GLG News by Communications Equipment Sellers

After China and India, the next growth market for mobile application is the Middle East and Africa. The rise in price of oil has made some of the economies in the region very wealthy and the governments and private industry are making significant investment in the infrastructure. Chinese government...

Genband acquired switching assets of Siemens/Siemens Stromberg Carlson, including the intellectual properties associated with connecting to the proprietary interface of the line bays of these manufacturing-discontinued switches. Nortel is planning to upgrade the core of these switches with CS1500 (next...

Nontraditional mobile operators may emerge when the 700 MHz spectrum is finally auctioned off in the coming year that could potentially change the landscape and business model of existing mobile carriers, like AT&T and Verizon Wireless. The communication service may be completely free of charge...

Point one is that Ebay is in financial trouble. The second point is that some of it could have been avoided. The third is - the problem can be partially resolved, but it will take time, money, and will loose Ebay some of its "charm."

Mobility is the single most important attribute of voice service and without mobility, voice carriers' long term viability will depend on offering mobility and roaming, cost effectively. WiMAX deployment cost of building the radio networks (for coverage and capacity) and cost of handsets will determine...

1. Traffic and service over IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) have not yet seriously picked up significantly to impact SS7 traffic significantly. 2. SS7 traffic continues to grow dramatically in wireless, mostly driven by new IN/CAMEL-based services and SMS 3. Consolidation of fixed line and mobile carriers...

The articles makes some important points: 1) There are many competitors in the market. Apple is just the newest and splashiest, 2) The market the IPhone addresses hasn't been as big of a hit as Apple is trying to make it, 3) Price and being locked into two vendors will provide the grounds for a dead...

1. Wireless Service Providers are assessing the deployment of a new form factor for radio, that is low power and gets packaged as a residential gateway (like DSL or cable modem), called Femtocell, to extend the reach of their broadband radio indoor, to improve their coverage, and to use an existing...

1. Too many SS7 carriers are trying to vie for a small market and consolidation is a natural outcome among the carriers in this space. 2. With consolidation of tier II mobile carriers, there are fewer opportunities in SS7 wholesale business that VeriSign, Syniverse and TNS (or known as Hub Providers)...

1. Verizon's announced Single Number Service is not necessarily a very unique service. 2. Other carriers have similar offerings. 3. The main issue is how Verizon is going to display the caller ID for an outbound call when a call is originated from a mobile hand set.