Editor's Note: The mobile space witnessed a lot of news over the past 12 months that have and will alter the mobile landscape for years to come. With the end of 2010 just days away, RCR Wireless News takes a look back at the...
The closing of Nokia Siemens Networks pending $1.2 billion acquisition of Motorola Inc.’s (MOT) public carrier wireless network infrastructure assets has been pushed back to the first quarter of next year due to still to be completed regulatory and antitrust clearance. NSN said the...
Each and every jump from one network technology to another presents wireless infrastructure vendors with a chance for new business. And sure enough, changes are afoot in the infrastructure space again today as mobile operators make their climb to fourth-generation networks.While recent newcomers are...
Nokia Siemens Networks reported that it has garnered a network equipment deal with Indian cellular provider Idea Cellular Ltd. to deploy HSPA-based services over the carrier’s existing GSM infrastructure. Terms of the deal were not released. The deal includes supplying and deploying the equipment...
To the surprise of few, Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) this morning announced an extension with Motorola Inc.’s (MOT) Solutions business to provide support for the carrier’s iDEN network through the end of 2013. The three-year extension lines up with the carrier’s previously announced plans...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:CienaCanada: With Barrett Xplore Inc. to provide an Ethernet backhaul architecture for the carrier’s nationwide 4G network.Value: UndisclosedBridgewater SystemsUnited States: With Verizon Wireless to provide products and services for the carrier’s network expansion, including mobile control...
After reportedly stalling in its search for private equity investment just a month ago, Nokia Siemens Networks is now in talks to sell off a minority stake of about 30% to a consortium of private-equity firms. Blackstone Group LP and Gores Group are...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:ZTEBahrain: With Batelco Group to provide 2G and 3G equipment under a framework agreement.Value: UndisclosedIndia: With Aircel to provide an SDR-based UMTS 3G network as well as 2G network upgrades.Value: $85 millionAlcatel-LucentSiberia: With OJSC MegaFon to...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:ZTEPeru: With ChinaTel to provide equipment and services for the carrier's deployment of a wireless broadband telecom network in the country.Value: $48 millionJapan: With UQ Communications to provide WiMAX Pico base stations for the carrier's mobile...
ID-WiBB, a non-profit organization created to encourage broadband interoperability in Indonesia, launched an Indonesian broadband roaming facility to serve wireless broadband service providers in the region. The initiative will enable roaming between WiMAX and Wi-Fi and potentially LTE operators in the future.Transaction Network Services...
LTE deployments in the Nordic region are gaining traction as Sweden has three operators competing for LTE customers and Finland gets its first LTE deployment.Swedish wireless operator Tele2 (OH6V) is using Nokia Siemens Network’s Evolved Packet Core as part of its LTE...
Motorola Inc. (MOT) finalized plans to break its operations into two separate companies beginning Jan. 4 that will include a tax-free dividend involving the distribution of all Motorola Mobility common stock held by the company to its stockholders and a reverse stock split of...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:Bridgewater SystemsUnited States: With Agri-Valley Communications to provide its EPC 500 System, which provides subscriber and device data management, policy control and interworking functions for the LTE packet core.Value: UndisclosedEricssonIndonesia: With AXIS to provide managed services...
John Roese has joined Huawei as senior vice president and general manager of the company's North American research and development unit. Roese joins the company from Nortel Networks, where he was CTO. He also has held positions with Broadcom Corp., Enterasys Networks and Cabletron.Consumer...
Nokia Siemens Networks is planning to spend $175 million on wireless broadband technology research and development in South Korea. The investment will stretch out over the next several years, according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.The joint venture between Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG...
Failing a new partner or source of cash for their joint venture, Nokia Corp. (NOK) and Siemens AG (SI are considering an initial public offering (IPO) as one way to exit from their 50-50 stakes in Nokia Siemens Networks.A search for a new partner...
Nokia Siemens Networks effort to find a new partner or group of partners in an expanded joint venture have reportedly stalled.The news runs against the company's impressive spate of wins in the North American market -- notably its $1.2 billion purchase of Motorola Inc.'s...
LightSquared reported the successful launch of its SkyTerra 1 satellite today, which once activated will provide the soon-to-be wholesale wireless network provider with nationwide voice and data capabilities. The company said the Boeing 702HP satellite was launched by International Launch Services via a Proton...
SAN FRANCISCO — “Everything’s going mobile,” Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB.com, said during a keynote panel here at the Open Mobile Summit.Bowman was direct and rather forthcoming on a panel sitting between Nokia Siemens Networks CTO Hossein Moiin and Verizon Wireless CTO Anthony Melone.In...
DALLAS – LightSquared's ambitious plans to offer a satellite/terrestrial-based wholesale wireless network is set to get off the ground this weekend as the company's first satellite is scheduled to launch into space.Speaking during an opening keynote session at today's LTE North America event in...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:AndrewChina: With the Taiyuan-Zhongwei-Yinchuan high-speed railway to provide a coverage and system for essential wireless communications in the Shanxi province for the new 900 kilometer line that links East and West China.Value: UndisclosedDragonWaveU.S. Virgin Islands: With...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:AlvarionItaly: With Linkem Spa to supply an end-to-end 4G network including radio access, core network, end user devices and professional services as the carrier expands its broadband network into Lombardia Veneto, Lazio, Campania, Puglia, Calabria and...
ZTE Corp. signed framework agreements to purchase semiconductor components from five U.S. technology vendors. The deals are valued at $3 billion. The three-year purchase agreements are with Qualcomm Inc., Texas Instruments Inc., Freescale Semiconductor, Altera Corp. and Broadcom Corp.Bharti Airtel announced a strategic partnership...
Below is just some of the news announced during the first day at the 2010 4G World eventMotorola Inc.’s Motorola Solutions business introduced its FDD LTE USB-lte 7110 device, the first FDD LTE-enabled device from the company. In addition, the company unveiled the WiMAX...
