Five suppliers have submitted a total of six products for Docsis 3.0 testing, Cable Digital News has learned
Carrier scorecards are in for European wireline carriers, and Deutsche Telekom is still sinking
Canadian device maker is rumored to be prepping a new operating system and touch-screen handset
The stock slumps – again – as Ericsson says it's aiming low with Q4 revenues
Mark Cuban misses the point about legitimate P2P apps
FCC commissioner openly questions the credibility of data Chairman Kevin Martin may use in effort to impose new cable regulations
Indian operator issues WiMax equipment tender worth $750 million to cover one sixth of Indian population
Unstrung poll provides a useful snapshot of how WiMax stands in the US
Not likely...
RIM Plots four or five new models
Startup adds PBT support to its network planning and management suite in response to demand from vendors and a Tier 1 carrier
Wants them unlocked in Germany
Or not
Webpad side effects may include square eyes and a lighter wallet
They call it stormy muni
An old Lucent box helps Verizon run the 100-Gig test it was hoping for
JFK joins Second Life and Paris Hilton teams with Tony Blair
Vodafone's strong performance in data revenue growth earns the carrier an upgrade on our latest Scorecard
For the startups betting on the river card
We've splashed a new coat of paint on our data after Charter announced plans to deploy switched digital video in LA
With the Amazon Kindle
Echostar's recent stock swoon has rekindled AT&T's interest in the satellite provider, according to a new report
Motricity is the biggest mobile moneybag in Rutberg's digital media VC survey for October
Picks BigBand in L.A. to create headroom for HDTV and 'special interest' programming. Is Videotron next on BigBand's cable playlist?
Bidness term o' the day
Gossip puts Skype in Google's viewfinder
New big gorgonzolas expected at Telecom Italia
See ya in another four years
Alcatel-Lucent's head of IP, Basil Alwan, says DPI is crucial to the development of next-gen carrier services
Our new report is an IMS beast
Nokia Siemens is yet to accept BSNL's order for mobile network equipment, expressing difficulty at matching its low price
Zayo, the bandwidth services startup, now has managed services to go with all its shiny new fiber
Tell us what sucked about 2007
Do you know the difference between DQPSK, DPQPSK, and DPSK?
Search giant says it is making the 'necessary preparations' to bid on wireless spectrum in the US
Ringing in the new?
I asked and VZ delivered
Updates from the contentiverse
It's still about the software, stupid
Google has built its own low-cost 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches
How should vendors respond to the possibility that their gear could be used to violate human rights?
Here's a quick rundown on the specter of the 70/70 rule, P2P fiascoes, and the big cable rumor of the week
Heavy Reading survey shows there's a lot of uncertainty for carriers looking at 40-gig and 100-gig technologies
We are the worldphone
TheFunded.com loses its air of mystery
Penetration tests show that half of wireless networks at major mall stores could be easily hacked
The cost of cheap VOIP services
A sharper image
G-Phone poll results
No PowerPoint?
Japan & China next for Apple?
France Telecom beats off rival carrier bids to take control of loss-making Telkom Kenya in a deal worth $390M
MoCA's primary customer tells the home-net Alliance to raise the speed bar. But how high? Try 400 Mbit/s
You buying?
UK mobile TV player gets on the Nasdaq OTC board through a share exchange with CyberFund
Some days are just down days
Tower Group says mobile banking will finally start to rake in M&A cash
Concerns about Cisco's roles in human rights and executive pay trends got support, but not victory, at the shareholder meeting
Digital content news
Sub-$200 cellphone market hots up for the holidays
Qwest is now securing cable franchises throughout its footprint because, you know, they're kinda neat
Indian operators added more than 7M mobile subscribers in October, with market leader Bharti crossing the 50M mark
The company's equipment will be deployed to enable 10-Gig and 40-Gig services for Verizon Business in Europe
It was a quarter to forget for Wall Street: US wireline carriers took a step back in Q3 2007
Nortel's flagship optical platform still missing PBT
Can you pick the combo that beats Google?
Sure, but is it a good idea?
Basil Alwan has been handed a strategic blue-sky role in Alcatel-Lucent's Carrier Business Group
Rooty Tooty Fresh 'n' Fruity Epiphany
Comcast CTO expects rollout in 'select' markets to begin in Q3 2008 but has yet to pick a home networking scheme
No, not Country & Western
And other nuggets from the first annual confab dedicated to the home-net scheme
Will Dutch thief get a Second Life sentence?
