MSO aims to centralize operations, integrate its wireless business and consolidate some cable systems

Amazon is one of the few companies that can significantly underwrite a tablet and count on its media services to turn a profit

1:05 PM The traditional telco model of delivering video services is profit-challenged, but that doesn't mean telcos need to abandon video

LightSquared's CEO expects many more wholesale customers will flock to its controversial 4G network, which isn't even on the air yet

The carrier's demo at the FTTH Council event precedes an Oct. 11 launch for service that could be part of national rollout

Also, Intel and Samsung's new operating system runs MeeGo out of town, while Nokia builds yet more code for the low end in this week’s OS news

Also: Verizon, Comcast linked to Xbox TV launch; CableLabs talks up MSO peering play; cable tops telcos in voice service rankings

Broadband World Forum attendees are happy about the show's relocation to Amsterdam

Italy's mobile operators dig deep for new spectrum, Telia ramps up its LTE rollout, M&A in Poland and more, including Nokia and Skype

This week: customer experience management, analytics for travel providers, Google's high fiber diet, cloud computing in AME, telecom tweets

5:15 PM As the MSO launches its meter- and cap-free Docsis 3.0 Slingbox promo, Sandvine warns that mobile users could be in for a big surprise

A panel yesterday questioned FTTH's economic benefits, but the jobs are there, according to the annual FTTH Council data dump

T-Mobile, Microsoft and Steve Jobs himself: Samsung has had a pretty busy week on the patent front

12:20 PM With one day left in September, Motorola meets its twice-delayed deadline to get Verizon LTE into its Xoom tablets

The pending acquisition of Santur is all about photonic integration -- and the end of Santur's IPO dreams

Also: Free Press targets net neutrality rules; NCTA, CEA chiefs spar over AllVid; TW Cable bulks up iPad app; Google-Moto review lengthens

Further visuals from the Paris trade show

On the Broadband World Forum show floor companies are turning to liquid gimmicks to pull in the punters

In today's EMEA roundup: NSN gets a new broom and a €1B cash injection, but Nokia has more bad news for its workers

4:20 AM What's in demand in the broadband chip world? Here's a quick taste of what Lantiq's seeing

Nokia Siemens has a new executive chairman and a cash injection from its parents

AT&T and two big MSOs expected to get the lion's share of Sprint's initial fiber cell backhaul build as it preps for the iPhone and LTE

3:30 PM Calix executive admits his efforts to prove the economic impact of FTTX buildouts went somewhat awry

Systems, chips and standards – lots of 100Gbit/s players gave updates on their progress lately

3:15 PM Virgin Media Business has stuck with its cloud services game plan

Telcos today need CEM solutions that help them understand all their customers' individual experiences in real time

Amazon’s new tablet lacks wireless connectivity, but it could make up for it with its low cost, Android customization and Internet storage

New CTI Towers unit created to manage the company's 800 towers and lease access to Sprint, AT&T and other wireless service providers

LTE heats up in South Korea as SK Telecom unveils plans for seven new smartphones, new tariffs and doubled network speeds

Ringgold pulled its IPTV offer for lack of profits and now looks to bundle OTT boxes with off-air antennas to boost its broadband service

Chinese vendor provides its optimal architecture for today's video-heavy networks

Also: Discovery, Huawei develop rugged mobile phone; HBO Go almost a go at TW Cable; ivi seeks handouts for legal defense

10:00 AM The specter of Carl Icahn causes some excitement

In today's EMEA roundup: Fiber take-up gathers pace, Virgin launches into the cloud and Nokia says no Windows Phones for O2

Pyramid Research analyst Sylwia Boguszewska explains why fiber-to-the-home/building (FTTH/B) investments are being made in some European countries but not others

4:50 PM Will Dish and Blockbuster get their chance to go after Netflix after all?

Sprint could be launching LTE in early 2012, using its partners and a repurposed iDEN network to help bring it on par with the competition

2:45 PM Sprint could be running LTE on Nextel and LightSquared spectrum while still supporting Clearwire by sometime next year

Behind the scenes as the show floor was built for Europe's broadband love-in

Q3 looks a little more bleak, partly because government stimulus money is (hey, here's a shock) slow to arrive

12:10 PM The most innovative broadband access equipment development EVER!

