Apple in a box

Nortel is disappointed at BT's decision to relegate PBT to a bit part player in its 21CN, but says other major carriers are interested

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Dish fires back at TiVo, Comcast.net hackers speak... and a handful of other items that caught our attention as the week draws to a close

Verizon hopes to take a bite out of The Big Apple with FiOS, but Time Warner Cable is already making plans to bite back

But it's Sorrento's property now

NXTcomm is replacing Supercomm, and the show’s executive director explains that NXTcomm is truly different because it’s a 'convergence marketplace.' It is still built on core telco technologies and companies but has an eye on the applications and content that will spur those core technologies to greater growth.

VOD vendor beats the street, buoyed by additional backoffice software deployments with Comcast and Cox

Shareholders at AlcaLu's annual meeting approve all the resolutions, including some that affect CEO Russo's position

Matt Polka is in touch with the small and mid-sized cable operator and, interestingly, their concerns are too terribly different from that of Comcast and others. The telcos and satellite operators are going hard after their core video businesses, forcing them to branch out and be more creative.

Tensions between Department of Telecom and the regulator, plus news of Spice Telecom and RIM, round out a week of activity in India

Stop us if this sounds familiar

I switched. Here's how it's going so far

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But not enough

The verdict is in at BT: PBT has been found guilty of being a one-trick pony, so it's being sidelined in favor of MPLS

Chinese giant spins off its telecom software assets into an independent operation, Huawei Software

Comcast's CEO lays down the reasons why he likes his deal with the new Clearwire

The moral: Change your passwords frequently, especially if you're Comcast

The DVR patent infringement case isn't likely to reach the Supreme Court, TiVo execs say

As expected, Sycamore's revenues fell more than 50 percent due to instability from one major customer

Moto learns a big lesson from early Docsis 3.0 deployments

Infineon results might point to 3G delays

Google gives a video view of Android features

Cisco's 'Vision' strategy could see its WiFi empire rubbing shoulders with other networks

A fake news nugget found on the way to VOD-ville

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Umm, no...

US cable operators are gearing up to take another run at the commercial services market

Cable & Wireless is in discussions to buy UK enterprise services provider THUS in a bid to bolster its British business further

Cisco's CTO is on the Live! agenda

Nice work if you can get it

From the morbid promo department

MSO looking to tighten up its clusters by selling off more than 40 systems serving about 400,000 subs

The promise of tru2way is closer to becoming a reality. This move to a common software platform could let cable companies, programmers, and gadget makers provide a real interactive TV experience, even without requiring a set-top box. The transition might be painful at first, but the payoff should be huge if the services come anywhere close to measuring up to the hype. In this video, hear perspectives from Cox Communications Inc., Comcast Corp., CableLabs, and the editors of Cable Digital Ne

The mobile Web has so far failed to inspire users and the 'amazing app' has yet to be invented, says Google

With the future of Chinese 3G clearer, China Mobile has opened the second phase of a tender for TD-SCDMA devices

A ruling earlier this month threatens to block the $52B takeover of BCE by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and a group of US firms

As operators evaluate next-gen wireless technology, the path from 3G tops the agenda, according to Heavy Reading

Sony and six major US MSOs sign a memo involving tru2way that could result in TVs that get cable services with no need for a set-top

With cable MSOs rolling out tru2way, AT&T says its 'been there done that' while Verizon feels a little left out

Job postings by the search giant reveal possible Clearwire work and a desire to further mobilize YouTube

Where the startup doesn't want to be pigeonholed

A big telco, not a cable operator, becomes the first to launch a subset of Starz's Internet VOD service

What will become of the unused analog television frequencies?

Are we surprised that most startups are still failing?

