Meanwhile, TW Cable decides to remove 12 channels from its iPad lineup amid the threat of programmer-led lawsuits

4:30 PM NFC-enabled contactless payments on their own won't make consumers cut up their credit cards

Elsewhere: Cox cuts retrans deal with Lin TV, Comcast plows cash into TidalTV, and Google's 1-Gig jig is good and bad news for local ISPs

The group looking to standardize mobile contactless payments adds Google to its roster, along with 31 other companies keen on NFC

Reliance's Mathew Oommen plans to leverage LTE TDD and low-cost tablets to jump-start India's digital economy

Mobile network operators will need policy control and other tools to help alleviate RAN congestion in the switch to 4G

The Tunisian government takes control of Orange's local unit, FT and DT continue their love-in and Microsoft takes a swipe at Google

Officials are reportedly calling for a 'comprehensive review' of LightSquared's potential to interfere with GPS navigation signals

Heads up, Time Warner Cable and AT&T. Googlemania is heading your way

Operators and app stores agree that in-app billing is the best option to bring real revenues to developers – and help their own bottom lines

Elsewhere: RadioShack shoots down Dish gun promo, Roku hits Best Buy stores, Cox could lose Lin TV, Paul Allen reveals his true feelings for Bill Gates

Despite low usage of mobile analytics in business analysis, most mobile services companies plan to get involved

The time for trials is over as Verizon prepares to switch on multiple 100G transport links in the US

Data center fabrics are proving quite the battleground, as Cisco prepares to counter the publicity Juniper's gotten for QFabric

The new relationship with Nokia is headline stuff, but there's plenty else going on in the software giant's comms division

Clearwire's $45-per-month mobile data service announcement comes hard on heels of Best Buy's MVNO deal with LightSquared

Telekom Austria is told to re-bid for Telekom Srbija and NSN is out-Twittered by a pop sensation in today's roundup from the EMEA region

5:45 AM Vendor versus Bieber. Bieber wins

The exec who helped develop the MSO's controversial iPad app and connected-TV strategy is on the move again

Juniper and Brocade both want to virtualize the data center into one big switch, but their approaches aren't so similar

2:25 PM How much will it cost AT&T to deploy LTE in T-Mobile's AWS spectrum? Impossible to say for sure, but here are some of the issues anyway

Cisco is expected to share newScale's portal and self-service capabilities with service-provider customers

2:25 PM The gloves are coming off as the MSO and programmers spar over a new app that lets subs stream live, linear channels in their homes

2:05 PM The jig is up! Samsung's 'real-life' Galaxy Tab users are revealed to be actors – and the Tab is not that thin either

US incumbents that fail to aggressively offer new IP-based services face losing almost half their SMB customer base, finds a new survey

Rural New Mexican carrier says he'll be out of business if AT&T/T-Mobile deal passes, while Sprint formally opposes the transaction

Ethernet backhaul has finally left the trial stage behind and is hitting commercial service in mass-market volumes

Is 'Good' the new 'Good Enough'? Elswhere: Rovi loses appeal in UK, Amazon rolls streaming music, Cisco's M&A strategy gets cloudier

The editors pick the products, services and applications that wowed them at last week's CTIA show in Orlando

Operators and brands are excited about mobile advertising, but do consumers share their enthusiasm?

Nokia Siemens and Ericsson lose out as ZTE lands a deal with Hi3G in Sweden and Denmark to roll out dual-mode LTE networks

7:30 AM Cisco CEO appears on 60 Minutes to lobby for a one-time tax break to help companies bring money back to the US that's trapped overseas

Cox Wireless is up in five markets following debut in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, with the MSO's New England region next in line

6:55 AM Nokia alleges further patent infringements against the iPad firm

Nokia swings at Apple (again), ZTE brings LTE TDD/FDD to Europe, VimpleCom reports Q4 and Swisscom invites trouble in today's news mash-up

AT&T's buyout of T-Mobile presents it with a headache if it wants to use AWS for LTE as the smaller provider lacks towers in some rural areas

Psytechnics acquisition brings new capabilities for monitoring video and telepresence in a multi-vendor world

The Wi-Fi vendor looks to make waves in cable broadband, taking on BelAir and Cisco

Nokia Siemens lands an LTE Italian job with Telecom Italia to modernize the carrier's mobile network with LTE-ready base stations

1:00 PM Major wireless providers have a mountain to climb when it comes to convincing consumers to hand over personal info needed for new services

12:40 PM Is Telefónica giving up on mobile apps industry initiatives?

