Pyramid suggests operator realignment across Europe will continue in 2012

Pyramid predicts mobile payments will become mainstream

Eight executives are taking turns at playing CEO, setting up what some think is a succession plan for chief executive Ren Zhengfei

Revenues are going to take a hit until at least March while Opnext recovers from Fabrinet's flood damage

8:20 PM The cloud market is shifting rapidly, and telecom service providers have to be prepared to shift as well

10:00 AM Musings on the cloud, mobile music and the endless mutability of good intentions

Pyramid predicts smartphone adoption will maintain its momentum in Latin America

Next gen mobile license awards and an asset sale make France Europe’s seasonal hotbed of activity

Catch-up on LTE news this holiday week and ponder the gulf between the spectrum haves, have-nots and, er, LightSquared

Pyramid's 2012 predictions for the Central and Eastern European region

Join us for our quasi-annual holiday stroll down memory lane as we celebrate the Web of yesteryear, and Juniper still had cartoons

Pyramid describes the Asia-Pacific market for 2012

11:00 AM Cable may not have to abandon local origination programming as MSOs migrate to IP video and pivot away from standard-def TV

Pyramid tells us what to expect in Africa and the Middle East in 2012

At least something went right for Ma Bell this week

Pyramid predicts a rise in tablet sales in 2012

The proposed $268M deal takes the hot CDN startup out of the (speculated) grasp of AT&T and Juniper

Startup that targets MSOs and programmers intends to land some cash to help fund the expansion of its white-label TV Everywhere platform

In today's festive EMEA roundup: NSN pumps up Polkomtel; InfoVista sold to private equity firm; TeliaSonera ups its Kazakhstan stake

Private equity firm Thoma Bravo buys majority stake in French network management specialist, adding to its recent tech M&A deals

Two CTO-level executives have joined Cisco's ranks from Juniper. One, you already knew about

Another of the company's founders is moving on, as Drew Perkins downshifts into an advisory role

The money saved by not getting T-Mobile might not be spent so quickly, one analyst thinks

After nearly nine months of being counted out in the US wireless market, T-Mobile needs a recovery plan and it could include disruptive price cuts

Also: Xbox 360 adds VUDU; Concurrent lands ad insertion patent; FCC smacks down Comcast; how much will Verizon have to pay for Netflix?

Pyramid predicts more regulation in the mobile payments market in 2012

In today's EMEA roundup: Ericsson upgrades Swisscom's mobile network; Yota brings LTE to Siberia; Ventelo to be sold to private equity firm

If you've lost track of which patent suit is which, we don't blame you. This is the one from August where we mentioned Google

Two C-level departures and one promotion have been announced at Overture Networks

Ratcheting up the pressure, LightSquared asks the FCC to confirm that GPS receivers have no right to interference protection

5:25 PM A lot of people thought Cisco's new-age structure was dumb, but suppose it wasn't. What went wrong? It all comes down to the boss man

The Department of Justice is expected to pore over the fine print of the marketing deals forged between Verizon and its new cable pals

2:00 PM A critical few years in Russian broadband start NOW!

11:50 AM Will the 'T-Mobile girl' be pithy in pink about AT&T once again?

10:40 AM It's winter bonus time for gear vendors as AT&T and T-Mobile are expected to up infrastructure spending following the merger collapse

Also: Analyst presses Cablevision to 'fess up' about COO departure; Verizon, Cablevision settle broadband spat; This Tech rides FreeWheel

LTE data speeds are 5x faster than 3G, but tests find video and battery performance can be more affected by MIMO antennas than the network

T-Mobile gets more AWS spectrum and 50M more potential customers covered in AT&T breakup. Could this be the start of its path to LTE?

Pyramid describes the regulatory situation in 2012

Enterprises have graduated from, 'Gimme cloud,' to more specific requests, and Savvis's CTO thinks that could benefit service providers

Deutsche Telekom's plans for its T-Mobile USA problem child, and the real value of the AT&T breakup package, dominate today's regional news roundup

Comcast, TW Cable and Cox get a taste of how their relationship with Sprint will change after hooking up with Verizon Wireless

AT&T could soften the loss of T-Mobile by splashing cash on more spectrum, but where would it find the frequencies?

