5:45 PM The carriers, Google and Apple all seem well positioned to know even more about their users than they did before

A hosted SDV platform from Adara could help Cisco find new inroads into small and mid-sized cable operators

The femto startup could be shopping for a buyer as it looks toward an IPO, but there's no match made in heaven for the UK company

OSS transformation would be easier if complex systems could migrate to the cloud, but that will take time, standards and more work

Also: Comcast eyes $1B theme-park deal, Charter waives post-storm box fees, FCC turns down the volume, big changes at Pace

Nokia issued a surprise Q2 warning of lower net sales and operating margin and scrapped making annual targets for 2011

Mavenir lands $40M in funding and snaps up messaging specialist Airwide as it looks to expand its LTE efforts

France Telecom sets out its five-year plan and eBay leans on Ofcom in today's regional roundup of telecom tidbits

Early AT&T LTE users could find themselves defaulting to 3G a lot, as neither Ma Bell or Verizon will confirm a roaming deal for the 4G tech

12:05 PM It probably wouldn't, but a clause in its SeaChange deal gives the MSO 'a right of first offer'

eBay-owned payments company says Google stole its executives and its trade secrets around mobile payments

Also: Dish revs Blockbuster promo, Cablevision pushes retrans consent reform, Cox starts rowing with Canoe, ESPN gives MPEG-4 the nod

Cisco is about to launch a new managed services offering for telecom service providers that want to target SMBs

8:30 AM Comcast finally 'fesses up to its secret Xcalibur project. Here's a blow-by-blow on the project-that-shall-not-be-named

This week: African cell towers, social-ites in AME, upcoming Country Intelligence Reports, PON's future

8:00 AM Dublin's stormy weather was the perfect backdrop to a trade show designed to address the rough times ahead for telecom

If you're going to do anything 'multivendor,' there's one vendor you really can't leave out. (Sorry, Juniper, it's not you)

Nokia commits to Symbian (for a while, anyway), MTS reports Q1 and eircom feels the heat in today's corral of Euro telecom headlines

A source confirms that Arris is in talks to add more video software by acquiring its rival

Was your product RUS accepted? Really? Congratulations. The world no longer cares

If Cox ends up sellin' its spectrum, who's buyin'? And will the FCC even allow it?

Google Wallet supports credit-card payments and promotions using NFC on Sprint's Nexus S smartphone

Light Reading heads to Shanghai to find out about China's FTTH revolution and talks to Heavy Reading about the transport network requirements and business cases associated with FTTH rollouts

1:00 PM -- Joe Weinman and Randy Bias are both very pro-cloud but are forecasting very different weather ahead

12:30 PM The mood, if not the weather, was sunny in the Irish capital

Also: TW Cable jacks broadband speeds in Maine, Shaw raises broadband caps, Skype suffers outage, Rovi CEO is retiring

MSO will use the MIT campus to kick the tires out on a cloudier, more versatile IP-based video system, says The Wall Street Journal

Rather than avoid competing with Amazon and other Web cloud providers, KT is trying to outdo them

8:00 AM Apple is dominating mobile video, but can it have the same catalyzing effect on the lackluster market for mobile TV?

Ofcom study finds mobile broadband in the UK is rising in popularity, if not in speed, while Telefonica looks to make more job cuts

The latest transition in optical networking is turning obscure chip-design houses into acquisition targets

5:40 PM That one went supernova, too, right?

