Comments on: Breakup the Yankees….and Maybe Nortel

By: USAtalks

USAtalks — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:31:42 +0000

Nortel doesn’t make anything. The only thing Nortel is doing is moving jobs out of Canada and the US to low cost countries. But if Nortel doesn’t make anything what are the Turks and Mexicans doing? And BTW Nortel has not been profitable or a happy place since the 90s.

By: nortel

nortel — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:11:48 +0000

good point. perhaps it’s better to call them “suppliers”……

By: Duncan

Duncan — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:57:07 +0000

In truth, Nortel doesn’t actually manufacture much these days (unless M&A rumours count!)

But for historical reasons, Nortel and its peers are still called “telecom equipment manufacturers.” It may be an anachronism, but it isn’t much worse than calling the guys who work at radio stations “DJs”, which stands for disk jockeys, when they don’t use much in the way of disks any more.

By: WhatTheHeck?

WhatTheHeck? — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:45:31 +0000

What the heck?

“…profitable and happy EQUIPMENT manufactuer…”

Nortel outsources equipment manufacturing (ever hear of FlexTronics?).

Nortel is more of a “networking software / services” business nowadays.

What are these “analysts” smoking?