3:35 PM Chatting about energy conservation in the wireless world

Tzu-Han Huang, President of Chunghwa Telecom, talks to Ray Le Maistre about IPTV, VoD, and online banking

1:40 PM Thomson and Pace join the waiver-seeking party at the FCC

Alcatel-Lucent to forge a 10-year global alliance with HP to deliver combined telecom and IT systems to carriers and enterprises

Robin Mersh, COO of Broadband Forum, talks about broadband growth in the Asia region as well as Forum specifications that carriers want right now.

NSN sizes and defines managed services; predicts Asia-Pac leadership and targets No. 1 position

NOON PBB-TE has been ratified as an IEEE standard

11:40 AM Europeans are showing an appetite for IPTV, but how hungry are they?

10:45 AM Rumor du jour: Are Cox and Time Warner Cable off the hook?

10:30 AM SureWest is on board, finally

9:50 AM Satellite providers seek targeted ads to keep up with cable and the telcos

Georgina Burnett finds out how important having a green strategy is for telecom companies in Asia

8:00 AM Smartphone frottage on the CommunicAsia show floor

At CommunicAsia, ZTE claims LTE bragging rights with talk of impending field trials with major carriers in Spain and Hong Kong

The good news is that broadband adoption among consumers is increasing. The bad news? They're paying more for it

7:25 AM Big stands = short skirts at CommunicAsia

Dan Jones: Mobile Carriers Going Green

BetterWorld Telecom's president Matthew Bauer says the telecom industry is in the right place to serve as an example to other industries in cutting consumption, and using network services to reduce commuting, traveling, and building expenses

During his keynote at the Green Telecom East event in New York, Verizon's Chuck Graff announced a new program to curb the amount of heat put out by telecom equipment in its network

5:15 PM The ironies of being green (or not)

5:00 PM Is your company (or broadband ISP, as the case may be) on it?

Steady steps to power reduction, rather than bold strides into alternative energy, are the future for 'green' mobility

Verizon's director of corporate network and technology, Chuck Graff, discusses his company's approach to reducing the power used by legacy telecom equipment. He also weighs in on industry efforts to find a common way to measure energy efficiency and power consumption

4:25 PM According to a report from RampRate it may not lose half a billion dollars this year

'Broadband Internet Fairness Act' calls for 'major' broadband ISPs to submit metering plans for approval by the Federal Trade Commission

Cable's biggest suppliers send their simple one-way channel zappers to the FCC for approval, but the opposition has 10 days to respond

Telekom Malaysia and fellow Malaysian service provider PacketOne talk up Asia's investment potential and lay out their broadband plans

Greg Adgate, the Director of Managed Services for Tata Communications weighs in on how telepresence technology has taken off inside Tata, as well as provided the carier a valuable managed service to sell to enterprise customers. What was once a speculative technology bet is now saving the carrier hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in travel costs and employee downtime

Heavy Reading analyst Stan Hubbard cautions that measuring energy efficiency in telecom equipment is not as easy as it sounds. While we wait for a set of industry standards, some telecom operators are already pushing ahead with their own ways of influencing the telecom supply chain

Heavy Reading analyst Jim Hodges sets the scene for Light Reading's Green Telecom East event in New York by describing how carriers in both emerging markets and developed nations are motivated to try alternative power sources

Verizon intros new energy consumption-related scheme for its vendors at Light Reading event in NYC

Alvarion nets $100M contract as Open Range kicks off US government-funded broadband season with a national WiMax deployment plan

10:55 AM Charlie Ergen & Co. are mulling yet another way to get around TiVo's 'Time Warp' patent

Ray Le Maistre makes a BlackBerry sandwich

Ray Le Maistre finds something fishy at CommunicAsia 2009

Georgina Burnett examines hem length at CommunicAsia 2009

Georgina Burnett hears one encore too many

Mattheus Kuntzer, Managing Director of Yahoo Mobile APAC, talks to Georgina Burnett about his company's partnership with Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom and the Yahoo Mobile strategy for the Asia/Pacific region

9:40 AM PETA strangely silent

Policy control specialist unveils iPhone and BlackBerry apps that allow users to manage their data consumption and tackle 'bill shock'

Chinese networking giant makes good on smartphone promises with an Android phone and a Windows handset

7:55 AM Vendors prep live demo of new femto standard

It's day two on the CommunicAsia 2009 show floor, where Georgina Burnett talks to executives from Tandberg TV, Idirect, Intelsat, and Function Group about the technology options for rural coverage in the Asia/Pacific region

