Chicago company wants wireless operators to take an IT-centric approach to wireless and virtualize the core. Here's what's holding them back

Also: Virgin Media nears 1 million TiVo customers; Harmonic shuffles its lead team as it reports Q2; TW Cable exec joins SeaWell's board

7:00 AM Are subscriber database issues going to bedevil mobile operators?

NBCU's coverage could be a watershed moment for TV Everywhere and online video, but some viewers may need help getting past the sign-on screen

Samsung has won a significant LTE TDD infrastructure contract in India, reports Light Reading India

Financial updates from BT and others, some tunnel vision, plus a packet core win for Ericsson, feature in today's regional roundup

New product speculation put a small dent in Apple's Q3 sales, but the company is still raking in a huge profit on mobile devices

The WAN optimization market hasn't been kind to Juniper, so for its latest move, the company is turning to Riverbed

5:30 PM -- Is there a point where the revenues to be had from tiered plans make unlimited untenable for Sprint and others?

Comcast's $300 tier outpaces FiOS's fastest downstream speeds and matches its best upstream speeds in several Northeastern markets

The JV's service, now in testing, will be called Redbox Instant by Verizon, and will be helmed by former FiOS exec Shawn Strickland

Let the battle for Britain's LTE spectrum commence!

Sprint SVP Azzi tells LR Mobile the operator is launching new 4G LTE cities as soon as street-level coverage is 'useful' for customers

Ma Bell's CFO allows that the operator could spend around 60% of its $20B capex budget on wireless

Also: AT&T's DSL woes continue; ACA chair seeks Cable Act refresh; pay TV preps for the Olympics; Buckeye signs TV Everywhere partner

The Chinese vendor can now claim to be the biggest telecom systems vendor, at least based on reported first-half sales

3.7M were iPhones, helping to drive up data revenues and subscriber numbers for Ma Bell

Chinese behemoth keeps on upping its sales but its operating profits take a tumble

More jobs woe, the UK's 4G spectrum crawl and European earnings reports feature in today's regional roundup

Bidding process for 250MHz of spectrum in two bands now set to take place next year

The $1B Nicira deal seems like VMware's bid to become king of software-defined networking. Should Cisco worry about that?

The vendors get a hunting license to sell their channel-zappers to NCTC members that serve a combined 23M video subscribers

The proposed acquisition shows how valuable software-defined networking has become, especially to a company that doesn't have it

TV white space offers mobile operators a free shot at much-needed spectrum for mobile broadband services

Tuesday's earnings shouldn't be as dismaying as other companies' have been, but that doesn't mean Juniper is immune to the economy

1:40 PM It may just be a negotiation tactic, but there are worries that programmers will try to keep MSOs from piping OTT video directly to the TV

Your cellphone provider makes it easy for cops to track your movements. Here's a list of what law enforcement can get from carriers about your phone, without a warrant

Satellite TV giant says cable's continued connection could scare off others from investing in Clearwire. Is DirecTV in that group?

As Nokia and RIM decline, ZTE sees a chance to boost its smartphone market share and global brand awareness as it launches Grand X device

Also: Comcast and Verizon Wireless bundle up in Florida; Mediacom chief pitches TV rate freeze; Comcast Skypes into Connecticut

GM turns the new Cadillac XTS into a smartphone-like connected machine, and it's eyeing LTE next

Heavy Reading's Ethernet Europe 2012 post-show report is centered on perspectives of 20-plus Ethernet Executive Council members

In today's EMEA roundup: Nokia looks at iPhone-style 'partnership' launch of Windows 8 phone; the $350 tablet; Austrian M&A update

4:45 AM LTE goes mainstream in South Korea

Also: Arris gets a downgrade; Motorola posts Q2 loss; Suddenlink eyes cable system buys; Viacom and DirecTV bury the hatchet

Also: Microsoft slides in Windows 8 wait; HTC offers carriers Jelly Bean; RIM woos developers; Apple captures mobile advertisers' attention

NetScout buys an Italian slice of Accanto's service provider IT (SPIT) business

9:00 AM You'd think hi-tech vendors would be more social-network-savvy than carrier folks. But it's just not true

The rapid rise of cloud-based services and OTT Internet applications is boosting demand for SIP trunking

This week: Edge caching, SIP trunking and mobile money in Africa, telco forecasts for the USA and the Czech Republic

7:00 AM What prevents more companies from building seamless networks made of stitched-together hot spots?

