3:30 PM Sprint's LTE-Advanced plans may just be running to catch up with rivals

2:00 PM UN Commission sets broadband targets for the world

We are on track for a record number service provider, cloud provider,and enterprise speakers participating in this year's Expo.

Regional LTE provider says handset prices will drop in mid-2012 as it looks to complete its 4G rollout and tout its new network

North American capex hits the brakes and Tellabs tries to steer out of a skid with a Q3 net loss and reduced guidance for Q4

Tablets are likely to be the first in line to get the multi-antenna technology that will give Sprint improved LTE speeds

10:10 AM Operator says again that Apple promises a TD-LTE iPhone

Also: Vendors pitch pre-packaged TV Everywhere platform; Netflix chief justifies Qwikster concept; HBO's got issues with Apple TV

Middleware enhancements let IPTV providers deliver OTT video to homes over bandwidth of 4 Mbit/s

In today's EMEA roundup: Dutch incumbent has the Q3 blues; Deutsche Telekom applies itself to apps; Italtel gets all energy-efficient

With help from IMS, AlcaLu wants to give operators a way to rival services like FaceTime and really show off LTE's potential

The company's all-optical switch gets a long-needed revamp in order to go after data-center markets. Oh, and it raised $19.4M more

6:05 PM Here's a look at who made it onto the short list and why

Netflix stock falls more than 21% after the company whiffs on its streaming and DVD subscriber forecast

It's early days for next-gen mobile broadband in the US and not all LTE networks are equal

Apple iTV predictions; Irdeto buys piracy cop; Canoe study touts ITV ad efficiency; WICT Rocky Mountain sets 'Tech it Out' lineup

The NCTC has spawned an initiative that aims to create a centralized authentication system for hundreds of Tier 3 pay-TV operators

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

7:30 AM 4G World again? Then it's time to take the pulse of LTE in the US, and Verizon appears to have the edge right now

xFlow is taking advantage of the OpenFlow buzz, getting itself hired as an engineering partner to some notable chip companies

In today's EMEA roundup: Pre-Nokia World snippets emerge of Nokia's make-or-break new range, while Netflix heads to Europe in 2012

Ronan Dunne, head of Telefonica Europe's UK operation, says old telco mentalities are being edged out at O2

Forget Plan B. A spectrum connection with Comcast and Time Warner Cable may become T-Mobile's new Plan A

8:00 AM Here's our rationale behind the finalists for the best new mobile service or application

12:50 PM Nokia CEO is happy with progress in India

12:30 PM Former Cox employee serving as a 'liaison' to Comcast admits to performing Super Bowl Interruptus in 2009, and gets a wrist slap

The operator says this whole 4G thing is working out

Also: Apple still dominates tablets, Android conspiracy theories arise, Nexus Prime takes on Moto RAZ, and RIM's BBX name's in danger

Also: Charter knows broadband ads; Cogeco ripped for wideband fee; ACA frets about IP closed captioning rules; SCTE sets 'IP Challenge' field

Finding the profits in video remains a challenge, and this year's TelcoTV event offers strategies for OTT and multi-screen success

Our finalists, our thinking behind each short list in each category, and details about the big gala dinner where we'll be handing out trophies

This week: M2M, DPI, OTT, mobile broadband in Turkey, Netflix pushback in Argentina

In today's EMEA roundup: France Telecom buys Congolese operator; Iliad founder eyes Orange's Swiss arm; mobiles in the clear on cancer

Delays in broadband stimulus winnings could drag on and on ... and on ...

MSOs will be more willing to make sizable commitments to BNI Video's product line once it's in the hands of a major cable vendor

France Telecom's innovation arm, Orange Vallée, is hoping to convince operators to become OTT providers rather than compete against them, starting with their voice mail

Mobile boss Ralph de la Vega predicts iPhone growth and a tablet revolution, but could the low-end market be his secret weapon?

