Yet another can't-miss deal from the Mainland

Broadview could be looking to raise up to $287.5 million by going public

C'nople Q&A with BitGravity founder and other updates

What's an Intel deal worth?

Pics from the Future of Carrier Ethernet event in Warsaw

In a lunch keynote, the NCTA gives its argument for why OpenCable tops DCR+

The FCC: achieving new levels of irrelevance

The hole in Cisco VOIP phones

Google finally says it will bid on 700 MHz spectrum

Russian carriers pump up the profits

Changes at the top could lead to sell-offs or even a breakup, analysts say

Gosh, 46 trillion is how much?

With a 'refined' version of the OpenCable Platform on top, TiVo is on cable's side in the fight against the CEA's 'DCR+' proposal

Owning Apple means a short wait for obsolescence

Pan-European Ethernet services operator COLT sees its share price leap more than 16% on talk of a takeover bid by AT&T

The father of the cable modem moves out of consulting to start a think tank

Only a third of you really are

AT&T's CEO describes a capex spree and says his wireless network is as 'open' as anybody's

The Apple pPhone?

SK Telecom and a PE firm were apparently rebuffed by the CDMA operator

Owning Apple means a short wait for obsolescence

Verizon's LTE plans put even more pressure on Sprint's 4G plans

British incumbent denies claims that its PBT cost case is unraveling, and says initial deployment issues in Italy are nothing unusual

What a wild ride of a week for Qualcomm

More and more people are talking about Qwest's plans to deliver IPTV. Oh, except for the company's CEO

South African incumbent's valuation takes a whack as takeover talks with MTN and Vodafone fall through

Top emerging markets mobile operator reports 43.7% rise in Q3 revenues

Start saving your pennies

Carrier Ethernet and Eastern Europe get jiggy

Cable operators and vendors have jumped onto the switched digital video bandwagon, but can it really cure what ails the cable industry?

Wide-eyed and unwatchable, at 30,000 feet

Start saving your pennies

Verizon will go global in 2010 with 4G tech LTE

MSO to have Docsis 3.0 infrastructure in place in 20% of footprint by end of '08, with initial focus on faster downstream

TiVo chief reveals monthly nut for Comcast combo… and it's priced to sell

Telecom Italia's new owners are set to install a new top management team after the chairman and CEO quit

Vodafone and Telefonica invest in mobile advertising startup Amobee

The Next-Generation OSS framework could be a key to getting IMS applications off the ground

Posthumous bad sex

Investors want new blood at Telecom Italia's helm

Sycamore misses Wall Street revenue estimates for the second quarter in a row

No, not the stock!

Asks the FCC questions as the deadline for wireless broadband bids looms

AlcaLu reveals strategy for its services business and looks to non-carrier customers for growth

Public safety is where it is at for mesh networking now, according to Motorola

An interesting question thrown up by open access

Coming soon: more ups

Emerging markets may be emerging less

Chairman Kevin Martin is forced to compromise on '70/70' findings. FCC calls on cable to provide sub data

FCC Commissioner proves that it's mighty difficult to get a majority to go along with the notion that one-plus-one equals three

T-Mobile's strong growth in the US and UK markets balances out losses in Germany and Austria

Ethernet Expo debate raises questions about the costs of deploying PBT

The startup claims its chip will connect home networks over any type of wiring, and it's got $20M more to prove it

ICTV gets new digs

Analysts say Fujitsu's Flashwave 9500 is well positioned to win a Verizon contract

So stop asking me if you can move to Verizon in 2008 already!

Supplier unveils 'pre' Docsis 3.0 modem powered by Broadcom silicon, but has yet to say when it expects to add upstream bonding features

Verizon rips the US wireless industry a new 'open access' hole

Verizon's open access move breaks away from the traditional cellular model in the US

Get ready for a flat-rate future

Virgin backs off, Orange stays mum

Government can change the 3G license price

But suffers from communication breakdowns

Carrier will allow 'any device' and 'any application' on its network in 2008

As it preps for '08 field trials, initial focus is on cable's 'RFOG' project, with longer-term aiming for GPON system tailored for MSOs

Polish carriers swarm to Ethernet Expo in Warsaw

Company Website goes dark, hilarity ensues

What's wrong with the Majors' coolest ballpark-to-be

On the eve of Tuesday's big meet at the FCC, four Senators question the Chairman's authority to impose new regulations on cable

SEC wielding the axe

The company's VP of Latin America sales gets sacked as a fraud investigation continues

'You had me at the howdy door'

Better late than never...