In today's EMEA roundup: Vodafone struggles in Europe but data perks up the picture; French senator fears Chinese spies; Wales saved, fiber-wise

6:00 AM Comcast reportedly is teeing up a 305Mbit/s tier to match up with Verizon's new high-end Quantum service

The long wait for the 4G ramp-up is starting to hit the bottom line for infrastructure vendors

The Android maker earned $12.21B in Q2, including $1.25B from Moto Mobility, but is only promising 'changes' for the company

4:20 PM Report provides valuable insight from service provider experts shaping the direction of the Carrier Ethernet industry

MobiTV is breaking out its nDVR service as a standalone product it can license to wireless carriers and pay-TV providers

2:05 PM The operator is ready to say it's sorry for the recent outage, offering compensation that might total more than £220M

Verizon CFO says that some 3G unlimited customers are already switching to the new shared 4G plans

10:45 AM Verizon CFO Fran Shammo fuelled the iPhone rumor mill during the operator's Q2 call

Also: Docsis 3.0 amps up cable modem revenues; Clearleap jumps into TV Everywhere; Entone pitches hybrid TV to cable operators

Verizon added 1.2M wireless subscribers in the quarter and reports that FiOS now represents 65% of consumer wireline revenue

As it sheds thousands of jobs, the costs of reorganization are keeping NSN in the red

Members of Suddenlink's management team and two investment firms have struck a deal to acquire the seventh-largest cable operator in the US

In today's roundup: Tax bill pushes Nokia's Q2 net loss to $1.88 billion; Apple ordered to advertise Galaxy; Tele2 profits slip

4:00 AM RIM's counting on BlackBerry 10 to save it, but just how many must it sell to restore relevancy? And is it possible? Analysts aren't so sure

Or, at least, that's when the company will talk more about its 1Gbit/s fiber-to-the-home buildout

In today's cable bites: The fight over programming costs gets punchier, Dish gets a boost and TWC might have a red face over blue chalk

New Mobile Share plans let its customers share data across up to 10 mobile devices

Liberalization in the South-East Asian country is opening up a market ripe for investment but with a human rights twist

Latest Compass offer lets smaller telcos bump up their customer support without major hardware or software investment

Despite all sorts of negative pressures, Ericsson's sales are holding up and it is still making money

Telecom giant teams with BestBuy's Geek Squad to offer IT Help Desk service to employees of small and medium-sized businesses

In today's EMEA roundup: Ericsson revenues up despite hard times; TeliaSonera revises outlook; Morocco hits the 4G trail

Shareholders have mostly approved the optical components merger, but there's a catch

One's an aspiring 4G equipment provider, the other's a scrappy 8-year-old, and together they fight crime. Or maybe, chase LTE deals

5:20 PM Reliability and unlimited data are key selling points for Sprint's LTE network, but user forums are reporting connection issues

Since VMware isn't exactly a sinking ship, a change at the top might indicate the company senses the next phase of technology emerging

Anyone can be a wireless operator with Sprint's new 'MVNO in a box' package

Also: Now TV could be bad for bundling; Comcast gets with the Scripps; TiVo acquisition

The carrier's enterprise app store leaves the heavy lifting to SPIT startup Nuwin, while Sprint itself sticks to the thing it does best

Operator-led Wholesale Applications Community disbands as assets are sold to Apigee and the GSMA picks up what's left of the initiative

Gigamon, founded eight years ago without VC help, is ready to tell its story of network-monitoring gear to Wall Street

Alcatel-Lucent's woes and some wireless M&A action stir up the regional news pot this Tuesday

Vendor's share price drops below €1 as it revises its full-year outlook, saying it won't meet its margin guidance

Pre-paid carrier is setting the new bar at $30 for mobile data pricing as a response to Virgin Mobile's $35 unlimited WiMax plan

7:30 PM Sprint hasn't scrapped Baltimore from its LTE plans. But LR Mobile ponders if it is actually worth jumping to LTE yet...