The company's fadeout has a lot of milestones, but this is one of the most visible

12:55 PM With only 15 markets planned for AT&T's LTE this year, the 4G version of the iPhone may be farther out than originally thought

Singapore's StarHub updates on mobile data patterns, the benefit of all-IP backhaul and the growing role of customer experience management

12:25 PM Deutsche Telekom's CTO and CIO are 'Bridging the Chasm' by bringing the operator's network and IT teams closer together

Elsewhere: CableOne grapples with Joplin tornado, AT&T shops U-verse on Lifetime, VUDU gets button on Vizio remotes, HBO rolls social TV site

AT&T's 4G network will go live in five cities this summer with 15 or more markets up by the end of the year

Heavy Reading chief analyst says it's not just service providers that need to learn how to combine telecom and IT know-how for future developments

Intel processors soup up small cells from UK femto firm Ubiquisys

Multi-national banks are willing to buy cloud services but they want service providers to understand their business first

Cox to 'decommission' its 3G network and piggyback on Sprint as it looks to launch wireless service in half its footprint this year

MSO isn't planning to adopt UBB policies for cable modem services, but the tools are in place if it should ever change its mind

In an unprecedented display of unity, Deutsche Telekom's CTO and CIO sing from the same hymn sheet and give the industry a set of demands

1:15 PM Microsoft is highlighting few key features of Mango, but it's all the updates together that make it competitively viable

Elsewhere: Samsung reaches connected-TV app milestone, Cablevision founder invests in social media research, cable MSO sues DirecTV

11:15 AM How else will the 4G upstart reach its FCC-mandated target of covering 100 million people by the end of 2012?

Nearly 500 new WP7 OS updates include a focus on social networking and people, more localized Web browsing and better app integration

10:00 AM Customer experience management has at last found its way to the frontline of service provider strategies

At least, the mobile operator would prefer organized layers of network operations, rather than the messy spaghetti bowl

New diagnostic tools help service providers pinpoint problems that are likely to emerge as more devices are broadband-enabled

Spanish spectrum auction attracts just two bidders while Internet heavyweights rendezvous in France in today's EMEA telecom roundup

8:05 AM AT&T's Kevin Peters urges telecom operators to focus on their best assets for offering cloud services and mobility

Fifty-two more cities are getting the superfast HSPA+ service, and there's a smartphone and possibly a tablet in the wings as well

Verizon's FiOS updates hint at a future where hardware is virtualized, set-tops are dead and a low-latency, high-speed network is the fastest computer you'll ever need

Qualcomm says that sourcing LTE chipsets with 3G support isn't a problem for Apple; Qualcomm has the multimode chips ready to go

Next-gen access network initiatives may accelerate AlcaLu's cable strategy, but the vendor is still weighing the risks and rewards

The business of building China's networks is not always pretty, and the tough questions aren't going away

New rate plans offer a variety of data caps, but slow data speeds once the max is reached instead of charging overages

LightSquared will work on test markets in 2011, as more early details about its GPS work in Vegas trickle in

Moving to cloud-based services that are device- and network-agnostic is the best way to ensure a profitable future, exec says

11:25 AM Mobile quality measurement startup RootMetrics is ready to get embedded across the Atlantic

Global Telecom & Technology agrees to buy PacketExchange for $20M in a bid to expand its network reach and customer base

Elsewhere: TiVo streams Hulu Plus, some VoD vendors skip CableLabs interop, House probes Comcast's hire of FCC Commissioner

Obama, the wind and another Icelandic eruption

It's a face-off between AT&T and Verizon's application and LTE innovation centers as the operators strive to attract developers

But the fight's not over as Verizon tries to block Cablevision from importing Cisco boxes that support the MSO's network DVR service

DT takes a peek at Poland, Spanish spectrum auction is ready to roll and SPIT-fest comes to Dublin in today's digest of Euro telecom news

You know there's plenty to talk about in optical. Now see who did the talking at our recent Packet Optical Transport Evolution conference

This week's Light Reading event discussed life with OTN, life after 100G and the life (or lack thereof) of IP over DWDM

4:05 PM AT&T tests of LTE at 29 Mbit/s look good on paper, but recall that Verizon was seeing 50Mbit/s downlinks in tests in 2009

A recovery in Cisco's switching business could take a while, and lower margins might simply be a fact of life from now on