Elsewhere: Netflix eyes Miramax deal, TWC sub gets a $16.4M bill, Montana RadioShack offers free gun with Dish subscription

Telefónica teams with Microsoft to offer application developers a low-cost route to millions of mobile users

Al Franken tells SXSW attendees he wants corporations to keep their hands off our Internet

At least, that's true when it comes to authentication systems that tie consumers to Web TV hubs and programmers' sites

Nokia's shares bounce back (a bit), Deutsche Telekom makes peace with its workers and Orange goes smart metering in today's Euro digest

The FPGA challenger always sounded like an expensive proposition, and it's making good on that promise

1:00 PM AT&T's large hot-spot network and T-Mobile's Wi-Fi calling could help get users connected in the early stages of the mega-merger

9:00 PM Qualcomm is solidifying its position at the top of multimode 4G food chain

Regional iDEN carrier plans to roll out nationwide data and push-to-talk services this spring, but could look to LTE to evolve its network

Everyone's expecting concessions in the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. Turns out AT&T was expecting them too

V Cast Apps is just one of 180 mobile app stores, but Verizon is looking to stand out through quality and security -- not pure numbers

Android apps will run on the PlayBook, smartphones won't get Honeycomb and iPad growth impresses in this week's OS rundown

Elsewhere: Boxee preps iPad app, Georgia eyes satellite TV tax, Comcast advances to the Golden Poo 'Sweet 16,' mobile 3D gets panned

Service providers have policy management tools to create new services but aren't being creative in using them to boost revenues

Netflix forced to make more concessions as streaming giant becomes increasingly competitive with MSOs and premium TV networks

A flurry of recent announcements show that telecom service providers are determined to own the cloud services market

A roaming agreement with LightSquared under its belt, Leap Wireless is plotting its LTE network rollout and 4G devices

This week: Cloud computing, MNI, 4G/LTEI, AT&T/T-Mobile winners, an untapped growth opportunity for Iranian operators, SuperCDNs

C&W Worldwide issues second profits warning, Portugal Telecom extends its credit line and losers line up for the iPad 2 in today's Euronews

When you've got to unload 666,624 IPv4 addresses, who can you turn to?

3:45 PM IPTV middleware back in the limelight

Jenifer Snyder of The mGive Foundation talks about how mobile giving works, what sets her nonprofit apart and how you can donate to the Red Cross to help Japan

One more walk around the show floor yields some cool application demos at Ericsson, some ZTE handsets and a look at Huawei's booth

As wireless operators rack up partners, M2M is another landscape that could change in a post AT&T/T-Mobile world

Elsewhere: Netflix offers refunds, Comcast accused of ballot-stuffing in consumer poll, Shaw cuts 500 staffers, and Charter snags some systems

With T-Mobile off the table, TW Cable may try to use its AWS spectrum bargaining chip with the startup LTE network wholesaler

Vendor leveraging its ownership of legacy switches to market a plan to transform aging digital COs into next-gen networks

8:00 AM SPB's Android dashboard, which tells users what apps are busting their data caps, would be a good fit for a carrier-branded service

Telefonica goes nuts for Brazil, TeliaSonera ticks off Turkcell and French regulator sets termination targets in today's EMEA roundup

Carrier takes it to the third dimension with its new Android-based HTC Evo smartphone and HTC Evo View 4G tablet

Now in the RFI phase, cable may develop technical specs to help 'harmonize' deployments of small cell technologies

4:55 PM But mainly because the new low-cost, entry-level smartphone is based on Symbian and bound for T-Mobile

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse claims the big deal 'hurts the wireless industry' and threatens to take his company's concerns to Congress

