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In final results before combination with Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Networks sees solid growth in Greater China, EMEA regions
Finnish vendor Nokia recorded net sales of 3.6 billion euro ($4.05 billion) in the fourth quarter of 2015, up from 3.5 billion euro in the same quarter last...
Is it three or two?
With the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent now completed at Nokia, we believe that a review of the RAN market share for the combined new company is in order. We will have our updated 2015 radio transceiver (TRx) and base station market...
T-Mobile CEO Legere apologizes and AT&T offers up unlimited data? 2016 looks like a party!</h2
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for...
Continents, cultures linked by subsea fiber optic networks
The world is becoming an increasingly connected place. In this wireless world it’s easy to forget all these connections require hundreds of thousands of kilometers of fiber optic cable to carry terabytes of data across the world’s...
Alcatel-Lucent signed on to help Camapana, a Singapore telecommunications infrastructure firm, build what it claims is the first private subsea Internet cable into Myanmar. The new cable, called the Myanmar-Malaysia-Thailand-International Connection or MYPHIC, is said to deliver 300 gigabits per second capacity to the...
How did we end up here? A history lesson
In the beginning, there were six global wireless radio access network equipment vendors: Alcatel, Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nokia and Nortel Networks. Subsequently in the mid-2000s, the emergence of the Chinese vendors to support TD-SCDMA for...
As the new year gets underway, Nokia is busy completing its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, though that may not be the company's only big news. The new year also marks the end of restrictions that have kept the company from selling Nokia-branded smartphones. Those rules...
LAS VEGAS – Broadband Forum Chairman Kevin Foster told opening day attendees at CES 2016 the G.fast technology is key to quickly delivering innovative new services that require lots of bandwidth.
Foster, also GM for access and CPE innovation at BT, said 4K video, location-based services,...
Nokia has almost completed its purchase of Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T is set to abandon contracts altogether, and Samsung has filed a patent for a foldable phone.
1. Nokia said its takeover of Alcatel-Lucent is almost complete. Most of the outstanding shares of Alcatel-Lucent have now been...
Jim Patterson looks at his top 10 events across the telecom space in 2015
To aid in brevity, we have split the top 10 list into two groups of five (the second part will be published tomorrow). They are in no priority order, and I...
Complementary coexistence or incongruous competitor?
The making of mobile standards can be a convoluted business. There's the pure technology aspect, but that's often just the tip of the iceberg. Underneath lies a pile of patent issues, lobbying efforts, regional requirements and political motives. In the...
2014 tragedy reaches federal court
The story of the fatal West Virginia tower collapse in 2014 continues this week as the case reaches federal court. This past June RCR Wireless News reported the 2014 collapse of two towers that killed three people and injured two others...
On this week's show we look at how open source is impacting NFV and SDN deployments and top stories from the past week
Open source continues to be a growing influence on the rollout of software deployments across the telecom space, with a greater focus...
iPad crashes, union demands and another Cisco acquisition
5 things to know today ...
1. Cisco is buying a video conferencing software company. Acano is a London-based company with a video conferencing platform deeply integrated with Microsoft's Skype for Business. Cisco, of course, has its own...
Alcatel-Lucent set to add virtualized multi-layer IP and optical solutions expertise
Telecom vendor Alcatel-Lucent this week joined the Open Network Lab’s Open Network Operating System project, which is focused on developing scalable software-defined networking solutions for telecom operators.
Alcatel-Lucent joins the ON.Lab organization with an expected...
DAS providers are keenly aware of the need reduce the cost and footprint of their systems as they target more enterprise customers. Alcatel-Lucent is keenly aware of the need to keep innovating in high-growth areas as it prepares to merge with Nokia. One answer...
Level 3 looks to NFV and SDN in move to bolster websites, applications; other NFV and SDN news of the week
Recent events around the launch of ticket sales for an upcoming moving that crashed the websites and applications of movie ticker brokers highlight the...
Nuage Networks VSP to support CenturyLink NFV deployments across PSB architecture
Telecommunication services provider CenturyLink signed a deal with Alcatel-Lucent’s Nuage Networks to provide the operator with networking functionality for its programmable services backbone network architecture.
CenturyLink said its PSB architecture is an open, software-enabled platform for...
The motivation for Ericsson's new partnership with Cisco was crystal clear today at the company's annual capital markets day in Sweden. Ericsson is telling investors that it expects the total network equipment market to grow at a compound annual rate of just 1-3% during...
1. Ericsson is teaming up with Cisco in a move that should make it a stronger competitor to Huawei and to the combined Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent. The partners said the deal will yield $1 billion in incremental revenue for each company by 2018. Ericsson...
Coriant discusses benefits of SDN implementation for mobile networks, and we look at news of the week
NFV and SDN continue to garner increased interest from telecom operators looking to gain greater efficiency and agility from their operations. But are those benefits enough to justify...
1. Nokia appears to have cleared the last major hurdle in its $17.6 billion purchase of Alcatel-Lucent. Today, China's Ministry of Commerce gave conditional approval to the merger, which has already been approved in the U.S. and Europe. China gave Nokia a to-do list...