12:15 PM Hints of independence for joint venture

The Finnish company is preparing a modest rollout of Windows-based devices, but won’t commit to tablets based on Microsoft’s OS just yet

Nokia Siemens maintains growth trend in Q3, though most of that is coming from its newly acquired assets

BNI's TV Everywhere video backoffice would help Cisco shore up Videoscape and challenge incumbents SeaChange and Ericsson

Also: Netflix bites on Honeycomb; CableLabs stokes MSO advanced ad plans; Roku adds more live TV to streaming platform, RadixTV goes OTT

OpenFlow is just the start. What networking really needs is to become more like computer science, researchers argue at a Stanford get-together

AT&T may have activated 2.7M iPhones during the quarter but Android also represents almost half of smartphone sales

Ericsson's latest financials suggest it has the right mix of products and services for the global market

In today's EMEA roundup: Ericsson goes great guns in Q3; Nokia provides positive surprise; ARM unveils super-efficient chip

3:05 PM US cable's government handout-free wideband rollout is on pace to reach 77% of the nation's homes by year's end

2:35 PM UK operator comes down from the mobile cloud, for now

Stock jumps 14% on Q3 guidance and news that a major order for its newish Diameter router has come in

Regional CDMA operator and AT&T merger opponent announces it will carry the iPhone 4S before T-Mobile even gets a crack at it

Juniper might not be the only company seeing carrier spending stall. Analysts think it's going to be tough all over

11:45 AM Russian carrier checks out two 100G options

Also: WOW IDs its Docsis 3.0 tiers; Verizon bundles FiOS apps; MaxLinear tunes up Arris's D3 CPE; smart TVs surging

In today's EMEA roundup: AlcaLu loses one spare limb, Nordic pair air their Q3s, and it's chocks away for Belgium's LTE auction

6:20 AM Alcatel-Lucent is hanging on to the enterprise business it wanted to sell

6:10 AM Five companies prepare for Belgium's auction of FDD and TDD LTE spectrum

IBBS to resell Clearleap's Stream On Demand platform, which pipes VoD to hybrid set-tops, Roku boxes and LG connected TVs over IP

Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the curtain-raiser device for Google's latest version of its Android smartphone operating system

Some service providers are ordering gear now but asking that it not be delivered until Q1, making Juniper's Q4 look drained

Rampant iPhone 5 rumors stymied iPhone 4S sales in Q4, but Apple's not exactly worried

Cisco, Verizon add HD screens, programmable concession displays, luxury suites with customizable camera angles to 13-year-old venue

6:05 PM Could the revamped RAZR be the Android flagship to take on the Apple iPhone 4S?

Moto claims 4G RAZR speeds burn the iPhone 4S, while the MotoACTV wristphone is intended to help burn off calories

Apple's Q4 revenue was less than analysts expected as consumers continued to buy iPads but waited on the iPhone 4S

Q3 earnings were just as downcast as expected, which is a good thing

The BlackBerry maker talks software as it revamps its developer community, launches an Android-friendly OS update and builds an enterprise app store

The Chinese equipment maker has tapped former BendBroadband CTO Frank Miller to head its cable product strategy

New test technology lets operators determine end-to-end performance of their mobile networks and meet stringent app-based SLAs

Also: Hulu may retry an IPO; Canoe launches ITV brand; Cox taps strategy chief; U-verse goes social; cable still thinks AllVid is all wet

Millimeter-wave backhaul specialist Siklu raises $19M, adds Qualcomm as an investor and looks to small-cell backhaul for LTE

In the data-center fabric wars, the heavy artillery keeps coming out

7:40 AM Here's a glance at who made it onto the shortlist, and why

Vendor's app turns Facebook into a customer self-care portal, but could that be too risky for service providers?

