What's it mean when an analyst keeps recommending a falling stock? You might want to ask Vik Grover

Could Microsoft and AT&T Wireless's deal be the first harbinger of a tidal wave of crap arriving on your cellphone?

Its ertswhile partner has obtained a reprieve for Mobilcom; but even if it survives, its UMTS plans could be toast

Startups need to keep up appearances -- as Optical Switch Corp. has just discovered UPDATED 8/1 8AM

Verizon cuts 2002 guidance and capital spending again, but investors applaud quarterly earnings

Company melds Ethernet access with Sonet and has a two-pronged sales strategy

Redmond's redoubling its 'mobile worker' data push through a deal with AT&T Wireless

Caspian, Allegro, Movaz, and Centerpoint have all made cuts in the last two weeks. When will the bleeding stop?

Qualcomm works up WLAN/WAN wonders

Established chipmakers only want one thing from WLAN startups -- and that's some hot, dual-mode action

First-round financings are stabilizing, but investment levels overall are at a four-year low

Juniper introduces the T320, the entry box into the T-series. Could this be the reason Unisphere's MRX got canned?

3M and Shipley bid for the assets of bankrupt components startup Haleos in what's becoming a sign of the times

Doubles the capacity of its content-addressable memory chip, brags about low power consumption

A full 25% of Light Reading Index companies have been asked by the SEC to vouch for their earnings; one's responded

UMTS Forum gets with the program

Startup wants the industry to join it in embedding security for existing 802.11b WLAN systems

Qwest expects to restate its earnings for the past three years due to accounting irregularities. Sound familiar?

CIR says network management software revenues aren't falling that far, particularly for ISVs

After the Pringles maybe you could work off those extra pounds with cycle-powered WLAN

What will become of one of the largest data networks in the world?

Velio, TI and others form a group to address the problem of how to send 5- or 10-Gbit/s signals over the backplane

A worsening market and changing breakeven rates are forcing JDSU to make tough choices. What will the outcome be?

The optical access startup focusing on cable MSOs nails a $30M round of funding for hybrid coax/fiber networks

Internet backbone? Who wants a stinkin' Internet backbone in 2002?

DARPA is going beyond 3G, developing technology to use currently allocated spectrum up to 20 times more efficiently

UK operator makes its money back fast on 'celebrity' answering service (Bernie Ebbers is not among the voices)

Norway's telco is chugging along nicely, making a tidy sum from its mobile holdings at home and in faraway places

Pundits pick their spots on the continuum of hope, as carriers gear up for 2003 budgeting and RFPs

Ericsson and Nortel face revenue uncertainty as Group 3G puts its infrastructure plans on ice in Germany

Cisco announced its third acquisition of the year, yet another 'spin-in': Palo Alto-based AYR Networks

Vitesse halts work on new chips, effectively nullifying its acquisitions of Sitera, Xaqti, and Orologic

Digital Lightwave's quirky majority shareholder, Bryan Zwan, draws critics as losses mount

German banker says Deutsche Telekom will cash in its US mobile asset one way or another

Almost everything is up for France Telecom's mobile business, and its executives still insist 'the future's bright'

Internet Initiative Japan and Tokyo Electric Power Co. look to grab some data communications market share from NTT

Unstrung went looking for wireless, we ended up seeing stars

Virgin wants to get with the MTV generation, and its knighted figurehead doesn't care how he gets their attention

AT&T's president says WorldCom's troubles run deep and its customers will notice

Level 3's reported $1.1 billion bid for its bankrupt competitor, Williams, has been met with puzzled expressions

Spanish mobile operator is developing a reputation for putting itself about

And then there were five: partners Sonera and Telefonica Moviles cut their losses in Germany, close down 3G operations

It has a service trial with one mobile operator and is about to start with another, but which ones?

