Three announcements reach three different conclusions about what this booming market needs

4:50 PM Shareholder challenges Carlyle's CommScope buyout, Comcast and the ACA square off over NBCU, and the cord-cutting debate rages on

Ericsson, ADVA, Lantiq, and liquid refreshments feature in our snaps from this year's Broadband World Forum in Paris

Vendor tries to break the Moto-Cisco duopoly – on cable taps, not set-tops and conditional access systems

12:20 PM MoCA is largely a service provider play, but recent Boxee trial shows some retail potential for the technology

8:45 AM Level 3's Steve Liddell resurfaces at Highwinds

Heavy Reading senior analyst Sterling Perrin takes the 100-Gbit/s temperature at the Broadband World Forum, casts his eyes over WDM-PON developments, and fails to cope with a double espresso

Learn how to embrace the frag, be a cheap Android user, find MeeGo on the market, and more in this week's OS rundown

Belgacom, Telenet, and Tieto are in the roll call of today's Euro telecom news digest

6:00 AM Broadcom is doing its part to make LTE as cheap as chips

3G deals in India are opening up managed services opportunities for Huawei and ZTE, while Alcatel-Lucent appears to have lost its edge

5:25 PM More service provider concerns from Futurecom in Brazil

3:45 PM Looks like Cisco won't have that part of the market cornered for very long

Pick five and let us know who you think should be our first crop of Light Reading Hall of Famers

12:35 PM Apple's rumored project with Gemalto will be great for European users but tripped up by RF in the US

12:10 PM LG's mobile phone business breaks a record – in operating loss

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Coming off its first quarter of profitability in three years, Moto is looking to diversify its handset and market strategy

Shipments of Docsis CPE hits a three-year high as demand for wideband modems accelerates, but CMTS shipments reaches a two-year low

Add yet another item on the list of things that could slow down the 3DTV train: high production costs

Cox SVP of technology Jay Rolls explains why DTAs aren't yet in play at the MSO, and when cable might need to make some radical moves to widen its upstream pipe

7:30 AM Reports suggest Qualcomm is in talks with major cellular operators to sell spectrum set for TD-LTE services

7:00 AM Marketers bet on mobile bar codes, but will consumers?

Heavy Reading chief analyst Graham Finnie identifies some of the main developments in next-generation fiber access technologies that he has encountered at this year's Broadband World Forum in Paris

6:20 AM Beats AlcaLu to the punch with a 3DTV trial over a 10G GPON connection in Portugal

David Storrie, CEO of Nucleus Connect, provides an update on Singapore's shared, open next-generation FTTH broadband network, the NBN, and explains why it's vital to put efficient processes in place to run such a network

Huawei, France Telecom, Virgin Media, and Alcatel-Lucent are the names to watch in today's Euro telecom news digest

7:10 PM Cablevision, locked in a retrans battle with Fox, offers to reimburse subs who pay to stream games directly from MLB.com

6:50 PM Here's what everyone is talking about at Futurecom in Brazil

5:05 PM Consumer electronic devices really suck... power

Death to RFPs? Qwest's Adaptive Broadband would let operators dial bandwidth up, calling up fiber or copper resources as necessary

1:25 PM Where did you affix your 'CBL GRL' or 'CBL GUY' decal? Care to share?

MSO shed 275,000 basics in Q3 as it continues to invest in and expand its content distribution network

T-Mobile will carry the Galaxy Tab for $399; the white iPhone is delayed again; and PlayStation goes mobile in today's device roundup

CEO Hesse says that multimodal strategy will have financial benefits in 2012 and that the operator has 4G alternatives to Clearwire

CommScope is on the verge of going private after agreeing to be bought out by The Carlyle Group in a deal valued at $3.9B

10:20 AM AlcaLu announces a next-generation PON engagement in Portugal

FTTH rollout timetable has slipped a bit as CTO talks of a broad mix of broadband technologies and Deutsche Telekom's SPIT challenges

Belgian firm asks European Commission to close investigations into Chinese wireless modem imports as it reaches agreement with Huawei

Comcast and Rovi also behind project that will apply universal ID codes to millions of video titles and a variety of device formats

