GLG News by Communications Equipment Sellers (North America)

Thirty percent of U.S. consumers who purchased the Apple iPhone 3G ditched their previous wireless carrier to go with AT&T, the iPhone's exclusive stateside carrier, according to a new report from the NPD Group. In the report, NPD Group, a wireless market research firm, said carrier defectors made...

All the hype came to its crescendo this week as T-Mobile, Google and HTC jointly released the T-Mobile G1, the first commercially available mobile device based on the open source Linux Google Android operating system. The touch screen G1, known to some as the HTC Dream, bears some similarity to...

It's Terabyte Galore. Capacity is no longer an issue as vendors have 1TB products on the market from Seagate, Western Digital, and Iomega.

1. Consolidation of service providers & equipment vendors 2. Reduction in use of data services 3. Reduction in sale of high end mobile devices & PDAs

Restructuring its Optical Business Unit and stopping development of LTE is a major indication that Nortel is in dire need of cash, in this depressed valuation time. New management must streamline the operation and bring focus to the areas where Nortel can effectively compete.

Nortel announced that it is revisiting its 4G strategy, yet another time, in less than 3 months! What changed in these short few months that made Nortel rethink its 4G/LTE strategy? What about Motorola? When are they going to pull the plus on their 4G/LTE development?

GenBand announced the widely speculated acquisition of Nextpoint, a company that was itself a merger of two sub performing companies of Nextone and Reef Point in the VoIP security product lines! With the planned exit of AudioCodes from the Session Border Controller (SBC) market and financial struggles...

Text messaging (also known as Short Messaging Service, SMS) is one of the highest margin services for the carriers. The end-to-end cost of a delivering a SMS message for a carrier is less than $0.02 a message while they charge more than $0.10 a message. With the SMS volume doubling year over...

If you have ever worked with Microsoft’s Virtualization you will then know there is a reason it is free. It does not work very well. VMWare is so far in front of them that it’s not even funny. As long as MS keeps their virtualization technology dependent on their OS I will be skeptical from the get...

Talk about "hair on fire."