Ethernet microwave has lingered in the background for years, but lately mobile operators have begun to sit up and take notice

It looks as if the cable industry's mad rush to embrace switched digital video has slowed to a painful crawl

The first commercial mobile WiMax network in the US is being launched in the upmarket ski resort of Jackson Hole, Wyoming

GuideWorks adds mobile, visiting users to its network with TippingPoint appliance

Bringing new meaning to the 'Electric Boogaloo'

Cable engineering society looking to head in a new direction, with plans already underway to find a successor by year-end

Contentinople takes a stand

Jocelyn Philbrook, VP of corporate marketing and investor relations, hits the road as her is job split up

New CableLabs data shows that Netgear has become the latest modem supplier to join the Docsis 3.0 certification club

It's a good move. Here's why

The worse they taste, the better they are

President and CEO John Clark is leaving the cable engineering organization... UPDATED 5:25 PM

First steps toward all-IP flat architectures

Happy Birthday, Frozen Waste State!

More and more vendors are polishing up their Polish

France Telecom has decided not to bid for TeliaSonera

Vodafone closes in on majority stake in Ghana Telecom

C&W agrees improved offer worth $656M just ahead of its self-imposed deadline, but THUS still thinks it's worth more

Cisco still blankets the market, but Juniper is coming on strong as interest in managed services heats up

Bits and bites and StrataLight

NEC fancies the NetCracker suite so much, it's forking out $300M to buy the OSS firm

Contentinople trolls for new Web video excitement

Oh, sweet folly of youth

Mobile operators are facing new measures from the EC's Viviane 'The Plumber' Reding that could hit their top and bottom lines

Everything you ever wanted to know about the quiet giant of mobile operating systems

Snappage from this week's show in Philly

Japanese cable operator says it'll have all its systems wired up for the speedy spec by the end of this July

More notes from a recent AT&T Labs visit

The battle for control of Yahoo's board rages on, as Contentinople analyzes the most recent letter from CEO Jerry Yang

Basil Alwan tackles questions about deep packet inspection, routing startups, whether optical and Ethernet will ever be truly united, and how Alcatel-Lucent’s platforms are prepared for IPv6.

WDM PON has the potential to unite the warring FTTP tribes, and may not be as far off as we thought

Ethernet-based backhaul deployments are scarce because mobile operators don't trust the technology, according to a carrier survey

Another 100-GigE test and a T1600 customer

Cisco gains some ground on BigBand as Canadian MSO makes first foray into the bandwidth-saving world of switched digital video

Deploying tru2way is high on operator agendas, but even the biggest opreators are still ironing out some significant kinks

BT adds to its IT capabilities, as does Telenor

Rival vendors Cisco and Arris hope to make sweet optical music together

British operator in acquisition spotlight

Verizon is taking on AT&T in North Texas

CEO Wolff hunts for an established European partner to help turn the WiMax trailblazer’s international dreams into reality

Patrick Pichette, come on down! (From Canada!)

Apple has cut more than $50 from the manufacturing costs of the 3G iPhone, according to research outfit iSuppli

IT company adds marketing to old consulting practice and wrings a story out of us – d'oh!

On Contentinople, IDC predicts 15–20% annual growth in Web ad spending – but is it enough to take on print, TV?

Cox targets 'limited' deployments for the third quarter, while Comcast ponders wiring up more than 20% of its plant this year

Comcast exec looks to be aggressive with WiMax once Clearwire deal clears regulatory hurdles

Indian regional operator IDEA Cellular acquires Spice Telecom for around $754M

More visuals from the CommunicAsia 2008 event in Singapore – IN COLOR!!

No need to wait on wireless broadband

Vodafone wants the industry to start thinking about taking femtocells out of the home and onto the streets

New tool gives MSOs increased visibility into the operations and performance of switched digital video systems

Vegas thrills, taunts, and teaches us stuff

French regulator cracks down

Going forward, we need to eradicate management speak...

