In today's EMEA roundup: German giant hatches fiber access unit plan; Samsung faces Galaxy phone ban; Apple shares fall on Jobs bombshell

4:10 AM Mike Quigley restructures his top team at Australia's NBN

Indian-based multinational carrier says it will survive as traditional telecom players become less relevant

Apple's COO Tim Cook is the new CEO; Jobs becomes chairman of the board at the iPhone maker

MSO will subsidize Slingboxes in NYC, but the D3 promo will likely grab the attention of programmers as they square off over streaming rights

2:35 PM Should independent MSOs worry about Google's acquisition of Motorola? The seeds of doubt are already being planted

Samsung's new Galaxy naming conventions may confuse consumers who just want faster, cheaper, better

Handset makers launch new phones aimed at the middle range of smartphone users

Also: Dish LTE plans are questioned, Grande taps TiVo, Cablevision hires biz service reseller, Netflix's UK speed bump

11:00 AM Maybe the OIF's 100G mojo will help get the industry moving towards whatever comes next

10:15 AM How many Apple smartphones could Sprint sell?

10:00 AM Would gigabit networks be a fertile ground for innovation and entrepreneurship or just a giant sinkhole for cash?

In today's EMEA roundup: NSN says it cannot be held responsible for 'abuses' of spy software; Ericsson closes M2M deal

6:10 AM Operators are standardizing on LTE but they're all using multiple radio bands, making it hard to develop a 4G world phone

6:15 PM It's one possible future for HP's redheaded stepchild of a mobile operating system, an analyst suggests

WSJ is reporting that the latest iPhone 5 could launch on Sprint in mid-October

Entone's VUDU-powered hybrid boxes get the CableLabs stamp as the vendor joins the five others chasing the US Tier 2/3 MSO market

4:30 PM Microsoft's OS is ready to ship with 30,000 mobile apps and a few more updates to look forward to

2:50 PM Krish Prabhu touts intelligent networks, mobile apps and the new era of network openness at AT&T

Microsoft wants more royalties from Motorola's Android smartphones before the Google deal goes down

Big names in tech gather to talk about your privacy, online future and data. We managed to get a reporter on the premises. What could go wrong?

Following a mid-year blip, Ciena and its investors can look forward to a brighter near-term future

Also: VUDU conjures market-share magic, Cox turns up wholesale heat, pirates flock to Fox, ACA asks FCC to loosen MSO-CLEC merger rules

Letting no potentially hot router market go unturned

6:40 AM One of the M&A hot-shots becomes the latest senior exec to move out

In today's EMEA roundup: Kudelski has a half-year horrorshow; 3G auction gets moving in Algeria; Iraq prepares to grant mobile licenses

Mobile broadband has driven a boom in policy over the past 12 months, bringing a passel of new vendors into the sector

5:25 PM A panel of tech and government leaders agree consumer confidence would be boosted by better privacy protection. But how far do should we go?

4:40 PM -- Yeah, people love a sale – but if vendors can find the right formula for cheaper tablets they could have a hit on their hands

MSO's business unit teams with iBahn to convert QAM video to IP and chase after a budding cable opportunity: video services to hotels

Cisco is picking up the assets of the former Axiom Systems, an OSS vendor it's been using anyway

Plus, a primer on the US wireless operators' mobile TV and video offerings in time for their zippier 4G networks

Also: Comcast drops 'Sunday Ticket' complaint, Insight CEO discusses what's next, and the SCTE calls in the vendor brass

New Deloitte report predicts that companies in the US could invest $25B to $53B in 4G networks between 2012 and 2016, adding up to 771,000 jobs

10:15 AM Also, the NYT takes on Moto's identity crisis and we'll point you to a couple of regulatory developments in Chile and Brazil

In today's EMEA roundup: Renesys CTO tries to make sense of a war-torn Internet connection; French ISPs plan to tackle the data hogs

CWA, IBEW call off strike based on Verizon management's agreement to negotiate terms

4:40 PM But the timing might be off for an LTE iPhone in the next month or two

2:55 PM A habit that John Chambers has thankfully given up

A Comcast-Moto deal struck in 2005 prevents Google from seizing the 'brain' of cable's Motorola-based digital video networks

Speculation starts on which company will snap up webOS, Samsung seeks software and Apple butts in with a few rumors in this week's OS rundown

11:45 AM Walking away from the hottest personal computing trend in 20 years makes it hard not to watch what HP might do next

