As some providers face channel drops, DirecTV and Insight cut retransmission consent deals; Sony eyes IMAX acquisition

Legendary chairman of Clearwire's board leaves shortly after Sprint makes it known that it doesn't want to buy the rest of the fledgling service provider

It's a quiet end to the year, with mobile matters dominating the news queue

Apple's iPad wasn't the only tablet-type computer to show up this year. In this pic story, we look at 15 that debuted around the world

Verizon tests home monitoring service, Dish Network takes heat on Wall Street, and Nintendo says 3D games aren't good for young kids

1:50 PM Only telco VoIP services get the all-clear from Chinese authorities

Vodafone, SFR, COLT, Skype, and Eutelsat all feature in today's menu of tasty news morsels

Discovery names its 3D network, iPad developers face privacy scrutiny, and Boxee gets a bad review

7:15 AM Bharti Airtel has delayed the launch of 3G services in India

Nokia Siemens Networks, Rostelecom, and Polkomtel have been wrapped in today's news parcel

Leading today's cable news, Sears teams with Sonic on a digital movie service and Arris hires a new exec for its Comcast account

The launch of TV Everywhere Websites and devices drove much debate in cable in 2010. Here are some of the top TVE stories of the year

LTE equipment suppliers filled out their dance cards in 2010, but who's got the bragging rights?

Alcatel-Lucent and Telefonica feature in today's news nibbles

In today's cable news roundup, Comcast faces a blizzard of merger conditions at the FCC, and DirecTV could lose dozens of local stations

Deutsche Telekom and subsea mobile plans lead the way in today's news roundup from the Old Continent

Leading today's cable news, Comcast promises to charge low-income households $9.95 monthly for high-speed Internet access

It's once again tyme to take another jog down memory lane and have a look at the Web that was

Of the three major European telecom vendors, Ericsson is the only one to give its investors reason for any Christmas cheer

Japanese giant hits launch deadline and looks forward to the benefits of low-latency mobile data transmission

T-Mobile Austria and Huawei get it together, Technicolor sells its transmission biz, and DT thinks smart grids in today's Euronews bites

Executives from Interoute and AboveNet share views on the future of 100G transport

In today's cable news, the FCC circulates conditions for Comcast-NBCU merger and cable gains more share on broadcast networks

Rovi puts a big over-the-top video strategy in motion after buying Sonic, which touts a 10,000-title menu via its Web-fed service

10:00 AM Raising $500M was a career highlight and, getting 60 percent of your acquisitions right is pretty good

Cable operators have made progress on deploying ITV ads, but there's still a lot of work to do to create a ubiquitous platform

A next-gen wireless service, born from the ashes of Willcom, brings in some big-name vendor financing

7:00 AM The latest on the 2G spectrum affair

BT and DT clear their throats, Skype goes down, Vodafone gets its man, and Telecom Italia streams the Pope in today's festive fistful of Euro news trimmings

Node failures hit service, but where's the Schadenfreude?

4G device could be important early LTE development for the Motorola Mobility spinoff

4:00 PM Larry the Attack Monkey wishes you a carnage-free holiday season

In today's cable stocking-stuffers, John Malone could make another Euro move, Level 3 calls out Comcast, and Discovery frets about TV place-shifting

Under new unified device strategy, MSO's branding, not the vendor's, will become the headliner in all set-tops, modems, gateways, and DTAs

11:25 AM BT and Deutsche Telekom executives are the keynote speakers at our upcoming service provider IT (SPIT) conference in London

Russian government splashes $600 million on a 17% stake in Indian mobile operator

The award of 3G managed services deals in India will introduce the country's first multi-vendor agreements, believes Ericsson executive

Ericsson acquires wireless network optimization specialist Optimi to boost service provider IT (SPIT) capabilities

Ericsson goes shopping, BT comes under investigation (again), and Swisscom goes for the Bern in today's digest of Euro telecom news