Thomson jilts femtocell partner ip.access and integrates home base station technology from Airvana into its home gateways

Nokia's buyout is a bid to make the Symbian OS 'the most widely used software platform on the planet'

I think not

Media gateways have been stuck in the 'where are they now?' file, but they may be ready to start generating market buzz again

Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo says his company’s wireless network will be able to deliver 42 Mbit/s on the handset by the end of 2009. “We’re not waiting” on ubiquitous 4G networks, he says.

AT&T comes late to the CDN party and PermissionTV gives users tools to make video interactive - on Contentinople

Nokia Siemens has developed an all-in-one optical platform for all distances, but at least one analyst doubts whether it's needed

India's Tata Communications is boosting its stake in South African operator Neotel from 30% to 56%

'Angry blackbirds' descend upon Chicago

Comcast goes quiet on WiMax femto plans

Photos from a NXTcomm cocktail caper

Add John Chambers and water, stir

SBC vendor gets more cash, seeks new CEO

Be careful what you say: You may be talking on a bugged cellphone

Will Comcast's latest acquisition boost its distribution clout with studios and help tighten movie release windows?

With Apple and Google shaping up to challenge for mobile OS bragging rights, Nokia takes control of Symbian and forms a new industry body

Goes after Akamai and Limelight with new content delivery and digital media solutions, names partners

No, not from Henry Nicholas

AT&T, Microsoft, and Covisint are teaming to deliver a nationwide e-health service that will move paper medical records online

The struggling optical company shows signs of life after its modulator passes Telcordia muster

Telecom Italia and FastWeb claim a 'first' with their plan to share the passive infrastructure parts of their next-generation networks

And it's going where only its carrier customers used to tread

Veoh founder Dmitry Shapiro talks trash about Hulu, while Veoh inks a deal with ABC

A majority of FCC Commissioners vote to uphold a complaint by three cable MSOs that Verizon used illegal tactics to retain phone customers

Maybe not, as devices are still due later this year, according to the search giant

Do telco TV and Internet video really have to be at odds?

The market for modules in one-way devices remains stagnant while the footprint of 'operator-supplied' CableCARDs continues to grow

A big number that seems worth noting

Comcast reveals intention to deploy WiMax femtocells as part of its participation in the new Clearwire consortium

CMC says it will distribute VOD fare in the more efficient format after it finalizes a new deal with SES Americom

Jim Hansen, SVP, Network Services for Embarq, says IPTV’s economics don’t always make sense and he talks about how Embarq plans to fend off competition from WiMax services.

XO’s CTO Randy Nicklas discusses the demand for 100 Gbit/s services and elaborates on why one single, big backbone pipe may not yet be as smart a buy as several smaller bandwidth connections.

Executives from Ericsson AB discuss the company’s acquisitions and how they fit into a larger goal of helping operators build great video services.

Vendor enters the 'RF over Glass' mix as cable operators look to deploy FTTP systems in spot situations

Chipmaker unveils new range of optimized, integrated femtocell chips that will dramatically cut the cost of the home base station devices

This year's NXTcomm was sporting an Ethernet look, with deployments, backhaul, management, and PBT leading the discussions

More digital delights from last week's show in Las Vegas

Will the company's realignment really make a difference?

Industry sources say RFI seeks a wide range of FTTP options, including 'RF over Glass' and cable-friendly PON schemes

Org opposes a three-year waiver request sought by Evolution Broadband for a simple digital terminal adapter (DTA)

Executives from Ericsson, Telus, and others weigh in on the economics of IPTV. Are transport savings enough to justify an all IP experience? And once we have an all IP network, then what?

