Ken. Sounds you work at NT. You sound too much like an R&D person who cares less about business with your "so what" statement.
If you work on R&D, then help your slow sales team by stopping your endless release slippages and give them a real product, not trial quality. The "30 Something WiMax trials and Wins" (aka mainly trials) as per Z's statement is not cutting it for the market except for keeping some internal jobs. May be you need to check with your leadership what do they really mean with the "30 wins and trials". This way you will know who is making things up. I hope Z have some real progress to share on May 2nd.
Ken
Nortel has been investing in the LTE program for a while now. And the number of folks being shifted from WiMAX to LTE was rather small in comparison to the number of people working in both areas. Anyway your question would have been more accurate as:
"Didn't Nortel just redirect a little of their R&D investment from WiMax to LTE?"
Then the answer is "So what?". We are talking about a small shifting of money between two large programs. As for the "How come they did not see this trend about LTE [a] few months ago??" Huh??? You have no clue what your talking about... Why would you even post something you clearly have no knowledge of? Perhaps you should google "Nortel "Long Term Evolution" LTE" OR perhaps you should just keep making things up as you go along! Its probably more fun for you that way :)
The issue is not in loyal investors who started to develop misconceptions and distracting the company, it is in the Exec team which is showing lack of leadership. Lots of product development cycles are wasted as they miss the market signals. How come they did not see this trend about LTE few months ago??
The sad part is that MikeZ kept talking about WiMax progress last year with selective words such as 33 wins "and trials". Clearly it was all trials with no revenue generating wins.
commentor
Tongue.in.cheek.
This blog actually is very informative. lots of facts were read here before it really became public. Yes there is non-sense here and there, but I see it no difference than Nortel own blogs.
Didn't Nortel just redirect all R&D investment from WiMax to LTE? go check with your friends or management. The lack of vision within Nortel Executive ranks wasted more than 1 year worth of R&D only to find out that WiMax is not what Nortel wants to do, it is LTE. In Q1 2007,Nortel moved hundreds of people from all over the company to Wimax. But now, things have to reverse and move them again to LTE and do some layoffs in between. Too much waste of time by Nortel Execs. The sad thing is, Execs who claimed they have vision when they invested heavy dollars on WiMax in 2007, are the same people who are claiming they have vision as they are changing the plans.
This lack of vision is spread across all business units, Metro Ethernet and Enterprise included. Nortel is a great company, but this recent clueless management will kill it for sure.
Tongue.In.Cheek
Commentor - Where does it state that Nortel redirected *ALL* R&D investment from WiMAX to LTE?
I accept that *SOME* investment was redirected given that the two solutions share in some common technologies such as OFDM and MIMO. It makes total sense to have engineers that developed MIMO for WiMAX to share in their knowledge to re-use MIMO in LTE.
To suggest that Nortel is completely getting out of WiMAX is foolish and a false and misleading statement for the purpose of discrediting Nortel. It's these false and misleading statements that I challenge given their intent.
they just dumped WiMax. LTE play is mostly driven by LG. 100% garanteed they will be LaTE to re-vector. Just proves management runs around like chickens with their heads off, since they change things on a dime.
Tongue.In.Cheek
If NT just dumped WiMAX then why did they recently announce WiMAX ecosystem work with Acer and Kyocera?
Then again, facts have never been a key component of this blog. Fictional stories that discredit NT are far more fun!
ERICMON
ERIC yesterday announced $1.44B GSM contract from China Mobile and China Unicom, which are also customers of NT. Do you think NT was one of the bidders for this contract? Just curious about Mike Z's 2008 outlook, only hope it doesn't include the potential win for this contract.
not true
But why ALU and NOK-SIE in the list??
BENHorn
ALU has a partnership with NEC; and NOK-SIE, has Nokia connections for handsets
BENHorn
After reading the article, it was mainly focused on LTE handsets from my understanding. If that is the case, Nortel is not in play in that segment; hence why NT is left out of that discussion
Nortel: MIA in LTE?
The National Post wonders why Nortel wasn’t among the list of companies included in a major LTE licensing announcement.
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