No, it wouldn't be Boxee. But someone else will step up, giving Boxee a deep-pocketed potential partner, the company's CEO says

Let's face it, the 9100 was going to be a mobile-core underdog anyway, says one analyst

And with 1,200 jobs to go in Finland, the vendor's two home countries are accounting for a sizeable chunk of its planned 17,000 layoffs

2:20 PM Mobile OS updates can consume more bandwidth than YouTube viewing, Flash Networks says

1:55 PM Cisco CTO tags mobility, cloud and collaboration as top enterprise trends at annual user event

The carrier isn't abandoning Isis, but it is starting to sell Square's payment reader smartphone accessory to help SMBs accept credit cards

UBS analyst predicts nearly 2M iPhone activations for Sprint in Q4 but says that could be one of the few bright spots for its subscriber story this quarter

Also: Sky eyes Netflix rival for the UK; SnagFilms scores some Comcast cash; Comcast nets MetroE deal; Cisco vet joins Docsis CPE maker

9:40 AM NTT Docomo wants to talk to Google about Android's excessive signaling traffic load

Vendor to focus on packet optical and mobile backhaul, and pull back from the LTE core, as it slims down and cuts about 16% of workforce

In today's roundup: Mobile backhaul wins for Ericsson; ARM flexes its profit muscle; PacketFront stays in the black, but only just

In the wake of the T-Mobile debacle, AT&T's roadmap now rests with Chief Strategy Officer John Stankey, while Ralph de la Vega loses U-verse

Vodafone is getting ready to launch LTE services in 13 cities in Portugal

TV Everywhere specialist roadshow begins Monday as the company prices its IPO at $10 to $12 per share and reveals a small acquisition

Who was doing what at the Cloud Expo Europe show in London? Here's the answer in full color!

10:45 AM Cloud partner is delivering new customers, says Savvis Euro MD

Also: Cablevision workers vote to unionize; TiVo spruces up Premiere DVR lineup; SCTE event adds wireless focus; White House CTO steps down

9:00 AM With iPads finding their way into all kinds of retail outlets, mobile payments are sure to be next

FCC grants a public comment period on LightSquared's GPS petition, which gives the operator some breathing space

8:00 AM This week's top telecom stories, as chosen by the readers of Matt's Mentions

In today's EMEA roundup: Up to 1,300 NSN jobs could go in Finland; eircom sets sale deadline; ADVA teams up with BT's Openreach

Panasonic pulls the rug from under its US cable group despite making headway at Cablevision and Time Warner Cable

All of the controversy around the proposed LTE network interfering with GPS could come to a head within weeks

A cable gear supplier has urged the FCC to allow MSOs to sell refurbished boxes, including HD and DVR models, with integrated security

The Finnish SPIT vendor had a tough 2011 and ended the year with a legal challenge from Cisco

11:20 AM MSO is prioritizing D3 adoption as it launches a phone service giveaway to new 50-Meg wideband subs, but will the promo work?

Also: Android gets squeezed out; Nokia waits for a Windows rebound; BlackBerry plants a new OS in the fall; HP's on the road to open

Also: Netflix goes device crazy; Wave Broadband seeks a buyer; Moto set-top shipments slip in Q4; Cablevision faces a class action

In today's EMEA roundup: Euro lay-offs loom large at Alcatel-Lucent; Nokia bins its ad business; NSN's €1.2B credit facility confirmed

A surprisingly weak Q1 outlook just reflects a cautious world, executives say

Though its deal with Google is expected to close early in 2012 and devices like the RAZR give it a modest boost, Moto can't compare to Apple yet

Q4 earnings met lowered expectations. Just don't say 'It can't get any worse'

1:30 PM AT&T plays the victim, but its customers pay the price

AT&T's mobile broadband business is thriving despite the costs of its breakup with T-Mobile, but the carrier warns it can't continue to grow without more spectrum

Even with the boost of the Motorola acquisition, year-on-year revenues decline

Also: Netflix DVD business shrinks; Verizon and Cablevision battle over broadband ads; green's the thing at SCTE event

It was AT&T's best quarter yet for smartphone additions, but that's not what dominated the numbers

Finnish giant's fourth-quarter and full-year 2011 financials tell a sorry tale, but there's hope on the horizon

