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Light Reading

• Casa Puts Heat on Cisco, Arris & Motorola
• Euronews: AlcaLu Offers Managed CEM
• 4G: What's New?
• Packet-Optical Transport Evolution: In Pictures
• Management World 2012: More Preview Pitches
• Motorola Doubles Up on CMTS Downstreams
• SoMoClo Descends on Dublin
• Network Efficiency Trumps Speed, Says AT&T
• Juniper's QFabric Lands in Hong Kong
• The Cable Show 2012: To Docsis 3.0 & Beyond!
• XO Preps the Next Optical Wave
• LTE Will Suck as Long as Backhaul Does
• Comcast's Xbox Answers Don't Satisfy Critics
• XO Takes a Shine to OpenFlow
• Rethinking Back-Office Systems to Support New Business Models

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FierceTelecom

• Cogent's Schaeffer: We have not found any acquisition opportunities that make sense
• Earthlink, Alcatel-Lucent among providers to settle voicemail patent suits with Klausner
• Verizon confirms plans to raise FiOS rates
• Rural telecom groups: Call completion needs improvement in rural areas
• Optical hardware Q1 spending falls 23%; mobile broadband rises
• Michael Powell, NCTA, sounds off on cable industry innovation
• TIM Brasil to offer its FTTX service under the 'Live' brand
• Equinix enhances its European reach by acquiring ancotel
• Frontier has no plans to offer IPTV to offset residential declines
• In detail: Following the Packet Optical Transport Systems (P-OTS) evolution
• EarthLink taps XO veteran Michael Toplisek to head IT Services division
• Zayo bolsters its wireless backhaul capabilities in Phoenix
• NEC wraps up its purchase of Convergys' IM business
• Tracking the Packet-Optical Transport System (P-OTS) evolution
• Survey: Only 66% of consumers are happy with their pay-TV subscription

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infoTECH Spotlight

• A-TEK, Inc. Awarded National Institutes of Health $20 Billion CIO-SP3 Contract
• Aetna Board of Directors Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend
• Federal Contracts Awarded by Federal Agencies in Virginia (May 18)
• Information Technology Services, Including Telecommunicationservices [TendersInfo (India)]
• IT Hardware Purchase [TendersInfo (India)]
• United States : Jennifer Gray Joins Bottomline Board of Directors [TendersInfo (India)]
• India,United Kingdom : Wipro to Launch 'India Gateway' Internship [TendersInfo (India)]
• India : Telephone Facilities in Coastal Areas [TendersInfo (India)]
• Cellphone users in China top 150 million
• New Survey Shows California Physician Groups Improving Capabilities in Patient Care Coordination
• Time Warner Cable Selects SecureMedia® by Motorola Medios for Secure Multi-Screen Content Delivery
• APPLIED VISUAL SCIENCES, INC. - 10-Q - MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
• Time Warner Cable Selects SecureMedia® by Motorola Mobility Medios for Secure Multi-Screen Content Delivery
• Time Warner Cable Selects SecureMedia® by Motorola Medios for Secure Multi-Screen Content Delivery
• Coyote Point Systems Receives Information Technology Industry's 2012 World's Best Award for Best Application Delivery Solution

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AT&T Google News

• Telecoms Operators Lobby NCC Over N1.17 Billion Service Quality Fines - AllAfrica.com
• IEEE Introduces Groundbreaking Standard for Body Area Networking - MarketWatch (press release)
• Mindspeed and China Mobile Collaborate for TD-SCDMA/TD-LTE Small Cell Solutions - MarketWatch (press release)
• NTT Com & BIG to Offer Global Internet Access in Brunei Govt. Affiliate ... - MarketWatch (press release)
• New Telecom Study Finds Feds and Industry Fundamentally Disagree - MarketWatch (press release)
• PLDT Philippines Selects Alvarion's(R) Wi-Fi Solution for Nationwide Wi-Fi ... - MarketWatch (press release)
• BayRing Communications set to expand fiber optic ring - Seacoastonline.com
• ACCAN's mid-term review reveals overwhelming support - Computerworld Australia
• Duqm floating hotel linked with telecom network - Oman Daily Observer
• Aruba Networks to Present at Barclays Global Technology, Media and ... - MarketWatch (press release)

