5:25 PM Italian company pioneered IPTV in 2001 but is pulling the plug this year as subscribership wanes

Carrier commits to $900M over three years to get the first pre-paid iPhone 4S for its regional customer base

1:10 PM Alcatel-Lucent is on fire (not literally) in Asia/Pacific, but it wants the operators to spend a LOT more

11:35 AM A new telecom policy has been approved at last, paving the way for renewed growth and investment

11:15 AM Cisco does take software-defined networking seriously, and that's supposedly why it's waiting two more weeks to explain its plans

Also: TiVo posts loss but adds subs; In Demand hops on Comcast's CDN; Comcast's cloud-based voice platform rolls into Michigan

Heavy Reading’s Berge Ayvazian on how small cells can get smart about connections and help carriers improve data speed and coverage in traffic-heavy networks

In today's EMEA roundup: Formal offer made for quarter of Dutch incumbent; Telefónica preps IPOs; ETNO wants public funds for rollouts

Debt-laden Spanish giant to raise funds through IPOs in Europe and Latin America

4:00 AM Like them and/or loathe them, OTT services stir up mixed emotions for mobile operators

Phil McKinney has come out of HP 'retirement' to head up the cable industry's Louisville, Colo.-based R&D house

Verizon to retain its broadband bragging rights over cable and Docsis 3.0 as it prepares to crank up FiOS speeds in June

IT services firm Mara Ison Technologies is set to acquire revenue assurance and analytics specialist Connectiva

12:40 PM Everything Everywhere is pumping £50M into schooling its customer service reps on mobile operating systems

Alcatel-Lucent's XRS core router is being put to metro uses by Verizon, which really just wants raise its MPLS quotient

Atlanta, Denver and Philadelphia are among the markets that could get Comcast's next-gen video product before the end of 2012

Vodafone, AT&T, DT, Telefónica and Verizon team on API-based effort to enable open apps market, with no industry/standards bodies involved

Also: Apple still likes its TV box; BendBroadband wraps LTE upgrade; Comcaster to help monitor net neutrality; Amazon streams to the Xbox

Alcatel-Lucent muscles in on Stoke's turf as it wins a deal to supply LTE security gateways to the Japanese mobile carrier

MKM Partners downgrades Nokia to $2 after finding that the Windows phones have already been supplanted by the latest Androids

8:30 AM Transparency and choice is the best way to deal with online service restrictions, reckons the EC's digital watchdog Neelie Kroes

In today's EMEA roundup: Ben Verwaayen urges network investment; EC proposes Net Neutrality action; S&P piles yet more pressure on Nokia

The company warns of a Q1 operating loss and hires bankers to explore its options, which suggests a sale might be on the table

4:45 PM Apple's looking for applicants to help it evolve 4G across the globe, as analysts continue to speculate on the arrival of the iPhone 5

Sprint says it's done selling iDEN phones and will turn off the push-to-talk network as soon as June 30 of next year

11:50 AM TM Forum's Willetts sees US and Western Europe failing at broadband because regulators and financial analysts are stuck in old patterns

The Samsung Galaxy S III comes equipped with Music Hub, Samsung's new music repository

Major FTTH deal in China plus noteworthy IP, SPIT and video monitoring engagements in Japan, Australia and New Zealand

Former Time Warner Cable and ActiveVideo exec John Callahan will lead Rogers Communications' next-gen video initiative plans

Also: Cox updates its iPad app; Dish's defends its ad-zapper; Comcast expands Xfinity Home; Ultra-HD takes a step forward

5:45 AM The smartphone hailed as the big rival to the iPhone arrives in Europe, the Middle East and Africa

In today's EMEA roundup: Vultures circle over video technology firm; Huawei rejects subsidy allegations; Samsung Galaxy S III reaches EMEA

As the technology power shift accelerates within service providers, Vodafone is hiring country CIOs that will become the operator's CTOs of the future

Check out Light Reading Mobile's photos from the LTE World Summit 2012

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion will announce further job cuts and a new restructuring effort later this week, according to reports

In today's EMEA roundup: Commission plans case over 'illegal state subsidies'; France Telecom gets Mobinil; set-top plant could close

Maybe it's time to admit that the world already has a zillion tablets

India's lead operator has acquired more LTE coverage through an investment in Qualcomm's spectrum holdings

The meaning of Comcast's X1, the industry's Wi-Fi ambitions, and an emerging cable tech battle are among the items on my list

11:45 AM Take a walk on the (mostly) wireless side through The Cable Show in foggy, rainy Boston

11:10 AM Ventraq and others devise a way to measure how operators are meeting customer needs. But could such a straightforward system ever catch on?