Network DVR visionary Tom Rutledge is to become president and CEO of Charter on Feb. 13

Some Android-based HTC smartphones may be banned from the U.S. beginning in April, but the Korean vendor is ready with a workaround

AT&T will have to fork over $4B to Deutsche Telekom and plans to form a roaming agreement now that it's given up on its merger plans

From the Vectors customer event in Ottawa, Ciena shows how its gear obeys VPN rules in creating new optical paths

Also: Disagreements reportedly led to Cablevision COO exit; Comcast CEO gets fined; Avail-TVN taps CDN software partner; SureWest revs wideband

8:00 AM This week's top telecom stories, as chosen by the readers of Matt's Mentions

Pyramid expects a worldwide slowdown in FTTH deployments next year

France Telecom's 100G upgrade, BT's legal wrangle with Google and job cuts at Technicolor feature in today's regional news lineup

It's mostly about Google Maps, but several other big services (and Google+) are cited in the patent infringement suit

Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Sterling Perrin talks about the drivers, benefits and challenges of colorless, directionless, contentionless and flex spectrum ROADM networks

5:15 PM It was right for chip startups to stop owning manufacturing, but somehow that added up to a wrong turn

Cox also gets to draft off a multifaceted wireless/cable service bundling deal struck by Comcast, Bright House and TW Cable

12:10 PM As European families look for new treats for their children this holiday season, Ixia's Tara Van Unen introduces the 's'more'

The surprise resignation of COO Tom Rutledge has speculation swirling about whether the MSO will seek a buyer or try (again) to go private

Also: Suddenlink goes multi-room with TiVo; TW Cable adds an Android app; Rovi swaps CEOs; Comcast expands IPv6; Netflix spreads holiday cheer

Heavy Reading's Alan Breznick explains how MSOs intend to boost commercial revenues using Ethernet and cloud-based services

Also: Praise for Ice Cream Sandwich; Android climbs in market share; BlackBerry 7's big job; webOS could win if others fail

This week: LTE and smartphones in Asia-Pacific; telecom futures in Poland, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia; unified communications; telemetry

Pyramid's analyst team homes in on the trends that will shape the communications landscape next year

It's not because both names start with 'Broad' ... one analyst believes it's more to do with taking on Qualcomm

In today's EMEA roundup: dual-mode LTE reaches Sweden; Liberty Global gets the green light on Kabel BW; BT rebrands services arm

Trading time-to-market for 'aggressive' design, RIM says QNX-based smartphones will be a late 2012 arrival

Struggling BlackBerry maker beats its lowered guidance, but ships only 150,000 PlayBook tablets in Q3

A provision in the National Defense Authorization Act gives the Defense Department some veto power on LightSquared's proposed LTE network

12:00 PM Toys and tools -- some of them useful! -- took the stage at the annual geek-out dinner hosted by The Churchill Club in Silicon Valley

There's been a lull of activity in India's telecom sector as the operators await the new national policy but 2012 is looking livelier

Chipmaker signs a deal with Inside Secure for NFC as it merges its mobile divisions to make a bigger impact on the wireless space

TowerStream deal with Skype Wi-Fi in NYC is latest step in the operator's wireless LAN ambitions

Cisco kept its hammer lock on the CMTS market, but Arris is starting to sneak up on the edge QAM pack thanks in part to its BigBand buy

Also: Netflix-Verizon rumor squashed; gaming console streaming on the rise; Charter engineer sets his exit

In today's EMEA roundup: Chinese giant takes the metro in Portugal; Telefonica cuts its dividend; 3 gets a sniff of mobile-money venture

Verizon's successful in obtaining a stay that temporarily prevents it from having to fork out millions in royalty payments to ActiveVideo

A former storage-networking expert tells us what it means to virtualize the network

ISP could apply speed pressure on AT&T and Comcast, if San Francisco allows Sonic.net to move forward with its fiber buildout