Also: US puts heat on Moto Solutions; Comcast ad unit gets interactive; Liberty gets shot of VoD Adrenalin; J:COM expands

9:25 AM Belgacom is going to deploy even faster VDSL2 technology, but what's the commercial proposition?

Years overdue for a router upgrade, Tellabs is coming out swinging with a whole new design

9:00 AM And so begins the fall tradeshow circuit, where wireless operators will need to prove that 'openness' is more than just a buzzword

Belgian incumbent has tried out AlcaLu's VDSL2 with vectoring technology and likes it -- but why the long wait for commercial services?

New Heavy Reading research shows service providers don't think they can scale their existing policy to handle new data demands

In today's EMEA roundup: Samsung tries to stop sale of iPhones and iPads in the Netherlands, while Russian pair go their own way on LTE

With no LTE or iPhone in sight, T-Mo bets big on Android as it unveils the first phones for its 42Mbit/s HSPA+ network

Sezmi shutters its hybrid broadband-broadcast TV service as it changes gears to focus on deals with service providers

The quiet removal of the CEO suggests discord at the optical burst switch vendor

Analytics enables travel companies to understand all aspects of how to acquire, maintain and attract new customers to their websites

Verizon doesn't want Apple to limit its LTE device selection as it intervenes on Samsung’s behalf in the device makers' patent dispute

Also: Dish CEO hints at wireless plans, Netflix outbids HBO for Dreamworks deal, Amazon pumps up Prime Instant video with Fox fare

LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja makes the case for the wholesale LTE network in an open letter to the American public

MoCA chip-maker plows $10 million into Zenverge as the companies start work on a set-top 'sidecar' for MSOs that shares Slingbox traits

Semiconductor vendor promises 90 percent power savings on its 40 percent smaller NFC chips as it looks to put the tech in more devices

C'est vrai! Femtos will be free for SFR's 3G customers in France

There is a lot more riding on how -- and when -- the FCC reforms the Universal Service Fund than the future of rural telcos

In today's EMEA roundup: SFR doles out femtocells gratis while Etisalat rolls out LTE in the UAE (is that enough initials for ya?)

The week's top telecom stories, as chosen by the readers of Matt's Mentions

Spirent's Ross Cassan goes on site with Alcatel-Lucent's Sr. Director, Houman Modarres to discuss their new 400 Gbps network processor, the FP3.

The ECOC Exhibition brings out a few more vendors in what's expected to be a contentious product category

IMB and eMBMS have a year to improve their penetration in the mobile video market to become long-term options for mobile offload

Dish will try to boost sub counts with $10 add-on that binds video streaming with premium TV, by-mail DVDs and games

HP's OS future is in new hands, Samsung's done playing nice, and Apple's phone is super sticky in this week's OS roundup

10:30 AM Need another view on how next-gen networks will look? Thought so…

10:20 AM SCTE President and CEO Mark Dzuban explains what will be in store at the Cable-Tec Expo in Atlanta

Also: It's open season on net neutrality rules; VUDU expands VoD vault; cord-cutting vs. the economy; changes on Comcast's board

9:45 AM Reports put Huawei at the center of a sizeable LTE TDD rollout by Japan's Softbank

This week: Feature distribution, improving mobile services in East Africa, how European telecom incumbents can regain lost ground

Moto's Converged Cable Access Platform entry will be ready for testing in 2012, but there's plenty of life left in the CMTS and edge QAM gear

In today's EMEA roundup: Ericsson sets up R&D center in rival's back yard, French operators get their 4G spectrum, Huawei and OBS do telepresence deal

As she takes over for the ousted Leo Apotheker, Meg Whitaker says HP will continue to invest in webOS and will spin off PSG by year's end

3:40 PM Is fun allowed at industry events?

Small CDMA player is regional no more after deal with Best Buy and Sprint, but offering discounted plans could hurt Leap's bottom line

2:20 PM Sprint’s making several changes to get ready for the phone it won’t say if it’s getting or not – will unlimited data be next?

