US and Italy are advanced markets today, but Asia/Pac will be the growth engine puffing up mobile TV and video over the next few years

Dept. of Justice gives MSO a lift by urging the US Supreme Court not to hear a case centered on Cablevision's 'remote-storage' DVR

1:15 PM The global market for optical gear is slowing, but growing fast in Asia/Pacific

After years of trailing FastWeb, Telecom Italia is set to become the biggest IPTV player in Italy this year, reckons Pyramid Research

11:15 AM Although the MSO backpedaled on expanding its Internet metering trials, TWC chief still thinks it's the way of the broadband future

With national elections out of the way, government minister says he expects 3G auction within two months, plus other news from India

Despite CEA opposition, the FCC has given Cable ONE the green light to deploy low-cost, one-way set-top boxes with hi-def capabilities

Palm fans are looking to the Pre smartphone as the company's savior, but can it build enough of them?

5:30 PM Let the speculation begin...

4:45 PM MSO attacks the business services mid-section with a 24-line VoIP offering

Unstrung tries to get beyond the theoretical peak speeds of new mobile broadband networks from AT&T, Clearwire, and Verizon

4:15 PM Microsoft will introduce its new search engine, Bing, in June

3:45 PM Fun with SAN numbers

IPTV uptake is set to go wild in China in the next few years, with analysts predicting nearly 15 million users by the end of 2012

2:10 PM Will Huawei's new 2G BTS for rural markets spark a ultra-low-cost infrastructure market?

TiVo to get 'primary DVR' status in a Comcast tru2way market, while a deal with Evolution Broadband gives TiVo exposure with Tier 2 MSOs

10:30 AM Majority stake in Irish incumbent reportedly for sale

9:30 AM Focus on 'rewards for failure' at BT

Self-Organizing Networks (SONs) are hot, but vendors can't yet match carriers' demands for LTE kit that configures and optimizes itself

8:30 PM More customers offer the carrier more practice for its U-verse double- and triple-play services

5:50 PM But is there enough Tier 2 and Tier 3 business to go around?

Telcordia unveils new home network OSS with OEM partner Fine Point Technologies and takes an unspecified stake in its tech partner

As it considers the selloff of some business units, Nortel says it's also interested in divesting its LG-Nortel stake

5:20 PM FCC issues report outlining how it will go about developing a national broadplan plan, due next February

The carrier will be spending nearly $18 billion to double the speed of its mobile data networks up to 7.2 Mbit/s

4:45 PM It's all fun and games until someone has to program something

The company thinks Flash can be a hit on set-tops even if it never becomes an official extension to the tru2way specs

4:00 PM EchoStar's ViP-TV service picks up where IP Prime left off

2:35 PM In a virtual world, IPTV needs fewer servers

11:30 AM MSO is still mum about the features of its promised wireless product, but the company's vendors are keeping busy

No, not a new take on John Osborne's literary career – news highlights from Day 1 of the European cable show

7:45 AM India's Swan Telecom purchases Allianz Infratech for urban coverage

6:15 PM Someday. Maybe

5:55 PM Ericsson and TeliaSonera unveil first LTE site

ActiveVideo snaps up Avinity Systems and sets its sights on bringing cloud-based television to European MSOs and IPTV players

5:30 PM HP outshined Cisco at Interop, and with good reason

4:40 PM Valuation falls more than $5B with latest investment

2:30 PM Former DT chief is back in a carrier hot seat

T-Mobile urges industry to select a unified approach for delivering early voice-over-LTE services and says it can't wait for IMS

Korean MSO implements Harmonic's CMTS bypass approach to help unify how video is delivered via its cable, DSL, and fiber-fed networks

Japanese giant buys transpacific cable operator for more than $100 million and joins pan-Asia/Pacific subsea cable consortium

It's back on! Bharti Airtel and MTN return to the merger talks table with plans to create an international growth markets giant

A CableLabs 'reference implementation,' due out in mid-June, aims to lower the barrier to entry for app developers and set-top makers

Regulator predicts almost half of Spanish households will have fiber access in 14 years' time

Predicted growth in netbook market from Pyramid is another sign that tiny computers could have a big impact on 3G and proto-4G networks

12:20 PM Because we don't have enough choice already...