The European service provider market is still growing but faces unique problems, according to recent reports

The telecom access company announced losses but saw revenue grow and reiterated guidance

Quarterly results show telecom sales worsening, but Corning execs say they'll take any action needed to get profitable

Oh, give me a home where the businessmen roam, and the ARPU keeps growing all day

NYC's local Fox 5 News affiliate finds employees who say WorldCom invented a customer service exec

Doubts remain over CDMA's potential challenge to GSM in China, especially if Qualcomm remains rigid over its licensing

Palm uses IBM to crack corporate nut

After horrible Q3 numbers, Lucent plots job cuts in its wireless division

The 'latest' multiservice switches indicate a renaissance for ATM -- and a possible delay for MPLS

Former ONI Systems and Nortel executive takes his first CEO job at Optovation

Drumbeat of tough earnings news from SBC, AT&T, and Lucent weighs on the telecom sector

Groups representing competitive carriers blast FCC Chairman Michael Powell for blaming telecom woes on competition

Sir Richard promises an "eye-popping" display for Virgin's US launch

VoiceStream finally becomes T-Mobile US, but is now such a good time?

Off-the-shelf components are the future of the telecom systems market, claims Intel communications group CTO

Sonera and Nokia stick by their 3G timetable, but all signs point to little more than a media showcase

BellSouth doesn't ring up earnings as expected: It reports lower net income for Q2 and cuts its full-year forecast

Finally, Transwitch announces some of the products resulting from its Onex acquisition

Analysts say long-haul DWDM sales continue to plummet. Startups like Ceyba and Innovance are hanging tough

NTT DoCoMo's customers are strangely quiet over botched service

A lawsuit pokes into trades by execs and raises questions about a partnership called TOES Corp.

Telecom giant claims the crown for the largest bankruptcy in US history UPDATED 7/22 11:00 AM

Hey, July is National Cellphone Courtesy Month (August: National Corporate Honesty Month?)

Alternative infrastructure player has nowhere to go but down on Unstrung's Top 25 private wireless companies list

Network Equipment Technologies shows that having lots of cash and government business pays off in 2002

Shares plummet as pricing of rights issue makes the Swedish giant seem increasingly needy and uncertain

Nortel met analyst expectations, but more cuts are needed to get the company to breakeven

Cogent's new deal secures fiber at a time when the fate of some fiber sellers is unsure

For many years, WorldCom's Internet traffic counts were taken as the truth. Now that's all being questioned

On earnings eve, a Canadian class-action lawsuit accuses Nortel of cooking its books. But reaction is muted

Intel and friends are working on enabling roaming between their planned US WLAN network and existing 2.5G networks

David Dorman will become the company CEO, probably by the end of the year: Sign o'the times?

The success or failure of mobile data services will determine whether carriers drown in debt, says Analysys

AFC is one of the few optical stocks that hasn't become a single-digit midget. It must be the cash

Gigabit Ethernet player meets expectations and sees a slight increase in demand from US enterprise customers

UK venture capitalist MTI pulls out of an investment at the last minute, leaving ProtoDel in the proverbial

KDDI boss pits Asia against the Euros and Americans as he disses GSM and questions Vodafone's strategy

Y'see, selling cheap phones is the key

CEO Dunn is done doing double duty as CFO, but the new guy's an insider nobody knows

Market predictions for wireless technology are largely 'baloney' according to some analysts -- now they tell us!

Specialist firm BTG prepares to rake in the royalties after intellectual property office rules against SIM card giants

Top Cisco service provider exec Bill Nuti takes an East Coast job with Symbol Technologies. What's it mean?

Bullish analysts appear to have overhyped the free space optics market and are backhauling toward reality

Top Cisco service provider exec Bill Nuti takes an East Coast job with Symbol Technologies. What's it mean?

Tellabs' Q2 news isn't terrible. And being less than terrible these days may mean progress

Alcatel, a relative newcomer to the PON world, has won a key contract with SBC. What's it mean for other players?

