The summer news lull was filled with hot talk and hot air from the world's top wireless executives and, mostly, their lawyers

Business deals will probably squelch local roaming, but the next iPhone should hop most international markets with ease

10:00 AM Content owners may realize the current pay-TV model is broken, but that doesn't mean they'll give it up, says Heavy Reading analyst

The Insieme team's fingerprints are on Cisco's next low-latency Nexus switch

8:00 AM LTE-Advanced is a tech buzzword you'll need to know in 2013, so get a head start with this primer

The ripple effect of the Samsung/Apple trial will be far reaching, but it could have operators taking a more active role in accelerating a third mobile operating system ecosystem

2:10 PM Apple’s device competitors have been knocked to the mat, but mobile operators have been staggered, too

While the carrier keeps the policy management of its Share Everything plans private, policy vendors suggest more pricing changes are to come

As Cisco (supposedly) works on its next switching ASIC, Broadcom continues to push merchant chips forward

New In-Location consortium plans to improve indoor location accuracy and launch new apps to make mall walking more fun

Dismissing the 'knee-jerk reactions' that limiting Apple's video chat service to Mobile Share plans is a net neutrality violation, the carrier says it's in the clear

9:10 AM Changes that AT&T and Verizon keep making to their data plans could send customers into their competitors' arms

The OpenFlow startup says it's playing a key role in spreading SDN to the masses

Verizon's concessions on the AWS deal could help to unlock 4G device and carrier choices for American consumers in the coming years

In developing Tu Me, the Spanish giant's digital division adopted an applications development model that's more Google than telco-like

Higher-speed Ethernet, be it 1Tbit/s or 400Gbit/s, gets one step closer to starting the IEEE standards process

3:00 PM The Note 10.1 will win some fans with its pen-based input, but will it unseat the iPad as the top tablet?

2:00 PM When wireless operators decry distracted driving, I'm reminded of what really kills people on roadways and how long we've lived with it

As people start to text more and talk less, experts weigh in on how we're changing as a society and whether the telcos have a chance to provide more education

Vendor adds a consulting and professional service practice to its application enablement strategy to ease API tension between developers and operators

Not for Europe. But in the US, there's maybe, possibly a chance that business for Cisco is about to get better

Samsung tries again with tablets, borrowing pen-based input ideas from its successful Note 'phablet' to take on the iPad

After saying Q4 would be muted, Cisco at least didn't add to the disappointment

12:25 PM Shouldn't retailers be working with the wireless operators instead of against them?

CEO Thorsten Heins shows carriers RIM's "nearly finished" BlackBerry 10 phones and promises a mix of six qwerty or touchscreen devices coming next year

VMWare reportedly outbid Cisco for the software-defined networking startup

T-Mobile stresses cost reductions and 4G network upgrades as monthly subscribers continue to jump ship

8:00 AM A new crop of MVNOs is coming on the scene having learned from past failures, but there's still a bumpy road ahead

3:35 PM Charlie Ergen says he's prepared to go ahead with satellite/terrestrial combo handsets no matter how the FCC rules on Dish's spectrum

Both AT&T and Verizon will have their shared data plans in place this month, and Verizon's offering a few by-request-only plans for those who crave more data

Network Vision carrier will leverage the mini base stations to plug indoor coverage gaps in its growing LTE network

Ma Bell reveals that it plans to shut down its 2G network by 2017, encouraging remaining customers to switch now

LTE is boosting business services development in South Korea plus other snippets from Asia/Pacific

RIM's tablet is finally getting LTE, with the first versions going on sale in Canada on Aug. 9

With its future in smartphones unclear, the Finnish company is pushing its advantages in maps and location-based services

12:40 PM Lenovo thinks the prospect of acquiring Nokia is hilarious, but would another company want to snatch up all of Nokia now?