A new Business Solutions leader looks to re-energize Nokia Siemens Networks's efforts in the service provider IT (SPIT) sector

Only 21 years after the last analog switch was retired, TDM switches are being displaced by IP technology at a quickening pace

10GPON is the logical next step, but some are already looking toward the generation beyond that

Also: Comcast earmarks cash for minority entrepreneurs, John Malone bids for Barnes & Noble, MSOs get SMB kudos

This week: Wholesale Applications Community, mobile social networks, Algerians leapfrogging 3G, Latin American telcos, Ethernet innovation

On today's plate of Euro tidbits: euNetworks acquires German rival, UK mobile operators take on Ofcom (again) and mobile wallets are go!

Mycom gets a new private equity backer in a recapitalization process

6:10 PM Telecom equipment makers are expanding everything they do in order to help find and define opportunities in cloud computing

Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin says OTN carries packet traffic better than a packet-based system can handle TDM traffic. Do you agree?

Benu Networks may follow the RiverDelta Networks game plan and eventually be spun into Motorola

Hunter Newby outlines his plans for putting more fiber in the ground where it's needed and leasing access to carriers to help them achieve fast networks at lower cost

2:30 PM Euro telecom vendors are software giants, apparently

Verizon CTO touts the speed of its FiOS fiber network and LTE, which he says are necessary to cope with the pervasiveness of video

Shamim Akhtar advocates quickly picking 1-terabit as the next gen of optical networking and avoiding old 100G-versus-40G squabbles

Swedish giant's new chief marketing officer is keen to promote the company's software and IT credentials

The Wholesale Applications Community represents a credible solution to the challenges posed by telcos' rivals

Also: Cisco may shed Linksys and WebEx, DirecTV tests set-top-free interface, Comcast defends FCC hire, HBO Go to stream Thrones early

Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin outlines the recent tech advances that have enabled more packets to be moved along fiber routes

The dream of a converged network is still haunted by the lack of a converged control plane

Dr Shen, director, Broadband Department, at China Telecom's Shanghai Research Institute, talks about the carrier's decision to deploy fiber-to-the-home and the anticipated benefits that will bring

Google promises fix for Android Wi-Fi security hole, LightSquared GPS interference reported, RIM sells 250,000 PlayBooks and more

Reliance Globalcom's Shankar Narayanaswamy takes the mic and tells us what's so great about GMPLS

Sounds really grand, doesn't it? Wait 'til you see the growth chart, though

Plans to build a network that can control the chaos, but says it will need more spectrum and T-Mobile to do it

Level 3's Paul Savill talks about the carrier's struggle with the economics of 100G and provides a network update for his metro customers

Swedish LTE operator takes position on over-the-top VoIP services: Users will have to pay

Elsewhere: Hulu may delay access to free TV shows, BigBand expands switched digital video deployments, AT&T upgrades Total Home DVR

TDG analysts detail the 10 ways that pay-TV providers can embrace over-the-top content and make it work in their favor

Ericsson wins seven-year managed services deal that will see 700 Clearwire staff transfer to the vendor

Exec for the LTE wholesaler says it aims to start field trials in Q3 and launch commercially early next year rather than by the end of 2011

Ericsson considers a bid for Nortel's patents portfolio, MegaFon's profits slip and BT goes with Motive in today's telecom smorgasbord

Service providers are past the point of questioning the value of cloud services, says TM Forum hot shot Martin Creaner

6:15 PM Does the anticipated 'S'-prefix stand for 'stopgap' while we wait for the real 4G iPhone?