Free-space optics vendor Terabeam is streamlining its workforce and adding new radio products

Intel, AT&T, and others are said to be plotting a nationwide WLAN network

Free-space optics vendor Terabeam is streamlining its workforce and adding new radio products

Proponents of Resilient Packet Ring technology want to lock down draft changes in September and finish in fall 2003

Southampton Photonics introduces a new fiber technology that could cut the cost of L-band amplifiers by 50%

Japanese giant sets up task force in Amsterdam to close further licensing deals

Readers fire in suggestions about government involvement and technological solutions for the telecom industry

Interoute appears to have bought the primary assets of the Ebone portion of KPNQwest for pennies on the dollar

Broadcom says it will have an 802.11a/b chipset on the market by Q4 -- but so do Intel and others

OnFiber says it's booking a million per month after acquiring Sphera. Is that enough to support a turnaround?

Swiss researchers have sent an 'uncrackable' quantum key over a 67km fiber link between Geneva and Lausanne

The incumbent's scouting core multiservice switches, sources say. Is this really good news? and for whom?

The fuss over Juniper's 2Q numbers today may have a simple explanation

Big Ron plans his Sommer vacation as the German government names its preferred successor for the Telekom CEO chair

We suspect there is one big reason why rumors about Microsoft acquiring Ericsson will come to naught

For a company unconvinced by the potential of WLAN technology, KDDI sure is spending a lot of time and energy on it

Intel VP sees WLAN as the new Ethernet and displays a strange fixation on hockey sticks, in this interview from London

Or rather, it's told its employees to take an indefinite vacation while it tries to raise a third round

A road trip to DC with fizzy pop, chips, and some base stations

Companies have met on technology solutions, but both dismiss merger rumors

Intel's VC arm has made a honking big profit from investing in communications startups

Regulator hits Telefonica Moviles and Vodafone where it hurts with interconnection rate cut

Analysts suspect some (legal) shenanigans in the accounts may be disguising some of Unisphere's revenues

Its entry into the hot mobile management software market is going to be lackluster and late

Continuum and Optimer have raised respectable funding for building components with ceramics or polymers

Merger of Telia and Sonera leaves a UMTS license up for grabs -- if anyone wants it

Could home-made lasers be on the horizon? Yes, if a hoaxy-sounding post on Slashdot is to be believed

Juniper is expected to announce headcount reductions and product cancellations on its 2Q02 earnings call tonight

Redback's revenues and losses remain lean, as it leans on Nokia for sales

Xalted files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, while White Rock Networks cuts staff UPDATED 07/11 6PM

Things look beret bleak for Alcatel as it becomes latest telecom company to have its debt downgraded to junk status

DoCoMo executive tells Unstrung it will be one to two years before its 3G service properly takes off

OMD, an optical foundry, has gone into the UK equivalent of Chapter 11

Japanese giant chews the fat with fellow Asia/Pac leviathans -- but, we cry, about what exactly?

Lucent shares have climbed nearly 40 percent in the past few days with no real catalyst

The FCC has asked an Appeals Court to reverse an unbundling decision that favors RBOCs

100 percent of respondents to a Light Reading poll say guilty WorldCom execs should be jailed (for a long time)

Unstrung turns to the lexicon in a bid to comprehend Virgin Mobile announcement

A published report suggests that AT&T and VoiceStream are in preliminary merger talks, but who's doing the driving?

Gent & Co. are waiting for the new grand fromage at Vivendi to settle on a plan of action before bidding for a bigger Gallic stake

Financing troubles and a grim market kill another core router maker

The market for tunable lasers is taking a long time to develop. So long, in fact, that some analysts are dropping out of it

Oren Shaffer, who briefly served as Sorrento's president and COO, is the new CFO at Qwest

Ciena lands a deal with Telefonos de Mexico, the AT&T of Mexico; experts say foreign deals are now key for the firm

Danish operator TDC is latest Euro carrier to go ape for 802.11b

The Big Problem – R. Scott Raynovich

Sources say handheld rivals are resisting a potential merger, but the market may force them to look again