7:10 AM The US Department of Justice is reportedly still reviewing Nortel's $4.5B patents sale

7:00 AM Our pick of the litter: products that tap some big telecom themes and open up some intriguing possibilities

In today's EMEA roundup: NSN develops a Facebook app that might actually be useful, while Orascom eyes up France Telecom's Euro assets

Sometimes thought of as a Cisco-killer, the protocol is about to become a Cisco feature

Products and customers are nice, but Adtran has been getting help from another source

3:15 PM Senior experts from Neutral Tandem provide an update on the EtherCloud service and more

A TechInsights teardown pegs Qualcomm and Broadcom as the iPhone 4S winners, and legal battles didn't keep Samsung out either

Verizon now has a fleet of 100 vehicles kitted out to test its LTE network and other 4G services offered by major carriers in the US

12:00 PM Clearwire's WiMax service can't survive a two-block move -- how reliable can it be?

Reports suggest Verizon Wireless had an LTE service disruption on Sunday, but the operator has yet to confirm any problems

Behind the ownership and funding headlines, NSN is plugging away at its optical strategy

Annual survey of consumers finds more watch high-quality online video – and if it doesn't work, they're likely to blame their ISP

Also: Hulu mulls its next move; Casa notches China CMTS expansion deal; WoW eyes wideband tiers; Ultra HDTV advances

Apple says it sold 4M 4S iPhones in the first weekend, as Samsung tries to take its legal battle with the vendor further around the globe

9:10 AM This week's top telecom stories, as chosen by the readers of Matt's Mentions

7:40 AM Here's why these eight companies made the cut for this year's award

In today's EMEA roundup: AlcaLu's radical RAN technology is chosen by Middle East operator, while Greece's OTE gets the S&P thumbs-down

4:20 PM But Verizon's DSL service is the pauper in Netflix's latest ISP performance rankings

A drizzly day in NYC couldn't keep true Apple fans from lining up for the 4S

12:15 PM Check out the remaining shortlisted entries in this year's Best New Service or Application (Telecom) category

DPI has taken off in the market, but appliance vendors are finding that they need to step it up

Sprint's multi-modal network is good for connecting millions of tiny machines from wireless kiosks to heart-rate monitors to smart meters

Paul Liao won't renew his contract for 'personal reasons,' sparking concerns about the future of CableLabs in a consolidating industry

Here is an idea of what it was like to walk around the CTIA E&A Show this week in San Diego

Also: Telcos, satellite guys top TV satisfaction study; Moto sets Google vote; Netflix notches another TV streaming deal

Cricket is newly nationwide through an MVNO deal with Sprint, and it's counting on unlimited data, music and LTE to stay competitive

Verizon has its own suite of apps that it sells to consumers, and, says Kristi Crum, makes money for the carrier too

This week: RFID and M2M in manufacturing, LTE in the U.S., telecom state of play in Spain and Turkey, India telecom equipment opportunities

6:45 AM Our reasons for picking the deal maker contenders in a big year for mergers and company transformations

In today's EMEA roundup: Sony Ericsson avoids Q3 net loss, more LTE capacity in Sweden and Franco/German procurement alliance spells bad news for vendors

6:00 AM Is there any other type these days?

It'll be three years and out for Dr. Paul Liao, the former Panasonic CTO who took the CableLabs helm in 2009

3:25 PM No wonder 'Broadband Britain' isn't taken seriously

A new amplifier array could make a 1:128 PON split a little more practical

Telefonica Digital CEO Matthew Key is looking for partners, investment opportunities, new business models and ways to be more relevant to mobile users

LR Mobile goes inside Qualcomm's old FLO TV NOC, where QuickPlay is trying to make video and live TV ubiquitous on mobile devices

Also: HBO Go goes global; cable DVR and VoD usage on the rise; Suddenlink widens TiVo footprint; Canoe adds another cable vet

Technology innovation is speeding up, making every tech advantage more precious

Monsoon to take on EchoStar and Moto with place-shifting devices that let MSOs decide which channels can be streamed in and out of the home

LightSquared CMO Frank Boulben talks about how the company's European-style pay-as-you-go wholesale pricing for its Sharp LTE phones and tablets will work

In today's EMEA roundup: Private equity firm Permira takes SPIT vendor off AlcaLu's hands, while Orange gets cozy with China Telecom