Also: Moto can't shop itself around, TW Cable puts Road Runner out to pasture, Malone dumps Barnes & Noble bid, Roku taps Hillcrest

9:30 AM Idea explores options to offload its growing data by laying down fiber

Cable's wireless Plan B may be in motion, as report says MSOs want to invest more in Clearwire and perhaps buy the cash-strapped company

This week: Mobile innovation in AME, our take on Google-Motorola Mobility, finding what you need faster, MVPs and a new newsletter

8:00 AM All signs point to more momentum for Huawei, even while the rest of the industry struggles to maintain its footing

UK's Competition Commission says BSkyB is freezing out its pay-TV rivals, while Moroccan operator faces strikes in today's roundup

7:40 PM Tablets, with the exception of HP's own TouchPad, have become so popular that its device business can't keep up

Chinese vendor's half year revenue jumps 11% as it touts the deployment of 130 LTE-capable SingleRAN networks worldwide

Nervousness aside, some top cable tech execs say Google's software prowess could boost the Motorola franchise

The handset market just got less crowded as HP intends to discontinue webOS device development, just over a year after acquiring it from Palm

New customers can choose between unlimited or pay per text as the popularity of SMS declines

Verizon Wireless says that its 4G LTE network now covers more than half the population of the US

In today's EMEA roundup: Handset giant may put bid in for TDMA pioneer while PC sales continue to fall victim to the mighty tablet

Also: Nielsen runs iPad TV tests, Roku's streams EPIX (with a big caveat), Rogers enters the smart home biz

R&D house to open a San Francisco site as cable looks to tap the region's talent pool and build relationships with innovative startups

4:55 PM Apple should be well along the 4G testing curve by now but that doesn't necessarily mean an LTE iPhone is right around the corner

There are opportunities galore for operators offering cloud services in Latin America, finds a new Pyramid report

Cloud-based service automatically plans ahead for weather changes and is available on wholesale basis to ISPs

Like pre-paid rival Leap Wireless, MetroPCS is offering its highest-paying subscribers unlimited music

12:20 PM Cablevision continues to put its weight behind its Wi-Fi buildout even as its 3G ambitions remain up in the air

Also: Verizon might deny benefits to strikers; Suddenlink beefs up VoD; Netflix targets piracy in Spain; Limelight, Level 3 may forge CDN deal

If you're looking for a CEO who's done volume production, the guy who started Broadcom's networking division might work

Android's popularity and open architecture have made it vulnerable to malware. Security experts outline the four biggest threats to the OS

IPv6 isn't safer or less safe than IPv4, but it's different and experts say there's need for caution

Samsung gets a tablet reprieve while German operators join forces for mobile money in today's stroll through the EMEA news garden

Eleven job ads at Apple now call for LTE skills, but the iOS vendor may look to support other 4G flavors as multi-modal networks evolve

4:00 PM Now that Google has its patent shield, it might be time to return to what the mobile industry is supposed to do best

AT&T will launch a LTE USB dongle and mobile hot spot next week, but without LTE 4G services switched on, the devices will fall back to HSPA+

Also: Comcast launches BlackBerry app, more Verizon strike strife, ACA frets about Googorola, man accused of using set-top as a weapon

ip.access is in a hiring mood as it lays claim to the femtocell shipment crown and hopes to breach the 1 million mark in 2012

Ailing Finnish giant thinks it may get shot in the arm from Google's Moto takeover, while Samsung lines up tablet appeal in today's roundup

The Google buyout could have knock-on effects for RIM and others, raise anti-trust issues and provoke more debate on the IPR system in the US

12:00 AM MotoBlur will likely become a thing of the past, but customized UIs will now become much more important for everyone else

9:30 PM The Twittersphere was all a-flutter over Google's plans to acquire Motorola Mobility. Here are the 10 best Tweets of the day

Heavy Reading analyst expects Motorola LTE devices with AT&T and Sprint, as well with Verizon, by 2012

Cable's IP video ambitions and a new class of set-tops could open the door to Android and Google TV, but would MSOs go for it?

