Also in today's EMEA roundup: AlcaLu looks to raise $2.65B; Windows Phone has brighter outlook in Europe; KPN and FON make beautiful Wi-Fi together

Network operators can overload you with data about upgrades. But ask about a network outage and the silence speaks volumes

The company brings its OpenFlow strategy into a virtual switch, making friends with Microsoft in the process

Verizon wants 300,000 customers off copper in 2013; can it speed up the process with 4G?

Also: Most pay-TV subs still don't use TV Everywhere services; Blockbuster to close another 300 stores; WOW's got a new CFO

Customers vent their fury over major U-verse outage on social media and wonder why AT&T appears unconcerned that they have no Internet access, TV service or phone connection

In today's EMEA roundup: Ericsson to buy France's Devoteam; Telefónica gets Smart M2M; Comverse cuts jobs

Some major Android brands face serious competition from hungry Chinese rivals, reckons Ciqual, and we're not talking about Huawei and ZTE…

Chinese vendor unveils more detailed 2012 numbers and sales guidance for this year

Also in today's roundup: Telefónica cuts Czech jobs; Firefox phones move closer; Nokia launches 'print-your-own'

The build-it-yourself CDN hasn't taken off before, but cloud-software provider OnApp thinks it knows why.

France Telecom suggests it will be compensated by Google for Web giant's traffic volumes

Ciena has been the most vocal about its 100G wins lately, but Alcatel-Lucent might have something to say about that

Direct-to-bill payments platform specialist is one to watch

Motorola Home is now considered 'discounted operations' – in the eyes of Google's accountants, anyway

Also: NCTA prez says usage-based pricing keeps broadband costs in check; SCTE calls off 2013 Canadian Summit; Comcast X1 simplifies the remote

Pension charges, Superstorm Sandy and smartphone subsidies drag down AT&T's fourth-quarter financials by about $10 billion

In today's EMEA roundup: The return of Olli; Telenor backhauls with Huawei; Google finds new UK HQ; Free stays single

Comcast has upgraded most of its fiber backbone to 100G, and is using some software-upgradable interfaces from Ciena to blaze a future push to 400G

Sprint promises 28 new LTE markets 'coming soon' as it approaches 67 towns and cities with the new 4G

As one operator deploys 100Gbit/s, NEC trials a 1Tbit/s superchannel

Also: Blockbuster UK goes bankrupt; LOVEFiLM gets it on with NBCU; Suddenlink appoints commercial services president

Mobile player eAccess has an interesting set of new stakeholders…

Could KPN and/or EE be in AT&T's sights? Also: Nokia outsources staff; Orange broadens its Horizons

TWC says Netflix is 'seeking unprecedented preferential treatment from ISPs' by forcing them to join Open Connect in order to gain access to its highest-quality streams

Executives described more details of Cisco's SDN strategy, positioning the company on the offense in a plan to simplify IT

C-Spire plots three more 4G markets as NSN reveals an LTE contract win with U.S. Cellular

Irish packet-optical vendor says its platform development strategy means it's all set for wide area software-defined networking (SDN) architectures

Is Colt's new service model a FaaS-track for femtocells?

Also: Comcast might speed up rest of NBCU buy; US cable TV homes takes a dip; Cox lights up $250-million startup incubator

Major managed services deal covering fixed and wireless networks

With a Disney deal in tow, upLynk pitches a simplified TV Everywhere that stores one format in the cloud and relies on client devices for the heavy lifting

Alcatel-Lucent has new tech leaders in Wireline and Wireless divisions; 100G success for Transmode; backhaul in Bulgaria

Massive attendance for our research preview webinar shows that software-defined networking is THE network technology hot button in 2013

6:00 PM -- 40% of all 4G LTE networks use 1800MHz – good news for global roaming, bad news for the US

The company finally articulates an SDN plan, offering a vision of elastically scaling services running in the cloud

