And it may be a popular one at that
Subscribership grew across the board for Time Warner Cable in Q4
After more than a decade of posturing and dabbling, the telcos have finally gotten serious about delivering video entertainment.
Indian mobile carrier Reliance beats analysts' expectations with a 198% increase in third-quarter net income
Interoperator carrier doubles SMS and MMS delivery from 2005
Billionaire might force a Moto showdown
Session border controller vendor is losing key executives, is nearly out of cash, and still doesn't have the big win it craves
Analyst downgrades Tekelec on fears the company will close its switching business in the absence of a buyer
Cox boasts that it ended 2006 with 3.4 million customers
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Mobile giant now has more than 200 million subscribers, but says it won't overpay for India's Hutchison Essar to add to its base
Q4 comes in on the money, although future growth will come with increased expenses
No. 2 handset vendor works with TI for devices to coincide with Sprint's WiMax launch
Tellabs and Adtran blame the AT&T merger for poor Q4 numbers, but could the carrier's aggressive fiber plans also factor in?
Comcast Corp.has made good on its threat to challenge the FCC's upcoming ban on integrated digital cable set-top boxes
Three new markets, higher speeds for wireless broadband network
The provider of Asterisk, the open-source PBX, hires a new CEO and VP sales; creator Mark Spencer will become CTO
Is the iPhone a good deal for Cingular? Not according to Verizon
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Biz-focused WiMax operator grabs the wireless assets of one-time network rival
Alcatel-Lucent benches its internal developments and rallies around Microsoft for its IPTV software
OMG! I forgot to consolidate!
Moto's PR agency touts the Super Bowl HD issue and zings Scientific Atlanta
Public listing set to value optical components vendor at up to $930 million
A new category of ultra-low-cost home base-station equipment could be about to redefine the cost structure of 3G services
Money can't buy everything
Video gear vendor's stock is on the rise
Time Warner Cable intends to extend the service to another dozen markets by the end of the year
Internet video now a bigger piece of network traffic than P2P file-sharing
A problem that is only occasionally solved
But Verizon Wireless keeps pace with Cingular, adding over 2 million new subs in Q4 2006
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But Verizon Wireless keeps pace with Cingular, adding over 2 million new subs in Q4 2006
You had me at 'Thetan'
Need help carrying that 5 oz. phone?
The smart antenna technology goes metropolitan in this week's new technology roundup
AirWave debuts new management software for hybrid WiFi/mesh/WiMax deployments
Tough domestic market forces Deutsche Telekom to scale back its earnings forecast for 2007
Big North American cable operators are finally beginning to roll out switched digital broadcast technology
MRV's Luminent subsidiary is going public, taking startup Fiberxon along for the ride
Earnings (yawn) season: Jargon-plagued calls need spice
Heavy Reading finds telco TV players may pay top dollar for exclusive sports programming as a way of winning subscribers
IDC says holiday sales and developing markets drove handset growth past 1 billion units in 2006
Another publishing revolution
Boston VCs rarely show real courage, and pull out of companies too quickly, while Silicon Valley will stick with a company
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And it gives you a golden tan
French incumbent, with 600,000 telco TV users, wants other carriers to join with large IPTV deployments
Decentral.tv hopes its upcoming video sharing platform, kyte, will unite mobile users and Web users in real-time UPDATED 2/1 10AM
It could be years before the networking vendor sees a profit from WiMax deployments
Palm adds Direct Push to native OS
Interference on the muni WiFi network has Google looking at a powerline option, an analyst says
Interference on the muni WiFi network has Google looking at a powerline option, an analyst says
AT&T reports a healthy Q4 and says IPTV and fiber-to-the-node are still its 'Plan A'
Cable engineers debate the successor to the 'triple-play bundle' phrase
Most kids didn't grow up to be cowboys
While still hoping to find a buyer, the pseudowire gear vendor has ceased regular operations
Slovenian vendor has licensed some IPTV middleware assets and assembled a set of partners to build a complete IPTV package
Time to get serious about restricting cellphone use in cars
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Sales in developing markets propel the No. 1 handset maker to a record-breaking quarter
One of Lucent's most charismatic senior executives, former VP of broadband solutions Rob Piconi, is out the door
2006 revenues total $192M
Bad sounds abounding