The makers of the ill-fated JooJoo tablet are trying again with a revamped Grid OS and a $499 Grid 10 tablet coming this September

Microsoft could gain Windows Phone support as OEMs look to depend less on Android, but it also stands to lose its lucrative licensing fees

Also: Charter routes with Cisco, Hulu may fetch $1.5B, cable's Docsis appetite to double in 2012, regulators extend Liberty-Kabel BW review

Google's Moto acquisition will strengthen its patent defense for all its handset partners, but fear of favoritism could hurt it in the long run

10:30 AM Google's bigger presence in mobile device manufacturing could give it a chance to be the model citizen in the wild Android marketplace

Google claims deal will 'supercharge' Android, but pledges that the operating system will remain open

Announcement expected on which UK regions will get broadband funding, while Telecom Egypt's profits fall year-on-year in today's EMEA news

AT&T and Verizon added video subs in the quarter, but probably should have done better given the dismal results from MSOs and satellite TV

Well, not completely. But for east-west traffic between cloud servers, Xsigo says it's got a simpler fabric that doesn't need switches

Cablevision's key ITV vendor tries to cripple FiOS TV as it shoots for more in its patent battle with Verizon

5:10 PM An alarming snippet of news for a Friday afternoon

4:00 PM The tablet computing market is so desperate to stand out against the iPad that it's taken to killing us with clutter and insulting early adopters of the technology

North State Communications challenges AT&T, Time Warner Cable with aggressive fiber push at home and in surrounding communities

Comcast Media Center is working on ways to convert its MPEG-2 video signals to MPEG-4 for EchoStar's scrambling IPTV affiliates

Also: EchoStar reveals Move Networks price; Fox tying TV Everywhere to retrans; Insight loses subs; NCTA, CEA still brawling over AllVid

This week: Contact centers in the public sector, the overheating telecom market in Uganda, NFC-enabled smartphones on life support

Spanish giant hears more bad news while Huawei launches its first own-brand smartphone in the UK in today's regional run-through

The Asia/Pacific region will rule the LTE roost by 2014, finds a report from Pyramid Research

Europe is falling behind the US and Asia when it comes to LTE

Multiple players are eager to help smaller telcos make the leap to selling cloud services

GPS industry's failure to comply with defense department filtering standards are the root cause of interference issues, LightSquared says

5:00 PM Cisco's out of the set-top-manufacturing business, but selling set-tops will remain key to its Videoscape strategy

One, two, three and to the fo' – HTC and Dr. Dre is at the do'

As mobile devices become more attractive to cyber attackers, AT&T and Sprint are offering their customers some ways to fight back

Avail-TVN jumps in with a program to help EchoStar affiliates make the switch before ViP-TV shuts down in September

Another booming month for mobile startups, according to research from Rutberg, but can it continue with the stock-market jitters?

Also: Suddenlink sheds basic video, broadband subs in Q2, RCN named in Web monitoring suit, set-top shipments shift to emerging markets

Swiss incumbent sees 3.8% drop in revenue while Blackberry blog suffers a hack attack in today's roundup of EMEA telecom news

Sub10 Systems emerges as the newest contender in the small cell wireless backhaul market

Going beyond speedy switching, HP Labs' novel approach aims for a world without switch fabrics

The companies avoid a lawsuit that could have been bad news for the progress of TV Everywhere

Now that everyone else is seeing a gloomy market, too, Cisco says it's got the edge, even amid its restructuring

Earnings did better than expected. We'll see about Cisco's forecast

4:15 PM Connected devices overtake subscribers in new adds for the second quarter as wireless operators get M2M happy

LightSquared now has a deal with CENX, but despite compelling economics, others aren't rushing in that direction

1:25 PM Verizon strike is playing out against divisive political climate, making arguments more strident, agreement harder to find

12:55 PM Techs must get prepped as cable enters a new era of home networking that extends well beyond just coax

Also: Verizon posts sabotage pics, VUDU reaches iPad but sidesteps Apple fees, DirecTV throws Comcast for a loss in Sunday Ticket spat

Clearwire makes COO Erik Prusch its new CEO as it hunts for money to build out a faster LTE overlay on its WiMax network

10:15 AM Also: Betting on Carlos Slim and Facebook doomsday threats

International growth and new smartphone development took a toll on Chinese vendor's profits in first half of this year

BT is embracing soaring data throughput by creating services to monetize the carriage cost, and making bold decisions about how to manage internal network infrastructure

Temporary injunction means Samsung won't be able to sell tablet in most of Europe, while mobile operators help police in UK's ongoing riots

5:50 PM New fears are rising about Clearwire's abilities to raise additional funding, but couldn't the same also be true of LightSquared?