The company's consumer video ambitions have less to do with router sales and more to do with meeting that 12 to 17 percent growth target

Latest round of U-verse upgrades boost 'Max' DSL speeds, while new video features shine light on telco's whole-home DVR advantage

5:45 PM UK aims low with 2-Mbit/s national broadband plan

The company expects the new MXK platform to handle video bandwidth needs for PON and active Ethernet

5:15 PM Of Comcast, anyway

Telco TV integrator develops an interactive e-commerce application for IPTV service providers, but it's not all about fancy new technology

4:35 PM Cisco puts Pure Digital Technologies acquisition to work

Telekom Malaysia CEO Dato' Zam Isa talks to Light Reading jet-setter Ray Le Maistre about his plans for high-speed broadband, IPTV, and multimedia applications development

2:50 PM John Hawkins has moved. Pretend you didn't know that already

2:15 PM Bare flesh halts show floor entry...

At CommunicAsia 2009 talk of operator consolidation across Asia/Pacific, including Indonesia, Malaysia, and Pakistan, is rife

12:40 PM TV ads suggest Comcast is about to launch Docsis 3.0 in Qwest's corporate back yard

There's more than one way to get turned away by show floor security at CommunicAsia 2009 in Singapore

NOON Chinese banks offer $100M loan for Russian WiMax rollout

Clearwire parties in Atlanta today to celebrate WiMax launch with equipment from Motorola

Singapore's IDA updates on the technology and wholesale pricing strategy for its national FTTH initiative, and sells its experience overseas

9:15 AM Get ready to hear more stock buzz surrounding the VoIP equipment sector

Day 1 of CommunicAsia 2009, and Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre looks out for the hot topics at the show

An 11th-hour deal could still save the company, but Soapstone's board says it's ready to liquidate

2:40 AM Swine flu is a hot topic at the Asia/Pacific event

Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre checks out the impact swine flu is having on the CommunicAsia show in Singapore

Why uplink speeds become more important as we move toward 4G

5:45 PM Clouds are slowly becoming less scattered

As promised, CableLabs releases a tru2way 'reference implementation' that aims to stoke retail activity and gain support from developers UPDATED 6/16 11 AM

3:45 PM NBCU will live stream the tournament using Microsoft's Silverlight

3:05 PM MSO to start supporting digital boxes with downloadable security in 'Phase I' areas starting July 1

2:30 PM The bad news: It comes from the government

Launch day pre-order units of the device are already sold out

12:05 PM Mid-sized MSO starts to attack incumbents with new fiber-fueled business services play

Calculating the energy efficiency of carrier Ethernet solutions isn't as easy as you think

Comcast-backed startup pursues new market with a dense, low-power chipset that, it claims, could produce sub-$100 'universal' edge QAMs

Green telecom issues are set to dominate this week's CommunicAsia event in Singapore, with IPTV and mobile services not far behind

How well cable fared – or didn't – as a result of today's big broadcast TV transition won't be known until MSOs post Q3 numbers

5:05 PM No-show Femto so far at AT&T

A multicast capability championed by Juniper and AlcaLu will finally find its way into Cisco routers UPDATED 6/17 1:45 PM

3:55 PM Why no videos? It's Friday afternoon for gosh sakes

Court mandate says that the carrier must sell off iDEN assets in the Midwest

1:05 PM All the latest from India's mobile market

Having cut 100 employees in January, Symmetricom says it's going to chop 30 more this year

10:40 AM Not yet, anyway...

10:20 AM The bell sounds for another round of sparring...

Vendor to axe more than half its staff, cut annual operating costs to below $100M, and focus primarily on IPTV in China and India

Green Telecom East 2009 will address some outstanding questions about the transition to environmentally responsible networks

9:05 AM -- Chief architect behind UK's digital plan set to quit

Embryonic 'I05' specs will standardize the tricky EBIF set-top 'user agent' and handle shortcomings for 'unbound' apps and advanced ads

8:55 AM Report suggests China Unicom has tendered for 11M EPON lines

Symbian's futurist talks up three levels of openness at Light Reading's first-ever virtual tradeshow, jet pack not included!