With a $15 billion credit line already in its pocket, Chinese vendor ZTE adds to it with a further $10 billion bank lending facility

Research report shows 3G rollouts in China have made Huawei the #3 player in the mobile infrastructure market, ahead of Alcatel-Lucent

9:40 AM Do not mess with the phone company

7:40 AM Partnerships everywhere. Is it soup yet?

Verizon VP explains – on video – how moving to packet-optical backhaul could have costs benefits at the cell tower

4:50 PM 20 hours of user-generated video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, but the site is still after more

Acer looks to take up to 5% of the smartphone market in the next five years with feature-rich handsets

2:15 PM Carriers need to pull their fingers out if the Telco 2.0 world is to become a reality

Only a few months after services launched, South Korea's three main carriers amassed more than 220,000 IPTV customers

NOON Reports suggest NSN hasn't given up on its quest to win some new BSNL business

It may be curtains if the 10Gig switch vendor can't secure another round of funding soon

CommScope and others help outfit a massive venue with an impressive video infrastructure

MSOs are still weighing the pros and cons of IPTV

5:40 PM Subs and spectrum are key in rumored AT&T buyout plans

Sonus has eyes for Nortel's VoIP and switching assets, and more cable-focused vendor Cedar Point, analyst says

4:00 PM There's some of both for TV and cable programmers in Nielsen's latest 'Three-Screen Report'

Who put on their best faces for this year's Ethernet Expo Europe event in London? Find out in this selection of pics

1:20 PM Group says now is the right time for the FCC to propose a security rule that applies to cable, telco, and satellite service providers

10:30 AM BSNL signals desire to enter international mobile markets

Government minister comes out fighting in defense of Australia's plans for a fiber access National Broadband Network

T-Mobile believes femtocell adoption could suit LTE more than 3G, but network planning issues rank high in carrier concerns

Motorola shifts femto focus from UMTS to CDMA, WiMax, and LTE as operators size up the opportunity for the tiny base stations

LTE heats up in the Nordics as Telenor reveals plans for a field trial this summer testing gear from Huawei

The transmission migration from 10G has begun, but can we skip 40G on the road to 100GigE?

The migration from Sonet to packet-optical networking seems inevitable, but some disagree on how and when this is going to take place

Speaking at a Light Reading Live event, Verizon veep Stuart Elby explains the carrier's need for backbone speed

Following Cavium's multicore processor announcement, RMI introduces chips based on processor cores running at up to 2 GHz

With Synaptic Storage as a Service, the telecom giant looks to compete with Amazon, Rackspace, and others

Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin and Verizon's Stuart Elby are featured in this quick take of what's being talked about now at the Packet-Optical Transport Evolution event in New York City

3:05 PM China Unicom enters the battle of the vowels, and mobile operating systems, with the uPhone

With its new Ethernet switches rolled out in the UK, BT reveals plans for bonded copper access and mobile backhaul synchronization

11:15 AM That's what Cablevision claims to be paying today, though the fee charged for activation and installation is $300-plus

MSO looks set to launch controversial remote storage DVR this summer, and indicates a deal with programmers is in the making

Behind the headline earnings numbers lies strong growth in data services, fixed broadband, and emerging markets revenues growth

Matthew Finnie, CTO and CIO of pan-European carrier Interoute, talks to Ray Le Maistre about using Carrier Ethernet to simplify his firm's corporate offerings

European operators list a host of technical hurdles LTE has to clear before it's commercially ready

NTT has chip-level tech that turns a smartphone from NEC into your very own personal WiFi access point

7:15 PM Lafayette Utilities' request for an FCC waiver gets some static from Cox

4:00 PM Venture investments in the digital media spaced have decreased by 20% in the past month

3:20 PM GPON comes to the enterprise UPDATED 5/21

Huawei bags $2B, denies security panel is blocking its chances for more. Also, an India wireless contract round up

2:25 PM Wireless networks to share in $9B government handout

12:05 PM TVN has hooked up with Avail Media, forming content combo with cable and telco TV undercurrents

11:30 AM It ain't new, but at least it's not bad!

