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A Note from Sue Spradley
In the wake of Nokia Siemens losing last Friday’s auction for Nortel’s CDMA wireless business and LTE R&D unit, Sue Spradley, who heads up Nokia Siemens’ North American unit, left a comment for Nortel employees on AAN that I wanted to highlight: It is with disappointment that I respond to this blog as I was [...]
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 [...]
Joel Hackney Talks About Wireless Sale
Joel Hackney, who heads up Nortel’s enterprise business, provides his thoughts about the sales of the CDMA and LTE R&D units to Ericsson. What’s particularly interesting is a FAQ that includes this question about what Ericsson bought: Substantially all of Nortel’s CDMA business, which is the second largest supplier of CDMA infrastructure in the world, [...]
Questions, Questions, Questions
Even though Ericsson’s $1.13-billion bid for Nortel’s CDMA wireless business and its LTE R&D unithas prevailed over offers from Nokia Siemens and MatlinPatterson, many questions still have to be asked: 1. What exactly did Ericsson acquire? It bought the slowly-dying but still profitable CDMA business but about the LTE component? How many patents are part [...]
Mike Z. on the CDMA/LTE Wireless Sale
For what it’s worth, here’s Mike Zafirovski’s e-mail to employees in the wake of Ericsson’s $1.13-billion purchase of Nortel’s CDMA wireless business and LTE R&D unit: Team Nortel: This has been an eventful week for our company. The interest we have seen in our CDMA and LTE Access assets is further proof of what we [...]
The Politics of Nortel (Part II)