Here are some quick pics from our latest cable-centric event in Denver. And, yes, the snow did come... eventually

MSO exec says lab and field trials of upstream channel bonding are hitting the 75-Mbit/s mark, while some lab trials are holding bursts of 100 Mbit/s

Heavy Reading's top cable analyst Alan Breznick fields questions about Docsis 3.0 deployments, applications, and, of course, the speeds and feeds

10:55 AM Jeff Baumgartner and I fight through a bad Skype call to discuss a new service idea from Cablevision that consumers may really like

With its demands for high-end processing and low-level power consumption, LTE could be the proving ground for multicore devices

8:55 AM April 9 is the latest date to be set for India's 3G auction

New managed service uses internally developed software to knit together videoconferencing from Cisco, Polycom, and Tandberg

MSO is close to releasing the hardware specs on the Converged Multiservice Access Platform, a super-dense box that combines CMTS and QAM functions UPDATED 2/26 5:40 PM

What did NEC have to show off at this year's Mobile World Congress? We invaded its booth with a photographer to find out

Cabler says it won't buy DVRs any longer after the end of this year

Profits tumbled in 2009 at France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, while a fraud probe is holding back the publication of Telecom Italia's accounts

9:40 AM While Europe's telcos talk about FTTH, the cable players are ramping their broadband services

Heavy Reading says Docsis 3.0 will pass 90M homes – more than 70.3% of the region's cable canvas – by 2012

UK's cable player will debut 100-Mbit/s services by the end of 2010, and expand its 200-Mbit/s tech test into a second market

Netflix says what's good for MSO's digital TV and Internet subs could be great for its own 'Watch Instantly' video streaming service

4:15 PM Telekom Austria merges fixed and mobile

3:45 PM A WiTTy take on the Mobile World Congress

Genband's Charlie Vogt says the cost was too great for other bidders, and his firm is best positioned to profit from Nortel's CVAS

3:05 PM Does Clearwire have the stuff to compete with AT&T or Verizon? Sidecut Reports analyst Paul Kapustka says they may have a different idea

We gave Nokia Siemens Networks 10 minutes to give us the lowdown on its stand at Mobile World Congress

Despite the bluffing of the lobbyists and politicians, everyone knows that FTTH progress is slow in Europe, but there's tempered optimism

12:15 PM But will its PC-to-TV trial rate, as the FCC looks to link set-top innovation to the National Broadband Plan?

11:30 AM Italian court orders execs to jail for allowing an offensive video to be uploaded to YouTube in 2006

Clearwire reported its biggest subscriber increase ever in Q4 2009

I've seen, and used, and tasted the future – it's 1-Gbit/s broadband, and it's flavorsome!

The 'stalking horse' process concludes as Nortel's VoIP crown jewels go to Plano, Texas, media gateway vendor

AlcaLu is in the hot seat as Telecom New Zealand CEO Paul Reynolds puts the 3G network supplier on notice over major network outages

Sometime this quarter, Juniper plans to hit the 'on' switch on the first of its data-center fabric products

MSO testing a system that will allow Internet video to be relayed from the PC, processed in the network, then played on TV

The company's router sales defied the recession in 2009, which has it thinking even more strongly about expanding its market reach

Infonetics says a hearty sales surge in Q4 allowed Arris to keep its newly gotten edge over perennial market leader Cisco

Knology's new CTO makes more room for HDTV

2:10 PM FCC survey: One-third of US adults don't do high-speed Internet at home

ZTE reveals Portugal's Optimus as its first European software-defined radio customer

11:20 AM Craig Matsumoto says there is a debate brewing on what will be the next big bandwidth jump in the Internet's core

Major media buyer complains that another five years will pass before national advertisers can target individual households

10:40 AM Many were expecting the retail giant to buy the online video startup, but not for this much

EMEA's fiber access community is descending on Lisbon, but will the anticipated optimism be tempered by market reality?

