Level 3 and Global Crossing play up the 'complementary fit' of their networks in announcing a stock-for-stock deal valued at $1.9 billion

Why let Verizon have all the fun?

The mirror image to P-OTS is a really big MPLS switch, and now Cisco can join Juniper in saying it's got one

BT and Phorm avoid prosecution over "wiretap" trials and OBS strikes a telepresence deal with Tata in today's EMEA regional roundup

Wireless operators and vendors tap Mu to test how mobile apps are affecting their networks and may inform policy decisions

Verizon's global wholesale service targets content providers and OTT video firms using an agnostic approach for display devices and access networks

But the resolution is unlikely to get past the Democrat-controlled Senate and the threat of a presidential veto

Microsoft cracks the cable seal as Comcast and thePlatform use its DRM and adaptive streaming tech to power the MSO's TV Everywhere service

Elsewhere: Judge OKs Dish/Blockbuster deal, Comcast preps HD video for the Web, WOW eyes IP video migration, ESPN's iPad app has some big caveats

Verizon's iPhone drops less calls than AT&T's and Android defends its openness as it preps to overtake Symbian in this week's OS watch

This week: Mobile broadband in Algeria and Russia; elections in Nigeria; mMoney in Africa; Wi-Fi; end-to-end management systems

France Telecom's rivals get nervous, Nokia suffers another rating cut, Vodafone goes headhunting and Huawei feels the heat in today's Euro roundup

4:50 AM A major merger has boosted telecom stock prices in the Philippines

MSO seeks a declaratory judgment that it has rights to stream live TV to home-bound iPads, while MTV's parent responds with a countersuit

Moto taps into the social networking craze with Medios extension for tablets, smartphones and other HTML5-capable 'companion devices'

5:15 PM Malaysia's P1 plans to migrate to LTE TDD – is its new investor behind the move?

Elsewhere: Insight expands all-digital footprint, Comcast wants to keep Hulu details secret, Azuki hits TV Everywhere, and (gasp!) a Netflix skeptic

Verizon FiOS TV, TW Cable and Bright House customers get first taste of 'WatchESPN' app for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices

11:15 AM Ethernet in the cloud and top-drawer coffee are going to be hot at the annual Ethernet Europe event

The deal could take upwards of 18 months to close as concerns over spectrum auctions and competitive disadvantage mount

Study shows that 65 percent of smartphone traffic is already offloaded to Wi-Fi

Vendor says it sticks to the laws and commercial codes in Austria

European incumbent launches investigation into alleged irregularities surrounding contracts awarded to Huawei

7:30 AM Accusations of dodgy dealings in Austria

Nokia gets overtaken by HTC, Polkomtel's suitors shrink in number, and spade-wielding senior cuts off Armenia's Internet in today's roundup

8:40 PM What in the wide, wide world of sports is Charlie Ergen up to now?

3:50 PM Motorola is estimated to have sold 100,000 Xoom tablets, nowhere near Apple's record-setting iPad – but does that matter?

The LightSquared GPS saga goes mainstream with a new report from the working group looking into the issue due April 15

3:20 PM It's like finding things in the garage that you know you should throw out, but you just don't

The LTE competition heats up in Germany as Deutsche Telekom takes on Vodafone with the launch of commercial services

Subscription billing company also inks a deal with Salesforce to speed time to market and make pricing plans more flexible for telcos

Elsewhere: FiOS, U-verse top best-bundle survey; Insight's price too rich for TW Cable; Comcast, AT&T to face off in the Golden Poo 'Elite Eight'

O2 and eircom have inked Ireland's first mobile network sharing agreement

IP applications vendor acquires Norwegian rich communication suite specialist Colibria to beef up its next-gen mobile services offering

Charlie Ergen's $320 million bet on bankrupt retail chain also puts Dish in league with some big cable operators

New head of business markets group sees larger capital outlay, more local fiber facilities as positive forces

Femtocell vendor ip.access says it's 'business as usual' after replacing its CEO and CFO and insists it's not looking for a buyer

Metaswitch buys Colibria, ZTE boasts managed services growth, and MTS reports Q4 in today's roundup of EMEA telecom news headlines

CEO John Chambers tells Cisco staff that the company's 'operational execution' needs a shake-up and that 'tough decisions' are imminent

End-to-end order management systems will improve the customer experience – and service providers' bottom line

Even as tensions build between MSOs and programmers, Comcast remains committed to offering live TV on home-bound tablets later this year

While the rest of the US operators plot an NFC pilot for next year, Sprint vows to race ahead with commercial deployments in 2011

Elsewhere: Cox hikes rates, Hulu Plus eyes 1 million subs, Dish serves EPIX, and researchers pan $30 price for premium VoD movies

Mobile operators are putting policy into practice and that's good news for consumers, according to Telesperience and Volubill

11:30 AM The timing of AT&T's LTE launch in the US could be one of the keys to the launch of a 4G iPhone

New all-in-one CDN kit encourages even smaller telcos and cable companies to build their own congestion relief

Promises 42Mbit/s service will cover 140 million Americans by mid-year as it continues faster mobile broadband deployment

AlcaLu fluffs up its fabric, MTS goes GLONASS and TeliaSonera joins the cloud crowd in today's roundup of Euro telecom news

The company doesn't want to be left out in the fabric wars of 2011

But we may be back to square one soon enough as Verizon says it's already prepared to lodge an appeal

New report says arcane rules could force incumbents to operate two networks and slow the reach of more efficient broadband

Get out your autumn almanac: The iPhone 5 is now widely rumored to be a fall arrival, possibly due to Apple's LTE plans

Google submits $900M stalking-horse bid for Nortel's patent portfolio and kick-starts an auction process expected to be held in June

Elsewhere: Malone eyes Dutch MSO, Comcast to expand indie TV slate, reviewers dig Cablevision's iPad app, FiOS TV hits Albany

Neutral Tandem's international network subsidiary unveils its global wholesale Ethernet services offering

Vodafone sells SFR stake to Vivendi, Ericsson sues ZTE and STC bids for third Syrian mobile license in today's news from the EMEA region

Vivendi buys Vodafone's 44 percent stake in French operator SFR for $11 billion, ending a years-long saga

Swedish giant takes legal action against ZTE over mobile technology patent infringements after years of failed negotiations

Cablevision's app may send programmer lawyers flying into action as MSO starts off with almost 300 TV channels and 2,000-plus VoD titles

Elsewhere: Studios have theater owners hopping mad, OTT boxes sales rise, CableCARDs at retail still rare, another Charter exec jumps ship

12:00 PM eBay sure does...

A new motion in a class action case alleges that Clearwire execs knew that WiMax didn't boldly go everywhere they said it did. UPDATED 1:30 PM: Clearwire 'flatly denies' the claims

This week: ATCA, AMC and MicroTCA market; mobile analytics; RAN congestion; telecom markets in Brazil, Argentina and Canada

Fellows, a partner at Genovation Capital, gives his view of cable's OTT future

LTE venture says it's still on track to launch terrestrial LTE network by year's end despite concerns about GPS service interference

NSN helps out with off-grid plan, Deutsche Telekom is told to cut its last-mile access charges -- and it's smartphones by royal appointment

The T-Mobile deal might be the only way AT&T attempts a serious, nationwide 4G buildout, according to the CEO of one fiber provider