11:45 PM Network-based offerings are at the heart of Verizon Business's core IT strategy

3:40 PM The score: 22.7M operator-supplied CableCARD set-tops, 531,000 CableCARDs in retail devices

2:20 PM There's no shortage of companies trying to make monumental moves

Sprint's Clearwire board members resign, citing antitrust concerns, but there are more reasons for concern for the 4G providers

11:40 AM Who made the list and why, as well as a few that almost broke through

Unlike other 3G spectrum winners in India, S Tel isn't feeling pressured into a quick launch, with plans to debut services in mid-2011

11:00 AM This time with love for the carriers, but only those with the purest of Android phones

That's fiber to the countryside... UK incumbent unveils £132M rural broadband plan that involves laying 130,000 kilometers of fiber

10:35 AM Cox Business Services joins the CENX roster

9:30 AM But reviews say it's not a cable killer

Two-year-old private company offers cloud-based video services that connect endpoints from multiple vendors, for as low as $40 a month

7:30 AM A record number of nearly 70 companies and organizations are participating in this year’s Expo in NYC

FCC reclassification of broadband is in play again after Waxman kills a bill that would have blocked a move to Title II

Nokia, ZTE, Telenor, and a couple of Middle Eastern giants feature in today's regional news roundup

Big investor urges VoD firm to stop hoarding cash and to buy back shares before someone swoops in and buys the company on the cheap

5:50 PM Which former FCC chairman will the current one end up most resembling based on his actions and inactions?

UK cable player Virgin Media flicks the Vs at its rivals with a super-fast but simple fiber-based symmetrical broadband offer

3:20 PM According to Heavy Reading’s latest research, the global carrier Ethernet switch/router market grew 14% year-over-year

2:25 PM CEO Kevin Johnson remembers the good old days (of 2008); why Nokia could be the OS kingmaker

MetroPCS launches second-ever LTE market in the US with Ericsson providing the infrastructure

Aircel plans to spend $500 million on its 3G network in the first 12 months of rollout and will announce its vendor suppliers imminently

8:00 AM Here are some thoughts on why we selected this group of finalists for Public Company of the Year

UK joint venture Everything Everywhere is reviewing its network equipment suppliers, with LTE support a key criterion

6:00 AM And if so, does it need the software to match?

Virgin Media's business broadband broadside and European ICT R&D investment head the European news queue

7:00 PM Video is probably the key to moving beyond the novelty phase

TiVo and Roku dive deeper into the premium TV world, while competitors like Boxee are still on the Hulu sidelines

The CTIA will roll up its sleeves and get down to business at next week's Enterprise & IT show in San Francisco

3:15 PM Chinese vendor presents an integrated 100Gbit/s portfolio

11:40 AM Online retail giant reportedly has its own Android app store in the works

11:00 AM A quick rundown of who made the cut, and why

10:30 AM Top optical analyst and industry vet passes on

9:55 AM So the UK now has two femto services

That was Broadway Networks' first plan, but it was the startup's EPON/GPON transceivers that lured Finisar

Proposed bill outlines a 'legislative framework' that would prevent the FCC from reclassifying broadband as a full-blown Title II service

Joint venture mobile operator Everything Everywhere outlines its growth plans, though points to the pain of shrinking ARPU and a recalculation of its customer base

8:50 AM The 2010 MacArthur grants include an optical facet this time

Vodafone's 360 architect quits, while giant UK mobile joint venture sees its sales slide

Telstra looks to streamline and scale its M2M operations with a new Web-based, self-service portal from Jasper Wireless

6:00 PM Because nothing says 'The 70s' like telepresence

5:50 PM RIM announced its iPad competitor today

5:30 PM IBM gets a step closer to partners' turf, not that that's cause for concern

Shareholders controlling nearly 20% of Occam's stock say Calix's offer doesn't approach what the company's really worth

4:40 PM Sometimes, it's important to talk the talk

4:05 PM So, cable wants to offer movies for a premium price? Starz founder and cable visionary predicted it six years ago

The service provider IT sector has seen some major M&A activity recently, highlighted by IBM's aggressive moves

1:30 PM Cloud partnership puts Orange Business Services ahead of rivals, says analyst

Swedes can say so long to discounted LTE services as TeliaSonera introduces new tiered mobile data price plans

12:45 PM TiVo survey tosses some raw meat at the FCC as it prepares to tee up some new CableCARD rules

Orange Business Services teams up with Cisco, VMware, and EMC for a cloud-computing business alliance

