Are "wireless Web" users (ahem) dual-mode?

Six hundred jobs go as FNC readies a new access product for NFOEC

Shipments will quadruple by 2005, driven initially by enterprise applications, some say **UPDATED 9/12/02 9AM**

A-list star splashes out on outrageously expensive handset, says our Hollywood reporter (based in London)

Finnish operator to launch '3G services' on its 2G network using current 2G phones. Real 3G delayed to 2003

Small, profitable equipment company prepares to make a splash in the access market

Company seems to be surveying multiservice switch startups from atop its mountain of cash

Vinton Cerf launches his volley in the debate on the Internet traffic of WorldCom vs. AT&T UPDATED 8/30 12 PM

Wireless Oracle finds enterprises wanting secure data access mobility find it hard to entrust a VPN solution to a third party

Teetering on brink of bankruptcy and set to become the latest casualty of the German UMTS pileup, France Telecom is its lifeline

Cisco announces integrated security services on a switch; a big deal, however you slice it

Marconi's got a fresh start that puts its focus on optical and calls for asset sales. What's next? UPDATED 2 PM

The naked truth about the difference between the Korean and US mobile markets

Contract manufacturers are becoming more important to gear makers as the downturn wears on

T-Mobile and mmO2 await green light from Brussels for 3G facility-sharing plans that would save billions of Euros

The Ethernet access startup will use new funding to pursue deep-pocketed RBOCs. It won't be easy

Documents reveal that WorldCom executives received large amounts of IPO shares from SSB

Yet another warning begs the question: How low can NT (and others like it) go before things turn around?

Yet another warning begs the question: How low can NT (and others like it) go before things turn around?

Light Reading’s article last week elicited a swift response from his lawyer

Could T-Mobile's HotSpot strategy push smaller rivals into each other's arms?

Intel's new XPAK transceiver could help unification of competing specs... or betray a hidden agenda

SBC has partnered with Sitara Networks to offer quality of service to enterprise customers. Is it too late?

Bitterness over excessive exec compensation runs deep in the telecom industry, according to a Light Reading poll

Nearly 9 years after their company was bought, Crescendo biggies still have top jobs at Cisco UPDATED 8/28 10AM

Or is that bidders? Hutchison continues its 3G crusade for Telia's Finnish assets, but does it have a clear run?

Head of Dutch telco's mobile division heads for the door marked Exit. He is in esteemed company

Analysts get a bashing for their 'mediocre' performance and fat paychecks in our August Research Poll

Wanted! Service Provider Pros – Stephen Saunders

The fickle finger of fate falls on Finnish farmer in phone-flinging finals

The firm could build its own wireless router, depending on how relationships with Ericsson & Siemens shake out

The firm could build its own wireless router, depending on how its relationships with Ericsson and Siemens shake out

The Pied Piper of acquisitions has just joined AcceLight as CEO. Is this startup as good as sold?

Insists it walked away from a contract, won by Lucent, for a Barcelona-based CLEC

Marconi's likely refinancing raises questions over whether such deals perpetuate the telecom industry's problems

Inkra has received its second round of funding, but will that be enough to carry it to profitability?

Silicon startup says it can help system vendors boost the capacity of their existing equipment by a factor of four

Integrated imaging is the next crucial step in the growth of MMS and other wireless photo systems

Why were ordinary Cisco stock options not good enough for the Andiamo crew?

Telecom equipment resellers look to fill in the gaps as vendors worldwide outsource sales and marketing

Stock hammered to under $1 after the company announces a 30% layoff and shifts focus to enterprise networks

It's a buyer's market as both Agere and Nortel try to unload their opto businesses. Might Intel or JSDU bite?

Hutchison bucks the trend by talking up 3G rollout and splurging on retail outlets, but UK pricing report creates controversy

NetScreen plans to acquire OneSecure and its intrusion detection technology. What's it mean for the industry?

Can a SIP startup persuade the GPRS world to adopt a SIP-based "push-to-talk" system?

Former JDSU CEO urges optical companies to find new markets by examining what end users want

The SEC bans the way many carriers account for capacity swaps. How many will have to restate earnings?

Bedminster's OFDM crew sweeps into Europe with a mission to subvert the continent's wireless operators

Stealthy chip startup Dune Networks may be targeting terabit switch fabrics and packet processing

Reports weak Q3 earnings. Incumbents abroad have helped. But will the company be able to crack RBOCs at home?

Converged networks will run atop powerful optical switches, says Nortel's CTO

Hold on, didn't T-Mobile already have WLAN hot spots in Starbucks?

Hong Kong giant doesn't take kindly to KPN's writedown of its UK 3G joint venture

Speakers at Opticon say advances, particularly in long-haul technology, herald freedom from carriers

There's a new list of what -- and who -- is hot in communications chips

CacheFlow's changed its name, its focus, and its ticker symbol. Can it survive on security?

