All About Nortel

Over the past couple of weeks, several Nortel executives have been selling shares. The most notable sellers include:
1. Dietmar Wendt, head of global service, who sold 5,055 shares for $128,002
2. Lauren Flaherty, chief marketing officer, who sold 6,172 shares for $157,002
3. George Ridel, chief strategy officer, who sold 13,242 shares for $337,671
4. Dennis Carrey, executive [...]

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The Ottawa Citizen’s James Bagnell, who knows Nortel as well as anyone, has a really interesting angle on the iPhone: could Nortel have invented it.
The reality is Nortel was working on a phone in the early-1990s called the Orbiter that featured a graphics display. The developers of the Orbiter’s user interface was Don Lindsay, who [...]

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According to research by IntelliComm Analytics, Cisco and Avaya are virtually neck-and-neck when it comes to the leading enterprise telecom suppliers in North America during Q1. Avaya had 20.9% of product revenue was Cisco was a smidge behind with 20.9%. Nortel, meanwhile, had 12.1%.
Tech Confidential Blog suggests the study illustrates why Avaya was such an [...]

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Nortel has filled its chief information officer position by hiring Lenovo CIO Steven Bandrowczak. He will replace interim CIO Bill Donovan in mid-July. Bandrowczak had been with Lenovo for less than two years after joining as senior vice president and CIO following a similar stint at DHL Worldwide. According to a Nortel press release, Bandrowczak [...]

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So what’s the better/more viable technology - Wi-Max of HSDPA. Ericsson recently dissed Wi-Max as the Betamax of the telecom world - an assertion that Nortel, of course, vigorously objected to. In any event, Smart Office asks the question about whether Wi-Max is superior to HSDPA in the wake of Austar deciding to use Nortel’s [...]

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TD Securities analyst Chris Umiastowski recently attended the NXTComm 2007 conference, and came away impress with Nortel. In particular, he said Nortel is showing some good traction with its PBT carrier ethernet solution, as well as its optical transport portfolio (Imagine that, interest in optical again!)
Umiastowski said the opportunities for PBT sales could be bolstered [...]

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Do you think Nortel CTO John Roese has ever met a reporter he didn’t like? Just when you thought he was taking a break from the spotlight, he gets interviewed by Forbes.

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Bell Canada, Canada’s largest carriers, will be deploying Nortel’s network and service operations management technology called Metro Ethernet Manager so it can deliver bandwidth-hungry services such as video and file-sharing to business customers.
“We have seen significant growth and now carry a wide variety of service traffic on our Ethernet network, such as IP virtual [...]

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Clarence Chandran, who was once viewed as John Roth’s successor as Nortel CEO until he was stabbed during a break-in in Singapore, has joined the board of directors of WebTech Wireless Inc., which provides located-based and fleet telematics services. It’s an interesting choice given Vancouver-based WebTech has been beset by problems recently, highlighted by a [...]

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Nortel is cutting 180 employees in France, or 16% of the its workforce in the country. It’s certainly not a big number but symbolically this is a huge move given French employees work within a strong union and they are extremely well paid. The employees who were cut work within Nortel’s second-generation wireless operations.

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