TiVo says its IP backchannel idea trumps the costs of tuning adapters, while Cisco claims the proposal underestimates the costs and complexities

The network processors sampling today probably sound familiar

Portuguese government intervenes, blocking Spanish giant's purchase of controlling stake in Brazilian operator Vivo

Softbank is one of the first operators to offer free femtocells, as it ramps up a national service in Japan

Company transforms from optical components into major LTE test player, with acquisition of Agilent's NSD business

New Galaxy launches could be a boost for Android and the company's profile stateside

MSO exec says usage of its interactive TV apps suite among eligible customers is outpacing video-on-demand

10:20 AM CEO says the new service, Hulu Plus, won't lead to cord-cutting

Android is picking up steam in the mobile app developer community, thanks to the openness and capabilities of the operating system

6:55 AM Telefónica ups its Vivo offer ahead of vote

Cisco has an iPad alternative for the salaryman (or woman) coming in Q1 2011

5:15 PM Subscription-based 'Hulu Plus' could threaten Netflix, but it might also create an opportunity for cable

2:30 PM Moto and Zoom get ready to battle it out as more Docsis 3.0 modems go on sale

2:00 PM At least they didn't call it a 'pad'

The networking giant unveils a home control device for smarter energy usage and tackles building automation

NCTA claims tuning adapters – deployed to just 31,600 subs so far on cable systems that use switched digital video – are doing the job

Indian mobile growth continues unabated with addition of 16.3M new subscribers in May

AT&T and NTT are among those not yet committing to using an Ethernet exchange to extend the reach of their services

12:45 PM The new ones support 2G and 3G, too

9:55 AM And the rest of the Web will likely follow

Distributed antenna systems specialist Extenet sees opportunity for indoor wireless coverage as LTE is deployed

In a bid to further boost its 'applications enablement' strategy, Alcatel-Lucent buys an API repository used by tens of thousands of developers

Cox exec says tru2way-powered interface is already live with some subs today as MSO prepares to deploy it everywhere later this year

7:10 AM We know what apps you data hogs are using, but what about the rest of us?

It's not just data caps that you have to worry about; here are five apps that will burn through your battery life

Nine of India's mobile operators have secured 3G spectrum, but do they have the billing capabilities to make the most of their new capacity?

Offering shows on multiple screens could expand programmer reach and revenues, but lack of standards could stymie near-term growth

Vodafone's femto activities span more markets than you might realize while Wisconsin gets another femto service

Telefónica drops hints about an ambitious initiative to involve third parties more fully in its business

Consumers could be turned off by 3DTV if programmers and setmakers rely too heavily on 2D-to-3D conversions in the tech's early days

10:15 AM The Social Network's first teaser trailer is now online

9:30 AM Will mobile TV’s surge last longer than the US’s soccer run?

GTL and Reliance Communications merge their wireless tower units in a deal that creates India's largest independent tower company

8:05 AM It's Spain vs. Portugal this week in telecom M&A

Sprint pushes proto-4G time advantage with new handset, as Samsung preps for Android onslaught in the US

Our final set of pics from this year's CommunicAsia deals with the most important topics of the day: sports and beverages

Comcast exec says an interactive ad trial in San Francisco led to more TV viewers in one program's key demographic

2:10 PM Research In Motion is promising that its new OS will be a 'quantum leap' for the smartphone market

Light Reading's tenth Backhaul Strategies conference in New York had some new faces, thanks to the addition of a core convergence focus

1:00 PM And initial reactions to the Droid X

Initial analyst estimates say Apple sold 1.5M iPhone 4s on launch day, more than any other device in the history of iDevices

9:50 AM Hulu Plus could be ready for a select few users next week

9:10 AM Who's going to hand over their source code to whom?