MSOs can squeeze another decade out of their hybrid fiber/coax nets using node splits and an upstream-fattening 'mid-split,' Moto says

NOON Here's who made the mobile shortlist, and why

11:10 AM Files patent related to its 'bottoms up' approach to managed services

9:25 AM Now that it's conquered DVDs, Netflix faces an uphill battle in the streaming video market

8:00 AM Video streaming saw a 92 percent increase in the first half of the year, Allot says

Test vendor Mu Dynamics nabs Chunghwa Telecom Labs as the first carrier customer for its services replication and security testing platform

7:20 AM Indonesian passive infrastructure operator heads for the public market

Ericsson snatches another piece of Nortel, Eastern Europe shows the way with FTTH, and Apple's in the clear

Snaps up Nortel's multiservice switch business for $65 million to support CDMA and GSM assets acquired earlier

6:15 PM Could T-Mobile kick-start a personal hotspot business using Clearwire's network as a giant WiMax off-loading device?

5:15 PM Here's who made the shortlist, and why

Dispute over set-top software is gathering steam after the telco and MSO apparently failed to reach a settlement

Facebook seeks shades of mobile integration, RIM mulls a new OS, and Nokia gets a win. Plus more OS remarks

Microsoft and Google among the big winners as FCC paves the way for mobile broadband in unlicensed portions of the TV spectrum

12:50 PM Jeff Zucker, as anticipated, will be leaving 30 Rock behind when Comcast takes over NBCU UPDATED 9/27

Instead of selling premium services at premium prices, telcos should keep prices low, boost take rates, and add new features free, reckons analyst

Chuck Graff, director of corporate networks and technology at Verizon Communications, tells Light Reading's Carol Wilson that it's still early days for the green networks initiative in the US, and explains how his company is setting a green example

7:50 AM Cable tech will get the pole position at next month's CTAM Summit in New Orleans

Operators are slowly but surely heading toward greener pastures, but they still need some savings assurance before turning plans into action

British billing specialist Intec Telecom, Italian VoIP systems vendor Italtel, and Google lead the European news charge today

CSG to bolster its billing capabilities, customer base, and international reach with the acquisition of struggling Intec

6:00 PM A timetable for Junos Space and friends

5:50 PM Will TiVo's 'IP backchannel' proposal for switched digital video make the cut?

Concurrent looks to advance its TV Everywhere ambitions by purchasing the assets of startup TellyTopia

2:30 PM The Leading Lights Awards shortlists have been published – here's who's in the telecom services category, and why

2:00 PM The MX 3D routers will have their 100G cards soon

12:45 PM MSO debuts a modem meter in Florida to help subs keep tabs on their bandwidth consumption

12:10 PM Sometimes being early to market with a good idea can be a bad thing

CFO says Xfinity Online TV service emerges from beta sometime next month, and offers Comcast's latest view on Clearwire funding

Promising Canadian startup attempted to blend DPI and access but apparently couldn't gain traction quickly enough

Light Reading Mobile's Sarah Reedy talks to Heavy Reading senior analyst Alan Breznick about the elusive business case behind the deployment of more sustainable, environmentally friendly networks

Seidenberg urges Apple to 'get with the program,' adds that LTE will launch in 50 airports

Light Reading Mobile's Sarah Reedy chats to Sprint Nextel VP of network development and engineering Iyad Tarazi at the Green Broadband 2010 event in New York about the operator's network design philosophy

After losing market share in the face of increasing competition from international and local players, Nokia is on the rebound in India

7:35 AM Lauren Flaherty ditched Juniper's cartoon campaign as part of a bigger overhaul

After years of being a Cisco shop, Verizon is offering limited capabilities with Juniper SRX gear, and the promise of more

It's Oracle's week and Oracle's show, and that means Larry Ellison can talk about the cloud his way

Telefónica ups the 3G ante, NSN has 40Gbit/s test success, and Ericsson hires a senior team member from HP

6:00 PM Dan Jones and I are confused about what's green and what's garbage

5:45 PM The cycle of supply-and-demand seems ready to tip towards too much supply

5:30 PM Sarah Reedy and I discuss the early restrictions on the LTE ambitions of MetroPCS

STBs may never completely go away, but TV Everywhere plays and the shift of navigation apps to mobile devices may limit their importance

1:20 PM TiVo wants to teach much-maligned tuning adapters some new tricks

11:40 AM MSO kicks off a capped, 120Mbit/s downstream tier just as Netflix launches an instant streaming service for Canada

Current Analysis says Cisco gear jumped ahead of Concurrent and Edgeware based on factors such as streaming density and versatility

Cable operator's new CMAP box supports up to four times the narrowcast QAMs as existing gear in much less space and consumes 63% less power

At ECOC, Google continues to say it needs 100G now but adds that none of the standard modules is the right fit

9:05 AM What the…?

