The expo hall opens here at 4G World and the sessions keep going. Here are some more pics from the show's second day

1:00 PM Here's the view of the show from behind the podium

4G World 2012 is under way in Chicago. Here are some scenes from the first set of sessions and keynotes

8:20 AM It's still early days for this storm, sadly, but – to me – mobile networks seem to be holding up better than they used to in disasters

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

Erik Prusch, president and CEO of Clearwire, delivers his keynote at 4G World in Chicago

Service providers need the tools to integrate and manage the proliferation of small cells and Wi-Fi

Windstream CEO Jeff Gardner explains how his company's Merge service is driving higher broadband tiers with over-the-top video

4:00 AM In the third of our 2012 Leading Lights awards shortlist blogs, we look at the companies that made the cut in the mobile products category

A flat outlook and yet another executive transition keep the 'interesting' times rolling

The device's LTE support is good news for Sprint and its new big brother, too, as Apple spreads out to more 4G frequencies

Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin and Colt's Mirko Voltolini discuss opportunities and challenges for network operators in the cloud era as well as some of the key enabling technologies for adapting transport networks to cloud demands

A new Industry Specifications Group has been created to identify the communications network architecture of the future.

11:00 AM Kicking off a series of blogs about the 2012 Leading Lights awards, here's the reasoning for the six telecom product finalists we picked

Software defined networking using OpenFlow has worked so well for Google's inter-data center network it's going to adopt it elsewhere

Heavy Reading offers a preview of Ethernet Expo Americas, which will take place this November in New York

Broadband strategies will be showcased at the 11th annual event, keynoted by execs from AT&T, TDS Telecom, Verizon and Windstream

Huawei has a vision to take wide area comms networks to 'all IT'

The quintet of deals that will reshape the mobile world in 2012 and beyond

The shuffling of top engineers continues as SDN creates new opportunities in networking

9:00 AM Many Alcatel-Lucent jobs to go in France as restructuring details are released

LTE isn't just for Tucson anymore

Ericsson's CTO Ulf Ewaldsson sets the tone at the Broadband World Forum by proposing a new definition of SDN (software-defined networking)

Can you spot yourself in this last batch of photos from the fall CTIA show in San Diego?

The network processor is expanding its reach up to applications and services, possibly intensifying the rivalry between two chipmakers

General counsel's blog highlights discrepancies in Chinese vendor's interpretation of the Cisco vs Huawei intellectual property dispute

Andy Bechtolsheim shares some thoughts about Moore's Law, networking chip design and the state of 100G

8:05 AM 2013 might just be about more capacity and coverage on LTE networks in the U.S.

John Horn, president of M2M services firm Raco Wireless, says a merged T-Mobile and MetroPCS means increased 2G capacity, a broader customer reach and infinite connected device possibilities for M2M

If the FCC grants AT&T's request to lift wholesale requirements, companies could lose out on advanced services, a CEO tells Comptel

5:50 PM There's no sign it would actually happen, but one analysis of EMC buying Juniper brings up some interesting ideas

If you're keeping score in Cisco's chain of succession, you knew Rob Lloyd and Gary Moore were already near the top of the list

T-Mobile and MetroPCS to merge to create a 42.5M subscriber US mobile operator pushing toward unlimited 4G

5:35 PM A T-Mobile/MetroPCS merger could be Deutsche Telekom's way to lessen its stake in the US market, one analyst reckons