Smartphone OS hopefuls are lining up to challenge Apple and Google in 2013

Early in 2013, Service Provider IT (SPIT) firms are proving to be money magnets

Shaw calls time on its wireless ambitions; analysis of Comcast's Arris investment; Liberty Global strengthens Euro portfolio; and more

Also in today's EMEA roundup: Orange and Baidu are browser buddies; French watchdog warns against mobile mergers

A deal for 10.6 million shares will give Comcast and Google an equal 7.85% stake in Arris when its $2.35 million acquisition of Motorola Home is closed

Lloyd Carney has sold companies to Oracle and IBM; maybe he can do something similar for Brocade

Frank Dunn, Douglas Beatty and Michael Gollogly might not have managed Nortel well, but a judge says they didn't do it fraudulently

More than 50 suppliers – set-top vendors, chip makers, app developers, and integration/testing firms – have joined Comcast's expanding lineup of reference design kit licensees

Last week's CES suggests the gadget economy is still strong, even if there was no 'must have' toy for 2013

With Tier 1 customers already under its belt, Big Data startup Guavus is looking to expand

Also: Ex-Ericsson exec gets Com Hem CTO post; Big Data startup lands big bucks; Liberty's Horizon expands to Switzerland

AT&T suggests LTE will be an excellent alternative to DSL with rural areas looking like prime candidates for future 4G broadband

9:00 AM Smartphones have bigger mobile data appetites than tablets in Europe

Also in today's EMEA roundup: France Télécom – Orange details Africa plan; Kroes sets out pan-European stall; BT's smart iPhone app

Sure, I wasn't even there, but I heard all about multi-screen gateways, bring-your-own-device models, UltraHD and being Netflix-like

A judge also orders an injunction against A10's infringing products, but A10 claims it has removed the code in question

11:20 AM Signs of renewed femtocell momentum raise questions for the public access small-cell market

T-Mobile will be the first operator to offer LTE-Advanced in the US with a Vegas launch; here's where it might go next with the new 4G

Also: Tricked-out, Moto-made FiOS TV servers near launch; Liberty's Horizon gateway cracks open more apps; Netflix 'Super HD' demo doesn't impress

Carrier-led Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) group preps first meeting in France, facing a very tough task

Also in today's EMEA roundup: Telefónica Digital invests in London startup; Firefox phones are Europe-bound

Comcast brings X1 to its corporate backyard, marking the sixth market to get the IP-capable video platform

The deal for XDN appears to be more about cloud management software and less about creating CDNs

Kick off the new year with two online events examining software-defined networking's mission to transform the telecom landscape

Also: Digitalsmiths gets personal with TWC; Aereo CEO makes market share prediction; Comcast braces for whatever Apple's actually doing

10:00 AM Independent mobile operators needed to bridge Europe's growing data price divide, finds study

Better-than-expected performance by devices business and Nokia Siemens Networks in fourth quarter

Under the radar, AlcaLu has acquired one of the few remaining independent Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS) vendors

Also in today's EMEA roundup: Huawei brings R&D jobs to Ireland; study highlights lack of 'challengers'; Libya cable cut

FCC wants to open up much more 5GHz spectrum to unclog Wi-Fi networks and enable faster 802.11ac technology, but will the device support be there?

With dozens of vendors signing up to work with Comcast's next-gen platform, Huawei decides to get in on the action, too

11:00 AM That's provided the chief globalisation officer sticks around after his move to the US -- which sounds doable

10:45 AM The place-shifting pioneer might open up a new revenue stream as it gets sue-happy. The strategy worked for TiVo, anyway

Also: Verizon eyes broadcast TV via LTE; Google tags NYC with Wi-Fi; Arris stirs in Entropic's MoCA; ActiveVideo activates apps program

10:10 AM French ISP's ad-blocking strategy could be the start of a struggle between network operators and OTT players

Dish tries to outbid Sprint with deal to buy a stake of at least 25% of Clearwire alongside a $2.2B offer for a tranche of the operator's 2.6GHz spectrum