Telefónica will launch Spain's first dual-carrier HSPA+ network next month and target business customers with the new 3G service

NSN, Capgemini, France Telecom, and Google are the movers and shakers in today's European telecom news roundup

TiVo's IP backchannel proposal would cost $600 to $800 for every device now equipped with a tuning adapter, the group claims

4:30 PM But with faster 3G arriving in the US too, do you care?

2:15 PM In optical networking, in this economy, two investments count as a 'spree'

MetroPCS COO: New LTE markets will be up in the next couple of months and cheaper phones will arrive in the first half of 2011

Data centers now house more efficient densely packed servers and IT gear that releases more heat, creating a green challenge

1:05 PM MSO is scaling up for interactive TV and getting its network DVR prepped with the help of Zodiac's 'PowerUp' framework

Telcos must dive into open applications environments wholeheartedly, or risk being rendered obsolete

11:40 AM Bharti unveils its 3G equipment suppliers

MetroPCS launches LTE in Las Vegas with the world's first multi-mode LTE/CDMA smartphone

11:10 AM EC intros measures to promote widespread high-speed broadband

10:25 AM Indian operator shares its managed services contracts, with ZTE taking a share of the spoils

There's a warm and fuzzy aura around going green, but network operators are still pondering the business case for it

What did we learn from EANTC's test of Cisco's all-IP mobile network? LR's Ray Le Maistre interviews Carsten Rossenhövel to find out

Check out what was going on at Nokia World while the Finnish phone maker launched its smartphone fightback

6:45 AM Deliveries delayed for the iPhone challenger hopeful

Italy, Austria, and the European Commission form the focus of today's Euro telecom news digest

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Sprint started from scratch with WiMax to make it more energy efficient and it won't stop cutting carbon even as data demands grow

Sources say the org is starting to apply business models on how cable can fatten the upstream pipe and put 1 Gbit/s speeds in sight

Verizon is now rumored to be planning initial launch of faster mobile broadband network in the US for December

4:15 PM New OTN interfaces sport the same 'up yours, DWDM' attitude

Group calls on global leaders to boost broadband availability, but some serious ground needs to be made in order to hit the stated goal

12:05 PM Huawei confirms plans to invest in a manufacturing unit in India, with ZTE likely to follow suit

10:25 AM Budding cable threat raises $17.3M more

Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam named as Verizon Communications COO, in line to take over as CEO

Despite slow growth in North America, global broadband market tops half a billion, while IPTV numbers near 40M, finds the Broadband Forum

9:10 AM New investment on the horizon for US LTE venture

Indoor ONTs have been common elsewhere and are now catching on in the US because they're cheaper and can be easier to install

Vodafone and Verizon are in the mix for today's digest of European telecom news nibbles

4:00 PM Meet 'Mercury,' perhaps the skinniest DVR in the known solar system

12:15 PM Spectrum auction on hold following court injunction

Ops prez says AT&T's close to feeding four U-verse HD streams by year's end, and on track to turn up LTE in up to 75M POPs by the end of 2011

Samsung officially unveils Galaxy tablet, but will it fit in your pants?

11:15 AM Chinese vendor looking to allay concerns

Operators' Trojan horse strategy, Moto's Blurry plans, and Symbian's third attempt are included in this week's OS annotations

IBM joins Bharti Airtel on its African adventure with a deal to run the carrier's service provider IT (SPIT) systems UPDATED 11:40 AM

9:40 AM That's the situation according to Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn

RIM beats expectations and posts an increase in revenues for Q2, buoyed by the Torch, its best-selling phone yet

The offer was a lot higher than Occam's valuation, but analysts wonder if Calix got a bargain

The sun sets on TDC's time in Switzerland and Colt's getting its hands dirty with 100-GigE in today's roundup of Euro news nibbles

Danish incumbent sells Swiss operations to CVC Capital Partners as it prepares for an IPO

9:10 PM If T-Mobile taxes SMS providers, ChaCha will cha-cha right out the door

6:00 PM The price was one shock, but there are other surprises in Calix's purchase of Occam

Sprint says that spectrum position will indulge heavy data users on 4G, but you'll pay a premium for WiMax smartphone service