Ericsson plans to add to its HetNet strategy with the introduction of smaller base stations next year, but it's still no fan of femtocells

Also: FCC turns down the volume; Amino swaps CEOs; TW Cable launches a Wi-Fi finder; Comcast ad arm plays with the iPad; InnoMedia adds HD voice

Alcatel-Lucent is making a noise in Latin America with 100G and an LTE deployment that has lightRadio in mind, while NSN has LTE TDD news

In today's EMEA roundup: Ericsson's brand man steps down; Swisscom takes $1.3B Fastweb hit; new CEO for set-top leader Pace

The stock offering and Sprint investment go off without a hitch. Time for Clearwire to go build that network

Scott Cain of BT provides a service provider view on cloud services

ConteXtream says it's got a nifty, BitTorrent-like add-on for top-of-rack switches

The carrier likes Juniper's T-series core routers, too, but Cisco gets the 100G headline, at least for today

3:00 PM Advertising 'best effort' speeds is no longer such a good idea for MSOs. It's time to go guaranteed and end the bickering

Despite a slow uptake, around 75% of utilities in North America prefer AMI and telemetry solutions

1:20 PM Credit cards aren't going anywhere if consumers even feel unsure about the security of their mobile wallet

Also: Netflix rises on Verizon takeover talk; Harmonic to retire StreamLiner servers; Moto and FourthWall sync set-tops with mobile devices

Ip.access gets a $15M funding boost

The company's virtualized appliances might compete with firewalls and load balancers at first, but its CEO is hoping to make friends later

7:00 AM Microsoft appoints new Windows Phone leader

In today's EMEA roundup: AlcaLu enables 100G across Iberia; BT wins £45M deal; 'white space' workout; Amdocs lands Virgin deal

LightSquared -- still hopping about that leak -- talks GPS receivers, testing, and its timetable for 2012

A partnership between them makes plenty of sense for the satellite TV giant, but perhaps not so much for T-Mobile, even if the AT&T deal craters

AT&T and T-Mobile, with the DoJ's support, have asked a federal judge to stay legal proceedings until mid-January

Having mostly saturated its Tier 1 US prospects, Adtran wanted to boost international sales. NSN's broadband unit could provide a nice head start

Operator JV is using the security vendor as the trusted service manager, filling an important gap in its mobile payments offering

Also: Google views 1-Gig experiment as a money-maker; Moto says on-the-go TV viewing is on the rise; ACA sets its 2012 Summit agenda

10:20 AM SPIT player suspends its shares ahead of ... ?

Moving between 3G and LTE isn't exactly seamless yet in Germany

Juniper's Media Flow Controller wins a key spot at Lime's pioneering video rollout in the Caribbean

NSN's latest divestment is of its fixed-broadband access business unit, which Adtran thinks could boost its sales by about 20 percent

Let’s not apply the policies of the 20th century to the technologies of tomorrow

In today's roundup: Ericsson to name new CTO; NSN's German workforce fears the worst; Adtran picks up NSN's fixed-broadband access biz

5:40 AM This week's top telecom stories, as chosen by the readers of Matt's Mentions

A government test reportedly says LightSquared's network would disrupt 75% of GPS receivers, but that result might be ignoring a key factor

Being hit from every side by demands to lower costs, many educational institutions have implemented unified communications systems

HP is open sourcing its beleaguered operating system, but will anyone want to pick up its slack?

The trial scheduled for February now seems less urgent, the DoJ says, and that's not good news for AT&T

What if the U.S. was one big hotspot? The wheels are turning for cable providers to make it happen

LightSquared says it has signed up more than 30 wholesale customers even before it has an LTE network up and running

11:15 AM Gig.U says it has received replies to its RFI from major vendors and service providers. Are university-led gigabit networks sounding less far-fetched?