Bulking up 4G in big US cities is plain good sense for AT&T as it shifts 10M smartphones in Q4 2012

Aereo also lands a $38M second round as it gears up for the first phase of a nationwide expansion ... if the broadcasters don't kill it first

Also: Dish Sling-loads the Hopper DVR; Entropic, Humax team on Comcast IP-only box; AT&T's home security play; Cox targets second screens

11:00 AM Broadcom exec says we shouldn't rule out the development of a 32-channel Docsis 3.0 chip

Broadcom launches Docsis 3.0 chips for modems and gateways that can bond 24 downstream channels and reach max speeds of about 1 Gbit/s

Also in today's roundup: AlcaLu's geomarketing tie-up; Telekom Austria rubs its murky 2013 crystal ball; Brits suffer BYOD security breaches

Execs say AT&T's U-verse locations are heading for 100Mbit/s, with big wireline improvements reaching its other broadband customers, too

Verizon CEO hopes for "three or four" healthy mobile OS platforms to spur innovation in the marketplace

The $5B acquisition contributed big pieces to the latest version of Cisco's multiscreen video platform, unveiled at CES

Arris and Pace have unleashed versions of the XG5, a Comcast-specified gateway that ships IP services all around the home

1:30 PM Heavy Reading's Stan Hubbard interviews Dror Bin, the president and the CEO of RAD Data Communications

Also: Broadcom and Pace team on the Xi3, Dish unleashed second-screen app; Charter & Suddenlink rise in the Netflix ISP rankings

In today's roundup: Gloomy revenues and earnings forecast for Western Europe's communications service providers; Telefónica raises eyebrows; SFR's capex; and 4G in Israel

9:30 AM As its Developer Summit kicks off in Las Vegas, it's worth looking back at AT&T's network evolution

The Broadcom-powered RNG150N will access recorded content from the primary X1 box and support Comcast's new cloud-based user interface

Yes, you have no bananas

1:30 PM Heavy Reading's Stan Hubbard interviews Zeev Draer, vice president of strategic marketing for MRV's Optical Communications Systems division

But its 16-channel chipsets are already behind Intel's Puma6, which can bond 24 downstream channels and approach 1 Gbit/s

4:45 PM Sanjay Jha (formerly) of Motorola sees 4G gold in LTE-Advanced, but getting startups in on the game won't be so easy

Apple is looking for an engineer to work with its partners on 28nm process chips, promising smaller chips for the iPhone and iPad in the future

Also: LodgeNet swings a bankruptcy deal; Rovi puts video download service up for sale; Arris and Moto notch tech Emmys; EPIX hits the PS3

9:30 AM New year message makes all the right noises, but can it deliver on its stated corporate and cultural aspirations?

Also: Austrian mobile acquisitions finally completed; Swede gets recognition for mobile developments

Revenues to exceed $35 billion and profits up by nearly 30 percent, according to internal memo

Israeli vendor says some of its recent deployments are for 100G while it's taking a cautious line on SDN

CommScope expects to add Docsis capabilities to its CCAP by year-end as it gears up to compete with Cisco and Arris

Also: TW Cable reups with CSG; Sling Media founder sells another startup; Alticast adds video smarts; TW Cable makes a small buy

Buffalo was the slowest wireless city in the USA on average in 2012 but things might be looking up in 2013 with 4G LTE upgrades boosting downloads

Also in today's regional roundup: InterDigital's patent salvo; spectrum costs lead telco to the banks; OSS firm revises 2012 forecast

Also: TW Cable bids for ex-Bresnan systems; Netflix CEO gets a fat raise; FCC OKs airline broadband rules; CSG, Comcast extend their deal

11:00 AM OpenFlow and Path Computation Element (PCE) will be part of EANTC's annual multivendor Carrier Ethernet/MPLS interoperability test

Also in today's first regional roundup of 2013: Ericsson in Egypt; Apple store raid in Paris; Italian broadband plan approved; Iraq IPO