The $135M bid for Philips's set-top business would make Pace the No. 3 set-top box supplier, leapfrogging Scientific Atlanta

Giancarlo takes off for 'new professional opportunities'

Funny...

With competition mounting, the top Asian CDN provider gets extra cash, possibly to aid its US expansion

Juniper's still not telling

Buys small IPTV integrator HyC Group for an undisclosed sum to add 110 specialist staff to its services division

And we're not talking Big Macs and Egg McMuffins...

French consolidation continues as SFR plans €4.5B ($6.4B) acquisition of Neuf Cegetel to create a quad-play giant

Engineers are exciting... Really!

Once again proving that the high-speed, channel-bonding early adopters are mostly in Asia and Europe

Our look at the 15-country region profiles the ownership and services of nearly 60 carriers

Cable's future arrives in Cowtown

Good news for Huawei = Bad news for someone else

The 226 applicants include some names even more far afield than Google

A good-news/bad-news year

The big Qualcomm question

A look at the original

Optical upstart Infinera lands an optical backbone deal from growing UK broadband service provider Carphone Warehouse

FCC-adopted sub limit might prevent Comcast from making a big buy if, you know, any big MSOs were actually up for sale

Christmas came early for three suppliers after CableLabs stamped their CMTS gear with prized Docsis 3.0 approvals

IPTV is fun(ded) again

BT's CEO gets the nod from the Queen

Intel sells off its tunable lasers and transponders for $85M, and Emcore's the richer for it

Device maker reports Q2 loss on increased competition

The agency approves a 30 percent ownership limit, and the cable industry is predictably unhappy about it

3 & T-Mobile are the latest UK operators to strike up a 3G RAN sharing deal

What's been happening at Contentinople lately

Nomura Securities analyst says so

10 Years Gone

Join the fun!

$2B NY emergency radio system fails first test

Embarq CEO Dan Hesse is leaving the company to become the CEO of Sprint Nextel

The combination of Turin and Carrier Access will benefit from complementary technology and customer bases, say analysts

French carriers mull merger

Alcatel-Lucent is selling its stake in fiber vendor Draka Comteq for $301M

Japanese giant is set to put PBT through its paces early next year as interest continues to grow in the controversial Ethernet technology

From the files of unintended consequences...

Atheros hopes to get a slice of a new multibillion-dollar market with $54M u-Nav acquisition

Arris makes staff cuts after closing the C-COR deal

The deal talk that won't die

Softswitch vendor is hanging it up, citing lack of demand for its products UPDATED 3:15 PM

It's that time of year again

Some must-see afternoon reading

Which carrier will be the first to launch a Skype phone in the US?

Nortel becomes the latest company to sue for patent infringement

After months of speculation, Turin Networks strikes a near $93M deal to buy Carrier Access

Arris closes deal to strengthen it against larger rivals such as Cisco and Motorola

Regulator starts structural separation process

The latest Unstrung Insider report highlights the role that mobile Internet gateways will play in helping to 'open' cellular networks

Have it here

8-K filing could re-spark acquisition speculation, but analysts would be surprised if anything's afoot in the near-term

Policy management specialist debuts on the Toronto exchange but sees its share price slide in its first few hours of trading

The ailing smartphone maker has reportedly cut 100 jobs

ANDA wants a second shot at going public, but sources say it's being tempted by buyout offers

Multi-market deal with T-Mobile is the Chinese vendor's most significant European engagement to date, says analyst

I'm glad to be back

But what's the line in Vegas?

WE HEART ENERGY DRINKS!!!

Adds $25 million to the coffers as cable rows ahead on an industry-wide advertising initiative

Cisco's videoconferencing gains aren't all they're cracked up to be, claims the IP giant's No. 1 competitor

Does no one remember KAAAAHHN?!!

Startup lands a B round of funding as it prepares to come out of stealth mode

But why? Maybe it portends an in-house DVR strategy for satellite TV giant UPDATED 4:50 PM

With one groovy-lookin' 'celebratory icon'

Does TelePresence PhotoGraph well?