2:45 PM Dan Hesse says Sprint isn't FauxG. But here's the thing: We're all FauxG now

LightSquared CEO promises wholesale LTE network will cover 100M Americans by the end of 2012, unveils Best Buy mobile deal

Elsewhere: Adobes makes its TV Everywhere play, Insight seeks suitors, Cablevision does more with mosaics, and Motorola buys IPTV vendor

The making of Dan's LightSquared story

12:00 PM Sprint is teaming up with Google to integrate its VoIP service for consumers rather than risk being disintermediated by it

Clearwire CTO John Saw says carrier needs more time to understand the capabilities of LTE and doesn't see WiMax 2 trial on the horizon

French WiMax and LTE chipmaker Sequans files plans for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange

Big Red adds 59 new markets to its roster for LTE, bringing its total cities covered to 147 by the end of the year

Verizon this week added 59 new cities to its LTE rollout plans for 2011. VP-Technology Tom Sawanobori talks to Light Reading’s Carol Wilson about the challenges and opportunities of this 4G surge

MSO charts course for more wholesale Ethernet deals with Tier 1 carriers after unleashing five interconnects, with more in the works

It's elemental! NSN morphs the radio access network into Liquid Radio

BT and TalkTalk head for the High Court, Bahraini operator has its license pulled and an Irish scandal comes to a head in today's roundup

Heavy Reading's Patrick Donegan highlights a new development from Symmetricom and updates us on his bearish case for Ethernet backhaul

5:40 PM Speculation about the AT&T/T-Mobile tie-up is overshadowing some of the actual news coming out here in Orlando

Heavy Reading's Berge Ayvazian says he's interested in a new distributed radio access architecture for mobile broadband networks

A few quick snapshots to get you geeked up for this week's confab in Orlando

4:35 PM Comcast's video unit says it's not selling to Kit Digital

Ain't gonna happen, say executives from two US operators. Go on, guess which ones

AT&T CTO calls for more open networks and interoperability to enable customer-centric service

As tunable XFPs gain in importance, Finisar makes a $76M deal to take ownership of the tunable laser it's reportedly been using

Graham Finnie looks ahead to tomorrow's 'Policy Management in the 4G Era' conference and comments on the trend of metering broadband

Verizon Wireless CEO remained coy about AT&T's plans to acquire T-Mobile, while Sprint's Hesse got in some jabs at CTIA's CEO roundtable

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse kicked off the CTIA show Tuesday by ignoring the AT&T/T-Mobile buyout and talking about how wireless is reshaping the world

1:00 PM Android’s tablets put out some pretty compelling specs, but will it be enough to compete with the market-leading iPad?

UK regulator Ofcom moves on what will be the country's biggest spectrum auction and seeks out industry input on the proposals

Elsewhere: DirecTV beats Canoe on addressable ads, Arris enters the wireless biz, Apple sues Amazon, and Bright House hits a voice milestone

11:20 AM T-Mobile seems to win even if the AT&T deal isn't approved. Phil Harvey and Sarah Reedy discuss the blockbuster merger

An ambitious new initiative aims to link rural wireless spectrum holders to create a national 4G network

The Alliance takes on its biggest challenge yet: convincing wireless operators to join forces to make Wi-Fi seamless and ubiquitous

Ofcom starts the UK's 4G countdown, Telekom Austria wants some Serbian action and Liberty Global buys German in today's Euro roundup

The removal of one big US wireless carrier would create questions for those suppliers that aren't on AT&T's roster

AT&T's big buy would prevent cable from hooking up with T-Mobile, but analysts don't expect MSOs to make a drastic move and try to buy Sprint

Cable's LTE service potential remains limited, but a new picocell from BelAir may offer MSOs a way into LTE backhaul revenues

The mobile operators are one step ahead on contactless payments – for now. As with app stores, others are hot on their trail

A sizable win with Malta's incumbent provider gives Minerva some exposure for its new service combining IPTV and over-the-top video

Cable magnate John Malone has struck a deal that could turn the German cable market into a duopoly to challenge DT