Daniel Howard explains how cable networks can theoretically pump out 20 Gbit/s and offers a status update on the Society's emerging RF over Glass standard

At the Broadband World Forum show in Paris, 'Phantom DSL' is all the rage

It's thirsty work on the show floor at the Broadband World Forum in Paris, so Light Reading's head of food and drink, Ray Le Maistre, checked out the best beverages available on exhibitors' stands

Lack of security on mobile phones is giving operators a rare chance for a killer managed service, Juniper thinks

Broadcom's buyout of Percello will add to its LTE and home base station capabilities, and take it into competition with PicoChip

Everything Everywhere, Virgin Media, and Telenor are playing the numbers game in today's roundup of Euro telecom news bites

President of BT's 21CN, George Nazi, provides an update on the British incumbent's next-generation network program, and tells Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre that it absolutely hasn't been mothballed

MSOs attacking other MSOs with subscription video services? Crazier things have happened

5:05 PM Turns out the video gear vendor didn't raise another round of equity, but it's still talking about an IPO to help with M&A

Field test of XG-PON prototype at Elks Lodge in Massachusetts shows existing FiOS deployment can deliver symmetrical 10G service

3:35 PM Have vendors and carriers set the price barrier too high for new tablets?

Carrier sees the browser as a way to circumvent fragmentation, but what it gains in ubiquity, it could lose in functionality

12:45 PM Report says partnership is in place to woo big business and government agencies

Exchange provider ahead of schedule with five US locations now live, also announces nine new service provider customers

But the question of price still looms large

11:30 AM In one week, we'll reveal the winners of the 2010 Leading Lights Awards

The WDM PON market is set to get bigger this week when a European optical transport vendor announces its next-generation PON strategy

10:00 AM MSO to boot up wideband in two markets before the end of the year

PC-locked Xfinity TV service goes wide with 150,000 'video choices,' allowing cable TV customers to access it via third-party ISPs

A visual recap of last week's big cable show in the Big Easy

UC Santa Barbara used no new funding to create its Terabit center, instead pooling grants to work on Ethernet's next speed grade

Claiming the economics of FTTH can't work for more than half a telco's territory, Adtran has another way to provide 100Mbit/s symmetric services

5:50 AM Huawei's Matt Bross adds to the broadband lexicon as he makes a plea for global cooperation on security

NSN, Alcatel-Lucent, and KPN head up today's Euro telecom news digest

More encouragement for copper fans as Nokia Siemens Networks unveils its Phantom DSL solution that hit speeds of 825 Mbit/s

Market leader Bharti Airtel says it is all set to roll out pan-India 3G services before the end of 2010

What can we expect during this week's Broadband World Forum in Paris?

Sigma Designs is first to announce a G.hn chipset, but don't expect to see the home-networking technology in action until mid-2011

3:40 PM So sorry about all the data we unintentionally collected when we photographed your home while you were away

3:10 PM Chip vendor unveils its G.vector chipset that enables DSL speeds of 100 Mbit/s or more, and it's being used by ZTE

$400 subsidized Samsung tablet undercuts the $600 Verizon offering but will be around $40 more expensive over the two-year contract UPDATED 10/26 4:25 PM

CommScope's stock jumps more than 30% after confirming that private equity firm wants to take vendor private for almost $3B

10:30 AM Cybersecurity measures can be as simple as changing how the outside plant is labeled. The obvious thing to do? Don't be so obvious

Secretive LTE wannabe wants to combine its planned proto-4G connections with a souped-up WiFi hotspot

It's all kicking off in Paris, broadband wise, while Teliasonera and Colt are also making their presence felt in today's Euronews

4:00 AM Never mind the keynoters – Nucleus Connect's David Storrie is the speaker to check out

What are the hot topics at this year's Broadband World Forum in Paris? Here's our guide

4:30 PM Even at this late date, service providers haven't been clear about how they'll make back their 4G investment

Take a funky walk around the SCTE show in New Orleans

2:40 PM Analysts say the pending purchase of Wintegra makes a lot of sense

1:40 PM '4G-like' WiMax and LTE now require air quotes

Apple surpasses RIM in Q3 and talks trash on Android, but consumers say Google is best, in this week's OS Watch

11:00 AM Indian government sticks Vodafone with a monster tax bill

10:25 AM At Cable-Tec Expo, it's clear that MSOs want to migrate to IPTV, but the when and how of it remain up for debate

Even if LTE is now here in the US, multi-megabit HSPA+ 3G is unlikely to be left in the dust anytime soon

DTAs, Docsis cable modems, and tru2way set-tops – oh my!