If tablets and connected TVs someday make set-tops disappear, cable must be careful that its ITV ecosystem doesn't vanish along with it

Sprint CEO confirms talks with Clearwire about network sharing but says that an announcement about future 4G plans will wait until summer

Elsewhere: Cox expands wireless rollout and Time Warner invests in BlackArrow

11:00 AM -- Former AlcaLu exec Mike Quigley linked to Costa Rica bribery affair

Major European operators join forces to encourage LTE device support for 1800MHz spectrum

Netflix is now the largest source of Internet traffic in North America, according to Sandvine's latest tally of service provider data

Ciena is also getting a slice of the vendor action as Comcast rolls out Ethernet capabilities to target mid-sized businesses

Vodafone reveals full-year figures, Samsung launches LTE initiative and Etisalat is promised a royalties reprieve in today's digest

As its full-year profit is hit by charges, Vodafone announces a deeper relationship with Verizon Wireless

World IPv6 Day could swamp unprepared customer service centers as test reveals 'broken' IPv6 connections

While AT&T questions the entire wholesale model offered by 4G startups like LightSquared and Clearwire

Delayed Samsung Charge makes a weekend debut as Verizon's next 4G smartphone

Finnish company rebrands its services strategy to just plain 'Nokia,' as talks of a Microsoft acquisition escalate

Also: Comcast lights up MetroE, Netflix gets Miramax flicks, DirecTV preps premium TV play, FCC-er's Comcastic move draws critics

It's more base stations on lampposts for LTE, but has this startup cracked the small cell management nut?

Ergen stays as chairman, but Joseph Clayton is set to become president and CEO as the satellite TV giant continues to reinvent itself

Carrier's M2M chief takes the team and all of T-Mobile's M2M operations to aggregator and longtime partner Raco Wireless

Vodafone's mass-market smartphone, an optical IPO, French LTE and a look at Azerbaijan in today's roundup of news snippets

Transmode to list in Stockholm in a move that values the Swedish transport equipment vendor at up to $241M

Here's a quick music slide show recapping our coverage at Interop 2011 and the Cloud Carrier Forum

Many service provider experts are disappointed by the lack of technology innovation on the Ethernet front

1:30 PM Comcast was wrongly blamed for blocking the file-sharing site, so who was at fault?

It's all about Google as it unleashes its first Chromebooks, updates Android, overtakes RIM in the US, and struggles to gain enterprise acceptance

1:00 PM It's not a life-changer for everyone, but a Chromebook can be a fun and even useful toy

12:00 PM Deutsche Telekom's CTO and CIO prep joint presentation on the future of telcos

Elsewhere: Hulu nears deal with Big Four networks, Time Warner invests in set-top data firm, Cablevision fires at Qwest

Ever hear the statement that 'everybody' is using merchant Ethernet chips? Here's a partial list of 'everybody'

Another sign of usage-based billing coming to the US, as a Tier 2 MSO follows AT&T's lead

Light Reading Mobile breaks down the key metrics for US wireless operators during the most recently reported quarter

This week: Windows Phone, Skype, mobile social networks in AME, Ethernet Over Wavelength, Packet-Optical Transport Evolution, connected TVs

Domestic problems fail to suppress growth at Telefonica and Vivendi while UK regulator Ofcom anticipates a small cell boom with LTE

The Spanish giant's revenues increase thanks mostly to growth in Latin America, but domestic issues prevail and its profits are shrinking

Gleaned from hours of discussion at Interop, here are the big cloud trends influencing service providers

Strong sales to Comcast helped Pace vault past Motorola in 2010 set-top box shipments

Running a cloud isn't going to be all that easy, as the recent Amazon outage showed

Our Interop pic story features big boxes, exclusive booth access and some helpful tips on surviving the world's most vibrant enterprise tech show in Las Vegas

Chipmaker plans to shed some of its stake in Clearwire as the wholesale WiMax provider mulls a transition to LTE

Elsewhere: Comcast Hires FCC Commissioner, Cable's Canoe sets VoD ad plans, and Cox flips on more SDV

9:45 AM Good news for suppliers in UK and Ireland

9:15 AM ZTE retaliates following injunction

The guy who sold Navic to Microsoft is now in charge of a startup that could prove popular with cord-cutters and help break retrans logjams

