As some providers face channel drops, DirecTV and Insight cut retransmission consent deals; Sony eyes IMAX acquisition
Legendary chairman of Clearwire's board leaves shortly after Sprint makes it known that it doesn't want to buy the rest of the fledgling service provider
It's a quiet end to the year, with mobile matters dominating the news queue
Apple's iPad wasn't the only tablet-type computer to show up this year. In this pic story, we look at 15 that debuted around the world
Verizon tests home monitoring service, Dish Network takes heat on Wall Street, and Nintendo says 3D games aren't good for young kids
1:50 PM Only telco VoIP services get the all-clear from Chinese authorities
Vodafone, SFR, COLT, Skype, and Eutelsat all feature in today's menu of tasty news morsels
Discovery names its 3D network, iPad developers face privacy scrutiny, and Boxee gets a bad review
7:15 AM Bharti Airtel has delayed the launch of 3G services in India
Nokia Siemens Networks, Rostelecom, and Polkomtel have been wrapped in today's news parcel
Leading today's cable news, Sears teams with Sonic on a digital movie service and Arris hires a new exec for its Comcast account
The launch of TV Everywhere Websites and devices drove much debate in cable in 2010. Here are some of the top TVE stories of the year
LTE equipment suppliers filled out their dance cards in 2010, but who's got the bragging rights?
Alcatel-Lucent and Telefonica feature in today's news nibbles
In today's cable news roundup, Comcast faces a blizzard of merger conditions at the FCC, and DirecTV could lose dozens of local stations
Deutsche Telekom and subsea mobile plans lead the way in today's news roundup from the Old Continent
Leading today's cable news, Comcast promises to charge low-income households $9.95 monthly for high-speed Internet access
It's once again tyme to take another jog down memory lane and have a look at the Web that was
Of the three major European telecom vendors, Ericsson is the only one to give its investors reason for any Christmas cheer
T-Mobile Austria and Huawei get it together, Technicolor sells its transmission biz, and DT thinks smart grids in today's Euronews bites
Japanese giant hits launch deadline and looks forward to the benefits of low-latency mobile data transmission
Executives from Interoute and AboveNet share views on the future of 100G transport
In today's cable news, the FCC circulates conditions for Comcast-NBCU merger and cable gains more share on broadcast networks
Rovi puts a big over-the-top video strategy in motion after buying Sonic, which touts a 10,000-title menu via its Web-fed service
10:00 AM Raising $500M was a career highlight and, getting 60 percent of your acquisitions right is pretty good
Cable operators have made progress on deploying ITV ads, but there's still a lot of work to do to create a ubiquitous platform
7:00 AM The latest on the 2G spectrum affair
A next-gen wireless service, born from the ashes of Willcom, brings in some big-name vendor financing
BT and DT clear their throats, Skype goes down, Vodafone gets its man, and Telecom Italia streams the Pope in today's festive fistful of Euro news trimmings
Node failures hit service, but where's the Schadenfreude?