The $313M offer for Provigent shows just how cool (or hot) microwave backhaul has become

1:05 PM Good news ripple-effect from M&A action in the US reaches Vodafone across The Pond

Elsewhere: Liberty Global zeroes in on Germany's KBW, Verizon adds ESPN 3D, and another vendor reaches a key Docsis 3.0 shipment milestone

Service providers are in a position to create a new and better content delivery network model, but haven't seized the opportunity

Regulatory hurdles are the biggest concerns as industry and financial analysts weigh in on AT&T's $39B bid for T-Mobile USA

ZTE and BroadLogic hook up on an EPON-to-QAM video conversion device for MSOs that has potential in the US as well as China

Public announcement of expansion marks first endorsement of CENX and Ethernet exchange model by Verizon

Deutsche Telekom investors go wild, Etisalat abandons Zain deal and C&W Worldwide is on the (smart) grid in today's EMEA roundup

The agreement to sell T-Mobile USA to AT&T for $39B has given Deutsche Telekom's stock a near 13% boost in early trading Monday

Mobile ads, especially those that are based on location, will only work if they are fully opt-in and subscriber-controlled

5:25 AM iPhone 5 will likely get A5 chip and faster 3G, but will it get LTE?

T-Mobile customers can't use the iPhone on the operator's 3G network now, but Apple could update for faster 3G and – possibly – AWS radio support in 2011

AT&T's plans to buy up T-Mobile leave Sprint vulnerable, but also attractive as an acquisition target for Verizon

Acquisition will cement AT&T's position as the top GSM powerhouse in the US

4:10 PM Mobile data is where the action is, but vendors and wireless operators are also focusing on reinvigorating voice calling at CTIA this year

Merger conditions give cable MSOs a bigger and faster telco competitor

The Japanese carrier has reconnected hundreds of thousands of fixed and mobile lines, but there's still further work to be done

RIM butts heads with carriers over mobile wallets, while HP's head gets stuck in the clouds and Nokia begins WP7 work in this week's OS happenings

Elsewhere: Cox launches mobile apps, AT&T cracks down on tethering, Cisco pushes Docsis 3.0 limits and SeaChange soars on software in Q4

New technology, now in pilot deployment, uses cognitive radios to bring lower-cost broadband to rural telcos that don't own spectrum

11:15 AM As 4G arrives, the CTIA focuses on the need for more spectrum; could network sharing be a partial answer?

This week: Telecom after the Japanese earthquake, IPTV's growth spurt, Egypt's unfinished telecom revolution, cable providers get some fiber

Austin's annual tech-whatever festival yields plenty of games and goofiness to offset the serious panels and politicking

Deutsche Telekom workers are ready to rumble, there's a regional shift in IPTV, and O2 and Vodafone issue a RFP in today's helping of Euronews

Got an appetite for unprofitable chip makers?

Sources say unit of ADB that's pitching prepackaged IPTV systems to Tier 2/3 MSOs has laid off its US staff

Now that the major work on 100Gbit/s technology is over, the time has come to ask: What's next?

3:40 PM Growth in Asia/Pacific will soon make it the largest IPTV region

AT&T touts growth of its IPTV service, even as industry analysts say it's about to be eclipsed

1:20 PM The early popularity of TW Cable's new iPad app took the MSO by surprise, but it probably shouldn't have

Elsewhere: TW Cable restores iPad app nets, FCC chair defends cable and wireless over spectrum hoarding charges, MSO profitability shines

10:45 AM Car Connectivity Consortium forms to innovate on in-vehicle connectivity, but keep your eyes on the road, folks

MSO expected to reveal launch plans for Rhode Island and other markets in the region later this month

The broader communications industry offers assistance and assesses the impact of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan

Mobile video optimization company teams with infrastructure giant to help operators counter the impact of mobile video on their networks

VimpelCom finally has Wind, Virgin Media is in da House, Nokia goes driving and Telkom gets a new CEO in today's roundup of EMEA news snippets

Opnext and Cortina also have stories to tell in our post-OFC/NFOEC roundup of 100Gbit/s