Gravity-defying secrets revealed

Indian carrier to splash up to $600M on rollout

It 'mitigates frightening "I'm out-of-doors" feeling'

ThinkEquity analyst suggests that Clearwire and Sprint Nextel may rekindle their WiMax partnership next year

Ciena beat earnings estimates and its own gross margin target in its fourth quarter and landed a new 21CN deal with BT

Ericsson says it won't introduce a 3G femtocell until the market is ready in 2009

Test firm's stock rises on guidance

Ciena adds to its 21CN engagement at BT by winning a deal to supply Ethernet access gear from OEM partner ANDA

And lookee here! A nifty logo, too

Wireless broadband comes softly into the light in Chicago, Baltimore, and Washington

Ma Bell is moving into Akamai and Limelight turf with a sixfold increase in caching and streaming capabilities

The MSO picks Concurrent for new Arizona rollout; meanwhile, Concurrent claims the VOD land-grab is far from over

No, not a wireless slimeball – we're talkin' more deployments

Rule #1: No fun for you!

Apparently

Here comes Broadcom

The island state offers a $520M grant to go with its nationwide, open-access broadband buildout

The FCC is set to vote on an ownership cap proposal that could prevent Comcast from making a large acquisition

Why privacy isn't such a concern in the city

Cablevision ad uses February 2009 digital TV transition to attract new subs. Smart move or 'scare-mongering campaign'?

Orange France plans to launch a 3G version of its dualmode GSM/WiFi service next year

Routers? What routers?

BT evaluates femtocells to extend convergence offerings, but says costs are high

The plan behind social networking is starting to come together, Cisco says

Who knew?

What business models will succeed for the third screen?

Cable's top pressure group asks FCC to stay its decision on multi-dwelling units

The entrance of Apple and Google into the mobile OS arena means more platforms in an already crowded market

Does P2P caching equal better traffic management?

Chinese vendor, with partner Global Marine Systems, unveils subsea subsidiary to take on AlcaLu, Tyco, et al.

Bad lighting and a Kool-Aid demo

Hilarity ensues

Get educated… or get ready to stare into a black void that used to be your analog TV screen

When video goes wrong

An emerging category of equipment known as mobile Internet gateways could help operators both improve services and manage networks more efficiently.

AT&T plans to pass 30 million homes by 2010 with its fiber-to-the-node network

How will content providers get paid in the mobile market?

National operator Ukrtelecom plans to launch femtocell services next year and will soon trial Huawei's solution

Wave 56 testing continues at CableLabs, but no Docsis 3.0 winners have been announced

Nortel adds new features to its PBT-enabled Ethernet switch and announces new customers and Ethernet partners

The cutting edge of wireless broadband may not be cheap

Content delivery network takes $6M in venture financing from Disney-affiliated Steamboat Ventures

Vodafone looks to expand into more emerging markets through acquisitions, possibly in Asia and Africa

Cable vets may remember this guy, who was doing user generated content long before the term was coined

No, not really, but the iFlop has potential

And they're keen on Cisco's flavor of FTTH

NSN opts out of BSNL deal, carriers form mobile tower joint venture, and Reliance is ready to go nationwide with its GSM network

Intelligence not necessary

NEC does Super 3G

Images from the first ever Light Reading Live! event focused on the cable sector

As Light Reading reported back in April, AT&T has picked Cisco as its new core router supplier

Partners will get a chance to build their own JunOS applications, but only under Juniper's watchful eye

The carrier explains the reality behind its high-speed hopes

Happy something-or-other, from CMP

A possible Catalyst 6500 replacement and an MX960 follow-up are targeting the high-end enterprise, sources say

The FSA throws its final party

Only 22 percent of voters in the latest Unstrung poll believe there will be a nationwide rollout of WiMax next year

Brazil's federal police raid Huawei's offices on suspicion that the vendor has illegal immigrants working there

An unbelievable interview

Macrovision is buying Gemstar-TV Guide, a deal that will turn the DRM specialist into a key cable video software player

Broadband to the icecaps

Greece caps private investments in 'strategic' assets

Carrier Ethernet scores a record Q3; meanwhile, PBT still fights for carriers' hearts

MSOs tout the virtues of the cable sector's new growth engine – delivering broadband services to business customers

Some notes worth noting

It's been a mixed bag for the Russian vendor this week, with new deals overshadowed by Q3 losses and a lower full year outlook

Remember when there were worries that MovieBeam might siphon away some of cable's VOD revenue? Worry no more

Well, what would you call it?