9:55 AM Ready or not, business models will inevitably shift toward subscription models

The auction of 3G spectrum could be nearly with us, 4G is under scrutiny, and mobile number portability edges further away, plus more

The video site apparently had something worth attracting multiple bidders

Zito Media, an MSO run by former Adelphia exec James Rigas, hopes to get the most bang out of its limited bandwidth as it upgrades to digital

A new Heavy Reading report finds that carriers with app store ambitions face potential apathy from the developer community

Germany's largest MSO may go for a partial stock offering after rejecting buy-out bids in the range of $6.8 billion to $7.5 billion

Beefing up backhaul is fine and good, but there's a chance that AT&T's problems with the iPhone have little to do with capacity

Armed with a photographer, we jumped aboard Alcatel-Lucent's Mobile World Congress ship and checked out the booty

Heavy Reading chief analyst Graham Finnie tells Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre about fiber access developments in Europe, and what he's expecting to see at the 2010 FTTH Council Europe event in Lisbon

European operators Orange and T-Mobile opt for WiFi over femtocells for consumer mobile data coverage and offload

Dan Moloney's set to take the helm of Technitrol, marking the first big exec casualty to come from Moto's decision to split into two UPDATED 1:45 PM

NOON Apple is urging networks to cut prices of TV shows on iTunes

Light Reading talks with Rajiv Bawa, a senior executive at ambitious startup Indian mobile operator Uninor

11:00 AM Comcast's reported exploration of a 250-Mbit/s service may indicate the MSO's considering an IPTV simulcast

12:30 PM User targeting nears perfection

After getting a fresh splash of cash from Comcast's VC arm, TidalTV looks to bring ad targeting to set-tops and broadband video services

We tracked down the CEOs of Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks as part of our pictorial coverage in Barcelona

The FCC buffs up some rough edges, Seattle bats eyes at Google, and cable gets a small taste of broadband stimulus funds

Vendors aren't waiting for someone else's coherent receiver; TPack plans a 100-Gig chip

11:00 AM Moto co-CEO Sanjay Jha offers another reason why it makes sense for the company to put its mobile phone and set-top units in one room

Microsoft who? We think the sheer number of Android smartphones at this show is a clear indicator of where the market's heading

10:15 AM Apple has begun booting applications with 'overtly sexual' content

9:35 AM The only real measure of WiMax's success will be paying customers, not POPs passed

7:20 AM Bharti has eyes for Bhutan as well as Africa

Hannes Ametsreiter is CEO of Telekom Austria, the first European operator to use HSPA+

Carrier CEO says WiFi offload is one option it is considering to help it cope with the growth of mobile broadband connections

But Evolution Digital will remain independent and continue to develop and sell DTAs, TiVo boxes, and headend systems to Tier 2 and 3 cable MSOs

3:20 PM If at first you don't succeed...

3:00 PM Props, apparently

TiVo, still no fan of tru2way, says an upstream IP path to cable headends and metadata can remedy the ills of the retail set-top market

2:10 PM Focus in Barcelona was app-ropriate, but was something missing?

1:10 PM Don't give up gambling

Personalized TV service provider will distribute its system through Best Buy, beginning in LA and then going national

11:30 AM Canadian MSO pulls a Google with speedy fiber trial

10:20 AM The device's e-book prices may be lower than expected

Synacor's crafted an authentication system that could apply to MSO video portals as well as sites operated by programmers

The march of the Androids continues on the last day of the massive Euro mobile show

9:00 AM Vodafone says there's no problem with 3G capacity

AT&T talked about the tip of the femtocell iceberg in Barcelona but a source hips LR Mobile to what might be lurking just under the surface

ADVA makes its cloud statement, telephony needs some definitions, and Larry Ellison pitches clouds his way

Executive VP Vivek Badrinath talks about the iPhone's impact on the Orange network and how the company plans to offload data traffic from its network