5:10 PM It's Windows Phone or bust for the beleaguered handset maker

MSO is fighting for its right to stream live TV feeds to subs who need their video fix while they're on the go

A setback for AT&T as the FCC says it will review its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile and Qualcomm spectrum in a coordinated manner

Vendor says Malaysian operator Maxis will have a 100G first in Asia/Pac

Cablevision loses a more-than-expected 23,000 video subs in Q2 as competition and the economy turn up the heat on the MSO

10:15 AM Also: Verizon's striking workers, OTT in Latin America and more

Also: Verizon handles saboteurs, cable guys give Metaswitch the vote, ex-Comcaster becomes Stoke's CTO, small MSO goes big with Docsis 3.0

ZTE revealed device sales figures that show steady growth in China and rampant growth in the US and Europe

Data use on both fixed and mobile networks is skyrocketing, with no end in sight. Carriers must find new ways to build revenue in line with bandwidth usage

RIM agrees to work with authorities in identifying ringleaders of UK unrest, while Etisalat reshuffles top brass in today's EMEA roundup

France Telecom/Orange is adopting a single technology language approach to Bridging the Chasm as it develops new services and strategies

Analysts are expecting no fireworks and hoping for no fires

4:40 PM Pyramid Research increases its NFC outlook, but only cautiously, as questions around the business model freeze the market

Aurora says its hiring of a CFO signals that it will follow up its recent purchase of GoBackTV with other acquisitions

AT&T reacts to the voice-mail-hacking scandal by phasing in the option for users to password protect their messages

11:50 AM US WiMax operator boosts global adoption of LTE TDD standard

Also: Canoe rows with ITV test partner, SMC gateway to mix Docsis 3.0 with MoCA 2.0, RGB's debuts compact TV Everywhere box

Smartphone growth, M2M action and the move to LTE in Q2 dictated the winners and losers for the wireless operators in the US

Australian carrier to offer LTE services to business customers in three cities later this month

UK giant's challenge comes up trumps but Spanish operators must keep paying 'telco tax' in today's EMEA mash-up

Service provider IT (SPIT) vendor wants to be a bigger hitter in OSS and policy control, but how can it break out of its current rut?

Dr. Surendra Saboo, President and COO of Neutral Tandem presents EtherCloud℠, a new product that delivers end-to-end global Ethernet solutions, interconnects diverse networks, and simplifies delivery of Ethernet and VPLS services on a global basis.

Samsung wants to expand into the European LTE infrastructure market, but how will it do it?

With indications that it's had talks with T-Mobile about a wholesale deal, the MSO wants conditions placed on the AT&T/T-Mobile deal

Clearwire may be one of the first operators in the US – maybe even the world – to deploy this single-channel 4G LTE technology

3:40 PM Forget backhoes. Level 3 has stories about shotguns, wildlife and a really lost 18-wheeler

Stock is down 30% in a tumble that's even worse than yesterday's – if you're Brocade, that is

Handset maker shells out $18.5M for Dashwire, a cloud services vendor with an impressive patent portfolio

Also: DirecTV downplays need for Hulu, Comcast and DirecTV scrum over NFL package, Ceton's new CableCARD tuner is a go, Mediacom's new digs

When branding goes bad: Come walk with us through a world of Twonkys, Wangyous and GameSalads – but don't step in that Skoodat!

9:00 AM Windstream grows beyond its once rural ILEC status.

This week: IPTV, telecom forecasts for Romania and Bulgaria, Western European operators learn to share, 4G consulting, becoming an MVP

There's bad news for NSN's GSM/WiMax workers in the UK and elsewhere, and a writedown shock from Telecom Italia in today's regional roundup

About 1,500 jobs are being cut and other staff redeployed following the closure of the Motorola Solutions asset acquisition

2:00 AM Telcos: Think you're the ruler of Cloud City? Amazon is 'altering the deal'

SeaChange servers didn't perform well in Comcast's CDN environment, causing the MSO to standardize on gear from Cisco and Motorola instead

4:40 PM The back-and-forth battle between Google and Microsoft is turning into a Ping-Pong game of patent pandering

Light Reading Mobile breaks down the key metrics for the mobile device vendors for the most recently reported quarter

Also: Technicolor Skypes with Comcast, subs fret about AT&T's meters, Cablevision does self-install CableCARDs, Sling targets India