Solid broadband subs gains overshadows loss of 129,000 video customers as MSO pulls in a profit of $564 million

In today's EMEA roundup: Nokia improves its 'clock speed' but not its figures; Comptel to buy Xtract; ex-Nokia CEO turns up at TeliaSonera

Huawei and NSN will replace Ericsson at Orange and T-Mobile's mobile network sharing joint venture in Poland

Netflix profits dip, but stock rises as company adds 610,000 subs and beats revenue expectations

Subs are using Wi-Fi to avoid fees as they reach the edges of their data plans, causing AT&T to boost its pricing plans, analysts suggest

Sprint's initial LTE footprint will be very much focused on the Lone Star state

CableLabs is gearing up to conduct qualification tests on EPON gear that can speak the provisioning language of Docsis

Canadian regulator gives MSO two weeks to rebut charges that it's violating net neutrality guidelines or put forth a compliance plan UPDATED 5:30 PM

Also: Rogers tweaks some speeds and caps; Cablevision business arm bundles conferencing services; Avail-TVN scores another VoD win

Ericsson points to the failed merger as the cause of a sales slowdown in the US and, globally, finds that carriers are spending more cautiously

Whether or not Skyfire's mobile video optimization is in Verizon Wireless's network, it's at least caught the carrier's attention

In today's EMEA roundup: Huawei touches down in East Anglia; Ericsson sees its margins squeezed; Blok's vote of confidence in KPN

Year-on-year revenues are up slightly but Ericsson's fourth-quarter margins and profits have taken a pounding

Any way you slice it, it was a big quarter for Apple

5:10 PM An over-the-air dongle could make Boxee a hit with cord cutters while the company also courts cable MSOs as customers

Owing to its best holiday iPhone and iPad sales yet, Apple reported its highest quarterly revenue and earnings to date

4:45 PM Active antennas could help increase capacity while reducing the size of cell sites over the long term

Orange and T-Mobile choose Huawei and NSN to supply equipment for their mobile network sharing joint venture in Poland

WiMax sales get lost in the shuffle at Sprint as Clearwire sold 900,000 4G devices for its partner in Q4, while Verizon sold over 2.4M

Azuki packages video in Apple's format and uses software clients to 'normalize' the video streams for an array of mobile devices

Verizon sold over 4M iPhones in Q4, 7.7M smartphones overall and 2.4M LTE devices, but the smartphone boom can hit margins even as it builds data revenues

Which would explain why Gennum's purchase price could be about 120% of its valuation

Also: Charter targets enhanced TV play on Motorola boxes; Comcast points fingers; Amino's Wi-Fi fling; BendBroadband taps tech VP

Pension costs pushed Verizon to a loss in the last quarter of 2011, as it misses analysts' EPS estimates by a penny

8:15 AM South Korean mobile operator SK Telecom explains its Het Net

But judging from a key hire, the startup's real interest might be in the 400G or terabit range

7:55 AM Vendors create federated CDN for mobile networks

In today's EMEA roundup: Austrian mobile operator does the ton; ST-Ericsson losses widen; KPN lowers its outlook for 2012

Someday, Docsis might not be enough. EPoC is one option to keep the cable industry from getting caught flat-footed

The BlackBerry maker's executive changes and plans to stay the course may not be enough to help it compete where it really needs to – the consumer market

New CEO Thorsten Heins will do more of the same, but better, at the Canadian BlackBerry maker

Also: CableLabs targets 3DTV plugfest; Netflix marketing chief is out; Knology eyes a small acquisition

A deal with Tata Communications has Juniper feeling bold about content delivery networks

RIM's new CEO Thorsten Heins explains his plans for the BlackBerry maker on YouTube

Starting a semiconductor company has gotten a lot more complicated, but a new industry initiative aims to change that

6:30 AM This week's top telecom stories, as chosen by the readers of Matt's Mentions

A major financing deal by Nokia Siemens Networks and hope for Nokia's Lumia sales lead today's regional news roundup

The long-awaited ousting of Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis has come to pass

Verizon and the MSOs will give the FCC a classified view of their co-marketing deal, but only to avoid delaying the review of the spectrum sale

Also: More RIM theories; Windows Phone's ready to take down Apple; Siri to make its way into Apple's core; Google plans a Wallet push

