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Verizon’s Embrace of LTE

Verizon Wireless’ decision to use long-term evolution technology could make life, well, interesting for Nortel.
LTE is technology supported by the GSM community - a market where Nortel has a minor presence. At first blush, this suggests that Verizon’s decision could be bad news for Nortel.
The silver lining, however, is CDMA (the technology used within Verizon’s [...]

BSNL Looking to Award $910M contract

The last time Nortel aggressively waded into India, it ended up losing more than $260-million on a GSM/GPRS deal to expand Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.’s wireless network - a project pushed by ex-CEO Bill Owens despite the objections of ex-COO Gary Daichendt, who correctly believed it was an uneconomic proposition.
Since then, Nortel has taken a [...]

Wi-Max, Anyone?

There’s an interesting - and somewhat breathless - story in yesterday’s Globe & Mail looking at the exciting future of Wi-Max, which “promises to do what the cellphone did for phone calls”.
While I love the concept of Wi-Max (high-speed wireless connectivity to compete against the cablecos and carriers), let’s just see how the technology can [...]

Will Sprint Kill its Wi-Max Strategy?

For many telecom equipment suppliers, including Nortel, there has been a concerted strategic focus on Wi-Max given its potential to create high-speed wireless networks.
At the forefront of the Wi-Max “revolution” has been Sprint Nextel, which plans to spend $5-billion over the next three years - a staggering investment - to build a Wi-Max network in [...]

Good Times Ahead for Wi-Max

It looks like Wi-Max is starting to gain some momentum - at least in the eyes of the mainstream media judging by a feature story in BusinessWeek featuring Intel executive VP Sean Maloney.
The story looks at the Wi-Max industry and the role that Intel is playing to promote the wireless technology as an alternative to [...]

Nortel’s Wi-Max Dreams

Light Reading has an in-depth story looking at Nortel’s ambitious Wi-Max strategy following a presentation at Nortel’s Maidenhead site in the U.K.
With $100-million of R&D spending now on Wi-Max, it is clearly a major strategic priority for Nortel. However, Heavy Reading analyst Patrick Donegan has his reservations in light of the fact Nortel has [...]

Nortel’s Wireless Plans Applauded

InformationWeek’s Frank Bulk offers up good reviews for Nortel’s strategic focus on providing wireless solutions to the enterprise market, especially the offering of Wi-Fi technology.
“The introduction of 802.11n offers it a window into the enterprise Wi-Fi market. As the broader market reconsiders the previous Wi-Fi generations’ centralization of the data plane, it makes perfect [...]

Alcatel-Lucent Gets Cricket Love Too

Cricket Communications is clearly spreading the wireless love around.
In addition to awarding contracts to Nortel ($135-million) and Huawei (undisclosed), the company also gave Alcatel-Lucent a $126-million contract to supply it with CDMA200 and EV-DO Rev A equipment.
Looks like we could have a CDMA showdown between Nortel, Huawei and Alcatel. Let’s see who chirps the loudest [...]

Huawei Wins Cricket Contract Too

Now this is curious: A day after Nortel announced it had won a three-year, $135-million contract with Cricket Communications, Huawei said it has reached a deal with sell CDMA2000 1X, EV-DO Rev A equipment to Cricket as well.
It looks like Nortel and Huawei are selling the same kind equipment to Cricket, which appeared [...]

The Unwired Session

TMCnet has an interview with Kyle Klassen, director of enterprise wireless marketing at Nortel, about Nortels ‘unwired enterprise’ offering and the technology behind it.