Comcast Cable president confirms that the MVNO element of a groundbreaking MSO-Verizon Wireless deal lasts into 'perpetuity'

Optical connectivity specialist is upgrading its metro transport networks with new boxes from BTI Systems

Sprint moves forward with Network Vision; says separate Clearwire TD-LTE deployment is 'very, very targeted' to high-traffic areas

The liquidity thing just isn't getting better, and one analyst thinks that might spur Alcatel-Lucent into action

Enterprises are moving business intelligence onto mobile platforms, but it involves far more than just shrinking an Excel spreadsheet for a smartphone

Google employees reportedly get their hands on the latest Android operating system on the Samsung Nexus S, while support for the 4.0 OS grows

Are communications service providers boiling in an ocean of data?

A Japanese report suggests that Apple is working with DoCoMo on a 4G iPad for 2012

Comcast Business Services SVP Kevin O'Toole outlines the MSO's top priorities for 2012 as it goes upmarket with MetroE and hosted services

Also: TW Cable CEO defends Verizon Wireless deal; Canoe touts interactive ad study; Huawei, Cisco lead the broadband access pack

The company's latest Ethernet switch aims to bring lots more OAM to access and backhaul networks

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

As the TA 5000 gets loaded with more transport features, Adtran makes its bid to become a factor in optical networking

In today's EMEA roundup: Virgin thinks femto; iPhone 'banned' in Syria; NSN's off-grid base station; Euro patents re-jig on the cards

China Telecom and China Unicom are dwarfing other fiber access broadband rollouts with their plans

In New York, delegates came from all over to discuss 'The Future of Cable Business Services'

Also: Pace and Rovi connect on hybrid boxes; TV Everywhere needs more content, marketing; Verizon to halt HD quality claims

Both MSOs expected to end the wholesale relationship in six months, with Comcast looking to wind down its small base of Clearwire subs

As provider interest in cloud services grows, telcos explore ways to differentiate their products while the IT industry works on standardization

11:00 AM Going upmarket, crafting a quasi-national footprint, and a focus on mobile services emerged as top trends at the latest LR Live! event

Comcast, TWC and Bright House punt AWS holdings to Verizon Wireless for a load of cash, and service and product deals that include a wholesale component

Cox Business SVP Phil Meeks sheds some light on how the MSO intends to reach its next big business services annual revenue milestone by 2016

Fixed-mobile convergence, cloud and bring-your-own-device trends can all be leveraged to cable's service advantage

Heavy Reading’s Alan Breznick lifts the haze on why cloud-based service delivery has become a top priority for cable MSOs

This week: Five-year forecasts for Germany, India, Hong Kong and more; LTE in AME; Carrier Ethernet

In today's EMEA roundup: Government less confident than Deutsche Telekom over US deal; Swiss merger murmurings; Anite's hot H1

David Strauss, a top cable industry consultant, explains what MSOs must add to their playbooks as they target mid-sized businesses more aggressively

MSO is using a mix of Docsis 3.0 and MetroE to win the hearts of SMBs and build last-mile pipes that are fat enough to handle cloud-based services

1:30 PM Heavy Reading talks strategy with Jim Poole, Equinix’s general manager for global networks and mobility

Clearwire gets cash (and makes that interest payment), while Sprint says it gets the capacity needed to keep unlimited plans alive

Biz services exec sees bright future for selling to enterprises and calls for cable to interconnect to sell nationally and shoot for 100% reliability

Emphasis within the Ethernet market and the MEF has shifted to issues of interconnection and service alignment between providers

Cable continues to gain ground on the telcos as MSOs chip away at the small business market, expand into cell backhaul and head up-market

Execs with Cox and Charter explain why tucking software and processing complexity further into the cloud is accelerating cable’s ability to change and enhance video services and applications

Also: Mediaset tunes in the Xbox; Cablevision fights off DDoS attack; Comcast faces discrimination suit; HBO won't go pure OTT

UK incumbent to deploy the 6500 Packet-Optical platform for its 100Gbit/s plans and to prepare itself for even greater speeds…

7:30 AM Cisco has launched a new index to measure cloud traffic and chances are it will become the new industry standard for counting clouds

In today's EMEA roundup: Vodafone makes unified comms purchase; Transmode wins UK deal; Volubill controls policy in Tunisia