4:40 PM Move Networks gets sexier, NYC braces for OTT, and John Malone wants to bury the FCC

Carriers are triple-dipping into consumers' pockets for femtocells, but most might not mind the pickpocketing

3:15 PM Chinese vendor snaps up key 3G gig in India

1:30 PM We don't quite have a pic, but there's a 1,200-port switch that's alive, well, and running

Carl Russo says purchase will accelerate company's move into Ethernet and may help international expansion as well

12:00 PM Chinese vendor rejects claims of illegal subsidies and 'injurious dumping'

11:25 AM Network transformation projects aren't just about technology

Time Warner Cable says TiVo's IP backchannel approach remains untested and could cost millions of dollars to implement

11:00 AM HCN joins a select group of MSOs to announce Docsis-based upstream channel-bonding deployments

Motorola appears ready to shift its Mobility headquarters to the West Coast once its spinoff is complete

Vodafone, France Telecom, and Samsung are the movers and shakers in today's digest of European telecom news

Two national network deals in Eastern Europe put WiMax back on the continent's wireless broadband map

Even thinking about reclassifying broadband Internet as a regulated service sends shivers down the collective FTTH spine

TV execs say Web video will offer a more lucrative advertising option until cable deploys dynamic VoD ad insertion in a big way

Cheap, too, with a sub-$100,000 100G port. Elsewhere, Nextgen pauses for a closeup

Heavy Reading analyst believes Clearwire will beat Verizon on '4G' pricing for 'at least a year'

3:25 PM TiVo will use speedy coax platform in some whole-room DVR setups, but MoCA is unlikely to be its only option UPDATED 9/16 11:50 AM

1:00 PM Thursday is the last possible day we'll accept entries for the 2010 Leading Lights Awards

12:20 PM MSOs were tops in customer satisfaction in all regions studied by J.D. Power, but not every cabler hit it out of the park

10:00 AM Indian government considers exit options for new operators that are fighting for survival

Service delivery platforms aren't delivering to carrier needs, with many vendors pitching substandard products, says European carrier exec

Internal processes have to change if new service offerings based on all-fiber networks are to succeed

Cable's advanced advertising joint venture is setting the stage for consumers to purchase products with the push of a button

UK firm i3 is promising a cheaper way to build municipal fiber networks and is happy to ride Google's coattails

Ericsson, Vodafone, Telefónica, and Nokia are among the big fish in today's limpid pond of European telecom news bites

Big backer wants to separate the chairman and CEO functions amid concerns over performance and company's failure to sell its server business

The FTTH Council show is once again abuzz after a couple of sleepier years, and the broadband stimulus plan is only one reason why

A bullet train, that is, as the Chinese vendor explains how it deployed TD-LTE on the rails for the Shanghai Expo, amongst other LTE tidbits

1:00 PM Should Google be worried?

12:20 PM Amazon starts pre-selling Boxee's over-the-top box, and it's already No. 4 in the electronics category

Sources say Reliance Infotel has decided in favor of WiMax and is all set to sign network rollout deal with Samsung

Report says the MSOs have talked about swapping some systems in California and forging an alliance to get better programming rates

Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao hinted at more mobile data caps and tiered services at Nokia World in London today

10:35 AM Recently leaked documents suggest it will

9:25 AM New OS doesn't show at Nokia World

Fightin' talk from the Finns! A clinch-fisted, defiant Nokia kicked off its annual event for developers, media, and analysts in London

Verizon partners with Terremark to offer pay-as-you-go computing services aimed at SMBs, a market where Amazon has already made ground

Global survey shows roughly one third of ISPs won't have IPv6 addresses to give out next year, when IPv4 is predicted to run dry

Disappointment in store for vendors as fierce competition coupled with a wait-and-watch policy from the operators shrinks the 3G gear market

Ericsson, Nokia, Deutsche Telekom, and BT Global Services are all namechecked in today's digest of European telecom news bites

7:00 PM One way to legally (?) offer TV: Just slap it online, no questions asked

Our third annual conference focused on environmental issues in telecom is coming to New York next week

5:10 PM Launches its own postpaid brand using T-Mobile's network

Municipal utility EPB makes Tennessee town first in US with 1-Gig symmetric residential service

CEO of Irish policy control vendor says Amdocs legal action came out of the blue, and could delay stock market listing

Sprint sees a window of opportunity in the smart grid as it partners with Grid Net to bring the first WiMax smart-grid software to utilities

2:05 PM Guess who's joining the net neutrality party, in time to serve tea?