Service providers see policy's role as increasingly important, but they tell Heavy Reading the technology must evolve

5:30 AM Some reasons why this crop of cable products made the list of finalists

5:30 PM Universal backed down after some major theater studio owners threatened to boycott Tower Heist

Part one of two assessing telecom equipment opportunities in India

American Express's head of enterprise says mobile commerce won't take off without more industry unity

3:00 PM Here are some thoughts on why we selected this group of finalists for Public Company of the Year

The arrival of machine-to-machin communications is bringing renewed interest in RFID technology in the manufacturing sector

Nokia’s San Diego test lab breaks, bends, twists, pokes and prods all its mobile devices so you can’t do the same

1:05 PM Home monitoring and security service initially targets Verizon's FiOS and DSL customers, but is likely to go national

12:15 PM Check out the mix in this year's Best New Service or Application (Telecom) category shortlist

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is not having a good week as its outage appears to have now hit North America

The Android tablet price war is hotting up with both Amazon and Huawei planning sub-$200 products before the end of the year

Also: Roku gets HBO Go as it unveils low-cost box; Universal's $60 VoD test meets more static; SeaChange notches VoD win in Mexico

With Interop as a backdrop, Huawei came out swinging in its enterprise 'debut.' Here's how it looked...

7:30 AM Now the Chinese vendor wants some answers

In today's EMEA roundup: Telefonica's O2 takes on Skype et al, while there's a double dose of bad news for Italian telecom

Wireless operators are positioning mobile apps in the enterprise as a big opportunity, but are IT departments ready for a flood of new apps?

Huawei views its newest tablet as its US spearhead, ahead of a new line of affordable smartphones, with LTE handsets showing up in 2012

Michael Lovett will step down on April 30, 2012, or sooner, if the MSO can find a successor before then

A modular version of cable's budding converged services architecture is among the long-term plans once the companies get combined

As wireless devices overtake the U.S. population, the wireless operators look to connect billions more from cameras to robots

Jokey jabs between Sprint & AT&T Mobility heads kick off the fall CTIA show in San Diego

This small cell does 3G, LTE, WiFi and wireless backhaul -- all in the same box

Last week at Interop New York, since he was already on everyone's mind, we asked: What did Steve Jobs mean to you?

NTT takes a bunch of the optical vendor's new technologies for a spin

11:25 AM Ericsson distances itself from court case in China

AT&T unveils five new Android smartphones at CTIA, bringing its total to 19 -- and they've arrived just in time for the holidays

Also: Yahoo drops out of the Hulu bidding, Megacable hires a CTO, cable contractors sue in Georgia, Harmonic and Kit deal targets TV Everywhere

Arris is paying $2.24 per share for the struggling switched digital video specialist

AT&T's Toggle app, developed by Enterproid, splits work and play on the same phone for enterprises that let staff use their own device

6:45 AM Awarded India's first official LTE TDD network deal

In today's EMEA roundup: RIM is in apology mode as data center crashes, while Brussels tries to get satellite mobile services moving

What do enterprises need from cloud operators? Ari Banerjee of Heavy Reading gives a few pointers, while Matt Laslie of Savvis explains one hybrid strategy. From Light Reading's Carrier Cloud Forum

Sometimes, it's a case of 'My boss made me do it,' as Windstream's Kip Turco tells us

Openreach division couples extra capabilities of ADVA box with a greater focus on bespoke wavelength access services for retail service providers

Analysts disagree on how bad current LTE network latency is in the US but agree that 4G deployments will require further optimization

Also, Cinemark makes 'Tower Heist' threats, the new Xbox interface comes to U-verse and some big, bloated TiVos arrive on store shelves

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

It's the smaller sibling to Las Vegas Interop, but we still found plenty of shutter candy

In today's EMEA roundup: European Commission says yes to Microsoft's takeover of Skype, while Ofcom faffs around on the U.K. LTE auction

Allied Fiber's Jason Cohen sees competitors placing big bets building fiber out to towers to capitalize on backhaul's growth potential