Also: TW Cable to expand no-frills TV tier, cord-cutters will pay for à la carte, Hulu reaches subscription milestone

In today's EMEA roundup: Henry Tirri replaces Richard Green at handset giant while Deutsche Telekom denies massive cost-cutting

Unveils VDSL2 DSLAM line cards with vectoring capabilities designed to boost line speeds and better utilize capacity

Verizon comes up short in its attempt to ban several Cablevision set-top boxes made by Cisco

LightSquared works with Javad on GPS fix; FCC and NTIA testing expected to last until Nov. 30, with a prototype available in a month

1:55 PM DSL management specialist makes big opex saving claims for its smartphone app

1:25 PM Bloomberg reports that HP's board wants CEO Leo Apotheker out after only nine months, but many, many failures

Also: Verizon chats up gaming consoles; survey piles on Netflix woes; Sony, Warner Bros open up UltraViolet's digital rights locker

10:00 AM Ericsson's Keith Shank helps us take a step back and discuss what LTE means for consumers and service providers, as well as how it changes the mobile network

Orange ramps up its NFC services in France, but remains realistic about revenue potential

In today's EMEA roundup: Dutch government may bar US cloud vendors from state contracts, while tablets are on the march in Europe

4:50 AM The DTN-X could curb a case of the seven-year itch

5:45 PM We take a look behind the expected small cell revolution at the backhaul grunt work that will still be needed

MSO hits the national stage with $9.95-per-month Internet service targeted to low-income families with schoolchildren

Indian OSS/BSS vendor sells its IP fulfillment unit to NetCracker but doesn't get much of its money back

5:10 PM Those 'two guys in their garage' have moved up to much fancier digs, but what really gets done at the operators' innovation centers?

12:45 PM The Twitterverse offers more evidence that Netflix may not have thought everything through as it splits off its DVD business

11:50 AM Broadband World Forum is shifting to the city of tulips and coffee shops

Also: Analysts see Qwikster spin or sale, Comcast and Verizon could tune in to Xbox TV, FiOS TV's growing VoD vault, Trendrr tracks TV buzz

With the Broadband World Forum only days away, Heavy Reading's chief analyst lights the fiber access touchpaper and stands back...

MPLS-TP is building the road to handle both legacy and packet-based traffic

45% of Light Reading survey takers say no vendors will benefit from the merger, but Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson stand to gain the most

In today's EMEA news: FT ready to roll on Swiss Orange unit auction while Interoute purchase targets enterprise market

EXFO's innovative approach to characterize, validate and turn-up backhaul links within 15 minutes. The comprehensive Backhaul Tri-PAK is a one field-optimized testing solution eliminating today’s backhaul challenges. One tech, one tool, one time.

NSN's making a splash about its new flexible-core approach

5:15 PM Operator tapping SeaChange to offer Watch & Play option after Netflix starts to split its video streaming and DVD businesses

MultiPhy has a chip for cheaper, non-standard 100G, and optical transceiver vendors seem intrigued by the idea

DIY lives. Take that, cloud computing

AT&T, T-Mobile, Motorola and a gaggle of other vendors gather in Chicago to show off their latest and greatest gadgetry

12:05 PM Light Reading's Joe Braue offers highlights from the most influential telecom tradeshow in Latin America

Verizon begins throttling its heaviest 3G data users to encourage them to upgrade to LTE and load up its 4G network instead

Tired of throwing money at your Ethernet network? Accedian Networks' NIDeo shows you how you can leverage the best of Carrier Ethernet to assure your mobile backhaul services, monitor network performance, guarantee SLAs and significantly reduce OPEX.

Investors react positively as Netflix CEO admits he 'messed up' and announces separation of video streaming and DVD units

As AT&T launched LTE services in the US, Signals Research took the new network out for a spin

Also: Canoe's future questioned, Cox preps MPEG-4 play, Liberty seals up Aster, blogger gives a glimpse of Best Buy's TiVo-powered TV

India's mobile market grew by just 6.67 million connections during July, with one operator's revised numbers affecting the growth figures

In today's EMEA roundup: Chinese vendor to double headcount at Euro enterprise unit while analyst report casts doubt on emerging markets

Operators are as keen as ever for an LTE patent pool, but some major industry technology players are not ready to dive in

The Broadband World Forum event is about more than just the latest DSL and FTTX advances

Microsoft just wants a ribbon, RIM just needs a comeback and HP gets sued for giving up in this week’s OS musings

In taking over Qwest territory, the former rural telco invests in building its rep as national broadband player

11:15 AM Microsoft wants the Xbox to become the center of the entertainment universe, and cable may be ready to make it happen

Did Infinera finally land one of the big US telcos? Well ...