4G device could be important early LTE development for the Motorola Mobility spinoff
4:00 PM Larry the Attack Monkey wishes you a carnage-free holiday season
In today's cable stocking-stuffers, John Malone could make another Euro move, Level 3 calls out Comcast, and Discovery frets about TV place-shifting
Under new unified device strategy, MSO's branding, not the vendor's, will become the headliner in all set-tops, modems, gateways, and DTAs
11:25 AM BT and Deutsche Telekom executives are the keynote speakers at our upcoming service provider IT (SPIT) conference in London
Russian government splashes $600 million on a 17% stake in Indian mobile operator
The award of 3G managed services deals in India will introduce the country's first multi-vendor agreements, believes Ericsson executive
Ericsson acquires wireless network optimization specialist Optimi to boost service provider IT (SPIT) capabilities
Ericsson goes shopping, BT comes under investigation (again), and Swisscom goes for the Bern in today's digest of Euro telecom news
6:00 AM Job No. 1 at Extreme: Focus
FCC documents detail an Internet-connected, Pace-made HD-DVR/gateway that's believed to be central to Comcast's Xcalibur trial
3:00 PM The FCC's new rules didn't please many, but cable sure seems jazzed that it likely means broadband won't be reclassified anytime soon
FCC votes along party lines amid significant concerns that the new rules won't hold up to a court challenge
Positive progress for Microsoft as handset makers stock 1.5M phones, and 18,000 developers bring in 4,000 new apps
10:35 AM Apple's new streaming box poised to reach sales of 1M units this week
9:45 AM A wish list for the slew of tablets to be introduced at next month's gadget emporium
In today's cable snapshot Hulu dominates the news queue, though the net neutrality shenanigans and a CableLabs crush are also standing in line
CLEC M&A may have peaked in 2010, driven by the need for competitors to own fiber facilities, offer cloud services, and move upmarket
The company says the abrupt departure of CEO Gilles Bouchard is no cause for panic, and talks up its 100Gbit/s potential
Baby it's cold outside... but the Euronews engine starts first time, with NSN, France Telecom, and Virgin Media providing today's fuel
With Copps and Clyburn on board, the FCC chairman appears to have the votes he needs to get his net-neutrality item passed tomorrow
Google's invasion of the TV may be off to a rough start, but all systems are still go when it comes to its integrated Dish offering
Eliminating the digital broadcast portion of its service may actually help that effort, Sezmi officials insist
Prepaid carrier launches a new unlimited wireless plan that includes unlimited music downloads for $55 per month
Busy start to holiday week in the cable world, as Google TV and Sezmi deal with setbacks while DirecTV moves forward on targeted ads
10:40 AM Expect to see many more products like this one emerge in 2011
10:05 AM Nine Indian mobile operators face retrospective bills for 2G spectrum previously awarded for free
9:30 AM Check out what some CXOs are reading for fun and inspiration
AT&T is splashing out $1.9B to buy the 700MHz spectrum that Qualcomm's been using for its FLO TV service in the US
Rajeev Suri talks to the Executive Club of Chicago about Motorola, competition, consolidation, soft-SIMs, DPI, and more
Telenor sticks its oar in, Draka receives unwanted attention, and Swisscom gets its wallet out in today's digest of Euro telecom news
Ericsson, Huawei, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Escorts all featured at the telecom show in New Delhi
12:05 PM There's more at stake than just a bunch of 10G switches and a box of donuts
Cox licenses TV Everywhere tech, Level 3 squeezes Comcast, Zillion TV's Website takes a dirt nap, and Cablevision readies a spinoff
LG launches world's first dual-core smartphone, cheap Androids explode, China Mobile updates its OS, and more in this week's OS checklist
8:00 AM How many TV cords can you cut, after all?
Mobile operator MTS India is gearing up for an IPO in the new year
MSO says Level 3 walked away when Comcast wouldn't agree to a 'zero cost' outcome without first testing a 'different architectural approach'
Orange avoids all contact, Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs teams up on video, and Vodafone does LTE in today's digest of Euro telecom news nuggets
Netflix confirms that some deals prevent it from streaming video to TiVo DVRs distributed by MSOs, but Cox's retail deal is in the clear
A move for the Mediaroom organization appears to signal the continuing rise of Xbox as a TV vehicle
Orckit plans to double its investment in India as it seeks a larger share of the country's growing Carrier Ethernet equipment market
Facebook may power TW Cable's TV Everywhere platform, Dish serves up 3DTV fare, and AT&T sparks 'Cupcake-gate' in DC
Suddenlink launches a Netflix-free version of TiVo DVR, but says it would 'gladly consider adding' Netflix streaming 'if they allow us'
Nokia Siemens Networks is reorganizing one of its main divisions and replacing the division's leader
One of India's largest mobile operators has secured a $1.93 billion loan from a Chinese bank to pay for its 3G plans
Ofcom sticks it to BT, 3 offers all-you-can-eat data, and ZTE is offen for business in today's digest of Euro telecom news
It's an M&A frenzy!