Salomon analyst explains how he rated the stock from the company's boardroom, as WorldCom execs plead the Fifth

Core router maker shuts down after four years in business and more than $200 million in investment, sources say

Some investors pushed Yipes into bankruptcy in order to snatch more for themselves, charges former exec

Redmond opts to build its own Windows wireless network kit, posing a threat to Cisco, Intel, et alia

Mobile operators need to invest in billing systems and treat content creators better if they want to make money, report says

Level 3 raises $500 million via investments from Warren Buffett and others UPDATED 5:45PM

A box of Light Reading T-shirts has been stolen from Light Reading's Chicago sales office

The startup clinches a monster OEM deal, probably with Alcatel, for its Ethernet-over-Sonet boxes UPDATED 4:30PM

NTT's mobile behemoth regains new subscriber crown and seems to be adding cameras to anything it can lay its hands on

Buyouts remain the prime way to liquidity for venture-backed startups, but the opportunity is shrinking

Where are the fruits of Wozniak's wireless endavour?

Chapter 11 is almost a sure thing. Bondholders hope for a fast, clean process, but it's likely to get messy

Focus on your bottom line, not future ARPU - Ray Le Maistre

Adds Swisscom Mobile on top of BT deal, set to announce more telco customers for 802.11 kit

Savvis just raised an additional $20M, showing the importance of a focused strategy during a downturn

Report says they're winning lots of customers that nobody else wants

Psst, it's a secret -- the old Ortel gang has got back together again, making lasers and receivers

Some optical companies are extending the US and Canadian holidays this week to cut back on operational costs

Billing specialist pips ADC to buy up TelesensKSCL assets, including mobile operator client list

Stronger algorithm ties in with next-generation security, quelling authorities' fears of hacker breakthrough

Virgin and BeVocal find the lowest common denominator for the teen wireless market

Dropping your mobile down the toilet only comes in at number five in U.K. mishaps

Love the '3' but hate the 'G'? Hutchison Whampoa's got you covered

Lucent has sold its enterprise service business in an effort to focus on service-provider customers

America's leading SMS services company has reached 1 billion text messages a month but isn't holding its breath for MMS

Decision to ease rollout timeline makes little difference or does not go far enough, say UMTS license-holders

An old lawsuit reveals that Redback has been staking out the wireless equipment space for several years

An old lawsuit reveals that Redback has been staking out the wireless equipment space for several years

Verizon, using Nortel equipment, moves toward 'widespread' deployment of packet switches for its voice networks

New WorldCom CEO fingers former execs for the company's woes, but says new team can right the ship

Lucent announced availability of its new IP Service router, raising questions about its strategy in the edge-router market

Next-gen PDSN contender cuts staff but says it will have kit in customer networks by the end of the year

What's next for Procket? A source says it plans to sell to enterprise customers as well as service providers

As global giant restates its rollout plans, market pressures drag stock price to four-year nadir

Scion accidentally leaves its customer list lying around where Light Reading can find it

'Waves give me a headache,' says WHO boss

After buyout efforts fall apart, the Ebone portion of the KPNQwest network is shut down

WorldCom says it's reviewing financial statements as far back as 1999. What's left to find?

Light Reading has won widespread support from carriers for its plans to test grooming switches

ADC confirms rumors that it will close its tunable laser division in Järfälla, Sweden

These devices aren't stupid, they're just memory-constrained...

Tellium's stock was slammed after reporting it would only have $3 million in revenue for Q2 2002

Vodafone's Japanese operator says its W-CDMA trial isn't worth announcing. With just 160 on board, it may have a point

Report on Western European 3G says France has the best conditions for a successful UMTS market. C'est bon!

Stealthy startup took on $24M in funding in April and says it's going after the edge routing market

WorldCom may be the largest accounting scandal in US history, but it won't be the last, observers say.

Bad news for attention seekers -- scientists have developed a wood laminate that blocks mobile calls