2:40 PM AT&T halves the price of the Lumia 900, which was supposed to have gotten its biggest marketing push

Tiny startup Virtuata will contribute to two of Cisco's current obsessions: cloud computing and security

Sprint has tripled the size of its 4G LTE footprint at launch, promising average downloads of 6 to 8 Mbit/s in its initial markets

Also: BSkyB preps Netflix rival; Cablevisión Paraguay gets bought; and more

Major service provider IT (SPIT) vendor adds to its interconnect management capabilities with acquisition of Swedish specialist

Sharp fall in profits hammers stock, adding to pressure of FBI probe

In today's EMEA roundup: Chinese giant makes further gains in the Middle East; Nokia slashes Lumia price in US; Dublin link is go

6:00 AM With nearly ubiquitous Wi-Fi, industry folks and academics are looking to unlicensed spectrum to expand broadband's reach and cut down on its costs

Users have a choice of five devices and five cities as Sprint debuts its fresh, new 4G network this Sunday

3:15 PM Now the EC's Neelie Kroes needs incumbent operators to step up and invest more in fiber

In Friday's cable rundown: analysis of Aereo's DVR defense; DoJ is Verizon's cable-spectrum obstacle; AMC goes OTT in carriage fee squabble; and more

Also: Android wins favor overseas and in the US; Amazon recruits Microsoft talent; Verizon plays games with Android

As service providers begin to accept money from the FCC's Connect America Fund, it's worth asking how much some companies really need the help

10:00 AM Governments of the world, take note

This week: Smart homes and your daily telecom news fix

In today's roundup: Network sharing in Ireland; EC decides against tariff squeeze; Russia awards fee-free LTE licenses; and more

Republic Wireless has named Devicescape as the Wi-Fi provider for an unlimited data service that relegates cellular to backup duty

5:20 AM The feds get on ZTE's case over alleged shipments to Iran

Broadband service demand has spurred India to better reach users with FTTx technologies with improved fiber

11:55 AM With its service restored, the UK operator's customer experience management strategy will now be put to the test

In today's roundup: Viacom battles DirecTV, Comcast mulls auto security, Microsoft scores in Brazil and Time Warner Cable sets a bounty

9:30 AM A number of well-funded startups and big social networks are out to prove you can make mobility pay with advertising

Joins Ciena at the optical heart of the stock exchange

In today's roundup: M&A action in Spain; Russian LTE latest; more mobile outages; asset writedowns; and more from the EMEA region

4:00 AM Loss of services provides O2 UK with a customer relationship challenge

The streaming-TV service can keep running while awaiting its time in court

5:00 PM Many may have forgotten but NYC's pay-phone makeover isn't the first attempt to install Wi-Fi in the city's historical relics

Wireline capex is looking tepid, as Adtran braces investors for a disappointing September quarter

Also: Mobile devices take over, and Poland and Norway prep cable-operator sales

MVNO will launch its WiMax iPhone sleeve this year, but plans to phase out WiMax in favor of a fresh wholesale deal with Sprint as its 4G LTE footprint grows

Device makers, wireless audio, fleet management and all kinds of mobile apps help to drive up the sector's funding in June

The way to the heart is through the stomach, so Huawei's showing off its new myTouch smartphones for T-Mobile at Chicago's annual food fest

In today's mix: Telefónica uses Juniper for retail mobile security service; new head honcho at ECI; LTE in Russia

Spanish operator's R&D team believes new software capabilities can make packet-optical networking cheaper and more efficient

Not all is rosy at RIM, its new CEO now admits, but says he's still confident in the BlackBerry 10 launch even with its delay until 2013

Also: Viacom can't strike a deal with DirecTV; Comcast's fat cat; spectrum deal nears; cloud gaming in Korea

8:00 AM If you're a service provider that's not using social media for customer relationship management, it's time to start socializing

In the spotlight today: Huawei's outsourcing talks; multi-layer networking; a 100Gbit/s record; global M2M cooperation; and more

Seven operators join forces in an alliance aimed at simplifying and reducing costs of delivering M2M services to international businesses

Huawei claims HSUPA upload record – but do operators care too much about that anymore?