Finland's Elisa is looking for policy control smarts for its 3G mobile data services

The energy could be sapped from 3DTV's momentum in the absence of common technical ground that can be applied across industries

Network upgrade cycles, an uptick in key markets, supply chain improvements, lower opex, and improved JV performance all help Swedish giant's numbers

6:00 AM Related to that thing about success being correlated to showing up

Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, and BT are the three amigos in today's digest of Euro telecom news nibbles

5:15 PM Six US nominees are on the Intelligent Community Forum list of 21, and guess what they have in common? It ain't size

4:55 PM David Nicholas tasked with moving the needle at Panasonic as it attempts to make another run at the US cable box market

4:30 PM There's a light at the bottom as Sony Ericsson fights to move back up

Nokia Siemens notes improvement in components availability, and talks up mobile successes, but it's still tough going for the joint venture

2:35 PM Yet Steve Jobs & Co. are unlikely to follow Google down the path of low-cost, stripped-down Internet phones

1:30 PM The university will get gigabit access, and did we mention their football team sucks?

Company sees first year-over-year growth in consumer revenue in more than two years, but the picture is still pretty ugly

But a mean hangover may be on the way once it loses exclusivity of its revenue-boosting device

Interest is growing, but is the world actually ready for next-generation PONs?

Country roads take me home, to the LTE where I belong, West Virginia, mobile broadband, country roads, take me home

Nokia's new CEO juggles with his jewels as he identifies challenges, deals with shortages, and cuts jobs

11:10 AM The Euro telecom community is heading to Paris for the Broadband World Forum next week – but what will it find?

Cisco could disrupt the CMTS market with a new licensing model that lets MSOs only pay for the capacity they need

Carrier plots better multimode coverage and lower network costs with base station upgrades and add-ons

Once you've had a taste of mobile HD, you don't go back, according to Clearwire CCO Mike Sievert

Industry leaders insist cable must move away from decades-old business models and apply more flexibility to their video packages

Indian mobile operator Vodafone Essar ready to launch its 3G services in the first quarter of 2011

Verizon's 3G femto launch is the big news in small cells this week

Nokia, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, and France Telecom vie with the UK government for attention in today's Euro telecom news digest

The UK government Spending Review has implications for broadband investments and spectrum auctions

Programming exec predicts there will be as many as 40 dedicated 3D channels within five years

3:20 PM Stupidest wireless acronym heard here in Chicago

Cable's debating how many 6MHz channels will be needed for IP video simulcasts, but 16 appears to be the agreed-upon long-term answer

Policy control is hot in Chicago this week as the 4G World show buzzes with new products and customer wins for SPIT specialists

Sprint plays up its first-mover advantage in 4G, but also admits it lost some customers in the early days

1:15 PM The broadband landscape has changed for good

11:25 AM Clearwire's Morrow is a no-show at 4G World, sends CCO instead, which seems to be a trend at the event

AT&T may have let the cat out of the bag about its HSPA+ plans for 2011

11:00 AM Verizon will offer the unsubsidized Tab for $600, sandpaper not included

Dynamic Spectrum Management specialist ASSIA breaks new ground as carriers cough up even more cash for CEO John Cioffi

10:10 AM Nan Chen shares his vision of Carrier Ethernet exchange in the long term with Heavy Reading

BigBand raises QAM density bar with 40-port blade that snaps into its Media Services Platform, with an eye on Comcast's big box initiative

T-Mobile fires up LTE, C&W Worldwide trims its sails, and KPN pushes ahead with mobile data in today's roundup of European telecom news bits

4:00 AM Is the Symbian Foundation closing down?

The Medianet concept is expanding to turn the network into the platform for connecting and transcoding video – with Cisco leading the way

5:45 PM CableLabs 'proof-of-concept' seeks out a common way for MSOs to develop apps that link iPads to older, non-IP set-tops using EBIF

3:35 PM What was in that building across from Altera? Anybody know?