8:45 AM Cisco exec: Cable's ready to hang-ten with IP video this time as it seeks out ways to deliver video to all screens

8:20 AM French giant denies M&A negotiations

Sun's former cloud minder finds a new home, as does a familiar face from the Ethernet world

9:00 PM India's M&A rules are set to be revised, according to sources

Canoe CTO says cross-MSO advanced ad joint venture is offering interactive 'request for information' ads to millions of cable homes

2:30 PM Investors don't seem thrilled with LTE. Is it because no one sees a clear path from bigger bandwidth to higher profits?

1:40 PM Even a tornado couldn't keep a swarm of Chicago residents away from the iPhone today; only AT&T could do that

Scenes from New York, Paris, London, and Japan as customers all over brave bad weather, long lines, and media mockery to get an iPhone 4

NOON Tighter purse strings in the Old Country

Switched digital video offers cable a bandwidth boost, but a Comcast exec says it can also help the industry migrate to IPTV

New Canadian CDMA network to be kickstarted with $350 million loan from Chinese bank, brokered by equipment supplier ZTE

Apple has done it again! Some fans waited all night for the new iPhone, and lines snaked around the block as it launched in NYC

9:25 AM Judge rules in favor of Google in long-running copyright battle with Viacom

Companies team to pitch cable an IP-centric platform in effort to help MSOs fend off over-the-top video service providers

Despite past associations, AlcaLu's involvement in national FTTx broadband access initiative is all above-board, says governing company

7:05 AM Top 10 'incumbent' MSOs have deployed more than 21 million of the security modules

Verizon brings out the big guns for the Motorola DroidX launch in NYC UPDATED 6/24 7:15 AM

MSO calls resignation of Scott Hatfield a 'mutual decision' and taps Percy Kirk as an interim replacement as it searches for a successor UPDATED 5:15 PM

Developer says they can’t make money on location-based services with carriers' high retail transport fees; carriers say that’s not their fault

AT&T's Yiannis Argyropoulos explains that bonded copper, while great for enterprises, is not as big of a deal as fiber and microwave technologies for carrier cell-site backhaul.

Tower Cloud CEO says wireless operators ordering fewer T1s, more Ethernet

Flood of mobile data will create need for greater efficiency than today's Ethernet metro networks can provide

Vendor adds ITU G.8032 Ethernet protection switching to its optical edge

Spectrum Bridge and Google team with Northern California utility to show how unused TV broadcast channels can revolutionize the electric grid

8:00 AM No details discussed, but the outage was substantial and spread over several states

Apple’s privacy updates aren’t meshing with the Mobile Marketing Association’s idea of fair play

RGB deals for the technology to add mobile capabilities to its TV Everywhere network gateway. And it's still talking about an IPO

Comcast-owned firm offers to help programmers hook up with the growing array of broadband-connected boxes from companies like Roku and Boxee

Spread Networks, funded by ex-Netscape CEO James Barksdale, got a low-latency network the 'easy' way: by trenching its own fiber... 'All your base are belong to us!'

Critics and fans of the $30B merger pipe up as the FCC closes its first round of comments on the controversial marriage

DoCoMo said it wants to roll out LTE femtos in 2011 and 2012, but who's got the goods to meet the carrier's demands?

11:35 AM Dancing Girls Fiscal Health Metric reveals negative trend

Big names and a regional flavor were on display in Singapore, but the Dancing Girls Fiscal Health Metric gave us cause for concern

11:05 AM Search giant continues to circle Apple

AT&T stands by femto pricing strategy and explains why Microcell traffic counts towards subscribers' data caps

MetaSwitch uses Nuance to target its carrier customer base with speech-to-text capabilities that span multiple devices

Nortel CVAS products get their new names as Genband starts rolling out its strategy for the merged company

Brightcove adapts its app SDK and mobile templates to Flash Player 10.1 on Android, but it won’t be playing Web-standard favorites

7:40 AM Indian giant's top team is shrinking

While Moto's handset unit goes gaga for Android, the company sticks with Microsoft for security and control in new enterprise communicator

Telstra secures its place in Australia's national broadband network after agreeing on terms for use of its copper and cable infrastructure

2:00 PM IEEE 1394 has one foot in the grave after FCC waiver lets MSOs deploy leased HD set-tops that sport only IP-based networking interfaces