Heavy Reading analyst Sterling Perrin discusses the US market for telco TV and talks about the advantages cable has over telcos, and vice versa, as all are trying to penetrate and dominate the market for consumer video services

NXTcomm 2008 is history and the show’s executive director explains what the show tried to accomplish – and several attendees weighed in with their thoughts as well

Visual splendors from the CommunicAsia 2008 show in Singapore

With its new VDSL2-capable Total Access 1100, Adtran is looking to market more heavily overseas where the technology is widely used

IPTV next steps, real and imagined

Cellular carriers are talking big numbers from wireless broadband as data becomes more important for revenues

Please stop saying that

Nokia Siemens CEO clams up on IPTV, Alcatel-Lucent pumps up its renamed video server, and Amino faces acid test

Seventy-seven percent of respondents in survey from iSHARE say they prefer a phone with a removable battery

At NXTcomm, CableLabs president and CEO encourages telcos to cooperate with cable and adopt the 'open' tru2way platform

Maybe instead of looking at them as a new problem, we should consider smartphones as a potential security solution

Feast your eyes on our Las Vegas leftovers from NXTcomm 2008

MSO tells FCC officials it must manage P2P services, but adds that it continues to 'seek even better ways to manage our network'

MLB could use a strong telco partner as it looks to upgrade its streaming media capability in the next few years

IP video services are still in the early stages of development in Singapore, but the government there has put into place some measures to provide fiber access to its residents - a move that will encourage development of wireline and wireless networks alike, as well as a boom in consumer video services. At CommunicAsia 2008, our International Editor Ray Le Maistre tapped into the excitement surrounding IPTV, while still notching out a little time for some virtual golf and a spin around the track

ECI’s president and CEO Rafi Maor explains how carriers can provide scalable services and why managed services is a tempting business for vendors

The U-verse team in Atlanta explores some 'what-ifs'

Major Sonus shareholder takes on the board

Net Insight's video transport solutions are well known in the broadcast world. But as Bergt Hellstrom tells LRTV, increasingly it is telco service providers who are now talking to him as IPTV ramps up in Asia

Taiwan's Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. Ltd. is keen to engage and learn from other carriers as it embarks on its video services strategy. The carrier's VP of business development and multimedia services, Roger Chen, says Far EasTone is about to embark on an initial test of IPTV services, with some receiving the trial service across a DSL line and others over a WiMax connection

Singapore operator MobileOne Ltd. (M1) is looking forward to being part of the island's iN2015 initiative to hook up every home with fiber, a move that will help the 3G service provider break into the fixed services world. M1's CEO Neil Montefiore’s excited about becoming part of Singapore's new breed of ServCo as M1 moves from its mobile services base into the fixed line world. There, the planned 1 Gbit/s of access capacity per household will enable a whole raft of services, su

Contentinople checks out 'eMerging' medium, quotes loudmouthed Yahoo exec who says online HD is a sham

Remember Frank Dunn? He and two others are facing criminal charges going back to Nortel's restatements of 2003

Ericsson has upped the GPON ante by showing off a 10 Gbit/s version of the technology

Baltimore is first with mobile WiMax because the operator wants more information on data usage for the new network

India's operators signed up 8.61M new mobile subscribers in May, for a total subscriber base of 272.71M

Korean operator is using 'universal' edge QAMs from Harmonic to power the downstream component of a new modular CMTS architecture

Cable could get a 'once-in-a-generation' subscriber boost when the digital TV switch gets thrown

The managing director of BT's integration group talks up next-gen video and the changes hitting Web 2.0

Ken Hertzler, Director, NEC Corp. of America says virtualizing the data center can save CPU cycles, power, and money.

Top execs from Ericsson AB and Hitachi Telecom (USA) Inc. discuss several aspects of interactive content’s standout qualities and what it means to carrier networks.

Sun Microsystems’s Greg Calhoun talks about how his company can help service providers be more energy efficient

Top execs from Ericsson and BT talk about the definition and possibilities of telepresence

NEC’s Naoki Satomi discusses IMS and its challenges

NEC’s Yoshichika Iida talks about the future of optical networking

IPTV is already well established in Asia/Pacific, but this week's CommunicAsia event has shown there's room for plenty more growth

Analyst: SEC filing indicates Dish and AT&T are closer to a divorce than a merger made in video heaven

Can't blame Level 3 for this

And about time!