This week: South Africa’s telecom outlook; VoIP call centers and a BYOD world; your daily telecom news fix

8:00 AM It wasn't all doom and gloom at LTE World Summit in Barcelona, but the dire Spanish economy cast its shadow, most notably at the airport

Loss-making pan-Asian network operator dumps its long-time CEO Bill Barney.

In today's EMEA roundup: Will European telcos just say no to handset subsidies? And it's a bad week for Telefónica on the ratings front...

6:30 AM We hand out our unofficial awards at Management World 2012, including Best Cheese, Best Orange Meeting Room and Best Use of Nano-Witchcraft

Even Alcatel-Lucent is surprised at the eagerness around 400G, with some carriers wanting bragging rights for the optical technology

Missed this year's big to-do in Beantown, or want to relive part of it? We've got you covered

Comcast aims to rejuvenate its home phone service with Voice2Go, an app that lets customers place free phone calls via Wi-Fi

Consumer clouds and B2B clouds litter the Microsoft landscape, but the software giant is serious about service provider clouds as well

Also: Cable Show attendance dips; ActiveVideo rolls its video cloud; MaxLinear goes inside Intel's D3 chips; Minerva flirts with cable

Scenes from the show floor and the Light Reading 'Speed Dating' event

10:15 AM The cableco Wi-Fi plan could make it easier to offload smartphone data in the northeastern US

10:00 AM The standout trends from Management World 2012

Cox Communications EVP & CTO Kevin Hart explains what's at the top of his to-do list and offers an update on the company's TV Everywhere and IP video strategies

7:30 AM Bargain shoppers and coupon cutters will love creative pricing, but it'll make for one beast of a monthly statement

What were this year's Management World Catalyst projects all about? We talked to five of the teams to find out which industry challenges they were tackling

In today's EMEA roundup: DT's CEO tells it like it is; Freeview boss sees 4G trouble ahead; C&WC results not so hot in Caribbean

6:00 AM Service brokers can play an important role in application innovation

It will take longer than expected for operators to launch and turn up the volume on Voice-over-LTE

How can communications service providers get the most out of their customer experience management (CEM) strategies? Jean-Marc Steffann, executive director at Capgemini's Telecom, Media and Entertainment division, explains

3:00 AM Wireless operators are treading a fine line between helpful and creepy when it comes to contextual pricing plans

Comcast's Catherine Avgiris walks us through Voice2Go, which enhances Comcast's residential phone service with free Wi-Fi phone calls, advanced call forwarding and the ability to create personal phone numbers

The right pieces are in place, even if the results don't show up in quarterly earnings yet, Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen says

Between the XRS launch and an 'art gallery' of demos, AlcaLu's annual showcase gave analysts lots to look at

3:55 PM Sometimes controversial VC firm The Carlyle Group appears more focused on cable than mobile at the moment

TM Forum Chairman Keith Willetts talks about the much needed communications services revolution and the Management World show's return to Nice on the French Riviera

3:15 PM Cable's R&D house is expected to appoint a new leader soon, and the rumor is it will be someone from the Silicon Valley

1:35 PM NSN accuses rival Huawei of practicing the sincerest form of flattery...

1:00 PM LTE-to-3G handoffs are still a major challenge for mobile operators

With Convergys deal done, software firm sets its sights on total OSS/BSS play for differentiated services

Their fear of OTT apps and old telco mentality has made the wireless operators hard to do business with, software companies say

Arris, Cisco and Moto offer a roadmap that, they claim, will help Docsis bump capacities to 10Gbit/s downstream and 2Gbit/s upstream

CHR guarantees 5 to 25 percent savings for cash-strapped rural telcos who adopt its cloud or managed services programs

The US, Brazil, Colombia and Chile all have their Broadband Plans in place. But which one has the biggest cojones?