Major service providers should put action plans in place now to help their customers survive the next major disaster

Latest teardown reveals the 'weight-loss secrets' of Apple's new tablet, and Richard Simmons isn't to blame

The Carrier Ethernet company makes an acquisition to try its hand at aiding DSL deployments

mHealth will be a big focus of next week's show, because it's a huge opportunity for wireless operators and apps developers alike

Elsewhere: Netflix rips AT&T's data caps, NFL lockout could hit DirecTV hard, Dish snares its prey, and Comcast eyes IPG ad-sales growth

Communication recovery is underway in Japan as mobile operators work to restore damaged base stations and service providers cope with power outages

Genband launches a developer community in an effort to bring together application developers and wireless operators

Cable networks and tech firms set out to prove the effectiveness of VoD ads, and test how viewers respond when the fast-forward function is disabled

Nokia Siemens Networks, France Telecom and YouTube are the star attractions in today's regional newsfest

3:25 PM My bandwidth consumption remains well below my ISP's ceiling. How's yours looking?

Marwan Fawaz, who helped the MSO emerge from Chapter 11, is leaving March 25 to 'pursue other opportunities'

1:55 PM Market chatter suggests Nokia Siemens is seeking to renegotiate the wireless network assets acquisition

Elsewhere: Netflix crushes pay-TV rivals in digital movies, BigBand CTO steps down, and CNN launches TV Everywhere app

New version of cloud platform embraces interoperabilty among cloud platforms and support for multiple virtual machines

Verizon launches its first LTE phone as Samsung retools T-Mobile's Sidekick brand for HSPA+

Adtran gear will enable managed network service provider to reach 70% of customers with 20 Mbit/s, but is that enough?

New fiber specs from the SCTE and CableLabs should spur the cable industry's deployment of fiber networks

Ofcom cuts termination rates, Transmode reports 2010 and BT's Openreach gets a new boss in today's EMEA telecom news roundup

Trailing other SPs into cloud services, XO is determined to differentiate by reaching its core SMB customers first

TWC is first US cable operator to bring linear TV to the iPad, but is restricting access to the customer's home and, for now, 30 channels

Heavy Reading reports that the Japanese tech behemoth has its 100G ducks in a row

Analyst says AT&T's decision to combine usage caps with overage fees gives 'air cover' for cable operators to do the same

Elsewhere: MTV optimizes for iPad, Hulu and YouTube push for originals, Dish ends Lin TV spat, and Franken rallies for net neutrality

12:25 PM All the grades are in for the major vendors -- so who performed the best?

Analysts make sales predictions, while developers wonder if the iPad 2 represents the next generation of portable games consoles

12:05 PM The optical networking sector isn't completely healed, but OFC/NFOEC showed there's still a lot to be excited about

11:35 AM Sprint CEO Dan Hesse returns to TV commercials to explain what unlimited really means

As vendors look to help, all manner of communications services have been disrupted following Friday's earthquake, with thousands of base stations out of action

Startup Zoove locks in all four US Tier 1 operators for a 1-800-esque service for mobile marketing short dialing codes

Nokia reveals all the risks involved in its proposed partnership with Microsoft in its latest filing with the SEC

AT&T to keep bandwidth hogs in check using monthly 150GB and 250GB consumption ceilings while setting the stage for 'overage' charges

Alcatel-Lucent continues its developer charm offensive as it seeks to help carriers play a bigger role in the mobile app conversation

Vivendi sniffs around Vodafone's SFR stake, Telecom Italia preps a reshuffle and France Telecom enters Iraq in today's EMEA summary

Samsung-made A5 in the Apple iPad 2 is smart enough to vary clock speed depending on the application being run, UBM TechInsights reports

The pace of TDM replacement is gaining critical mass, building on the momentum gained in the last half of 2010

Mobile and wireline services are spotty in Tokyo, but the undersea cables keeping Japan connected appear to have weathered the disaster

The terabit era of optical networks might include options for trading off bandwidth for performance, if carriers are willing