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feedzilla

• Facebook confirms IPO pricing of USD 38 per share (DMeurope)
• Phablets will surpass 208 million device shipments annually in 2015 (ABI Research)
• Virgin Media one of the first ISPs to block Pirate Bay (CableForum.co.uk)
• T-Mobile USA to launch mobile broadband service passes (DMeurope)
• ABI Research Teardowns Shows New Wolfson Microelectronics Parts in New Smartphone Models (ABI Research)
• Is Apple Really Dropping Google Maps for iOS6? Really? (ABI Research)
• Vietnam handset, spare parts exports up 162% in 4 months (DMeurope)
• Dish Auto Hop aims to get customer attention, regardless of service lifespan (ABI Research)
• PT revenue jumps 97%, net income plunges 56% in Q1 (DMeurope)
• MTNL may sign multi-year managed services deals in Africa (DMeurope)
• Highlights of the First Weightless Plenary Conference (ABI Research)
• Convinced by TU ME, Unconvinced by Joyn (ABI Research)
• MTNL may sign multi-year managed services deal in Africa (DMeurope)
• TMo USA decides to go with incumbent network suppliers for LTE (ABI Research)
• Google to change Android mobile OS strategy - report (DMeurope)

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InformationWeek

• Sailing Mystery Unsolved: Court Declares Jim Gray Dead
• New FBI Surveillance Backdoors? 6 Key Points
• Twitter Adds Do Not Track Capability
• Nokia Burning Cash, But AT&T Has Hope
• Facebook's History: From Dorm To IPO Darling
• Samsung Racks Up 9M Galaxy S III Preorders
• Salesforce.com Reports Torrid Q1 Growth, Slams SAP
• HP Layoffs Signal Punishing Fall
• InformationWeek's RSS Feed is brought to you by
• How Facebook IPO Impacts Social Business Space
• Google Apps: Has Adoption Slowed?
• How Facebook Ignores Its Users
• Weather Channel, Flipboard Updates Gain Social Power
• Iomega Unveils NAS Appliance For SMBs
• SAP Builds Ecosystem To Boost Hana

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Telecom Ramblings

• Infonetics: Backbone Optical Spending Takes a Big Dip
• Friday Bytes 5/18: Earthlink, Optimum Lightpath, Cbeyond, SSE
• Zayo Takes Fiber-to-the-Tower Campaign to Phoenix
• When train engineers talk telco
• Comcast Lifts Caps In Favor of Usage-based Pricing
• Poll: Is Comcast Playing By the Rules With Xfinity?
• tw telecom Advances in Hawaii, Pacific Northwest
• Datacenter Bytes 5/17: IO, Telx, Terremark, Earthlink, Equinix
• Words Fail the Comcast Prioritization Discussion
• euNetworks Joins 100G Club
• Equinix Strikes Again, Buys ancotel
• Zayo Optimizes Chicago/Seattle Route For Latency

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Current Analysis Reports

• Metaswitch Helps Huawei Build its SingleBackbone Solution – Provides Control Plane Solution
• Ciena 5430 RSS Selected by Verizon for Control Plane; Will It Capture the 100G Extension?
• Terabit Optical & Data Networking Conference 2012: Transport and Routing Roundup
• Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS-5c and TSS-5R
• Cisco - CPT 200
• DragonWave Rounds Out Small Cell Backhaul Story While Waiting for NSN Deal to Close
• ECI Telecom - OPT 9604 and OPT 9608
• Ericsson - SPO 1410
• Transmode - TM-301
• ADTRAN Total Access 5006
• CurrentCast: The Huawei and ZTE Analyst Conferences - Key Takeaways
• Fujitsu FLASHWAVE CDS
• Tellabs 7100 Nano OTS
• Huawei: 2012 Global Analyst Conference
• Ciena - Transport and Routing

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telecoms.com

• Social TV can help Facebook avoid becoming the new Yahoo!
• Operators losing millions to spam, claims ex-GCHQ official
• Mobile is both Facebook’s Achilles heel and future
• We finally understand operators, says Intel
• Viettel lights up Mozambique with fibre and mobile
• Facebook deploys own Euro fibre network to meet demand
• US operators to introduce shared data pricing plans
• T-Mobile USA cuts 900 more jobs
• Handset sales drop for first time in three years
• Android continues to dominate smartphones