Olivier Baujard of Deutsche Telekom talks LTE and discusses the carrier's goal to be first with LTE in markets where DT has the right spectrum

Vodafone's group head of radio development, Santiago Tenorio Sanz, on the mobile operator's European rollout of HSPA+

4:40 PM As expected, Time Warner Cable has begun to light up wideband service in Ohio

Following pilots in Portland and Seattle, Comcast plans to begin field tests of its new bit counter in several more markets by the end of February

Comcast customers visiting HBO GO site are directed to access content through the MSO's Fancast Xfinity TV site

New managed service offers guaranteed remote access via SSL VPN on a global basis

AT&T's lips are sealed on a commercial femto launch date as it works on modifications to the provisioning system

As more consumers buy smartphones, service providers have been rudely awakened by the growing amount of traffic that has been generated

Android and Microsoft duke it out in Spain, and LR Mobile has photographic evidence

9:05 AM HBO's TV Everywhere effort will be opening up to more users today UPDATED 3:05 PM

Deutsche Telekom's new CTO, Olivier Baujard, tells Light Reading Mobile how the operator is averting a 3G capacity crunch

Brocade has upgraded the Amsterdam Internet Exchange to MPLS and is preparing a density-doubling card, the latest steps in a relationship spanning more than 10 years

7:25 AM Russian operator checks out LTE, talks to LRTV

Dutch incumbent doesn't rule out total network handover

Global Crossing narrowed its losses and expanded its data services business in a year it expected to be much worse

How can mobile operators best deal with the flood of data traffic on their networks? Ray Le Maistre posed the question to some of the vendors at this year's Mobile World Congress

Dr. Michael Hecker of Moscow-based mobile operator MTS talks about 3G rollout and the relentless increase of service uptake, despite the country's economic crisis

Eric Bozich, Qwest vice president of national markets, lays out the current state of the cloud computing market

After dropping 14% last year, optical equipment sales have a chance to gain back some ground

His '100 Squared' initiative calls for delivery of 100-Mbit/s services to 100 million homes

An OSS acquisition hands IBM some autoconfiguration capabilities and a stronger SPIT story

1:40 PM Videotron finishes off its deployment, while Knology is just getting started

Dual-carrier HSPA+ will be a hot technology topic at this year's Mobile World Congress, but which vendors have the smarts?

CMTS maker says MSOs in the US, South America, Europe, and Asia have switched on the upstream-boosting technology

11:50 AM Justifiable homicide

T-Mob SVP says faster backhaul is the 'gating factor' for timing out when HSPA+ goes live

Christian Daignault of Hong Kong-based telco CSL talks to Michelle Donegan about software-defined radios and an all-IP network

Ravinder Jain is the CIO of Indian cellular provider Aircel, a company adding 2.5 million new subscribers every month – 'nuff said

AT&T's decision on its evolved packet core suppliers for its initial LTE rollout will come soon, says CTO

10:25 AM NBC upsets Olympics fans by keeping online coverage behind a subscription wall

T-Mobile is likely to be the fastest 3G network in the US at some point in 2010, but can it deploy enough backhaul to cope?

Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao calls for policy makers to check out mobile search and advertising players at the Mobile World Congress

7:10 AM Haven't we seen live cell-type concepts before on mobile user interfaces?

It's getting late in Barcelona, but here are a few quick pics from the day's activities

Swedish vendor teams with Opera Software to offer a ready-made applications store for carriers to use as their own

After a tough year, Nokia Siemens is coming out fighting, with one analyst predicting better things for the joint venture in 2010

The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) hopes to challenge iTunes and other app stores and simplify life for developers

Major mobile operating systems news dominates the first day of activity here at Mobile World Congress

12:01 PM A project to tinker with apps is extraordinary, but not a big telco threat

TeliaSonera's Lars Klasson talks about the success of his company's LTE rollout, with both bandwidth and latency exceeding expectations

