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Archive for June, 2007

All Nortel, All the Time

Network World blogger Greg Royal has a short post looking at how Nortel is trying revive its brand with the help of advertising agency McCann Erickson. Using the tag line “Business Made Simple”, Royal said Nortel has launched a global branding campaign in Chicago, London, Mexico City and Singapore - with plans to hit four [...]

Talking about Mike Zafirovski and Qwest

I do a weekly podcast called Talking Tech along with Duncan Stewart and Kevin Restivo focused on all things technology. This week, one of the topic was the speculation about Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski being considered a candidate for the Qwest CEO position. Here’s the link for this week’s podcast.

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Sprint Rethinks Wi-Max Strategy?

Nortel has been licking its Wi-Max wounds ever since Sprint decided last year that it would build a $3-billion network with other suppliers. However, according to the Wall Street Journal, Sprint may be re-thinking its aggressive Wi-Max plans amid pushback from some shareholders who believe it’s too expensive a plan for unproven technology. Apparently, Sprint [...]

Hey, Someone’s Still Buying CDMA Gear

Mexico’s Grupo Iusacell, the country’s second-largest wireless operator, is buying some CDMA equipment from Nortel to extend mobile broadband service to 10 new cities. Grupo Iusacell is buying Nortel’s EV-DO Rev A solution that can offer peak data rates of up to 3.1 Mbps from the cellular base station to the subscriber and up to [...]

Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Secrets Revealed

Want to know how Nortel is “changing the world with Metro Ethernet”? If so, you can check out this podcast featuring Philippe Morin, who heads up Nortel’s Metro Ethernet networks unit.

Nortel Cozies Up with IBM

Nortel’s partnership strategy has taken a small step forward with plans to work with IBM to provide small and medium-sized businesses with VoIP and IP communication services such as unified messaging.
“This offering provides Nortel channel partners with a remarkable opportunity to grow with a unified communications solution from two worldwide leaders, and represents our [...]

Mike Zafirovski to Qwest?

With the departure of Qwest CEO Dick Notebaert, the speculation about his replacement has already started. According to the Rocky Mountain News - citing the Wall Street Journal - one of the candidates could be Mike Zafirovski. If Mike Z. ships off to Denver, that would be shocking given he’s only been around for less [...]

Nortel vs. Cisco

BrandWeek has an interesting article - Why Nortel Feels Strong Enough To Take on Cisco - that talks about Nortel’s efforts to rebuild its brand under the leadership of chief marketing officer Lauren Flaherty, who joined the company about a year ago after a long stint with IBM. Flaherty told BrandWeek that Nortel wants to [...]

Avaya Gone; Now What?

With Avaya snapped up for a cool $8.2-billion by two private equity investors, what’s next for Nortel?
Does it go after another large target such as Juniper, which has a market cap of about $14-billion (a merger of equals or quasi-equals), or does it focus on smaller, more strategic acquisitions in the Wi-Max, VoIP and IP-TV [...]

SEC Slams Down on Nortel

A month after the toothless Ontario Securities Commission gave Nortel a soft slap on the wrist ($1-million) fine for accounting irregularities (aka an accounting scandal allegedly spawned by the books being cooked to trigger a lucrative bonus scheme), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is apparently to hit Nortel with a $100-million fine. The SEC [...]