Analyst suggests that a spun-off Time Warner Cable could produce nation's first blue-chip cable operator

Cable companies have more reach, deeper video-on-demand (VOD) plans, and the ability to install services faster in residential neighborhoods. But not everyone thinks the cable companies have the long term advantage. From The Cable Show in New Orleans, we get perspectives from Heavy Reading, Cox Communications Inc., and The American Cable Association (ACA), as well as the outspoken editors of Cable Digital News and Light Reading

Arun Sarin announces his retirement as Vodafone reports strong annual financials and outlook. The boy done good, says analyst

A melding of routing and computing power could help carriers deploy new services faster

Wolfgang Ziebart is victim of boardroom rumble

Device availability is important factor

Next stop, the Nordics and Baltics

As Bharti withdraws, Reliance eases into pole position

CEO 'shaken to core' by allegations of illegal use of call records by German carrier giant's internal security staff

Ambitious Indian carrier opens its wallet once more to buy troubled virtual VPN provider Vanco

It's been a long time coming, but China is ready to issue 3G licenses as part of its telecom market restructuring process

Shareholders' meeting put back to late July

Ericsson's North American CTO says the company's GPON deployments at AT&T are coming in late 2008 or early 2009

Comcast has outlined its concept for a 'protocol agnostic' platform, and the vendors appear ready and willing to lend a helping hand

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Reversal of fortune for PBT, we hear...

The conglomerate's ambitions include 10% market share and its own brand of handsets

Clearwire lets you listen to Clear Channel on the move

Bell Canada's privatization bid is on the brink of collapsing amid shaky financing and an appeals court ruling

That's what some Santa Fe, NM, residents claim

Red Panda – and everyone else – duped by '13-Year-Old Hires Hooker' story

Some privacy here, OK?

The restructuring of China's carrier community has begun

Providence Equity Partners splashes out $640M for a 20% stake in an IDEA Cellular subsidiary

The fat lady's doing her vocal exercises as policy control specialist Operax has reportedly run low on cash

But based on Cisco's MoCA-powered set-top roadmap, the MSO's largest box supplier doesn't see large-scale volumes until sometime next year

Two American pastimes come together

Nah, she meshed of her own accord

The big box players, including AlcaLu, Cisco, NSN, and Nortel are talking up their OSS credentials at this year's OSS fest in France

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Telenor's Conax subsidiary acquires a tiny startup that says it's got an alternative to DRM

In a video exclusive, Comcast CTO/EVP Tony Werner offers some details about the MSO's upcoming bandwidth capacity management system

How much is Arris's gear deal with Comcast worth this year? One analyst takes a stab at it

Telekom Malaysia boosted revenues by 10.6% during Q1 and looks to add more operators to its stable of emerging markets investments

James Crowe is sorry for the 100% stock gain

As traffic spikes, mobile data networks are becoming more and more like their wired broadband forerunners

Back to the drawing board

SlingModems aside, EchoStar could really get Comcast's attention with a price-busting digital terminal adapter (DTA)

What, you thought cable would get the first crack at this?

Remember: It’s a mobile PHONE!

Operator says it is nearly finished with 3G uplink upgrade, just in time for the iPhone

Our second photo series from The Cable Show finds no shortage of sports legends, TV journalists, and sexy show hosts

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Hey, you with the nifty tru2way box! Wanna join cable's managed P2P network?

The digital terminal adapter (DTA) isn't the only digital-to-analog subscriber-side box Cisco is developing

Gabriel Brown reviews Vodafone's high-speed HSPA service and discovers that faster 3G is a thrill

A rootkit for IOS. Yeah, that could be bad

Motorola is delivering GSM equipment to BSNL for some temporary capacity relief and confirms its bidding on the carrier's new mega tender

Japan launches cute offensive

Mother ship looks to score a big dividend as the long-awaited separation arrives

It's not just consumer behavior that is driving cable operators to maximize their networks for higher capacity and performance, but also ever increasing competition from telcos. LRTV looks at some of the new technologies, such as Docsis 3.0, that helping them in this battle royal.

Former Granite CEO has a new hotseat

PicoChip takes the wraps off new reference designs for LTE femtocells and picocells

Content is king and celebrities run wild at The Cable Show in New Orleans

Pretty pictures.