Seeking to find favor with local operators and decision-makers, Huawei lays out a five-year investment plan for India
3:45 PM Not something we would have predicted in 2005
The embattled data center vendor starts the formal process of fighting back
Says it needs more time to pick sites for its super-speedy network as it hires an old cable hand to take the reins of the project
12:30 PM The NSN/Motorola merger stew is nearly cooked, but what will it taste like?
Companies coin the concept of 'Long Term HSPA Evolution' (LTHE?) and promise speeds of more than 650 Mbit/s by 2013
Wall Street digs Comcast, TW Cable shakes up the ranks, the NFL could call an over-the-top play, while Docsis 3.0 plays more small ball
11:00 AM New legislation and new attitudes keep a fiber network on track to bring broadband service to rural Maine
9:50 AM India's authorities have dealt a blow to the country's early 3G movers by banning certain services, including video calls
Industry sources say the innards initially include an Intel chip, a custom interface from Vividlogic, and Nokia's Qt app framework
Don't head off for the holidays just yet -- there's more LTE news from Europe's biggest market coming this week
The Swedish vendor is breaking new ground in Italy with a deal to upgrade and manage 3 Italia's service provider IT (SPIT) infrastructure
Ericsson, NSN, and Transmode give it some Nordic know-how in today's roundup of European news nuggets, with Deutsche Telekom in a supporting role
Broadcom squares off with Intel with all-singing, all-dancing chip for souped-up IP-capable video gateways
2:00 PM World's first LTE network launched a year ago today
12:40 PM Nokia delays the E7 and cuts more jobs, but promises a Symbian overhaul
Comcast gets more interactive, Charter speeds up, Viacom frets about Comcast-NBC, and Mediacom's go-private deal has lawyers seeing green
Sprint says it's considering its options for additional investment or reduction of its voting rights at Clearwire
WSJ says Comcast is testing a blended Web-TV service in Augusta, Ga., as MSO looks to defend against over-the-top rivals UPDATED 7:30 PM
BT, Portugal Telecom, Telekom Serbia, and Wipro lead the charge in today's race for the euronews finishing line
Reliance Communications is the second private operator to launch 3G services in India, and is boasting of the affordability of its services
Meet 'Mux 3.0,' a budding project that looks to apply video-style bandwidth efficiency to ITV applications
5:40 PM A 60 Minutes story by Mike Wallace from 1970 offers a prescient view of the cable industry
5:10 PM Perhaps it was swayed by T-Mobile's 'HSPA+ as 4G' marketing?
Android accounts for 80% of Verizon's smartphone sales, while RIM falls to less than 20% and the iPhone looks to shake up the equation
Chicago stations join ivi TV's lineup, Time Warner chief doesn't buy the Netflix hype, and Qwest seeks statewide TV franchise in Colorado
10:35 AM Judge dismisses his patent lawsuit against biggies like Apple, Google, and Netflix, but Allen intends to amend the complaint
Four of the world's leading mobile operators highlight their 4G network plans, contrasting their choice of spectrum bands and initial technology deployment
Remember PolyCipher? The MSO has a similar downloadable system, but it's actually been deployed and could be poised to become an SCTE standard
Telecom Italia, TeliaSonera, and BT strut their stuff in today's digest of handy-sized Euro telecom news gobbets
Three operator keynotes from the Heavy Reading Summit at 4G World present their roadmaps to implement their 4G mobile broadband networks in the US, Australia, and Japan
12:30 PM Frustration with Android has the angry birds flying to the carriers