The 2011 CTAM confab in New York took cable marketers into the cloud, and there were plenty of opportunities to grab some schwag

4:30 AM Last year was all about the enterprise, but CTIA this year is focused on fostering app developers' efforts to tackle mobility

A glimpse at two mobile giants gives us a look at what consumers can do now with mobile video at home and some reasons why they can look forward to faster networks

Verizon's Shadman Zafar explains how and why the carrier is making more use of mobile devices to complement its FiOS pay-TV service

In the shadow of Javits Center construction, we gathered industry leaders for an update on the cloud

Sprint smartphones and tablets that support both 3G CDMA and 4G LTE coming in the first half of next year from Motorola and others

Also, Nuance acquires Swype, HTC & Samsung had solid third quarters and Samsung cancels its Ice Cream party in October's first OS diary

Sprint promises an 'aggressive rollout' of LTE on its own 1900MHz spectrum next year

10:30 AM Comcast's juicy FCC filing also references a 'private IP' service for PCs and Macs and a fall launch of Comcast's AnyPlay streaming device

Also: VoD poised to breach $2B revenue mark; DC court to hear network neutrality appeals, YouTube streams free flicks across the pond

This week: LTE for base stations and user devices, FTTH in China, fixed broadband networks in AME

Mobile backhaul providers have to be creative and count on massive future growth to justify risks of building fiber out to towers

In today's EMEA roundup: Will Sony buy out Ericsson's share of handsets JV? And will Airtel's Nigerian network get back to normal?

Japanese operator has built out a broadband mobile network using a local technology standard – but is it just LTE TDD in disguise?

6:30 PM The iPhone 4S coming to Sprint might be the sizzle at the operator's strategy meeting Friday, but LTE will be the steak

The future of the cloud is still morphing for both service providers and customers, as we found at the latest Cloud Carrier Forum

Subs will be subject to overage fees if they exceed their monthly bandwidth allotment more than two times

Comcast's cloud-inspired next-gen video platform is still limited to a small trial, but the MSO expects to take it nationwide next year

Also: Grande, Synacor do TV Everywhere; Showtime is cable's ITV idol; Softel jumps in cable's Canoe; Comcast Media Center expands ad roster

Sprint will be the first US carrier to offer unlimited data for the iPhone 4S and 4 with plans from $80

MSO's latest acquisition is starting to tailor and test cloud service offerings for small- and mid-sized businesses

Picking vertical markets for cloud services isn't quite enough, explains BT Global Services Chief Architect and CTO Scott Cain

Heavy Reading's Patrick Donegan discusses the challenges of providing packet synchronization, low latency, QoS and security in mobile backhaul networks

9:30 AM Deutsche Telekom opts for a smart business intelligence route

Tower Cloud CEO Ron Mudry talks about how his company is delivering backhaul in small cities and rural areas for LTE and mobile data

In today's EMEA roundup: DT hands Capgemini a SPIT contract, C&W Worldwide could be in the red, and Apple shares wobble in Germany

The communications sector has been paying tribute to one of its greatest innovators

Apple chairman has died just over a month after stepping down as CEO of the iconic company he founded

7:30 PM The Cupertino giant will make nearly $100 on every 32GB iPhone 4S it sells, which explains why it wasn't eager to overhaul its hardware

The Xbox 360 will soon stream a portion of Comcast's and Verizon's VoD library and a subset of the FiOS TV live TV lineup

BT's Openreach access network division says it will be offering FTTP speeds of up to 300 Mbit/s and doubling its FTTC speeds to 80 Mbit/s

To fulfill the promise of cloud services, the network might need some adjustments. Equipment vendors aren't sad to hear that

2:00 PM Cloud will succeed better on a use-case basis, say enterprise experts at LR Live!'s Cloud Carrier Forum

Sprint will announce more backhaul contracts on Friday, according to an exec at Light Reading Live! event

Sprint will need help unloading millions of iPhones, and the technical pieces are in place for the MSO to lend the carrier a hand