TiVo and others target '08 for the intro of special adapters that can feed 'switched' programming to inherently one-way set-tops and DVRs

Haier and Rhapsody take the next step in wireless music

How XM + Sirius could go wrong

Growth for France Telecom's mobile business, especially in Spain and the UK, raises its grade this quarter

One reason why consumer phones make sense for RIM right now

To lock or unlock

Light Reading Insider report sees mobile operator demand for deep packet inspection ramping up in next few years

Those continentals just love their broadband TV

Central and Eastern Europe is ripe for Carrier Ethernet-based metro network developments, say infrastructure players

Indian operator's $875M GSM equipment deal could be put back out to tender if its deal with Nokia Siemens isn't concluded soon

Skype makes a mess of its London numbers

France Telecom continues its African adventure

Cable MSO and the NFL Network are engaged in a nasty PR battle this Thanksgiving

Polish operator Telefonia Dialog is about to launch its IPTV service in an effort to snatch broadband customers from incumbent TP

In honor of Thanksgiving, come gaze upon our revived Top 10 Turkeys list

Honoring the best of the worst

Our sister site Byte & Switch has named its own Top 10 Turkeys of 2007 -- check out the storage and data center world's chief warblers

The IPTV bubble bursts in Houston

UK WiMax and mobile TV spectrum auctions are likely to spawn new business models like the mobile NetCo

A tussle for valuable UK airwaves looks likely

The five most spectacular mobile flameouts of the year

Bows to Vodafone's legal threat

Analysts say the company could expand in the metro market and look for a Tier 1 win

Claims telepresence victory

It won't be a happy Thanksgiving for John Rigas and his son, Timothy

Euro stocks suffer 'morning after' syndrome

Google's checking out 10GigE switches from multiple Taiwanese original design manufacturers (ODMs), industry sources say

Five suppliers have submitted a total of six products for Docsis 3.0 testing, Cable Digital News has learned

Carrier scorecards are in for European wireline carriers, and Deutsche Telekom is still sinking

Canadian device maker is rumored to be prepping a new operating system and touch-screen handset

The stock slumps – again – as Ericsson says it's aiming low with Q4 revenues

Mark Cuban misses the point about legitimate P2P apps

FCC commissioner openly questions the credibility of data Chairman Kevin Martin may use in effort to impose new cable regulations

Unstrung poll provides a useful snapshot of how WiMax stands in the US

Indian operator issues WiMax equipment tender worth $750 million to cover one sixth of Indian population

Not likely...

RIM Plots four or five new models

Startup adds PBT support to its network planning and management suite in response to demand from vendors and a Tier 1 carrier

Wants them unlocked in Germany

Or not

Webpad side effects may include square eyes and a lighter wallet

They call it stormy muni

An old Lucent box helps Verizon run the 100-Gig test it was hoping for

JFK joins Second Life and Paris Hilton teams with Tony Blair

Vodafone's strong performance in data revenue growth earns the carrier an upgrade on our latest Scorecard

For the startups betting on the river card

We've splashed a new coat of paint on our data after Charter announced plans to deploy switched digital video in LA

With the Amazon Kindle

Echostar's recent stock swoon has rekindled AT&T's interest in the satellite provider, according to a new report

Motricity is the biggest mobile moneybag in Rutberg's digital media VC survey for October

Picks BigBand in L.A. to create headroom for HDTV and 'special interest' programming. Is Videotron next on BigBand's cable playlist?

Bidness term o' the day

Gossip puts Skype in Google's viewfinder

New big gorgonzolas expected at Telecom Italia

See ya in another four years

Alcatel-Lucent's head of IP, Basil Alwan, says DPI is crucial to the development of next-gen carrier services

Our new report is an IMS beast

Nokia Siemens is yet to accept BSNL's order for mobile network equipment, expressing difficulty at matching its low price

Zayo, the bandwidth services startup, now has managed services to go with all its shiny new fiber

Tell us what sucked about 2007

Do you know the difference between DQPSK, DPQPSK, and DPSK?

