Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...
Motorola Mobility LLC, owned by Google, will stop manufacturing products in China and Brazil. The company announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Singapore-based Flextronics which will acquire Motorola's manufacturing operations in Tianjin, China and assume the management and operation of its facility in...
Nokia Siemens Network (NSN) is ready to provide LTE equipment that is locally manufactured in Brazil, in line with LTE auction rules, to wireless operators that will launch the next generation of telecommunications, starting in the first quarter of 2013. The Brazilian carrier Oi has...
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has signed a partnership agreement with Flextronics to manufacture LTE equipment locally in Brazil. As  RCR Wireless News previously reported, NSN aims to achieve a 35% market share in Brazil. Eduardo Araújo, NSN's president for the Latin American region, has said...
China's Huawei Technologies expects its Brazilian unit’s revenues to reach $5 billion by 2016, with its enterprise business making up $1.5 billion of the total. This would be a jump compared to its 2012 forecasted revenue for Brazil of $2 billion. Sales estimates were...
Taiwan Economic News | January 25, 2011 | Steve Chuang
Taipei, Jan. 25, 2011 (CENS)--While actively expanding its capacity, the Taiwan-based High Tech Computer Corp (HTC)., a globally leading vendor of smartphones, has also been planning to outsource production to meet explosively increasing demand for...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Smartphone sales have been a high profit area for handset makers and wireless network operators, but like...
Even though the wireless handset market will rebound this year, the world's top 10 contract manufacturers will continue to struggle as they try to recover from a disastrous 2009, according to research from iSuppli Corp. Cellphone shipments for the largest original development manufacturers (ODM)...
Upon its filing for bankruptcy, the future for Nortel Networks Corp. looks cloudy, as analysts now speculate whether the company can stay in business, sell assets or even be bought out by a competitor.The Canadian telecommunications giant filed for bankruptcy today for protection from...
Watching the competitive jockeying of the world's largest handset brands has its pleasures-the neck-and-neck excitement of a horserace, the tragedies of thrown jockeys and doomed steeds and, naturally, the wagering, er, investing. Behind the scenes, however, the major handset brands all depend to some...
Singapore-based Flextronics International Ltd. said it would acquire Solectron Corp., of Milpitas, Calif., for $3.6 billion in cash and stock to create an even larger electronics manufacturing service that will generate more than $30 billion in annual revenue.Flextronics is well-known in the cellular industry...
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. announced eight new handsets in three basic categories, expanding its lines of Walkman and Cybershot handsets and offering four new phones for entry-tier markets around the world.Among the models announced, Sony Ericsson global spokesperson, Aldo Ligouri, called attention to...
FOR THOSE WHO WATCH Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P., sifting for signs that the Japanese-Swedish partnership will accelerate efforts to gain market share, last week's news on the vendor's plans in India was tantalizing.The Sony Ericsson-generated news release provided few specifics on the deal...
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P., the world's fastest-growing mobile handset maker, announced it will work with Flextronics International Ltd. and Foxconn to make 10 million handsets in India within two years.The news of Sony Ericsson's ardent pursuit of market share-in contrast to its focus...
PALO ALTO, Calif.—With public markets still not producing the strong responses to initial public offerings of the decade past, "going private" offers high-technology companies a respite from the pressure of quarterly results while pursuing business development and profitability. Thus the decision at Flextronics International...
Representatives from the former Flextronics Software Services business are making the media rounds, clamoring for attention, now that the company is about to announce its new identity-fully six months after being weaned from its Fortune Global 500 parent last spring. Six months is a...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Click here for wireless ratings from past weeks from RCR Wireless News.CarrierRW Baird raised its rating on AT&T Inc. on strong earnings momentum. It also...
Nortel Networks Ltd. completed the transfer of its manufacturing operations and related assets to Flextronics International Ltd., a Singapore-based manufacturing services firm. The transfer includes product integration, testing, repair and logistics operations, all based out of Nortel's Systems House in Calgary, Alberta. Nortel said...
TORONTO—Nortel Networks Ltd. completed the company’s transfer of its manufacturing operations and related assets to Flextronics International Ltd., a Singapore-based manufacturing services firm. The transfer includes product integration, testing, repair and logistics operations, all based out of Nortel’s Systems House in Calgary, Alberta. Nortel...
SINGAPORE-Flextronics International Ltd. said it was selling off its software development and solutions business to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. for approximately $900 million. Flextronics said the sale continues its strategy to focus on boosting growth in its core electronic manufacturing services business, including...
SINGAPORE—Flextronics International Ltd. said it was selling off its software development and solutions business to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. for approximately $900 million. Flextronics said the sale continues its strategy to focus on boosting growth in its core EMSS business, including design, vertically...
The squeeze is on, the stakes are high and the options few. Second-tier handset makers-their exact numbers globally are unclear, but there may be more than 100 players-are scrambling to survive, let alone thrive, as the top six vendors increased their market share last...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.CarriersPrudential Equity Group lowered its price target and estimates on iPCS Inc. after the company reported first-quarter results, including revenue and ARPU results that fell...
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-Portuguese CDMA operator Radiomovel selected Telespree Communications' automated instant activation solution. Radiomovel offers service under the Zapp brand name. Telespree said Radiomovel will use the solution for first-time activation of new wireless voice and data devices without customer-care intervention. Customers will be...