Also: Moto gets a win against Apple; everyone wants an iPad; RIM renames its OS; Verizon unleashes the Xyboards

Also: TW Cable's CTO to stick around; Comcast getting personal with the TV; In Demand hooks up Music Choice VoD; Hungary craves D3

This week: Fiber in Europe, message storage, mobile BI, Venezuela's telecom outlook, Huawei delivers LTE in the Middle East

Also: another Cisco departure, what VMware did right (and wrong) and the trouble with OpenStack

In today's EMEA roundup: BT and Orange make their telepresence felt; Steely Neelie issues a despot alert; new towers JV in Uganda

Charter integrates TiVo with its Arris VoD back-office in Ft. Worth, with Ericsson on deck for 2012

If you're going to mash packet and OTN traffic together, why not make the line card do all the work?

Following its deal with three cable MSOs, Verizon is abandoning trials of an LTE-powered Internet and TV bundle with DirecTV

Bernstein Research believes 3G plus HSPA+ and LTE versions of the Fire will land next year, bringing in a higher margin on hardware sales for Amazon

How service providers can drive their ARPU higher

Its traditional WiMax market may be shrinking but chip firm Sequans is already getting a boost from early LTE TDD action

Every penny counts for Clearwire as it looks for $50M more on a planned stock offering

Also: Verizon, Redbox may connect on OTT; Netflix users bemoan Xbox update; Mediacom site to stream Hulu; blogger laments 'classic' DirecTV-TiVo combo

A chunk of the networking group is gone, as is the interim CEO

In today's EMEA roundup: France Telecom loses appeal against EC ruling; Nokia no longer has a thing for bling; Russians unite on LTE

There's no panic in the streets, but reboot notices from Amazon Web Services paint a puzzling picture

2:00 AM Operators take a step towards shared LTE infrastructure

Verizon's OTT play could spark a big OTT war, but programming rights will determine if it's to wield weapons of mass disruption

LightSquared says it's got lab results showing its LTE network can play nice with major manufacturers' GPS receivers

UNH-IOL sees major improvement in vendor readiness for IPv6-capable devices in the home

With an MSO spectrum deal in tow, Verizon could abandon DSL entirely in favor of broadband wireless services

Cable's AWS spectrum fits 'hand-in-glove' with Verizon's 700MHz capacity, but the carrier will require more spectrum down the road

MSO to chip away at AT&T and Verizon's midsections with a SIP trunking service

Our iPad app is the first step in an long list of things we hope to do to make it easier to interact with Light Reading content away from the desktop

LTE isn't for enabling killer apps, it's for improving network capacity, according to France Telecom's Orange

Many companies plan to make massive data migrations over the next year because they're exceeding storage limits on their current servers

CFO John Stephens says AT&T has sold 6M smartphones in Q4 so far and is switching on LTE in NYC and more markets in December

Also: Verizon and Cablevision fight over broadband ads; DirecTV sets TiVo launch; Shaw tests Wi-Fi net; Cablemás adapts to VoD

In today's EMEA news roundup: 3 Italia reveals LTE plans; Dutch mobile operators in antitrust investigation; and NSN pours out more Liquid Radio

5:55 PM Places like the NY metro area, LA and Chicagoland are likely on Sprint and Clearwire's list for a TD-LTE upgrade

MSO takes step toward deploying its small, inexpensive HDTV boxes that can run on Cisco- and Moto-based networks

1:25 PM Competing, short-sighted interests in mCommerce remain a big reason the market is so slow to take off

Vendors want to help build and manage cloud networks, and of course, Cisco wants in on that game, too

Also: Cox targets iPad app at fastest subs; Sandvine cuts Q4 forecast; IBBS to swap out CEOs; Liberty won't gloat over Netflix troubles

Charter CEO is open to partnering with cable's new wireless buddy and hints that discussions are already underway

In today's EMEA news roundup: Vodafone's UK chief says they're the good guys; more pain for Spain's mobile ops; Italy's IT 'illiteracy'

If you've heard AlcaLu has problems with its 100G reach, well, now the company's saying that ain't so

Comcast Cable president confirms that the MVNO element of a groundbreaking MSO-Verizon Wireless deal lasts into 'perpetuity'

Optical connectivity specialist is upgrading its metro transport networks with new boxes from BTI Systems

Sprint moves forward with Network Vision; says separate Clearwire TD-LTE deployment is 'very, very targeted' to high-traffic areas

The liquidity thing just isn't getting better, and one analyst thinks that might spur Alcatel-Lucent into action

Enterprises are moving business intelligence onto mobile platforms, but it involves far more than just shrinking an Excel spreadsheet for a smartphone

Google employees reportedly get their hands on the latest Android operating system on the Samsung Nexus S, while support for the 4.0 OS grows

Are communications service providers boiling in an ocean of data?