11:05 AM VoD aggregators combine, and all are welcome

Blip.tv, Next New Networks, and Revision3 sign up with Clearleap, a startup that aggregates Internet video for cable MSOs

Portuguese MSO says Jungo middleware will give it more negotiation power with vendors and help it break free of US product roadmaps

Application-based pricing is an aspiration, but not one that's practical just yet, says Cable & Wireless exec

New report says that lower costs, a bigger community, and early Chinese interest will help make LTE the biggest mobile standard yet

Do network operators have what it takes to make an Amazon-style shift to third-party openness?

This week's acquisition of Aktino continues a convoluted saga involving Positron, Marconi, and a product line with at least five parent companies

With purchase of Inuk Networks, Move Networks repositions itself as a managed service provider to ISPs

KDDI and Tata Communications boast significant growth in Ethernet service sales and outline their plans and challenges

Vendor's progress in Asia and Europe in a tough economy is not good news for Alcatel-Lucent

Ethernet Expo: Europe 2009 was buzzing – check out the pics from this year's show

1:20 PM Ethernet awards and vino collapso closed out this year's Expo

The carrier Ethernet switch/router market will shrink in value this year before growing again in 2010, according to Heavy Reading

8:20 AM Liberty's attempt to merge DirecTV with some entertainment assets has reached its first roadblock

Vendor targets Tier 2 and Tier 3 MSOs with a parallel cable IPTV architecture that puts a new twist on the CMTS bypass concept

5:15 PM Research house expects to soon see Nortel 'cease operations'

Sources say carrier is starting HD-over-WiFi home networking trials, with deployments soon to follow

4:45 PM Site pulls ahead of Yahoo in April

4:15 PM Frontier will gain some valuable FiOS property

Revenues dip 34 percent in fiscal Q3 as cable operators tightened their belts and postponed product orders

Capping investment in Ovi signals that Nokia isn't as sold on services as it once was – and that compounds its competitive issues

Find out who won the inaugural Ethernet Expo Europe Awards, handed out Thursday in London

The four inaugural winners were announced today with two Vendor of the Year awards and two Service Provider of the Year awards

BT Wholesale Director of Product Management talks to Georgina Burnett about BT's Carrier Ethernet strategy and the extent to which enterprise users are substituting legacy TDM services with Ethernet

10:10 AM Full year loss prompts cost cuts at BT

8:40 AM We join the Third World (or the Third Reich)

The COO of network service provider Masergy talks to Georgina Burnett about how lower corporate travel budgets have led to an increase in demand for HD videoconferencing services

Vendors converge to get the bugs out as MSOs gear up for a big rollout of enhanced television apps and try to one-up Verizon

Clearwire says it's not like the cellular companies you know and love, as it posts another loss for Q1

6:00 PM Frontier's brave new world, COLT beats a dead horse, and mobile WiFi (via cellular) is here to stay

5:30 PM Logic-stretching link of the week

5:00 PM Break Media is investing more money in user-generated content, while others move away from it

3:35 PM Cable's keyed up about a new FCC rule that shortens the phone number portability window to one business day

Two vendors unveil Ethernet-based backhaul products for mobile operators at Ethernet Expo Europe

Service providers are bullish about advertising's potential to create new revenue streams

COLT CTO calls on carriers to cooperate more to enable global, end-to-end Ethernet connectivity

Heavy Reading's Stan Hubbard talks about the key innovations in Carrier Ethernet technology for 2009, including the ability to scrutinize frame delay, jitter, and packet loss

Light Reading's Ray LeMaistre talks to Georgina Burnett about the hot topics from Day 1 of Ethernet Expo Europe

1:20 PM A quick vblog to recount what we've seen so far at Ethernet Expo Europe

Clearwire is talking to multiple vendors as its radio access network strategy takes shape

Testing and standards company Iometrix's 'Global Interconnect' demonstration of a round-the-world Carrier Ethernet circuit – the first time that a globally interconnected Carrier Ethernet service has demo'd using broadcast-quality video

MSO is still investigating why some residential and business customers were temporarily without phone service on Tuesday

10:20 AM Maybe here's what's in store...