12:15 PM Com Hem's on the block, word emerges about cable's latest 'Netflix-killer,' Snapstick ties Web video to the big screen, and more
SeaChange moves most of its server R&D to China and the Philippines as it looks to make that division profitible or attract a buyer
Chief executive Gilles Bouchard resigns after a down year for the stock, prompting the return of Harry Bosco
Mobile ops just can’t get enough policy control these days, but it's not clear how far they will take their policy management plans
Operators face myriad decisions and challenges when it comes to developing an LTE backhaul strategy
Execs from all the major operating systems sound off on long-term plans, past mistakes, and their competition in this week's OS musings
9:00 AM Comcast VP Doug Jones explains why EPON was picked over GPON when cable looked to tie in Docsis provisioning for biz-class services
Comcast finds an ally in AT&T as the telco giant throws its weight into the Level 3-MSO kerfuffle
6:15 AM In New Delhi the show floor is dominated by talk of mobile broadband and stands of power systems
In India, Alcatel-Lucent and ZTE look to have landed deals worth $600M in the controversial GSM tender at state-owned carrier BSNL
TeliaSonera, Elisa, and NSN get the party started in today's digest of Euro telecom news nibbles
The company that brought Flash to the iPhone is connecting with carriers eager to reduce data strain through an alternative browser
Commission says 68% of connections fall short of its broadband speed benchmark of 4Mbit/s down, 1Mbit/s up
12:40 PM It's all peace, love, and indifference
10:50 AM British service provider IT (SPIT) vendor helps Rogers open up its APIs
Mobile operators have enough confidence in packet backhaul now and are rolling it out in volume, according to Heavy Reading analyst
9:00 AM Kristine Faulkner outlines Cox's plan to reach $2B in annual business service revenues
The EC, Transmode, Eircom, and YouView are the gang of four in today's digest of Euro telecom news nuggets
4:45 AM India's telecom trade show has opened under a cloud
3:25 PM More vendors means more complexity
Because Eric Schmidt was there, and we had a camera
AT&T buys home automation player Xanboo and partners with Elster on smart metering tech as the battle for the connected home heats up
Comcast exec says economics and interoperability are among the key reasons why cable is applying Docsis-style provisioning to EPON
11:30 AM Clearwire's Teresa Elder says WiMax offers much more than just a residential play for cable operators
Operator aims to entice more developers to the Orange App Shop with a revenue-share deal and marketing support
Nokia Siemens Networks and ZTE are confirmed as two of the 3G suppliers at Indian mobile operator Aircel
The technology doesn't match the OIF framework for 100G optical transport, but Ericsson still thinks it could be on to something useful
Rostelecom, Samsung, Orange, and so much more in today's trot through the European telecom news headlines
The fancy Apple tablet will be able to stream video from premium networks soon, the MSO's president says
The companies get even cozier, as Google says its highly anticipated notebook computer will come with a Verizon 3G modem
3:30 PM SCTE chief Mark Dzuban talks up the Society's new Ivy League ed program and runs down the org's priorities heading into 2011
3:00 PM RIM's PlayBook opens for apps, ponders 4G and Android
More C-level shuffle at the Big Red
But smaller cable MSOs want the FCC to impose conditions that protect them from paying stiff programming fees from the combined entity
2:35 PM Does anyone now doubt that LTE and other mobile broadband services could serve as cable or DSL replacements?