Former Starent CEO and general manager of Cisco's mobile Internet group explains what mobile services will make money

AT&T emerging devices VP explains the iPad is one of the first steps in achieving a world where customers use many more wireless devices

Fair-weather investors flee as the DWDM business takes its lumps

11:30 AM A simple form for complex times

10:00 AM Heavy Reading hears the plans of Neutral Tandem's Surendra Saboo and Jeff Beer

9:35 AM Plus some actual iPad news

MSO exec references architecture featuring two master libraries, six regional caches, and 65 edge streaming locations

9:15 AM Arris to hawk Javelin's new line of upstream-expanding cable taps and modules

Cable's offering interactive apps to millions of subs, but networks, MSOs, and vendors are still figuring out how to split up the loot

8:00 AM And now a message from the Shameless Plug Department

Light Reading event shines light on differing revenue strategies for 4G deployments

In an effort to position itself as a key partner for India's BWA operators, NSN tests video calls over 2.3GHz spectrum with Aircel

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), Qualcomm, Wind Hellas, and CommProve feature in today’s news snips

Verivue snaps up a media distribution switch to help telcos optimize over-the-top traffic on their broadband networks

8:15 PM After Lightera and Infinera, what would Jagdeep Singh do for an encore?

AirHop's self-organizing network technology, created for LTE, gets a 3G introduction inside a line of HSPA+ picocells

4:00 PM Cable IPTV is a big target for a new Casa CMTS that supports modules with 64 downstream and upstream ports

CableLabs is close to releasing a spec for business services that grafts Docsis provisioning to EPON

2:50 PM It's about time the Ciena/Nortel portfolio got Activ

2:00 PM Motorola LTE USB device set to be unveiled in Chicago at 4G World

SeaChange unveils TV Everywhere back-office service delivery software just as a cable-backed newcomer, BNI Video, starts to nip at its heels

32 companies join the operator-led open app movement as the group announces its first specs following the purchase of JIL

8:35 AM Tata DoCoMo is likely to be the first private operator to offer 3G services in India, targeting the first week of November

Rovi and FourthWall book a handful of widgets to ride on the 'Passport' cable guide

Vendor adds more muscle to its backhaul gateway and boasts market leadership position

Clearwire and its partners name the day for Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco

KPN, BT, and the entire Hungarian telecom industry are under starter's orders for today's European telecom news sprint

Sizable cyber attack not only possible, but likely, if the networking industry doesn't change its negligent ways

5:20 PM RadiSys finds a new category of product, but who knows if it'll last?

Not that India's GPON is a huge market, but deployments with BSNL and MTNL are a source of pride for a small company in a crowded market

2:20 PM Announces Intelligent Optical Distribution Network for FTTH and a digital mall

Following our service provider interviews on ROADMs, we're putting out a reader poll so we don't seem so directionless. (Get it?)

10:50 AM Will mobile number portability ever get the green light in India?

Here's a snapshot of what else went into the FCC's shot at CableCARD reform

8:50 AM Expect a sprint to the doors of the mobile operators following the FCC's 'bill shock' announcement

Comcast, Time Warner Cable invest millions in video back-office firm that's poised to help cable compete with Netflix and other OTT threats

A report from Pyramid Research explores how M&A possibilities could affect the complex competitive dynamics at play in the AME market

Sony Ericsson, Interoute, and Telenor are among those 'doing the do' in today's roundup of European telcom news nibbles

6:00 AM There's another wave of compression waiting to happen

A mix of positives and negatives in device manufacturer's third-quarter results

Google's stellar Q3, Microsoft's comeback cry, N900's MeeGo moment, and more

Cable chip and box makers could get a healthy lift after the FCC exempts the deployment of one-way, HD-capable DTA boxes

2:25 PM CTO Rajiv Datta sits down with Heavy Reading

1:55 PM How much longer can the European network remain independent?

The FCC approved several rules aimed at fixing the CableCARD approach, but TiVo's 'IP Backchannel' idea didn't make the cut

11:30 AM Hey, PR people. Phil has stopped doing his job long enough to tell you how to do yours. What a guy!