With many of its lingering financial problems sorted out, BT is expecting a rise in earnings during the next few years

BT reports full-year results, Huawei versus ZTE reaches Germany, and DT's chief says he'll walk away from more major M&A in today's roundup

With a title like chief cloud strategist, you figure Chris Gesell has to know something about moving enterprises to the cloud

Congressional hearings on what location data gets stored on your smartphone and how it gets used could lead to new mobile privacy laws

6:00 PM TiVo says retail deal with Comcast is a positive step, but is it enough to adjust TiVo's attitude on the FCC's AllVid initiative?

Staff will be told the plan by the end of the summer, as Cisco tries to prune the branches and refocus the business

The numbers beat expectations but didn't beat the 3Q 2010 mark

4:05 PM Assuming AT&T's T-Mobile buy isn't blocked, the carrier will have to divest assets – maybe more than it originally thought

2:25 PM In the patent punch-up, it's round one to Huawei

US Senators tried to pin down AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson on concessions it will make if its acquisition of T-Mobile is approved

Service provider IT (SPIT) executives believe industry standards in the OSS and BSS sectors would make life easier and help cut costs

New Light Reading Briefing Center will track industry progress toward deploying 1588v2 standard to scale

Elsewhere: Cox flips on more SDV, Shaw rolls six-tuner Moxi DVRs, HBO Go does 1 million downloads

Femto firm Ubiquisys teams with Texas Instruments to develop metro small cells to boost capacity in 3G and LTE networks

The FCC is chewing on an 'open' API approach for retail video devices that could supplant its vision for net-agnostic gateways and adapters

New security and mobile OS support enables enterprises to let their workers access business applications on their personal handsets

Ericsson gets a German gig, Telekom Austria records a Q1 net loss and Denmark's TDC buys a mobile operator in today's regional roundup

Heavy Reading's Ari Banerjee describes the defining characteristics of a true cloud computing environment

Heavy Reading's Ari Banerjee outlines the three categories of cloud services and how corporate cultures must change when cloud services are introduced

Heavy Reading's Ari Banerjee explains why telcos should take their network and data center assets and embrace cloud services

4:25 PM What will be hot in the latest round of mobile technology buyouts?

Tier 1 operators and handset makers agree to adopt Android guidelines that will speed OS update times

Skype sees video ads as one of the biggest opportunities for monetizing chat, and Microsoft plans to provide the man power to make them happen

Microsoft's purchase of Skype gives its OS a voice and video chat platform that will help it compete, if its operator partners are open to it

This time around, AT&T's earmarks cash for cloud services, mobile apps and devices and – a new one – the health-care industry

11:40 AM For now, it's all about acquiring more smartphone users

MSO's TV Online portal starts up with a library of between 15,000 and 20,000 titles from networks such as HBO, TNT and ABC

Elsewhere: Cox rolls TV Everywhere site, Charter expands ITV footprint, WatchESPN gets it on with Android, and YouTube expands movie slate

Heavy Reading's Ari Banerjee plainly states why everyone's so interested in cloud computing

Software giant sees Skype as a key bolt-on to its real-time applications offering

7:00 AM If Microsoft splashes $8B on Skype, how will that affect Nokia?

Huawei's deal to replace Ericsson and NSN in a major UK network could lead to further significant business around Europe

A new wave of Ethernet switches is on the way, and Extreme puts in its bid to stay ahead of them all

BT's Scott Cain discusses his company's approach to cloud computing, the challenges it faces in bridging the chasm between IT and network groups and what investments might come from the surge in cloud computing's popularity

Mike Millegan, president of Verizon Global Wholesale, argues that Verizon's cloud services are different from the 'commodity clouds' made popular by Internet players

Mark Thiele of ServiceMesh talks about why service-level agreements aren't enough and why Amazon's cloud doesn't fit all

David Yen, who's led Juniper's data-center fabric project, will now do the same for the other side. Also: remember the Nuova guys?