T-Mobile USA makes itself more attractive to potential suitors as Deutsche Telekom stays tight-lipped about a possible sale

Perennially optimistic Furukawa buys another fiber plant, but this one's in China and might even be profitable

Philips & friends are cooking up a sleepy, ultra-low-power wireless technology for your home -- or factory

Opticon 2002 keynoter Michael O'Dell says companies offering both voice and data are fraught with problems

Will pay up to $2.5 billion to spin in the Cisco-incubated SAN switch startup

Stealthy all-optical startup has been quietly developing gear for the government and has landed a $29M contract

Finns inch ever closer to their own little Holy Grail -- a 40 percent share of the global handset market

Dutch telco takes a massive hit on its non-domestic 3G assets but shows swelling revenues from 2G businesses

Qwest has finally unloaded QwestDex, but will $7B be enough to save the company?

Agere’s Exit From Optoelectronics: Sad but Sensible – Jay Liebowitz

Infonetics says the market for core routers will be halved in 2002, but there's an end in sight UPDATED 8/21 9AM

Or is that 'Si'? Despite Atrica's win, it's not clear Spanish CLEC's parent France Telecom will follow suit

Tropic Networks will demo 'unique' optical management for its DWDM metro edge platform at NFOEC

Startup XLight will show a tunable transponder for use in optical packet switches at NFOEC

The chipmaker's first mobile product is based on XcelleNet's Afaria suite

Ixia unveils a compact, portable 40-Gbit/s tester at the Opticon trade show in San Jose, Calif.

A double rarity -- good news for Lucent in the wireless sector and the construction of a new and extensive mobile network

Fortinet has hired antivirus expert Joe Wells to drive its hardware-based anti-virus technology

Nortel has shut down the development facility for its LH 4000. Does this spell curtains for the platform?

Cisco's stability in the telecom recession depends largely on its contracts with Uncle Sam

Sony Ericsson makes plea to developers and promises to make them famous. Is that enticement enough?

Vodafone's hopes of buying a prime mobile position in France may be scuppered

Things to do in Denver when you're alive: reinvent yourself to provide broadband where cable providers fear to tread

A planned merger between the two passive component makers was nixed by shareholder vote yesterday

Nortel and other telecom Goliaths lead the world in losses, according to Fortune magazine

Princeton Lightwave aims to survive by selling its manufacturing facility to Trumpf, a German industrial laser maker

Will they soon have wireless beaches in the Canary Islands?

Worldwide 802.11 equipment sales reach $380.2M in 2Q 2002, says Dell'Oro Group market research firm

Amidst lawsuits and a federal probe, Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman resigned yesterday

Top vendors turn to Lego for inspiration –- honest!

Says talk of a €4.7 billion bid for Cegetel stake is premature, while Vizzavi's future is also clouded by Vivendi's parlous state

Regulator confirms it's possible to alter 3G license conditions

As WLAN/WAN roaming hits yet another bump in the road, it could be years before cheap combination chipsets arrive

Gung-ho approach of June replaced by cold feet over Irish 3G license, but mmO2 shows no hesitation

UK survey finds those using the Finnish giant's handsets have bigger mobile bills

Digital Lightwave has a market cap under $40M. Its founder took more than 8 times that much out of it. Connection? UPDATED 8/27/02

Yesterday's deadline for financial certifications set off an information blitz. How important is it?

The LambdaRouter takes its place in history, as Lucent confirms that the product is discontinued

Battling WorldCom over who owns the Internet and what would happen if WorldCom were to shut down

Irish startup Tsunami Photonics set to unveil kit that speeds up the calibration of tunable lasers

India is one of the hottest markets in the world, but one of the hardest to crack. Is Nortel making headway?

LuxN is working on landing its first RBOC contract, sources close to the company say

Agere's closing its business in optical components. What's that mean for competitors -- and for Lucent?

The Dutch and Germans are lapping it up. So are the content providers

Sweden's mobile meatball should be OK so long as there's no nasty surprises, speaking of which...

Content delivery networks are coming under the legal gun in escalating battles over patents

They're up for grabs in Finland and Cyprus, but will anyone want them?

Red Spectrum is targeting London businesses with a network based on free-space optics: 'We're not insane!'

History shows that Chapter 11 rarely works, especially if the same flawed business plan stays

Is the Finnish giant looking for a cost-cutting outsourcing deal?

Former Fujitsu Network Communications sales boss returns from his VC stint to become group president and COO

Red Spectrum is targeting London businesses with a network based on free-space optics: 'We're not insane!'

French operator starts its MMS ball rolling in the UK, but growth is still hampered by interoperability issues

Red faces at Nextel, as court case reveals the operator was conned by a guy already in jail

With a Gallic shrug some vendors are bailing out of next year's event. Is it all über for the huge telecom show?