While the consumer may be driving the method and manner that their content is delivered, what is the business model that supports this? New technologies such as switch digital video allow cable operators to target ever more specific demographics and thus increase the value of their advertising. Just as important, the 'Next 40 Channels' become a a very important revenue opportunity.

Peace & plenty! Well... plenty

...against my antenna, causing packet loss and latency

Femto Forum members agree on a common femtocell architecture and plan to submit specification proposals to standards bodies next week

Qualcomm makes strategic investment in femtocell vendor ip.access, but plans for femtocell chipsets remain unclear

Tony Werner, CTO, Comcast

Contentinople reports from Streaming Media East

Some believe Jayshree Ullal's departure was related to the Nuova buyout; others say it's just Cisco's newest phase

You might be stuck with AT&T for 3G

Verizon doesn't see a compelling case to offer IPTV on its FiOS network yet – but it will come in time

Who made the best calls in 2007?

At the Streaming Media East conference, Comcast and Verizon say they won't throttle traffic from peer-to-peer networks

Richard Nottenburg, who left Moto last week, joins a company going through executive changes of its own

Ever pondered Jungian individuation in Buffy The Vampire Slayer?

Since it has a birthday, we might as well note it

Visual evidence that Digeo once again has a viable set-top product for the cable industry

Big box vendors stake their OSS claims at TMF event

Content is becoming truly mobile, not just in terms of wireless, but in time and space. DVR technology is well established, but how will content get delivered across various competing technologies utilized by all the operators? What will be the impact of new technologies such as Packet Cable 2.0 and LTE? LRTV takes a look at the new world of mobile media.

The eyes have it

The cable industry wants to monetize VOD

Cisco, Motorola, and Thomson are all showing off simple digital terminal adapters here at the show, but Pace Micro is not

Nokia Siemens Networks is planning the launch of a hosted IPTV service for telco TV hopefuls, with AlcaLu not far behind

2.6GHz auction could be delayed

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The stalling US economy might be getting ready to take a swing at AT&T, Qwest, and Verizon

BeamExpress takes another crack at VCSELs

Google's $500M bet on Clearwire's WiMax plans does not include access to the company's dark fiber assets

Panasonic's CEO points out a coveted demographic

The carrier spends $784M to boost social networking capabilities and fixed broadband services in Germany

Etisalat increases its stake in African operator Atlantique Telecom as it embarks on a new phase of international expansion

The former Mu Security wants to broaden its horizons and become Dynamic. $10M more should help

Sprint has had more than its fair share of bad fortune, despite (or maybe because of) some incredibly innovative ideas over the years

Silicon photonics gets another supporter

Until now cable operators have been slow to get into the wireless space. But now it seems there’s no reason why that elusive quadruple play shouldn’t be just around the corner. The answer seems to be WiMax. With the rollout of WiMax across North America by the end of the year, it seems there will be no excuses for not taking the kids out while the football game is on.

And the MSO is already putting Docsis 3.0 to the test in at least two more markets, by the way

I don't have ICTV to kick around any more…

Another one bites the dust

MediaFLO coming to UK soon?

A 'spate' of official details about cable's big advanced ad project (even some that haven't leaked out already) are less than a month away

Comcast and Time Warner Cable outline deployment plans for the industry's much ballyhooed 'open' digital video platform

Despite the shaky economic environment, spending on advanced optical transport equipment is poised to keep on growing

Panasonic is jumping into the tru2way market and it insists it has looked before leaping

MSO comes out on the losing end of its protracted fight for a waiver on low-end set-tops with integrated security

AT&T's U-verse has arrived in my neighborhood. Should I try it?

Cable's big gig is just about to kick off in The Big Easy. Here's a handful of things we'll be focused on as we try to penetrate the noise

What an ex-Microsoft guy might mean to baseball

The biggest optical merger in years creates a legitimate challenger to No. 1 supplier JDSU

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But what with, exactly?

But what does the Finisar/Optium deal take away?

