Flash startup's VC says the company is in tests with a big service provider that will yield a deal. Nextel and Flarion are mum.

The edge equipment startup's missing in action, but signs are pointing to a bustup

FCC Commissioner Abernathy emphasizes service classification as the key to clarifying broadband regulations

Barclay survives Chapter 11 at the helm

Nethead and Bellhead get spiffy on the message boards

Laid-off telecom workers seek greener pastures

Further layoffs haven't deterred proponents of passive optical networks (PONs), who insist big wins lie ahead

Seven founder disputes ViAir claims, hints about new revisions, and lauds RIM

Sandburst reveals details of its switch fabric architecture, with Intel's blessing

That 'right-sized' enough for ya?

Euro standards body promises speedy action to help m-commerce authentication systems work together

The morning wires are abuzz with companies trying to distance themselves from WorldCom

Carriers are spending less, and the US government is spending more. But it's not likely Uncle Sam can save the industry

Who'll survive in optical components? Which products are likely to recover first? Optical Oracle answers all

Investigations will try to sort out the players and how it happened

Once upon a time Sprint was slated to merge with WorldCom...

Santur gets some venture capital and potential customers for its tunable lasers

You can receive messages from people on other networks -- its just fiendishly difficult to reply

Bad accounting will subtract billions from its books, sending shockwaves through the market UPDATED 4PM ET

A key Sonet contract's gone to Fujitsu, Lucent, and Nortel, with deployment put off until next year, sources say

Adelphia files for bankruptcy after shareholders learn they were helping fund golf courses and family loans

Rivals pick over wireless bones of TelesensKSCL as Deutsche Telekom-backed billing specialist goes under

Fraud du Jour – R. Scott Raynovich

More UMTS, vicar?

Eric lives with Todd and David (and their dog Ruff?)

Tellium announced a 37% job cut Monday; its stock is trading below $1; and the CEO is nowhere to be found

ViAir adds to the roster of carriers using its wireless email software -- should it replace Seven on the Unstrung 25?

Cisco adds MPLS VPN features to its edge routers, putting service creation devices on the defensive

And red faces for Vodafone and O2, edged out of top Irish 3G license by newcomer

Ciena's CoreDirector deal from last year comes to light, and Ciena says it has K2 orders from Sprint

Smartphones 'R' Us

The coming year is crunch time for the US mobile operators as they attempt to introduce wireless data services

DoCoMo challenger hits 1M subs for CDMA2000 1xRTT service, but may struggle to hit 'ambitious' 7M target

The Atlanta-based RBOC may be on the verge of kick-starting a telecomeback with big data-networking projects

Cisco hopes to recreate the runaway success of its ONS 15454 Sonet platform in Europe, but is it two years too late?

Marketing executives say the darndest things!

iPass attempts to develop roaming standard for corporate WLAN users

Serial entrepreneur Jonathan Reeves, founder of Sirocco, starts another company and plans to take things slowly

With startups caught in the spending lurch, they wait to be taken out... or else

UK incumbent loses touch with reality as industry group makes futile complaint against the system

Operators seek stickiness with further 2G wholesale arrangements, but what 'virtual' deals might be struck in a 3G world?

With the core optical market in limbo, startups such as Calient and PhotonEx cut back for a long telecom winter

iPolicy builds a box based on network processors that it claims delivers seven security applications at wire speed

Summus's Exego application is currently a rival to MMS imaging services, but the firm says that could change

Persistent speculation on a merger seems to be largely wishful thinking -- at least for now

But power still rests with national regulators

Seabridge, a Siemens company, reveals plans for its next-gen switch that can handle both cells and packets natively

May close a deal by the end of the month that would have Alcatel serving as a distributor for Redback's gear

Lucent and Cisco pull their vendor financing deals, leaving the Canadian carrier scrambling for cash

Verizon's $100 data buffet is still too rich to bring users to the table - Dan Jones

Banks and bondholders will decide the fate of the company within weeks

Celox closes its St. Louis R&D facility and offers engineers a place in Massachussetts

We know 3G is supposed to be 'sexy,' but is it meant to be a haven for Peeping Toms?

