But we may be back to square one soon enough as Verizon says it's already prepared to lodge an appeal

New report says arcane rules could force incumbents to operate two networks and slow the reach of more efficient broadband

Get out your autumn almanac: The iPhone 5 is now widely rumored to be a fall arrival, possibly due to Apple's LTE plans

Google submits $900M stalking-horse bid for Nortel's patent portfolio and kick-starts an auction process expected to be held in June

Elsewhere: Malone eyes Dutch MSO, Comcast to expand indie TV slate, reviewers dig Cablevision's iPad app, FiOS TV hits Albany

Neutral Tandem's international network subsidiary unveils its global wholesale Ethernet services offering

Vodafone sells SFR stake to Vivendi, Ericsson sues ZTE and STC bids for third Syrian mobile license in today's news from the EMEA region

Vivendi buys Vodafone's 44 percent stake in French operator SFR for $11 billion, ending a years-long saga

Swedish giant takes legal action against ZTE over mobile technology patent infringements after years of failed negotiations

Cablevision's app may send programmer lawyers flying into action as MSO starts off with almost 300 TV channels and 2,000-plus VoD titles

Elsewhere: Studios have theater owners hopping mad, OTT boxes sales rise, CableCARDs at retail still rare, another Charter exec jumps ship

12:00 PM eBay sure does...

A new motion in a class action case alleges that Clearwire execs knew that WiMax didn't boldly go everywhere they said it did. UPDATED 1:30 PM: Clearwire 'flatly denies' the claims

This week: ATCA, AMC and MicroTCA market; mobile analytics; RAN congestion; telecom markets in Brazil, Argentina and Canada

Fellows, a partner at Genovation Capital, gives his view of cable's OTT future

LTE venture says it's still on track to launch terrestrial LTE network by year's end despite concerns about GPS service interference

NSN helps out with off-grid plan, Deutsche Telekom is told to cut its last-mile access charges -- and it's smartphones by royal appointment

The T-Mobile deal might be the only way AT&T attempts a serious, nationwide 4G buildout, according to the CEO of one fiber provider