11:05 AM Way back on Feb. 5, Phil and Rayno talked about Cisco, its economic vision, and how the company seems to be evolving

Verizon Wireless is on schedule to launch commercial LTE services this year, according to Verizon CTO Dick Lynch

10:45 AM LR Cable's Steve Donohue and The Rayno Report's Scott Raynovich marvel at Cablevision's 'Olympic Showcase'

At its app store launch in Barcelona, Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg talks about the company's LTE efforts, his management team, Redback's contribution to Ericsson's portfolio, and, yes, a new app store that will let carriers offer applications to a variety of devices

The Nortel deal pays off, with Ciena reportedly landing a domain supplier spot with the carrier

5:20 PM Confused about Comcast's branding overhaul? An ad debuting during tonight's opening ceremonies tries to explain

Telcos missed the boat on open applications. Will they get another chance?

About 40 million US TV viewers will have access to interactive programming from the Games, but customers of some major MSOs won't be among them

4:50 PM Google just may be building a giant apps lab, but it could rescue some muni network projects in the process

3:30 PM Has Google completely given up on leveraging its WiMax investment?

The policy control specialists are vying for attention ahead of Mobile World Congress, with talk of growth, funding, and extra smarts

Cheetah CEO says his company is poised to generate five to ten times the revenues Symmetricom was getting from the V-Factor product line

Vendors think small for LTE in Barcelona

CBS Sports.com GM & SVP Jason Kint says he's exploring ways to bring the popular 'March Madness On Demand' service to broadband-fed TVs

The limited fiber buildout might be just the nudge Huawei needs in North America, according to one analyst

The sale is off! Moto now plans to spin its mobile phone and set-top biz and its mobile networks unit into two independent, publicly traded companies

5:20 PM Rumor mill now has Moto combining its handset and set-top businesses and spinning them off

Sources say TWC's next 'surgical' wideband strikes will hit parts of Texas, Ohio, and upstate New York

2:45 PM Goateed entrepreneur aims to be a bigger pain in BT's rear end

JDSU strengthens its hand in the mobile test sector with proposed purchase of Agilent unit that includes LTE and WiMax measurement tools

Vendor expects sales to Comcast to be down this year, but is hopeful that shipments to Time Warner Cable and other MSOs will more than fill the gap

A $169M payment would appear to close the book on Juniper's time in court for stock-options backdating

10:40 AM Cable Digital News is now Light Reading Cable – here's why

Global survey shows mobile operators need to move quickly to offer their own next-gen apps or be relegated to dumb pipes for others

9:45 AM Owen Van Natta is out after less than a year at the suffering site

Alcatel-Lucent reports full-year revenues of €15.2B, down 10.8% on 2008, on the back of a grim Q4

The hot femto talk in Barcelona will be 3G outdoor femtos and new applications for small home base stations

Avail-TVN says it's closing in on trials with some major cable networks that are eager to boot up cross-platform video plays

Search giant says it has no plans to add wireless to the mix as it works on experimental FTTH in the US

7:00 AM The more things change, the more they stay the same

Kim Perdikou is being promoted to the office of the CEO; meanwhile, Juniper starts up a software and applications division for Junos

Developing and executing a strategy based around service provider IT (SPIT) capabilities is critical to modern-day carriers, say Heavy Reading analysts

Could Windows Mobile 7 be unveiled next week in Barcelona?

3:00 PM Will Google's fiber 'experiment' accelerate cable's development of Docsis 4.0 and a move toward gigabit speeds?

Cisco is peddling a new line card that signals a move toward an 'integrated' CMTS architecture

Internet giant solicits municipalities to participate in trial of speedy fiber network that will serve as many as 500,000 users

11:05 AM AlcaLu and Ericsson are AT&T's LTE radio access suppliers, but the core network vendors are not yet known

10:20 AM Google's new social feature, unveiled yesterday, might not be a Twitter killer after all

Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson are AT&T's two radio access equipment suppliers for its LTE rollout

The Swedish vendor hasn't ruled out making its own 3G femtocell but says the cost is still too high and the market too limited

7:00 AM Deutsche Bank estimates 2010 mobile broadband capex

Heavy Reading's Graham Finnie tells Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre about the impact of mobile broadband growth on the Policy Control and Deep Packet Inspection sectors

6:00 PM And how it could live on...