How Motorola's reliance on its popular RAZR line helped hasten its downturn
RGB Networks and EGT are both bringing out network edge products to help MSOs process new video services and content elements
Adding 2.4 million subscribers, AT&T unit enjoys 'best-ever' quarter
Cablevision has rolled out switched digital broadcast technology in its New York area cable system with BigBand
Industry sources say Nortel is shifting its IPTV strategy away from partnerships and more towards technology ownership
The latest denial-of-service warning out of Cisco relates to the CRS-1's operating system
Magyar Telekom and Slovak Telekom are in full deployment. Beijing Netcom has started trials
That ZTE optical switch is actually a Ciena CoreDirector
Adding 2.4 million subscribers, AT&T unit enjoys 'best-ever' quarter
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Founder Henry Nicholas didn't benefit from back-dated options, but he shares the blame for them, a Broadcom report states
India's largest mobile operator beats analysts' expectations with a 123% increase in net profits
With all due respect, of course
Broadcom's backdating billions
The cable industry has finally started dealing with the prospect of an impending bandwidth shortage
If only World of Warcraft were a telecom service
Bundled with services from Movero, Treos at $30 per month
Startup says its P2P servers could help operators add more diverse video choices to their IPTV offerings
Does powerline play?
Acme Packet has finally cracked the cable cone of silence
802.11n just became a huge white elephant
With the ability to serve IPTV content, Microsoft's Xbox could cause set-top providers to worry
Dismal results from three telecom giants have one common theme: bad user experiences
Tellabs releases disappointing Q4 earnings and predicted a flat-to-down Q1 for 2007
Bobby Johnson gets the chairmanship pulled from under him, but he remains CEO
India's largest mobile operator beats analysts' expectations with a 123% increase in net profits
Technology to make us happy in the pants
With Centrino upgrade, giant chipmaker boards 'pre-n' bandwagon
Preliminary Q4 numbers send the newly formed company's stock into a Tuesday morning tumble of nearly 11%
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Preliminary Q4 numbers send the newly formed company's stock into a Tuesday morning tumble of nearly 11%
RIM works with Lotus, Nokia and Sony Ericsson sync, and Kyocera personalizes broadband in this week's new-product roundup
One can't help but chortle
New nodes shift software operating modes, offer flexible deployments
Device wars dominate... whither Zune?
The company could file its S-1 within weeks, sources say
Despite its disappointing Q4 numbers, Motorola recorded very strong broadband equipment sales
As Nortel and Siemens trumpet their contract awards at BT, other vendors are joining throwing their weight behind PBT
Do home base stations pose a health hazard?
Parent of the Chinese mobile operator acquires Pakistani mobile operator Paktel in its first acquisition abroad
Parent of the Chinese mobile operator acquires Pakistani mobile operator Paktel in its first acquisition abroad
Cisco's iPhone has its 'violation' issues, too
The long march towards a new WLAN standard appears to be nearing its end
BPL will boost its subscriber total to a mere 2.5 million by the end of 2011
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The startup takes $20M in new funding and announces the general availability of its converged access device, the SSX
A 30-Gbit/s modulator is Intel's latest step towards silicon photonics. Luxtera, meanwhile, says 10 Gig is just fine UPDATED 6 PM
The startup takes $20M in new funding and announces the general availability of its converged access device, the SSX
The gang that couldn't think straight
Ethernet over copper is a hot story, with Actelis following in the footsteps of rival Hatteras with a new funding round of its own
Going on a Safari
Analyst's report criticizes terms, says a city-owned network is 'feasible'
Three of the nation's top MSOs have begun rolling out mobile phone and video service to cable subscribers
Well placed source says Canadian carrier may have taken a stake in the wireless triple-play startup Ruckus Wireless
Word on the street is that Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent are planning to exchange some assets
Siemens says it is discontinuing a key piece of its old TDM switch lineup in North America
Mideast carriers connect with partners in Asia/Pacific as they expand both at home and abroad
This is where you've seen the iPhone interface before
Upheaval at TeliaSonera, Russia's Sistema Eyes Telecom Italia, and the EC is worried about a telecom infrastructure disaster
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With record holiday sales hit by falling margins, company will cut headcount by 3,500 UPDATED 1:30 PM
Raise our children for us!
