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...
TEL AVIV-Partner Communications Co. Ltd. said it has signed a $93 million deal with Nortel Networks Ltd. to supply UMTS equipment for its networks.The carrier expects the network to increase voice and data capacity in such services as "person-to-person telephony that can change the...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Airspan Networks Inc., provider of broadband fixed wireless DSL networks, announced it plans to acquire Nortel Networks' fixed wireless access business for $12.9 million by the end of the year. Airspan will acquire all existing assets associated with the manufacture, development and...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Airspan Networks Inc., provider of broadband fixed wireless DSL networks, announced it plans to acquire Nortel Networks' fixed wireless access business for $12.9 million by the end of the year. Airspan will acquire all existing assets associated with the manufacture, development and...
OTTAWA-In tune with its "Business Without Borders" vision, Nortel Networks Ltd. said it plans to trial its public wireless local area networks architecture with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and British Telecom plc.Nortel said it will reduce the costs of transporting high-speed data between...
With upbeat third-quarter results snapping several quarters of melancholy, wireless players may be about to turn their purse strings loose. The good news is infectious, touching not only carriers, but also equipment vendors, chipmakers and startups that are basking again in venture capital. Those...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Motorola Inc. said it has won a contract to supply base stations and transmission equipment for Brazilian carrier Vivo's CDMA2000 1x network in the northern and western parts of the country.The contract signals the first phase of Vivo's migration from TDMA to...
OTTAWA-In tune with its "Business Without Borders" vision, Nortel Networks Ltd. said it plans to trial its public wireless local area networks architecture with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and British Telecom plc.Nortel said it will reduce the costs of transporting high-speed data between...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it will implement third-generation wireless data networks for Brazilian operator Vivo in the west-central and southern regions of Brazil. The value of the CDMA2000 1x network equipment contract was not released.Nortel will be the exclusive provider for both...
In an announcement with possible implications for laid-off employees, plant closings and investors, Nortel Networks Ltd. said it is undertaking a comprehensive review of its financial profile for the past three-and-a-half fiscal years.Unlike the recent trend of overstating incomes, Nortel said it overstated its...
In an announcement with possible implications for its job layoffs, plant closings and investors, Nortel Networks Ltd. said it is undertaking a comprehensive review of its financial profile for the past three and half fiscal years.Unlike the recent trend of overstating incomes, Nortel said...
By rolling out services in two U.S. markets, Verizon Wireless has triggered momentum for CDMA2000 1X EV-DO technology, barely two years since the first launch of CDMA2000 1X services in the world.The EV-DO launches, which took place in San Diego and Washington, D.C., are...
A Russian operator has begun a trial of CDMA2000 1X technology at 450 MHz using equipment from Nortel Networks Ltd. The trial is being conducted in Yekaterinburg, Russia's fourth-largest city, by UralWestcom, a joint venture between Russian Telecommunications Development Corp. and Ural Svyza Inform....
With the onset of standardization and modular technologies, the market shares of the big infrastructure players have continued to see constant declines, according to an upcoming report from the Yankee Group.The picture looks even gloomier in the year ahead as Nextel Communications Inc.'s capital...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it plans to hire 150 new staff for its Salo mobile plant in Finland in a move that bucks industry's tide of layoffs and export of jobs to Asia.Although Nokia's layoffs have been relatively fewer compared with rivals Lucent Technologies...
NEW YORK-More than a year after its delisting, Marconi plc is returning to the Nasdaq Thursday to satisfy the yearnings of its influential U.S. shareholders.The company, which has restructured, had indicated its intention to return in August.The company fell out of the exchange when...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-A Russian operator has begun a trial of CDMA2000 1X technology at 450 MHz using equipment from Nortel Networks Ltd.The trial is being conducted in Yekaterinburg, Russia's fourth-largest city, by UralWestcom, a joint venture between Russian Telecommunications Development Corp. and Ural Svyza...
The battle of standards over base stations has heated up with the Common Public Radio Interface initiative announcing the launching of its specification.CPRI, which is led by L.M. Ericsson, faces rival Open Base Station Architecture Initiative led by Nokia Corp. CPRI said it completed...
TAIPEI, Taiwan-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has won a contract worth $64 million to supply GSM equipment to Chunghwa Telecom to cover more than 7.5 million subscribers.Nortel will supply radio, core switching and intelligent network equipment for wireless voice and access technology.
GUATEMALA CITY-Guatemalan mobile operator SERCOM has selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to deploy a nationwide GSM network. Nortel will overlay SERCOM's current CDMA2000 1X network, also supplied by Nortel, with the GSM technology.Nortel said the new network will also be GPRS and EDGE ready. The...
Having cast his shadow over the company for more than half a decade, the resignation of Christopher Galvin as chief executive officer of Motorola Inc. has foisted on the company the challenge of which path to follow next. The appointment of a replacement will...
FRANCENortel Networks Ltd. has won a $200 million, 15-year GSM-Railway contract with French railway operator SNCF. The new system will handle all voice and data communications for train operations within 15,000 kilometers of track and replace the existing analog radio system. The project will...
PARIS-Nortel Networks Ltd. has won a $200 million, 15-year GSM-Railway contract with French railway operator SNCF. The new system will handle all voice and data communications for train operations within 15,000 kilometers of track and replace the existing analog radio system.The project will be...
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...
