AT&T is buying T-Mobile USA for a whopping $39 billion in cash and stock. The questions are who wins and who loses in this deal. It is hard to find winners apart from AT&T and T-Mobile. Here a list of who loses this deal: Read More »
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Huawei scored a victory last night in U.S. District Court when a judge ruled that Motorola, which is attempting to sell its wireless business to Nokia Siemens Networks for $1.2 billion, couldn’t share certain information and documents with NSN. But the company lost a battle, too. Read More »
Huawei filed suit Monday to stop Motorola Solutions from selling its wireless network business to Nokia Siemens Networks, because the sale would transfer trade secrets and competitive intelligence from the Chinese equipment firm to a competitor. Is this the start of a Chinese patent offensive? Read More »
Nokia Siemens Networks today released data showing consumer spending on mobile broadband in Europe is up 40 percent from a year ago. The data is a barometer not only for demand for mobile broadband but also the bite it will take out of consumers’ wallets. Read More »
Nokia Siemens Networks today launched a mobile application to measure and report real-time 3G connectivity service levels. That’s similar to a crowdsourced consumer app from Root Wireless, but if NSN can embed its solution in the network equipment it provides, future data networks could be self-optimizing. Read More »
In a deal valued at $7 billion over the next eight years, LightSquared, backed by Harbinger Capital Partners, has hired Nokia Siemens Network to create a wholesale 4G wireless network on its behalf using satellite and terrestrial coverage. Read More »
Nokia Siemens Networks will buy Motorola’s wireless infrastructure business for $1.2 billion, which will allow NSN to increase its presence in two key wireless markets — the U.S. and Japan. It also gives the Finnish company ammunition to fight off competitors, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei. Read More »
Ciena today beat out Nokia Siemens Network to buy bankrupt Nortel’s metro Ethernet business for $769 million, winning the bidding war for the assets that it began in October. A court will still have to approve the deal that will see Ciena, which makes fiber … Read More »
A large group of carriers and equipment makers yesterday came out in support of a standard called One Voice to provide voice over the next-generation Long Term Evolution mobile networks. For those adopting the standard, LTE mobile calls would become VoIP calls. The standard … Read More »
Shares of Nokia plummeted after the world’s largest handset maker posted a brutal quarter and a loss of $832 million. And while the company raised its industry outlook for the rest of the year, its dissolving presence in the U.S. is particularly worrisome. And there’s … Read More »
It’s been sad, watching the proverbial vultures that have been circling overhead during the past few months, waiting to swoop in and feast off the carcass of a once-exalted company called Nortel. But after being run by a parade of incompetents who set it on … Read More »
Nokia today posted a 66 percent plunge in second-quarter earnings and a 25 percent drop in sales, and said it’s no longer expecting its market share this year to increase over 2008, sending its shares to close lower by 14 percent. And they’ve lost more than … Read More »
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