Lots of people say that, but Verizon's opinion was particularly relevant as it discussed its next fiber-to-the-home bet in Las Vegas

Media firm has quietly developed an asset-management system to help Tier 2 and 3 MSOs super-size their VoD vaults

1:25 PM Entropic preps for a blow-out Q3, the DVR-lite idea gets more traction, Arris edge QAMs invade Germany, and more

9:25 AM New Carrier Ethernet CPE priced as low as $400

8:30 AM The regulator wants to know

5:50 AM Anssi Vanjoki resigns but will do his bit at Nokia World this week

5:45 AM European Commission receives complaint about Chinese vendor subsidies

Clearwire is sending out offers to sign up for WiMax service in NYC for an initial $35 a month

5:15 PM Freedom from marketing abuse, that is

12:30 PM Vodafone's restructuring could leave Verizon Wireless on its own

10:30 AM Apps using Adobe Flash and Google AdMob are now allowed... but flatulence apps are not

9:50 AM Carrier to use Cisco's Content Delivery System for its content delivery network

9:10 AM Step away from the stuffed animal...

Nokia, Vodafone, BT, and the French president stand tall in today's roundup of European telecom news bits

Developers hate RIM, love Android, and have a love-hate relationship with Apple. Plus other OS observations

Major TV service providers are crafting strategies for Apple's latest hit, but there are key differences in how they're being executed

6:00 AM Celeno gets big WiFi win as Liberty Global prepares to hit Europe with video-optimized multimedia gateways

With its mobile device leadership faltering, Nokia replaces Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo with Stephen Elop, a Microsoft man from Canada

5:20 PM Are customers feeling the effects of AT&T's 3G upgrades? Their Facebook responses suggest not

As exclusively reported back in July, T-Mobile has a HTC phone coming this month that can rival download speeds of the Sprint Epic and Evo

The evolution of OSS continues as industry experts link service provider IT (SPIT) software directly to carrier revenues

1:00 PM AT&T's cloud evangelist is moving on

12:10 PM Is it time for Cisco to complete the courtship and buy ActiveVideo Networks?

The stage is set for the flexible optical network operators have been dreaming of, but management software will need a boost

There's no lack of interest by large firms in the transition, just the occasional lack of coverage by large operators, says IPv6 pioneer

Nokia Siemens Networks targets set-tops, PCs, and smartphones with new IPTV client that's completely devoid of Myrio code

Telenor, Vodafone, and Amsterdam figure in today's European news roundup

5:15 PM For a bubble-era chip company, a $72.5M buyout seems like a nice haul

4:45 PM Will the threat of lawsuits cause Zoran to sweeten its bid for Microtune or open an opportunity for Intel?

3:20 PM Which is right about the arrival date of LTE smartphones on the market?

The operator is offering a 'sneak peek' of its WiMax service in the Big Apple but still not giving an actual launch date

The cable chip market is changing again as Zoran inks a deal for Microtune and looks to develop integrated SoCs for set-tops and DTVs

At the Innovation Qualcomm event in London, Qualcomm said it has a 1.5GHz dual-core processor up its sleeve

12:35 PM SMS may be boring, but it's booming

Deployment of 4G LTE and WiMax mobile networks will result in strong growth for makers of base station antennas and related products

Deployment of 4G LTE and WiMax mobile networks will result in strong growth for makers of base station antennas and related products

Finisar officially declares the gridlessness of its ROADM, a feature carriers think they might need as the network goes beyond 100G

10:45 AM The iPad is turning up the heat on the entire PC industry, analyst says

New subscribers continue to flock to the incumbents as India adds another 17 million mobile users

SAP partner Leapfactor launches cloud-based enterprise apps platform to make the workplace more consumer-like

Legacy sales disappoint, but MEN steps up for Ciena's Q3

CTO of Moto's Home division sees parallels between cable's journeys to digital TV and now to IP video – it'll be a step-laden grind

7:45 AM FT/DT speculation goes crazy

Vodafone, Swisscom, Deutsche Telekom, and NSN get top billing in today's roundup of European telecom news bits

RIM acquires DataViz to fill the gaps in its mobile strategy and maybe help it with applications for its rumored tablet device

5:15 PM CEO Schmidt's vision of the future of search only makes sense if you're mobile

Sin City is likely to be the most '4G'-friendly town in the US for the rest of the year, but other metro areas are snapping at its heels

Telenor subsidiary reiterates its targets and strategy for the Indian market despite tough competitive conditions

