Swedish optical specialist unveils mobile backhaul product and bets on operators taking fiber out to base stations

7:15 PM Nokia gets hip to mixing social networking with location awareness

Qwest is building its next backbone on AlcaLu, moving the vendor's 7750 onto the same big stage as Cisco and Juniper's core routers

Despite the need to save costs, operators are slow to adopt packet transmission in their backhaul networks, finds a new Heavy Reading report

4:20 PM More Americans are surfing the Net and watching TV at the same time, study finds

2:50 PM M&A, IPO, and investment news from India's telcos

SeaChange ends Q2 with a tighter Comcast relationship and an entree to Europe's budding VoD market

Subsidiary of media giant Seven set to rival 3G players with Australia's first mobile WiMax network and its plans for LTE

Africa's telecom sector is ripe for mergers and acquisitions, with Morocco and Nigeria the latest markets in the spotlight

11:25 AM Last seen helping Suddenlink prepare for disasters. Oh, the irony of it all

RGB's new gateway aims for the crowded any stream/any screen market

Startup supplies packet core equipment to mobile WiMax operator Clearwire in multiple US cities

7:50 AM Equipment maker among four bidders reportedly shortlisted for Nortel's stake in LG-Nortel

And it's taking Global Crossing with it, as the vendor announces its gear for submarine networks

Dell joins IBM in putting together an end-to-end data center strategy, going up against Cisco and HP

5:00 PM NCTA and Verizon say FCC should keep the current benchmarks, while Free Press proposes a 5-Mbit/s symmetrical link

India's fastest-growing new mobile operator, Sistema Shyam TeleServices, is first to commit to CDMA 1x Advanced

4:15 PM The $4B acquisition was too expensive for some shareholders

Arris puts up $6.5M to snag the assets of video encoding specialist EGT, a company that raised at least $30M during its nine-year history

Clearwire sheds some light on its plans for using broadband stimulus funds as it launches service in 10 new markets

11:35 AM In the right hands, Skype could be much more than a $1B company

11:20 AM The speculation continues after DVR pioneer sues AT&T and Verizon

8:50 AM The OPhone follows swiftly on the heels of the iPhone

Simon Beresford-Wylie is being replaced by NSN's head of services, Rajeev Suri, who takes the helm on October 1

Interop's on board to manage all of Cox's wireless messaging needs, but the MSO has an option to take it all in-house later on

SeaChange buys Dutch video-on-demand software specialist eventIS for nearly $37 million

4:00 AM Reports suggest eBay will announce sale of Skype today