Huawei's MSO chief explains how it's helping US cable operators evolve their networks beyond Docsis 3.0 and into the world of EPON Protocol over Coax

7:50 AM Heavy Reading analysts assess the first day's action at the service provider IT (SPIT)-fest that is Management World 2012 in Dublin

In today's EMEA roundup: research network deploys DTN-X platform; the bleak view from Spain; NFC, not KFC, lands at French airport

Operators need to embrace active RAN sharing to make the LTE business case work, says Orange

Don't SPIT in our Guinness, but LR Mobile snuck away from the show floor to capture the sights and drinks of Ireland's capital city

Avail-TVN CEO says that advertising and analytics companies could be in his M&A sights

Cable's getting aggressive with Wi-Fi, but execs say school's still in session as they try to fine-tune their wireless broadband strategies

9:05 PM Service providers and large customers are deploying cloud services but avoiding calling them 'cloud services.' And the point is?

Verizon Wireless taps some key partners as it looks to bring some search and discovery magic to mobile video

4:35 PM New Android smartphones, tablets and low-end devices have to be on the horizon as Google closes the deal on Motorola Mobility

The war of big numbers is hardly over, as AlcaLu expands its routers into 16Tbit/s range and Juniper hooks up multiple T4000s

11:15 AM Service providers want to manage and measure the customer experience, but what good are data and usage stats when a customer service culture doesn't exist?

Sanjay Jha steps down as CEO of Motorola Mobility, but Dan Moloney will continue to run Moto's Home unit

11:05 AM ANALYTICS, ANALYTICS, ANALYTICS. Guess what the hot topic at Management World in Dublin might be?

TM Forum is focused on innovation acceleration but industry experts say dramatic culture change is needed to make that happen

Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform, explains how the media publishing firm is backing Comcast's X1 platform and what cable needs to do to get TV Everywhere to the next level

Also: Adobe gives TV Everywhere the ad-vantage; Comcast ads going multi-screen; Enseo debuts a CableCARD box; Google Fiber hits a snag

At Management World 2012 in Dublin, Andy Tiller, VP of product marketing at AsiaInfo-Linkage, talks about the Chinese software vendor's plans to take Europe by storm

9:25 AM A big crowd gathered at the Comcast booth to check out X1, Comcast's next-gen video service, and the debut of 'Project Dayview,' a cross-platform user interface in the making

High-powered analytics systems are all the rage in the Service Provider IT world, so what's sector giant Amdocs up to in this area?

Wireless operators have moved from the operational requirements of new data pricing plans to figuring out how to market them to disgruntled consumers, policy vendor says

Glenn Britt still thinks the set-top's days are numbered as cable migrates to IP video and branches out to more IP-connected devices

Heavy Reading's Graham Finnie provides an update on how operators seem to be faring as they embrace apps ecosystems and challenging new business models

In today's EMEA roundup: Vodafone profits slide 11%; C&WW also down; Dublin sees some bandwidth trading; Virgin boss attacks BT

Before the show floor opens, some pics from Ireland's capital

Survival means finding visionary leaders willing to take chances and somehow convincing Wall Street and regulators that it'll be okay

By working with over-the-top apps instead of resisting them, Tekelec says wireless operators can make those apps pay for themselves

Social networking trends have spurred new opportunities for the makers of VoIP call center platforms

itaas President and CEO Vibha Rustagi explains how Comcast's Reference Development Kit (RDK) could get cable closer to a new standard for next-gen set-top boxes

While Avail-TVN raises $100 million to cover the deal and to help fuel its international growth strategy

2:30 PM It's not the Guinness brewery tour or the ghosts of the 1916 Easter Rising but some cloud management solutions

Sigma Systems, Empirix, HP, Aricent, OpenCloud, Comptel, Virtual Instruments and MACH make their pre-show pitches for the Dublin event

Beantown will be the first market to get Comcast's next-gen hybrid IP/QAM video platform, but you knew that already...