Comcast picks tru2way 'reference' stack and NDS as prime integrator as MSO looks to expand box choices and speed up app development

Verizon and Utilities Telecom Council look for ways that traditional rivals can find common ground on smart grid

11:20 AM T-Mobile likely had its largest number of new activations on Saturday following a Father’s Day promo

Web and mobile platforms are getting plenty of use, but the vast majority of users are still tuning in to matches via regular TV

6:00 PM The Queen of Blogs is unavailable

Chipmaker's shares jump 14% when word gets out that Comcast is getting close to launching a MoCA-powered AnyRoom DVR service

Space isn't the place to be using 90MHz of spectrum, FCC says, plus other LTE-related news

NFC could become a reality as Broadcom acquires Innovision and Nokia plans to add NFC chips to future smartphones UPDATED 6/21 2PM

Like so many in Central and Eastern Europe, the Czech market suffered in 2009 but will be re-energized by demand for mobile data services

3DTV is a hot concept right now, but many challenges remain before it can gain mass adoption

Rural associations adopt a 'wait and see' attitude, and rural wireless carriers still want the FCC to mandate data roaming

Following a meeting in Vietnam this week, the ITU is all set to rubber-stamp two 4G technologies, says industry consultant

Cable pundits say industry generally embraces the Plan, but warn that FCC's broadband reclassification effort could do more harm than good

9:00 AM Christians 1, Futbol Fans 0

8:15 AM Industrial action expected

7:45 AM Former Chairman and CEO cleared of snooping

5:30 PM On AT&T's network, the best network available for voice is indeed the 2G network. For data? Nothing beats WiFi

Title I, Title II, or 'Third Way'? The FCC's ready to hear about the benefits and risks of all three as it seeks to save its National Broadband Plan

1:25 PM When you are talking about millions of devices with thousands of pricing plans, ARPU loses its meaning

Tier 1 carriers duke it out over which network can best handle the onslaught of M2M apps and devices

Memory interfaces have been paying the bills, but Inphi's S-1 mentions 40G and 100G, too

Although the revenue potential of interactive ads is appealing, flooding subs with too many of them could turn off customers, Comcast Media Center exec warns

6:55 AM European carrier reveals new service plans

Carrier CEO questions the need for really high consumer broadband speeds – and he's already offering the service!

Australian developers take their mobile data compression techniques to the US, where patchy 3G coverage could give them a Tier 1 opening

Think you can get around AT&T's data caps by using your Microcell? Think again because that data counts towards your monthly cap

4:20 AM UK operator has wrists slapped for misleading femto ads

5:30 PM ROADM startups are growing up

5:20 PM Georgia system is the second to get MSO's faster (and pricier) biz-class Docsis 3.0 tier

3:50 PM I've changed my social networks so people can find me easily. But is there a better way to be social and searchable?

Suddenlink is the first US MSO to confirm that it's deploying simple channel zappers from the Chinese giant

Vendor says that 600,000 pre-orders for iPhone 4 took it and its carrier partners by surprise, resulting in delays and user frustration

We take a quick run around the show floor at one of Asia's hottest communications industry confabs

IBM looks to cash in on the explosion in mobile data with new cell tower monitoring software, analytics, and Lotus Notes

Nokia lowers Q2 revenue and operating margin outlook, and said it expects to lose some device value market share this year

Independent study carried out with Carbon Disclosure Project says reduced travel and other benefits provide ROI within 15 months

Nokia's Navteq division aims to be the first company to bring location-based advertising to India

The communications industry's most independent editorial awards will be handed out Nov. 2. Get your entries in soon

6:00 AM India's Reliance Infratel is up for grabs

ZTE unveils FTTx deals with China Telecom and Telekom Malaysia, and claims to be No. 2 in global broadband fixed market

6:15 PM A collapse in the data center

The hiT 7300 is getting enhanced with an OTN switch, but NSN says it's still OK partnering with Juniper on non-packet-optical alternatives

5:30 PM MSO says 'almost' 90% of its headends have been upgraded for tru2way

MSO intends to start deploying switched digital video later this year, paving way for Comcast to offer more than 150 HD channels

TiVo wants cable to support switched digital video with IP backchannels, but MSOs say it would be costly and expose them to security holes

3:50 PM Tiered billing on 3G and LTE will mean carriers will have to get a lot better about alerting us to data overages

2:45 PM Who are the real competitors in the crowded mobile apps space?

