PM Some small ops line up to field test 'Digital Freedom,' a platform featuring BBT's downloadable security system

MSO completes Docsis 3.0 deployment in the Philly region, setting it up to compete with Verizon FiOS and cable overbuilder RCN

Etisalat will use Reliance's towers and infrastructure to roll out its Indian mobile network in a deal worth $2.2 billion

11:15 AM Has Vodafone learned a trick from its partner across the pond?

10:25 AM Cablevision's Rutledge and Comcast's Burke apparently out of the running

9:40 AM Nobody expects the Irish Inquisition!

8:20 AM HSPA's industry body, the GSMA, claims bragging rights

With IBM and Juniper doing cloud computing together, it's no surprise to see them strike up an OEM deal to possibly face off against Cisco

Private equity firm MatlinPatterson has put up a $725M offer for Nortel's wireless assets, versus Nokia Siemens's $650M. It's on!

NTT win, new CEO, 50 layoffs, and a smattering of earnings

S-CDMA is back! Motorola is taking a page from the Terayon playbook to clean up and beef up cable's thin upstream path

4:35 PM Cycling site Versus.com doubles its traffic from last year

3:20 PM Too bad for iPhone users UPDATED 7/22 2:05 PM

3:00 PM LTE engineers are still a catch for the BlackBerry maker, it seems

2:30 PM LTE interoperability kicks off in March 2010

AlcaLu gets commercial GPON contract from China Mobile and bolsters its position as a TD-SCDMA infrastructure supplier

Mobile operators will need a lot more cellular backhaul capacity to handle data traffic, especially when voice becomes packetized

Clearwire and Sprint are now clear to roam between 3G and WiMax, and Mac users will soon be able to get on the Clear network too

1:05 PM Is anyone ready to snack on Danish?

12:15 PM Italian rivals could join forces, if the price is right

11:25 AM Charter's got a fight on its hands, old is new at Echostar, and more

10:40 AM Details look interesting

As Clearwire launches in Las Vegas, Ciena reveals its role in the WiMax carrier's backhaul deployment

There's a fight brewing in Canada's high-tech corridor as RIM claims it's been blocked from submitting a $1.1 billion bid for Nortel's wireless assets

On the heels of big talk by Alcatel-Lucent and Juniper, Huawei says its next NetEngine router will get a 100-Gigabit Ethernet port in mid-2010

Nokia Siemens claims a unique solution for delivering voice over LTE networks and stays out of an industry initiative for new voice specs

CAT Telecom is preparing to build out a fiber-based fixed access broadband network, but won't be digging up Thailand's city roads

5:50 PM Router and cable modem maker beats the MSOs to the punch

5:20 PM Streams of the golf tournament jumped by 80% this year

Ericsson's been considered an IMS lock at Comcast, but Huawei's emergence may have knocked Nokia Siemens Networks out of the running

1:40 PM The sphinx of Kansas weighs in

Targets cable's Docsis 3.0 doings with two VDSL-fueled tiers, including one that pumps out 40 Mbit/s down by 20 Mbit/s upstream

The Enterprise Solutions unit is the next to draw a bid, on the eve of the stalking-horse auction of Nortel's wireless assets

Analyst note suggests Huawei has landed a 40G deal at Level 3, a decision that would be a blow to incumbent supplier Infinera

8:20 AM Vivendi pulls back from African acquisition

BT's high-profile CTO Matt Bross has quit after nearly seven years at the UK operator, and will not be replaced

Could mesh make a comeback in 'hotzones' that displace traffic from crowded 3G networks onto WiFi?

Broadband connections will double by 2014, driven by DSL and aggressive FTTH rollouts, according to a new report

4:40 PM + pickup trucks... what could possibly go wrong?

