4G

How will Huawei rise to be top telecom vendor? It all goes back to service layer

You can't dump on Huawei...

Video: Service providers don’t have to be swept away by IP tsunami

While tongues were wagging at Supercomm 2009 about and upcoming decision from the FCC on net...

Nortel loses another arm as Hitachi steps in for LTE bits

Continuing its bankruptcy-ignited fire sale, Nortel announced that it has struck a deal with Tokyo-based electronics heavyweight Hitachi to part with a piece of its Long-Term Evolution...

Breaking: Ericsson bids $730mm for Nortel’s CDMA, LTE assets

Ericsson has finally entered the Nortel fray, announcing their starting bid at $730 million for bankrupt vendor's LTE and CDMA asset a day before the official auction is held. It will now be (at least) a three-horse race between Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), private equity firm MatlinPatterson and...

Nortel wireless fire sale delivers North American footprint to NSN

Nortel’s wireless carrier network infrastructure division may bring in a paltry $650 million if the Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) deal goes through. By all accounts, NSN -- the joint venture of...

More LTE vendors join the 4G party (but no cake for Nortel!)

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/kWp-Rj5o9uA" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Lately, 4G is starting to seem like (relatively) easy money for everyone ... or rather, everyone but poor, beleaguered Nortel, which is starting to remind me of Milton from...

Wi-Fi: You can take it with you

Being neither 3G nor 4G, Wi-Fi, with its “no G” status, is much in the news these days, which goes to show that beyond the next-gen hype, there’s life (and competition) in Wi-Fi yet.

First let’s look at Qwest, which is offering its high-speed Internet customers a good deal --...

Clearwire legal action: Mo’ WiMax, Mo’ Problems?

Mo' WiMax, Mo' Problems. Maybe that should be Clearwire's unofficial motto.

Even as the company's mobile WiMax solution slowly starts...

Telecom Timeout: Recession reactions

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/jYmnpL79ncY" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] This week's Telecom Timeout features Q4 results from Global Crossing, Comcast, Sprint Nextel and Rogers Communications, as well as a Carrier Ethernet progress report...