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RIM Still Hunting for Nortel
According to the Toronto Star, Research in Motion is interested in acquiring “certain Nortel assets” even though Ericsson has won the auction for Nortel’s CDMA business and LTE R&D unit with a $1.13-billion bid. RIM believes it can still get a food in the MA& door in wake of the Canadian government’s suggestions it could [...]
New ZMail: Mike Z. on the Wireless Auction
From deep in the Nortel bunker somewhere between Mississauga, Ont. and suburban Chicago, here’s the latest e-mail from Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski about the latest news from the asset firesale, er, CDMA and LTE auction. Team Nortel: As you have seen in the media, the process to find buyers for our businesses is garnering a [...]
Why RIM Wants Nortel
So, why does Research in Motion want to buy Nortel’s CDMA and LTE businesses – a move that came out left field? According to Genuity Capital Markets analyst Deepak Chopra, RIM could be interested in Nortel’s IP: “The bid for Nortel’s CDMA and LTE access business is puzzling, as this is outside of RIM’s core [...]
Is Nortel Fishing for New CDMA Bids?
Wireless Week has an interesting story about a conference call held by Nortel on Thursday, purportedly about the “realities of the current CDMA market”. However, Wireless Week’s Maisie Ramsay opined that the conference call “sounded suspiciously like a sales pitch for its CDMA assets”, which Nokia Siemens has bid for acquire for $650-million (along with [...]
Talking about Nortel on BNN
It must be a pretty slow news day if the media is asking me to talk about Nortel. I was on Business New Network earlier today (aka BNN), talking about Nortel’s LTE business, and reports some LTE patents could generate as much as $2.9-million in revenue.
A Note from Sue Spradley