Also: Vendors align with Comcast's set-top kit, Intel shows new D3 chip; Moto secures TWC's IP video streams; Nagra gateway goes multi-screen

8:30 AM A potential addition to the Docsis 3.0 specs could set up a fight with the IEEE's budding EPON Protocol over Coax standard

Comcast, Bright House, Cablevision, Cox and TW Cable will let their high-speed Internet customers access more than 50,000 Wi-Fi hotspots

6:45 AM Wireless operators have partnered up on mobile payments, but it may only be a stopgap until they're ready to tackle the market on their own

Vendor hopes to gain some ground on cable access competitors with its first integrated product for the embryonic CCAP market

In today's EMEA roundup: AlcaLu's SPIT in spotlight; LR co-founder's proud moment; Kabel Deutschland swallows rival

2:00 AM It's back to Barcelona for the LTE World Summit, where the hot topics will be 4G service creation and new operator business models

You can't really see software-defined networking, but you can see a bunch of optical networking people talking about it

Fancy a chat with Microsoft, Versant or cVidya in Dublin? Check out these swift pre-show pitches

Moto extends the life of its CMTS as it continues to develop products for CCAP, cable's next-gen access architecture

The combination of social, mobile and cloud, or SoMoClo, will have Management World attendees exercising their jaws, reckons industry analyst

Jim King of AT&T Labs says 100G isn't as important to the company as the optical technology that makes the transport network run smoothly

A deal to put QFabric into a trading network comes as the company pushes to regain Wall Street's confidence

TV Everywhere, net neutrality and wireless will be hot topics, but also expect cable's access network to make some big leaps next week

The vendors have delivered packet-optical systems, and it's up to XO to do something good with them, CTO Randy Nicklas says. Meanwhile, he's also eyeing the potential of OpenFlow. From the Packet-Optical Transport Evolution conference

Optical wholesaling seems to be doing well as a business, but that hasn't convinced operators to fiber up more of their cell towers

Also: Cablevision promotes Kanouff; BlackArrow goes system-wide at TW Cable; Arris gateway software weaves in HTML5

What it does isn't special or new, but OpenFlow has a money-saving potential that past technologies didn't, CTO Randy Nicklas says

A substantial slice of Facebook's expected IPO bonanza could help further its mobile ambitions

Also: Samsung wins in Android's fragmented world; RIM and bada beat Windows Phone; BlackBerry gets UK government seal of approval

In today's EMEA roundup: Risk of a default rears its head for Finnish giant; Hutchison Whampoa bid for Eircom rebuffed; Jersey's fiber diet

7:00 AM This week: Canada’s telecom future, context as king for operators, main themes from LR’s Packet-Optical Transport Evolution Conference

3:00 AM This LR Mobile reporter will be on the search for SPIT-covered mobile topics at next week's Management World Forum in Dublin

Given the disruptive potential of software-defined networking, what's going to happen to routers as we know them? Stuart Elby of Verizon gives us his theory

What if ports could change speeds in, say, 25Gbit/s increments? Cisco brought up the idea at the Packet Optical Transport Evolution conference

Less than one-fourth of cell towers in the US have fiber connections today, says Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber. Without fiber, 4G networks will be bandwidth starved

Comcast will kill its static 250GB cap and test new policies that will raise the limit to at least 300GB, but apply overage fees

Customer Experience Management (CEM) is little more than vendor marketing, says analyst, as he tells us what to expect at Management World

Shlomo Rakib has quietly launched Cohere Technologies, a startup that aims to bring some radical changes to cable's access network architecture

Fancy a chat with MDS, Matrixx or Lavastorm in Dublin? Check out these swift pitches in what can only be described as a 'Matt Hooper Special'

Also: TW Cable & Viacom bury the hatchet; FCC queries Verizon on spectrum; Genova returns to Cablevision; Netflix eyes family plans

Beyond the usual names and faces, execs from Netflix and Verizon Wireless will enter cable's den at next week's big show in Beantown