Getting data traffic off increasingly crowded 3G networks will be a key topic next week in sunny Spain

Broadcom's no longer got dibs on the only Docsis 3.0-certified products capable of pumping out downstream speeds of 320 Mbit/s

New IO6 specs from CableLabs add support for unbound ITV apps, but EBIF vendors don't believe the upgrade will require a major overhaul UPDATED 5:35 PM

Two new security services will let Verizon's mid-sized businesses get a jump on potential network threats

11:10 AM Google is expected to announce a new feature for Gmail that could compete with major social networks

Indian operator to target corporate customers with dedicated CDMA-based wireless data connectivity

9:00 AM 'Influencer' boasts Tier 1 deals, banks VC cash

The rivals will face off (figuratively) at Mobile World Congress, each pitching big plans for the future of the mobile network

Pyramid Research analyst Badii Kechiche talks to Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre about developments in the African mobile market

Carriers' needs are diverging from what Ericsson saw in 2008, so its packet-optical strategy is getting a refresh with a new metro box

Comcast's already trialing a version 4.0 digital terminal adapter based on new Broadcom chips that can run Moto and Cisco content protection schemes

Cox is bucking a cable industry trend, expanding its Ethernet sales and stressing local ties and regional verticals

5:05 PM Cablers at CableLabs 'Innovation Showcase' view Jinni's mood-based video finder as the idea most likely to succeed

Financial projections for 2010 scare off the event's management company

10:25 AM Google unveils its first Superbowl ad, and Vizio presents an Internet-star-studded ad for Web TV

Cablevision among the early takers for a wideband-capable WiFi access point optimized for wireless video and voice applications

9:00 AM Fiber access folk to hook up in Lisbon to get Europe's FTTx latest

New Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg expands top leadership team with regional executives for China and North America

8:10 AM Ahead of Barcelona, LTE's again shaping up to be one of the hot topics

Heavy Reading senior analyst Gabriel Brown examines the latest LTE developments and the move to all-IP networks

4:25 PM Clearing up confusion about Clearwire's retail/wholesale mix

Believe it or not, some of the telecom action in DC doesn't involve the proposed Comcast-NBCU deal

Wireless industry vet Paul Mankiewich has left AlcaLu after nearly 30 years UPDATED 1:45 PM

11:20 AM How to better enjoy The Game

Investor day overview shows where Corning has seen demand in the past year for its telecom products, and how FTTH has yet to deliver

Company puts its struggling 'Quality of Experience' business on the block, claims to have a potential buyer already on the line

9:25 AM Hachette joins the fray as Macmillan continues its fight

Brian Roberts insists MSO won't prevent others from offering shows over broadband, but WideOpenWest CEO claims there's already some of that going on

The latest salvo in the war of big numbers: 250 Gbit/s per slot UPDATE 2/5 7:10 AM

AlcaLu uses software-defined radio technology to support GSM, UMTS, and LTE in the same radio module

1:30 PM Google chief is getting a lie-in at Mobile World Congress

12:30 PM We're down to our last 30 million

11:20 AM CEO downplays the threat, sees Apple device as a new outlet for Comcast's programming

Wei Leping, former CTO and current adviser at China Telecom, tells Light Reading about the key technology challenges facing the operator

Verizon Business is teaming up with Current Group to power up an integrated smart grid service targeted to utility companies

10:35 AM iPhone users with Slingboxes can now watch TV over AT&T's 3G network

Three Heavy Reading analysts look forward to the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

The project to take the world's most widely used mobile operating system open-source has been completed

