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You hate to ruin Adolf Hitler's third birthday

Three of France's main FTTH hopefuls have struck an accord

Vendor fires patent complaint against Clearwire and Sprint, claiming they are infringing its WiMax-related intellectual property rights

Pali's Richard Greenfield cuts MSO to 'neutral' as concerns grow that bankruptcy may be in Charter's future

Given its track record with a direct-to-MSO strategy, this could offer a complementary path of less resistance

Lobbyist organizations hope as much as $100B of the proposed $850B government stimulus package goes toward investments in broadband

Taking a sober look at the economic downturn and what it means for tech startups and venture capital

More money for startups that bring the legacy and NGN worlds together as Mavenir fills its boots

Can next February's Mobile World Congress be as big as this year's?

Organizer reckons the masses will still hit Mobile World Congress

Among Huawei's possible points of entry into the US cable market, the Chinese giant is said to be developing a set-top strategy

The operator is going to start selling a dualmode WiMax and CDMA modem next week

Move Networks moves beyond the PC

In tough economic times, press junkets work

A new carrier-class cable modem termination system from Casa Systems has quietly obtained 'Full' Docsis 3.0 qualification from CableLabs

Local reports from Canada suggest Huawei is about to set up shop just down the road from Nortel's major Ottawa campus

Green is a subjective color

Consumer Electronics Association argues that MSO's waiver extention request would end Cablevision's reliance on CableCARD technology

Are there no prisons? Are there no health clubs?

To help avoid confusion with the broadcast TV transition, a gob of US MSOs volunteer to stop migrating analog channels to digital

Touch-screens in the cold

The company is investing in a modular approach to building handsets that it says could cut the cost of developing cellphones by up to 99%

BT prepares to deploy targeted advertising technology from controversial specialist Phorm

MSO is using simple one-way device from Evolution Broadband to reclaim analog spectrum and pave the path to more hi-def fare

Telcos can be greener without FTTH

Two of the Ethernet access equipment brigade are joining forces as their specialist market continues to grow

Private investment fund snaps up the bulk of the company that brought us the 'Ojo' videophone

It's beginning to look a lot like Weihnachten

End of an era: Former CEO Hassan Ahmed quits as chairman at Sonus

The company behind brands such as Sylvania, Emerson, and Magnavox is entering the tru2way market with a dual-tuner DVR

A chip startup says it's picked up the thread where PMC-Sierra and others left off

Analysts' ratings are too rigid for these crazy times

Microsoft does iPhone

Jefferies analyst George Notter cuts back his 2009 projections for Infinera as tough market conditions bite

How to get on his bad side

Virgin Media has priced its new 50 Mbit/s Docsis 3.0 tier

Clearwire to put Portland, Ore., in the 'Clear' on January 6

ITV specialist looks to gain ground as MSOs deploy enhanced TV apps on legacy Cisco boxes as well as more more advanced tru2way set-tops

IP-Prime ceasing operations

Chinese giant plots Google-based smartphone next year

Telstra's bid to build Australia's national broadband network has been thrown out by the government for failing to meet RFP specs

4G mobile broadband technology LTE passes a major milestone as the specifications meet targets at 3GPP standards body

With tanking stock and market share waning, Palm is hoping a new operating system will help it mount a comeback

Preaching to the worms

Holiday season brings strange gifts

Ben Verwaayen has a dream: to help build networks that blend the creativity of the Web with the reliability of telecom networks

At least that's what the ads say

Ciena CEO Gary Smith says the current slowdown is different from the crippling capex freeze of 2001/2002

One more depressing problem

MSO, buried in more than $20 billion in debt, has called on its financial advisor to help improve its balance sheet

A new, more intense focus on power-efficient tower sites is driving vendors to create new technologies to lower power consumption

VOIP vendor chops 5% of headcount, more may come

License awards imminent, says Ministry, which predicts resulting $29 billion in 3G-related capex in 2009

The industry is just too fragmented and too closed to nurture applications startups, according to panelists at an Ericsson event

The company has a long-term vision of enabling application dialogues across different cellphone platforms or operating systems

CEO Ben Verwaayen announces his strategy, which includes cuts of 1,000 managerial positions and product line decisions

Thank you, taxpayers!

BlackBerry maker bids for Chalk, hard on the heels of hostile takeover plans for Certicom

Smaller telecom operators may not have the deepest pockets, but optical networking vendors should focus on getting a piece of that pie

TiVo recognized about $10.9M in 'technology revenues' from Comcast during the first nine months of the DVR pioneer's fiscal year

Staking the future on mobile broadband

With Baltimore, Chicago, Atlanta, and Fort Wayne, Ind., in tow, MSO hits Docsis 3.0 deployment goal

Big Ben has added more new faces to his management team

Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez reveals President Bush's resistance to an auction of 25 megahertz of spectrum in the 2155MHz to 2180MHz band

The $51 billion acquisition of Bell Canada is off, so the Canadian carrier wants its $1.2 billion breakup fee

Ciena's Q4 financials worse than expected as the 'challenging macroeconomic and industry environment' hits sales

Arena Football League crashes

The numbers aren't pretty

But a mention of the possibility is enough for investors to chop 25 percent off the stock's value

Top two US operators are sticking to their guns on wireless data rollouts, even as economic conditions bite

The Curve 8900, launching in Canada and the U.K., is the thinnest-ever BlackBerry with a full QWERTY keyboard

BitTorrent and Oversi have joined forces to enable application-aware networking gear that is capable of efficiently routing P2P traffic

The 'Ferrari in the fleet' hits the road next week, and 200 Mbit/s could be in its future

Fair's fair

House committee staff report says Kevin Martin manipulated or supressed cable data

The company is making its caching products generally available to ISPs that are looking to speed up video delivery