Service provider transport networks are handling massively more volume, but spending has yet to surpass Sonet/SDH spending

Verizon has already put software-defined networking to use. Stuart Elby, who's in charge of network architecture, explains how and why

In today's EMEA roundup: Ciena scores in UK; AlcaLu settles with Klausner; Intune bags former Ciena man; LTE goes live in London

Light Reading's Packet Optical Transport Evolution conference will see lots of discussion about the optical control plane as vendors prepare for far-off plans in cloud computing and software-defined networking

4:45 AM A brief guide to Management World's hot topics and beverages

Grandfathered-in unlimited plan customers will be forced to pick a tier when Verizon rolls out shared data plans this summer

4:00 PM London's first (and only) LTE network gets caught on camera by Light Reading Mobile

Comcast will try to gain and retain triple-play customers with a $9.95-per-month Skype video chat service that launches in 10 markets this week

We mean that not just in terms of faster speeds, but also in terms of new topics like software-defined networking

Increased spending by AT&T and Verizon in the US should give Tellabs a boost in H2, reckons one analyst, who spies the potential for some M&A considerations

A number of low-cost MVNOs are launching in the US with potentially disruptive – but still unproven – business models

Hitron is among the first to use a "media gateway" D3 chipset from Intel that can bond 24 downstream channels and eight upstream channels

Also: ESPN predicts big TV Everywhere numbers; Cisco, Comcast execs join Adobe board; Avail-TVN splices VoD ads

In today's EMEA roundup: Yota fires the LTE starting pistol in Russia; Iskratel expands in GPON space; Nokia gets Siri-usly cheesed off

Comcast's CTO says Xfinity TV app for the Xbox 360 uses separately-provisioned bandwidth and is akin to the MSO's traditional cable service

Telecom vet Mark Floyd takes over at Cyan and will get the company ready to grow as it continues to target fast-growing metro networks

3:10 PM Small was beautiful, video was mobile and context was creepy at CTIA; but device hunters were out of luck in The Big Easy

With its new mobile backhaul aggregation box, RAD Data has joined a select set of vendors with Grandmaster clock capabilities

Verizon Wireless and the MSO sidestep FiOS territory early on as they launch a mobile/cable services bundle in Oklahoma City and Tulsa

Verizon expands 4G LTE to 28 new markets and adds extra coverage in 11 existing 4G cities

Also: Hillcrest's TV browser goes open source; Foxconn squashes Apple TV rumor; EchoStar's new broadband bird is prepped for launch

Analyst expects the controversy surrounding policy and charging to be a major talking point at Management World

At CTIA in New Orleans, Verizon explains to LR Mobile how it uses mobile cell sites to restore wireless services after hurricanes and other disasters

Nokia targets emerging markets with two new feature phones as it looks to shore up its traditional strongholds

In today's EMEA roundup: AlcaLu hints at core router breakthrough; Iliad's first-quarter mobile bonanza (and how it hurt SFR)

The future for telcos lies in leveraging context about their customers, but getting from concept to execution is no simple affair

Docsis 3.1? 4.0? Whatever the designation, Cisco says CableLabs is developing a new spec that will beef up cable's feeble upstream path

Carrier group made up of T-Mobile, Sprint and others is OK with Verizon's AWS spectrum buy provided the FCC applies some conditions to it

Wireless broadband wholesale hopeful LightSquared can't hold off lenders any longer, files for bankruptcy protection in New York

Adaptix is once again in court, this time alleging that NSN base stations being deployed by T-Mobile infringe on five of the vendor's patents

Internet exchange operator Epsilon says it isn't Enron revisited

Small cells are crucial to the deployment of LTE, and their role in the 4G world started to solidify at the New Orleans wireless fest

Also: Foxconn preps for Apple's TV; AT&T halts sales of Xbox 360 U-verse kit; NBC exec frets about Dish's new ad-zapper

In today's EMEA roundup: Chinese vendor scores managed-services deal with O2; KPN under pressure to sell German unit; NTT says Buongiorno

6:30 AM Will AsiaInfo-Linkage be the Huawei of BSS?