Comcast may revive its interest in switched digital video now that its big analog reclamation project is well underway

8:50 AM Reports suggest a Telefónica/Telecom Italia wedding might be on the cards

Global roaming on LTE will be years away because device makers face a tough challenge to support all the different LTE frequency bands across the globe

Former Redback and Cisco executive has big plans for mid-sized vendor

Michael O'Hara, the GSMA's chief marketing officer, talks about the association's evolving role in helping along the development of modern mobile networks, applications, and devices

The economic comeback is real, it's entering a second phase, and revenues (and hiring) are coming back. Thus spake Cisco

A deal setting up a joint venture to run Emcore's optical business seems to put a high value on the products

Biannual Vertical Systems Group report shows metro Ethernet going in faster, as market becomes more competitive

Reps for small cable MSOs, indie programmers, and consumers attack proposed marriage, but offer few conditions for regulators to chew on

FCC blesses two DTAs from Huawei and three more from Evolution, while another Chinese vendor, CoShip, guns for a box waiver of its own

Motorola's Devour on Verizon, RIM touchscreen, and Google's tablet concepts are in this week's gadget review

MSO expects to polish off two key projects this year as it announces Q4 earnings that beat Wall Street expectations

9:30 AM Market forces, not FCC rules and mandates, should be sufficient to solve the set-top 'innovation' dilemma

9:05 AM Clearleap and FourthWall Media give EBIF some video chops

The mobile vendor in-crowd goes to Barcelona

8:45 AM Radio does offer a new dimension to reportage, and good radio is worth paying for

Christine Heckart exits Microsoft's IPTV business to join cloud storage vendor NetApp, a key partner of Cisco

An overview of the challenges that service providers must face when migrating to wireless backhaul infrastructure, as well as the efforts currently underway to synchronize networks via packet synchronization.

MSO looks to amp up its business services growth with purchase of Colorado-based provider of hosted and trunk-based VoIP services

Tiny MoSys says it's got a way to simplify the gobs of memory interface that have to back a 100-Gbit/s linecard

4:00 PM Rumors of the death of the mobile Web are greatly exaggerated

The first phase of VoIP didn't truly disrupt the traditional voice model, but the next round likely will, thanks to players like Google

New transport service aims to replace multiple 10-Gbit/s optical transport links used by many New York companies

Japan's CDMA operator KDDI will test 3G femtocells in March using equipment from Airvana and Hitachi

10:35 AM Apple's iPad may have a camera after all

NEC adds self-organizing network (SON) capabilities from Actix to its LTE family

Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Patrick Donegan talks about the backhaul rollout challenges facing mobile operators and the proliferation of approaches being adopted to deal with the backhaul bottleneck

Comcast unit revamps its Web TV publishing systems to keep up with the demands of high-end clients, but simplifies it to address the midmarket

Sprint and Airvana are quiet on the prospects of a launch anytime soon for the box that improves data coverage in the home UPDATED 2/2/2010

CEO Peter Blackmore is out, and the company is moving to Beijing after receiving $48.5M in investments

The Apple CEO defends his decision not to include Flash on the iPad

On average, India's mobile operators collectively added more than 20,000 new customers every hour during 2009. EVERY HOUR!!!

11:40 AM DirecTV picked MoCA for multiroom DVRs, but it's also testing out G.hn, an emerging challenger

10:30 AM After a heated spat over e-book prices, Amazon surrenders to Macmillan

9:40 AM As Deutsche Telekom wins FTTC dark fiber ruling, Vodafone makes its own VDSL plans

SCTE aims to help cable ops shave the energy costs of individual systems by as much as 30 percent with 'Smart Energy Management Initiative'

Someday they'll come up with a vaccine for that

7:05 AM First glimpse of DoCoMo device in Barcelona

Michael O'Hara, the GSMA's chief marketing officer, says mobile broadband and application delivery will take the stage right alongside new devices at this year's industry-wide confab in Barcelona