India's Reliance Communications has scored a $750M loan from the China Development Bank to bankroll a GSM contract with Huawei

Huawei has bagged some Euro subsea action

With iPhone sales topping 100,000 in France, Orange will sell the Apple device in more than 10 extra markets in EMEA and the Caribbean

Cable is trotting out its 'open' platform at The Cable Show, but don't expect tru2way-powered devices to be a retail hit right away

CTO John Saw tells Unstrung that microwave links and a flat-IP architecture can reduce the cost of backhauling wireless broadband

Seriously, Extreme is rumored to be on the block again – for real this time

Verizon is waiting to see a business case reason to move to IPTV and if one never emerges, it may not do it at all

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Study from German research firm suggests that broadband ISPs may be throttling peer-to-peer applications

Not ready to sell to you, but it's ready

Despite the best efforts of WiMax advocates, good old W-CDMA is still more than holding its own in the global mobile broadband market

Now spinoff snubs Sprint

Orascom Telecom has set up a subsidiary to handle investments in small operators in Africa and Asia

Rapid growth in wireless data usage shows it could eventually replace voice as a primary feature in cellular phone service

Despite the best efforts of WiMax advocates, good old W-CDMA is still more than holding its own in the global mobile broadband market

Extreme might finally get bought

NTT is checking out PBT rival T-MPLS

Little Rock carrier also has a good quarter for subscriber adds

The interesting ones like Mark Cuban, anyway

Verizon and AT&T have won nearly $1B in deals with The Department of Homeland Security under the Networx Universal contract

Study says MSOs signed on more high-speed subs in Q1 than the telcos for the first time since, well, a very long time ago…

Submarine cable and satellite projects aim to hook up Africa to the rest of the world

Help to track the ever-evolving story of Apple's 3G iPhone

Alcatel-Lucent shareholders will vote May 30 on whether to make it easier for the vendor's board to dismiss the CEO or Chairman

Companies confirm rumors, with plans in place to integrate Plaxo's social-networking tech into a wider set of services

Chairman Henry Samueli and general counsel David Dull step down as the SEC charges start to fly

As Verizon barrels ahead with FiOS, cable operators are finally getting serious about putting more fiber in their own diets

Announces major managed Ethernet backhaul services deal with mobile operator O2 but doesn't want to talk tech

A wireless broadband network might challenge wireline, but most feel it still won't touch fiber-to-the-home

Verizon helps to make LiMo a Linux OS contender

The Comcast Media Center believes a new centralized system will ensure that smaller MSOs aren't left off the tru2way train

Optical component startup gets funding to pursue 40-Gig opportunities

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Satco giveth and taketh away…

The horrors of war strike home

Ericsson boosts R&D spend to $25B over the next five years and looks forward to increased IPR revenues

Vendor assesses impact

Monkeying around on NY's No. 1 music station

New Docsis-powered SlingModem is cool for cable, but it's sold by a company with ties to the big MSO's most hated enemy

Spanish giant's revenues, profits, subscriber numbers, and domestic IPTV penetration rate are all still on the rise

Dr. Pepper, Fritos, Warcraft... and hookers

Bharti Airtel teams with Cisco to roll out a suite of managed network services for Indian enterprises

Microsoft couldn't, but maybe Icahn can

Does Germany have a Ministry of Crazy Ideas?

Shareholders, including Carl Icahn, still want to fight back

Swisscom lands iPhone deal

TeliaSonera plans to launch LTE in 2010

Ten things to put the spark back into your relationship with America's third-largest wireless operator

At The Future of Broadband conference, carriers and vendors discuss the perils of getting broadband services to rural territories

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New refinements could reduce costs for the OEM partners looking to build digital-to-analog gateways

Nothing worse than a mouse where it doesn't belong

The US and UK have even more in common than we thought

The disastrous earthquake in China has shut down cell sites

Apple confirms Jobs keynote at WWDC

The $13.9B acquisition of EDS by HP would create an even stronger partner and supplier for major carriers

WiMax player plots launches in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and, er, Grand Rapids, and confirms it will only need $2.3B to complete the network

What will it take for operators to finally pull the plug on TDM switches, and will they actually do it before TDM turns 40?