Also: Cable pitches USF reform proposal; Comcast getting down to more business; Midcontinent seals system buys; Avail-TVN scores in Chile

Cable's marketing honchos will give us a break from Docsis 3.0 and RFoG in favor of debates about a la carte and making a CE connection

Huawei, Cisco, Juniper and HP all have plans on how to rethink the enterprise network and they're shouting about it at Interop New York

If Apple wants an LTE iPhone in 2012, it’ll likely have to drop the global capabilities of the 4S to build it

Carrier-grade wireless LAN (or Wi-Fi) technology is playing an increasingly important role in the data traffic management strategies of mobile operators. Ruckus Wireless President and CEO Selina Lo explains how Wi-Fi can help offload data from cellular networks

In today's EMEA roundup: BT ups its FTTP game, Samsung jumps on Apple's iPhone 4S and a Vodafone-to-buy-RIM rumor does the rounds

5:55 PM Apple's latest pulls together lots of features already available in the market into a smooth new package. So how long until 4G LTE now?

Light Reading presents pictures to document the birth of Apple's iPhone 4S

The iPhone 4S supports CDMA and GSM, and sports faster 3G, dual-antennas, a better camera and a clever voice-activated assistant

Apple's cloud storage will begin shipping on Oct. 12, along with the revamped iOS 5, featuring friend-finding and music-matching apps

Carriers are connecting to exchanges such as CENX and Telx, but they are mostly there to sell, not buy Ethernet links

2:10 PM Apple reminds everyone how terrific its mobile business is before unleashing the new iPhone

Also: Cox runs targeted ads; CableCARDs stall at retail; Transmode scores at UPC; thePlatform adds brass; Netflix & Showtime duke it out

What Apple news?! Small-cell backhaul is hot in London today with the UK's biggest mobile operator setting the low-cost challenge

There's still a lot of work to be done before communications service providers can deliver true cloud services and profit from them

8:05 AM Why a few juicy possibilities didn't make the cut

Apple's smartphone has generated laughter, tears, writs and some awkward analogies in Europe over the years -- and now it wants iPhone 5

Chris O'Dell, VP of sales at Hughes Network Systems Europe, says broadband connections via Ka-band satellite links can help fill in the gaps in Europe's broadband coverage and deliver a service comparable to many fixed-broadband offerings

In today's EMEA roundup: Steely Neelie's latest wheeze comes under carrier fire, and Nokia's rating is under pressure following NSN cash boost

Inspecting iPhone 5 expectations, including the seeding of the iCloud and more, ahead of Tim Cook's first major device launch as Apple's CEO

The competitive carrier isn't finding easy answers for upgrading its network and OSS systems for cloud services

1:40 PM Here's the sketch that didn't make it on Saturday Night Live

Light Reading survey takers say Apple has the most to gain if AT&T acquires T-Mobile, good news on the eve of its iPhone unveiling

11:50 AM Bernstein Research says 3G is better than 4G when 4G's only fallback is a stopgap 2G network

11:25 AM Reports suggest ZTE has landed a key role with India's largest mobile operator

LightSquared announces its first specific deal to develop smartphones and more for its planned hybrid LTE and satellite network

Also: Round two for Hulu; CenturyLink intros Internet Basics tilt; Nagra advances ad play via M&A; Italy hosts video hacking case

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

The FTTH Council show floor was dominated by business services and backhaul opportunities

7:50 AM An effective LTE patent pool looks increasingly unlikely

Light Reading Live! event highlights the opportunities for competitive carriers in the potentially lucrative mobile backhaul market

In today's EMEA selection: EC commissioner wants more investment in fiber, France Telecom heads into the Congo and Russia gets coherent 100G

Cable & Wireless's Caribbean unit to use adaptive bit rate system from Avail-TVN to stream video to IP-connected set-tops, PCs and mobile devices

France Telecom's head of networks says the convergence of the telecom and IT domains is critical for telcos with cloud services ambitions