9:45 AM Top telcos and MSOs got their fair share of new broadband subs in the first quarter of 2009

Georgina Burnett talks to COLT Telecom Group's CTO about recent innovations in carrier-class Ethernet technology and whether affordable end-to-end Carrier Ethernet connectivity has at last become a reality

Cisco finally makes a WiMax move, linking with Clearwire to provide IP NGN architecture and devices for the upcoming mobile broadband network

Analyst says interest from carriers is less likely, but doesn't rule out a lowball private equity bid

Georgina Burnett talks to International News Editor Ray LeMaistre about what he expects to see at this year's event

7:20 AM What we're looking to see, learn, and do at Ethernet Expo Europe

10:45 PM Mothers: Don't let your children grow up to be sociologists

5:50 PM And its got some words about Cisco's 'unified' world

5:15 PM Troubled MSO is mad about some ads

Interoute's CTO has some issues with the telecom vendor community, and he's ready to share them at this week's Ethernet Expo in London

4:40 PM The legendary blanket with sleeves takes on the final frontier

Overbuilder has some of its plant already upgraded for Docsis 3.0, but isn't ready to pull the trigger on speedier cable modem services

3:30 PM Akamai CEO claims we've reached it for online video

1:45 PM Indian tribunal rejects BSNL's appeal to reinstate rural levy

1:10 PM Struggling telcos resort to equity sales and government bailouts to fund 3G

12:45 PM Comcast's digital-to-analog channel zappers start showing up on eBay

10:55 AM Private MSO still reeling in basic video subs

Vodafone hatches plan for its own apps store and launches initiative to win over developers

Indonesian mobile operator plans to spend 25 percent more on its networks this year as it builds 2G and 3G capacity with three vendors

Real-time monitoring gets added to the company's EtherReach demarc devices, opening possibilities for new service-level agreements

IP test-equipment house is hoping to get into the radio access network (RAN) with the proposed $63 million Catapult acquisition

Vendors are anxious to get carriers into providing cloud services, but the reality is proving to be complex

6:15 PM Dish subs flee, Cablevision's new fee, and LR is Twittery

$2.35B deal nets AT&T 1.5M new subs in rural areas, and more deals may follow

5:50 PM In Cablevision markets, it'll cost you $300

5:30 PM Despite decreases in its audience and ratings

4:55 PM Sure, Sanjay Jha is loaded. But he's got to pull off a miracle to realize the full value of his huge package

3:45 PM Security cloud hangs over Huawei as it and Ericsson win big with BSNL

Eat a peach, surf the Web – Clearwire has started online sales of mobile WiMax in Atlanta

2:55 PM Ethernet Expo event shapes up with key services demo

1:40 PM AlcaLu and Huawei win at new entrant, bid for Airtel managed services deal

MSO says it expects to deploy Docsis 3.0 in about half its systems by the end of 2009, and is testing 100 Mbit/s in employee homes today

NOON The metro system is nearly here, one analyst thinks

Nortel reports a Q1 loss of $507 million as revenues dip by 37%, hit by the economy and uncertainty about the vendor's future

10:50 AM Next, she'll fashion a radio out of a toilet-paper tube and a paperclip

10:15 AM It's Liberty Media's turn to rekindle the potential fate of the nation's largest satellite TV operator

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has a new chairman to help introduce 3G to the fast-growing market

3Com, Brocade, and Force10 take their opening shots against Cisco with new products announced in advance of Interop

Swedish infrastructure maven asks: Where's the business case for 3G home base stations?

4:00 PM CBS CEO is unconcerned about Disney joining Hulu

Lack of investment in innovative communications software startups spells bad news for service providers, reckons CEO of OSS specialist

Arvind Chhatbar defends his company's string of acquisitions, saying vertical integration is the key to survival

EclipsePlus heads abroad to handle advanced ad campaign management system for international cable companies

6:00 PM Spinoff of Cablevision's Madison Square Garden assets may re-spark rumors about the long-term future of its coveted cable systems

MSO still winning new subs as it fights FiOS, but the rate of subscription growth in Q1 slowed compared to the year-ago period

3:30 PM So says News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch

2:40 PM For LTE... Carrier may choose Huawei for proto-4G trials

2:10 PM Word on the street says Oracle is lining up another big buy

1:45 PM Who has time for standards? Canadian MSO plans to offer some 3D fare this summer via its VoD platform

1:20 PM EZchip waits on Juniper; optical companies wait on Cisco

Carrier deployed a single OSS platform to manage its optical and Ethernet assets, and the move has paid off, says Verizon exec

Verizon Wireless CTO says it needs LTE in the US as soon as possible and that mobile data pricing is inhibiting market growth

11:20 AM High costs may keep HD in a small niche for some of India's TV providers

In Germany, the operator will test LTE at 800 MHz, a choice that could be key to the country's national broadband plan

9:45 AM Could SAP's M&A move be a test run ahead of bigger deals?

