The $5B agreement between Big Blue and JP Morgan Chase may bring good news to telecom suppliers

Sells stake in Hong Kong operator, awaits French windfall

Will Gary Winnick's resignation as chairman of Global Crossing help the bankrupt carrier boost its image?

We take a look back at our news analysis highlights since Unstrung was relaunched back in June

Step right up, sir, we've got the guaranteed cure for your wireless fatigue: an intensive regimen of Dr. Dan's Static Bursts

Laptop maker signs on for Smartphone

Vodafone's Japanese carrier makes little of 3G launch

Both MCI and AT&T are raising prices on long-distance services, and Sprint may not be far behind

Thought experiments, idle speculation, or unabashed rumormongering? You decide

The cancellation of Intel's PHY device would bode well for Marvell and Broadcom

A shortlist of the stories that garnered the most page views in '02

A bevy of switch-fabric contenders will slug it out in 2003, according to a new Light Reading report

However, our polls show that subscribers will pay extra for 'special downloads,' whatever that might mean...

Reports link elata rival with major deal

Dutch watchdog fines mobile operators €88M -- total, not each

The components market turned into a smoking crater this year, so we track the ten biggest bombs

Well, 2002 wasn't all bad -- at least if you were sitting pretty like these honchos

Home workers will be the big Internet traffic generators in 2003, according to a Light Reading poll

Relaxes guarantees to help with UMTS investments

Claims it has reached its self-imposed 2002 target for CDMA subs. 'Bout time!

Daniel Akerson will step down as chairman and CEO after the carrier completes its restructuring

It's a $13M Christmas for Japanese microbrowser developer Access, with DoCoMo playing Santa

Emerging CDMA system supplier cements 1xRTT contract with PT Telkom, and Ericsson grabs a piece of the action, too

Treading water in '02, techies cut through the hype and get down to brass tacks: What really works?

Qwest's debt exchange made some people happy, but S&P and Moody's have downgraded the company

The $24M deal with Unova includes technologies that could boost the chip maker's 802.11 efforts

The $24M deal includes technologies that could boost the chip maker's 802.11 efforts

Having seen DoCoMo fall on its face, AT&T decides its original 3G plans may have been a bit too ambitious

In a year when no one was right, there were still howlers aplenty UPDATED 12/27 9AM

A selection of morsels from the Light Reading message boards

Its acquisition of the security startup highlights the challenges facing all intrusion detection vendors

Carriers won't trim their 2003 budgets by as much as once forecast, but equipment suppliers could still suffer

With nearly 7 million CDMA subs in its pocket, Chinese carrier looks to add 13 million more next year

With $7.5M in its first VC-funded round, NEC Electronics' former baby aims for a serious product drive in 2003

Our investment team had a promising second half of 2002

Canadian startup says it has the solution to dead zones in the office. Now, if it could just do something about Rob in accounts!

A glance back at our intrepid photog's not-yet-award-winning best work

An exchange deal may allow Qwest to lower its debt by $1.9B. Has it unloaded enough stones to avoid sinking?

Florida venture firm ups its offer to $95.5 million -- but CoSine's board is playing hard to get

2002 was a bad year for telecom workers as companies large and small continued to tighten their belts & slim down

VPN supplier bags new funding and closes its biggest deal ever -- and it claims to have more wins on the way

Alleges that Microsoft had a 'secret plan' to plunder its knowledge and expertise and drive it to insolvency UPDATED 3:30PM

Startup Lytek says it's racing ahead in developing 1310nm VCSELs. What's happened to the competition?

It's good news for SBC and BellSouth, but is it a blow to telecom competition?

Light Reading's top picks from our Quote of the Week feature

Solid Information Technology's new database software has stirred up some antipathy among its competitors

Well, are ya, punk?

Celox Networks shut its doors this week. Are IP service switches on their way out?

Joining Lucent and Nortel, Agere seeks a way to avoid potential delisting

Nortel joins Samsung and LG in the growing EV-DO camp, while Moto looks stagnant, says latest Wireless Oracle

Mobile database market leader spends $38M on AvantGo for its rendering, synching, and application capabilities

Components Website was briefly switched with goofy graphic

Startup Liekki claims its fiber-making technique could significantly lower the cost of making EDFAs

Like its mobile broadband rivals, Navini plans to stuff its desktop wireless technology into a PC card early next year

While employees march in protest, the company hopes 'realignment' will bring it to fighting weight

Riverstone reported sequential growth on its earnings call last night. So why's its stock down 27%?