New devices due out in '07 to add multimedia capability to full-size BlackBerries
Stock surges in after-hours trading as JDSU says revenues will blow past estimates
Or, why 3-in-1 doesn't fit all
Industry sources say Harmonic must either get bigger to survive or find itself a larger suitor
Tellabs is going without a CTO as Tom Gruenwald retires
With the Syndesis takeover in motion, Subex's CEO is raising $200 million to fund the acquisition
VCs favored content delivery networks in 2006 for their ability to deliver large files to broadband consumers faster
Citigroup predicts RAZR maker will reduce workforce in light of Q4 results
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uControl is counting on broadband service providers to add home security
They have only themselves to blame
France Telecom is on a musical mission
Indian revenue assurance specialist Subex Azure has agreed to a $164.5M deal to buy OSS firm Syndesis
Cisco's marketing expertise won't help with its consumer-electronics plans, analysts say
'Celltop' feature aims to change the way users interact with handset content
IPod holiday sales send earnings soaring; iPhone forecast less robust
They turned voice communications on its head, and now Skype's founders are set to do the same in the IPTV world
The long-awaited bidding contest for Terayon is heating up
Many analysts are downgrading Cisco's stock after a hugely successful 2006. Does it deserve it?
Company will use the new money to forge new media partnerships and to expand internationally
Innovative startup PhotoVu faces big competitor
Sources: Network giant may invest in UK home base station startup
Netflix is finally ready to embrace the 'Net' in its name
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Spanish giant says revenue growth and capex for 2006 will be even higher than expected, driven by broadband and mobile demand
VeriWave, vendors foresee rapid development of MIMO-based wireless LAN equipment
A tubby panda is such a turnoff...
Many Light Readers aren't feeling good about the future role of service providers
This post is not about Web servers
Financial and industry analysts generally lauded the bold move by Arris to scoop up digital video specialist Tandberg
WiFi phone specialist eyes a dual-mode future
Switch vendor hauls in series F funding and finally shapes up for an IPO
Apparently not the Big Three wireless carriers
An OS with some junk in the trunk
It's weird out there
Nortel says there's more PBT business to come, and that it can make Ethernet as easy to manage and operate as legacy DS1 lines
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IPTV middleware player says it's in the early stages of acquisition talks with a number of companies
UK Bluetooth maven spends $75M for GPS that's as cheap as chips
Is that a conflagration in your pocket?
Mad about football
Big TVs, hot handhelds, robots, and regulators marked CES 2007. Here's another installment of photos from the show
India's mobile operators added 72 million subscribers in 2006, a figure that's driving interest in Hutchison Essar
Cable systems vendor offers $1.2 billion for encoding specialist Tandberg TV
Reliance could plant its FLAG Telecom business in the London Stock Exchange to raise $500M
BT commits to controversial Ethernet technology PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) by awarding contracts to Nortel and Siemens
India's mobile operators added 72 million subscribers in 2006, a figure that's driving interest in Hutchison Essar
Restatements for the past four years might drive some buyers away from Terayon, one analyst thinks
Smaller cable operators are worked up about the FCC's rejection of Comcast's request for a waiver of the upcoming integrated set-top ban
Ubiquity's share price shoots up more than 80% as IP PBX vendor offers $145M for the SIP application server specialist
Nothing brings out the hate mail like Apple
AT&T to launch massive rebranding effort next week
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Not as easy as it looks
Taiwanese JV marks new, consumer-oriented phase of WiMax development
The Xbox nudges out set-top boxes, while Verizon goes virtual with free LAN services and digital payments
Rival says PMC's major Korean EPON buildout doesn't wrap up that market
Upcoming Cisco networked device will allow media sharing in the home and access to all kinds of IP content from the Internet
Early-mover status presents mesh provider Tropos with advantages, challenges as consolidation looms
And it's surprisingly business-like
Says it will appeal the FCC's denial of its plea for a waiver from CableCARDs
This little piggy went to arson school...
Are cable-ready TVs really out there?
After a fruitful 2006, Amdocs revises its revenue outlook and sees more than 10% sliced off its share price
Could consolidation trump everything this year, and make telecom a battlefield?
