Nortel takes another step toward clarity
By: By Ed Gubbins
The shedding of Nortel Networks’ UMTS access business adds more clarity to the company’s priorities as it continues to evaluate which markets it will invest and compete in and which it won’t...
Alcatel buying Nortel UMTS operations
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks today said it has agreed to sell its lagging UMTS business to Alcatel for $320 million as part of its new restructuring strategy in which it will exit all businesses where it can't maintain a top three competitive position....
Nokia buys mapping/navigation firm
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia today said it is purchasing Gate5, a German mapping and navigation software company, for an undisclosed price...
Trapeze CEO promises closer ties to Juniper
By: By Ed Gubbins
In an exclusive interview with Telephony Tuesday, Trapeze Networks Chief Executive Officer Jim Vogt shed some light on its recent addition of Juniper Networks as an equity investor, promising a deeper relationship with Juniper is soon to follow...
First Avenue becomes FiberTower
By: By Carol Wilson
First Avenue Networks has completed its merger with FiberTower Corp. and has now adopted that name and stock symbol, the company announced today....
Juniper takes stake in Trapeze
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks joined Nortel Networks and Motorola as an investor in wireless LAN (WLAN) equipment vendor Trapeze Networks this week...
ABI: DBS/WiMAX partnerships?
By: By Dan O'Shea
Wireless DBS, the bidding entity backed by DirecTV and Echostar, among others, may have dropped out of contention for spectrum licenses in the Advanced Wireless Services auction, but these companies still potentially could partner with WiMAX service providers to launch mobile-like services, according to ABI Research....
Vodafone sheds another operator
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Global mobile operator Vodafone today said it has agreed to sell its minority stake in Belgian carrier Proximus to Belgacom in a move that could be precursor to exiting its U.S. joint venture with Verizon Communications....
Nokia-Siemens adds executives
By: By Dan O'Shea
Nokia-Siemens Networks, the previously announced merger of the two international vendors' mobile equipment units, has named some additional executives to its roster in preparation for what is expected to be a formal operational launch on Jan. 1, 2007....
SkyPilot adds Colorado, Maine deployments
By: By Dan O'Shea
SkyPilot Networks announced that its Wi-Fi mesh equipment has been deployed in Vail, Colo., and in the Rockland-Thomaston areas of Mid-coast Maine....
Redefining business continuity
By: By Carol Wilson
Like all major telecom service providers, AT&T got a wake-up call in 2005, when a series of hurricanes wiped out networks throughout the Southeast and forced many businesses to consider a more serious approach to disaster recovery and business continuity than they had taken in the past...
Comverse acquiring amid scandal
By: By Dan O'Shea
While Comverse Technology’s former chairman and CEO remains a fugitive from federal prosecutors, the mobile multimedia software company hasn’t slowed its aggressive growth strategy. Comverse announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held French firm Netonomy ...
Lauer to leave Sprint
By: By Dan O'Shea
Sprint put out a statement late Monday saying that chief operating officer Len Lauer is leaving the company, effective immediately and that the COO job is being eliminated...
Convergys gets 5-year extension and expansion from Brasil Telecom
By: By Tim McElligott
Convergys got a new contract from Brasil Telecom this week that extends support to the carrier's Internet services and extends support for its fixed telephony customers and wireless customers another five years....
Nortel ticks off another UMTS win
By: By Kevin Fitchard
With questions swirling about the future of Nortel Networks' UMTS division, the Canadian vendor announced a major 3G and high-speed downlink packet access upgrade contract with France's Bouygues Telecom...
DBS companies drop out of AWS Auction
By: By Kevin Fitchard
DirecTV and EchoStar today bowed out of the Advanced Wireless Services auction after initially battling T-Mobile fiercely for nationwide licenses over which the mobile carrier wants to deploy a 3G network....
Motricity gets funding
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motricity today announced $32 million in funding, which it will put toward developing new content services and possibly tactical acquisitions in new markets...
T-Mobile bids for 3G spectrum
By: By Kevin Fitchard
T-Mobile has taken an aggressive stance early in the AWS auction as it fights for future UMTS spectrum and as its rapid growth clip entered an unexpected lull in the last quarter...
No merger for Andrew Corp.
By: By Dan O'Shea
Wireless equipment maker Andrew Corp.'s proposed merger with ADC Telecommunications is off. Andrew has released a statement saying the two companies mutually agreed to terminate the deal they announced on May 31. ...
Nokia agrees to buy Loudeye
By: By Dan O'Shea
Nokia has signed an agreement to acquire Loudeye Corp., the mobile media distribution company Nokia initially worked with to launch a wireless/wireline music download service in early 2005, for about $60 million...
Telus invests in Amp’d
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Telus today announced it would be bringing the Amp’d Mobile brand to Canada with a $7.5 million investment in the new MVNO and an agreement to resell Amp’d services and content north of the border...
The public side of Synchronoss
By: By Tim McElligott
After a promising start in 2001 followed by an uncertain race over the hurdles erected by the Internet and telecom bust, Synchronoss Technologies has persevered, survived, gone public (June 2006), had its first public earnings call and last week entered the video activation space for wireless...
Wireline spending shift continues
By: By Ed Gubbins
North American carriers continued to increase spending on wireline infrastructure in the second quarter despite continuing revenue declines in that space, according to Ovum-RHK....
Digicel raises $150 million
By: By Dan O'Shea
Caribbean mobile operator Digicel Group announced it has raised $150 million in capital through a corporate bond offering that will be invested in its ongoing growth and further expansion in Trinidad & Tobago and Haiti. Investment banks Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase led the bond round...
Merger drags down Sprint; Rev. A upgrade planned for Q4
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint's merger pains got worse in the second quarter, as the company today announced not only disappointing profits and revenue for the last quarter, but also one of its lowest gains in mobile subscriber growth in years....
