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

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