There's no holding back Ericsson's Jan Wareby when it comes to the new multimedia opportunities enabled by today's networks. Across both the fixed and mobile worlds, and not least when it comes to TV and video services, Asia is at very the heart of the latest developments

Radware’s David Aviv explains the role of application delivery controllers in the next-generation data center.

ECI’s chief marketing officer, Laura Howard, explains the effect convergence is having on carrier networks and how systems vendors can do more to go green

Decision time for FT, Telefónica, and VOD

Femtocell vendors have their say

Scott McNealy just loves the iPhone

Sprint CEO Hesse tells NXTcomm that its Baltimore mobile WiMax network will be the first market to go commercial in September

Ethernet services and the decision to put off PBT are helping Alcatel boost its 21CN presence substantially

Microsoft snaps up Navic Networks as it looks to paddle alongside that big, cross-MSO advanced advertising initiative

Today's news from Contentinople

Verizon showed what it's playing at this week's NXTComm confab, but will cable do the same next week in Philly at the Cable-Tec Expo?

As expected, the Flashwave 9500 has won the bid to join Tellabs in Verizon's FiOS backbone

Groups of cellphone users can collaboratively monitor a variety of things and make the data available on the Internet

Worldmax launches mobile WiMax in Amsterdam as the wireless broadband industry gathers here at the WiMAX Forum Global Congress

Transylvania politics

Deal gives Microsoft a place at the table as cable industry embarks on major advanced advertising initiative

Like you didn't see that coming

Another first for the MSO's business services division

Heavy Reading's Patrick Donegan reveals his findings after researching the IPTV market in Asia, And when it comes to video in Asia, carriers there are more focused on offering video services over mobile devices than their western counterparts.

BT's Maria Pardee says there's a new network required for the new ways that people are communicating. The future, for network operators, is all about adding value to the network

Verizon plans to make its top 50-Mbit/s FiOS offering available throughout its entire FTTH footprint

Excitement over China and UK deals

BT fumbles award, and gets even greener

Giant vendor predicts 56% growth in its non-domestic Asia/Pacific business in 2008, and a 44% global growth rate

Nokia Siemens touts a 4G-like approach to 3G networks with a flat radio access network product

Today's news from Contentinople

MSO says part of proceeds will be used to finance a big, one-time cash dividend to MSO stockholders

How do broadband providers continue to make a business selling connections when speeds are going up, and prices are constantly falling? We asked Embarq's SVP of strategy, Dennis Huber, and he fills us in on how value is added to broadband and what the next wave of video services will include.

At CommunicAsia, Singapore's Infocomm authority sets sights on turning island state into 'a digital media and entertainment capital'

Demand for both fixed and wireless lines may be flat in North America and Europe, but lines aren't everything

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson kicks off NXTcomm talking about railroads and Walkmen

Alcatel-Lucent snaps up remote broadband subscriber management specialist Motive for nearly $68 million

Tellabs is ready to test the WDM-PON waters as part of the three-year Sardana trial in Europe

Lowered forecasts sock Infinera's stock, but the company can turn to its first Tier 1 announcement for comfort

Optical vendor lands Euro Tier 1 deal

Today's news from Contentinople

Vendor quietly becomes the latest to enter the market with a 'protocol agnostic' system

Executives from Mintera, NEC, and Verizon talk about some of the latest developments in optical systems deployments – and how the market as a whole is holding up

Redback's video crew skedaddles in Seattle

Total IP traffic will reach half a zettabyte that year, according to the Cisco report

<i>Light Reading</i> editor Phil Harvey and <i>Unstrung</i> site editor Dan Jones discuss the possibility of usage-based pricing for broadband services with LRTV host Fritz Nelson

How mobile WiMax and LTE will spell the beginning of the end for satellite radio

Cisco's still king in the carrier Ethernet switch/router sector, but competitors are starting to chip away at its lead

Solar goes from Intel

Executives from Ericsson define and discuss the phenomena known as Digital Natives.