Also: Verizon Wireless-cable deals come under fire; Google insists its fiber build isn't bogged down; Netflix's Q4 rebound, SeaChange's new CFO

Despite rumors to the contrary, ZTE and Ericsson have kissed and made up over their patent infringement dispute

With connected TVs coming to the market in various flavors, will that finally be the end of the set-top box? Not exactly, says EchoStar's Michael Hawkey

6:30 AM According to one industry analyst, Ericsson's new CTO is the real deal

In today's EMEA roundup: Telekom Austria unit gives VDSL2 vectoring a whirl; Ewaldsson takes Ericsson CTO role; Google/Moto antitrust latest

Veteran mobile networks executive takes CTO role, but the appointment leaves the Swedish vendor without a head of Ericsson Silicon Valley

With 700,000 devices activated daily and 11B downloads from the Android Market, Google says it has a shot to actually make money at this

FCC stamps latest version of the Pace-made hybrid IP/QAM gateway that Comcast is expected to deploy broadly in 2012

10:50 AM Vendor showcases its new Windows Phone device at Professor Green London gig

Also: L2 CEO arrested for stealing cable service; Time Warner Cable taps DTAs for all-digital move in Maine; former Cox CTO gives advice

About Ray Le Maistre

8:00 AM Ahead of the annual FTTH Council Europe event in Munich, we ask Heavy Reading's Graham Finnie about next-gen PON developments and the development of FTTH services in Europe

6:20 AM Swedish giant looks at the impact of OTT service performance on customer expectations

In today's EMEA roundup: Sony Ericsson's fourth quarter isn't pretty; Nokia under pressure over Lumia 710 price; AlcaLu, Microsoft end case

Verizon Wireless aims to launch commercial Voice-over-LTE services nationally in early 2013, say industry sources

EchoStar's hosted video service for ISPs will couple live TV and VoD with a network DVR, and target all manner of connected devices

Verizon hits smaller towns and expands markets in the south with its latest 4G LTE update

LightSquared blasts PNT EXCOM committee after government agencies said that its LTE network interfered with GPS receivers last week

1:35 PM Microsoft may be easing into VoIP so as not to upset the wireless operators it desperately needs for Windows Phone

With help from a friend, AlcaLu wants to use routers to block denial-of-service attacks

No commercial smarpthones yet support VoLTE, but the technology is still on schedule as it wades through implementation challenges

Also: US cable rules the downstream; Hulu targets exclusive content; Procera lands more MSO cash

Holds up well in Q4 despite tough trading conditions

Apigee has acquired startup Usergrid, which will boost operators' API offerings and allow developers to build mobile apps more efficiently

Love it or hate it, the all-Cisco Unified Computing System data-center architecture looks like it's here to stay

In today's EMEA roundup: Israel pilot for AlcaLu; Skype is top telecom brand in UK; French 800MHz spectrum officially handed over

5:40 PM Will you pay more for big bucket data plans with mobile hot-spot support from AT&T or Verizon?

5:20 PM The 2012 global IPv6 event isn't about testing, but about proving permanent deployments

Clearwire is working with China Mobile to make it easier develop and test new LTE TDD devices for the planned 4G networks in the US and China

It's déjà vu all over again as rumors fly that AT&T may try to acquire Dish in the wake of the whole T-Mobile thing

11:45 AM Network Vision could be a little blurry for consumers who want the latest and greatest 4G phone from Sprint

Also: SCTE CEO gets five more years; BlackArrow confirms CTO hire; SeaChange CFO departs; LG may get first sniff of Google TV 2.0

Comcast subs in Seattle and Portland, Ore., are the first to be offered a Verizon Wireless service combo package

In today's EMEA roundup: FT and Bouygues Telecom share access fiber in densely populated areas; Telekom Austria linked to Bulgaria's Vivacom

More than three years after being charged, former Nortel executives Frank Dunn, Douglas Beatty and Michael Gollogly finally take the stand

Product marketer Trevor Van Norman explains why Sprint chose its first LTE devices, how it will explain Network Vision to consumers and how it plans to make up for lost time with LTE

5:45 PM All together now: Two tech vendors sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G

1:00 PM At CES, I put Verizon's Eric Bruno on the spot to walk me through a day in the 'Borderless Life.' The idea is that all your network services can be available on any connected device

At the RIM booth at CES 2012, Fritz Nelson walks through a new, improved BlackBerry PlayBook. Its improved features sound great, but the demo tablet doesn't always cooperate

Share distribution hints at independent existence for Comverse, plus other news from the Service Provider IT (SPIT) sector

9:50 AM That's what Bloomberg reports, but should operators be worried about the impact on their networks?

