After horrible Q3 numbers, Lucent plots job cuts in its wireless division
The 'latest' multiservice switches indicate a renaissance for ATM -- and a possible delay for MPLS
Former ONI Systems and Nortel executive takes his first CEO job at Optovation
Drumbeat of tough earnings news from SBC, AT&T, and Lucent weighs on the telecom sector
Groups representing competitive carriers blast FCC Chairman Michael Powell for blaming telecom woes on competition
Sir Richard promises an "eye-popping" display for Virgin's US launch
VoiceStream finally becomes T-Mobile US, but is now such a good time?
Off-the-shelf components are the future of the telecom systems market, claims Intel communications group CTO
Sonera and Nokia stick by their 3G timetable, but all signs point to little more than a media showcase
BellSouth doesn't ring up earnings as expected: It reports lower net income for Q2 and cuts its full-year forecast
Finally, Transwitch announces some of the products resulting from its Onex acquisition
Analysts say long-haul DWDM sales continue to plummet. Startups like Ceyba and Innovance are hanging tough
NTT DoCoMo's customers are strangely quiet over botched service
A lawsuit pokes into trades by execs and raises questions about a partnership called TOES Corp.
Telecom giant claims the crown for the largest bankruptcy in US history UPDATED 7/22 11:00 AM
Hey, July is National Cellphone Courtesy Month (August: National Corporate Honesty Month?)
Alternative infrastructure player has nowhere to go but down on Unstrung's Top 25 private wireless companies list
Network Equipment Technologies shows that having lots of cash and government business pays off in 2002
Shares plummet as pricing of rights issue makes the Swedish giant seem increasingly needy and uncertain
Nortel met analyst expectations, but more cuts are needed to get the company to breakeven
Cogent's new deal secures fiber at a time when the fate of some fiber sellers is unsure
For many years, WorldCom's Internet traffic counts were taken as the truth. Now that's all being questioned
On earnings eve, a Canadian class-action lawsuit accuses Nortel of cooking its books. But reaction is muted
Intel and friends are working on enabling roaming between their planned US WLAN network and existing 2.5G networks
The success or failure of mobile data services will determine whether carriers drown in debt, says Analysys
David Dorman will become the company CEO, probably by the end of the year: Sign o'the times?
AFC is one of the few optical stocks that hasn't become a single-digit midget. It must be the cash
Gigabit Ethernet player meets expectations and sees a slight increase in demand from US enterprise customers
UK venture capitalist MTI pulls out of an investment at the last minute, leaving ProtoDel in the proverbial
KDDI boss pits Asia against the Euros and Americans as he disses GSM and questions Vodafone's strategy
Y'see, selling cheap phones is the key
CEO Dunn is done doing double duty as CFO, but the new guy's an insider nobody knows
Market predictions for wireless technology are largely 'baloney' according to some analysts -- now they tell us!
Specialist firm BTG prepares to rake in the royalties after intellectual property office rules against SIM card giants
Top Cisco service provider exec Bill Nuti takes an East Coast job with Symbol Technologies. What's it mean?
Bullish analysts appear to have overhyped the free space optics market and are backhauling toward reality
Top Cisco service provider exec Bill Nuti takes an East Coast job with Symbol Technologies. What's it mean?
Tellabs' Q2 news isn't terrible. And being less than terrible these days may mean progress
Alcatel, a relative newcomer to the PON world, has won a key contract with SBC. What's it mean for other players?
Free-space optics vendor Terabeam is streamlining its workforce and adding new radio products
Intel, AT&T, and others are said to be plotting a nationwide WLAN network
Free-space optics vendor Terabeam is streamlining its workforce and adding new radio products
Proponents of Resilient Packet Ring technology want to lock down draft changes in September and finish in fall 2003
Southampton Photonics introduces a new fiber technology that could cut the cost of L-band amplifiers by 50%
Japanese giant sets up task force in Amsterdam to close further licensing deals
Readers fire in suggestions about government involvement and technological solutions for the telecom industry
Interoute appears to have bought the primary assets of the Ebone portion of KPNQwest for pennies on the dollar
Broadcom says it will have an 802.11a/b chipset on the market by Q4 -- but so do Intel and others
OnFiber says it's booking a million per month after acquiring Sphera. Is that enough to support a turnaround?
Swiss researchers have sent an 'uncrackable' quantum key over a 67km fiber link between Geneva and Lausanne
The incumbent's scouting core multiservice switches, sources say. Is this really good news? and for whom?
The fuss over Juniper's 2Q numbers today may have a simple explanation
Big Ron plans his Sommer vacation as the German government names its preferred successor for the Telekom CEO chair
We suspect there is one big reason why rumors about Microsoft acquiring Ericsson will come to naught
For a company unconvinced by the potential of WLAN technology, KDDI sure is spending a lot of time and energy on it
Intel VP sees WLAN as the new Ethernet and displays a strange fixation on hockey sticks, in this interview from London
A road trip to DC with fizzy pop, chips, and some base stations
Or rather, it's told its employees to take an indefinite vacation while it tries to raise a third round
Companies have met on technology solutions, but both dismiss merger rumors
Intel's VC arm has made a honking big profit from investing in communications startups
Regulator hits Telefonica Moviles and Vodafone where it hurts with interconnection rate cut
Analysts suspect some (legal) shenanigans in the accounts may be disguising some of Unisphere's revenues
Its entry into the hot mobile management software market is going to be lackluster and late
Merger of Telia and Sonera leaves a UMTS license up for grabs -- if anyone wants it
Continuum and Optimer have raised respectable funding for building components with ceramics or polymers
Could home-made lasers be on the horizon? Yes, if a hoaxy-sounding post on Slashdot is to be believed
Juniper is expected to announce headcount reductions and product cancellations on its 2Q02 earnings call tonight
Redback's revenues and losses remain lean, as it leans on Nokia for sales
Xalted files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, while White Rock Networks cuts staff UPDATED 07/11 6PM
Things look beret bleak for Alcatel as it becomes latest telecom company to have its debt downgraded to junk status
DoCoMo executive tells Unstrung it will be one to two years before its 3G service properly takes off
Japanese giant chews the fat with fellow Asia/Pac leviathans -- but, we cry, about what exactly?