It's brother against brother in a fight to merge Reliance Communications and African mobile operator MTN

More content, less bandwidth

Chip company's latest buy brings it all the way down the wire and into the home network

Office buildings will get to subscribe to FiOS, too, as part of a footprint expansion Verizon announced today

CableLabs president and CEO sizes up tru2way and DCR+, gives a Wideband status report, and discusses the similarities between Docsis and WiMax

Don't be a slave to techno-fashion – ignore the 3G hordes and keep your old iPhone

How mobile WiMax and LTE will spell the beginning of the end for satellite radio

But there's a catch

Ganging up on the 'ecosystem' thing

Italians price the pre-pay 3G iPhone

The call for entries is coming soon

Some of the most interesting optical developments to expect at NXTcomm

I'm not listening anymore

Today's news from Contentinople

RIM has been resisting pressure from Indian security officials who are demanding a way around its encryption

Sunday mornings will never be the same

A walk on the electronics side

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

GPON will be on full display again at NXTcomm 2008. But this year WDM-PON is starting to be part of the conversation as well

United Arab Emirates leads 19 Arab nations in telecom connectivity, according to Arab Advisors Group

MSO's VP of video engineering talks tru2way, bandwidth management, and the state of cable competition

That other MSO-led downloadable conditional access system venture says its platform will have no trouble supporting tru2way

Research reports show Huawei ahead of Alcatel-Lucent in DSL port shipments in Q1 2008

EU regulator back on the mobile data warpath

Today's news from Contentinople

Yahoo broke off all talks with Microsoft regarding a deal or alliance and now is reportedly closing in on a search deal with Google

$17.5B... in nine years' time. Hmmmmmm

VOIP vendor has its eyes on rubles and renminbi

For some customers, the upgrade is just a modem powercycle away...

WiMax operator aggressively talks up spectrum and speed advantages over more established rivals such as AT&T and Verizon

Comcast regulatory filing details the tru2way accord, outlining deployment commitments for July 2009 and a potential get-out clause

Tellabs has filed a lawsuit of its own against Fujitsu alleging that its FLASHWAVE product line infringes upon a WDM-related patent

A word to the wise: Pay your cable bill on time during this economic downturn

Speed is the creed

Dot your I's and cross your X's

Tellabs CEO and TIA Chairman Rob Pullen wants 'market dynamics and capitalism' to prevail in the Internet services sector

Chewing the fat on the 'new' Clearwire

Alcatel-Lucent has swapped out its chief marketing officer

He's left Cisco twice before for startups, but this time it's Ericsson that lands the router guru

Nortel ends its own WiMax access development and turns to new partner Alvarion to shore up its 4G story UPDATED 10:45 AM

Verizon will address scalability issues with VPLS in its metro Ethernet networks using Nortel's PBB technology platform

Report claims Panasonic TV set failed the tru2way test, but CableLabs says CE firm has 'ample time' to hit scheduled product rollout

We've spotted VRADs on poles? Check out the pictures

The new 3G iPhone will be available on top-up contracts as part of Apple's new strategy to boost consumer take-up of the device

Has the cable industry lowered the cone of silence over Docsis 3.0?

Today's news from Contentinople

Vendor claims new 'DePON' system can ramp up capacity and coexist with cable's Docsis infrastructure and operating systems

Not that GSM technology. The other one

If it's good enough for Safaricom...