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Connect Planet

• Applying Real-Time to the Operator’s Tool Kit: Enabling the Second Side of the Two-Sided Model
• Court lends an ear to complaints against FCC's efforts on special access reform
• AT&T, T-Mobile deal dead, Sprint among the winners
• LightSquared adds money woes to GPS and Falcone problems
• Intellifiber thrives within Windstream fold
• Real-Time Customer Policy Management: Turning a Negative into a Positive
• It’s over: AT&T ends T-Mobile bid
• Sprint disables Carrier IQ, despite insisting it doesn't snoop
• CWA Report: Outsourced call centers pose serious security threat
• AT&T is giving up on side deals it hoped would win it T-Mobile

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cellular-news

• New Telecom Study Finds US Government and Industry Fundamentally Disagree
• ZTE announces SIM-based NFC device that enables bank and toll payments in Turkey
• Fitch Affirms Telkomsel's Debt Ratings on Singtel Support
• Augere Wireless Looking to Shut-Down Indian WiMAX Network
• Alvarion Deploying 3,000 Wi-Fi Hotspots in Philippines
• Capital of Namibia Gains LTE Network
• Rwandan Government to Hand out Free Phones to Improve Disaster Communications
• Bahrain Regulator Says 28,000 People Have Migrated their Mobile Number
• Banglalink awards charging system upgrade to Ericsson
• LTE RAN Equipment Revenues Almost Triple Year-over-Year During First Quarter 2012

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phonedog

• My mobile gaming habits have almost completely stopped
• Voyager Mobile goes live days after initial launch delayed by website attack
• HTC says some of its products have made it through U.S. Customs review
• Would you consider switching to pre-paid to save money?
• Motorola explains why some devices won't be updated to Android 4.0
• Can GameStop Mobile last longer than a year?
• Google's acquisition of Motorola given approval by China
• Sprint offering $100 trade-in credit for old iPhones to put toward iPhone 4S
• When it comes to the Nexus name, there should be only one
• Featured user review Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket 5-19-12
• GameStop Mobile appears as new AT&T MVNO
• Would you still own an iDevice if you couldn't jailbreak it?
• ITC hits Motorola with import ban on some Android devices for infringing on Microsoft patent
• Samsung Focus 2 Video Review Part 2
• Samsung Focus 2 Video Review Part 1

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tmcnet.com

• Telecom Egypt Successfully Implements Ascade's Flagship Routing Solution
• Turkcell Picks Telenity for Telco 2.0 Services

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topix

• Ask The Fool
• Cable Show 2012: Arris, NDS To Knit Gateway Together
• AT&T, Feds neglect low-price mandate designed to help schools
• Falcone's folly
• A Quality Value Play: J2 Global Communications
• Verizon Wireless and AT&T racing to introduce shared-date plans
• Ferro merges his profits
• Bruce Kushnick: The Great Verizon FiOS Ripoff
• Vodafone poised to net 8bn from Verizon Wireless venture
• 600 employees at contractors servicing Rogers customers could strike next month
• Apple Loop
• Toronto Hydro posts loss after restructuring costs
• Verizon data fans to pay more in service or phones
• Worries mount as Nokia burns through cash
• Most actively traded companies on the TSX, TSX Venture Exchange markets

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TelcoNews.com

• U.S. Law Professors Cast Further Doubt on ACTA’s Constitutionality - State Department Confirms No ACTA Pre-Review
• ITU: Broadband Commission releases first country case studies
• Swedish Telcom Giant Teliasonera Caught Helping Authoritarian Regimes Spy on Their Citizens
• Improve efficiency - switch off your smartphone
• Google Gets Approval From China for Motorola Deal
• ITC Awards Microsoft an Import Ban on Motorola Phones, Tablets
• UK communications green paper delayed while Jeremy Hunt deals with Leveson
• Internet governance must ensure access for everyone - UN expert
• A practical Internet of Things
• Apple’s iPad ‘4G’ branding changes across Europe

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