U.S. Cellular might consider a bid for Verizon's lower band 700MHz spectrum as it seeks ways to extend its 4G footprint

Here’s a look at some of the key themes we expect to hear about at this year's Packet-Optical Transport Evolution Conference

6:30 PM At The Cable Show, here's one way MSOs will try to show the feds how the cable industry is playing nice with the CE guys

6:05 PM OpenFlow's popularity might be about an industry demanding more control of networks, services and the cloud than top vendors have allowed to date

New CEO Raghu Rau says the company's transformation into a software company is almost complete, though it might pursue "tuck-in" acquisitions

Ixia is making a Service Provider IT (SPIT) acquisition, plus news from NetCracker, Comptel, CA and Telstra

2:15 PM Consumers' expectation of privacy may be misguided, but the wireless operators have a ways to go to convince us we can trust them with our data

The remote control maker is porting its software to mobile devices to change the way we interact on and with our smarpthones and tablets

Upgrading to 100Gbit/s systems in metro markets around the world and deploying Ciena kit for control plane smarts

Interop's booth crawl and happy hour rounded out a terrific day of cloud content and carrier meetings here in the driest place on Earth

10:40 AM LR Mobile Site Editor Dan Jones and I discuss the big themes at CTIA, the show where the LTE network, devices and apps came together

Also: SeaChange closes server sale; Suddenlink sheds video subs; group wants details of the Verizon-cable tech JV; Joost fades away

9:30 AM We don't either, so we asked people on the CTIA show floor what they thought this acronym from Lemko Corp. might mean and how it should be pronounced. Deemoowinnee, anyone?

I came, I saw, I ate ... and I worked a little too. Here's what I have to show for it

7:30 AM This week: Revenue optimization, cable's tablet habit and the need for better management, free daily telecom newsletter

In today's EMEA roundup: Brussels sets price caps for roaming within EU; Telefónica offers its own bill-shock solution; Dutch go net neutral

9:25 AM Is the TM Forum's annual Management World show heading back to its spiritual home on the French Riviera?

A diverse range of public access small cells has emerged, but operators face deployment challenges for these new devices

5:00 PM Dish's newest feature skips commercials automatically. Well, who wouldn't love that?

2:30 PM Is this a good time to invest in European telecom? And does anyone remember KPN Qwest et al?

OpenFlow and software-defined networking were the talk of Interop. Light Reading sits down with Dan Pitt of the Open Networking Foundation to explore the reasons why

The software-defined networking protocol is mostly discussed as a Layer 2 or 3 item, but it might be able to do something for wavelengths, too

Cisco says everything's great, but orders are decelerating and the company's Q4 forecast came up short

Also: Arris debuts D3 modem with 16 downstream channels; Moto CMTS shipments rise in Q1; Mediacom narrows video subscriber losses

10:45 AM Germany is the latest market where Huawei has been given the cold shoulder because of perceived security concerns

Accenture can't hire people fast enough to help enterprises engineer industry-specific Wi-Fi networks. But will carriers benefit?

Cisco, Arris, Harmonic and Motorola head the cable access market but don't expect the next-gen access platform to spawn many new challengers

In today's EMEA roundup: German giant looks at Plan B for its US unit; KPN-versus-Slim latest; BT raises profits on falling revenues

The carrier plans to partner with more developers to showcase the power of LTE, especially through apps that involve video

There's still more phones, cars, booth gimmicks and a few Jazz Fest holdouts left to see

Ericsson has cut deals with Bluegrass Wireless and others for LTE in rural areas

Muve exec sees unlimited music becoming as essential to wireless service as texting and voice mail

Muve Music was built for the prepaid carrier's 3G network, but it's success has Cricket thinking about 4G improvements and international expansion

Sprint will release its smaller, faster LTE cells to the wild by the end of 2012

Our first pass through the Interop show floor highlights Huawei, Barracuda Networks, JDSU, magicians, models and more

Sprint says the peformance of its 4G LTE network will be comparable to rival offerings, despite Verizon's claims to the contrary

11:25 AM Charter added video subs for the first time in five years in the first quarter, but was it a blip or a trend in the making?