The telco is evaluating Infusion, a platform that splices spots into live TV and VoD

8:00 AM This week's top telecom stories, as chosen by the readers of Matt's Mentions

In today's EMEA roundup: Litigation hassle for NSN; the decline and fall of SMS messaging; Telenor's anti-dumb-pipe strategy

Mobile technology patent specialist files lawsuit against LightSquared and Nokia Siemens Networks and gets acquired for $160M

Achim Berg, CVP of Microsoft's recently formed Operator Channels team, explains how working through the operators is good business and why he's not afraid of Google

11:00 AM Phil checks out Verizon's FiOS TV service on the Microsoft Xbox 360. But why put a subset of its TV service on a gaming console? Verizon's Joe Ambeault explains

Even a modified light network would harm GPS signals, an influential committee says, in more bad news for the Falcone-backed venture

The new RIM OS adds more NFC capabilities, more social networking and content-sharing features

With major mobile operators in Spain planning to launch services it seems there's still life in the Rich Communication Suite proposal

Also: New EAS rules threaten small MSOs; Hulu sub update; Shaw sheds video subs; Dish 'open' to just about anything; live TV's decline

Intel's Tizen lives on in tablets; Android lends devs a hand; Nokia rags on frag; RIM promises an improved OS; Microsoft starts slow but steady

10:00 AM With its new TVs, tablets and consumer cameras, Samsung is keeping consumers connected in a way that could make home networks less important

New analyst report says Sprint needs an extra $3B or so in funding to complete its LTE and 3G multi-modal upgrade

Partners at Verizon's CES booth demonstrate some of the cool stuff they hope to accomplish with LTE

Samsung's product marketing director explains why a 'phablet' and a stylus have a place in the market and how Samsung plans to take down Nokia as world leader in 2012

In today's EMEA roundup: IPR specialist takes on more than 450 Nokia patents; Everything Everywhere responds to revised Ofcom proposals

6:35 AM Beijing store pelted with eggs as shoppers denied the iPhone 4S

Verizon's director of technology talks about LTE spectrum, smartphone strategy and the creation of a 4G ecosystem

T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm says the mobile operator is in fighting form and ready to take on the market again

MSO's deployment of 2,000 hot spots in Florida comes as the industry starts to develop a Wi-Fi roaming architecture UPDATED 1/13 2:00 PM

Our walk around the Las Vegas mega-show yields some colorful characters, shiny gadgets and visual stimulation

12:35 PM Expect more customer experience management action at this year's MWC

10:30 AM Mobile video isn't the next big thing; it's the big thing that's happening right here, right now

Also: FCC commissioner questions Comcast's AWS intentions; TWC eyes Panasonic TVs; CableOne tests EchoStar; Amazon gives Ultraviolet some cred

Mobile messaging and management specialist to seek buyers for its product lines and focus on its patent portfolio

Most analysts reacted breezily to Juniper's earnings warning, but one believes there's a systemic market shift worth looking at

Verizon's partners show off how LTE is helping transform the healthcare industry, from the hospital to the ambulance to the patient's home

SAP's Oliver Bussmann says CIOs need to consider how they can provide apps and management platforms that allow employees to work on whatever device works best for them

In today's EMEA roundup: SPIT vendor now in Swedish hands; Ofcom has an LTE rethink; Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica share fiber network

LTE smartphones are becoming more diverse and less expensive, giving the wireless operators more fodder for their 4G marketing messages

Light Reading Mobile goes in search of tablets at the massive consumer bash in Sin City

An Infonetics survey suggests the optical 40G craze will be short-lived, as expected

T-Mobile could support the next iPhone, as the carrier plots to be the comeback kid in 2012

Sprint is betting big on NFC through its partnership with Google and promises to include the tech in all but its lowest-end LTE smartphones

