A great truth, again

Analysts and others decry the likelihood of Microsoft buying out BlackBerry maven RIM

Cisco owns your Connected Life

WiMax upstart looking for network project managers in San Francisco and beyond

A night out in The Bronx

BT Vision's IPTV subs are growing, but by how much?

As IPTV middleware firm preps for the IBC tradeshow, CEO says takeover talks are continuing with a number of parties

There's nothing like a custom van

Company cuts 30 employees in the second quarter, with the biggest hit coming at its video server unit

Citywide mesh networks aren't dead but they sure smell funny

Zayo Bandwidth is a new startup that looks to provide bandwidth services to Tier 1 carriers in Tier 2 and 3 cities

The African mobile operator is rushing to keep pace with demand, as its subscriber base grows 90% from last year

Exec changes continue at OpenTV as Alan Guggenheim steps down as CEO and leaves the board

Comcast pays to make TiVo-powered DVR services available across its digital footprint

Folks in Saudi Arabia are paying $571.82 per month for every 100 Kbit/s they can squeeze out of their connections

Heading for Europe? Go to Italy...

German incumbent cuts its entry-level triple-play package price by 25% in an effort to reach its 200,000 end-of-year telco TV target

Optical vendor posts strong revenue and earnings results for the third quarter

Nortel has emerged as the most recent suitor for Tellabs, Light Reading has learned

Although DirecTV's DVR-powered 'on-demand' service is a different animal than two-way cable VOD offerings, it could blur consumer perception

Patience pays off

Sources say Tellabs has cooled on the idea of buying CACS

T-Mobile's lips are sealed on an Apple partnership for the iPhone in Germany

Makes sense of phrase, 'Kill two mosquitoes with one phone'

Google's WiFi network turns one year old

Nokia enters the mobile Internet services market with a new music store, gaming, and navigation services

Matthew Finnie, CTO, Interoute talks about how the carrier dealt with a quadrupling of bandwidth demands over the course of 2006

Shareholders vote in favor of $1.2 billion buyout

Should Comcast be more forthcoming about its 'invisible' byte cap?

The company gets a settlement with the SEC, while its former general counsel gets hit with federal charges

Motorola subsidiaries sue Aruba Networks for patent infringements related to wireless LAN technology

Metro Ethernet forms the basis of a new high-end video transport service, challenging the likes of Verizon Business

Be careful before burning yourself

Beware of those tricky, tricky, potentially stock-moving headlines...

That's the plan, if one lawmaker has his way

We're on a 10-year cycle for major evolutionary changes in cellular wireless networks

Cable and consumer electronics collide in a war of words over two-way 'Plug & Play'

Vodafone upgrades its HSDPA network to 7.2 Mbit/s and hopes to attract more users with new devices and a flat-rate tariff

Market share for the former TiMetra spikes in Q2, as AlcaLu (maybe) passes Juniper in edge routing

From the weird to the insane

BigBand is not bugging out of the modem termination system sector but refocusing efforts on Docsis 3.0

Local reports suggest the GPhone could be alive and well in Asia Minor

Is it for real this time?

Sprint and Samsung plot NYC WiMax rollout late in 2008

Content delivery networks are cutting prices for large media deals, but analysts say volumes will make up for it

'Tuner Resolver' will enable two-way switched digital video services to run on one-way digital TVs and set-tops

Spare the manacles, spoil the child

Pushes the limits of 'hugs not drugs'

We've got plenty of cheer to spread

Qwest not on the hook for Nacchio's legal fees

A new line of Sony-made 'computer entertainment centers' comes equipped with CableCARD slots

Vervets are pigs

It's not that I don't like you, it's just that you're not really my friend

Yahoo chases the deranged angry freak demographic

Analysts are still divided on whether the phone will arrive on US or Euro shores first

Layoff causes one analyst to wonder if BigBand will repurpose or 'mothball' its CMTS business

Has anybody gotten it to work?

Tellabs is laying off 30 employees at its Danish R&D facility. Why they were even researching pastries, we have no idea

The cable and consumer electronics industries find common ground with CableLabs' approval of DTCP-IP

Cisco vs IBM: Fun with numbers

Carrier says a small fire damaged a Houston VRAD cabinet in January

Deal ensures the content delivery network won't lose Microsoft for five years

Today, flour. Tomorrow, baking soda?

The chip company is selling most of its storage business as it fights to regain profitability

The universe is out of balance

Kevin Vachon, COO of the MEF, talks about Ethernet's proliferation and how that changes the way carriers are designing their networks

Investigation concludes by pointing to a limited manufacturing defect from a defunct manufacturer

Cable ops will make a move to switched digital video well before a jump to 1 GHz, C-Cor thinks

Muni shakeout redux: Now Strix is said to have cut its workforce

Replacing World @ Home with World of Warcraft = Bad

'Next-gen' CMTSs and edge QAMs are in the house

C-COR posted fiscal fourth-quarter net sales of $74.4 million, up from $59.6 million a year ago

Billing systems can help carriers reduce churn and increase both net adds and ARPU – if they keep up with service evolution.

