GLG News by Communications Equipment Sellers (North America)

Femtocell deployment of Verizon will most likely be targeted towards customers that have poor coverage than an integrated product with their FiOS home gateways. Only when LTE becomes a reality and cost effective will there be an opportunity to provide localized coverage.

CRT monitors are passe.  They take up way too much valuable desktop space. They have not been made in quantity for a few years and old monitors lose the crispness on the screen making it harder to read. Besides, studies have shown that eyestrain from trying to view these monitors can...

3GPP has agreed in principle on the interface requirements from the Femto Access Point to the core network. However, the detail is yet to be worked out fully. However, it is just one aspect of standardization and there are many other aspects that must come together in order to make Femtocells plug and...

Nortel did not see a solid business case for IMS with its mighty footprint in major carriers. With the IMS having such as a difficult time proving its business case, the question is how much longer inferior vendors such as Sonus, Motorola, and Veraz will continue to push IMS.

Nortel announced that it has stopped the development of two major technologies: WiMAX and IMS. This indicates that Nortel was not able to penetrate these two markets, WiMAX for being a niche and small as well as IMS where it could not effectively compete with Ericsson, NSN, and ALU. The strategy is...

Security is very important to endusers, expecially now. Microsoft image is not what is desired right now. Enduses are not willing to spend money and time to learn new OS.

Getting out of WiMAX is a good move for Nortel. Nortel must focus on a single 4G technology and makes an attempt in becoming a substantial player in LTE. With Nortel exiting an Cisco not executing on WiMAX, the only strong players remain Motorola and Alvarion. The question is how long would the Nortel...

Alltel operates a mobile network that is very compatible to Verizon Wireless. Alltel's customer base is all on CDMA. Alltel operates a GSM network (as a result of acquisition of Wester Wireless) that is mostly used for roaming of large GSM carriers' subscribers (AT&T and T-Mobile). Alltel's integration...

This acquisition should be fairly straight forward for Verizon Wireless, given the technology match in the CDMA operation of Alltel. It could negatively impact Motorola since they are also a CDMA radio vendor and Verizon does not use Motorola radios. Nortel will be a big winner when the transaction...

Qualcomm had not yet made a full commitment to the CDMA market for cost reduced and small footprint femto. This is a market ripe for their technology.