9:05 AM News got less worse, but things still aren't great

Sales are still down versus 2008, but Cisco beats expectations for Q3 and even delivers (relatively) good news about Q4

MSO allows 100 'lead adopters' to push the Docsis 3.0 envelope but grants that a 200-Mbit/s commercial launch may be years away

4:20 PM Roku VP of Consumer Products tells Contentinople the company aims to be just that

Oracle reportedly wanted a taste, but it's SAP that's buying into telecom software by nabbing rating and charging platform specialist Highdeal

The guy who stole Cisco source code in 2004 was a 16-year-old Swede, US authorities say

2:45 PM Thai service provider True goes in search of 3G investors

BigBand pulls in nice numbers for Q1, but weak guidance for Q2 causes shares to tumble

11:45 AM Competitive cabler threatens (again) that it's close to launching Docsis 3.0 services

9:50 AM Android phones that know when they're in the femtozone

Nokia Siemens Networks bolsters its management capabilities by striking a deal to integrate EMC's Smarts IP-aware software into its NetAct OSS

For likely the first time in cable history, worldwide Docsis device shipments fell last year, following a sharp slump in Q4

4:50 PM LG Powercom is the first to deploy BigBand's 'vIP PASS' platform

4:15 PM Adobe and Microsoft face off in the Web video segment

The BlackBerry maker said touch-based devices could play a key role in its push for the large and untapped mainstream market

Cough! Cough! Analysts expected to descend on Dallas-Fort Worth in two weeks have been told to stay home

When the going gets tough, the TeleManagement Forum convenes a high-level brainstorming session to come up with some answers

2:15 PM Court gives MSO the green light to start soliciting votes for the big reorg, but it's not out of the financial woods yet

China Mobile's $1.26B Phase III TD-SCDMA tender could spark fierce price competition amongst vendors

MSO picks a Verizon FiOS battleground for its next launch of a 50-Mbit/s service

Digital video firm says customers continued cautious spending in the first quarter, but is confident that the bottom has been reached

As first-quarter sales dip sharply and losses grow, CEO Ben Verwaayen says he's taking the appropriate action

People keep saying 'financial' companies need 100-Gig right away. The NYSE apparently wants to prove it

6:00 PM Eslambolchi's Law, Twitter fight, Google gets my goat, and ZTE heads west

DirecTV will have more freedom by having less to do with Liberty

3:35 PM Does Sprint's $50 Boost signal the future for the company? Or is it merely a sign or the times?

Pay-as-you-go uptake provides the sugar coating for another bitter pill of monthly subs losses during Q1 for Sprint Nextel

11:55 AM Vendor thinks outside the set-top box with media adapters based on HomePNA and MoCA

Vendors are clashing over architectures that they think are best suited to help cable MSOs deliver IP-based video services

7:35 AM Teach your children well

ZTE promises lots of action from its new US- and Europe-focused unit, Division IV, located in Paris

The carrier says it plans to offer more smartphones, likely with a high-end mobile browser to take advantage of LTE

BT slows down its 21CN next-generation rollout and withdraws an initial converged service, but denies the project has been suspended

Two years after Intel gave up on its network processor, Netronome is giving the chips new juice in hopes of preserving a market-share lead

4:20 PM Clips from Britain's Got Talent took the Web by storm in April

Covergence acquisition gives Acme a $6M a year business selling session border controllers to enterprise branch offices

12:35 PM Digeo's hi-def user interface may look cool, but some early reviewers have found it too complex

7:40 AM For $90M, NetLogic fattens up on search engines. Google isn't exactly worried