Cuts 33 in its access group and looks to do more trimming outside North America. Also, Stephen McCarthy's moving on

Too much information, thanks

The hilarity of cable vs telco

Carriers in Asia position themselves for a piece of China's long-awaited 3G market

McLeodUSA plans to offer shares at $13 to $15, raising about $100M in its IPO

Here's a glance at who's deploying switched digital video, where it's being deployed, and with whom

No silly season in the wacky world of broadband wireless

Who wants to be the next Vonage?

Paris will have two competing mobile WiMax networks by the end of the year, making it a hotbed for wireless broadband activity

OK, it's .11n too

Mueller... Mueller... Anyone?

AlcaLu's integration clean-up guy and its once-rising star are leaving

The fix is in, apparently, as two longshots dominate the latest Top 10 poll

Cox's switched digital video strategy is going to bat in Northern Virginia, with Phoenix and Orange County on deck

The demographics of FTTx demand

A new report says Apple has picked three European mobile operators to distribute the iPhone

Research shows Cox to be the first cable MSO to crack the top echelon of Ethernet service providers

Having trouble with that touch screen?

Another U-verse sighting

The demise of voice as a money-earning service doesn't really spell doom for telecom companies... just for their business models.

Comcast responds to allegations that it throttles peer-to-peer traffic

Soon we'll see exactly how well mobile WiMax performs in the wild and how well Sprint can sell it

A more centralized platform from Tandberg Television is allowing some smaller Time Warner Cable systems to launch video-on-demand

Mechanical arm menaces Tokyo

CEO Steve Burch left Virgin Media today and resigned from the board, leaving the UK cable operator to face an uncertain future

UK operator 3 shakes up the mobile broadband market with the launch of HSDPA services starting at $20 per month

Texting kills

The onetime 40-Gbit/s hopeful has reportedly shut down and put its assets up for sale

Just in time for classes, recording org targets students

VOIP service went down as a result of 'massive restart' of computers, the company claims

Telecom Italia launches Alice branded broadband in the Netherlands and decides to keep bbned

Bidding for spectrum in the 700 MHz band kicks off Jan. 16, but it's still unclear whether cable ops will join the game

We're all friends here

A big-top tent revival

Software providers are concocting plans for the Docsis 3.0 transition too

KPN Mobile boosts its sales channels in Belgium with the acquisition of Tele2's Belgian operations

Mind the gap

A little light music for your Friday

Portugal Telecom's new partnership in Africa reflects increasing interest from operators in Europe and Asia

The operator's Q2 conference call brings no new word on its possible 'strategic options'

The silicon-photonics company has set a course for the data center, putting its technology into optical active cable

The new MediaHawk gives Concurrent's revenues some pickup in Q4

Inappropriate use of headdress

Will work for fiber

Verizon Wholesale customers can now have their bandwidth allocations changed on the fly

It's a good thing most set-tops are going out the door with the CableCARD pre-inserted

But Vodafone wants some bugs ironed out of the iPhone first, according to sources

Freedom Is Obedience!

iPhone bill in a box

Embarq is joining the video craze with an upcoming trial that will run on its own network

Struggling cellular operator comes out swinging with a raft of new details on its WiMax plans

The brothers who founded Terayon are heading up a stealthy video processing upstart called Novafora

Webcast hullabaloo appears to be more an issue of net stupidity than net neutrality

An apparent software bug has left some users of the VOIP service temporarily stranded

Duck 'n' cover, ladies!

The Top 10 Private Companies list gets its first makeover in more than a year, and it's a doozy

An SEC filing from Paul Allen suggests the MSO will explore a sale or a privatization bid

Network equipment vendors are well placed to challenge IT vendors in the field of service management platforms, says a new report

P2P filesharing company turns over a new leaf

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

Optical networking companies pulled in $3.5B in the second quarter, according to one report

West Virginia gets broadband

Shakeout in full swing, what will remain of the muni mesh dream?

After building wireless and satellite broadband alliances, DirecTV is adding powerline to its repertoire

Behold! You have just entered the world of cross-platform video software

Anyone got other IPO suggestions? We do

Rumors of a WiFi mesh shakeout continue

Clown is asked to stop clowning around

Three German mobile operators join forces to apply for a national DVB-H mobile broadcast license in Germany

A life in verse

Test firm plans more wireless M&A after buying some mobile performance measurement duds

Pannaway has announced that it is acquiring the access division of TelStrat and now has its sights set on stealing customers from Calix

Only two products – eMTAs from Motorola and Hitron – came through Wave 53 with a certification stamp from CableLabs

Officials confirm that they've won business with Cisco and especially Juniper, which represented 40% of revenues

Cable operators saw net subscribers drop in Q2, but a recent report says the numbers should bounce back in Q3

Peering is becoming an increasingly popular way to reduce costs and improve the quality of voice over IP calls

Net neutrality heads across the pond

Telecom 2001. Subprime 2007. What's the difference?

