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12/7/2012  -  It's hard to call Infinera a favorite for another US Tier 1 win, but there's a chance, one analyst says
Most Recent Post: ninjaturtle... I simply look at balance sheets and ALU is underwater INFN is not. Market Cap means nothing if your liabilities exceed...
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Does Google Have a Plan B?


12/7/2012  -  2:25 PM If Google doesn't get what it wants for Motorola's cable unit, it might reset the auction and try to sell off the parts
Most Recent Post: Jeff Baumgartner... Still asking around but so far i have not heard that Google has offered to indemify bidders from the TiVo litigation as...
12/7/2012  -  Putting Ericsson and Ruckus on notice, Cisco has scored a deal with PT Telekom to deploy and offload 100,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across Indonesia
Most Recent Post: lanbrown... Sorry, 3 1/3 of the worlds population; that extra 3 makes all the difference.
12/7/2012  -  Also: Cook stokes Apple TV rumors; rivals rally for green set-tops; Cablevision to bump broadband fees; Cisco & Cox make CES connection
Most Recent Post: Jeff Baumgartner... They're just getting started here, but the content slate for Net2TV (I also need to add Discovery's Revision3, Entertainment...
12/7/2012  -  Information technology has shifted to networks rather than computers. That means it's time for Cisco to become No. 1 in IT, CEO John Chambers says
Most Recent Post: jes... 5-7% is a pretty decent number for a company of Cisco's size. And Cisco is acheiving this if you keep in mind the state...
12/7/2012  -  Google has set Friday as the deadline for bidding, reports The Wall Street Journal, identifying Arris among those expected to make a play
Most Recent Post: Jeff Baumgartner... Seems to me that if Google strips out a bunch of intellectual property that it will greatly diminish the value of Motorola...
12/7/2012  -  In today's EMEA roundup: AlcaLu slips out of France's CAC 40 index; DT boosts investment, cuts dividend; Telecom Italia says no to Sawiris
Most Recent Post: Getopardo... Market committes have a habbit of enclosing stocks whose prices have been going up, and dropping stocks whose prices have...
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12/6/2012  -  The carrier outlines an ambitious spending plan that includes LTE, fiber-to-the-curb and a new mystery box
Most Recent Post: macster... Thanks. I wonder if this is something like a femto/WiFi unit? I feel something that puts the TV in the centre / as the...
12/6/2012  -  So much for doing that part in-house. Akamai's CDN servers will glom onto AT&T's IP network, taking over from AT&T's own CDN
Most Recent Post: Craig Matsumoto... Ah, good point, ethertype. Although I'd note that enterprises are expected to generate a lot more video traffic (hence the...
12/6/2012  -  DT says T-Mobile will get Apple in 2013 – but will it get 4G LTE devices?
Most Recent Post: tankbert... ...just not for 3G. The AT&T/Canadian iPhone 5 and iPad 3/4 models already supports the same frequencies T-Mobile will...
12/6/2012  -  Customers like AT&T's 4G but still hate the company, which has big plans for expanding its LTE network
Most Recent Post: Dan Jones... It's all part of the same Project VIP update through 2015.   10,000 macrocells 40,000 smallcells 1,000 DAS
12/6/2012  -  Also: Charter's set-top plan gets more static; Cablevision's Lightpath drops 'Optimum'; Netflix says Disney deal won't jack up prices
Most Recent Post: Jeff Baumgartner... Just added an update to the story noting that Dish is indeed conceeding 5MHz of its spectrum as a guard band in exchange...
12/6/2012  -  Nokia Siemens details the products that will transfer to Redknee as part of the proposed $52M deal for its business support systems unit
Most Recent Post: Michelle Donegan... So that's the plan for this deal. But once the it goes through, the challenge for Redknee will be to keep those customers...
12/6/2012  -  Comcast has deployed, in several large markets, an Ethernet-over-Docsis 3.0 platform that offers dedicated symmetrical speeds up to 6Mbit/s
Most Recent Post: Jeff Baumgartner... While some of the big US telcos give less love to copper and DSL, the cable guys continue to ramp up more efforts that are...
12/6/2012  -  Also in today's EMEA roundup: UK's least popular man banks on 4G cash; TeliaSonera chairman departs; EE wants to borrow ÂŁ350M for masts refurb

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ANDOVER, MA:

Napatech Monitors at 100G

- 12/7/2012
CAMARILLO, CA:

Vitesse Sets Stock Sale

- 12/7/2012
MELBOURNE, FL:

Harris Sells Broadcast Unit for $225M

- 12/7/2012
REDWOOD CITY, CA:

Net2TV Turns on Cloud Video Service

- 12/6/2012
ENGLEWOOD, CO:

Ex-FCC'er Joins EchoStar

- 12/6/2012
WASHINGTON, D.C.:

Pay-TV Backs Green Set-Tops

- 12/6/2012
BONN, GERMANY:

DT Ups Capex to 30M Euros

- 12/6/2012
BELLEVUE, WA:

Clearwire, Kajeet Sign 4G Deal

- 12/6/2012
ALBUQUERQUE, NM:

Emcore Posts $6.6M Q4 Loss

- 12/6/2012

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