The biggest challenge for mobile operators eager to compete in the mobile app market is gaining support from app developers, Pyramid says

Mobile app downloads are set to grow sevenfold by 2014, but the wealth from this growth won't be shared equally, finds Pyramid Research

HomeGrid Forum is counting on fellow consortium, the Broadband Forum, to bring in the G.hn customers

The operator says it is on track for a commercial launch in 2010 and will cover 200M people in the US in 2012

12:20 PM Mediacom mulls going private, SDV shows signs of life, and other items that made the cable world go round while I was away

India's mobile operators won't make much headway with their mobile app stores unless they broaden their horizons, reckons analyst

The newly ratified spec reaches 800 Mbit/s, as expected, but it's also got a Turbo mode that flirts with 1 Gbit/s

WiMax chip champion sticks with the party line, saying those that jump to LTE will do so for spectrum reasons

6:00 AM CEO leaves his industry vision in his Singapore hotel room

Femto chip maker picoChip completes another $20 million funding round and marks a milestone with 1 million chips sold

5:30 PM One analyst puts AlcaLu on his shopping list

Scott Raynovich ruminates on what the move to 4G will mean for carriers as data traffic surpasses voice traffic on mobile networks

1:20 PM Cablevision execs say the potential for healthier cash flow offers some long-term upside from its Bresnan buy

Samsung is playing up the hardware in its new mobile devices, but its advantages there may be short-lived

MSO is going a little bit country via $1.36B buy of Bresnan, a Tier 2 cable operator that locks horns with Qwest in the rural Midwest

11:00 AM Telus CTO sees both challenges and opportunities in wireless data, but cuts upgrades to network unless revenue is attached

Verizon has a couple of weapons against the new Apple iPhone on AT&T's network this summer

Fixed and wireless broadband developments, along with mobile apps and their smartphone friends, will be in the spotlight in Singapore

5:00 AM How will Reliance Industries spend its first broadband wireless billions?

2:15 PM They're separate products, but the headline is funnier this way

LTE winners in India's BWA auctions put another big dent in WiMax's ambition to be a widespread global standard

Comcast VP Jorge Salinger says CMAP is getting support from several MSOs and vendors that are eager to test their gear

NTT DoCoMo starts 37.5-Mbit/s LTE trial in Japan, wants to go live in December

G.hn and MoCA 2.0 are getting ratified at about the same time, setting up the battle between the near-gigabit home-networking options

1:50 PM Ciena's Carrier Ethernet acquisition is bearing fruit

With some spectrum under its belt, Qualcomm says it will announce its Indian broadband wireless operator partners within a month

10:20 AM It's a family affair in India's broadband wireless sector

As Sigma Designs is being transitioned out of its exclusive slot in AT&T’s U-Verse STBs, Broadcom says it's transitioning in

Heavy Reading's Alan Breznick talks to Jorge Salinger, VP of Access Architecture at Comcast, about CMAP as an alternative to the existing MHA architecture

Startup ISP Infotel wins pan-Indian spectrum and is immediately acquired as government rakes in $8.2B from broadband wireless auction

Wireless operators and independent M2M providers are working out how to play nice as sometimes friends, sometimes foes

While AT&T rethinks slow and unreliable, Cablevision tries to turn on a few smartphone users to its WiFi network

1:40 PM A TV standard you probably haven't thought about

It's great news for pizza makers, and terrible news for network managers, but what does the World Cup portend for telcos?