Verizon Wireless will start selling the iPad bundled with a MiFi mobile broadband hotspot

10:00 AM The word is out that AOL is circling the search giant

Voice isn't irrelevant yet and VoIP is in its infancy, says Metaswitch CEO Kevin DeNuccio, who predicts much bigger things to come

Microwave backhaul vendor shells out for pseudowire technology specialist Axerra, a move that brings it in line with its rivals, says analyst

Nokia Siemens acquisition of Turkish professional services specialist could cause problems for the likes of Ericsson and Huawei

NSN, Telecom Italia, Telekom Srbija, and Telekomunikacja Polska are the quite-hard-to-pronounce names in today's roundup of telecom Euronews

4:50 AM Italian operator takes majority control of Telecom Argentina

Rather than compete with its biggest customers, IBM is offering a new cloud services platform that will help telcos target the enterprise

Cisco ASR 9000 delivers non-stop video experience as has been proven by Miercom test. When Miercom removed a controller (RSP) card from an active ASR 9000, traffic continued to flow as if nothing had happened. Cisco is so confident we show it live.

Javelin has quietly developed a line of modules and taps to help cable build fresh upstream capacity above the 1GHz ceiling

Qualcomm Innovation Center acquires social-networking app iSkoot to optimize network usage and build its feature phone play

Broadcom is now ready to take on Qualcomm, Intel, and others in LTE and WiMax, buying out one of the key silicon startups in the '4G' market

10:55 AM When carriers guide Android's openness, consumers get great features and more mobile choices

9:30 AM WiMax operator reportedly looking to raise billions

India's third-largest mobile operator turns to Ericsson and Nokia Siemens for 3G gear and professional services

Heavy Reading Insider report finds that operators dare not wait too long to deliver voice services over LTE networks

Adding VPN points of presence as its DiData acquisition progresses will put more pressure on incumbent international operators

Verimatrix, BigBand, Avail-TVN, and Harmonic among partners for company's 'turnkey' IPTV platform for Tier 2/3 MSOs

TDC, BT, and C&W Worldwide are just some of the initials at large in today's roundup of Euro telecom news nibbles

5:00 AM Heavy Reading talks Carrier Ethernet Exchange with Equinix's Jim Poole

5:25 PM Video calling is the new SMS

Expected growth from Comcast and Charter, and potential for Tier 2/3 MSOs to jump in, led Heavy Reading to bump up 2010 SDV estimates

3:10 PM No LTE iPhone for Verizon in 2011, just like we told you last year

Report says UK government fixed telecom services spending could be cut by hundreds of millions per year – bad news for BT and C&W Worldwide

A preview of the world's first commercial LTE network shows that LTE is ready to take mobile broadband performance to the next level

Executives from AT&T and Verizon talk about the drivers and their requirements for next-generation ROADMs, including colorless, directionless, and contentionless functionality

12:25 PM Telecom stocks have risen on the popularity of their dividends, but analyst Craig Moffett says it isn't sustainable

11:55 AM Consumers don't know what they are, but they want them!

9:30 AM The Carrier Ethernet market continues to overcome macro-level barriers

Systems integrators set to suffer as NTT's buy of global IT services firm signals carrier's move to hosted, managed, and cloud services

Vendor's regional delivery center in Bangalore to provide managed services to carriers, a market that's set for stellar growth

Microsoft, CENX, and TeliaSonera are all under the spotlight on Europe's news stage

Execs from AT&T, Samsung, Livewire Mobile, and U.S. Cellular offer some ideas on what mobile service providers can do to improve the customer experience

MSO revs up 'Xfinity WiFi' in greater Philly and parts of New Jersey and Delaware, but can't commit on where the product will show up next

5:00 PM A glimpse of the user interface

What it looks like to leave a voicemail message (if you want to call it that) in umi telepresence

From the Umi press launch: a demo of the self-view mode, where you can see how you look to the other person

Ethernet exchange company opens for business in five new locations around the world, and says it welcomes the heat of competition

There's no peer-to-peer file sharing free-for-all on TeliaSonera's LTE network as the operator puts its policy control smarts to work

Google's already knocking on MSO doors about its TV platform, asking how it can duplicate the integration it's managed with Dish

Carriers are investing in policy control servers so they can manage data traffic growth, improve customer experience, and generate extra revenues

VimpelCom, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Everything Everywhere are the movers'n'shakers in today's roundup of Euro telecom news nibbles

6:00 PM The CTIA fall show is done: So what's the verdict?

