Comments on: Will Lower MEN Sales Cause No More Bids?

By: Teleguy

Teleguy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:57:44 +0000

I thought you said Nortel didn't provide services?? Also, your Carrier business has been providing end-to-end services for at least a decade now, probably much longer. Maybe you MEN guys should have been talking to them? Too late now I guess.

By: Friend007

Friend007 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:18:52 +0000

Really! I only know of enterprise VoIP and some other enterprise stuff.

By: Teleguy

Teleguy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:51:51 +0000

The rest of Nortel has been doing that for years. If MEN is not, you have a point. They appear to be years behind the rest of the company.

By: Friend007

Friend007 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:14:49 +0000

I'm not talking about the services that come with the product. Offcourse there are always some services. There is much more to services than what's there today. Does NT design, build, integrate, and manage networks for its customers. Does NT/MEN has a contract like Ericsson's contract with Sprint? No. MEN has big installed base and customer relationships that could have been leveraged properly.

By: Teleguy

Teleguy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:57:44 +0000

By: Friend007

Friend007 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:18:52 +0000

Really! I only know of enterprise VoIP and some other enterprise stuff.

By: Teleguy

Teleguy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:51:51 +0000

The rest of Nortel has been doing that for years. If MEN is not, you have a point. They appear to be years behind the rest of the company.

By: Friend007

Friend007 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:14:49 +0000

By: Teleguy

Teleguy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:54 +0000

Friend007 is not correct about the sale of services. MEN has been selling services for years. They certainly could sell more of them.

By: zeroman

zeroman — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:53:49 +0000

the way they are going looks like it. Lucent dragged them down ever since the two merged. Otherwise Alcatel was a pretty class act. They have also been on a hiring spree so not sure why or what for.