The single-layer fabric might steal some of Juniper's thunder, but Brocade's real game plan is to catch Cisco customers in transition

Ciena can only watch as $90M of deferred revenues pass it by following the Nortel deal, but the vendor remains positive about the acquisition

The high prices paid for India's 3G spectrum haven't dampened enthusiasm for capacity in the 2.3GHz band, but MTNL isn't so keen

10:45 AM 114,000 users' emails revealed – including some VIPs – in 3G iPad hack against AT&T

After Apple's latest iPhone, Nokia at least needs a strong Symbian 4 release to restore its smartphone status

5:15 AM Offers virtual IT resources, but is there any pent up demand?

Rogers has a quick uptick in its customers looking for on-demand video content online

3:15 PM Mobile apps are finally becoming money makers; HTC acquires UI app firm Abaxia; SMS lives on

Data roaming, handset exclusivity, and 700MHz spectrum plans are all hot-button issues for their survival, RCA head says

O2 adds network and signaling capacity in London to improve smartphone users' service

JumpTap adds ads to its portfolio of mobile advertising formats as content providers look to monetize the growth

Not as many as it initially said, even if the EVO was still a top seller for Sprint

CTO Gedeon tells B/OSS event that merely being more cost-effective is no longer enough for billing and operations support systems

The company outlines a vision of a single-layer data center that sounds an awful lot like what Juniper keeps promising

Alcatel-Lucent's 100G launch is a significant development that will give it an advantage, reckons Heavy Reading analyst

The company says its 100G cards are ready to ship, creating competition for Ciena/Nortel

The optical and Ethernet business acquired from Nortel delivers limp sales, while Ciena's other product lines do better than expected

5:00 PM I still think an LTE iPhone will happen in 2012 rather than 2011

Is 4 better than 7? Microsoft will soon find out as it feels the squeeze from Apple and its new iPhone 4

Openet links itself to the iPad, AT&T, and an IPO; Empirix acquires; BroadSoft sets its IPO price range; and Nakina has a new friend

Not exactly surprising but operators around the world are keen to embrace Apple's newest iPhone

But legal dispute mars Indian giant's African expansion

Tandberg integration, more and better mobile video, higher picture quality, and cheaper packaging all aimed to make video pervasive

Service provider to capitalize on virtual status and new extended cloud infrastructure to make WAN optimization an on-demand service

9:05 AM DoCoMo flexes its new LTE network ahead of commercial launch later this year

Indian optical vendor gives kiss of life to packet optical hopeful Ethos Networks with an all-stock takeover deal

8:40 PM Well, that didn't happen, did it?

Apple won't even risk video chat on 3G yet, while demand for Sprint EVO video call service overloaded the application developer's servers

Vodafone launches femtocells in a new European market while KDDI gears up to launch 3G femtos in Japan, plus more femto fun

The new iPhone has a better display and front-loaded camera, as well as MicroSIM support, but no faster 3G capability yet

Six quick snapshots and quips from the iPhone 4 launch. The new phone will produce bigger photos and videos, with new high-res screen

Competition goes loco down in the archipelago, with Indonesia set to be APAC's fastest growing market in a few years, Pyramid Research says

Find out if TV Everywhere is going anywhere and why Cox won't just use Comcast's Xfinity to deliver online video content to subscribers

12:50 PM Matt Bross has become Huawei's invisible man

New support for standard compression cuts bandwidth required for HD video; new platform makes immersive telepresence more flexible

11:15 AM What are you hoping for with the likely new arrival from Apple today?

Telcordia unveils its Bandwidth Manager, a policy control-based tool designed to help wireless operators manage and monetize data services

With AT&T linked to a potential investment, Reliance Comm's board approves equity stake sale, and encourages other M&A activities

The carrier looks for partners with towers and backhaul capabilities; meanwhile, a 4G app helps the 'cooking chief'

4:05 PM It's been a down week

Depending on whom you believe, Apple could soon unveil an updated cloud-based Apple TV product, and operators like Comcast will want in

Sprint's first WiMax smartphone hit stores today to mixed crowds and a sales systems hiccup UPDATED 8:30PM

Its telecom market took a hammering in 2009, but Romania will provide growth opportunities in coming years, finds a new report from Pyramid Research

Its merger plans may be in tatters, but France Telecom says it isn't giving up on the Swiss market

EtherSAM, an Ethernet service testing methodology based on ITU-T Y.156sam, is the only one adapted to today's mobile backhaul, commercial and wholesale services. It allows turning up and troubleshooting services eight times faster with 100% accuracy.

