Category Archives: Industry Sales

Carrier VoIP Sales Stalled

By Mark Evans | Published: March 4, 2009

The struggling global economy has taken its toll on the carrier VoIP equipment as sales fell 6% last year, the first time ever the market has declined. Infonetics Research said large RBOCs and ILECs are slowing down on VoIP given that many large projects have been completed, while carriers are moving their capital expenditures to [...]

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$300M Deal is Old News

By Mark Evans | Published: February 2, 2009

There’s a bunch of news reports about Nortel and a $300-million, 10-yeal with the U.S. Social Security Administration for a VoIP system. Just so you know, it was announced in July 2007. More: TMCNet’s blog has a rather indignant post on how the U.S. government “$300 million on Nortel VoIP”. Technorati Tags: Nortel, VoIP

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Telecom’s Bleak Future

By Mark Evans | Published: December 13, 2008

Om Malik, whose book, Broadbandits, captured the tales of the telecom boom, has a short, but succinct, post about the telecom industry’s tough times – citing troubles at Lucent, Nortel and Ciena. Technorati Tags: lucent, Nortel, ciena

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High Hopes for Asia

By Mark Evans | Published: November 26, 2008

With the Nortel empire, one of the brights spots – at least from a revenue perspective – this year has been Asia where sales have jumped nearly 50% over the first three quarter to $1.87-billion. This accounted for 25% of total sales. But according to Nortel Asia-Pacific president Francois Lancon, the market is getting more challenging [...]

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Will the Economy Stall Technology Adoption?

By Mark Evans | Published: October 16, 2008

Nortel’s Phil Edholm has a blog post featuring an intriguing question: whether a slowdown in economic growth – or negative growth – will lead to a delay in the adoption of new technologies. Naturally, Edholm doesn’t think so given he’s in the business of selling products and services. Personally, I think overall investment will decline as [...]

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What’s the Outlook For Equipment Suppliers?

By Mark Evans | Published: October 15, 2008

NetworkWorld has an intriguing story focused on what’s in store for telecom equipment suppliers. Are there going to be winners and losers over the next few months as carriers and corporate customers deal with more pressure on IT budgets? Will an economic slowdown allow Cisco to take advantage of rivals’ struggles to gain an even bigger competitive [...]

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