Cisco and ip.access are working on an end-to-end femtocell solution, while the femto vendor has landed an important win at AT&T

One Internet video exec suggests it might

Cox will use a new user interface on high-end set-tops powered by tru2way and an interim software/middleware platform called 'OnRamp'

In buying Newsday, the Dolans are sending a message to the Murdochs

Vodafone expands 7.2-Mbit/s HSPA network in the UK

Telecom Italia and femtocells – that's amore!

Jayshree Ullal spent time running Cisco's enterprise, optical, and data center divisions. Now she's off to something new

Lots of viewing choices, not a lot of channels

The pre-WiMax operator's loss keeps growing as it preps for the JV later in 2008

Cisco and Teliris are both looking to capture the larger low end of the telepresence market with new cheaper configurations

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MSO is less committal about its wireless plans than it is about Docsis 3.0 and its rollout of switched digital video and hi-def VOD

Are Democrats about to give in?

African operators added more than 65M new subscribers in 2007, led by Nigeria

Another exec breaks ranks

Alcatel-Lucent is forming a global managed network services joint venture with Indian operator Reliance Communications

VOD upgrades allow MSOs to restart shows in progress and help consumers personalize their on-demand programming lineups

Company offers up to 80 Gbit/s of throughput with two new Deep Packet Inspection products

Still no AMC-14? Still no problem, satco says

Getting them to stay on is the trick

Larry Dennison, the founder and CTO of Soapstone Networks, says his company’s full product rollout will happen in the second half of this year. When it does, Dennison says Soapstone hopes to convince carriers that using its control plane will allow them to automate operations across several different types of physical networks. He describes the value of his company’s recent announcement with ANDA Networks and talks about what’s happened to the Avici routers inside AT&T’s

Vodafone's not bidding for MTN

Intel buys WiMax spectrum

The US market's third-ranked cellular operator lost more than 1 million customers during the first quarter

New carrier deals will take the iPhone to mobile users in Asia/Pacific, including India, and Latin America

Yet another plan to deliver 40-Gig on 10-Gig optical networks, but one that OpVista says doesn't require dispersion compensation

RIM forms a $150 million apps development VC fund and unveils its 3G BlackBerry device

Contentinople reports that Steve Liddell has been hired as the new CEO of Panther Express

Operator said to be close to introducing open-source Linux phones based on the LiMo platform, but no Android yet

FiberNet has announced a significant network expansion project on the heels of its successful collocation upgrade last year

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Calling attention to a handful of other cable-related things that happened this week...

Which vendors and product models have obtained the green light from CableLabs?

CableLabs awards first-ever Docsis 3.0 cable modem certifications, while Casa Systems is first to obtain 'full' CMTS qualification

New wireless investments by service providers demonstrate a growing commitment to mobile services

There are signs of recovery at the test vendor, with sales and profits on the rise following a lengthy company-wide overhaul

Scoping out the field

Your harsh verdict on mobile WiMax in the US so far

BSNL issues new GSM tenders for 93M new lines following the demise of its previous network expansion contracts

British firm shifts into new gear with formation of new retail firm and a bid to buy its way to the top of the British broadband pile

Does the Chinese vendor have a new US invasion plan?

Woo-hoo! More debt! Teliris has secured $10M in debt financing, saying it needs more working capital

Boston is next in line for cable operator's all-digital migration and an overarching strategy it calls 'Project Analog Crush'

A user report on Vodafone's self-proclaimed 'Fastest Mobile Broadband in the Galaxy'

Intel keeps on spending on WiMax

Analysts estimate that it could cost up to $12B to deploy a mobile WiMax network in 50 markets in the US

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New numbers on the way

Meet Wilmington, N.C.