6:00 AM Job No. 1 at Extreme: Focus

FCC documents detail an Internet-connected, Pace-made HD-DVR/gateway that's believed to be central to Comcast's Xcalibur trial

3:00 PM The FCC's new rules didn't please many, but cable sure seems jazzed that it likely means broadband won't be reclassified anytime soon

FCC votes along party lines amid significant concerns that the new rules won't hold up to a court challenge

Positive progress for Microsoft as handset makers stock 1.5M phones, and 18,000 developers bring in 4,000 new apps

10:35 AM Apple's new streaming box poised to reach sales of 1M units this week

9:45 AM A wish list for the slew of tablets to be introduced at next month's gadget emporium

In today's cable snapshot Hulu dominates the news queue, though the net neutrality shenanigans and a CableLabs crush are also standing in line

CLEC M&A may have peaked in 2010, driven by the need for competitors to own fiber facilities, offer cloud services, and move upmarket

The company says the abrupt departure of CEO Gilles Bouchard is no cause for panic, and talks up its 100Gbit/s potential

Baby it's cold outside... but the Euronews engine starts first time, with NSN, France Telecom, and Virgin Media providing today's fuel

With Copps and Clyburn on board, the FCC chairman appears to have the votes he needs to get his net-neutrality item passed tomorrow

Google's invasion of the TV may be off to a rough start, but all systems are still go when it comes to its integrated Dish offering

Eliminating the digital broadcast portion of its service may actually help that effort, Sezmi officials insist

Prepaid carrier launches a new unlimited wireless plan that includes unlimited music downloads for $55 per month

Busy start to holiday week in the cable world, as Google TV and Sezmi deal with setbacks while DirecTV moves forward on targeted ads

10:40 AM Expect to see many more products like this one emerge in 2011

10:05 AM Nine Indian mobile operators face retrospective bills for 2G spectrum previously awarded for free

9:30 AM Check out what some CXOs are reading for fun and inspiration

AT&T is splashing out $1.9B to buy the 700MHz spectrum that Qualcomm's been using for its FLO TV service in the US

Rajeev Suri talks to the Executive Club of Chicago about Motorola, competition, consolidation, soft-SIMs, DPI, and more

Telenor sticks its oar in, Draka receives unwanted attention, and Swisscom gets its wallet out in today's digest of Euro telecom news

Ericsson, Huawei, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Escorts all featured at the telecom show in New Delhi

12:05 PM There's more at stake than just a bunch of 10G switches and a box of donuts

Cox licenses TV Everywhere tech, Level 3 squeezes Comcast, Zillion TV's Website takes a dirt nap, and Cablevision readies a spinoff

LG launches world's first dual-core smartphone, cheap Androids explode, China Mobile updates its OS, and more in this week's OS checklist

8:00 AM How many TV cords can you cut, after all?

Mobile operator MTS India is gearing up for an IPO in the new year

MSO says Level 3 walked away when Comcast wouldn't agree to a 'zero cost' outcome without first testing a 'different architectural approach'

Orange avoids all contact, Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs teams up on video, and Vodafone does LTE in today's digest of Euro telecom news nuggets

Netflix confirms that some deals prevent it from streaming video to TiVo DVRs distributed by MSOs, but Cox's retail deal is in the clear

A move for the Mediaroom organization appears to signal the continuing rise of Xbox as a TV vehicle

Orckit plans to double its investment in India as it seeks a larger share of the country's growing Carrier Ethernet equipment market

Facebook may power TW Cable's TV Everywhere platform, Dish serves up 3DTV fare, and AT&T sparks 'Cupcake-gate' in DC

Suddenlink launches a Netflix-free version of TiVo DVR, but says it would 'gladly consider adding' Netflix streaming 'if they allow us'

Nokia Siemens Networks is reorganizing one of its main divisions and replacing the division's leader

One of India's largest mobile operators has secured a $1.93 billion loan from a Chinese bank to pay for its 3G plans

Ofcom sticks it to BT, 3 offers all-you-can-eat data, and ZTE is offen for business in today's digest of Euro telecom news

It's an M&A frenzy!

