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A Sad Tale from Mexico

By Mark Evans | Published: September 10, 2009
When Ericsson purchased Nortel’s CDMA business last month, Nortel employees in Mexico were excited about a new owner arriving on the scene to provide some much-needed stability and direction. Unfortunately, the future of the Mexican operations and its 130 employees is still uncertain. Below is a guest post from Mexican employee about the situation: On [...]
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Surprise, Nortel’s Still Innovating

By Mark Evans | Published: August 28, 2009
Lost in the shuffle of Nortel’s struggles to survive and its sad stumble into bankruptcy protection is the fact there’s still a lot of smart people creating innovative technology – something that has been overshadowed for a long time. A good example is an announcement earlier this week that Nortel has come up with technology [...]
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Alert: An Interview with Mike Z.

By Mark Evans | Published: August 6, 2009
Now before anyone gets too excited that Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski did an interview with ANN, l should point out he spoke with the Globe & Mail’s Gord Pitts. Kudos to Pitts for getting an interview with Zafirovski, who has maintained an extremely low profile since Nortel filed for bankruptcy protection in January. Other than [...]
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Parliamentary Committee to Hold Emergency Hearing

By Mark Evans | Published: August 5, 2009
You just have to love the sense of political urgency swirling around Ottawa these days over the future of Nortel. After ignoring the company’s struggles, including a declaration in mid-June that all of its assets were on the block, the politicos are suddenly alive with the cause. Bloomberg reports that a Canadian Parliamentary committee will [...]
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A Case for Staying on the Sidelines

By Mark Evans | Published: July 29, 2009
The National Post’s John Ivison has a good blog post looking at why it makes little sense for the Canadian government to stop the sale of Nortel’s CDMA and LTE R&D unit to Ericsson. Here’s a short excerpt: There have been suggestions that, since the government bailed out GM and Chrysler, it should intervene to [...]
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Nortel: We Still Own the LTE Patents

By Mark Evans | Published: July 28, 2009
If there was any uncertainty, Nortel made it clear that it is not – repeat not – selling any of its LTE patents under the planned sale of wireless assets to Ericsson. (Update: Two courts have approved Ericsson’s $1.13-billion offer, according to the Globe & Mail.) The Wall St. Journal reports that Nortel lawyer Derrick [...]
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