PARIS-Alcatel Corp. has combined with Birdstep Technology and Gemplus International S.A. to develop, promote and market a solution for seamless service continuity between GSM/GPRS/EDGE or CDMA mobile networks and wireless local area networks.The companies said the agreement will also apply to emerging technologies like...
PARIS-Alcatel Corp. said it signed a $50 million frame agreement with Russia's Mobile Telesystems for equipment deployment in 11 Russian regions and the extension of MTS' network in Ukraine.Delivery of the equipment will be in phases and is scheduled for completion in the second...
PARIS-Alcatel announced an original equipment manufacturer agreement with wireless broadband technology provider Navini Networks, allowing Alcatel to include zero-install, non-line-of-sight and wide-area wireless broadband offerings for low-frequency bands in its portfolio of broadband offerings. Under the agreement, Alcatel will distribute Navini's Ripwave products, which...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Alcatel Alsthom said it has entered into a strategic alliance with Intel Corp. to define, standardize, develop, integrate and market WiMAX technology.The alliance hopes to deliver solutions by the second half of next year.The companies said they will target both urban and...
PARIS-France Telecom and Alcatel Alsthom say they have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop next-generation architecture for a converged fixed, Internet and mobile network.The MoU includes joint research and development teams, sharing of R&D funding, a limited period for exclusive relationship and...
DALLAS-Alcatel has entered an agreement with MetroPCS Inc. to provide the carrier with its Alcatel Multimedia Messaging Services product suite, allowing MetroPCS customers access to multimedia messaging via wireless devices. Alcatel said it is its first MMS contract with a CDMA operator in the...
CANNES, France-Alcatel scored several new mobile video deals, including an agreement with Hutchison 3G Austria for its video gateway product.Alcatel said it will offer video-streaming services for Hutchison 3G in Austria, as well as video telephony services between mobile subscribers and correspondents using a...
DALLAS-Alcatel said the UMTS radio and core network it deployed for Austrian carrier Tele.ring has enabled it to launch its services in nine Austrian cities, including Vienna, Innsbruck, and Graz, accounting for about 30 percent of the country's population."This news comes as a good...
While Alcatel Alsthom, Cisco Systems Inc. and L.M. Ericsson did not have a quarter of bonanza profits like some other big vendors, optimism still underlined their performances. Except for Cisco, their heroics lay more in recouping their losses rather than in raking in profits,...
PARIS-Alcatel Corp. did not unveil a quarter of bonanza profits like some of the big vendors, but the French gear maker narrowed its loss. In its mobile business, however, the picture was sunnier.The company suffered a loss of $660 million, or 49 cents per...
DALLAS-Alcatel Corp. said it has acquired gateway company WaterCove Networks to reinforce its core network portfolio.Watercove makes GPRS gateway support node (GGSN) products, which enhances a network's capacity to transmit data and charge for services intelligently."The skill set of WaterCove Networks is highly complementary...
Positive stock activity is greeting Verizon Wireless' announcement to launch its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO in major cities across the country, even though the carrier has not disclosed which companies will supply the equipment for the program.Already, Qualcomm Inc., the proprietor of the protocol, has...
PARIS-Alcatel Corp. said it signed a $14 million GSM expansion contract with Gansu Mobile Communication Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of China Mobile. Under the project, which is expected to be completed in June, Alcatel will supply GSM/GPRS/EDGE solutions including new software. The operator will...
PARIS-Alcatel Corp. said it won multiple mobile expansion contracts from China Unicom valued at $40 million.Under the terms of the contracts, Alcatel will provide CDMA network gear to help the operator expand capacity in Shanghai, Hebei and Tianjin. Alcatel will also supply CDMA equipment...
PARIS-Alcatel Corp. said it was awarded a $100 million contract by Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc. to increase its Sun Cellular subsidiary capacity to 1 million subscribers. The contract mainly covers the island of Luzon, the largest island of the Philippines archipelago.Alcatel said the network...
Wireless infrastructure company Alcatel announced it purchased the network division of streaming-video company PacketVideo Corp., a move Alcatel said will bolster its video offerings to include video messaging, video telephony, video conferencing, video streaming and video downloading. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."Video...
Wireless infrastructure company Alcatel announced it purchased the network division of streaming video company PacketVideo Corp., a move Alcatel said will bolster its video offerings to include video messaging, video telephony, video conferencing, video streaming and video downloading. Terms of the deal were not...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil-Alcatel Corp said it has joined with Royal Philips Electronics to showcase EDGE technology in an interoperability test.The companies said the tests achieved an uninterrupted download of 30 Megabytes at 220 kilobits per second. Alcatel offered its radio access and core...
The optimistic beat goes on for wireless infrastructure vendors as Alcatel Corp. and L.M. Ericsson both reported profits and significant drops in losses for the third quarter respectively.Alcatel said it slashed its net loss to $332 million from $1.57 billion in the year-ago period....
PARIS-Alcatel Corp. said it won multiple GSM expansion contracts from China Mobile valued at more than $50 million.Under the agreements, Alcatel will expand the capacity of China Mobile's networks mainly in Zhejiang, Guizhou and Chongqing. The French supplier will install its Evolium line of...
PARIS-French supplier Alcatel Corp. and South Korean mobile-phone operator SK Telecom said they will jointly develop and market mobile applications worldwide. The companies said they will focus on mobile commerce, location-based services, infotainment and gaming services.Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will...
PARIS-Alcatel said it will devote a significant portion of its $100 million investment in China to third-generation research and development.It said further that investment in 3G infrastructure and application development will be increased by $45 million."We firmly believe that China, an emerging hotbed of...
LONDON-Just a day after affirming its rating on L.M. Ericsson, ratings agency Standards & Poor's has upgraded its outlook for Alcatel Corp. to stable, which is a B+.The rating, which some analysts see as the end of the vendor's bleeding, bucks the trend of...
PARIS-Alcatel said it signed an $80 million contract with Ghana Telecom for a wireless and wired network expansion.Alcatel will expand Ghana Telecom's GSM network capacity to 630,000 subscribers. It will also install 250,000 switching lines and optimize its transmission network and fiber optical ring.When...