With better research data in hand, perhaps the FCC could craft more meaningful broadband policies
Internet2 wants its bandwidth-on-demand, so vendors put on a GMPLS demo at SC07
Paris Hilton indifferent to elephants
Redux
Sprint leading the retreat
Viv's causing another regulatory stink
CDMA maven Qualcomm buys banking software startup Firethorn as mobile payments market in the US gets hotter
Content news to peruse if you choose
Nortel has a new PBT-optimized Ethernet switch in the works as it tries to rival the MPLS router vendors
No flying cars yet, either
At last, Microsoft fits its software into a far-reaching cable deployment strategy… but it has nothing to do with TV
Forget the talk of another optical bubble; network operators worldwide are clamoring for 100-Gbit/s speeds, and their needs aren't going away
When going green is a bad thing
ADVA CEO says the US RBOCs are sales targets
Continues momentum in a product sector that's ripe for consolidation
Norway awards WiMax licenses
As OSS vendors unveil their latest wares, software giant leads the way with an integrated software platform approach
Vodafone does virtual marketing
Dreams of rural WiMax idylls grow dim
Chief of cable's top lobbying arm fires back amid reports the FCC may try to invoke broader powers and reregulate the industry
Telcos in the US can't count on wireline broadband to fuel growth any more
Vodafone reported strong growth in data service revenues in the first half of this year, driven mainly by enterprise services
The strikingly frank confessions of former stress cadet and current Aruba CEO, Dominic Orr
Romeo and Juliet 2.0
Yahoo pays up
Analyst hedges optimism on concerns about the speed of company's revenue ramp, balance sheet, and customer prospects
With Sprint faltering there's less impetus than ever to deliver broadband to smaller towns and rural communities
India's spectrum policy gets messy
Three years of Leading Lights video highlights
Norway's 2.6 GHz auction goes on
C&W raises its earnings guidance as its restructuring strategy pays off, but casts off its international chief
Multicast services are the next target as Hammerhead expands its work with PBT
Vodafone boosted data revenues by 48.8% in the first half of 2007 and raised its full-year outlook
...and the shadow of Openwave
The mouse of the Rising Sun
Orange continues to expand its FMC customer base in France, the UK, and Poland
FCC could slap cable with more regulations, but the numbers required don't appear to add up, analyst says
Wi-Fi Alliance certifies 140 draft n devices
But do they dip their telco TV in mayo?
By bringing in Cisco's Ron Martin, ADVA makes its fourth major executive move this year
Google Eyeing Sprint?
When it comes to TD celebrations, there's old school, and then there's really old school
iPhone underwhelms Europeans
You can't handle the tabouli!
Once again, some investors are hoping to bring up shareholder rights issues at Cisco's annual meeting
Commissioner to unveil reform plans tomorrow
Spanish giant reports nearly 40 percent rise in Q3 net income to €4B, but IPTV growth has slowed in the carrier's home market
Hafnium is the new copper
That obscure object of desire arrives in the old continent
No holiday grocery shopping list is complete without this item
The General Services Administration contract could be worth up to $1.8 billion over eight years
A broader relationship between cable and Sprint could emerge with the removal of Clearwire and its business ties to satellite TV duo
Sounds dirty, don't it? Ericsson must think so
The site is no longer 'coming soon'
Q2 looks too much like Q1
With the help of switched digital video, Cablevision claims capacity to 'carry as many HD channels as can be launched'
Wait, you mean I'm NOT trying to help?
The manufacturing powerhouse built by a former Seagate exec is ready to go public
Clap if you've heard this one
As expected, court green-lights OpenTV and Liberate settlement over iTV patents, while Comcast-Cox JV forks over $1.5M
Eurogeeks queue up for the gizmo
Don't open the 3G music box
In talks to sell Enterprise Communications biz
Sprint confirms that WiMax partnership with Clearwire has been scrapped and says it's reviewing its WiMax business plans
Wireless broadband contenders have reportedly dropped plans to work together on a WiMax network in the US
Throwing the book at whippersnappers
VOIP equipment vendor announces big win along with a net loss for the third quarter
Profits up, income down for the carrier's third quarter
Muni is not dead, apparently
Vyyo's on the verge of two MSO deals that could open up a market worth $100M per year
Vonage's revenues improve in Q3 and it settles with AT&T
How to suck up, and being a turd at work
Peer-to-peer is catching on in content delivery
Google as network operator? I have mixed feelings
Says pending settlement with remains of Liberate Technologies could give its US cable strategy a much needed boost
More IPTV gains in Germany and Croatia
Krish Prabhu will step down as CEO and president of Tellabs from March 1, 2008
Ferret feces join the war on drugs
Adding Premier League soccer content has tripled BT Vision's customer base, but restructuring costs hit the carrier's Q2 profits
Funding that could total $120M sets up TTM for an assault on the North American wireless backhaul market
Cisco beats expectations for another quarter, although the stock is sliding after hours
Santa and his murderous elf sell calendars
Shares in Acme Packet fell more than 15 percent Wednesday, despite strong third-quarter results
Wall Street 'needs to grow up,' analyst says
Bananas at night, Monkeys' delight
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the Network Neutrality Squad!
