BEIJING-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Nokia Corp. both signed contracts with divisions of China Unicom. Lucent said it has signed a CDMA contract worth more than $230 million to expand the networks of China Unicom."China Unicom also will be able to deliver a variety of...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Denying any wrongdoing, Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has received preliminary court approval to settle pending class action shareowner litigation against the company."The Honorable Judge Joel A. Pisano of the U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., entered an order preliminarily approving the...
BEIJING-In a simultaneous score for China's stride to third-generation technology, Nortel Networks Ltd. announced a carrier contract and a research and development investment, while Lucent Technologies Inc. announced successful interoperability testing.Nortel said it has invested $200 million in R&D in China during the past...
LONDON-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has signed a three-year contract to assess and analyze the performance of European mobile operator MmO2's GSM and GPRS networks in Germany, Ireland, the Isle of Mann and the United Kingdom."It is important to O2 that we ensure our...
BONN, Germany-Lucent Technologies Inc. said German mobile-phone operator e-Plus deployed the latest version of its MiLife SurePay line of prepaid and postpaid technology. E-Plus has been using Lucent's SurePay for prepaid service since 2002, Lucent said.The new version allows E-Plus to set flexible tariffs...
In a simultaneous score for China's stride to third-generation technology, Nortel Networks Ltd. announced a carrier contract and a research and development investment, while Lucent Technologies Inc. announced successful interoperability testing.Nortel said it has invested $200 million in R&D in China during the past...
WASHINGTON-With the United States facing $4 billion in retaliatory tariffs from the European Union by month's end, telecom and high-tech firms find themselves split on competing legislation to repeal tax breaks for U.S. exporters.The export subsidy issue directly impacts Motorola Inc., the nation's top...
MOSCOW-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has won a contract to supply Russian GSM 900/1800 MHz operator MegaFon with its multi-service packet network to enable the carrier to combine voice and data traffic.Under the agreement, Lucent will supply MegaFon with its PSAX 1250 and 4500...
With the SARS epidemic now out of sap, the land of wonton soup and TD-SCDMA technology is regaining its place on the front burner of wireless business.Infected with a new elan for investment, vendors have announced a series of contracts and initiatives in China,...
SEOUL, South Korea-Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a contract with Korean operator KTF to supply a CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network under an $80 million contract.The contract will cover the city of Busan and most of Kyungnam province, including Ulsan city, and will offer data services...
The Customer Respect Group has released its Summer 2003 Online Customer Respect Study of the telecommunications and networking firms, including wireless companies, that are among the largest 1,000 companies in the United States.MCI and Nextel Communications Inc. tied for first place in customer respect...
When a technology era begins, infrastructure is king. But once the nuts and bolts are in place, it takes second place to peripherals.In wireless, it is no different. "Total wireless infrastructure contract values are down roughly 40 percent year-on-year from the first half of...
MOSCOW-Lucent Technologies Inc. said Moscow Cellular Communications will use Lucent equipment for its 450 MHz CDMA2000 1x network in Moscow. The IMT-MC network will initially provide coverage in Moscow and surrounding suburbs. Lucent did not provide financial details of the contract.MCC received its license...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica-Lucent Technologies Inc. said Costa Rica's sole telecommunications provider, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, has contracted it to deploy Lucent's next-generation optical solutions. The technology will allow ICE to provide mobile and wireline services using a common transport network.The financial terms of...
NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc., which has barely recovered from lawsuits related to vendor financing and alleged fraud, now confronts an unlikely lawsuit from an unlikely place-bribery in Saudi Arabia.A Saudi firm, National Group for Communications and Computers Ltd., has alleged in the lawsuit that...
One of the big riddles with open standards is that not all of those who swear by the principle believe in it. Unless, of course, it works in their favor.With a myriad of technologies in the market, vendors and carriers all see their technologies...
The hype is data, but the reality is voice.It often comes in the language of converged services or unified platforms, but the inability of data to pick up rapid revenue has led vendors to use voice as the platform to drive data services.While beating...
In a time of coy spending, infrastructure vendors are warming to professional services as the surprise boon of the sector.In their last quarterly reports, all the vendors glowed over the new revenue stream, which has raked in billions of dollars in a cash-challenged market.None...
IRVINE, Calif.-Motorola Inc. could have plans to build a disposable mobile phone through a new licensing deal with disposable phone company Hop-On.Officials for neither Motorola nor Hop-On were immediately available for comment.According to a short news release from Hop-On, Motorola licensed "certain essential cellular...
Motorola Inc. could have plans to build a disposable mobile phone through a new licensing deal with disposable phone company Hop-On.Officials for neither Motorola nor Hop-On were immediately available for comment.According to a short news release from Hop-On, Motorola licensed "certain essential cellular patents...
BOULDER, Colo.-SandCherry Inc. recently committed to refining its focus by working with partners to offer complete mobility solutions to its enterprise and service provider customers, an announcement that was followed by a flurry of partnership deals and product releases that serve as part of...
Interest in Wi-Fi technology surged again last week as Sprint PCS announced it will begin offering a Wi-Fi solution later this summer that initially will provide its customers with access to high-speed Internet services in more than 800 locations across the country and plans...
Caution chastened optimism in vendor earnings.While companies like Qualcomm Inc. and Siemens AG enjoyed profits, others like Lucent Technologies Inc. and Nortel Networks Ltd. didn't fare as well.Ahead of its earnings report, Lucent had retracted an earlier optimistic projection to turn a profit...
SandCherry Inc. recently committed to refining its focus by working with partners to offer complete mobility solutions to its enterprise and service provider customers, an announcement that was followed by a flurry of partnership deals and product releases that serve as part of the...