Seeking to find favor with local operators and decision-makers, Huawei lays out a five-year investment plan for India

3:45 PM Not something we would have predicted in 2005

The embattled data center vendor starts the formal process of fighting back

Says it needs more time to pick sites for its super-speedy network as it hires an old cable hand to take the reins of the project

12:30 PM The NSN/Motorola merger stew is nearly cooked, but what will it taste like?

Companies coin the concept of 'Long Term HSPA Evolution' (LTHE?) and promise speeds of more than 650 Mbit/s by 2013

Wall Street digs Comcast, TW Cable shakes up the ranks, the NFL could call an over-the-top play, while Docsis 3.0 plays more small ball

11:00 AM New legislation and new attitudes keep a fiber network on track to bring broadband service to rural Maine

9:50 AM India's authorities have dealt a blow to the country's early 3G movers by banning certain services, including video calls

Industry sources say the innards initially include an Intel chip, a custom interface from Vividlogic, and Nokia's Qt app framework

Don't head off for the holidays just yet -- there's more LTE news from Europe's biggest market coming this week

The Swedish vendor is breaking new ground in Italy with a deal to upgrade and manage 3 Italia's service provider IT (SPIT) infrastructure

Ericsson, NSN, and Transmode give it some Nordic know-how in today's roundup of European news nuggets, with Deutsche Telekom in a supporting role

Broadcom squares off with Intel with all-singing, all-dancing chip for souped-up IP-capable video gateways

2:00 PM World's first LTE network launched a year ago today

12:40 PM Nokia delays the E7 and cuts more jobs, but promises a Symbian overhaul

Comcast gets more interactive, Charter speeds up, Viacom frets about Comcast-NBC, and Mediacom's go-private deal has lawyers seeing green

Sprint says it's considering its options for additional investment or reduction of its voting rights at Clearwire

WSJ says Comcast is testing a blended Web-TV service in Augusta, Ga., as MSO looks to defend against over-the-top rivals UPDATED 7:30 PM

BT, Portugal Telecom, Telekom Serbia, and Wipro lead the charge in today's race for the euronews finishing line

Reliance Communications is the second private operator to launch 3G services in India, and is boasting of the affordability of its services

Meet 'Mux 3.0,' a budding project that looks to apply video-style bandwidth efficiency to ITV applications

5:40 PM A 60 Minutes story by Mike Wallace from 1970 offers a prescient view of the cable industry

5:10 PM Perhaps it was swayed by T-Mobile's 'HSPA+ as 4G' marketing?

Android accounts for 80% of Verizon's smartphone sales, while RIM falls to less than 20% and the iPhone looks to shake up the equation

Chicago stations join ivi TV's lineup, Time Warner chief doesn't buy the Netflix hype, and Qwest seeks statewide TV franchise in Colorado

10:35 AM Judge dismisses his patent lawsuit against biggies like Apple, Google, and Netflix, but Allen intends to amend the complaint

Remember PolyCipher? The MSO has a similar downloadable system, but it's actually been deployed and could be poised to become an SCTE standard

Four of the world's leading mobile operators highlight their 4G network plans, contrasting their choice of spectrum bands and initial technology deployment

Telecom Italia, TeliaSonera, and BT strut their stuff in today's digest of handy-sized Euro telecom news gobbets

Three operator keynotes from the Heavy Reading Summit at 4G World present their roadmaps to implement their 4G mobile broadband networks in the US, Australia, and Japan

12:30 PM Frustration with Android has the angry birds flying to the carriers

12:15 PM Com Hem's on the block, word emerges about cable's latest 'Netflix-killer,' Snapstick ties Web video to the big screen, and more

SeaChange moves most of its server R&D to China and the Philippines as it looks to make that division profitible or attract a buyer

Chief executive Gilles Bouchard resigns after a down year for the stock, prompting the return of Harry Bosco

Mobile ops just can’t get enough policy control these days, but it's not clear how far they will take their policy management plans