Cisco's CTO Padmasree Warrior, Zynga's Infrastructure CTO Allan Leinwand, and Avaya's SVP Marc Randall offer thoughts on enterprise clouds and software defined networking

Huawei comes to Interop striving for relevance in the US enterprise and data center markets

The carrier's CTO says that while it's planning on deploying LTE, its HSPA+ network can already rival its competitors' LTE

10:10 AM Credit card companies aren't waiting on the wireless operators to offer mobile wallets to their customers

Also: Verizon questioned about wireline commitments; SeaChange teaches old set-tops some new tricks; Comcast notches a MetroE win

CTIA's taken over New Orleans's sprawling convention center, and we have the pics to prove it

Operator's Digital division takes on Skype et al with its own unified communications smartphone app, but it has its limitations

7:15 AM We're getting relatively good 3G service here in New Orleans, how about you?

In today's EMEA roundup: Ericsson, erm, accelerates the cloud; Telefónica does a Skype; TDC sees its margins squeezed in Q1

Sprint CEO acknowledges that operator is spending big on LTE and the iPhone but says the debt market is 'eager' to invest in the carrier

6:25 PM 4G LTE and mobile video are getting hot and heavy in The Big Easy

5:20 PM It's easy to think RIM and Nokia are the only handset makers climbing up from the bottom, but others have a lot to prove, too

Verizon's Tony Melone claims that -- all things being equal -- Big Red's LTE network will beat the smaller radio channels used by Sprint

Verizon's Stuart Elby says the drive to the cloud is also driving service providers headlong into software-defined networking

More hints emerge about Cisco's software-defined networking strategy, with the company saying it wants to lead in widening SDN's scope

1:00 PM After a reseller agreement with Ruckus Wireless, will NSN hedge its carrier Wi-Fi bets?

The BlackBerry maker's executive shuffle continues as it brings on a COO from Sony and a CMO from LightSquared

Time Warner Cable taps Ruckus as a new source for Wi-Fi gear as the MSO ramps up hot spot deployments in Los Angeles

11:10 AM Photos from the carrier's connected digital home in New Orleans

Also: Charter and DirecTV add video subs in Q1; cable campaign plays up TV Everywhere; Sigma seals up Trident's digital TV chips

Elemental Technologies, one of Comcast's big TV Everywhere suppliers, raises $13M 'C' round to fund global expansion and new products

Light Reading Live! event tackles the deployment of policy and subscriber data management systems that enable personalized mobile services

8:00 AM Raco Wireless says its internal SIM lets companies stay connected across continents without paying hefty roaming fees

Ruckus Wireless will announce a reseller agreement with Nokia Siemens Networks at CTIA this week

In today's EMEA roundup: Latin American giant eyes $4.2B Dutch opportunity; Nokia responds to class action; India brings Telenor's Q1 down

Equipment vendors will deploy 37,000 cell sites across T-Mobile USA's HSPA+ footprint this year and enable it to launch LTE in 2013

Revenue assurance and fraud management vendors have an advantage in the communications space, but they also encounter significant challenges

Jilted by Sprint, Sequans gets thrown a lifeline

Cincinnati Bell partners with Apptix and Parallels so it can provide small and medium businesses with cloud services quickly

Charlie Ergen says Dish has plenty of spectrum for the mobile service it might someday build out

Through a new partnership with live video streaming app, Color, Verizon hopes to showcase the power of speedy uploads on LTE

Also: MSOs lose 2.9M TV subs in 2011; LG tees up its new Google TV; Comcast to shed most of A&E stake

When the test vendors get involved, trials can't be far behind -- even if deployment will still take years

AT&T touts a bring-your-own broadband and wireless model for Digital Life, a service that will target a market also being chased by MSOs

8:30 AM Take a five-minute break from scouring Facebook, and take Light Reading's survey on social networking

HD Voice has helped Orange bring users back to the phone call, but it'll be a while before it's something worth listening to in the U.S.