Some snaps and caps from our venture north of the border to the Society's third annual confab

Japan provides earthquake coverage, GetJar declares war on Opera and apps downloads top 8B

12:55 PM Rain may have dampened iPad 2 ardor so far for devotees in the Big Apple

Elsewhere: Cisco preps Linux-based DVR, TW Cable CEO says usage-based broadband is inevitable, and a mixed review for Comcast's iPad app

9:20 AM Mobile access affected in wake of massive earthquake

Oclaro expands 40G leadership with third generation coherent solutions

This week: Google and mobile search wannabes, cable apps, telecom markets in Nigeria and Nicaragua, cheap handsets, and Russia says da to Yota

The iPad 2 could be Apple’s secret door into home control, gaming and networking. How will cable operators be able to use it – or fight it?

France Telecom, Telefonica, Megafon, an IPO in Germany and a quiet home for the iPad all feature in today's EMEA news roundup

ADVA Optical Networking CTO Christoph Glingener discusses Agile Core Express technology. Added as a coherent layer to its FSP 3000 platform, the new technology is optimized for 100Gbit/s transmission speed and enables service providers to use optical network resources flexibly and on-demand.

It appears that FaceTime on the iPad 2 remains restricted to Wi-Fi, even as other operators and startups develop video chat for 3G

Company says sudden departures won't affect expected resolution of its wholesale pricing dispute with major partner and part-owner, Sprint

Develops cloud services for customers using same internal IT experts that operate its private cloud services

There's a little something extra about last week's PTX packet-optical announcement

3:05 PM Ethernet Europe is fast approaching, as is decision time for many service providers

He's back in optical networking, but he probably won't be taking Calient public any time before, say, 2013

What's ahead beyond 100G? ADVA CTO Christoph Glingener explores the possibilities of software-defined optics

Elsewhere: NCTA's McSlarrow heading to Comcast, Apple TV offers live NBA and MLB games, and Suddenlink locks horns with FiberNet

9:40 AM A record number of 17 service provider experts from 16 operators and exchange players will be speaking at the event

NDS wades into Videoscape waters with an 'open' API to help MSOs link their services to the over-the-top world and connected CE devices

Morgan Keegan's Simon Leopold breaks down Ciena's game film, gives a realistic view of industry growth and provides some a capex update

O2 makes smart-meter move, Samsung goes after disgruntled Nokia folk, and Telecom Italia increases its Argentina stake

How does this OFC/NFOEC compare to year's past? We check in with Hitachi's Scott Wilkinson for some trend-spotting and perspective

With everybody else talking about packet-optical equipment and ROADMs, Infinera might as well get in on the fun, too

Radha Nagarajan explains the terabit PIC Infinera showed off at OFC and discusses what this means for the company's product plans

Despite private concerns over key differences, MSOs and vendors are hopeful that two big edge convergence projects stay technically aligned

Nokia Siemens says it continues to work with LTE startup LightSquared, following a report that the operator is considering other suppliers

AT&T's SVP of mobility finance says things are going 'pretty well' and the worst should be over after losing exclusivity of the iPhone

Elsewhere: DirecTV expands streaming video and VoD library, Comcast tests geek-squad service and Bell Canada pitches usage-based broadband

Comcast expects to have a stocking stuffer for the CE industry in time for the 2011 holidays, but remains bullish on tru2way

Neutral Tandem backer Dixon Doll is the lead backer and chairman of the Ethernet exchange specialist, but other big names are in too

Sprint CEO doesn't rule out further partnerships for LTE, but says Clearwire and WiMax are an essential part of the operator's 4G strategy whatever happens

10:30 AM Opera hits a sour note with GetJar and gets itself banned from app store

Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin talks about what comes next after 100G – and whether it's too soon to talk about Terabit speeds

Zoom earlier claimed that Comcast's modem tests flew in the face of the FCC's open Internet policies

Talk of inventory corrections may be coming true, as the bottom falls out under Finisar's Q4 forecasts

Scenes from the show floor, the big gear trucks and the sunny south lobby of the LA Convention Center