Don't take it to the pub

German broadband users aren’t being turned on by Entertain, Deutsch Telekom’s IPTV offer, as low Q1 customer additions show

Troops reconnect with loved ones

Why WiMax wishes it were the new CDMA

MSO moving on a plan to throw a WiFi-powered wireless canopy over of its entire footprint, and offer services free to existing cable modem subs

2008 is turning out to be the year of international expansion for Ethernet enterprise and wholesale services

For a company that supposedly protects content, Widevine is promoting a despicable habit

A user report on Vodafone's self-proclaimed 'Fastest Mobile Broadband in the Galaxy'

Vonage will be selling broadband DSL services to its customers through a partnership with Covad

SunCom acquisition helps to make the first quarter a major customer grab for T-Mobile USA

But not with WiMax...

16 carriers plan another submarine link to India

Verizon shows us some of the challenges and benefits of outfitting the dense urban jungle of New York City for FiOS

Telcos are making big strides toward IPTV, but they still need to do more to ensure service quality

More lessons from the wireless past

Pirelli partners with Nokia Siemens

France Telecom added another 167,000 IPTV customers in the first three months of 2008, taking its total to more than 1.4 million

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Already a Sprint partner, Mediacom likes the sound of the new WiMax joint venture

Shameless plug for our San Jose event

Sprint honcho's comments on 4G, 700 MHz, and the Clearwire deal

The president of the 'new Clearwire' talks with Unstrung about how mobile WiMax is the next big thing (again)

Data services revenues and mobile broadband subscribers continue to grow at Orange in Europe as the operator reports Q1 results

ABC makes a startling discovery

WiMax late in Q3?

New Wimax venture reckons its large pool of spectrum and ready-to-rock mobile broadband services will leave the LTE crew in its wake

Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House are throwing millions into a new venture that will rekindle cable's wireless strategy

Report says MSO is considering a 250 gigabyte monthly consumption cap as part of a 'protocol agnostic' bandwidth management effort

Sprint/Clearwire venture changes competitive landscape

StarHub customers get to try out femtocells from ZTE and Huawei for six months

Despite Sprint’s 51% stake in the new WiMax version of Clearwire, its own 4G and M&A strategies remain anything but clear

Barry West, CTO, Sprint-Nextel

What's the opposite of a silver lining?

New buzzwords for the new era

Sprint and Clearwire's new $14.5 billion WiMax firm is being backed by Google, Intel, and three cable operators

The carrier isn't commenting on the latest spinoff rumors but says it's committed to iDEN and push-to-talk for the foreseeable future

Barry West, CTO, Sprint-Nextel

WSJ says big Sprint-Clearwire-cable WiMax deal is going down as early as tomorrow morning... for real this time

The Clearwire WiMax rumor rodeo

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Shankar Narayanaswamy, the VP Network of Architecture at Reliance Globalcom says his company is planning a $200M worldwide expansion of its Ethernet services for enterprises. Reliance says it will invest in dark fiber, Ethernet equipment, and it will strike agreements with carriers all over the world in order to connect to the cities where it plans to expand. The cities on its radar at the moment include London, Paris, Dubai, Bombay, and Singapore.

Big-name carriers might be gathering to offer a Skype-like service, according to one analyst's theory

Revenues stalled, but net income beat expectations, and sales forecasts didn't bring any further bad news

A new initiative replaces the P2P Bill of Rights that Comcast and Pando had started

A streamlined version of the tru2way agreement sits right with Samsung, which becomes the first CE vendor on board

Analyst says updates to Tellabs's optical transport system improves its position in Verizon and elsewhere

As energy costs continue to soar, operators in all markets will be looking to shave opex with greener equipment

As the era of Broadband 1.0 draws to a close, we look at the ten characteristics that will define Broadband 2.0

Dresdner analysts don't see DT bidding for Sprint

New tax rates drop Qwest's net income by 35% while the company's numbers overall continued their steady decline

Telecom Italia will sell the phones this summer in Italy, where it will go head-to-head with Vodafone, which also has an iPhone deal

South African operator MTN is already in takeover talks with India's Bharti Airtel, and it may attract other suitors, analysts say

A key engineering exec who's worked on Cisco's 7200, 7600, Catalyst, and ASR lines is in Redback's ranks now

Qwest becomes an MVNO as Ed Mueller gets the kind of wireless partnership he wanted

If DT does buy Sprint, it gets a knock-down bargain customer base and cheap 4G – but also a huge potential integration headache

Death by blogging

Vendor's latest Ethernet product targets one of the sector's main pain points -- external network-to-network interconnect (E-NNI)

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Video game madness! Win a router!