IP Gallery is going after cable and telcos with IMS and PacketCable 2.0 products, but it probably won't put a scare into the likes of Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson

Vodafone faces an uphill struggle as it joins the already-crowded triple-play market in Portugal with its own IPTV offering

But the choice leaves many wondering why

Google wants people to weigh in on what a national broadband plan from the FCC should look like

The long-running case is expected to be settled during the week of July 20

1:25 PM The one slight problem with these Apple & Verizon rumors

The Indian government is to audit five of India's private carriers, BSNL's profits slump, and Sistema Shyam pulls down a loan from China

8:30 AM Cisco will rake in WiMax winnings

5:55 PM Workers in France get their meeting; workers in San Jose get their pink slips

5:05 PM MSO tweaks plan with a provision that would bump up the amount of preferred stock it wants to issue

Operators like CenturyTel are still grappling with whether to apply for the Recovery Act broadband money or not

MSO offers iPhones a free app with no live TV and no DVR controls UPDATED 7/17 8 AM

Phone giant's results weren't sunny-side up

3:10 PM Behind the handset headlines, vendor services were key today

Nokia Siemens Networks may be feeling the bite of recession, but its Services division is growing in strength

Indian telco issues tender for the outsourced management of its 3G services, but will anyone bid when they see the conditions?

Firm boots up name change with CE-targeted 'Liquid' media guide, though some new features could eventually grace next-gen cable IPGs

The mobile handset market is a dog right now

The 7750 routers will get 100GE interfaces by mid-2010 – possibly putting them in line to compete with the likes of Cisco's CRS-1

Vendor giant sees deeper revenues decline in Q2, and now it's expecting to lose, rather than maintain, market share in '09

5:40 PM Set-top security, that is...

4:45 PM Gives users access to sites like Facebook on their TVs

Verizon's recent move to integrate social networking and Internet video into FiOS TV underscores the need for IPTV innovation

4:00 PM Whatever happened to Five Across, anyway?

Cellular backhaul is all abuzz today with news of a major multinational contract win, financial results, and new microwave products

UK MSO targets its main DSL rivals by slashing 50-Mbit/s prices, bundling in free netbooks, and prepping faster upstream speeds

12:55 PM Cablevision cleans everyone's clocks in the SMB groupings, but Comcast and TWC need to shore up customer satisfaction

Verizon adds Facebook, Twitter, and other apps, plus Web TV, to its FiOS service. Analyst expects AT&T to follow soon

11:40 AM Indian government proposes abolishing time limits on mobile licenses

11:25 AM China Mobile plans to cover 10,000 villages a year for next three years

10:50 AM O2 preps HSPA+ trial for Oktoberfest

Indian IT services company looks to its managed services skills to drive annual sales growth of up to 40 percent in Asia/Pacific

The upcoming auction process might see Nokia Siemens bid for more than just Nortel's CDMA and LTE access assets

6:30 PM Mayhem and moose droppings

Canadian MSO intros 50-Mbit/s 'Ultimate' tier, but couples the speedy offering with a monthly consumption ceiling

5:45 PM At least when it comes to the Nexus 5000 and certain green projects

5:20 PM Poll results. Which one gets used everywhere?

4:40 PM TV Everywhere gets its first broadcaster, along with 17 other content providers

1:50 PM COLT's cloud has a silver lining, and ntl:telewest spreads its wings with BT

1:15 PM At least one analyst sees a trend in Verizon's plans that doesn't bode well for router vendors

12:25 PM A French kiss-off – in video form – for Nortel and Ernst & Young

A recent court filing by Dish and EchoStar reveals that TiVo is seeking 'nearly $1 billion' in contempt sanctions

11:45 AM Datang's loss is ZTE's gain in China Mobile's latest TD-SCDMA tender

11:15 AM Now the fun begins

Alvarion could stand to benefit if WiMax ISPs get Recovery Act broadband stimulus money

9:50 AM Experienced hand taking over at Singapore's MSO

Unstrung snaps Huawei's first Mobile User Congress customer event in Munich

Neil Montefiore, high-profile former CEO of MobileOne, named new CEO of Singaporean cable and mobile operator, StarHub

Seeing OEMs wanting to outsource more of their engineering, IP Infusion jumps into the business of designing entire systems

8:20 AM Rival bid plans gather pace

India's service providers generated $8.24B in revenues in Q1 2009, according to the country's regulator

Huawei wireless product line execs told Unstrung their company has a different image now, as they hosted a customer event in Munich last week

