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MWC Keynote: Vodafone CEO says end app discrimination
Vittorio Colao says operators have no right to dictate what app a customer uses for a particular service, but operators don’t have to let them do so for free...
MWC: Nokia, Intel go after a MIDs, tablets with new OS
Merging their Moblin and Maemo work, the two vendors are creating an open-source platform that both resembles and challenge’s Google’s OS strategy...
Alcatel-Lucent takes a hit on scaled-back outlook
Cost-cutting helps vendor post a fourth quarter profit on lower revenues, but a pull back in its optimism for 2010 tempered its story...
MWC: Ericsson predicts radio modules to make their way to phones
As consumer device makers look to make their own smartphones, modules could prove an easy way to bypass wireless R&D, according to Ericsson VP...
MWC: Cisco incorporates Starent tech into NGN architecture
Cisco study shows that data traffic on the mobile network will grow 39 times in five years, driven by video...
YouTube dominates mobile Internet traffic; mobile VoIP on the rise
DPI vendor Allot’s new mobile traffic study finds both video and VoIP are increasingly dramatically over the mobile network, one costing carriers capacity and the other costing them revenue...
Supercomm gets shelved for 2010
TIA, USTelecom will not hold Supercomm in 2010 and Expocomm events will not renew its management contract...
SurfKitchen powers T-Mobile’s web2go app store
SurfKitchen signs up first tier-one US operator, powering T-Mobile’s web2go app storefront on the Nokia 7510...
Alcatel-Lucent base station tech mixes and matches three generations of wireless
The new multi-carrier module can support any combination of GSM, HSPA and LTE and is backward compatible with almost 100% of ALU’s installed base...
Motorola grows because of Android, Nokia in spite of it
Both Nokia and Motorola posted profits in the fourth quarter, driven by smartphones and, for Motorola, entirely by Android ...
Harris Stratex becomes Aviat Networks
CEO says name change reflects vendor’s new identity as an end-to-end wireless solutions provider...
Ericsson: 4G lead will take time to materialize in earnings
While Ericsson has emerged guns blazing in long-term evolution, CFO says the infant market won’t impact the bottom line for years...
Metaswitch scores indy-style VoIP deals -- with APAC flavor
Vendor announces new wins at small island telcos throughout the Pacific...
How Global Crossing is offering WAN optimization
The carrier launched WAN optimization as a new managed service worldwide today...
How Terremark keeps its colo and data centers green
Increasing energy efficiency in data centers is a never-ending challenge. And the task is more complex for providers that have to split their facilities between data centers and colocation facilities, like Terremark (NASDAQ:TMRK)...
Genband’s Mehmet Balos on Nortel bid
Genband’s chief marketing officer, Mehmet Balos, spoke with Connected Planet about the implications of the company's bid for Nortel's carrier VoIP business...
The State of IP
It's been years since IP slowly but surely began infiltrating into mainstream carrier networks. In 2010 it's poised to make its biggest impact ever....
ZapMyTV readies global Web-based TV for Q1 launch
ZapMyTV has been quietly negotiating with broadcasters and content owners in recent months in a bid to launch a completely Web-based (Flash-based) video service in next year's first quarter: a global, three-screen, feature-rich...
Nortel: 100G today, 100GE next year
100G leader Nortel will join router vendors in the race to 100-Gb/s Ethernet but won’t threaten them...
Verizon goes live with 100G
The ‘vast majority’ of Verizon’s US network will skip 40G...