BT's decision to hire former Williams exec Matt Bross as its new CTO has some observers scratching their heads

To withdraw due to market pressures

Dutch giant acquires WLAN chipset specialist to further its plans for high-speed 802.11 in the home and office

A little bit of consolidation comes to the dispersion compensation market

Claws back cash in Germany and reaches latest i-Mode milestone

Sprint's expanding its IP VPN service offering in Europe and Asia, but MPLS isn't part of the plan

VOIP ports won't outnumber TDM ports in carrier networks until 2007, according to Optical Oracle

Rumors of pricing pressure and fiber glut float westward. Need we fear yet another regional telecom downturn? UPDATED 10AM

CEO says company has plenty of cash and denies rumors that it will partner with or be bought by Lucent

Gent bowing out from Vodafone's helm

Onetta's Dennis Barsema plans to hand over his CEO title after the first of the year

Quick settlement with Alcatel brings the Euro carrier back tanned, rested, and debt-free

Telefonica rival Amena deploys service management system for its imminent personalized services campaign

Nortel's big win at AT&T shows that Resilient Packet Ring technology is still popular with some large carriers

As carriers like Global Crossing emerge from bankruptcy, the stage is set for another round of price competition

IPWireless gets its biggest commercial rollout yet in the land of 'The Lord of the Rings'

Today's Cisco/SBC announcement sounds grand for Cisco, but maybe that's not the key focus

Sonet startup closes a fourth funding round, which may take it to breakeven late next year

Standing its ground in a lean market, the startup gets some encouragement from a win with China's ZTE

Sources tell Unstrung that ex-Redback head Dennis Barsema is the new -- albeit temporary -- big cheese at Tahoe

Startup gets six-figure purchase agreement for its tunable filters

Nokia names the countries it has delivered EDGE equipment to and says commercial software for the infrastructure is imminent

$350M deal gets amended as an 'undisclosed' sum with no further obligations to Cable & Wireless after 2Q03

Tellabs reveals the second customer for its 6400 metro transport box

The Metro Ethernet Forum and the MPLS Forum collaborate for adoption of common-interest specs. Should you care?

Intel taps iPass for connectivity client for new mobile processor

Flarion has another trial in South Korea, this time with a view to extending Hanaro's Telecom's wired broadband system

The network processor startup is shipping chips in volume and hopes for profitability by 2004

Revamps deal with bank and bondholders, appoints new board members, announces reduced losses

Confirms use of radical Russian tech and talks about promos

European Commissioner seeks adoption of independent bodies to advise national governments, says UK participant

Alvesta is sold, C Speed dissolves, Corona calls back (sort of), and Capellas won't budge

One of the brothers that helped to build a cellular empire was found dead at his Seattle mansion on Sunday morning

It's offering voice and data services in one DSL package, but is it enough to lure customers from larger carriers?

Lands $17M in new funding, and others in the segment have news too. But is the future really bright?

The startup taps potential in Japan as it sorts out one last funding round

The big outsourcer's deal with Bank of America has a lot to do with optical networking

Enters the softswitch market with its first sale to the incumbent carrier on the tiny British island of Jersey

Not before 2003, says vendor's cameraphone boss

Picture messaging services are everywhere, but interoperability agreements are only just appearing

It will get a new name and new investors, but otherwise carry on as before, say sources

Europe will see sizeable growth in IP VPN service revenues in the next three years, but caveats abound

Surprise, surprise! $20,000 mobile status symbol gets noticed by the wrong sort of people

Sprint and Verizon ain't saying when we'll see Bluetooth in their phones. We reckon sometime in 03...

Sorrento's long fight with its preferred shareholders and bondholders is one step closer to being over

Sprint has improved its guidance for 2002 and 2003, but analysts doubt a telecom recovery is imminent

Successful trials haven't convinced Verizon to gamble on data-only

A win with NEC is giving a boost to Mindspeed's 18-month-old iScale

Former Microsoft man takes Pogo from device sales to pure licensing model

Sales in wireless gear may yet rescue Nortel's quarter, as investors bid up stock and bonds

Sales in wireless gear may yet rescue Nortel's quarter, as investors bid up stock and bonds

Ciena finally increases revenue and beats the estimates -- but is it enough?

More than 90 service provider VIPs were among the 282 attendees at last week's conference in London

Another leader takes over Nortel's enterprise business unit UPDATED 1PM

It's happening, but not over here -- we take a look at what's holding up the adoption of Bluetooth in the US

But analysts say it's an overreaction

What's really new here, and what's it mean for Lucent's product strategy?