A handful of cable parties are opposing a petition that's looking to kill a three-year DTA waiver recently awarded to Evolution Broadband

5:00 PM Move Networks finally gets its act together

HBO and Cinemax have joined Starz, TNT, and TBS in the lineup of Time Warner and Comcast's online joint venture

4:25 PM New theory: Mobility group in the works

12:40 PM In France, striking staff kick up a stink

As Ericsson agrees on green objectives with S. Korean President, it refutes reports it will pump $1.5 billion into Korean R&D strategy

Batelco increases its stake in Indian mobile newcomer S Tel, which is on course for a fourth-quarter services launch

7:30 AM New VP of Western Europe joins from bankrupt Canadian vendor

ERF's CEO makes the case for the wireless ISP getting $20M-plus for broadband in the boondocks

A few pics from a press meeting inside Cisco digital media nerve center

4:00 PM To join the TV Everywhere initiative

Portuguese cable operator launches 120-Mbit/s broadband as it loses customers in the face of fierce telco competition

Starz becomes the first premium network to join Time Warner and Comcast's online effort

1:05 PM It's Ericsson's problem now...

Guess who's taking its place?

As Bharti Airtel establishes apps developer community, MTNL hunts an international partner, and other operators roll out services

12:25 PM NTT DoCoMo's CEO talks M&A in Asia

French telecom and media giant is in talks to buy Zain's extensive African telecom operations in a deal believed to be worth around $12B

11:15 AM What's WiMax Worth to Comcast?

Cisco's gear performed well in an EANTC peer-to-peer traffic test, but ipoque and Procera can outdo Cisco in a rather obvious way

A sneak preview of the topics we'll tackle at the upcoming Packet-Optical Transport Evolution virtual tradeshow

A looming 2010 payment would get a little easier with the sell-off of Finisar's test division

The 'Can you hear me now?' carrier isn't going to follow its rival's outsourcing lead

Through the partnership, they will be able to distribute and provide metrics for Web TV campaigns

5:00 PM But what's really behind the partnership?

A major US wireless operator is handing over day-to-day management of network operations to a services partner

Bakrie Telecom has grown rapidly in the fixed wireless access market, and now has its heart set on an acquisition

BT launches fiber-to-the-cabinet services, brings forward its next-gen broadband rollout plans, and preps more fiber-to-the-home lines

3:00 PM ETSI plugfested GPON, and saw that it was good

12:30 PM Managed services deal with Sprint is a whopper

JDSU beefs up its test tools division with the acquisition of Finisar's SAN analysis products business for $40 million

Former Alcatel-Lucent chief marketing officer shows up at Openwave as senior VP of products and marketing

CTDI takes over the product line that was once the crown jewel of Next Level Communications

Google announces a second operating system, this time aimed at netbooks and, eventually, larger PCs

4:50 PM Light Reading's soccer team brings home the single most important trophy in New York-area, non-professional, adult-league, after-work, sports

With Eos software and services, the router vendor looks to save media companies from Google by having them host everything with Cisco

3:50 PM The service attracted huge traffic online, as fans mourned the superstar

Announced telecom mergers and acquisitions in the first half of 2009 totaled $88.3 billion in value, down 53% year-on-year

As O2 Germany completes 3G network upgrade to 7.2 Mbit/s, the operator launches Deep Packet Inspection to monitor customer data usage

Airvana has won the contract to supply Sprint's 3G femtocells, the first big 3G femto deal in the US

NOON Vince Groff isn't fretting about the threat posed by over-the-top and mobile video

The head of Cisco's consumer division gets the high-profile job of chief strategy officer

11:05 AM Sorry, we don't do tolerance

NYC transport authority is looking into the prospect of deploying free WiFi on some overland commuter trains

9:50 AM More bad news for the targeted advertising specialist

9:00 AM Malaysia's Axiata linked to $500 million bid

German chip giant sells its DSL and VOIP business to private equity firm for €250 million, but holds on to its wireless chips unit

What happens on WiMax stays on WiMax, with Clear going commercial in Vegas

5:20 PM Another view of the company's long-term ambitions

Digital Bridges, TowerStream, and ERF Wireless consider bids on broadband stimulus money, while the big cellcos remain 'undecided'