In a first step toward losing the set-top, Verizon will start streaming live TV and VoD directly to LG TVs and Blu-ray players

Also: DirecTV connects with Samsung's brainy TVs; TWC lights up HBO GO; Showtime launches iPad app; SeaChange softens up Humax's tru2way box

Nokia's VP of product marketing explains why its first Lumia Windows Phone LTE device is a cut above all the Androids on the market and how AT&T is going to help them prove it

Hold on to your hats as the Het Net gets even hotter

MetroPCS shows off its new mobile digital TV service, developed with Mobile Content Venture, to bring live, local TV broadcasts to the mobile masses

HP promises no dongles and no compromises with its latest ultrabook – a souped-up, ultra-thin laptop that looks amazingly like a MacBook Pro

ViewSonic debuts three new tablets -- one Windows, two Android -- to take advantage of the consumer obsession with inexpensive, Wi-Fi-connected devices

In today's EMEA roundup: Virgin plans to double downlink speeds for 4 million UK households; Everything Everywhere spectrum sale news

Formation of M2M unit creates a template for bringing networks and IT teams together at Telekom Austria

Cable MSOs might never have to pull fiber all the way to the home if a wannabe IEEE standard can bring PON speeds to HFC

8:00 PM New devices, new network demands, developer unity and the great big iOS in the room

2:45 PM Has India's mobile sector imploded? No ...

2:25 PM Mobile cloud strategies are all well and good, but where is the big spending and infrastructure heavy-lifting to back them up?

The Moto Xoom is on deck as the MSO launches AnyPlay in two markets, allowing customers to stream their full TV lineup to the Apple tablet

Millimeter-wave backhaul vendor says new funds will support LTE network deployments this year

Also: Olympics are going 3-D; new cord-cutting stats; Dish tees up free TV Everywhere promo; MSOs join Google's TV ad brigade

Huawei Chief Design Director Hagen Fendler explains the design philosophy behind the Ascend, its first flagship smartphone, and why it will appeal to North American consumers

In today's EMEA roundup: BSkyB bolsters its backbone, big-style; Deutsche Telecom gets a GroupOn; Iliad enters French mobile fray

The French mobile market just got a lot more interesting now that Iliad has launched its low-cost services

Enhancements to the Videoscape architecture give the network more control over video formats, which of course is the way Cisco likes it

LG and VMware show how personal and work operating systems and applications can co-exist on the same device

Big execs, big promises and big ideas were captured by our cameras at the 2012 AT&T Developers Conference

LR Mobile attends the CES unveiling of the Nokia Lumia 900, the first LTE Windows Phone for AT&T, and gets real about its prospects in the US

Nokia is ready to take back the U.S., and it's leaning on AT&T to lead the way to making Windows Phone the third ecosystem here

Users will be able to mess with them in parts of Texas by the middle of the year

Verizon has the bigger LTE network, but AT&T is fighting back with 4G-like promises for HSPA+ and a clutch of upcoming LTE devices

If supercharged HD-DVRs can't bring subscribers back, maybe a baby kangaroo will win them over

It's becoming clear that carrier Q4 spending wasn't what it was cracked up to be

The flagship HSPA+ Ascend is the best-feeling smartphone, Huawei says, and an LTE version for the US may be on the way

12:30 PM Here's what you need to know if you have a mobile device or a connected laptop

Also: Dish updates its iPad app; Pace taps new Americas chief; TW Cable goes with iControl; SeaChange boxes up hybrid set-top software

Survey responses clearly show that 100G interfaces will play a major role in future networking systems

ETNO report suggests that operators are spending more on their networks but generating less revenue

The ultrabook is like a thinner PC, but bigger than a tablet, which is more capable than a phablet, which isn't quite a smartphone – got it?