Search giant says it is making the 'necessary preparations' to bid on wireless spectrum in the US

Ringing in the new?

I asked and VZ delivered

Updates from the contentiverse

It's still about the software, stupid

Google has built its own low-cost 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches

How should vendors respond to the possibility that their gear could be used to violate human rights?

Here's a quick rundown on the specter of the 70/70 rule, P2P fiascoes, and the big cable rumor of the week

Heavy Reading survey shows there's a lot of uncertainty for carriers looking at 40-gig and 100-gig technologies

We are the worldphone

TheFunded.com loses its air of mystery

Penetration tests show that half of wireless networks at major mall stores could be easily hacked

The cost of cheap VOIP services

A sharper image

G-Phone poll results

No PowerPoint?

Japan & China next for Apple?

France Telecom beats off rival carrier bids to take control of loss-making Telkom Kenya in a deal worth $390M

MoCA's primary customer tells the home-net Alliance to raise the speed bar. But how high? Try 400 Mbit/s

You buying?

UK mobile TV player gets on the Nasdaq OTC board through a share exchange with CyberFund

Some days are just down days

Tower Group says mobile banking will finally start to rake in M&A cash

Concerns about Cisco's roles in human rights and executive pay trends got support, but not victory, at the shareholder meeting

Digital content news

Sub-$200 cellphone market hots up for the holidays

Qwest is now securing cable franchises throughout its footprint because, you know, they're kinda neat

Indian operators added more than 7M mobile subscribers in October, with market leader Bharti crossing the 50M mark

The company's equipment will be deployed to enable 10-Gig and 40-Gig services for Verizon Business in Europe

It was a quarter to forget for Wall Street: US wireline carriers took a step back in Q3 2007

Nortel's flagship optical platform still missing PBT

Can you pick the combo that beats Google?

Sure, but is it a good idea?

Basil Alwan has been handed a strategic blue-sky role in Alcatel-Lucent's Carrier Business Group

Rooty Tooty Fresh 'n' Fruity Epiphany

Comcast CTO expects rollout in 'select' markets to begin in Q3 2008 but has yet to pick a home networking scheme

No, not Country & Western

And other nuggets from the first annual confab dedicated to the home-net scheme

Will Dutch thief get a Second Life sentence?

With better research data in hand, perhaps the FCC could craft more meaningful broadband policies

Internet2 wants its bandwidth-on-demand, so vendors put on a GMPLS demo at SC07

Paris Hilton indifferent to elephants

Redux

Sprint leading the retreat

Viv's causing another regulatory stink

CDMA maven Qualcomm buys banking software startup Firethorn as mobile payments market in the US gets hotter

Content news to peruse if you choose

Nortel has a new PBT-optimized Ethernet switch in the works as it tries to rival the MPLS router vendors

No flying cars yet, either

At last, Microsoft fits its software into a far-reaching cable deployment strategy… but it has nothing to do with TV

Forget the talk of another optical bubble; network operators worldwide are clamoring for 100-Gbit/s speeds, and their needs aren't going away

When going green is a bad thing

ADVA CEO says the US RBOCs are sales targets

Continues momentum in a product sector that's ripe for consolidation

Norway awards WiMax licenses

As OSS vendors unveil their latest wares, software giant leads the way with an integrated software platform approach

Vodafone does virtual marketing

Dreams of rural WiMax idylls grow dim

Chief of cable's top lobbying arm fires back amid reports the FCC may try to invoke broader powers and reregulate the industry

Telcos in the US can't count on wireline broadband to fuel growth any more

Vodafone reported strong growth in data service revenues in the first half of this year, driven mainly by enterprise services

The strikingly frank confessions of former stress cadet and current Aruba CEO, Dominic Orr

Romeo and Juliet 2.0

Yahoo pays up

Analyst hedges optimism on concerns about the speed of company's revenue ramp, balance sheet, and customer prospects

With Sprint faltering there's less impetus than ever to deliver broadband to smaller towns and rural communities

India's spectrum policy gets messy

Three years of Leading Lights video highlights

Norway's 2.6 GHz auction goes on

C&W raises its earnings guidance as its restructuring strategy pays off, but casts off its international chief

Multicast services are the next target as Hammerhead expands its work with PBT

Vodafone boosted data revenues by 48.8% in the first half of 2007 and raised its full-year outlook

...and the shadow of Openwave

The mouse of the Rising Sun

Orange continues to expand its FMC customer base in France, the UK, and Poland

FCC could slap cable with more regulations, but the numbers required don't appear to add up, analyst says

Wi-Fi Alliance certifies 140 draft n devices

But do they dip their telco TV in mayo?