The one-day conference is almost over, but before we head for the tables, here are a few snapshots from the day's proceedings

Cloudscaling CTO Randy Bias says telcos should take a more Internet-centric approach to cloud computing by using commodity hardware and getting to market quickly

6:00 PM -- Heads up, Comcast: Charlie Ergen and co. are getting ready to turn to the next chapter in Dish's re-transformation story

Take a look at the hot topics we'll discuss at our annual Packet-Optical Transport Evolution conference

A couple of popular topics are going to grab the headlines as Interop commences, with next-generation switching leading the way

Chipset makers are pairing the applications processor with the baseband processor, but is this a match made in heaven?

TiVo Premiere DVRs to offer MSO's 25,000-title VoD library in select markets, but is it enough to slow down the FCC's AllVid movement?

Chipmaker Nvidia acquires baseband processor company Icera to build an integrated offering and ward off competition from Qualcomm in the core

Elsewhere: Comcast launches 3G/4G hotspots, Dish to launch DSL service, TiVo Premiere to gain access to Comcast's VoD vault

New global brand value ranking puts AT&T at top of telecom pile and as seventh most valuable global brand overall

Internet video is reshaping networks, federal policies and careers in telecom, so let's take a closer look

Company drops "optics" from its name and annnounces a broader focus on network planning and management software and services

Heavy Reading Senior Consultant Berge Ayvazian discusses LTE in China and analyses the impact of China Mobile's LTE TDD plans in relation to broader LTE TDD developments in the Asia/Pacific region

Huawei wins its first major mobile infrastructure contract in UK and Samsung knocks Nokia off its Euro perch in today's headline roundup

Huawei has announced a mobile infrastructure contract with Everything Everywhere in the UK

Dish rolled out the red carpet for its retail partners in Denver last week

Dish will start using tech acquired from Move Networks to stream video to IP-connected set-tops in June, with support for PCs coming next

They could have had two big cloud events in the same week. Call it a perfect storm

Get used to hearing about the common control plane for switches and routers, because the cloud has made OpenFlow all the rage

1:30 PM With tablets like ZTE's new Light Pro, this could be contagious

Connected TVs clearly will have an impact on the pay-TV world, and on IPTV in particular

11:55 AM Cablevision retires the Bresnan name

Elsewhere: Rovi buys engineering firm DigiForge, Facebook pays users to watch video ads and TiVo expects windfall from patent litigation

Competition in the US had a negative effect on T-Mobile in Q1, but provided support for Deutsche Telekom's sale of the unit to AT&T

9:45 AM T-Systems was the star in DT's dismal Q1

Dwindling spares, retiring talent and higher power costs all make aging TDM switches an increasingly risky proposition

This week: converged multiservice access platform (CMAP); connected TVs; IPTV; preview of new reports from Pyramid Research

8:00 AM SCTE chief Mark Dzuban discusses the results of the Society's new Ivy League exec education program

Achtung! Everything's dipping on the German giant's Q1 financial report

AlcaLu's recovery continues, DT's on the slide and it's carnage in Greece in today's Euro telecom news kebab

Alcatel-Lucent reports an uptick in revenues for the first quarter of 2011 and nearly waves goodbye to its net losses

5:45 PM Regulator launches a toothless policy to have 5Mbit/s downstream speeds and 1Mbit/s upstream across Canada by 2015

Samsung Infuse will launch next week on AT&T's HSPA+ network, promising to be the carrier's largest, thinnest, fastest smartphone yet

3:25 PM Key developments from Telefonica and Alcatel-Lucent

CenturyLink execs will decide by mid-year whether to expand the Prism IPTV offering to new markets

MSO ready to extend the reach of its 'DVR Plus' service and prepares to retire the Bresnan brand out West and roll in its 'Optimum' brand

