GLG News by Communications Equipment Sellers

Airave, the indoor Femtocell-based service, launched by Sprint Nextel is only useful for voice services, and potentially not with full feature transparency. Broadband data over Airave is not supported on the devices provided by Samsung. Location-based services remain a major question mark as well since...

iPhones were too expensive: Apple did not get the pricing correct at the beginning. Apple made a bad decision limiting the service to one carrier - A T and T. Apple is making poor marketing decisions which may not only cost the company sales in the short term but may have a negative impact on the...

Majority of large mobile carriers will most likely evolve their GSM/3G radio access networks to LTE/4G. The announcement from Verizon Wireless and Vodafone further proves that WiMAX is not going to have significant penetration in the traditional mobile carriers. Radio is only one piece of convergence...

Verizon and Vodafone's decision to evolve their radio access technologies towards a common standard is an excellent approach to provide seamless roaming across their properties overseas and here in the United States. The question remains as what they may do with their core network. GSM core and CDMA...

Tthey are hoping that this credit and reduction in price will increase sales since retail session begins in fourth quarter.  They made a mistake in the pricing and now they are trying correct it.  I will be curious to see if the pricing drops again in December.  My opinion is that it...

With Alcatel-Lucent preannouncing that they have to reduce their revenue projection due to slowness in wireless expenditure in North America (primarily CDMA), it is surprising that single pony companies, like Starent and Airvana, are not negatively impacted. Other carriers such as Bell Mobility in Canada...

The implications are clear. Even though Microsoft isn't shivering in fear as of yet, there are viable options out there. The only issue is these options are not marketed like MS Office and Windows.

VMWare is the undisputed king of virtualization right now, even Microsoft is trying to displace VMWare. Virtualization squarely hits on the pressing need of SMBs. It's an easier way to manage IT and implement advanced functionality. Virtualization will become the standard infrastructure. It helps with...

Not a surprising move, given that market was anitcipating it. Process of consolidation continues in the wireless carrier market. Transaction may benefit Alcatel-Lucent & Tekelec, and negatively impact Nortel and VeriSign. The process of consolidation continues in the mobile wireless market! Could...

There is significant difference between WiFi and WiMAX from a deployment perspective and business models that could potentially prove to be the achilles heel of WiMAX. The business case for the carriers should be for services other than voice and pure internet access. So far, except Sprint Nextel, no...