11:10 AM Canadian company claims Netflix, Hulu, and Google are hurting its ability to pay for domestic content and siphoning off revenue
In an effort to cut their capital and operating expenditures, India's operators are aggressively exploring network sharing opportunities
BT, Deutsche Telekom, the European Commission, and some Angry Birds are what's shakin' on the Euro news scene today
Glenn Britt says Netflix's new streaming-only tier leaves a lot to be desired, and that's why it's so cheap
Acquisitions and partnerships continue to stack up as the router giants try to boost their cloud computing mojo
A new CEO is coming on board as company seeks fresh funds and just days after two top execs depart the bandwidth-boosting tech startup
1:45 PM Google's OS release 2.3 is here with NFC support, video calling, and much more
Google is taking retail route with unlocked Nexus S, following the failure of online sales for the Nexus One
Operator beats out Vectra to land Aster for $292M and deepen Liberty Global's European cable presence
Traditionally WiMax-focused smart grid software vendor adds support for LTE, which it says will become more common in the smart grid
Working with Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, and Samsung on 'Network Vision' to combine 3G and WiMax in single 'seamless' base station
LTE will make everything faster and with lower latency, but there are certain apps it'll really amp up. Data caps beware
9:10 AM DNS server issues appear to be culprit of another big Comcast Internet outage
MSOs have started to serve businesses with wireline services, but they're positioned to add wireless to the commercial mix, too
Vodafone, France Telecom, and the UK government are on the register in today's Euro telecom news digest
India is set to witness the launch of LTE TDD networks by the middle of 2011, believes Heavy Reading analyst
After a flurry of deals for its DRM and adaptive streaming technology, Widevine lands what sounds like a nice new home
Samsung leads the Android pack, WP7 readies massive changes, and Moto spills iPhone secrets in this week's OS digest
Comcast's characterization that dispute is about peering 'could not be more misleading,' Level 3 insists UPDATED 12/4
MSO's business unit will be cracking open the bubbly next week when it breaks the annual $1B revenue barrier
Linear TV programming live on your iPad? And it's football? Pinch us. We're dreaming
Skype, Yahoo, Neelie Kroes, and TeliaSonera jostle for position in today's digest of Euro telecom news snippets
Motorola's purchase of a home automation and control vendor tops off what's been a busy week of M&A
MSO's Craig Collins says businesses with 100 employees or less are now the 'sweet spot' for TWC's commercial services unit
3:35 PM Don Hallacy, late of Sprint and BellSouth, will lead MSO's tech org until it hires a permanent chief technology officer
Optimum Lightpath's president says MSOs planning to serve mid-sized and enterprise customers will need to step up their game
The fight over Ethernet OAM could be headed to a two-sided standard, given the immobility of both sides
1:00 PM To up the ante on PlayBook and BlackBerry user interfaces
Policy management is on a roll in the mobile sector, but will it go on to assume a wider role in the network?
Telco says it shelled out big bucks to correct FiOS installation issues in New York and now it wants to conclude its review process
WiMax provider grabs much-needed funding; Sprint puts forward three new independent candidates for the operator's board
US cable's poised to hit a big commercial services revenue milestone while still leaving plenty more to siphon away from the telcos
No smartphones yet, but early adopters could expect a speed bump over the oft-quoted average download speeds for Big Red's '4G' service
Ofcom, Iliad, and Genband are the attention-grabbing pop-ups in today's digest of Euro telecom news headlines
Egyptian wireless operator Mobinil sees 35% response rate for personalized, interactive mobile ads
5:35 PM Qualcomm CEO says mobile TV will happen, but who knows how
5:20 PM The pricing plans are very much business-as-usual compared to Clearwire and MetroPCS
To combat revenue leakage, operators must adopt a centralized and integrated fraud and revenue assurance strategy
Bucking expectations, Verizon intros LTE at a lower price than current 3G laptop data plans
Consumer groups say new framework is a sell-out, Republicans say it's not necessary, and Verizon wants a broader overhaul of the rules
FCC puts forth a plan for TV broadcasters to make more efficient use of their spectrum, freeing it up for mobile broadband services
12:30 PM '4G' LTE coming this Sunday
Network management software firm appears to give Cisco some smarts in offering computing and storage as a service to network operators
12:00 PM Pick your Ethernet chipset wisely
UK MSO's broadband-connected, TiVo-powered offering will cost £199 and be subject to a monthly service fee
Infamous file-disclosing site takes to the cloud; 2011 predictions start warming up; and more cloudy ideas
9:30 AM Society to help groom cable engineers for leadership roles via partnership with the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Nortel says sale of Chinese R&D unit to Ericsson for $50M marks the last of its big asset divestitures
TeliaSonera, O2, and Orange do LTE, while BT looks skywards in today's digest of Euro telecom news headlines
The consumer and government units will go their separate ways just ahead of CES in 2011
In the biggest LTE TDD market, China Mobile reveals its trial plans and expectations for chipset development and device availability
4:30 AM Australian WiMax operator tests LTE TDD