Cisco's purchase of Denmark-based firm should put more bloom on the tech giant's ROSA network management system

Former Cisco star Charles Giancarlo takes the helm at Avaya

Outgoing Vodafone CEO gets $50M send-off

Nokia Siemens Networks continues its streamlining process with the sale of a niche enterprise optical equipment division

The iPhone's hot, but not enough to make a big Canadian telco change networks UPDATED 6/11 1:20 PM

An switch chip moves the network processor startup into a battle against the kingpins of Ethernet

Today's news from Contentinople

See the world as it is, not as you pretend it to be

Former BT executive Pierre Danon is back at the service provider front line as CEO of deux French operators

'Seems standoffish'

Ad man takes helm of Canoe Ventures LLC, the advanced ad initiative backed by six major US cable operators

Cheap stairway to heaven

Telecom's center of gravity has shifted from the US and Europe to Asia and the developing world, and it's not coming back

No super regulator for Europe

How to get fat

Or: Headlines you probably won't be reading after the DTV transition

John McCain wants to know if you've heard of this Internet thing

iPhone subsidies will hurt earnings to start

InformationWeek analyzes the iPhone 3G announcement and the two big surprises therein

Already renowned for its fine wine and smelly cheese, France is set to add to its fame by being the first market to deploy 3G femtocells

Report says June 10 will mark the formal coming out party for that big, cross-MSO advanced advertising initiative

Nokia is the latest vendor in the snooping spotlight

Europe's awash with acquisition speculation

Safaricom rises on its first day of trading

Ofcom delays one auction, plans another

Startup unveils WiMax base station chip that combines backhaul capabilities and announces plans for an LTE product

CEO Ed Mueller said that Qwest will be on the low end of its 2008 guidance and that substantial revenue growth won't come anytime soon

With AlcaLu's 7450 box firmly in its sights, Redback is gunning for some carrier Ethernet market share with a new line of switches

Not at the same time, of course... Infinera, RAD, and Gridpoint lead the first wave of early NXTcomm announcements

Five consumer electronics firms, all with products developed or on the way, have joined the tru2way camp

Canadian operator's 'additional use' policy and communications plan may serve as a blueprint for other MSOs

Speculation about Spice Telecom in India and South Africa’s Telkom SA is hitting the headlines this week

Today's news from Contentinople

It's heeeeeere!!!

Earning the 2.0 tag

Vendors are now pushing IMS as a key enabler for IPTV, but is the technology really ready for prime time?

E-MTAs from Arris and Motorola get Docsis 3.0 and PacketCable 1.5 stamps from CableLabs following Wave 59 UPDATED 6/9 12:15 PM

Iliad is in exclusive talks to buy Telecom Italia's French operations in a deal valued at €800 million ($1.27B)

Please do not feed the chairman

Plotting the 70 countries that should have the iPhone by the end of this year as the world waits for Apple's 3G move

Wire-and-cable firm Belden shells out $133M for wireless LAN switch vendor Trapeze

When too much is too much

WLAN box maker gets bought. But did they make any money?

I scream, you scream, we all scream for iPhone!

The CEO talks of Tier 1 targets and a big revenue ramp during the next couple of years

With online video viewership exploding, is it possible that telcos shouldn't have got into the TV business in the first place?

Today's news from Contentinople

Time to ban the badge wallets

Does that make gaslight post-punk?

Green creep is throwing up some alternative RFIs

Sol Trujillo says carriers have to be brave and place some major bets if they're to survive

Time Warner Cable's latest chapter as Los Angeles's primary cable caregiver not a happy one

Motorola, Cisco, and NDS take control of a downloadable conditional access (DCAS) project originally helmed by an MSO-backed venture

The VOIP vendor has laid off some staff as it looks for outside partners to help fuel growth

Henry Nicholas surrendered to authorities today after being indicted for drug possession and stock-options backdating

Today's news from Contentinople

New owners, new structure, and 5,000 new layoffs

Verizon, Comcast, and MTV examine the threats of pervasive content distribution at Advertising 2.0

Newbridge founder and TV broadcaster back IInuk NetworksPTV startup

Pubwatch – better than Neighborhood Watch

Brit co-owner confirms Verizon Wireless takeover of Alltel UPDATED 5:35 PM

Scandinavian powerhouse says France Telecom's $41.75B takeover offer undervalues the company

But investors find a way to worry, citing its WWP acquisition as a possible drag on this year's earnings

Is Verizon how Alltel gets to the 4G party?