Operators face myriad decisions and challenges when it comes to developing an LTE backhaul strategy

Execs from all the major operating systems sound off on long-term plans, past mistakes, and their competition in this week's OS musings

9:00 AM Comcast VP Doug Jones explains why EPON was picked over GPON when cable looked to tie in Docsis provisioning for biz-class services

Comcast finds an ally in AT&T as the telco giant throws its weight into the Level 3-MSO kerfuffle

6:15 AM In New Delhi the show floor is dominated by talk of mobile broadband and stands of power systems

In India, Alcatel-Lucent and ZTE look to have landed deals worth $600M in the controversial GSM tender at state-owned carrier BSNL

TeliaSonera, Elisa, and NSN get the party started in today's digest of Euro telecom news nibbles

The company that brought Flash to the iPhone is connecting with carriers eager to reduce data strain through an alternative browser

Commission says 68% of connections fall short of its broadband speed benchmark of 4Mbit/s down, 1Mbit/s up

12:40 PM It's all peace, love, and indifference

10:50 AM British service provider IT (SPIT) vendor helps Rogers open up its APIs

Mobile operators have enough confidence in packet backhaul now and are rolling it out in volume, according to Heavy Reading analyst

9:00 AM Kristine Faulkner outlines Cox's plan to reach $2B in annual business service revenues

The EC, Transmode, Eircom, and YouView are the gang of four in today's digest of Euro telecom news nuggets

4:45 AM India's telecom trade show has opened under a cloud

3:25 PM More vendors means more complexity

Because Eric Schmidt was there, and we had a camera

AT&T buys home automation player Xanboo and partners with Elster on smart metering tech as the battle for the connected home heats up

Comcast exec says economics and interoperability are among the key reasons why cable is applying Docsis-style provisioning to EPON

11:30 AM Clearwire's Teresa Elder says WiMax offers much more than just a residential play for cable operators

Operator aims to entice more developers to the Orange App Shop with a revenue-share deal and marketing support

Nokia Siemens Networks and ZTE are confirmed as two of the 3G suppliers at Indian mobile operator Aircel

The technology doesn't match the OIF framework for 100G optical transport, but Ericsson still thinks it could be on to something useful

Rostelecom, Samsung, Orange, and so much more in today's trot through the European telecom news headlines

The fancy Apple tablet will be able to stream video from premium networks soon, the MSO's president says

The companies get even cozier, as Google says its highly anticipated notebook computer will come with a Verizon 3G modem

3:30 PM SCTE chief Mark Dzuban talks up the Society's new Ivy League ed program and runs down the org's priorities heading into 2011

3:00 PM RIM's PlayBook opens for apps, ponders 4G and Android

More C-level shuffle at the Big Red

But smaller cable MSOs want the FCC to impose conditions that protect them from paying stiff programming fees from the combined entity

2:35 PM Does anyone now doubt that LTE and other mobile broadband services could serve as cable or DSL replacements?

11:10 AM Canadian company claims Netflix, Hulu, and Google are hurting its ability to pay for domestic content and siphoning off revenue

In an effort to cut their capital and operating expenditures, India's operators are aggressively exploring network sharing opportunities

BT, Deutsche Telekom, the European Commission, and some Angry Birds are what's shakin' on the Euro news scene today

Glenn Britt says Netflix's new streaming-only tier leaves a lot to be desired, and that's why it's so cheap

Acquisitions and partnerships continue to stack up as the router giants try to boost their cloud computing mojo

A new CEO is coming on board as company seeks fresh funds and just days after two top execs depart the bandwidth-boosting tech startup

1:45 PM Google's OS release 2.3 is here with NFC support, video calling, and much more

Google is taking retail route with unlocked Nexus S, following the failure of online sales for the Nexus One

Operator beats out Vectra to land Aster for $292M and deepen Liberty Global's European cable presence

Traditionally WiMax-focused smart grid software vendor adds support for LTE, which it says will become more common in the smart grid