Also: Netflix to adjust its crystal ball, cable faces 'affordability crisis,' TiVo-AT&T court battle postponed, Canoe shores up the ranks

The decomposed session border controller model as proposed by Metaswitch is a dead duck from the get-go, reckons market leader Acme Packet

At least, the 1,000 or so who responded to Light Reading's survey do

Polish operator launches LTE FDD/TDD network, more LTE news from Saudi and France, and 100G in central Europe lead the way in today's roundup

Existing European customer puts Infinera's new 100G box through its paces

Sanjiv Ahuja says the company has no undue political influence and could create 15,000 jobs with its $8B network spend

RIM will cut the price of its PlayBook tablet and introduce a software overhaul in hopes of reviving weak sales in time for the holidays

Microsoft will turn the Xbox into a full-fledged set-top – along with a bunch of extras – just in time for the holidays

RIM shipped 10.6M BlackBerry smartphones and 200,000 PlayBook tablets, missing its estimates and hurting Q2 earnings

AT&T finally gets commercial LTE service up just days before the end of summer

2:25 PM Broadband World Forum should have something to satisfy all tastes

It's a 100G play using its 500G PIC, it's (eventually) a packet-optical entry and it just might bring some buzz back to brash optical company

Vendor giants pump some cash into photonic chip startup

Netflix shares dive after company cuts US sub guidance in wake of recent rate hikes and changes to its streaming and DVD plans

10:25 AM Jefferies analysts suggest that Facebook could be a potential acquirer of the ill-fated mobile OS

Also: TW Cable snaps up subs in August, Crann lands at BTI Systems, SCTE to roll out some big guns, FCC tees up white spaces test

Picture us at the AT&T Foundry opening, making an entire meal of hors d'oeuvres and bottled beer. And now we start taking snapshots. What could go wrong?

9:35 AM Telefónica and Telenor have both just restructured and created digital services development units

9:15 AM The death of '12% to 17%' and what to do about Huawei

Chinese vendor's role in Telefonica's LTE offer, trouble at Belgacom and the mobile advertising market's prospects lead the way in today's regional roundup

Verizon is working on the standards for a true 4G LTE network, but it's still very early days with features like VoLTE taking priority

Verizon's 'any apps, any device' plan from back in 2007 is still alive, but execs say it's become just a way of life

Clearwire CTO says China Mobile deal will give it choices on TD-LTE devices and a path to LTE-Advanced, but Clearwire still needs money for its new network

AT&T's Foundry program, which encourages app development on its network, opens a Silicon Valley location in hopes of attracting more partners

Can Huawei prove itself as a wizard of 3G and 4G with small deals in rural Kansas and Michigan?

New CFO appointment is latest 'building block'

Moto balked at Google's attempt to snap up only its patent trove, and convinced Google to up its price and buy the whole smash

10:45 AM Telefónica kicks off LTE services in Spain

Also: Moto plows cash into Ooyala, Canoe gives interactive ad stats, Shaw Wi-Fis with Cisco, Cablevision takes Turner's TV everywhere

Mobile developers chip in their two cents as Verizon promises to build a better app store

Scenes from Verizon's third-annual developer love-fest at the swanky Aria Resort in Las Vegas

8:00 AM Riding the Brazilian data deluge

Creating a business model around souped-up, $400 hybrid gateways is one big challenge that lies ahead for MSOs, says Heavy Reading

A $3.7B acquisition isn't a spur-of-the-moment kind of deal

Telefonica will put AlcaLu's LTE gear through its paces in pre-commercial pilot networks in Barcelona and Madrid

Something's causing people to leave – voluntarily or not – but Juniper says its headcount will grow by the year's end

Alcatel-Lucent, Telefonica, Telenor, BT, LTE in Russia and Saudi Arabia, Peter Gabriel and Lady Gaga are the star names in today's Euro news club

As part of its effort to offer developers new distribution channels, Verizon will begin building private app stores for enterprises

LightPointe sees opportunity for hybrid free space optics technology in the expected deployment boom for 4G small cells

New applications and services that enable customers to make transactions via smartphones are a growing source of revenue for retailers

12:00 PM The carrier is showing off its redesigned app store in Vegas this week, promising easier search and improved safety and quality

Exec says FCC decision coming this month, but how much could proposed filter technology cost?

