All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Telecom

Pat Russo and Serge Tchuruk have gone.  I wish them well.  Now we have Ben Verwaayen and Philippe Camus to run Alcatel-Lucent.   Healing is a bad word to describe what Verwaayen and Camus need to do,

The iPhone potential to become the leading business handset is constrained by enterprises allowing employees to choose the carrier with the best network coverage for their work.

1.      The ability to do firmware changes in the field and to do software adaptations of port speeds or protocols has been around for a while – and Ciena has been a leader with this type of capability. 2.      There is no question that as feature sets...

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...

Having acquired 2G licenses at low prices ($400 million for pan India license and spectrum), companies like Datacom Solutions, Unitech, Loop Telecom and Swan Telecom are seeking enterprize valuations of $ 2-3 billion dollars while offering majority stakes to foreign Telcos. With more than 10 service...

When a company allows the employee to select his/her phone from an approved list supported by a Service Provider, then having the cool iPhone to flash at  a meeting will be a big factor in the purchase decision. BUT only if that phone can support the key business functions of push email (MS Exchange...

The question posed at the end of the article is key:- The unanswered question--assuming this account is accurate--is why the iPhone 3G shipped with balky power-control software, something that ostensibly could have been discovered in testing? It is true this could have been discovered, but...

The problem has been found the solution developed but it does not solve the problem right away and may never.

1. Microwave Radio 2. Multiplexing

A record 9.22 million mobile subscriber additions in July, will soon lead India to break the 10 million barrier. In 2010, with tele-density approaching 45 per cent and sub $5 ARPUs in most regions, telecom players have to brace themselves for a new battle. Licenses and spectrum at abysmally low costs...