3:50 PM This year's Expo is shaping up to be one of our largest shows ever

2:30 PM Vendors team up for LTE-based public safety

12:40 PM Senior VPs John Macario and Julia McGrath discuss the future of Carrier Ethernet business services

Legg walks through Turner's TV Everywhere strategy and how the programmer intends to build cross-platform into its business model

11:15 AM Handset makers add dual-core processors to make mobile faster, more powerful

Snaps up a chunk of North American strategy and technology consulting services specialist InCode

7:10 AM CSL shows off its next-gen mobile network

France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, C&W Worldwide, and Huawei make the running in today's European news digest

Deutsche Telekom opens a registration Website for its new LTE service, as it plans to launch the 4G offer commercially by the end of this year

Customer screening vendor says mobile money transfers are open to abuse by crooks and terrorists, but industry body dismisses the claims

9:15 AM LTE is in the house

7:30 AM Proposed $10.7 billion telecom towers deal called off

It's a Polish double, plus the latest on C&W Worldwide and Vodafone, in today's roundup of European telecom news bites

Policy control is rapidly moving from a tool to control network traffic and ease congestion to a means of delivering user-centric services

12:40 PM So, tell me what's been troubling you (not that I don't have a guess)

11:40 AM Struggling startup operators approach government for an exit route

As mobile phones become basic tools of commerce, the threat of significant theft through hacking is rising

11:10 AM Retransmission deals are typically touchy, but broadband video and TV Everywhere are taking them to a whole new level

Our latest ROADM resource is now live. While it gets going, here's a quick primer on all things ROADM to get you caught up

8:55 AM With restrictions lifted, Huawei lands network deal with Tata

Cisco sits atop the global CMTS revenue heap, while Harmonic hops over BigBand in the edge QAM market, Infonetics says

Fastweb, Vodafone, and Deutsche Telekom take the lead in today's roundup of European telecom news bites

6:00 AM TM Forum moves its annual jamboree

5:45 AM Italian operator takes fast FTTH to 2 million homes and businesses

5:30 PM The XO trial gives us a reason to get Infinera on the phone

5:15 PM Quick: Name that acquisition. From 2005

Broadband services and mobile phones may prove the biggest IPv6 bugaboo and service providers need to get moving, Cisco says

4:45 PM Apple could easily upgrade to faster GSM-based 3G for its next phone

Cable's R&D house advises MSOs and programmers how many bits they should throw at 3DTV services when using MPEG-2 or MPEG-4

2:05 PM Cisco is getting aggressive on the grid, potentially leaving telcos out of the equation

Verizon is the latest service provider to urge businesses to get ready for the transition before IPv4 numbers are all gone

12:35 PM How far will consolidation shrink the European market?

More acquisitions lie ahead for the managed services company, which this week completed its merger with Covad and Speakeasy

O2, Deutsche Telekom, and Virgin Media are in today's potpourri of European telecom news

Expected 'dual-carrier' speed bump should require less work on the network side, but faster downloads will require newer devices

Over-the-top video players say they'll have no trouble competing with Apple's latest attempt to rule the TV domain

Verizon Wireless's rumored prepaid smartphone plans are only a tactic, not the start of a real prepaid strategy UPDATED 12:25 PM

GWR saves money on server upgrades and gets guaranteed uptime for its software service using Verizon CaaS

Apple could put pressure on cable VoD with device that sells for $99 and accesses Netflix streaming and iTunes movie/TV rentals

3:15 PM Feds want to know how to regulate smart grid, telemedicine, and IPTV services: How about waiting until they exist?

It's day one of TelcoTV Asia in Shanghai, and our photographer was there to capture the action

12:20 PM The startup brings out its heavyweight investors

NOON And speculation crops up again over T-Mobile investing in Clearwire

11:05 AM Apple's expected to make a bushel of big announcements today, ranging from a new line of iPods to the latest version of Apple TV

10:35 AM Dell'Oro says Cisco was the CMTS top dog in Q2 as sales outpaced Arris's and Motorola's

Shocking news! Indian government allocates 3G spectrum on time

C&W Worldwide, VimpelCom, and Vodafone Germany are doing the business in today's digest of Europe telecom news snippets

Evolution Digital intends to use EBIF as a quasi-middleware layer in DTAs for user interfaces and an array of other video apps

T-Mobile USA is promising 42-Mbit/s 3G in 2011, but will only beat AT&T in highest theoretical speeds

Telco equipment giant buys a maker of mobile software development tools hoping to help carriers find their apps with both hands

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