Working with Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, and Samsung on 'Network Vision' to combine 3G and WiMax in single 'seamless' base station

LTE will make everything faster and with lower latency, but there are certain apps it'll really amp up. Data caps beware

9:10 AM DNS server issues appear to be culprit of another big Comcast Internet outage

MSOs have started to serve businesses with wireline services, but they're positioned to add wireless to the commercial mix, too

Vodafone, France Telecom, and the UK government are on the register in today's Euro telecom news digest

India is set to witness the launch of LTE TDD networks by the middle of 2011, believes Heavy Reading analyst

After a flurry of deals for its DRM and adaptive streaming technology, Widevine lands what sounds like a nice new home

Samsung leads the Android pack, WP7 readies massive changes, and Moto spills iPhone secrets in this week's OS digest

Comcast's characterization that dispute is about peering 'could not be more misleading,' Level 3 insists UPDATED 12/4

MSO's business unit will be cracking open the bubbly next week when it breaks the annual $1B revenue barrier

Linear TV programming live on your iPad? And it's football? Pinch us. We're dreaming

Skype, Yahoo, Neelie Kroes, and TeliaSonera jostle for position in today's digest of Euro telecom news snippets

Motorola's purchase of a home automation and control vendor tops off what's been a busy week of M&A

MSO's Craig Collins says businesses with 100 employees or less are now the 'sweet spot' for TWC's commercial services unit

3:35 PM Don Hallacy, late of Sprint and BellSouth, will lead MSO's tech org until it hires a permanent chief technology officer

Optimum Lightpath's president says MSOs planning to serve mid-sized and enterprise customers will need to step up their game

The fight over Ethernet OAM could be headed to a two-sided standard, given the immobility of both sides

1:00 PM To up the ante on PlayBook and BlackBerry user interfaces

Policy management is on a roll in the mobile sector, but will it go on to assume a wider role in the network?

Telco says it shelled out big bucks to correct FiOS installation issues in New York and now it wants to conclude its review process

WiMax provider grabs much-needed funding; Sprint puts forward three new independent candidates for the operator's board

US cable's poised to hit a big commercial services revenue milestone while still leaving plenty more to siphon away from the telcos

No smartphones yet, but early adopters could expect a speed bump over the oft-quoted average download speeds for Big Red's '4G' service

Ofcom, Iliad, and Genband are the attention-grabbing pop-ups in today's digest of Euro telecom news headlines

Egyptian wireless operator Mobinil sees 35% response rate for personalized, interactive mobile ads

5:35 PM Qualcomm CEO says mobile TV will happen, but who knows how

5:20 PM The pricing plans are very much business-as-usual compared to Clearwire and MetroPCS

To combat revenue leakage, operators must adopt a centralized and integrated fraud and revenue assurance strategy

Bucking expectations, Verizon intros LTE at a lower price than current 3G laptop data plans

Consumer groups say new framework is a sell-out, Republicans say it's not necessary, and Verizon wants a broader overhaul of the rules

FCC puts forth a plan for TV broadcasters to make more efficient use of their spectrum, freeing it up for mobile broadband services

12:30 PM '4G' LTE coming this Sunday

Network management software firm appears to give Cisco some smarts in offering computing and storage as a service to network operators

12:00 PM Pick your Ethernet chipset wisely

UK MSO's broadband-connected, TiVo-powered offering will cost £199 and be subject to a monthly service fee

Infamous file-disclosing site takes to the cloud; 2011 predictions start warming up; and more cloudy ideas

9:30 AM Society to help groom cable engineers for leadership roles via partnership with the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Nortel says sale of Chinese R&D unit to Ericsson for $50M marks the last of its big asset divestitures

TeliaSonera, O2, and Orange do LTE, while BT looks skywards in today's digest of Euro telecom news headlines

The consumer and government units will go their separate ways just ahead of CES in 2011

In the biggest LTE TDD market, China Mobile reveals its trial plans and expectations for chipset development and device availability

4:30 AM Australian WiMax operator tests LTE TDD