Help Unstrung pick hot startups in the run-up to a big revamp of the original Unstrung 25, scheduled for publication next month

NTT strengthens its position in battle for Japan's wireless broadband business, though the move may be more defensive than aggressive

Sycamore's talks with larger partners end in a deal with Siemens in which it will focus on its optical grooming switch

Overlapping products have many pundits clucking about what will happen once Juniper and Unisphere merge

Latest handset health scare — this time from Nokia's homeland

Lucent's fallen silent after allegedly threatening to raise rates on voice-switch maintenance services

Another communications breakthrough... or just plain creepier?

Now FOMA users can have both 3G and 2G phones with the same number – more dual-handset mode than dual-mode handset

Ciena wasted no time in cutting its headcount and guidance prior to closing the merger with ONI on Friday

The standard is ready and so are the products, but the 10-Gbit/s Ethernet switch vendors don't want to be tested

Vodafone fat cat rakes it in following massive losses - what will he get if the company makes a profit?

Qwest's new CEO hints at management changes, asset sales, and a new search for small-business customers

Redback is still struggling to convert its edge router trials to signed contracts

Its Australian deal could be followed by something similar for the upcoming US TDD spectrum auctions

KPN Mobile gets 50,000 customers in six weeks, but can it reach its million-user milestone?

Communications breakthrough or just plan creepy?

They get the most blame in Light Reading's latest poll, for 'over-inflating the bubble'

After seven months of talks, XO Communications goes to bankruptcy; creditors include Cisco, Lucent, Nortel, Qwest

Hints of security and multimedia improvements to J2ME in a possible bid to fend off potential rivals

Tellabs has lost its CEO to Qwest, in what analysts say is a boon to the carrier

As Tellium struggles with the capex crunch, sources say it's preparing a 20 to 30 percent layoff

Check diary, check email, check To Do list, check blood sugar levels…

Swedish telco's deal with Italy's Megabeam may not be a big money-spinner, but it has symbolic importance

Global Crossing is said to owe about a half million dollars to another Gary Winnick company

Analysts disagree over the pager company's future

Amid worker scuffles, diesel generators, and collection plates, KPNQwest manages to keep its Ebone up

Sprint's just cut guidance again, proving that the industry is still unable to find its own bottom

Router startup Timetra says the future of edge routing is in programmable network processers. Will it fly?

In-Stat/MDR sees growth coming to the optical MAN market. That is, unless a silly thing like the economy intervenes

"Waiter, there's a fly in my military network!"

Elata grabs prime service delivery contract as global 3G license-holder gears up for launch in UK

Rural operator beats the big boys to the UMTS punch

Sprint's just cut guidance again, proving that the industry is still unable to find its own bottom

The startup is rumored to have closed a new round of funding and appears to be doing well

Even as it cuts revenue expectations, Lucent's said to be gaining ground in new carrier contracts

Could alternative technology let Nextel offer high-speed data on the cheap and give it a way to bypass 3G?

It now looks possible the startup will secure funding, two weeks after it laid off most of its staff

Quarry edged out NetScreen in Light Reading's IPSec VPN performance test. No one else dared show up

'Back-door' CDMA conspiracy denied by new owner

Or: 'not another bloody mobile alliance'

A muscular Chinese competitor has set up shop in North America - and it's got Nortel and Cisco in its crosshairs

Tellium shows signs of going back to its roots: mining the U.S. government to boost revenues

Track Your Traffic – Peter Heywood

NTT DoCoMo has been stung by its 3G experience - Rob Hellstrom

Hotspot hopefuls such as BT can charge for 802.11b access

The way forward — or more vaporware?