We came, we saw, we took some snapshots

Symbian wants to be the Android alternative, SPB helps carriers keep their identity, and MeeGo's a no-go, as we check out the OS outlook at CTIA

6:20 AM Turkish mobile giant to offer 3G services in Germany

5:45 AM Once you start Swyping, you don't stop

BT, Vodafone, and Tiscali take a bow in today's digest of European telecom news nuggets

5:00 AM Reports suggest US agents warned AT&T against deploying Huawei equipment

On the last day of CTIA, we leave you with another set of images from the show floor

Verizon's Jennifer Byrne talks about the carrier's plans to expand its mobile app store and how social networking and media sharing will get a big boost when LTE kicks in

Employees already on live WiMax network at CTIA; will Sprint announce more mobile broadband markets at 4G World?

With sub-$200 Android phones and a new way of bundling applications, Sprint shows us that it intends to bring order to Android's openness

3:50 PM WiMax vendor lands deal that includes TD-LTE migration path

3:25 PM Watch Verizon's video cliff notes on their LTE announcement at CTIA

3:05 PM Oprah says no phones at all in the car; Vlingo has an alternative

The use of uniform templates will accelerate cable's ITV efforts, but programmers want more look and feel flexibility

Opens another London data center as demand for managed and hosted services grows

12:35 PM Write once, distribute many – many times over

12:05 PM As regulator lays down the rules, BT kicks back and sips a cocktail

Here is our quick daily digest of what folks are talking about so far at the CTIA Enterprise & Applications show in San Francisco

U.S. Cellular Corp. CEO Mary Dillon talks about how she aims to keep mobile customers loyal

10:30 AM More markets announced, but not much more to go on as Verizon keeps showing us a little LTE leg

Samsung says the real difference between enterprise and consumer smartphones is in the software. Also, the phrase 'going forward' makes a strong comeback

LTE wholesale network operator announces chipset and device partners, and pins down deal with Nokia Siemens Networks

The Canadian service provider is AlcaLu's first announced customer for a managed and hosted app store service

Dish's de facto exclusive hold on the Google TV platform will change when others develop the necessary 'pairing protocol'

Service provider will resell Cisco consumer video product in early 2011 and expects commercial applications to follow quickly

TeliaSonera's LTE, Vodafone Italy's HSPA+, BT's FTTX, and Comverse's NetCentrex unit in today's European platter of news nibbles

Swedish operator has its eye on tablets for its LTE network, given the mobile data usage patterns of its 4G customers

InformationWeek's Bob Evans speaks with Light Reading's Sarah Reedy about the balance among enterprise security, personal productivity, and unfettered mobility

5:50 PM Patent and Trademark Office affirms validity of key patent in the lengthy TiVo-Dish DVR war

5:10 PM AT&T and Verizon did well by comparison to cable, but consumers of all services are becoming more price-sensitive

But the operator still isn't saying when it will throw the switch on LTE this year

For mobile commerce to make a difference for the unbanked, the industry needs standardization without regulation, Sybase CEO says

TelePresence is no longer confined to the office – now it's ready for the US living room. And it's called ūmi...

11:35 AM Who needs BlackBerry when you can turn to BharatBerry?

As a struggling Comverse faces up to financial pressures, its NetCentrex VoIP outfit looks set to become a victim of the cuts

10:30 AM The new power-saving IEEE standard doesn't apply to optical interfaces, but give it time

10:10 AM And takes on the enterprise too

Opanga offers a pre-positioned alternative to streaming bandwidth-intensive video to mobile phones

Joe Stackhouse is heading out as Charter prepares to restructure its customer service operations

AT&T and Verizon Wireless let Loc-aid in to help app developers take their location-based services across different carriers

9:00 AM Interop introduces SMS to 4G

8:35 AM Are mobile operators ready for M2M?

