WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc. completed interoperability testing to verify compatibility of its Prepaid Wireless for GSM networks using CAMEL standards for intelligent networking. CAMEL compliance was tested and certified at Nortel Networks Ltd.'s interoperability testing facility in Richardson, Texas.BCGI's prepaid wireless offering supports...
More challenging than erasing a $477 billion budget deficit (which should keep the 3-percent federal phone tax intact for another hundred years or so) is figuring out where the U.S.-China relationship is headed.It is a moving target that is as much about dollars and...
TORONTO-Nortel Networks Ltd. followed the pattern of major vendors in its fourth-quarter results by beating estimates with a net income of $499 million, or 11 cents per share, in contrast with a loss of $168 million, or 4 cents per share, in the same...
Nortel Networks Ltd. is in talks to divest most of its major operations, including factories and supply chains, to Flextronics Inc., a contract electronics manufacturer. If the talks materialize, it may lead to a major loss of up to 2,500 jobs."This proposed transaction would...
Industry observers believe that infrastructure vendors favor a tie-up between Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. Both companies have deals with the same manufacturers, including L.M. Ericsson, Nokia Corp., Nortel Networks Ltd. and Siemens AG.Nortel is proud of its role as provider...
Nortel Networks Ltd. is in talks to divest most of its major operations, including factories and supply chains, to Flextronics Inc., a contract electronics manufacturer. If the talks materialize, it may lead to a major loss of up to 2,500 jobs."This proposed transaction would...
WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc. last week inked $1.1 billion in contracts with Chinese mobile-phone operators, transactions that come at a time of rising trade tensions between the two countries.In all, $2.3 billion in deals-mostly wireless-were announced here last Tuesday at a U.S.-China technology event. Motorola's $556...
China is a land of enormous opportunity for wireless infrastructure makers and the like, no doubt about it. A land with more than 1 billion people can yield a lot of cell-phone users. Motorola Inc. recently scored a $1 billion contract in China, and...
WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc. today signed deals totaling $1.1 billion with China's top mobile-phone carriers, and other U.S. wireless firms picked up multimillion contracts in the world's largest wireless market. The transactions come at a time of rising trade tensions between the two countries.In all, $2.3...
WASHINGTON-Cable & Wireless Jamaica Ltd. has purchased cellular communications equipment from Nortel Networks Inc. and eight other U.S. exporters as part of a $173 million project. Export-Import Bank of the United States is guaranteeing a $72.3 million seven-year loan to the U.K.-based telecommunications provider.Cable...
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...
Building on the momentum of its initial two-city launch last year, Verizon Wireless said it will spend $1 billion to launch its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO service in major cities in the United States. The service, known as BroadbandAccess, will be available in the summer,...
Handset bellwether Nokia Corp. received a boost from J.P. Morgan, which upgraded the company to "overweight" from "neutral," leading to a 3.5-percent leap in shares.Another analyst Dresdner Wasserstein also lifted the vendor to "buy" from "hold," on account of a "tidal wave of handset...
TORONTO-Nortel Networks Corp. announced last week amended financial reports for full-year 2002 and the first two quarters of 2003, following up on a previously announced plan to restate financial results dating to 2000. Last month, when it filed its third-quarter 2003 results, the company...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it will expand Pakistani mobile operator Pak Telecom Mobile Ltd.'s GSM 900 MHz national network under a $56 million contract. Nortel said it is the second major expansion by Nortel of the Ufone-branded network since building the original system...
In the search for killer applications and other services that rake in revenue, independent software vendors are the new brides of wireless.With software expanding, the value of the hardware space will continue to shrink in the wireless space. ISVs therefore are working with major...
WASHINGTON-Cable & Wireless Jamaica Ltd. has purchased cellular communications equipment from Nortel Networks Inc. and eight other U.S. exporters as part of a $173 million project. Export-Import Bank of the United States is guaranteeing a $72.3 million seven-year loan to the U.K.-based telecommunications provider.Cable...
Nortel Networks Corp. announced last week amended financial reports for full-year 2002 and the first two quarters of 2003, following up on a previously announced plan to restate financial results dating to 2000. Last month, when it filed its third-quarter 2003 results, the company...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it will expand Pakistani mobile operator Pak Telecom Mobile Ltd.'s GSM 900 MHz national network under a $56 million contract. Nortel said it is the second major expansion by Nortel of the Ufone-branded network since building the original system...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Airspan Networks Inc. announced last week the completion of its acquisition of Nortel Networks' fixed wireless access business. The purchase price of $12.9 million was offset against Nortel customer prepayments totaling $14.9 million, which were acquired by Airspan as part of the...
Even with the promise of a tech recovery and emergence of new applications for wireless gadgets aimed at free-spending teenagers, information-starved road warriors and the rest of us, 2004 is apt to be no more than a sexed-up version of the year that was....
WASHINGTON-Wireless and high-tech vendors are undergoing a serious re-examination of policies they advocate before Congress, regulatory agencies and the White House in light of a growing outsourcing trend that some fear could hurt U.S. innovation and security even as it helps financially squeezed firms...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. signed $10 million in contracts with L.M. Ericsson and Nortel Networks Ltd. to upgrade the carrier's current TDMA-based network in Alaska with GSM/GPRS/EDGE technology and said it expects to spend an additional $3.5 million next year to further enhance network...
BRAMPTON, Ontario-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has retained a law firm, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, to review the restatement of its results for 2000 through 2002 and the first half of 2003.In its quarterly results, the vendor said it understated its earnings by at...