OMD, an optical foundry, has gone into the UK equivalent of Chapter 11
Lucent shares have climbed nearly 40 percent in the past few days with no real catalyst
The FCC has asked an Appeals Court to reverse an unbundling decision that favors RBOCs
100 percent of respondents to a Light Reading poll say guilty WorldCom execs should be jailed (for a long time)
Unstrung turns to the lexicon in a bid to comprehend Virgin Mobile announcement
A published report suggests that AT&T and VoiceStream are in preliminary merger talks, but who's doing the driving?
Gent & Co. are waiting for the new grand fromage at Vivendi to settle on a plan of action before bidding for a bigger Gallic stake
Financing troubles and a grim market kill another core router maker
The market for tunable lasers is taking a long time to develop. So long, in fact, that some analysts are dropping out of it
Oren Shaffer, who briefly served as Sorrento's president and COO, is the new CFO at Qwest
Ciena lands a deal with Telefonos de Mexico, the AT&T of Mexico; experts say foreign deals are now key for the firm
Danish operator TDC is latest Euro carrier to go ape for 802.11b
The Big Problem – R. Scott Raynovich
Sources say handheld rivals are resisting a potential merger, but the market may force them to look again
Salomon analyst explains how he rated the stock from the company's boardroom, as WorldCom execs plead the Fifth
Core router maker shuts down after four years in business and more than $200 million in investment, sources say
Some investors pushed Yipes into bankruptcy in order to snatch more for themselves, charges former exec
Redmond opts to build its own Windows wireless network kit, posing a threat to Cisco, Intel, et alia
Mobile operators need to invest in billing systems and treat content creators better if they want to make money, report says
Level 3 raises $500 million via investments from Warren Buffett and others UPDATED 5:45PM
A box of Light Reading T-shirts has been stolen from Light Reading's Chicago sales office
The startup clinches a monster OEM deal, probably with Alcatel, for its Ethernet-over-Sonet boxes UPDATED 4:30PM
NTT's mobile behemoth regains new subscriber crown and seems to be adding cameras to anything it can lay its hands on
Buyouts remain the prime way to liquidity for venture-backed startups, but the opportunity is shrinking
Where are the fruits of Wozniak's wireless endavour?
Chapter 11 is almost a sure thing. Bondholders hope for a fast, clean process, but it's likely to get messy
Focus on your bottom line, not future ARPU - Ray Le Maistre
Adds Swisscom Mobile on top of BT deal, set to announce more telco customers for 802.11 kit
Savvis just raised an additional $20M, showing the importance of a focused strategy during a downturn
Report says they're winning lots of customers that nobody else wants
Psst, it's a secret -- the old Ortel gang has got back together again, making lasers and receivers
Some optical companies are extending the US and Canadian holidays this week to cut back on operational costs
Billing specialist pips ADC to buy up TelesensKSCL assets, including mobile operator client list
Stronger algorithm ties in with next-generation security, quelling authorities' fears of hacker breakthrough
Virgin and BeVocal find the lowest common denominator for the teen wireless market
Dropping your mobile down the toilet only comes in at number five in U.K. mishaps
Love the '3' but hate the 'G'? Hutchison Whampoa's got you covered
Lucent has sold its enterprise service business in an effort to focus on service-provider customers
America's leading SMS services company has reached 1 billion text messages a month but isn't holding its breath for MMS
Decision to ease rollout timeline makes little difference or does not go far enough, say UMTS license-holders
An old lawsuit reveals that Redback has been staking out the wireless equipment space for several years
An old lawsuit reveals that Redback has been staking out the wireless equipment space for several years
Verizon, using Nortel equipment, moves toward 'widespread' deployment of packet switches for its voice networks
New WorldCom CEO fingers former execs for the company's woes, but says new team can right the ship
Lucent announced availability of its new IP Service router, raising questions about its strategy in the edge-router market
Next-gen PDSN contender cuts staff but says it will have kit in customer networks by the end of the year
As global giant restates its rollout plans, market pressures drag stock price to four-year nadir
What's next for Procket? A source says it plans to sell to enterprise customers as well as service providers
Scion accidentally leaves its customer list lying around where Light Reading can find it
'Waves give me a headache,' says WHO boss
After buyout efforts fall apart, the Ebone portion of the KPNQwest network is shut down
WorldCom says it's reviewing financial statements as far back as 1999. What's left to find?
Light Reading has won widespread support from carriers for its plans to test grooming switches
ADC confirms rumors that it will close its tunable laser division in Järfälla, Sweden
These devices aren't stupid, they're just memory-constrained...
Tellium's stock was slammed after reporting it would only have $3 million in revenue for Q2 2002
Vodafone's Japanese operator says its W-CDMA trial isn't worth announcing. With just 160 on board, it may have a point
Report on Western European 3G says France has the best conditions for a successful UMTS market. C'est bon!
Stealthy startup took on $24M in funding in April and says it's going after the edge routing market
WorldCom may be the largest accounting scandal in US history, but it won't be the last, observers say.
Bad news for attention seekers -- scientists have developed a wood laminate that blocks mobile calls