The data center fabric with the fancy name becomes a real, orderable product

ATIS Network Optimization Focus Group finds ways to use existing technology to help wireless and wireline networks handle the crunch

IP protocol specialist launches its own session border controller platform and goes head-to-head with market leader and partner Acme Packet

Also: Net neutrality rules clear hurdle, Google adds grassroots fiber help, DirecTV fumbles football streaming, Liberty gives up on Ziggo

Huawei's plans in Eastern Europe, the latest efforts to revive the AT&T/T-Mobile USA merger and a 100Gbit/s launch feature in today's roundup

MSO follows its Wi-Fi deployment NYC with an even larger deployment in Los Angeles. And there will be more to come

The announcements aren't about the same parts of the network, but let's combine them and see what happens

AT&T touts its Windows Phone leadership as it launches three new HTC and Samsung phones and updates the rest of its WP7 devices to Mango

Also: Concurrent picks Dot Hill servers, Cisco CMTS powers Virgin's D3 speed test, MaxLinear tunes up TiVo's whole-home DVRs

10:10 AM CEO quits, personal reasons cited

Merger to add multi-core and knowledge-based processors, along with cutting-edge mobile base station technology, to Broadcom's portfolio

7:00 AM Verizon's annual developers' conference will be all about 4G LTE – how to use it to their advantage and how not to take advantage of it

The first commercially available lightRadio product will be a small cell base station, while the radio cube should follow later in 2012

US affiliate of Japanese giant extends its global IP network into the increasingly hot Brazilian market

No, it's not a headline from The Onion

Pan-European operator's revenue hike, Vodafone's lumpy Verizon dividend and smartphone uptake lead the way in today's EMEA roundup

Something big is coming on Sept. 15. If only there were clues as to what it could be

2:00 PM Indonesian operator has taken some big loans to build its network with Huawei and Ericsson

1:35 PM Light Reading's archives reveal a resilient news staff and outspoken readers who helped one another through a horrifying week

RIM hurries to get QNX out the door, Samsung looks beyond Android and Apple makes customers happy in this week's OS recap

French deep packet inspection and network analytics vendor Qosmos raises €19.8M for expansion and possible M&A

New tool from Sandvine tells MSOs how many dollars are being exchanged over their network by over-the-top service providers

This week: Chinese telco market does No. 2, multi-screen opportunities in Europe, Motorola Atrix

In today's EMEA roundup: 'Buyster' (yuk) is born, Vodafone does R&D in Silicon Valley, and Bharti Airtel gets licensed in Rwanda

Vodafone opens Xone (not to be confused with Zhone), its first US-based R&D center

The latest on who is suing whom with what patents acquired from which companies as we attempt to navigate the complex IP world

Offering video services over its own network is considered key to CenturyLink's topline growth over the next few years

Horizon, a QAM/IP hybrid box, is set to deploy next year, with an open app store to follow

The advanced hardware of Motorola's Atrix impresses, but infighting in the mobile industry fogs the picture

2:25 PM Others may bridge the chasm, properly aligning their next-gen digital technologies

Verizon's Shadman Zafar takes me through a demo of remote-control, VoD and video-app capabilities available for FiOS customers on a smartphone

Confirmation of Ericsson's IPTV success in Taiwan is just one of a slew of announcements from the annual IBC show

International cable operator uses thePlatform to get its TV Everywhere strategy under way, starting in the Netherlands

Also: Sonic.net shoots for video franchise, Euro-cable expands across the board, Liberty could go on M&A binge if war chest swells

9:00 AM Apple takes Samsung to court in Tokyo

NTT Docomo's first two LTE tablets will go on sale early next month in Japan

In today's EMEA roundup: French court rejects Iliad's auction appeal, France Telecom snaps up some low-cost debt and Deutsche Telekom extends LTE

After all the care the industry took to provide a unified 100G front, renegade metro options are starting to pop up

Chipmaker is looking to up the ante on HD video quality for Snapdragon-powered smartphones and tablets

SeaChange's gateway stack wins a coveted spot inside the MSO's upcoming line of hybrid QAM/IP gateways and set-tops UPDATED 5:45 PM

12:00 PM As Motorola brings its LTE Bionic smartphone to Verizon and Huawei launches its first on AT&T, the middle ground is shrinking

11:25 AM TiVo's new high-end, digital-only broadband-connected DVR will put the new CableCARD rules to the test

Also: Rogers banks on its future, TV Everywhere registry pushes ahead, Kabel Deutschland picks multi-screen partners

