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Sprint announced the next 20 cities in its LTE rollout, including parts of the San Francisco Bay region, sections of Indiana and southwest Florida.  These rollouts are underway.  Sprint's LTE...

The Broadband Forum and the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) conducted the first interoperability testing of chipsets supporting the ITU-T’s new G.vector specifications. Broadcom, Ikanos, Lantiq, Realtek and Triductor all...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will loan EUR 500 million to Ericsson to support its R&D efforts for the next generation of mobile broadband technology.  The load is designated for...

Ikanos announced its Velocity-3 Vectored VDSL chipset and software solution. The company's "NodeScale" Vectoring technology identifies and cancels VDSL crosstalk on up to 384 copper lines in a bundle.  The...

Juniper Networks  introduced its scaled-up MX2020 and MX2010 3D Universal Edge Routers, packing up to 80 Tbps of routing capability in a single chassis and adding new virtualization capabilities for multivendor applications....

Alcatel-Lucent introduced a suite of nine ‘New Conversation APIs’ to help developers access capabilities in service providers'  IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastrucuture. The suite of application programming interfaces (APIs) is aimed at...

Clearwire shares rose 71% on Thursday, as speculation rose that Softbank may bid to acquire the firm. Clearwire is the largest spectrum holder in U.S. and is closely tied with Sprint....

Sprint confirmed published reports that it is in discussion with Softbank of Japan about a possible take-over or major investment. Various media sources have speculated that a buyout of Sprint...

Ericsson announced a major win to supply Vivo's 4G/LTE network in the North and Mid-Western regions of Brazil, as well as the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Bahia and...

Tilera unveiled a 64-bit 9-core processor targeted at applications in networking, multimedia, storage and general purpose computing. The TILE-Gx9 integrates a high-performance memory controller, Ethernet and PCI Express interfaces, and...

Funambol  (pronounced Fu-NAHM-bol), a start-up offering white-label personal cloud solutions for mobile providers, announced $5.75 million in new funding. Funabol believes the market for personal clouds is transitioning from 'silos' such...

Vodacom Group switched on its commercial LTE network in Johannesburg, South Africa. The LTE service will initially be accessible via approximately 70 base stations in Johannesburg. Vodacom said its network transformation project...

Colt, which operates 20 data centres (one in development) and a fiber network spanning 43,000km across 22 countries, has deployed a pan-European vCloud based on the new VMware vCloud Suite 5.1. The deployment, which is the...