ZTE pulls a European partner into its global expansion funding arrangement, while Huawei helps out Middle East giant Etisalat

2:30 PM The telecom matchmaking story du jour

About 2% of TV viewing households still won't be ready when the the rest of the nation's full-power stations pull the analog plug tomorrow

Former Apple hardware chief Jon Rubinstein will take over for Ed Colligan

EANTC's Carsten Rossenhövel discusses Light Reading's latest test of Cisco's IP video network infrastructure. Topics covered include the test complexity, takeaways for service providers, and why so many different elements are required to provide IP video applications

12:45 PM Report: Telco is readying to launch a VDSL2 tier that tops out at 40 Mbit/s down and 20 Mbit/s upstream

10:50 AM CEO of BT's video-over-broadband service quits

9:50 AM Operator worries about app store 'silos'

9:40 AM The flip side of the Zhone argument

Airtel adds to its outsourcing deals by signing one with mobile apps specialist Comviva, which will manage its value-added services to set another outsourcing first

6:00 PM They're wreaking holy heck in the home

Brought in from Panasonic, new CableLabs CEO Paul Liao will be charged with strengthening ties with the consumer electronics world

Samsung femtocells become available to Sprint's partners, but not the pay-as-you-go type

4:30 PM Felix Miller, Richard Jones, and Martin Stiksel leave the company

A new report from Leichtman Research Group shows that the digital divide is widening for US broadband subscribers

3:20 PM Ex-Nortel execs seek backing for buyout

Hitachi integrates its IT and telecom businesses and targets international growth as it attempts to reverse a decline in sales

12:15 PM Discovery urges OpenTV board to buy out Kudelski's stake in the set-top software specialist

11:40 AM Average mobile broadband speed is about 1 Mbit/s

AT&T has devised a new technology purchasing policy that, says one industry analyst, puts mid-sized vendors at risk

There might be a better way to measure edge router greenness, especially if the SmartEdge is placed on top

Panasonic CTO Dr. Paul Liao is set to take the top spot at CableLabs, a move that should boost cable's credibility in the consumer electronics world UPDATED 11:55 AM

8:05 AM Tales not for the squeamish

Massachusetts-based carrier spends $200M for Verizon licenses covering 800,000 subscribers in rural areas

5:30 PM Forget the cloud. What happens to the blogs?

5:00 PM Contentinople publisher Scott Raynovich doesn't think so

The cable sector is losing out in the race for European pay TV market share

The U-verse man becomes a car dealer

4:30 PM The rumor du jour holds that CableLabs could announce a successor to Dr. Richard Green late today

Cisco's new traffic research says that all forms of video could consume 90% of Internet traffic by 2013

The MSO takes a shot at high-speed competitors by dropping its 50-Mbit/s service to about $100 when bundled with other services

1:30 PM New iPhone plans don't go down well

11:20 AM thePlatform attempts to address a non-sexy, albeit important, issue faced by VoD and Web TV alike: automated ingest

Japanese giant set to invest up to $4 billion on LTE during next five years in a market awash with next-gen wireless technologies

8:45 AM There must be more to life than video

5:55 PM U-verse Voice may be the future of residential telephone service: It's feature-filled, all IP, hard to explain, and tough to install

Apple upgrades phone, will support AT&T's forthcoming 7.2-Mbit/s 3G upgrade

5:20 PM KDDI calls on NTT to separate facilities from services in its fixed unit reorg

4:45 PM You read it here first

2:25 PM Contentinople gets an early look at Epix, the joint venture from Paramount, MGM, and Lions Gate

Intel keeps the mobile WiMax faith with a $43M investment in Japanese service provider UQ Communications

Light Reading explores the future of mobile networks in its first ever 'virtual tradeshow'

1:20 PM On the Old Continent, next-gen optical trials are de rigeur

The test team at EANTC put Cisco's IP video monitoring solution through its paces – but did it deliver on its promises?

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is quickly gaining momentum as the next world telecom standard, with most estimates placing commercial release in early to mid 2010

Indian operators get spectrum boost as Indian Defense Ministry releases 45 MHz in 2G and 3G bands

The T1600 gets graced with what appears to be the first 100-Gbit/s interface on a router, and Verizon seems happy about it

Unstrung finds a 30-minute wait at Sprint's flagship Flatiron store in New York as the Palm Pre goes on sale

5:20 PM TV networks may be risking their ad revenues by adding their content to the Web

Joint venture collapse suggests Comcast, Cox, and Time Warner aren't close to a downloadable system that replaces CableCARDs

4:50 PM -- Or why I don't care which is best

Analysts says that Palm should open up the operating system to sell more

2:30 PM Shanghai Telecom unveils plans for a massive FTTH rollout

2:00 PM Potential for heckling abounds

More mobile WiMax markets coming this summer, the operator says, while Unstrung notes that no network can really claim to be '4G' yet

1:30 PM SeaChange chief calls out Flash flaws and notes he isn't seeing 'much competition' from Moto these days

12:50 PM Cardinal's manager sues Twitter

Get ready for even smaller 'computers'

Nokia Siemens Networks and Juniper are forming a joint venture to address the Carrier Ethernet transport market – but why?