China is nothing to Yahoo about
Vodafone partners with Nokia to combine their Internet services on Nokia handsets
Lingering issues in Los Angeles and Dallas contributed to the bulk of a larger than expected loss of 83,000 basic video subs in the period
5 interactive services I'd want from FiOS or U-verse
Spectrum availability will be a barrier for LTE deployment, finds a new Unstrung Insider report
That video thing over DSL isn't so easy, apparently
The 3GPP's Long-Term Evolution (LTE) standard has emerged as the leading candidate technology for next-generation wireless networks.
Norway kicks off 2.6 GHz mobile broadband auction
Industry analysts are not yet sure what to make of Google's Android open software initiative
A year after commercial launch Swisscom's IPTV service is still experiencing technical difficulties
Swisscom adds another 10,000 subs
Serbia Broadband ups its optical capacity
Streaming media, in multiple formats, gives Level 3 another service for its CDN
Bad day for telco stocks
With some Websites reportedly down for four days, hosting provider NaviSite is feeling customers' wrath
Google's carrier partners are betting that Google will give them an iPhone-like boost
A deployment in which all homes are passed
AT&T says it will spend $500M more on U-Verse, passing 1 million fewer homes by the end of 2008 than expected earlier
MSO's 'basic family' tier to offer 30 to 40 hi-def nets in time for the 2007 holiday season – offering one reason for a rise in Q3 capex
Mike Zavirovski says Nortel's annual revenues are set to grow in 2008, helping to send the stock up 12%
Breaking up, on the Web, isn't so hard to do
Big changes may be in store when new Time Warner CEO takes the helm in January
Shares stumble more than 12 percent Tuesday morning after MSO lowers revenue projections for 2007 and posts wider-than-expected net loss
The Femto Forum grows its membership to more than 40 companies including major operators and equipment suppliers
It's not feminine hygiene, it's a home base station
Q3 falls short of expectations, but Nortel still manages a small profit and a gross margin of 43% on sales of $2.7 billion
Fifteen vendors join 'interop' as FCC mulls whether to rule in favor of OpenCable, the CEA's 'DCR Plus' proposal, or a combo of the two
Eric Schmidt, performance artist?
Strategic review identifies further cost cuts but decides against an exit from the service assurance market
Google is thinking big with Android, but it's not talking much about ad revenues or Apple yet
Top 5 services I wish my wireless carrier offered
The Czechs like IPTV, too
'In my day we had to pick an Internet from a tree'
Unisys teams with AppTrigger as it aims to build on its installed base of carrier messaging systems
There's no Gphone yet, but Google is moving into cellphones with an OS and middleware platform called Android
With visual aids
Beware: I have a customized writing utensil. I shall use it to smite the enemy and take over the world!
MSO posted a solid quarter, but firm answers about Insight's future likely won't be answered until tomorrow morning
Gisele Bündchen, leading economic indicator
The day when Google reveals all
Microsoft's long-standing IPTV collaborator Reliance Communications is to launch its telco TV services in India early next year
Send us your tired masses of PR pitches
Vodafone to buy share of Telekom Malaysia's mobile business unit
Start queuing now for the iPhone
When you wish upon a donut...
Our slideshow from Digital Hollywood
Vyatta says thanks for the memory prices
Petition calls on FCC to investigate, suggests MSO should be fined $195,000 for each sub affected by 'degraded' Internet service
By Halloween, VON was a ghost town
European carriers are adding tens of thousands of IPTV subs each month as the Old Continent leads the way in telco TV growth
Udderly ridiculous
Shareholder sends an offer letter of $3.40 a share to CACS, saying the company is undervalued
Cisco promises to invest $16 billion in China over the next five years
Consumer protection 1432
Still mired in losses, Conexant discontinues standalone wireless LAN chips and lays off 140
Euro regulators are in tit-for-tat mode
For God's sake, stay home!!!
MetroPCS pulls out but Leap says it is open to talks
Many offers, little prices
Who needs hi-def when you've got ASCII-Vision?
Verizon is gearing up for 100 Mbit/s to be a common offering for most homes. Will AT&T follow suit?
The talking is over
The FCC wouldn't grant Comcast a waiver, and, as promised, Comcast is taking the fight to appeals court
VP says bandwidth is a non-issue
Tutarus, SecureRF encrypt RFID data on the chip
Verizon first with a CDMA Pearl?
Stems market and retail store expansion of a wireless service offered in tandem with cable MSOs, citing mounting provisioning issues
Third-ranked US wireless operator reports subscriber numbers down by 60,000 for the third quarter
JDSU's reasons to turn thumbs down on copper
Top cable analyst suggests FCC's ban on exclusive cable MDU contracts is much ado about less than what many investors might think
Significant jobs cuts expected at BT
A new partnership with TiVo might help Windstream fight off cable competition
Sitting in a tree...
Reshuffle leaves two senior execs in limbo
The company's optical sales bounce back, but not all the way
Telcos are finally offering TV services in a real way, but are any of them making money? And, now that they've figured out the technical hurdles, what should they be doing to really stand out in this competitive business?
