Here is a synopsis of some important developments in the world of Broadband, Mobile and the Internet.

* The Feds have given the go ahead for Alcatel-Lucent merger. Lucatel, as Light Reading calls it, is getting mo money from Telefonica and will help build out Spanish incumbent’s next gen network.

* KDDI outpaces NTT DoCoMo and adds 148,000 new customers in May. Vodafone KK, soon to become Softbank Mobile got 1100.

* Thanks to broadband, the future is in South Korea.

* India’s Tata Indicom has signed up ZTE for its CDMA infrastructure gear requirements. Separately, total number of mobile subscribers in India is now 100 million.