Datang is to promote the development of TD-SCDMA devices by deploying a test network for Taiwan's chipset and handset vendors

"EANTC's Carsten Rossenhövel discusses Light Reading's latest test of Cisco's IP video network infrastructure. Topics covered include the test complexity, takeaways for service providers, and why so many different elements are required to provide IP video applications "

Supplier intends to seek approval of simple hi-def devices that could give smaller MSOs the drop on telco and satellite TV foes

Cisco says a new video server platform, launching later this year, will be capable of ingesting more than 2,000 channels simultaneously

5:00 PM Is the video site losing ground to competitors like TV.com?

3:00 PM News snippets from the Philippines and China

The $884 buyout bid for Wind River is Intel's latest attempt at cracking the embedded processor market – particularly in communications

2:20 PM Telekom Slovenije has an enviable IPTV uptake rate

12:45 PM Government-owned vendor is being carved up for sale

Swedish vendor to intro 3G netbook radio module, certified in 75 countries worldwide, in August

Vietnam will fully open up its telecom services market by 2012, a move that should heighten competition and spur M&A activity

11:15 AM TelcoTV friend or foe?

Some keynote daydreaming shows the kind of TV industry Verizon wants FiOS to help create

Even without the massive goodwill impairment charges, Ciena lost more money than expected in its fiscal second quarter

8:50 AM Withdraws bid for set-top box software specialist but plans to pressure OpenTV board

Vendors jostle for position in LTE as they upgrade their packet core network products to support the new mobile broadband networks

Japan's operators are already profiting from their mobile video services, but would benefit further from specialist broadcast systems

In New Delhi, MTNL's customers can buy a 3G SIM card and a pre-paid data services coupon for less than US$9

11:50 AM MSO says iTV is on the radar but won't confirm report that it's testing an EBIF-based HSN app

Patent infringement update: Federal court orders Dish and EchoStar to pay TiVo and to disable the DVR function in about 4 million set-tops

8:30 AM Or, why orange and magenta don't match

Offer of $1.35 per share is 'inadequate,' says set-top box and interactive advertising software specialist

7:20 AM Patent dispute lingers in appeals court, with a $511M payout at stake

7:00 PM Execs state their case for sticking to a multivendor data center universe

4:05 PM The site was No. 1 in April, with users spending 13.87B minutes there

3:30 PM No, really!

3:15 PM Why the data center is a lot like Sonet

HTC Magic likely to be on the T-Mob network by early summer

Delivering another blow to the CEA, the FCC grants a waiver to Evolution Broadband for simple, one-way digital terminal adapters

The chipmaker claims it's still healthy after ingesting a chunk of Intel and a couple of smaller businesses

1:20 PM Broadcaster cries foul over BT's traffic-shaping techniques

Comcast Media Center launches an all-digital system that aims to take ad delivery out of the Stone Age

You're breaking up! Femtocell service tests reveal ISP policy management techniques can degrade voice call quality

Scaling problems could choke Cablevision's RS-DVR at its summer launch, but SeaChange is reportedly 'betting the farm' on being able to fix it

Residents of Sin City can now buy mobile WiMax services from Clearwire to get unwired on the Strip

The $175M bid for RMI would move NetLogic from 'knowledge' processors to regular ones

3:00 PM You haven't heard the last of Atiq Raza

India's mobile sector broke through the 400M users barrier in April, according to the latest stats from regulator TRAI

NOON Krusty drove me to sin

11:00 AM Satcos will be at a 'clear disadvantage' if MSOs follow Cablevision's path, analyst says

Cox opts for Starent at its mobile core as it prepares to offer 3G wireless services

9:25 AM India's telecom systems market grew by 20% in the past year, says survey

9:15 AM Vendor sees $1 billion in WiMax sales in 2010

WiMax operator prepares to manage casual, ad hoc customers on its 'open access' network with software from mFormation

8:50 AM It's just a couple cents off GAAP earnings