11:25 AM Where might Cisco cut at the top? One name stands out

Service provider warns of tough times ahead in 2011 as it absorbs Qwest and Savvis

Data works fine, but voice calls aren't getting through

7:00 AM European governments are getting greedy with LTE auctions

German giant has a second-quarter slump, while Nokia tries to exploit NFC technology in Thursday's smorgasbord of Euro headlines

German giant's financials head south in the second quarter, not helped by a major loss of contract customers at T-Mobile USA

6:00 AM America's worst food begins a long, profitable march across Russia

An LTE TDD overlay could produce eye-popping speeds, but first, Clearwire needs the money to make it happen

Pre-paid carrier is trialing the 4G technology this year, but plans to take two to three years to cover two-thirds of its network footprint

Pre-paid carrier loses 132,000 net broadband subs in Q2 even as it increased its voice subscriber base by 29,000

The WiMax operator is still losing money, but at least it's got LTE on the way

Google takes aim at Apple, Oracle and Microsoft for their patent litigation campaign against Android

3:25 PM Secretive tablet company promises to shake up the market. Should you care?

Enrique Rodriguez, the exec who helped get Videoscape off the ground, resigns as Cisco unites its service provider and enterprise video businesses

It would be a tempting way for Comcast to expand beyond its cable footprint, but the CEO says it would also be bad business

As Apple chalks up wins against HTC and Samsung, Google and others look to beef up their patent portfolios

11:45 AM Ships 72M mobile and fixed consumer devices in H1, unveils Vision smartphone

Also: Apple eyes video 'Replay' option, judge smacks down Zediva, TW Cable CEO is sticking around

MSO continued to shed video subs in the quarter but strong results in other parts of the business helped it beat analyst expectations

Smartphone maker launches five new devices based on new BlackBerry 7 operating system

ZTE, cable giant Liberty Global and Telecom Italia are at the front of today's Euro news queue

Virginia jury sides with ActiveVideo in video patent case and now the vendor will seek injunction on Verizon's FiOS TV service

An Amdocs-sponsored survey says carriers are getting results from thinking smaller with OSS modernization

Charter's aggressive Docsis 3.0 and switched digital video deployments are laying the groundwork for a future leap to IP video

5:50 PM Sprint finds another way to sell Clearwire's WiMax network under its brand

2:15 PM An FCC speed test shows FTTH delivers the most reliable and predictable broadband, but really, the whole industry is doing better

Probably not, as latest report douses speculation about a smartphone launch

The pre-paid carrier is looking at either leasing or purchasing more spectrum as it moves forward with LTE

Also: Apple TV gets a tune-up, vendors help ISPs issue bandwidth-consumption alerts, Netflix price hikes get spoofed

DPI specialist is raising cash for acquisitions with new share offering – what might it buy?

MSO lost 79,000 video subscribers in the historically weak Q2, but expects to complete its Docsis 3.0 and SDV deployments this year

US operator points to demand for Android smartphones and its contract-free services in the second quarter

German giant looks to cuts hundreds of jobs at its Bonn HQ, while Orange joins a cloud consortium in today's jog through EMEA news

About 20% of workforce to be made redundant as Openwave looks to cut costs in face of shrinking revenues

2:00 AM What are the chances of a LightSquared-like venture getting off the ground in Europe?

The company's Q1 forecast dips down as Extreme restructures and prepares for some price wars in campus networks

If it involves LightSquared, don't expect MSOs to pull the trigger until after the regulatory clouds hovering over the LTE startup lift

Distributed antenna systems, mobile Internet offload and LTE are the future for the WiMax specialist

3:05 PM Reform of the Universal Service Fund and inter-carrier compensation system picks up support

The $2.3B stock transaction deal creates national fiber network linking 20 data centers to advance its business services and cloud computing strategy

A test of the 500G PIC in Africa suggests Infinera is still on track to get 100G released in 2012

Stoke could go for an IPO late in 2012 or early in 2013, as NTT DoCoMo and others boost its revenues

Also: Amazon streams with NBCU, sales for streaming-only Apple TV are lukewarm, NPG Cable gets a splash of Suddenlink

Huawei steps ups its efforts to calm security nerves with appointment of Global Cyber Security Officer

Telefonica, Orange and Vodafone get their portion, euNetworks buys again and Zain is feeling pleased with itself in today's EMEA roundup

4:55 AM Ill-judged court ruling burdens ISPs