Trading update shows handset sales up and revenues down — but margins still hover above 20 percent

Brian McFadden's at the helm of all optical products, metro as well as long haul -- except for optical Ethernet

Largest European data carrier has been given a few more weeks to sell assets -- while some employees work for free

Details sketchy as Dutch hole up in Tokyo

The MPLS switchmaker may have cut as much as 40% of its staff and has closed down its Edinburgh R&D facility

GPRS in the Rue Morgue

Auction process unveiled as ugly cousin in Europe's UMTS license awards

Research from several worldwide telecom groups highlights broadband access as key to telecom's future

The research firm says the cost of ownership of devices is rising but expects wireless boom in the enterprise

European mobile data roaming fails to take off: revenues little more than wishful thinking

Claims it's first to guarantee QOS while handling terabits-a-second of packet-based traffic

Members approve interface spec that could act as a catalyst for chip developments

CEO Scott Kriens says Juniper hopes to close the Unisphere deal in July and employees will know their roles

Waiting for the devices and networks

Service providers are relying on different types of VPNs to roll out their managed services

HomeRF admits defeat on data, looks to voice home networking

A lower-grade investment status could hamper Sprint's efforts to raise money

A lower-grade investment status could hamper Sprint's efforts to raise money

The beer was flowing and the flash bulbs were popping at Light Reading's Unstrung.com launch party at Supercomm

The beer was flowing and flash bulbs popping at Light Reading's Unstrung launch party at Supercomm

Riverstone's outlook gets more grim after an earnings warning

Meet XG, Son of 3G, the carrier's vision of wide-area wireless Ethernet

Nortel anticipates a much-needed $1.3B in a sale of equity and common shares. What's the downside?

Cisco, CoSine, net.com, Nortel, and Unisphere all announced new service features at Supercomm this week

HOW MUCH!!!??

The fixed wireless firm buys Hybrid, Sprint's MMDS kit supplier, and says that's just for starters

Industry sources say OSSs are draining carrier resources. Is there hope for a better future?

We talked with Nokia at Supercomm about its infrastructure dream, and it's IP to the core

Atrica has integrated DWDM with its Ethernet switch. Will there be takers?

Sprint's CEO blasts shaky investors, blames defunct carriers for their own demise, trumpets his vision of the future

Carrier dumps the wireless resale business and eliminates 2,200 jobs; reports say thousands more layoffs are coming

Range-boosting antics such as adding a Pringles® can to an antenna might prove to be unsafe

A big RBOC deal is in the works, most likely with Verizon, sources say -- which may explain Juniper's enthusiasm UPDATED 5:20PM

Service providers have to provide much more than voice and data connections to survive, says Cisco CEO

Cisco, Nortel, Tellabs, and Sycamore are among the equipment providers running to shape Ethernet offerings for carriers

St. Paul leads a gang of 12 investors in support of Mahi's combo Sonet/Ethernet metro grooming switch

Nortel explains it all

Verizon vice chairman and president says deregulation is a must for a telecom comeback

Picture gigabit optics to the desktop: It's coming within ten years, says Eric Mentzer

AT&T Wireless saddles up W-CDMA in Dallas

Test equipment on display at Supercomm highlights trends toward optical Ethernet, DWDM, and multiservice metro

Sony weighs in on the mobile storage standards battle

The chip giant wants to raise its profile in the wireless market with dual-mode local-area chipsets

Tellabs announces product upgrades in several areas in an effort to further entrench itself with big carriers

Siemens ICN and Microsoft are among those to sign on for yet another industry collective

Laurel has finally announced a customer, but will Level 3's financial woes dampen the celebration?

Four startups are betting that sophisticated service nodes will provide the engine power that drives 3G services. But are the carriers buying it?

That was the question at SuperComm session.

NTT DoCoMo's FOMA service hasn't been a roaring success so far - but it's early days

It shoots, it misses.

Welcome to the New Unstrung.

Networking without distractions.

Once again, there's talk of somebody buying Sycamore, and sources say that this time a deal may be reached

Bankrupt Dutch carrier says AT&T is among the companies negotiating to buy its network

Edge-switch maker Coriolis adds data features to its OptiFlow products, but big incumbent contracts remain elusive

Software-based services platform will compete with IP service boxes from CoSine, Nortel's Shasta, and Net.com

IP services gearmaker adds protection against denial-of-service attacks to its menu of security features

A 'we don't care' attitude among users will lead to disappointment for 3G hopefuls, says one business consultancy

Ethernet Over Copper: Now You’re Talking – Scott Clavenna

Its cash splash happy.

When the chips are up.

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