7:45 AM Chinese vendor to announce FTTX equipment deal with Vodafone Italy

7:00 AM Korean carrier launches large private cloud for mobile data services and internal use

But you won't be able to use it if you have a CDMA phone

Here is our first look at what is making headlines so far at the CTIA Enterprise & Applications show in San Francisco

5:30 AM Vodafone UK rides the mobile payments wave with specialist vendor Boku

BT, Orange, and Nokia are the big beasts in today's Euro telecom news jungle

A loosening of the specs on optical modules might save money. Google wants to find out – and wants to know if Amazon and Facebook do too

Apple's new streaming box drastically improves margins over the first-gen TV device, which 'appeared to be a near give-away'

With its Application Velocity pitch, Cisco tackles four key areas: app delivery, customer experience, the 'cloud,' and pro services

MobiTV and Siano learn from the mistakes of Qualcomm's FLO TV service as they try to make TV take off on the small screen in the US

11:35 AM Waiting for more tidbits about next-gen technology from Verizon and others

Operators tell smartphone vendors to support a new standard for fast dormancy in a bid to reduce signaling traffic on the network

Frontier execs are going local, meeting with new employees and customers in the Verizon territories they purchased

Pitching integration know-how and other professional services – not cable products tweaked for the US – helps UK-based NDS gain ground

The company, not typically known for its optical prowess, plans to vertically integrate its way into the 100G coherent generation

Acision, Telekom Austria, and Harbinger Capital all put their accountants to work in today's Euro news roundup

The growing focus of the operators on apps stores, and demand for data services, has fueled India's mobile apps development startup sector

MSO's home security service, launched in Houston, ties broadband access with home monitoring and energy conservation

3:35 PM The Social Network had a big opening weekend, but some still see problems in the story

Tony Bates will make the move to Luxembourg, while Padmasree Warrior takes his place at the helm of Cisco's enterprise group

1:30 PM Google's upcoming TV platform to get a premium shot in the arm with HBO's 'authenticated' broadband video offering

11:40 AM Christmas is coming early for T-Mob with new handsets and new HSPA+ markets

A ghost in the machine caused the mystery data fees that fired up Verizon customers; FCC looking into the matter

11:25 AM Our daily newsletters are getting to your inbox earlier. Starting now

10:00 AM New mobile licensees could get more spectrum at the expense of furious incumbent operators

9:35 AM The family of the recently deceased analyst wants your help on a project

Verizon study finds only 22% of companies adhere to standards for protecting credit card information

9:15 AM Opted out of GSM expansion tender in India due to new procedures

US LTE newcomer secures additional financing, signs up wholesale customers, and brings forward spectrum access deal with Inmarsat

8:50 AM Carrier to open three new development centers

Company spending big on central 'super' headend with 5 petabytes of storage that will ship video to TVs, PCs, iPads, and smartphones

Vimpelcom goes shopping and BT tests fiber demand in today's European telecom news

Why the emphasis on core routers when the whole idea was supposed to be to talk about mobile networks? Also, how's that Starent box doing under Cisco's charge?

Verizon to talk '4G' at CTIA, San Fran to get next-gen network by year's end, and questions arise about MetroPCS LTE network performance

5:50 PM Oh yeah, the deadline for that stimulus money happened

Weaver says he won't back down from a copyright fight that pits the Web TV startup against the ‘Big Four’ broadcasters

AT&T's former cloud evangelist Joe Weinman resurfaces, M&A vultures circle Comverse, and Openet lays claim to new service provider IT niche

It's probably not going to be Huawei, and that leaves the new AlcaLu and Ciena boxes as favorites for Verizon's core optical plans, analysts figure

Joins CLEC consolidation trend with $516M grab of regional Southeastern carrier

10:50 AM Why we picked what we picked for our Leading Lights mobile products category

Android's rise continues, as does Symbian's fall; RIM thinks QNX; and more in this week's OS musings

10:25 AM Find out why the chosen seven companies made the list

M&A spree continues with the acquisition of test tool vendor Keithley Instruments, which will join Danaher's Tektronix family

TradeHarbor targets cable customer care and on-the-go video services with voice-based sign-on and authentication

Everything Everywhere, France Telecom, Telecom Italia, the Atlantic Ocean, and the EC feature in today's news snippets from the Old Continent

A new Light Reading briefing center will keep you up to date on all things 100G