4:15 PM Metacafe says so, despite the growing popularity of longer video

India's government sets $7 billion revenue target for the country's 3G auction and looks to telecommunications to provide $10 billion in its annual budget

3:35 PM Session controller vendor scores a double whammy in Yoorup

VoLGA Forum unveils new specs to tackle the thorny issue of delivering circuit-switched voice and messaging services over LTE

Japan's NTT DoCoMo introduces new high-speed femtocells to offload mobile traffic in home zones

10:35 AM Check out our femto fotos

DoCoMo's vendor choices show it's building a new backhaul network for LTE, one that could be shared with next-gen fixed broadband

SDP player Aepona acquires payments and settlements system vendor Valista, a move that'll help meet carriers' needs, says analyst

Tellabs resizes in a market where mid-sized is the wrong size

News report says the DoJ has opened in inquiry into – gasp! – the possibility of anticompetitive practices in the telecom industry

4:35 PM Everyone's abuzz about Andreessen Horowitz

China Mobile will continue to dominate its domestic telecom market for the next five years, according to Pyramid Research report

3:20 PM Very, very slooooowwwwly...

Mike Volpi is now partner at Index Ventures

11:20 AM It starts

Media reports suggest private equity firm is in talks with other Nortel creditors about a bid for all of the bankrupt vendor's assets

BT mothballs plans to deploy targeted advertising technology from controversial vendor Phorm but could reignite its interest later

7:30 AM BT staff offered extended vacation with pay cut

11:00 AM Can NTT DoCoMo set another trend in developed markets?

10:00 AM ZTE's back in with Telenor after its ban

9:30 AM Will anyone mention BT as a suitor?

Swedish vendor boasts GPON traction with major Chinese carriers, and there's a chance of more APAC action for the vendor's FTTH business

A genuine IPO to come from Bangladesh's leading operator as it gets go-ahead for a $65 million offer

Clearwire says it doesn't need stimulus money to complete its WiMax deployments, but is reviewing the rules for a bid on the broadband billions

Cisco founder Len Bosack sheds new light on his company's DarkStar products and the appeal of DIY enterprise optical networks

3:00 PM Degradation, despair, and death

2:30 PM The Recovery Act could help Adtran recover from this year's initial spending slowdown

2:00 PM Buying American would have only complicated an already aggressive plan to extend US broadband networks

1:20 PM LG-Nortel keeps plugging its next-gen access tech

Len Bosack, CEO, XKL LLC

India's Reliance Communications confirms its partner Alcatel-Lucent as the front runner to manage its fixed network operations

Industry sources say one of Nokia Siemens Networks's new WiMax partners is specialist vendor Alvarion

Cisco's annual customer lovefest comes back to the Bay Area

Cable veteran leaves Vidiom to be CEO of Alticast's Americas unit as tru2way specialist gears up for a domestic growth spurt

Nokia Siemens tells Unstrung it has shifted its R&D focus away from WiMax and into HSPA+ and LTE

The cloud is nice, but who's going to provide the links between clouds? Any guesses?

5:30 PM A tru2way shrug, a Tom Lookabaugh sighting, cheap WiMax, tuned-out consumers, and a refitted SinglePipe

5:00 PM Less than 1 Mbit/s is less than acceptable

4:30 PM Despite a comeback from IPOs

4:00 PM Would you really want to be the next David Bowie?

3:25 PM Governments keep Telenor and China Mobile waiting for foreign investment approval

MSOs won't face fines for not having all their headends rigged up for tru2way by the original July 1 deadline

Pyramid Research report casts doubt on rapid takeup of FTTx in Malaysia, looks to WiMax to compete with Telekom Malaysia's DSL

Alcatel-Lucent turns green as it updates its ISAM multiservice access platform, but is it going too far with some of its claims?

11:00 AM Why not take all of Nortel, a private equity firm asks

Nokia Siemens tells Unstrung what it plans to do with Nortel's LTE access assets when the acquisition is complete

Italian broadband player to raise new capital and renew its domestic focus as the EU clears the sale of its UK triple-play operations