The NSN/Motorola saga takes a turn, French regulator suggests dicing France Telecom, and an app spat breaks out in today's Euro roundup

Nokia Siemens says its acquisition of Motorola's wireless infrastructure assets will not be completed in Q1 of this year as planned

Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin discusses his new 100G equipment forecast and the growth prospects for 40G

Verizon's Glenn Wellbrock comments on the progress of 100G in the industry, how bandwidth demand is changing, and what technologies will lead to a lower cost-per-bit

Andrew Schmitt of Infonetics talks about how components oversupply happens and why many top optical companies today are well run

IP service platform specialist's stock jumps more than 40%, but could that be the start of a roller coaster?

Content providers are big users of optical networking equipment, says ACG Research's Even Griliches, and companies like Facebook and Google could soon change how network equipment is designed and built

Elsewhere: Cablevision cuts targeted ad deal, Google fuels YouTube original programming, study says Netflix rentals are outpacing cable VOD

1:00 PM CTIA is generating buzz for its annual show with smartphone leaks and tablet teases. Here's what else LR Mobile wants to see at the show

Alcatel-Lucent's Basil Alwan talks about where it makes sense to integrate packet and optical, why routers need caching and how AlcaLu's IP portfolio has changed

Cable is headed toward a new, starring role on the screens of broadband-connected TVs and computer tablets such as the iPad – as an application

Alcatel-Lucent's Basil Alwan talks about bandwidth challenges, the Netflix effect and why cloud-based gaming is the service to watch

Comcast CTO Tony Werner says the speed at which the MSO can develop and deploy apps for the iPad leaves the old set-top world in the dust

Yoigo puts deep packet inspection to good use, boasting higher revenues, improved customer experience and a three-week ROI

As we head over to OFC/NFOEC, enjoy this quick glance back at some scenes from the OSA Executive Forum

Google and Facebook are starting to influence the design of optical equipment, and that might force a rethinking of some old telecom habits

Microsoft throws Nokia a billion, OBS hooks up with iPass, 3 UK targets pre-paid users and ZTE goes Greek in today's EMEA news roundup

6:20 PM Plain old servers handle data centers' computing needs. Now they might move into networking, too

Comcast president is wary of content rights, but says MSO is investigating the network DVR with plans to launch a portable DVR product

2:55 PM Comcast's CTO to talk broadband video, AlcaLu to grapple with Juniper and others items of note at this week's cable confab in Toronto

New report says managed services growth will continue to outstrip basic service growth by a 2-to-1 margin through 2015

MetroPCS is wooing away T-Mobile's post-paid subscribers with its all-inclusive 'Wireless For All' service plans

Elsewhere: Canoe Ventures rows with a new partner, Netflix deal isn't cannibalizing Starz subs, and first job cuts emerge from Comcast-NBCU deal

As it reports a better-than-expected fiscal Q1, Ciena notes post-MEN acquisition integration issues are still affecting its financials

Time Warner Cable has started its own chase of a super-dense edge device to help the MSO converge all its services under one roof

7:45 AM Alcatel-Lucent and ZTE gain share as their very strong performances fuel double-digit sequential growth for global market

Sweden's 800MHz spectrum marathon ends, TeliaSonera enables mobile voting, AlcaLu chips away and Inmarsat boosts revenues in today's news roundup

Independent tests from Metrico suggest AT&T's version of the iPhone performs twice as well on download and upload speeds as Verizon's

Even the true believers in 40G optical networks need to have their 100G stories straight by now

Bad news for RIM ahead of PlayBook launch

LTE operators aim to bridge third-party communities with IMS core networks

When it comes to accessing content from a new type of U-verse box made by Cisco, anyway...