RPX Corp joins RIM and Google as potential bidders for Nortel's patents, which are getting pricier as they get more hotly contested

Carrier announces Q1 results that exceed estimates and build broadband bulk, but the rest of 2011 won't be as sunny

Elsewhere: Facebook eyes Skype, Liberty Global's subs spike in Western Europe, and survey says TiVo can spice up sex lives

Many investors seem to despise the councils-and-boards structure, but Cisco's reorg won't do away with it entirely

MSO lost 8,000 video subscribers in Q1, but offset that by adding more high-speed Internet and voice customers

Nokia's Ollila prepares to step down, ZTE makes good with Telenor, UPC reveals Q1 growth and AlcaLu gets active in today's Euro news potpourri

Thanks to its $1B deal with Sprint, Clearwire plans to hold on to its valuable spectrum and look at other near-term funding options

The Muve music service is paying off for Leap, which sees a chance to attract more retail attention nationwide

Service providers tackle a variety of new technology challenges such as using existing fiber to provide higher-capacity networks

Revenues were well up from a year ago, but so were losses

Regional CDMA carrier gains subscribers and decreases churn, but the cost of upgrading consumers to smartphones causes an operating loss

RadiSys's planned $120M acquisition of Continuous Computing will take the ATCA vendor into fast-growing mobile network technologies

The MSO bought a CLEC to get into the mid-sized commercial services market, but the bulk of segment revenues still come from small firms

12:45 PM AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile are scaling back their NFC joint venture, giving away their one competitive differentiator

Elsewhere: Disney and Starz sue Dish, VoD ad initiative gets more backers, Verizon expands FiOS footprint

As ATCA systems market enters massive growth phase, Radisys acquires Continuous Computing in deal valued at up to $120M

It's only a matter of time before mobile data caps are the norm. Here's how you can stay under the cap and avoid a blockbuster bill

It's a fiscal first-quarter fest in today's Euronews courtesy of TDC, Telenor, Swisscom and Iliad. Plus: Free tablets from Telefonica!

Comcast slowed the video bleeding a bit as its commercial services unit saw revenues pop almost 50%

MSO is laying the foundation for new residential tiers, but sees commercial services as an $8.5B revenue opportunity

Details of the company's cloud strategy suggest Brocade is trying to be the opposite of Cisco's data-center fabric

Elsewhere: Charter video revenues dip, Cablevision hawks 'ultimate' triple-play, Moto gives cable's upstream a big boost, US TV homes drop 2%

MetroPCS is looking for spectrum acquisition opportunities and says smartphone prices must come down for LTE to take off

When Moto Mobility sought out a wireless tech partner for the cable market, BelAir – not Moto Solutions – proved the best option

South Korea's largest mobile operator to make record network investment in expanding 3G capacity and accelerating LTE rollout

8:00 AM RIM plays up its social media success and tries to position BlackBerry as the smartphone that bridges the gap between work and play

France Telecom dips, Infineon raises its forecast and KPN buys a cable operator in today's helping of European telecom news headlines

6:05 AM Privacy concerns prompt South Korean police to raid Google offices

The aftermath of the day Amazon's lights went out; more clues about Apple's theoretical cloud service

Whatever Dish does with Blockbuster, it probably won't threaten Netflix's 'insurmountable' streaming video lead, Charlie Ergen says

The BlackBerry maker introduces a new Bold smartphone, the latest version of its OS, new PlayBook apps and more enterprise support

Elsewhere: Brightcove wins broad Internet video patent, NFL eyes mobile video deals, Wall Street reacts to Dish-TiVo pact, KPN buys Dutch MSO

One of the last remaining independent Wi-Fi hot-spot providers plots $75M IPO this week

GoBackTV is the first acquisition for Aurora Networks, and the optical transport vendor hints that there may be more to come

Charlie Ergen & Co. will pay up to license TiVo's Time Warp patent, but Dish avoids having to disable millions of DVRs