GLG News by Communications Equipment Sellers (North America)

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."

Given the tough climate and price challenges associated with building mobile networks in India, the most likely winners will be ZTE and Huawei if CDMA is selected by Reliance and Tata for 3G radio technology. Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent have to bleed in order to get this business.

With spectrum auctions concluded and multiple new entrants coming into the Canadian mobile wireless market, it seems that Bell Canada and Telus had to react in order to remain competitive in their market. More bad news for the CDMA technology as a whole and Nortel (a Canadian darling) specifically since...

Certainly the potential is there. However there are some real limits as to just how successful this venture will be. It really harkins back to the mainframe and minicomputer days. The PC afforded individuals and companies the freedom to break free of IT control and this movement seems to bring us back...

Sprint's acquisition of Nextel was to get a strong foothold int he small to medium size businesses, the stronghold of Nextel customer base. One of the main services was push-to-talk (PTT) or Walkie Talkie service Verizon and AT&T have both since launched their PTT service and going after the...