Maybe some IPTV respect

Reportedly looking at its bankruptcy protection options

The telecom world might be gloomy, but Finisar sees reason to expect an uptick for itself next quarter

Carphone founder quits after breaking stock exchange rules

Light Reading and test lab Iometrix are setting up a live Ethernet service interconnection demo in London next May

The operator's first metropolitan femtocell deployment appears set for mid-2009

TiVo is added to Netflix's long list of stream partners

Company chief says AT&T will surpass that milestone next week while it mulls the addition of a third 'live' HD stream

Satco still bullish on '09 prospects, but halts hiring and non-critical capex projects

Cisco wants to give Web 2.0 the same 'end-to-end' treatment it gave the network

Orange plans to launch commercial enterprise femtocell services next year with equipment from Huawei and NEC

TelePresence is learning to speak

Cablevision COO says MSO has upgraded its network for Docsis 3.0 and expects to deploy faster Internet services 'within months'

Swiss incumbent sets out its fiber access strategy and is looking to share its fiber, and its rollout costs, with others

Operator offers $30M for location-based services

LTE in the new year

IPTV is a hot services sector in many Asia/Pacific markets, especially Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan, where some of the world's most experienced telco TV players are taking service developments to the next level. And then, of course, there's the massive opportunity that is China

The online video firm's new partner ecosystem includes 90 companies

Vendor is preparing to deal with an infrastructure market that, it believes, is set to shrink by at least 5% or even more in 2009

Chalk up another 100-Gbit/s demo, this one showing off a single-wavelength method

A swarm of video probes could help the MSO intercept problems before customers call to complain about them

Clarence Thomas told to shut up

MSO hopes to goose service bundles with three new packages that lump in hi-def services

The SIM- and hardware-unlocked G1 is aimed at advanced developers, sports a unique design, and will cost $399

WiMax vendor Alvarion announced drastic cost cuts, including an 11% workforce reduction, to stay profitable next year

Glenn Britt confirms that the MSO has continued to see the growth of revenue-generating units slow in Q4

The MXE 3000 shows just how ambitious Cisco is getting about video in the enterprise sphere

Here's the TelePresence angle

The company's bet on video is so big, it's created a new word for the network

System outage blocks users from getting to account info, paying bills, etc.

After producing modulators and lasers, Intel says it's hit a silicon home run with an avalanche photodiode

'Sprint 4G' is coming; Clearwire is developing at least some of the software internally

AT&T's planned cuts could be an indication of a tough year for certain types of equipment vendors

Microsoft's Silverlight will provide streaming technology for BSkyB's new service

Save for surging competition, slower sub growth, and reduced ARPU and capex, '09 will be great for Comcast and TWC, analyst predicts

Cable's investment in the Clearwire deal just doesn't add up, according to one analyst

How McCaw and crew got out of Texas and into the 'Clear'

Gartner's latest smartphone market numbers held good news for Apple, but bad news for the industry as a whole

Six retail sites experience outages

5:15 PM -- From our cable biz conference in NYC

The big cable operators boosted HD programming this year, but they're still lagging behind satellite

MSOs weigh which option is best to funnel voice, video, and data services to commercial customers

IPTV players need to keep refreshing their services, marketing, and technology if they're to succeed, says a PCCW exec

FairPoint testing IPTV over old Verizon FiOS properties

Location, location, location

A 4 percent staff cut is in the works as the carrier tries to bring 2009 expenditures below 2008 levels

Italian operator outlines capex cuts for 2009 as part of its new three-year strategy

Italian giant predicts 400% hike in IPTV subs

Comedy Central transforms the site

The vendor has an optical following among Tier 2 and 3 North American customers, a Heavy Reading report finds

Pirelli Broadband will use Airvana's 3G UMTS femtocells in its home gateways

Pics from our Light Reading Live cable event in the Big Apple

But the WiMax provider still might prove to be a better investment bet than it appears to be right now

BlackBerry maker lowers its outlook and launches $53M hostile bid for wireless VPN pioneer Certicom

Nortel teams with Hitachi to deliver LTE core network equipment to KDDI in Japan UPDATED 2:30 PM

Italian operator deepens job cuts

Cox and Bresnan aren't comparable in terms of size, but MSOs share a common goal: to snare business service share from the telcos

CLWRD shareholders take a downward ride on the WiMax stock roller coaster

No, it's not about network dominance. It's about services contracts and software bug fixes

The upgrades continue Nokia's plan to be more than just a cellphone manufacturer

BitTorrent closed its download store last month

Someone out there wants a 20-chassis router

Learning from earlier ratifications

Neither love nor money can buy you a home base station from most of the major carriers in the US

It's still Juniper, at least for now

Nokia strikes back with a new touch-screen mobile computer, the N97

AlcaLu wins a chunk of China Telecom's CDMA expansion

Microsoft hangs an 'end of life' tag on the Connected Services Framework service delivery platform used by the likes of AT&T and BT

Cablevision wants the FCC to grant a waiver extension so it can develop a new 'open' downloadable conditional access system from NDS

Pressure group supports Cable ONE's waiver request for one-way HD boxes, while the Consumer Electronics Association opposes it

Cable's big, advanced ad venture has a Website... but it's clearly a work in progress

Texas Instruments makes a splash in the femtocell market with a new DSP for femtos and reveals existing femtocell customers

Rupert Murdoch's bio is all over the Web, TheFeedRoom buys ClearWire, and Virgin Media does its version of a reality show... kind of

As other Russian carriers cut their capex, alternative operator TTK lines up $1.5 billion for broadband expansion, including FTTH

Clearwire CEO says that the WiMax provider could use LTE in years to come if it 'truly becomes a global standard'

Comstar follows trend of capex cuts in Russia

BT makes internal appointment to fill CFO hole