What Nokia Siemens will acquire next
With two acquisition announcements in the last three months, Nokia Siemens Networks is clearly in M&A mode, though its next move is anyone’s guess...
NextWave restructures
Would-be wireless carrier-turned-vendor NextWave is reorganizing, taking all of the various acquisitions its made over the last three years and putting them into two business units focused on mobile infrastructure and mobile devices...
Analyst: BT’s 21CN rollout may be slowing
British Telecom may have slowed spending on its 21st Century next-generation network initiative recently, according to Simon Leopold, an analyst with Morgan Keegan...
EMC to acquire Document Sciences
Information management and storage company, EMC, will pay $85 million in cash to acquire Document Sciences Corp., a public company that provides document output management (DOM) software to facilitate personalized, multi-channel communications between business partners....
Syniverse CEO talks about BSG acquisition
It took nine months--a nice round figure for a full-term pregnancy but a little longer than anticipated for Syniverse Technologies to close its acquisition of Billing Services Group’s wireless business...
Bridgewater talks about its IPO
It has been a while since software start-ups in the telecom industry had the confidence in the market and themselves to launch an initial public offering. But as Tyler Nelson, vice president of marketing for Bridgewater, said of his 10-year-old company: We are no start-up. On Dec. 14, the company closed its IPO at $5.50 per share. The company had been hoping for more, but it’s done, it was successful and it is time to move forward. So far, they’re down a dime, but raised $20 million. Nelson spoke with Telephony’s Tim McElligott about the IPO and what comes next...
Provo, Utah, overhauls iProvo muni fiber model
The city council of Provo, Utah, is conferring with consultants it hired this month to help determine why its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network isn’t performing as hoped and to overhaul the model...
UBS: Alcatel faces mobility decline, culture clash
After revenue declines last year and this year, Alcatel-Lucent’s mobility division will likely see shrinking revenue again in 2008, according to UBS Investment Research analyst Nikos Theodosopoulos...
Can Hesse stop the bleeding at Sprint?
Industry analysts agree Dan Hesse faces a significant challenge in his new job as chairman and CEO of Sprint Nextel, but generally believe he could well be the man for the job...
Turin Networks sees CDMA upside in Carrier Access buy
Turin Networks today announced its intent to acquire Carrier Access for $92.7 million in cash, planning to exploit products in the latter’s development pipeline as well as expand its gear into CDMA networks...
Zayo buys Citynet wholesale unit
Zayo Group continued its buying ways, announcing Thursday it has acquired the wholesale unit of Citynet, the Tulsa, Okla.-based service provider...
Nokia declares first victory in Qualcomm phone wars
Qualcomm’s attempt to get Nokia GSM phones banned in the U.S. was halted today as an administrative law judge with the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that Nokia violated none of Qualcomm's patents...
Nokia World: Preaching to the customer
Nokia World, the handset maker's annual customer and analyst extravaganza, doesn't come off as the typical vendor showcase...
CLECs milk public markets
Several trends are brightening the outlook of investors...
SureWest enters Kansas City through acquisition
SureWest Communications has agreed to acquire Everest Broadband for $173 million in cash in a deal that will roughly double SureWest’s triple-play subscriber base...
Cincinnati Bell buys Midwestern CLEC eGIX
Cincinnati Bell has agreed to acquire eGIX, a competitive local exchange carrier based in Indiana, for about $18 million...
Former Motorola CTO joins Cisco
Cisco Systems today announced that former Motorola Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior will be joining the company as its new CTO, just days after her resignation from Motorola...
AT&T purchases Edge Wireless
AT&T announced plans today to acquire full ownership of wireless company Edge Wireless. The regional provider has approximately 172,000 subscribers and operates in several markets in the Pacific Northwest...
Next phase for NexTone is NextPoint
NexTone and Reef Point put an end to speculation today that the companies would merge by actually doing so and in the process picked up $20 million in additional financing for working capital and researchand development...
Motorola executive flight continues with CTO
Motorola Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior has followed CEO Ed Zander out the door...
Embattled Occam CEO gets 21% raise
Occam Networks gave its chief executive officer a 21% raise in base pay six weeks after angry investors called for the CEO to resign...
Northeastern CLEC Broadview going public
Broadview Networks, a Northeastern competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), is going public...
Updated: Motorola CEO steps down
Motorola today announced that Chief Executive Officer Edward Zander will step down from office, effective January 1...
Eagle’s Houston fiber network for sale
Eagle Broadband is showing its Houston-area fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network to prospective buyers this week, having hired a broker to help sell the assets...
In the Spotlight: Zayo CEO Dan Caruso
Telephony Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson spoke to Zayo Chief Executive Officer Dan Caruso about his company’s meteoric rise...
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