Gartner says the telecom equipment market is growing by more than 10% – try telling that to Acme Packet

AT&T is now adding new 4G LTE markets at a steady clip but is way behind Verizon's 304-market footprint

The cross-platform operating system will ship to manufacturers in August with a commercial launch to follow in late October

In South Korea, mobile operators can now charge for or block OTT VoIP services – but not all are doing so

8:00 AM A U.S. cable operator is said to be exploring a pre-paid scheme that borrows a page from the wireless world

Former Nokia employees create startup called Jolla to design and sell MeeGo-based smartphones

The rebirth of MeeGo, service outages in France and an international war of words feature in today's regional roundup

With summer's earnings season about to start, the wireline business gets a warning sign

Also: Best Buy and TiVo have a connected TV disconnect; Netflix CEO Facebook post gets scrutinized; Yahoo eyes Hulu CEO for top slot

Motorola says S-CDMA's appeal is rising in the face of Verizon's new FiOS tiers, but admits that no one has deployed the technology yet

Also: Amazon plots a smartphone; Firefox spotted in the wild; wireless operators want RIM to cut its fees; consumers clamor for Jelly Bean

In today's EMEA roundup: T-Systems wins extension to data-center contract; Lebanon suffers major outage; YouView's a turn-off for TalkTalk

4:30 AM Social media giant is one of several backers of Asia/Pacific regional network

Verizon Wireless and its cable partners say their commercial bundling deals don't contain exclusivity provisions for cell backhaul

TBR is drinking the Network Vision Kool-Aid; says Sprint will be a larger, more efficient player in the wireless market in 2014

Verizon's wholesale backhaul manager says that small cells will be 'massive' but present fresh challenges for backhaul

Also: Multi-channel video subscribers flatten out; more M&A among cable Tier 2s; new PS3 reaches the FCC

9:10 AM Tough choice for operators with content delivery network (CDN) needs

9:00 AM A one-day event prior to the Cable-Tec Expo will focus on how cable can prepare for next-gen home services, technologies and architectures

Spanish giant unveils strategic initiatives that will help it transform into a new breed of communications service provider

In today's EMEA roundup: Telefónica's Digital unit sets out its stall; VimpelCom's Google Play deal; French government to meet with telcos

Cisco shared some LTE small-cell strategic insight, but no product details, during a recent interview with Light Reading Mobile

Also: Cable broadband's getting bigger; TW Cable expands usage-based broadband policy; Dish wants ad-zapper lawsuits to stay in New York

6:40 AM Managed services deal in Portugal shows off vendor's SPIT smarts

In today's EMEA roundup: América Móvil boss happy with Dutch and Austrian stakes for now; network-sharing in Ireland; SFR cuts rumor

A €550 million ($693 million) deal will bring together two of the mobile world's roaming hubs -- but at what cost?

Despite plans for 5,000 job cuts and delays to its BB10 OS launch, RIM's new CEO says there's 'nothing wrong' with the BlackBerry maker

The $24M purchase of Red-C could give Finisar a crucial weapon against JDSU

Cable vet Jim Buckley has joined Marwan Fawaz's core leadership team at Motorola Home, coming on board as corporate VP, finance

Light Reading takes on small cells, 4G backhaul and distributed radio clouds in the Big Apple

9:55 AM Mobile growth trend hit by license upheaval

9:25 AM If it's Tuesday, this must be billing in Belgium…

Also: Ericsson's latest acquisition; London's underground Wi-Fi; digitization in India; TWC brings HBO GO to 'most' Android OSes

Cause is unknown for now, but T-Mobile customers across the US were without data services for hours on Monday

In today's EMEA roundup: Mobile wallets ahoy in Germany and Poland; Technicolor completes broadcast unit sale; Nokia's possible Plan B

5:00 AM The announcement of Firefox OS means carriers have a new alternative to the dominant mobile operating systems

AT&T is insisting on fiber for its cell towers, but for small cells, it's back to the drawing board and everything is under consideration including microwave, other radio technology and even bonded copper

5:05 PM There are some compelling reasons to add Ericsson to the list of companies that might make a run at Motorola's cable business

1:20 PM The late Tellabs CEO was a rare combination of intelligence and easygoing likeability that the telecom industry is going to miss

Sprint, Deutsche Telekom and others stake a claim in the mobile OS wars by supporting Firefox's mobile browser on Qualcomm smartphones

Alcatel-Lucent wins another 4G deal in the US: a contract to deploy the delayed initial phase of C Spire's LTE network in the Deep South

Also: Dish drops AMC while AT&T keeps it; new CableLabs CEO tweets his schedule; judge denies Netflix bid to kill discrimination suit

Purchase of BreakingPoint Systems adds cloud and LTE security testing capabilities to Ixia's arsenal

The service provider IT sector is not immune to the job-loss trend as macro economics and post-M&A trimming take their toll

In today's EMEA roundup: Vittorio Colao defends operator's tax position; shake-up in UAE could be imminent; Telkom to go back in state hands?