Ethernet-over-copper technology from Adtran will enable MegaPath to offer up to 400 Mbit/s downstream to businesses and cell towers

7:00 AM The global CEAP market grew about 11% year-over-year, Heavy Reading says

6:45 AM Sprint doesn't have the cash on hand to afford a merger with T-Mobile, despite continued speculation about the possibility

In today's EMEA roundup: UK regulator admits 4G auction timetable is 'ambitious,' while Orange launches new mobile sub-brand in France

10:15 AM AT&T is reportedly able to lower its bid for T-Mobile

6:10 PM With the AT&T-T-Mobile merger on rocky ground, I wonder how much the combo would actually benefit rural users in the near future

Acquisitions and key hires have the hosted VoIP service pioneer positioned to compete with big boys in cloud

Investor says BlackBerry maker would be better able to show returns by selling itself or spinning off its patents

DT confirms it'll receive a $3B breakup fee if AT&T can't acquire T-Mobile, which is looking more likely as Sprint sues to block the merger

Also: DirecTV leaves Hulu behind, Dish preps Netflix rival, Liberty gets M&A clearance in Poland, DECE picks test partner

10:00 AM Heavy Reading unveils new community of service and technology experts shaping the Carrier Ethernet and cloud services markets

Following success in the US, Broadcom designs a new line of Digital Terminal Adapter (DTA) chips tailored for international markets

7:00 AM Saudi operator looks on course for the first mass-market LTE TDD launch

In today's EMEA roundup: Deutsche Telekom prepares to defend the AT&T/T-Mobile merger in court, while there's fun and games in Austria

Even if it gets T-Mobile, AT&T gives itself six years to complete 97% US coverage with LTE

Major changes at Spanish giant include the creation of two new units to exploit new services opportunities and increase global efficiencies

12:00 PM Strikes agreement for potential business in the Philippines

9:30 AM It's crunch time in India as key LTE infrastructure announcements, a new national policy and corruption court rulings draw nearer

Synchronous Ethernet is the technology of choice in a major new mobile backhaul deployment being built for UK operators -- and that's good news for Transmode

In today's roundup: AlcaLu said to be in talks over sale of Genesys unit, while UK mobile joint venture backhauls with Virgin Media

SEC filing says the company is considering alternatives for its networking business

Optical components sales aren't actually good, but Finisar thinks the worst might be over

Skype, Facebook and Google+ all help build the video chatting trend, even among older consumers, as long as price is right

Also: Netflix CEO downplays Starz loss, judge OKs Comcast-NBCU deal, FCC feels Mediacom's wrath, Apple TV tops OTT box review

Samsung will never want HP's OS, Sony Ericsson's not worried about Google, Microsoft gets sued and more in this week's OS rundown

Ericsson says it has replaced Alcatel-Lucent as the IPTV systems supplier at Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom – and has others in its sights

This week: Why cablecos like IPTV, why telcos prefer hybrid IPTV, and a new showcase for Pyramid's custom research and consulting services

The pick of the best from the virtualization love-in

The keyword is capacity for an AT&T that has been buffeted with complaints about dropped calls and poor connections from iPhone fans

In today's news: FT plans to sell stakes in Europe as it eyes emerging market opportunities; Everything Everywhere axes six senior execs

With renewal talks scotched, Netflix's streaming deal with Starz will burn out at the end of February

6:05 PM The possible death of the AT&T/T-Mobile deal may breathe new life into Cablevision's mobile strategy

Shaw borrows from Cablevision's Wi-Fi playbook as the Canadian MSO can't justify erecting a cellular network that would cost more than $1B

Also: Netflix rate hikes go active; Hulu streams into Japan; Cox tops fastest ISP list; Rovi brings adaptive streaming to DivX

9:20 AM Sources say the first LTE supply decisions have been made

Revenues were right at the low end of guidance but margins were much improved, giving the vendor's stock a lift in pre-market trading

6:25 AM Fancy a decent broadband connection? Talk to NASA…

In today's EMEA roundup: Deutsche Telekom shares are down on news of merger block, while things are looking up for France's Iliad

Savvis warns telcos that enterprises currently favor commodity cloud offerings -- the challenge is to educate them about value-added alternatives

T-Mobile could double up HSPA+ speeds to 84 Mbit/s, but LTE Advanced and capacity issues could be in the future for the AT&T-less carrier