Nortel is investing heavily in its WiMax R&D program as it bangs the 4G drum, but its strategy is out of step with the market, says analyst

Spectrum remains the stumbling block for AT&T and others

$900M deal is expected to help the handset component maven expand beyond the mobile phone market

Dutch incumbent is looking to strengthen its business in neighboring Belgium, and is in talks to buy Tele2-Versatel for $136M

Test vendor provides a first look at its top customer list and reflects on how equipment vendor M&A is hitting its order book

And you thought it wouldn't fit

News: Microsoft claims the FCC tested a defective 'White Spaces' prototype. Views: Is anyone surprised?

The pair successfully demonstrate interoperable Docsis 3.0 upstream channel bonding at CableLabs

Bandwidth expansion specialist says it has scored lab trials with Comcast and Charter

Bandwidth expansion specialist trimmed year-over-year losses and reported deployment progress with operators like Cox

Contentinople has the goods on who's doing what

Hello Kitty? Hello Porcelain!

Sorry start to our iPlayer beta test

Value-added services provider targets India's growing mobile subscriber base with voice SMS

Former Ameritech CEO Edward A. Mueller has been named as Richard Notebaert's successor at Qwest

When you're going up against Motorola and Scientific Atlanta, even a 'decimal point' share is worth celebrating

Relax, we're extending the POY deadline

Its a cat's life

Venture capitalists invested $2.7B in the wireless market in the first half of the year, according to Rutberg

An upcoming data-center switch and edge router might appease critics who say Cisco's portfolio is getting too old

One damn thing after another

Symmetricom is having trouble predicting when cable operators will migrate to modular cable modem termination systems

More exclusive photos from AT&T's equipment cabinet meltdown in Houston

AT&T says it is focusing on Avestor's batteries as a possible cause of last year's Houston equipment explosion

Butt-cracks abound at 'Texas Redneck Games'

Couch potatoes rejoice: a remote for your remote!

Maybe you can find better living through surgery

Analysts are confident the content delivery market will remain strong, despite a selloff in Limelight shares

NXTcomm attendance fell short of the expected 20,000-plus

Verizon grabs more southern assets

A few winners amongst a lot of losers

NYC Council gets back to nannying

Stress is building on the Sprint-cable Pivot joint venture

Content delivery network financials come in way below estimates, prompting a selloff in shares

GSM giant joins the WiMAX Forum as it examines its technology options

Vonage reports a 54% decrease in Q2 losses, but subscriber growth is on the decline

Income is down 94 percent as WiMax spending and other costs take their toll

Blast from the past

Subway + Rain = Commuter Pain

After a difficult second quarter, Sonus seems to be predicting bigger sales to come in the fourth quarter

The bid to take BCE private gets its shareholder vote on September 21

A small matter of definition

A Swiss court orders Swisscom to halt its WiMax trial because of 'electrosmog' concerns

Monkeys are for snuggling, not smuggling

A new report analyzes how deeply Verizon FiOS is cutting video incumbents in Massachusetts

I was there, and I got pictures

Cablevision's quarter was in-line, but the MSO has pared 2007 guidance, citing a 'competitive environment'

British cable firm's woes continue. Can soccer save it?

Nokia unveils a dual-supplier chipset strategy, licenses its modem technology, and outsources some IC operations

Nan Chen leaves mesh startup Strix for a new, as yet unknown, gig

Access vendor secures another $57.5M, but won't say what for

Vodafone has decided not to exercise its Verizon Wireless 'put option,' and is holding on to all of its 45% holding

Mediacom thinks it can continue shooting down the telco competition for some time yet before it needs a Docsis 3.0 upgrade

Shares of Cogent Communications fell 22% Tuesday as its latest earnings report and outlook fell short of analyst expectations

'No real than you are'

Could the next 12 months help define the future of mobile operating systems?

Lets attackers sniff and access Web accounts over WiFi

After a strong Q4, Cisco bumps up its revenue forecast, saying 17% revenue growth is possible

Watch out for dead fatties!