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Will IPTV dumb down your TV?
Teaming up with joint venture of Sprint and four big MSOs to deliver mobile TV service
Yahoo shows it can bring TV to your living room, without help from service providers or cable MSOs
Optimum Lightpath plugs into 2,000 commercial buildings in New York
Pet-shop worker has psitty luck
Tech writer collides with Destiny
Set-top security rules are going to be enforced, FCC chairman says at CES
Operator tells Unstrung why the new Apple handset is priced just right
Operator tells Unstrung why the new Apple handset is priced just right
Apple never secured a licensing deal to use the iPhone name, Cisco says UPDATED NOON
Apple never secured a licensing deal to use the iPhone name, Cisco says UPDATED NOON
The two are keeping up a united front on IPTV, but Cisco's moves may soon put it at odds with Microsoft TV
With iPhone, Apple ignores the 'finger-grease factor'
Pair have come out with competing integrated chipsets for digital cable set-top boxes
Apple's iPhone gets about what you would expect: a collection of rave reviews – and some skeptical ones
Apple's iPhone gets about what you would expect: a collection of rave reviews – and some skeptical ones
With the AT&T/BellSouth merger finally complete, will equipment vendors see a needed rebound?
The OSS giant is revamping its internal structure based around new business units and has extended major contracts with two RBOCs
A swirl of images from the Fellini-esque circus that is CES 2007
BSNL is planning a $450 million upgrade of its broadband network as it prepares to launch IPTV services
Time to leave Las Vegas
Cisco gets a piece of Apple's iPhone
Media saturation around the globe
When it comes to the Start Over service, it's awards time for everyone
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...'til tomorrow
Sprint shows off new mobile WiMax tech and plots a more ambitious initial launch in late 2007
Sprint shows off new mobile WiMax tech and plots a more ambitious initial launch in late 2007
With really, really big implications
The latest tidbits from the Old Continent
While Jobs wows 'em at Macworld, feds continue backdating probe
CEO John Chambers's CES keynote focuses on the new, simpler home network Cisco dreams of building
CEO John Chambers's CES keynote focuses on the new, simpler home network Cisco dreams of building
Two of the nation's four biggest MSOs have inked new deals to back digital cable-ready TV and set-tops based on standards
Macworld announcement launches iPod maker into tough cellphone market
When it comes to covering big product announcements, Unstrung prefers not to pile on
The wonders of the deep... again and again
NJ Senate to broaden its constituency
Carrier forecasts flat revenue, increased expenses for '07; shares drop 10 percent
Carrier forecasts flat revenue, increased expenses for '07; shares drop 10 percent
VOIP is front and center as Verizon debuts its FiOS-branded WiFi kitchen phone
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The Apple phone is reported to be near as vendors duke it out in a tighter and more competitive phone market than ever before
Sitronics aims to raise more than $500 million from an IPO in London and Moscow to fund growth
It's mostly obscene human tricks
Has developed the ability to send short text messages from cellphone to TV
And customers lose in battle over network-over-satellite rights
Is that a stun gun in your pocket, or... Aaaggghh!
But only FiOS customers with new Moto boxes will get enjoy the new Internet video, gaming, remote DVR programming features
New configuration standard projected to improve security in homes and remote offices
The company has 'created' a COO position for the second time, filling it with Macromedia's former chief
CDMA maven plots dual-mode cellular 'home base station' using Airgo tech
Vonage reaches for new business by piggybacking on EarthLink muni networks to give users WiFi access
Vonage reaches for new business by piggybacking on EarthLink muni networks to give users WiFi access
Sorry, there are no brief briefings
InGrid officials think new broadband and wireless technologies can be used by consumers to watch what's going on at home
It's your dream house, Cisco hopes
Passage to India
Does John Madden care whether you're watching on FiOS?
Will 802.16 sink or swim?
