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Nortel-Motorola: A No-Go?

Chicago Business has a story looking at Motorola CEO Ed Zander’s strategic options, which include everything from making an acquisition to expanding the company’s hot cell phone business (Razr, Rokr, etc.). With nearly $15-billion of cash, Zander is not hamstrung financially but his track record suggests he’s not a big fan of mega-deals. Chicago Business [...]

Record Traffic!

Nothing like big news to drive traffic. The Siemens-Nokia joint venture announcement saw more than 1,300 visitors yesterday. Now if Techmeme.com would only discover All Nortel, All the Time, life would be really good.

Outlook for Nortel-LG Joint Venture

Nortel held a conference call earlier this week to talk about its joint venture with LG, in which Nortel acquired a 50.1% stake for $145-million. The JV was created to give Nortel access to the South Korean market; to sell JV products from Nortel; and leverage the R&D resources of the two companies.  According to [...]

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Nortel’s Low CeBit Profile

Nortel - along with Cisco - does not have a booth at the massive CeBit trade show in Hannover, Germany. Instead, it has a booth with joint venture partner,LG Electronics Inc. Apparently, Nortel is taking a look at how it approaches “live brand communications” (a.k.a. conferences, seminars, etc.) With Nortel about to launch itself into [...]

A Long Wait for Nortel’s Q4/2005 Results

In the wake of its accounting scandal, don’t expect Nortel to issue any financial results without making sure everything has been scrutinized, double-checked, most important, audited. There’s no way this company wants to embarass itself with numbers that aren’t as close to perfect as they can be. As a result, the Q4/2005 results are unlikely [...]

Nortel’s New Ad Slogan

So Nortel’s got a new advertising campaign with a new catchy slogan. Are you ready for it? It’s “This is the Way to Business Made Simple.” Huh? First, it’s doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue and I’m it’s probably not gramatically correct”. Personally, I’m more of a fan of the slogan during the telecom “What [...]

Nortel’s Bond Issues

In less than a month, Nortel has $1.275-billion of debt coming due. The question being asked by analysts is how the company is going to deal with it. Nortel could issue equity but that would be extremely dilutive - 350 million shares - so that’s probably out. It could use some of its $3-billion of [...]

Does Nortel Want More BSNL Business?

According to LightReading, India’s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. is about to solicit bids for a second phase of wireless equipment contracts worth $4-billion. The question is whether Nortel wants to be involved. The company won a $500-million contract in 2003 but it has lost nearly $200-million on the deal so far. There have been recent [...]

Why a Blog on Nortel?

Hey, we’re all still obsessed with Nortel even though its lustre has evaporated - as well as three CEOs in the past four years. At dinner parties, during taxi drives and dentist appointments Nortel continues to be lively discussed. Why? Beats me, but I figure most Canadians own Nortel in one way, shape or form [...]