10:00 AM The privacy policy disaster has even become ammunition in a political attack ad

9:30 AM UK incumbent faces industrial action

8:55 AM It'll make you look like him

5:10 PM BillShrink concludes that AT&T's new data caps will hurt wireless users, especially if they're iPhone owners

New digital voice offering represents true IP convergence for FiOS services, but it isn't IMS-based

2:25 PM But purchase orders still require clearance

The world's first LTE operator is expecting to get next-gen capable phones early in 2011, the operator's head of R&D says at a Light Reading virtual event

12:55 PM EC ruling on BT's FTTx network will ruin others' holiday plans

Boost Mobile gets its first Android device; Nokia inks a deal with T-Mobile; Sprint's EVO 4G gets hyped

9:20 AM Verizon spokesman says it has 'no plans' for the iPhone, but other reports differ

The US-based collocation specialist will be hooking up carriers' Ethernet services, too, becoming the fourth exchange announced and, it says, the largest

Following news of AT&T's data caps, it's worth looking to see how big cable resellers of Clearwire view all-you-can-eat mobile data plans

News and views from LR Mobile and beyond on AT&T's major move in data pricing

Morgenthaler, a firm long involved in telecom startups, wants to invest in services and applications, not hardware. It's not alone, either

5:20 PM The World Cup won’t just pick a winner for soccer, but also for network coverage and mobile TV viability

SureWest CTO retiring from the company but will likely be back in action as telecom innovator

4:50 PM Brocade might even skip 40G to get it to them, and to other exchanges

New AT&T customers will be paying per megabyte of data; here are the apps that could push them over their monthly limit

1:00 PM Reliance is at the heart of India's M&A speculation

12:25 PM Pyramid Research outlines options to unlimited mobile data plans

12:15 PM Why applaud AT&T's mobile data caps? Most people will pay less for data, and video services on specialized networks might catch on

TeliaSonera to discuss the world's first LTE network deployment

11:20 AM Could AT&T's new plans cause a run on iPads in the next few days?

11:10 AM Finds spare €800 million down the back of its sofa

New smartphone users lose access to unlimited data use offer as AT&T looks to ease pressure on its network

AT&T's microcells come to NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, and parts of Texas

Video traffic will exceed peer-to-peer traffic for the first time later this year, according to annual Cisco Visual Network Index

With billions spent on 3G spectrum, India's operators will look to ride each others' networks – but will that include spectrum sharing?

5:45 PM Light Reading Mobile's Simon Cowell moment

CEO Vogt says he expects the firm to dominate the next-gen VoIP switching market and sees Genband hitting $800M in revenue this year

5:10 PM Please allow me to introduce myself...

4:35 PM VoIP won’t revolutionize mobile phones if it won’t save users money, analyst says

AT&T lets Skype run over the top of its 3G network, but it should get more out of its deal with the VoIP kingpin, analyst says

Stuff from Voltaire, too, but HP's $1B in restructuring charges through 2013 leads the news pack

CTO uses interactive portal, financial incentives, and internal VC review committee to spark new ideas from within old bureaucracy

NOON Mag subscribers asked to show some tough love

The 3G bandwidth question for the new tablet is still up in the air

Nokia Siemens Networks nabs BT exec to take senior technology role

9:45 AM Netbook king AsusTek unveils the Eee Pad. No, it's not an adult diaper

7:30 AM 'One pipe, all services' is the new mantra

Cablevision, Cox, Charter, Liberty Global, and Rogers are among those helping out with the evolving Converged Multiservice Access Platform (CMAP) specs

6:55 AM Seeks help from former Bush advisor