Elsewhere: DirecTV avoids Super Bowl blackouts, ivi finds friends, study takes the romance out of cord-cutting and Comcast-NBCU deal has lobbyists seeing green
The LG G-Slate, sporting Google's 'Honeycomb' update of Android, is coming in the spring – with 3D glasses!
Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Patrick Donegan (along with his wild and wavy jacket) injects some much needed sanity into the mobile network security debate, and shares his views on backhaul for LTE
Many companies may have unused IPv4 numbers, but capitalizing on their scarcity will be difficult, though not impossible
7:10 AM Comcast's Xfinity streaming TV app reaches the iPad
Vodafone gets its man, Nokia faces a possible credit downgrade and AlcaLu morphs into BT in today's helping of EMEA telecom headlines
5:10 AM Ben and Bland are back batting for the same team at Alcatel-Lucent
A $230M deal could help the MSO beef up its managed business services chops, keeping up with the likes of Verizon
Arbor's annual study shows the bad guys are marshaling enough bot computers to take down multiple trans-Atlantic links
T-Mobile says it will boost indoor coverage with Wi-Fi and has no plans for femtocells at this time
MSO puts switched digital video plans on hold as it focuses on other ways to manage precious bandwidth
More than 400M people will use mobile banking by 2015, a trend that could bode well for wireless operators, Heavy Reading reports
2:00 PM The CDMA iPhone becomes available to pre-order for existing Verizon customers Thursday
Long-term 'TV Everywhere' deal gives Comcast next-day VoD access while teeing up live streaming of Turner networks for later this year
Elsewhere: NAB blames cable for spectrum shortage, Comcast gets its IPv6 on and Dish puts up $1B for a bankrupt company
10:30 AM SCTE Board Chairman Bob Foote explains why the Society is reducing the size of its board from 19 to 15 members
Ahead of Mobile World Congress, Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Gabriel Brown talks about the progress of the LTE market, including the prospects for TDD LTE, and discusses data offload strategies
Fe, fi, fo, fum ... is that the sound of Verizon's LTE network?
Chipmakers reveal their financials, MTS is in merger talks and AlcaLu appoints in today's roundup of essential Euro telecom news nuggets
New US and Europe links are part of a bigger plan for 40Gig Ethernet and long-haul 100Gig links
Telcordia's SPIT tools provide the service delivery and charging mechanisms that run Sprint's four different pre-paid brands
Company starts supporting all forms of mobile broadband devices, an undertaking that will become more massive once LTE is widespread
But they will still only be the third-largest mobile data traffic generator in 2015, the vendor predicts