Data-center switch player makes a sale, which sounds good if you overlook the fact that it's to a money-losing CLEC

Dude! You're getting a handheld! Dell may be trying to read corporates' palm plans, but it's really got its eye on their backends

Infineon claims to have produced the first multilayer electronic integrated circuit -- a chip 'sandwich,' if you will

VCs find the words "VPNs" and "wireless" an irresistable invitation to open their purse strings

Rumors abound as 3G launch in Europe draws nearer. Analyst doubts new entrant will start a price war

Siemens is leading a project called 'KING' that could provide an alternative to MPLS for large-scale networks

WorldCom's troubles won't quash a $450M defense contract -- one that Global Crossing apparently never had

Former telecom and optical networking execs are prodded to look outside of their industries to find work

Don't blink -- the amount may increase. So far, they're up to $7.1 billion in invented earnings

As long as it's absolutely guaranteed to make money, VCs still want to hear your wireless idea

In new Light Reading feature, Sprint 'Ops' guy tunes out WorldCom, turns on The Weakest Link

Is Vodafone D2 delaying rollout? Or not? The German mobile market shudders at the implications

Eight new startups are emerging to fill the shoes of those that have quietly disappeared in recent months

After 7 months in limbo, Global Crossing is being sold to the same companies that wanted to buy it to begin with

$4 billion, $6 billion, who's counting? WorldCom's accounting scandal is growing by leaps and bounds

You'll go blind!

Intel and Cisco say they won't expense employee stock options. What's it all mean?

From our truth-in-advertising dept: why the much-vaunted Sprint 1xRTT rollout isn't really nationwide

Even though it claims to have a shipping product, startup Calix is cutting jobs to conserve cash UPDATED 5:00 PM

Silicon Optics says its software takes the guesswork out of designing the shape of complex photonic circuits

Japanese company says it can make waveguide chips at one-tenth the cost of conventional methods

The carrier posted more losses in Q2 and lowered its full-year earnings forecast and capex outlook

Existing investors are stumping up a fourth round to keep the multiservice switch startup alive

The ghost of a dead rabbit -- a mobile service that flopped -- is stalking the streets of London

Thousands of WorldCom employees look to be out of work, and they may not get their severance pay

Metro fiber player guns for more POPs, stronger Ethernet services

The Swedish operator seeks more time for its 3G rollout

This startup is working on multiple products and may be building a core router with 960 Gbit/s of capacity

The carrier's assets and operations continue in suspended animation, as it postpones its auction for the fifth time

Larry Carter would like to retire in May 2003, but Cisco CEO John Chambers may convince him to stay longer

Yep, the HipTop is finally here (sort of), but forget your gadget frenzy for a second and consider the business model

Steve Wozniak and David Hasselhoff -- together at last!

Cisco beats expectations on strong enterprise sales, but yearly revenues slide UPDATED 6:30 PM

Chipmakers need software help. Can this startup fit the bill? UPDATED 8/7 10:30 AM

Japan's No. 2 wireless operator is cagey about where it's going but could be getting on track with a WLAN rail partnership

Through big deals with Siemens and Fujitsu, ADVA Optical is flouting the slump

The broadband battle goes a step further, as the courts begin defending CLEC antitrust claims

BellSouth and Access Integrated Networks have relationship issues, and they're sorting it out in court

MCI/WorldCom will start charging customers in 11 states additional access fees starting September 1

European carriers still haven't worked out the kinks in GPRS pricing schemes

Teem Photonics buys the assets of its competitor Northstar Photonics. How are other EDWA startups doing?

The latest scuttlebutt has 360networks boss Greg Maffei interviewing for the not-yet-vacant CFO post at Cisco

The proposed merger of Avanex and Oplink has some shareholders worried. Are their reservations well founded?

Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman ceased coverage of WorldCom today, as the stock fell to pennies

Vodafone's anti-Telstra stunt backfires as it faces fines for rugby streak

Breaker 1-9! Qualcomm is the latest company to hitch itself to the homeland defense gravy train

Is working with Northrop Grumman to get a slice of a multibillion-dollar 'Homeland Defense' project

With the fiber market crumbling around it, OFS filed a patent infringement suit against competitor FiberCore today

All's quiet on whether the US Department of Defense will reconsider its contract with WorldCom

Now Sprint is the last of the US carriers without two-way intercarrier SMS

Execs realign along metro and international market lines, with bigger role for Ed Kennedy, ex-Ocular CEO

Are OADMs the optical future? A Light Reading report claims that the OADM market is growing 52% a year

Hmmm, is someone getting ready for Sprint's CDMA2000 Launch?

Rumors that Cisco's CFO may quit under a cloud seem to have tanked the stock today

European wireless operators will begin generating serious revenue from GPRS and 3G networks, says the Wireless Oracle

Consolidation intensifies as ADC, JDSU, and Bookham make moves to lighten their components load

WorldCom's former CFO and controller face fraud and conspiracy charges UPDATED 6:30PM

SBC Communications misclassified $750 million in short-term debt. No biggie, says SBC

Building Optical Networks Digitally – Scott Clavenna

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