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The Roese Mobilize Interview

On the day that Nortel lowered its financial guidance and unveiled plans to bail from the optical business, Nortel executives would have probably preferred to hunker down.
CTO John Roese didn’t have the option as he was a speaker at the GigaOm Mobilize conference talking with Om Malik. Here’s a mini-transcript of their conversation.

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Is Breaking Hard to Do

Neil Sedaka once crooned “Breaking Up is Hard to Do” but you have to wonder if that’s the scenario facing Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski.
In the cold, harsh reality of yesterday’s announcement of even more restructuring and the contemplated sale of the Metro Ethernet Network business, Nortel’s future seems more uncertain has it has since the [...]

How Much Blame Should the Board Get?

In the wake of Nortel’s accounting scandal, the company went through an extensive restructuring.
There was a lot of change - a new management team headed by CEO Mike Zafirovski, a new auditor to replace Deloitte, and an overhauled board of directors.
With Nortel’s decision to sell its $1.5-billion Metro Ethernet Network business, it’s clear the company’s [...]

A New, Different and Small Nortel

In many respects, Nortel’s press release is a major harbinger of a completely different Nortel.
If you read between the lines of the press release and listen closely to the conference call earlier day, you’ll appreciate why CEO Mike Zafirovski describes it as a “pivotal” moment for Nortel, adding that “We clearly understand the status quo [...]

Bill Owens: Telecom Wheeler and Dealer

According to the Ottawa Citizen, ex-Nortel CEO Bill Owens is part of an investment group looking to buy a majority stake in Huawei’s fast-growing wireless handset business.
AEA Investors is apparently competing against Silver Lake, Bain Capital, KKR and Goldman Sachs to do a deal with Huawei, which is looking for a way to gain a [...]

Kelly Lands at Vodafone

Peter Kelly who led Nortel’s enterprise division for EMEA, before he and Nortel parted ways last month has been hired by Vodafone UK as its new enterprise director.
“I”m delighted to be joining the organization at such a dynamic time. It’s an exciting place to be and I relish the challenges ahead of me,” Kelly said. [...]

Nortel Unveils DIY Videos

Nortel has been among the corporate leaders in embracing social media, showing a willingness to experiment with blogging, podcasting and videos that many other companies are reluctant or unwilling to do.
But you have to wonder about the latest social media initiative in which Nortel has asked employees to create “homemade” videos to put the spotlight [...]

Talk About a Morning Shocker!

One of the tools I use to keep a close eye on everything Nortel is Google Alerts. If anything is happening involving Nortel, Google usually knows about it.
Imagine my shock this morning upon seeing a Google Alert that Nortel had appointed a new CEO. Then, I realized they were talking about Mike Zafirovski, and that [...]

Roese on the Next Thing

Just in case you missed it, Nortel CTO John Roese did a Q&A with the Globe & Mail’s Gord Pitts. I absolutely, positively love the first question, which Roese handles fairly well, although he would have been better off by saying “I’m not a visionary but I do have some passion for new trends and [...]

John Roese Has a Big Fan

Om Malik, one of the blogosphere’s most influential voices within the tech sector, has some nice words to say about Nortel CTO John Roese, who will be doing a fireside chat at GigaOm’s Mobilize 08 conference next month in San Francisco.
“John Roese, chief technology officer of Nortel Networks, is one of my favorite technologists; he [...]