Three MSOs argue that DTV transition relief for small systems should not be given on the basis of bandwidth levels alone...

An array of session-control solutions are available these days, but the big question remains what telcos will do with them

Riverbed announces deals with a host of vendors, eyes network monitoring opportunities

Digital Fuel, a startup that manages SLAs for many major telcos, is counting some major carriers as its customers

Why not celebrate? Microsoft has given Yahoo a clear mission

Otherwise known as a four-network fiasco

Rascally rodents dine on Qwest's fiber

A cautionary tale from the past for today's wireless industry

Development could portend a shift away from all-you-can-eat consumption models and toward bandwidth 'quotas' and byte cap policies

Better late than never

A rough definition

How'd that guy get up here?

Or, how 4G could help widen the digital divide

Making telepresence as widespread as Cisco wants is going to require more than just selling a lot of units

PBT is seen as a technology on the rise. It’s not widely deployed yet, but it continues to win support with carriers the world over. Will it be used only in niche applications, or does it have potential to solve some real problems with carrier Ethernet multipoint services?

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Stock drops on Comcast comments

TIM Brasil and Claro launch 3G services in the 2.1 GHz band, having received licenses this week from regulator Anatel

The countdown to 3G

Really, what's not to like?

Posts better than expected revenues and expanding deployment base, but cuts back in effort to become 'pure play' digital video company

Not everyone's making money with ROADMs

The basic concept underlying mobile open access seems simple enough, but the devil, as usual, lurks in the details

In the telecom world, Oracle just got bigger

We think not

The rivals team up to rule what they believe will be the dominant software delivery model in the 21st century – cloud computing

Six of the 'Top 10 Emerging Mobile Markets' are in Asia/Pacific, with China wrestling the top spot away from India in 2007

Have you heard the news? They've adapted the Iron Man trailer into a full-length movie!

Income from its joint venture with LG helped Nortel boost revenues by 11%, much higher than expected

Mamma Mia! Bolivia just nationalized Telecom Italia unit Entel

Speculation about accounting issues hits Ericsson's stock

CEO Hong Lu gets a $100K fine

Will you pay $500 for a Garmin phone?

What's been shakin' at the content factory

You can pre-order the WiMax tablet, but what will you connect to?

The 4G backhaul bottleneck may not be limited to Sprint's Xohm rollout

XO has greatly expanded its national Ethernet footprint largely through the use of copper

Sonus is close to striking a deal with pan-European carrier Colt to be a provider of IMS systems for the operator's new network rollout

Getting testy about the turnaround

Sonus CEO Hassan Ahmed had a lucrative 2007

Carriers make the case for software-centric strategies at London event, but at least one says the whole Web 2.0 movement is over-hyped

While handset makers in the US and Europe face a tough earnings season, there's no sign of slowdown in China or India

While handset makers in the US and Europe face a tough earnings season, there's no sign of slowdown in China or India

MSO couldn't stop the bleeding of basic subs, but the quarter was marked by solid Docsis and voice service subscription gains

Comcast cable president Steve Burke sheds some light on MSO's plan to deploy a simple, one-way Digital Terminal Adapter (DTA)

But did any cable modems break the Docsis 3.0 barrier?

The former Building B wants to help telcos rewrite the TV rules, from the way video is delivered to the way it's watched

BT has joined AT&T in unveiling inter-company telepresence services based on Cisco's immersive, multimedia conferencing technology

Well, since we brought it up, I have another name to add