Huawei may have supplied Telekom Austria with its trial LTE network, but Ericsson and NSN are providing the gear for the commercial network

With talk of CDN federation on the rise, EdgeCast wants to make sure its name isn't left out

8:00 AM This week's top telecom stories, as chosen by the readers of Matt's Mentions

In today's EMEA roundup: Chinese vendor rules the Euro roost in LTE; Netflix hits UK and Ireland; Euro telcos spend more; Vodafone makes friends

5:15 AM 4G is still about delivering a national footprint and killer devices in 2012

5:00 AM Wireless operators are eager for a third ecosystem, and Microsoft stands the best chance of building it for them

Nokia's first LTE Windows Phone device and others, more 4G clues and M2M action

The company says Q4 earnings will be a letdown, partly because of legal fees

Its last analog channels are being sacrificed to free up spectrum for new services, such as Xcalibur

Kit Digital snaps up the assets of Sezmi, a startup that had grand plans to disrupt the cable TV market with a no-frills alternative

Get a visual on the new AT&T 4G launches and the first announced LTE markets from Sprint, as US Cellular preps its first next-gen devices

Also: Nokia acquires a feature phone OS; Samsung soars in Q4, while HTC flounders; LR Mobile counts down to CES

Also: Charter takes more TV everywhere; Netflix clashes with HBO over DVDs; Dish is hip to 'Hopper' DVR; Ubee's CEO to retire

9:25 AM A smartphone usage study finds that extreme data users are exposed, identifying the iPhone 4S as the data-hungriest device of the lot

This week: Ushering in the new year with more than a dozen research reports on everything from LTE to fixed-mobile substitution

A reported shift in IPTV platform strategy at Telefonica tops today's EMEA news queue

Joe Matarese, a top mind in VoD and advanced ad technologies, is heading to the Comcast-backed startup

Sprint has promised to turn on its first four Network Vision markets by mid-year, including in Atlanta, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio

A top exec says the MSO's initial D3 deployment is done, setting up the migration to IP video

With 60% of its sales now going to smartphones, Leap is planning to add session-based pricing to increase the value of its tiered data plans

Operator covered 74 million PoPs with LTE at the end of 2011 with 11 new markets launched, including congested areas such as San Francisco and NYC

But stock jockeys eye the short-term hit rather than the long-term growth that the numbers hint at

Also: TW Cable tests HBO GO, with a catch; Moto trots out CES demos; exec change at Liberty Global; HDTVs are firmly in the mainstream

The mobile chipset is still hot at the beginning of 2012 as Mindspeed plans to acquire femto chip specialist Picochip for $51.8M

President and CEO Mark Dzuban outlines the Society's lengthy 'to do' list for the year ahead

8:00 AM Bet on tablets, not tables, in Vegas this year

7:35 AM Expect more legal action around patent misuse

In today's EMEA roundup: Nokia board plumps for another Finn; Spanish regulator probes mobile big three; KPN government contract canned

The long-term deal includes TV Everywhere, so Comcast gets the Mouse in and out of the house

3:30 PM If the beloved Flip had to go, then the less-beloved ūmi wasn't going to be long for this world

2012 is gearing up to be a major year for customer experience management developments

Also: Roku tees up HDMI-connected Streaming Stick; Netflix sets original series debut; Verizon drops media server hints; cable execs on the move

Regional carrier will be the first to offer live, local TV though a Samsung phone with a baked-in TV tuner

Entropic looks to amp up the competition with Broadcom and Intel as it puts in a 'stalking horse' bid for the set-top assets of troubled Trident

2012 starts with a 100G chip acquisition

Deal with EchoStar could make it easier for Cisco, Moto and other Broadcom chip customers to integrate Sling Media's TV place-shifting tech

In today's EMEA roundup: AlcaLu wins Saudi deal; China Telecom strikes MVNO deal with UK operator; TalkTalk gets its mobile man

The companies won't go to war as AT&T agrees to pay millions to license TiVo's DVR technology. Is Verizon next?

3:40 PM Sprint has given LightSquared an extra 30 days to get FCC approval for its LTE network, which still seems like a hard deadline to hit

Also: NY Times frets about Verizon Wireless-cable deals; new Charter CEO could cash in; Versus becomes the NBC Sports Network

Media reports indicate that Sprint has given LightSquared another 30 days to get permission for its terrestrial LTE network from the FCC

South Korean incumbent is turning off its 2G services as it rolls out LTE

In today's EMEA roundup: Ben Verwaayen stays positive; T-Mobile Hungary launches LTE; KPN's CFO quits; Telefónica tests 400G

The subsea cable sector in Asia/Pacific is heating up and there's talk of a new transpacific cable to link China with the US