By bringing in Cisco's Ron Martin, ADVA makes its fourth major executive move this year

Google Eyeing Sprint?

When it comes to TD celebrations, there's old school, and then there's really old school

iPhone underwhelms Europeans

You can't handle the tabouli!

Once again, some investors are hoping to bring up shareholder rights issues at Cisco's annual meeting

Commissioner to unveil reform plans tomorrow

Spanish giant reports nearly 40 percent rise in Q3 net income to €4B, but IPTV growth has slowed in the carrier's home market

Hafnium is the new copper

That obscure object of desire arrives in the old continent

No holiday grocery shopping list is complete without this item

The General Services Administration contract could be worth up to $1.8 billion over eight years

A broader relationship between cable and Sprint could emerge with the removal of Clearwire and its business ties to satellite TV duo

Sounds dirty, don't it? Ericsson must think so

The site is no longer 'coming soon'

Q2 looks too much like Q1

With the help of switched digital video, Cablevision claims capacity to 'carry as many HD channels as can be launched'

Wait, you mean I'm NOT trying to help?

The manufacturing powerhouse built by a former Seagate exec is ready to go public

Clap if you've heard this one

As expected, court green-lights OpenTV and Liberate settlement over iTV patents, while Comcast-Cox JV forks over $1.5M

Eurogeeks queue up for the gizmo

Don't open the 3G music box

In talks to sell Enterprise Communications biz

Sprint confirms that WiMax partnership with Clearwire has been scrapped and says it's reviewing its WiMax business plans

Wireless broadband contenders have reportedly dropped plans to work together on a WiMax network in the US

Throwing the book at whippersnappers

VOIP equipment vendor announces big win along with a net loss for the third quarter

Muni is not dead, apparently

Profits up, income down for the carrier's third quarter

Vyyo's on the verge of two MSO deals that could open up a market worth $100M per year

Vonage's revenues improve in Q3 and it settles with AT&T

How to suck up, and being a turd at work

Peer-to-peer is catching on in content delivery

Google as network operator? I have mixed feelings

Says pending settlement with remains of Liberate Technologies could give its US cable strategy a much needed boost

More IPTV gains in Germany and Croatia

Krish Prabhu will step down as CEO and president of Tellabs from March 1, 2008

Ferret feces join the war on drugs

Adding Premier League soccer content has tripled BT Vision's customer base, but restructuring costs hit the carrier's Q2 profits

Funding that could total $120M sets up TTM for an assault on the North American wireless backhaul market

Cisco beats expectations for another quarter, although the stock is sliding after hours

Santa and his murderous elf sell calendars

Wall Street 'needs to grow up,' analyst says

Shares in Acme Packet fell more than 15 percent Wednesday, despite strong third-quarter results

Bananas at night, Monkeys' delight

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the Network Neutrality Squad!

China is nothing to Yahoo about

Vodafone partners with Nokia to combine their Internet services on Nokia handsets

Lingering issues in Los Angeles and Dallas contributed to the bulk of a larger than expected loss of 83,000 basic video subs in the period

5 interactive services I'd want from FiOS or U-verse

Spectrum availability will be a barrier for LTE deployment, finds a new Unstrung Insider report

That video thing over DSL isn't so easy, apparently

The 3GPP's Long-Term Evolution (LTE) standard has emerged as the leading candidate technology for next-generation wireless networks.

