The rumors were true: Rajeev Suri now heads up the old/new Nokia. His track record in turning around the NSN networking business points to a focus on that field, but the company has other important weapons in its arsenal too.…
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Nokia solidifies mobile broadband role by buying out Siemens’s NSN stake
The €1.7 billion deal will take the Siemens out of Nokia Siemens Networks in the coming quarter, assuming regulators show the green light. The early market response has been positive.…
Read MoreZippy! NSN shows off 1 Gbps wireless speeds
Nokia Siemens Networks plans to show off gigabit wireless speeds using the variant of of LTE-Advanced network that Clearwire plans to deploy. But don't get too excited, too soon. These aren't real world speeds and they're not for handsets.…
Read MoreNSN’s new network fabric has it all: LTE, Wi-Fi, and cloud
At MWC, Nokia Siemens Networks plans its most ambitious mobile network design yet: a system of 100 small cells that behaves like a single cell site. This has huge implications for the heterogeneous networks of the future, which aim to create a sea of cheap bandwidth.…
Read MoreNokia Siemens sets up LTE shop in Silicon Valley
The hub of mobile infrastructure in the U.S. may be in North Dallas, but the allure of Silicon Valley is bringing more telecom vendors to the Bay Area. Nokia Siemens is the latest, announcing the opening of one of its Smart Labs in Mountain View.…
Read MoreNokia Siemens reaches for a $1.6 billion lifeline
With no more money from its corporate parents forthcoming and few remaining businesses to sell, Nokia Siemens Networks has gone to European and U.S. banks for the funding it needs to restructure and survive. Will $1.6 million be enough to set it on course?…
Read MoreIntel’s next big wireless play: It’s not smartphones
Intel's wireless ambitions go beyond smartphones and tablets. It’s set its sights on the guts of the mobile network as well. By embracing a new network design concept called Cloud-RAN, Intel believes it can reshape wireless networks to make the best use of its chips.…
Read MoreNSN sells wireline business to Adtran. Here is why.
Nokia Siemens Networks said it will sell its wireline broadband assets to ADTRAN for an undisclosed amount. The deal is the second in as many months for NSN, which had previously been hoping to find a buyer for the whole business.…
Read MoreMobile networks are learning how to be webscale
NSN today laid out a new architecture for mobile networks that brings concepts such automation and elasticity from webscale and cloud computing to mobile broadband as network engineers at carriers face the challenge of scaling their infrastructure to serve billions of endpoints.…
Read MoreNokia Siemens Networks throws in the towel on sale
Looks like Nokia and Siemens are stuck with their joint venture in a telecommunications equipment company. Nokia Siemens Networks Wednesday said it had completed its review of private equity bids and decided to recommit to each other.…
Read MoreFirst GSM call was made 20 years ago today
Today is the 20th birthday of the first GSM phone call, which in many ways was the start of the global wireless revolution. GSM was adopted in 1987 as a standard. More than 4.4 billion people use phones based on GSM today.…
Read MoreNot So Fast LTE, HSPA Could Become 100 Times Speedier!
Nokia Siemens Networks is ready to take wireless broadband to a whole new level: peak rates of 672 Mbps by 2013 with Long Term HSPA Evolution. T-Mobile is happily backing the effort, since it's not yet clear what 4G path the carrier will take.…
Read MoreLightSquared's Planned LTE Network May Never Shine
It’s no secret that I’m skeptical of Harbinger Capital Partners and LightSquared’s chances when it comes to building a brand-new 4G wireless network, but after speaking last week with Nokia Siemens Network, which has a $7 billion contract to build out the network, my doubts remain.…
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