3:40 PM Union urges government intervention over planned Nokia Siemens Networks layoffs

Following the examples of ketchup bottles and toothpaste tubes, Arrayed Fiberoptics thinks it's found a better way to do a decades-old design

Also: HBO GO will soon be on Fire; Discovery buys Web TV startup; Comcast-TiVo combo coming to Boston

Also: Android takes center stage at CTIA; bad news for bada; RIM and Microsoft duke it out; Tizen's 1.0 source code gets released; and more

8:00 AM Have we mentioned it's the year of LTE? At CTIA, we'll see what that means to the operators, vendors and device makers

This week: Mobile clouds, CEM, technologies that are becoming mainstream

Ericsson's annual stats, NSN's CTIA preparations and LTE in the Netherlands all feature in today's roundup from EMEA

The latest Samsung Galaxy phone stresses software over raw hardware upgrades alone, but its large display could still make it a data hog on carrier networks

4:50 PM Big Web companies like Google will soon have the spending power of telcos, and that could change vendors' lives drastically

Capex spiked in Q1 and will remain high for a while as Cablevision expands its Wi-Fi network and network DVR and tees up new products

Cisco adds more analytics capabilities by purchasing Truviso, a startup specializing in analyzing real-time Internet traffic on service provider and enterprise networks

Aggressive pricing helped Cablevision rake in more subscribers than expected in all categories, but the MSO missed its financial targets

Also: HBO owner likes Hulu's TV Everywhere plan; Comcast to appeal FCC Bloomberg ruling; Concurrent profits from video server sales

In today's EMEA roundup: France Telecom's Q1 reflects effect of Free's entry into market; Nokia tablet talk; Vodafone man heads for SFR

2012 is poised to be a year in which critical technologies leap from development to commercialization and monetization

4:55 PM Sony drops plans for a streaming TV service in the US and pins the blame on Comcast's broadband capping policies

Comcast intends to deploy its next-gen video platform to one 'major' market in Q2, and sources say Boston is first in line

12:05 PM An analyst forecast for Nokia's smartphone market share looks dire

We surveyed more than 500 telecom professionals to get a sense of their smartphone habits, wireless data consumption and likely LTE adoption. Dig in!

Also: Mark Cuban, Gary Lauder invest in Flingo; Technicolor weighs minority offer; LG preps two HDTVs for Google TV

A flurry of service provider IT (SPIT) acquisitions involving Allot, WeDo and Acme Packet highlight some key industry trends

Telcos are looking to customer experience management (CEM) to garner customer loyalty and longevity

The MSO didn't end its years-long video losing streak, but it did see gains in the broadband, voice and business service categories

In today's EMEA roundup: Testing firm looking good; Portugal gets more 4G; Nokia focuses on cameras; BSkyB making money as well as headlines

2:00 AM A 20-quarter losing streak is on the line here

The handset maker only ships 5.1M smartphones in Q1, while it waits for China to approve its takeover by Google

4:15 PM Synacor's first (and very small) acquisition could be a big multi-screen hit for MSOs as they tap HTML5 to avoid paying tribute to Apple and Google

3:50 PM The contract-free space is heating up, which is good news for consumers, but not necessarily for Leap Wireless and MetroPCS

Remember Concentric? The name is back in the headlines (not literally) as XO makes its move on the cloud services market

1:00 PM Now it's time to walk the proverbial walk

RIM shows off its next-gen OS, designed for those without time to waste, even as it admits it took its sweet time to get here

Latest LTE TDD deal from India's mobile market leader, Bharti Airtel, goes to Chinese vendor

John Bickham fills the long-vacant COO slot at Charter, becoming the third former Cablevision exec to join the MSO in recent months

10:25 Ruckus Wireless has reportedly hired banks for an IPO and is poised to announce a partnership with Nokia Siemens

Also: SeaChange gets a permanent CEO; new DirecTV unit targets mobility and apps; Affinegy, like Cisco, buys into TR-069

DPI specialist Allot Communications adds mobile video optimization capabilities to its arsenal with the acquisition of Ortiva

In today's EMEA roundup: Apple in trouble over iPad marketing in UK; Allot to buy mobile video firm; bid for Ireland's eircom rejected