Newly signed SF muni deal has a provision for future wireless broadband
Today's most notable Net video nuggets
Vendor's fourth-quarter suffers from AT&T/BellSouth merger kickback and other thrifty carriers
My brush with Gateness
Fuhgeddabout Vonage or Time Warner keeping the VOIP crown much longer
IPTV and 'Home Servers', but little mobile, on Microsoft's menu in Vegas, where Bill Gates moans about the lack of true connectivity
IPTV and 'Home Servers', but little mobile, on Microsoft's menu in Vegas, where Bill Gates moans about the lack of true connectivity
Sharing PC-based digital content sounds great, but Internet TV pioneers say Apple's upcoming iTV device may be a tough sell
Contract, which doesn't mention Google, still needs Board of Supervisors approval
KT plans to hook up 800,000 homes this year, using gear from Dasan and chips from PMC-Sierra
Some scammers can be so catty
If you've been wondering how much the top guys at BigBand Networks make, wonder no more
Broadcom, Marvell rethink the numbers
Carrier Access shares are off 10% after this week's quarterly profit warning – but can it all be blamed on Cingular?
Resolving issues in the IMS applications layer, which currently has all the clarity of a pool of mud, will be key to seeing real progress on IMS in 2007.
Nokia named as fourth major supplier for high-profile US WiMax network
Disappointing earnings pre-report heralds tough times for cellphone makers
Today's most notable Net video nuggets
IPTV made some important progress in 2006. Here are 10 of the most important moments
Carriers searching for coherent, consistent price plans, says Unstrung Insider
Michael Hatfield has started Cyan Optics, another broadband access-ish sort of startup (we think)
Redback is going out with a whimper, as its last full quarter before the Ericsson merger will fall short of expectations
Moto mojo dominates this look back at the biggest cable tech deals of 2006
JDSU finally gets into the wireless network performance market, while Symmetricom buys its way into the hot IPTV test market
Second try could be $1.13B charm for the low-cost cellular operator
Don't try this on your cat either
Motorola's newest phone fails to meet great expectations set by the RAZR
Success boils down to three key elements
LanOptics gets the call
Today's most notable Net video nuggets
More interesting tidbits to share from the FCC cable pricing report
The sky is falling, and it is a common occurrence
Broken cables slow Hong Kong; Carrier Access cracks up
New 3G broadband technologies improve wireless network economics, allowing service providers to offer faster and lower-cost data services.
Taiwan incumbent has a $4B capex budget for the next five years and plans to spend $1.8B of it on FTTH build-outs
Cisco works to blend network security and messaging security in $830 million deal
Thus spake Cletis
Bandwidth, bandwidth, and... panda porn? Welcome to the best posts from Light Reading's blogs in 2006
Research foundation sues manufacturers over alleged patent infringement
FMC could take priority as Cingular morphs into AT&T
Combined worldwide shipments of cable data and voice modems surged to another record high in the third quarter
Five really bad PR items from '06
Forks out $54M to buy out its fellow investors in SigValue, a specialist billing and service creation vendor
A new sprinkling of funding is aimed at boosting the database vendor's partnership with MySQL
Multi-band phones from SpectraLink advance corporate telephony overhaul
Duncan Clark, Chairman of BDA China, says that as soon as TD-SCDMA, China's homegrown 3G standard, is ready for primetime, Huawei and ZTE will have a big stake in China's mobile future
Hi-tech goes slumming
Ancient cure for explosive rumphius
Get pumping, you slobs!
Researchers have released two Bluetooth hacking tools that let an attacker control a victim's machine
VOIP systems vendor's stock jumps 6% after trading update boasts of record orders
Plug yourself in to the Neuronet
New WiFi Net radio is cool, unless you're an iTunes user
Carrier launched service in 11 markets during 2006, shy of the 15 to 20 markets it originally projected
Another enterprise WiFi startup could be considering a public offering this year
Three cable operators are working to license a new set-top that could challenge Cisco and Motorola in smaller markets
2007 looks like another year for major activity in Europe, with Portugal a hotbed
Another enterprise WiFi startup could be considering a public offering this year
Telecom ruled in '06. Who knew?
Wondering about the major carriers, mobile email, and the Next Big Thing
The Brits are really quite mad
Good tidings for the cable industry with Chinese New Year around the corner
I’ll bet it wasn’t $60K cell phone
French UFO sightings are set to go online
Essar Teleholdings joins the bidding for the controlling stake in its joint venture mobile operator, Hutchison Essar
Essar Teleholdings joins the bidding for the controlling stake in its joint venture mobile operator, Hutchison Essar
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