PON equipment vendor closes Series F funding by tacking on another $2M from Intel Capital

WaveSplitter has been 'stripped to the bare bones' in an effort to keep it alive, according to its former CEO

Avici chops its router in half -- again. It also adds denser line cards and ships its Nonstop Routing feature

Tarari claims its new controller is the ticket for XML acceleration and virus detection

Mini-me GSM basestation vendor wants to deploy more of its tiny technology before it links up with the big boys

Chipmaker Marvell has built just about everything necessary for an Ethernet switch except the logo

A new Frost & Sullivan report claims colocation is not dying after all -- in Europe at least

Heads will roll, budgets will shrink, and customer service should improve, Charter CEO says

China Telecom has deployed its T320 core router, but analysts differ on the deal's importance

Names GPRS operator Radiolinja as one of five from the GSM world trialing its next-gen wireless router

Says it can halve the cost of optical modules by using lenses that are so tiny they can sit in optical V-grooves

Their edge routers produced blistering MPLS VPN performance in Light Reading's record-breaking test

Whoops! Potential multibillion-dollar tax liability sneaks up on the company after debt downgrade

Centerpoint CEO confirms that the company is shutting down and liquidating assets

Seems there's more than one way to roam between different networks -- but does it really matter 'til we get the chips?

Centerpoint Broadband winds down, Corvis VP steps aside, and Alfalight gets alfa-lighter

Erstwhile competitor MetaSolv's offering $12M for Orchestream, the chameleon of IP VPNs. Well, you were warned

Restructured vendor moves towards breakeven and remains upbeat about UMTS, despite seeing no revenues yet

The components market has finally hit bottom and will grow 30% in 2003, according to Strategies Unlimited

Applied Materials' venture arm is on the prowl for early-stage startups, even optical ones

Does Cometa know just exactly what it can do with all its shiny new wireless LAN hotspots?

Graham Pattison, late of Verilink, says his startup's got a winner despite the ongoing downturn

Euro telecom celeb Duncan Lewis went AWOL on a Lightspeed assignment this week. What's cooking?

Qualcomm revises its silicon forecast upwards

Parent puts the major squeeze on mobile group's spending patterns for three years, and Alcatel may feel the pain

Passes up opportunity to retain current stake

Multisource agreements will help the components industry progress, but they are not easy to set up

More notes -- and photos -- from this week's BroadBandPlus (The Western Show) cable tradeshow

Times are slow, but the lawyers are busy. Nortel claims that Ciena's gear breaks Nortel patents

Intel, IBM, and AT&T have formed a new company, Cometa, pursuing nationwide WLAN data access UPDATED 5:00PM

Wireless backhaul minnow brings Russian space technology to last mile access, says it has the 'fog problem' licked

Corning's taking over $800M in asset charges this quarter, citing component slowdown till 'late 2004'

Optinel and Ellacoya are two former telecom startups that have made inroads with cable operators

Japan's NEC takes the lead in the race to develop superfast ICs based on carbon nanotube transistors

The complexity and cost of Telcordia's Osmine process have generated a market of consultants aiming to help

A compact chip and proprietary codec target telephony over DSL and cable

Will Nortel really offer seamless handoffs between networks? Possibly, but it may take time

While combining two cable giants, Comcast CEO says the company will continue to fund network improvements

Wireless operators have the chance to get ahead of their fixed relations and steal some business, says net.com chief

Cisco signs an exclusive deal with SBC for its core IP routers. Will other RBOCs soon follow?

A vanishing submarine cable market is responsible for over 600 layoffs, says vendor

Post-Bubble Arrogance – R. Scott Raynovich

Equipment vendors find landmines aplenty as they dance through the cable market

Intel et al are readying technology announcements around the WLAN project, say sources UPDATED 12/4 12:11 PM

Still trying to win telcos' hearts, Cisco launches voice-minded interoperability initiatives

Release of the OPTera Metro 4150 raises questions about the SDH market and key competitors

While thousands of Lucent workers were laid off, top execs reaped million-dollar salaries and even got raises

Outlook for 2003 looks positive for the handset market, especially for Nokia and Samsung, say Lehman analysts

Crunch week for Orange and SFR?

Juniper has added some ATM, QOS, and management features, as it rolls out a new marketing plan

The Western Show takes on a broader focus and attracts more broadband companies to a struggling venue

Are Startups Necessary? – Scott Clavenna

Success in 3G networking is all about cost control and a focused strategy, says Alcatel. Contracts would help, too

Circadiant's contribution to an upcoming university test speaks to unique nature of both the tester and the test

...for the US wireless industry, says Morgan Stanley, as it issues a note upgrading its outlook

Single-chip, 10-Gbit/s device is the second to be announced, behind AMCC's

Liquidation at Interoute seems imminent, with the market thumbing its nose at broken carriers

WaveSmith's the latest vendor to tout Osmine compliance. How important is it, and why?

Star Trek reaches the wireless frontier