Comcast's CTO discusses WiMax, tru2way, Docsis 3.0, the road to 'all-digital' and that 'protocol agnostic' project

To IP or not to IP? That is the question facing carriers as they ponder the advantages of all-IP networks

Holy Schadenfreude!

Report suggests Verizon Wireless might buy up Alltel for $27B, only months after Alltel agreed to a private equity buyout

New strategy accelerates 3G network upgrade

Comcast says it's ready to take its new 'protocol agnostic' system out of the lab and see how it behaves in the real world

Today's news from Contentinople

The 'silly pricing' in the emerging markets is shifting away from infrastructure deals to managed services deals, says Beresford-Wylie

While most of the optical industry has been outsourcing, a handful of suppliers have taken the innovation edge by 'insourcing'

Telefónica, iPhone, Spain

Russian operator reports 117% jump in profit following acquisition of Golden Telecom, and buys remaining 49% stake in Corbina Telecom

It's likely you don't live in Comcast's first two 'protocol agnostic' test towns, so here's what the MSO is telling cable modem subs there

Femtocell standardization nears reality as 3GPP decides on an architecture and starts work on a new standard interface

A WSJ article indicates Icahn wants the Yahoo CEO fired, perhaps driven by compensation issues

Vodafone now favorite to buy Euro triple-player

Nortel's optimistic from the top down

Insight CEO notes a 'threat of regulation' is one barrier preventing MSOs from striking premium broadband deals with content owners

We'll need faster networks, greater processing power, and more memory and storage before we have a true mobile Web

EXFO's recent acquisition of Brix Networks may give EXFO a critical early-mover advantage in testing IPTV video-stream quality

Why the small screen can be a big pain

Today's news from Contentinople

The Verizon Business/Swisscom alliance provides a good example of how to tackle some next-generation service dilemmas

NSN's big cheese says the vendor's ongoing product portfolio review will be driven by potential and profitability – so PBT is out!

Pilot with new Internet subs in Texas could signal a shift away from all-you-can-eat billing models

But is it coming to a market near you?

The Supreme Court of Canada will hold an expedited session to hear BCE's appeal of its blocked privatization deal

Premium programmer is migrating the bulk of its HD networks to MPEG-4, with Motorola cast in the role of transcoder extraordinaire

No full moon tonight over Holland

The Metro Ethernet Forum has completed the first phase of its groundbreaking Global Ethernet Services Directory project

Eternal shelf life

Nokia Siemens Networks's new head of radio access Marc Rouanne aims to unseat Ericsson as the top dog in the radio access equipment space

Comcast seeks 'intercept engineering' expert. The blogosphere shudders

A shrug-off from Verizon, in the wake of BT's reported rethinking of PBT, puts another question mark over the technology's future

BT decision to dump PBT in favor of MPLS is a blow to the emerging carrier Ethernet technology, but not a killer blow, says one analyst

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Why 110% mobile penetration is BS, and 300% is real

Is it just me, or does the new Cedar Point CEO have gobs of M&A experience?

Orange earns an A- on its latest scorecard thanks to impressive data services growth and a financial turnaround in its Western European markets

Operators are deploying new Ethernet access solutions to help control costs and facilitate the creation of new revenue-generating services

By monitoring everything at the edge, the vendor claims operators can keep close tabs on the health of switched video and VOD services

Indian real estate firm and telecom license holder Unitech has started the process of setting up its new mobile operator

Zayo has acquired the assets of Northwest Telephone, mostly IRUs which allow it to offer more point-to-point connections

South African incumbent is in talks for a takeover by an investment consortium while selling a stake in Vodacom to Vodafone

Box vendor all but confirms it has scored a DTA deal with Comcast

Intel says it’s ready to re-enter the mobile handset market

Asset swaps and acquisitions worth more than $70B have begun in China, where the carriers are forming three giant operators

Nokia partners for content, says report