Operator CEO says there have been initial approaches from Facebook and Google about sharing revenues in return for mobile QoS guarantees

3:00 AM Ethernet Europe Chairman Stan Hubbard tells us what to expect

2:00 AM Sure, maybe it's true that connectivity can bring peace, love and harmony – but enough, already

Fed up with the OSS mess, Deutsche Telekom and other operators want new standards, which DT intends to put into RFPs by 2015

11:30 AM At Mobile World Congress, small cells appear to have finally found their speedy, cloudy niche

11:00 AM What is the vendor's big message in Barcelona? And what's it costing?

Cisco CEO Chambers pre-announces small-cell launch at Mobile World Congress, places tiny radios in a larger cloud context

CEO Hans Vestberg talks about being 'No. 1' in LTE and says the pairing with Telcordia makes Ericsson an interesting market mover

Diane Scott, chief marketing officer at Western Union and president at Western Union Ventures, talks about her company's new mobile money relationship with Ericsson

Going up against Cisco (and, yeah, HP and IBM), Dell knits together its acquisitions, including Force10, for one big honkin' enterprise play

Chinese handset maker is using its own quad-core chip to build what it's calling the world's fastest, most power-efficient smartphone

4:30 PM AT&T and Verizon are the biggest and they're only going to get bigger. Should we expect them to be the best, too?

AT&T is planning to deploy self-healing technology across its network to improve performance

Cisco sees optical interconnects using silicon photonics as a way to make routers and switches handle more data at lower costs

But Cisco turned down the deal – and that has nothing to do with why it's is now protesting Microsoft's pickup of Skype

Service providers are embracing 100GE and deployments will ramp as ecosystem development helps drive affordability

There's more to the 'New Ethernet' but '2.0' was short enough to fit in a headline

The contract-free carrier plans to launch VoLTE in late 2012 as it says Qualcomm's 8960 chips are not yet 'fully baked'

Operators face a number of challenges as they build out their IP networks. Heavy Reading senior analyst Stan Hubbard identifies some of those key issues, including convergence, interoperability and network visibility

A silly list from two silly people who didn't want to wait until tomorrow to get an angle on the 'new Ethernet'

Major cable operators are now building video-optimized content delivery networks (CDNs) that promise to deliver a full range of IP-based video offerings

5:05 PM Expect words like combo, mixed and multi-mode to be very much in vogue in Barcelona next week

Qualcomm, Broadcom and Avago all score renewed three-year OEM deals worth $6B in total to supply Huawei with chips

Shares jump 30% Friday as the online video publishing company raises $55M

1:00 PM The newly single Sony Mobile needs to make a big splash when it reintroduces the brand at Mobile World Congress

BT Group VP Mark Bagley says businesses wanting to use Facebook and mobile are looking to cloud services to help them ramp quickly

NTT Americas CTO Doug Junkins discusses how it has linked its data centers around the globe with an optical IP backbone to deliver Virtual Data Centers to multinational enterprises

Verizon is building a new billing system to enable attribute-driven OSS/BSS that lets it bill for third-party products, as well as its own

3:00 PM Standards are needed and there are challenges in addition to the cost savings businesses see when adopting cloud services

The vendor's latest data-deluge warning says LTE and Wi-Fi offload are offsetting some of the tremendous growth in tiered data usage

12:50 PM 'It's an old person's worst nightmare,' says SNL's clever, yet accurate, commercial spoof

12:35 PM Patent licensing is a positive move, insists Ben Verwaayen

Enterprises of all sizes are turning to cloud IP-PBX systems

Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Sterling Perrin and representatives from Reliance Globalcom, Level 3, and XO talk about the benefits and challenges of deploying 100G today

Revenues are down but share price soars as Alcatel-Lucent reports a full-year profit, targets more cuts and predicts a healthier 2012

NSN's Carrier Ethernet gear and management system are on its 'for sale' list, with joint venture partner Juniper seen as the most likely suitor

Bob 'The Father of Ethernet' Metcalfe is to announce 'A New Ethernet' on Feb 23. Could this be a case of the Emperor's New Clothes?

Q3 revenues might actually be less than Q2's, but Cisco is still claiming victory

Earnings per share beat the consensus by $0.04, but investors might be more interested in what happens next quarter

9:15 AM That's what premium chipmakers are going to argue, and they might have a point

We got snap-happy at the packet network love-in -- see who posed for our pics

5:30 PM Joe's reasons why UBM TechWeb is buying 4G World from Yankee Group

Security vendor F-Secure wants to help mobile operators get into the game of syncing, storing and streaming digital content

RAD Data CTO Yaakov Stein set to detail how Ethernet trumps MPLS-TP in the access network

Tired of hearing about software-defined networking? Too bad

Amid a season of weak forecasts, one analyst thinks carrier spending isn't going to be so awful

7:00 AM Take Light Reading's survey on your own mobile life and learn how the rest of the industry uses mobility

One equipment vendor after another is predicting weak carrier spending, but there's a way to get around that

It's not the first vendor to do this, but the it's first switch vendor to go this big with the technology