Cisco and Nortel both claim to deliver the most 'immersive' telepresence experience. Here's a breakdown

RF Power gets another spin

A count of past CTOs, all three of them

We're opener than thou

Italian altnet Wind is the latest European carrier to launch its IPTV service, plus other IPTV news bites

Fresh paint, same color

How does it stack against Nortel?

Sharedband unveils a new way of aggregating broadband line capacity and strikes a deal with BT

With owls

Researchers crack encryption, 'own' 27MHz keyboards

CableLabs is making a wide intellectual property sweep for the tech behind a device that will tune to cable's 'switched' channels

Unworried about appeasing Wall Street's whims, Cox is investing in spectrum, both wired and wireless

FastWeb names its MVNO partner

This'll be the worst Xmas ever!

Smaller CLECs will continue to get discount rates for using Verizon's lines, the agency declares

It's a beautiful thing

BT is testing the potential of targeted advertising by inserting sponsored messages into free broadband video downloads

A weak field

MicroTCA gets the usual growing pains

Telecom Italia cans UMA in favor of SIP for its fixed-mobile convergence service Unica

Will AlcaLu bid for Italian WiMax license?

Saying ATCA wasn't a good fit, HP is striking out with its own carrier-class architecture

France Telecom boasts early iPhone sales success and sees better 2008 dividends for investors as it steadies its financial ship

Comcast shares could take a tumble today after the MSO reduced '07 RGU guidance and bumped up capex expectations by 5 percent

Maxim gets the minimum

The technology that aimed to speed up telecom product cycles is still expected to thrive, but on lowered expectations

Investors add $24M to coffers, which optical access specialist looks to factor into cable's fiber-fed 'greenfield' deployment strategies

Opening up cellular networks is one way to find the next killer app

Coolest name ever?

The switched digital video land-grab is on. Motorola now claims to have commitments for 24 million homes passed

This just in: France is not a country

Next year could be cable's breakout year for commercial telephony

Stock falls 10 percent on lockup expiration

T-Mobile wins court case to sell exclusive iPhones

Rich bitch goes underground

Recent network upgrades and capacity purchases are signs that bandwidth expansion should continue

A silly detail in a creepy story

Bookham's ex-CEO is back in optics

BBC slaps wrists over WiFi health warning story

Nokia makes yet another acquisition to bolster its Internet services strategy, with file sharing specialist Avvenu its latest buy

Nokia Siemens boasts of LTE engagements at NTT DoCoMo and Verizon Wireless, and trots off a host of new announcements at Nokia's Capital Markets day

NextPoint Networks is on its way to being born, in a deal expected to close in January

Major wireless carriers intend to bid but aren't saying much more

A $25M infusion could help Avail battle SES Americom and EchoStar in IPTV content aggregation

While bigger MSOs sit on the sidelines, Cox confirmed it will gear up and play for the 700 MHz spectrum that will soon be up for bid

Where have all the payphones gone?

Deployments with Savvis and XO continue what Cisco claims is a winning streak for the CRS-1

MSOs say they won't join the 700 MHz frenzy, but have yet to outline what they plan to do with already won Advanced Wireless Spectrum

Dilbert gets set free

A Christmas pie for Santa

The next spectrum Ofcom will auction in the UK can be put to oodles of different uses

A tribute dance explained

Unlicensed mobile access gets closer to becoming an official 3G standard

It wasn't me, it was an exploding phone – honest!

The strange tale of the tiny text messages that conquered the world

Kuwaiti carrier buys Iraq operator for $1.2 billion and is set to raise more than $4 billion from a new stock issue

Lack of focus? Check...