A Japanese report suggests that Apple is working with DoCoMo on a 4G iPad for 2012

Comcast Business Services SVP Kevin O'Toole outlines the MSO's top priorities for 2012 as it goes upmarket with MetroE and hosted services

Also: TW Cable CEO defends Verizon Wireless deal; Canoe touts interactive ad study; Huawei, Cisco lead the broadband access pack

The company's latest Ethernet switch aims to bring lots more OAM to access and backhaul networks

This week's top telecom stories, as chosen by the readers of Matt's Mentions

As the TA 5000 gets loaded with more transport features, Adtran makes its bid to become a factor in optical networking

In today's EMEA roundup: Virgin thinks femto; iPhone 'banned' in Syria; NSN's off-grid base station; Euro patents re-jig on the cards

China Telecom and China Unicom are dwarfing other fiber access broadband rollouts with their plans

In New York, delegates came from all over to discuss 'The Future of Cable Business Services'

Also: Pace and Rovi connect on hybrid boxes; TV Everywhere needs more content, marketing; Verizon to halt HD quality claims

Both MSOs expected to end the wholesale relationship in six months, with Comcast looking to wind down its small base of Clearwire subs

As provider interest in cloud services grows, telcos explore ways to differentiate their products while the IT industry works on standardization

11:00 AM Going upmarket, crafting a quasi-national footprint, and a focus on mobile services emerged as top trends at the latest LR Live! event

Comcast, TWC and Bright House punt AWS holdings to Verizon Wireless for a load of cash, and service and product deals that include a wholesale component

Cox Business SVP Phil Meeks sheds some light on how the MSO intends to reach its next big business services annual revenue milestone by 2016

Fixed-mobile convergence, cloud and bring-your-own-device trends can all be leveraged to cable's service advantage

Heavy Reading’s Alan Breznick lifts the haze on why cloud-based service delivery has become a top priority for cable MSOs

This week: Five-year forecasts for Germany, India, Hong Kong and more; LTE in AME; Carrier Ethernet

In today's EMEA roundup: Government less confident than Deutsche Telekom over US deal; Swiss merger murmurings; Anite's hot H1

David Strauss, a top cable industry consultant, explains what MSOs must add to their playbooks as they target mid-sized businesses more aggressively

MSO is using a mix of Docsis 3.0 and MetroE to win the hearts of SMBs and build last-mile pipes that are fat enough to handle cloud-based services

1:30 PM Heavy Reading talks strategy with Jim Poole, Equinix’s general manager for global networks and mobility

Clearwire gets cash (and makes that interest payment), while Sprint says it gets the capacity needed to keep unlimited plans alive

Biz services exec sees bright future for selling to enterprises and calls for cable to interconnect to sell nationally and shoot for 100% reliability

Emphasis within the Ethernet market and the MEF has shifted to issues of interconnection and service alignment between providers

Cable continues to gain ground on the telcos as MSOs chip away at the small business market, expand into cell backhaul and head up-market

Execs with Cox and Charter explain why tucking software and processing complexity further into the cloud is accelerating cable’s ability to change and enhance video services and applications

Also: Mediaset tunes in the Xbox; Cablevision fights off DDoS attack; Comcast faces discrimination suit; HBO won't go pure OTT

UK incumbent to deploy the 6500 Packet-Optical platform for its 100Gbit/s plans and to prepare itself for even greater speeds…

7:30 AM Cisco has launched a new index to measure cloud traffic and chances are it will become the new industry standard for counting clouds

In today's EMEA roundup: Vodafone makes unified comms purchase; Transmode wins UK deal; Volubill controls policy in Tunisia