Norway kicks off 2.6 GHz mobile broadband auction

Industry analysts are not yet sure what to make of Google's Android open software initiative

A year after commercial launch Swisscom's IPTV service is still experiencing technical difficulties

Swisscom adds another 10,000 subs

Serbia Broadband ups its optical capacity

Streaming media, in multiple formats, gives Level 3 another service for its CDN

Bad day for telco stocks

With some Websites reportedly down for four days, hosting provider NaviSite is feeling customers' wrath

Google's carrier partners are betting that Google will give them an iPhone-like boost

A deployment in which all homes are passed

AT&T says it will spend $500M more on U-Verse, passing 1 million fewer homes by the end of 2008 than expected earlier

MSO's 'basic family' tier to offer 30 to 40 hi-def nets in time for the 2007 holiday season – offering one reason for a rise in Q3 capex

Mike Zavirovski says Nortel's annual revenues are set to grow in 2008, helping to send the stock up 12%

Breaking up, on the Web, isn't so hard to do

Big changes may be in store when new Time Warner CEO takes the helm in January

Shares stumble more than 12 percent Tuesday morning after MSO lowers revenue projections for 2007 and posts wider-than-expected net loss

The Femto Forum grows its membership to more than 40 companies including major operators and equipment suppliers

It's not feminine hygiene, it's a home base station

Q3 falls short of expectations, but Nortel still manages a small profit and a gross margin of 43% on sales of $2.7 billion

Fifteen vendors join 'interop' as FCC mulls whether to rule in favor of OpenCable, the CEA's 'DCR Plus' proposal, or a combo of the two

Eric Schmidt, performance artist?

Strategic review identifies further cost cuts but decides against an exit from the service assurance market

Google is thinking big with Android, but it's not talking much about ad revenues or Apple yet

Top 5 services I wish my wireless carrier offered

The Czechs like IPTV, too

'In my day we had to pick an Internet from a tree'

Unisys teams with AppTrigger as it aims to build on its installed base of carrier messaging systems

There's no Gphone yet, but Google is moving into cellphones with an OS and middleware platform called Android

With visual aids

Beware: I have a customized writing utensil. I shall use it to smite the enemy and take over the world!

MSO posted a solid quarter, but firm answers about Insight's future likely won't be answered until tomorrow morning

Gisele Bündchen, leading economic indicator

The day when Google reveals all

Microsoft's long-standing IPTV collaborator Reliance Communications is to launch its telco TV services in India early next year

Send us your tired masses of PR pitches

Vodafone to buy share of Telekom Malaysia's mobile business unit

Start queuing now for the iPhone

When you wish upon a donut...

Our slideshow from Digital Hollywood

Vyatta says thanks for the memory prices

Petition calls on FCC to investigate, suggests MSO should be fined $195,000 for each sub affected by 'degraded' Internet service

By Halloween, VON was a ghost town

European carriers are adding tens of thousands of IPTV subs each month as the Old Continent leads the way in telco TV growth

Udderly ridiculous

Shareholder sends an offer letter of $3.40 a share to CACS, saying the company is undervalued

Cisco promises to invest $16 billion in China over the next five years

Consumer protection 1432

Still mired in losses, Conexant discontinues standalone wireless LAN chips and lays off 140

Euro regulators are in tit-for-tat mode

For God's sake, stay home!!!

MetroPCS pulls out but Leap says it is open to talks

Many offers, little prices

Who needs hi-def when you've got ASCII-Vision?

Verizon is gearing up for 100 Mbit/s to be a common offering for most homes. Will AT&T follow suit?

The talking is over

The FCC wouldn't grant Comcast a waiver, and, as promised, Comcast is taking the fight to appeals court

VP says bandwidth is a non-issue

Tutarus, SecureRF encrypt RFID data on the chip

Verizon first with a CDMA Pearl?

Stems market and retail store expansion of a wireless service offered in tandem with cable MSOs, citing mounting provisioning issues

Third-ranked US wireless operator reports subscriber numbers down by 60,000 for the third quarter

JDSU's reasons to turn thumbs down on copper

Top cable analyst suggests FCC's ban on exclusive cable MDU contracts is much ado about less than what many investors might think

Significant jobs cuts expected at BT

A new partnership with TiVo might help Windstream fight off cable competition

Sitting in a tree...

The company's optical sales bounce back, but not all the way

Reshuffle leaves two senior execs in limbo

Telcos are finally offering TV services in a real way, but are any of them making money? And, now that they've figured out the technical hurdles, what should they be doing to really stand out in this competitive business?