Android's unfilled developer promises, Apple's OS updates and BBM's cross-platform ambitions top off this week's OS watch

Russia's leading mobile operators are to share an LTE network that's being built by a WiMax operator. Yes, you read that right

12:10 PM Juniper has announced lots of big, ambitious plans lately, but QFabric might be the most significant. Here's why

Elsewhere: Cablevision taps PC-TV help, NCTA bristles at spectrum 'hoarding' claims, and the FCC proposes its retrans fix

10:50 AM Cox's Jeff Finkelstein discusses how the MSO intends to transition to the industry's budding IP convergence platform

This week: Multiplatform video, 100Gbit/s transport, IPv6, mobile education, telecom in Singapore and Honduras, policy management

Global Crossing is stressing the network-centric nature of its unified comms cloud-service offerings, but it faces stiff competition

7:10 AM China Mobile sows the seed – again

Say cheese! Opnext hopes its optical shutter will make up for its late entry in the hottest optical module market

Russian operators share LTE, Prysmian's revenues grow and Zain's numbers go crazy in today's telecom headlines from the EMEA region

SCTE blesses 'RF over Glass' as a standard, but will there be enough demand for the technology to feed the vendors that support it?

2:45 PM It's back! AlcaLu to be bought by Huawei!

With an angry ITU group ready to start a second MPLS OAM standard, Cisco makes its case for staying one big happy family

Elsewhere: ZillionTV liquidated, more bad news for ivi TV, HBO doubles TV Everywhere library, cable ad revenue and modem subs on the rise

AT&T intros a new post-paid pricing scheme for tablets while the end of unlimited draws near for Verizon customers

As IPv6-capable CPE starts appearing in many homes in 2011, there will be a mix of bespoke and industry-standard Linux software

Carrier Ethernet M&A update – optical equipment firm Ekinops tipped as ANDA's buyer

WikiLeaks has published a US diplomatic cable that is less than complimentary about the past business practices of Huawei in Africa

Charlie Ergen's pursuit of DBSD and its coveted spectrum is back-burnered to make room for rival bids

10:00 AM The CEAP market is going great guns, with the Ethernet-over-fiber segment especially strong, reveals a Heavy Reading report

It's more packet than optical at the moment, but it suddenly makes Juniper relevant in a core battle that includes AlcaLu and Ciena

A new Leif for Ericsson, Lombard leaves France Telecom and Bernabe hangs on at Telecom Italia, possibly, in today's EMEA news roundup

The Apple iPad 2 offers a lot of bang for your tablet bucks, but does it have everything?

ATX Networks said to have pole position on snapping up an edge QAM startup that counts Time Warner Cable among its customers

As Apple announces that both Verizon and AT&T will be getting the iPad 2, the carriers go into attack-and-defend mode on social media

Steve Jobs helms the launch of the new faster Apple tablet in San Francisco

1:20 PM Unveiling the iPad 2

12:15 PM More than half of LR Mobile's reader respondents are waiting on RIM's PlayBook, even with iPad 2 imminent

Elsewhere: Clearleap and Pace team up, ivi TV appeals shutdown, FCC member dishes on retrans consent and Google TV prepares to kick apps

Rovi jumps on the iPad bandwagon with TotalGuide xD, a customizable navigation system for service providers

Verizon does 100 GigE, Ofcom bangs on about broadband speeds and Vodafone makes M2M moves in today's roundup of Euro telecom news

5:40 PM Work on possible GPS interference issue doesn't seem to be slowing the wholesale LTE startup down

Cox's long-term mobile future appears to be in flux amid word that its wireless chief, Stephen Bye, is heading to Sprint

Managing massive mobile and fixed networks and huge IT resources actually positions telecom giant well for cloud services

3:00 PM Cable standards are branching beyond North America following SCTE's recent decision to join the ITU-T

If you have trouble remembering who does what in Carrier Ethernet, things just got a little bit easier

Elsewhere: Microsoft uses skin to navigate, Boxee raises cash, and broadcasters accuse Dish and Time Warner Cable of hoarding spectrum

Analysts offer 10 ideas Android device makers could use to catch up to Apple in the tablet wars

Could LightSquared now be on the operator's menu of possible LTE options?

10:50 AM A rundown of news from our cable broadband event, including Comcast's upstream tests, SCTE's OK of RFoG and cable's connection with EPON

Motorola sued in Ireland, Vivendi reports a mixed picture and Technicolor stems its losses in today's roundup of Euro headlines