A video-over-Docsis demo from Harmonic was the top vote-getter at the CableLabs 'Innovation Showcase'

Japanese wireless player to build mobile WiMax system with Alvarion

Dull forecasts, upward-slanting stock graphs

Italian regulator says Sì to FMC

Alcatel-Lucent suffers major setback in $1.5 billion MP3 patent infringement case against its IPTV partner Microsoft

Despite a small revenue uptick, Mediacom recorded a second-quarter loss of $6.6 million

Review of North American wireline carriers results in the first ever 'A-' being awarded to Verizon

East European telco Telekom Slovenije is investing up to $620M in a nationwide fiber-to-the-home project

Low margins aren't scaring Finisar away from the GPON transceiver market

The MSO has pushed the anticipated rollout of OpenTV middleware on pre-OpenCable Platform Motorola boxes to sometime in 2008

WiMax gets into the cold

Len Bosack is back with XKL, a 'startup' targeting enterprise-owned optical networks

San Franciscans get to vote on whether they want free municipal WiFi

The disgraced former Adelphia Chairman is going to jail... but not quietly

CDN startup changes CEOs – again – as it focuses on the service side of the business

All I can say is, WoW

Pink armbands foisted on naughty cops to make them feel shame

State's holding in Belgacom reportedly under review

About 3,500 Cox field techs are staying connected to the mother ship using a roaming platform developed by NetMotion

Silicon photonics are still aglow

'Lifestyles of the Rich and Thankless'

Apparently it's not a contradiction in terms

More than a mini-Caspian, Larry Roberts's latest startup, Anagran, claims to give operators unprecedented control over TCP traffic

A 120,000-subscriber deployment for Bharti provides another boost for the troubled company's IPTV hopes

CommScope appears to be ahead of the pack with an FTTP platform for cable operators that addresses greenfields and low-density areas

Source says that Apple gets $175 from AT&T for each iPhone sold

A look at Indian service provider financials in Q2

Preeminent P2P warehouse rises from the ashes

VOIP player catches up on earnings statements delayed by its stock options review

Spoilsport's lawsuit thrown out

Light Reading sources say Carrier Access is sitting in Tellabs' shopping cart

Italian triple-play pioneer plans new multimedia service and self-install home gateways that will enable FMC services

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin came home to North Carolina yesterday to talk about analog cable viewers

Conquer your lands with the dual-core processor

Kazoo community suffers from apathy

He pops up in the darndest places

Telus CEO quashes any further speculation about a bid for Bell Canada

Tier 1 equipment vendors might be ready for the copper plunge, according to the latest Light Reading Insider.

BigBand's stock slumped in after-hours trading following news of Q2 financials that fell way short of analyst expectations

More signs of pain for Motorola as Nokia and others eat into its mobile phone share

We can't all be Internet stars, Father

CEO Mike Zafirovski says Nortel is ready to grow through M&A as well as by increasing sales, and forecasts stronger revenues for H2

A 45 percent surge in revenues helped the digital video specialist swing to a profit in the second quarter

Nearly a dozen potential buyers passed on ECI before it was scooped up by Swarth Investments

The Verizon FiOS Yankees!

Broadband-powered TV devices are proliferating, but will consumers be savvy enough to know what they've got, let alone tap in to it?

Want great DSL speeds? Then camp on top of a local exchange, says BT

Bow before us, mortals!

After just one quarter of reported operations Nokia Siemens Networks faces a strategy overhaul and further layoffs

Nortel disappoints with its second-quarter financials as revenues fall, even accounting for the sale of the 3G access unit

In its first quarter of operations newly-formed giant vendor Nokia Siemens Networks reports a major operating loss

The company hopes to get a fresh start from a new COO and the pending completion of options restatements

Growth in emerging markets and domestic broadband, plus a tax break, helped France Telecom achieve a 41% leap in net income in H1

The deal to take Bell Canada private still faces a few risks

Shares perk up as Nasdaq decides to stop sending delisting messages to Sycamore

Carrius was hilarious. But AppTrigger is going to be bigger

A fourth round of funding brings the startup's total to $98M and kicks its valuation that much higher

Time Warner Cable confirmed it will be among the bidders for the balance of Insight Communications

Sprint withdraws from a spectrum bidding consortium with major MSOs, says decision has no bearing on the 'Pivot' joint venture

And everybody seems happy with 'open access' rules

Company claims small- and mid-sized cable ops can enjoy the riches of local ad insertion without breaking the bank on equipment costs

The telco is not high on its one-year waiver for high-end set-tops

Qwest doubled profits but still fell short of analyst expectations

Analyst sees Tellabs as likely CACS buyer

Just add some accounting magic, and Infinera's numbers look a lot more like an enterprise software vendor than a big box maker

Cramer's not French, is he?

Search giant's site lists 81 wireless-related vacancies, most notably a head of mobile business development for the US

Israeli vendor confirms the lack of any rival bidders and meets expectations with its Q2 financials ahead of its takeover

Struggling session border controller vendor has almost run out of money and is looking for more cash to help it work on some prospects