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CDMA spending fall off hits Nortel 

Nortel is bearing the brunt of lower CDMA spending in North America, attributing declining sales in that key market to a single unnamed key customer—much the same story that Alcatel-Lucent told earlier this week....

Industry Perspective: Bill Weinberg, Mobile Linux conference head 

Linux World kicks off on Monday in San Francisco and for the first time an entire conference will be devoted to the mobile iteration of the technology....

BT: Ribbit deal start of 'global telecom platform wars' 

BT’s JP Rangaswami isn’t one to think small. So it’s no surprise that in an interview following his company’s acquisition of telco 2.0 platform vendor Ribbit Monday he characterized the move as the first shot in the “global telecom platform wars.”...

Alcatel-Lucent’s core CDMA business takes a dive 

The vendor’s core CDMA division took a big hit as capex spending from a key unnamed North American customer fell off...

U. S. carriers missing multi-billion dollar “green” boat 

U.S. telecom service providers need to move immediately to offer “green” communications services, or risk losing out on a multi-trillion dollar global market...

Tellabs seeks ‘pockets of optimism’ overseas 

Tellabs vowed to push harder into overseas markets Tuesday as weakness in North America weighed on its second-quarter results....

NSN: Infrastructure market to stay flat 

Nokia’s earnings results led to a big sigh of relief in the industry as it reported numbers in line with expectations and projected a rosy forecast for the rest of 2008 for its handset business....

Verizon makes global billing simpler 

In direct response to requests from its multinational customers, Verizon Business has created a Global Billing Report that enables top executives to see their total global telecom spending via an online tool that is provided at no additional charge. ...

Intel releases laptop WiMAX platform (without the WiMAX) 

Intel today took the wraps off of its long-anticipated Centrino 2 processor technology, the new laptop platform based on its Core 2 Duo chipset...

Adtran navigates ‘constrained,’ ‘sluggish’ spending 

While reporting solid second-quarter results today, equipment vendor Adtran acknowledged a tight spending environment in both the carrier and enterprise sectors....

FTTH out of steam? 

A fiber-to-the-home architecture has long been regarded as the endgame for telecom service providers — the one sure way of future-proofing networks for whatever services develop going forward....

Alcatel-Lucent seeks US telemedicine partner 

Alcatel-Lucent is searching for a US service provider partner to help deliver a new telemedicine application it developed with Canadian carrier SaskTel....

Yankee: Carriers likely to acquire CDNs 

While Akamai currently dominates the world of content delivery networks (CDN), a leading analyst firm believes service providers such as AT&T, British Telecom and Verizon will soon be playing in that sandbox...

Nortel gains ground in managed telepresence push 

Nortel Global Services, the telepresence arm of Nortel Networks, today inked a deal with professional services firm Deloitte to provide telepresence, video conferencing and associated multimedia services to the global organization’s 130 member firms. ...

What happened in Vegas 

NXTcomm08 had hoped to establish itself as the telecom industry's premiere event, replacing Supercomm and its successor shows. Under a very hot Las Vegas...

Nokia pulls a Google 

If Nokia has its way, Linux won’t be the only mobile software associated with the term “open.”...

Stephenson: Telecom set to drive global growth 

LAS VEGAS--The telecom industry is poised to “drive growth and prosperity on a global scale,” AT&T Chairman, President and CEO Randall Stephenson said in Tuesday’s NXTcomm08 keynote speech, and service providers and their vendors all have “an important role to play in making that happen.”...

It’s official: First certified WiMAX gear arrives 

The WiMAX Forum today officially released the names of the first WiMAX base stations and subscriber modules to pass certification muster, marking the first time that fully standardized Mobile WiMAX products have been available to the global marketplace...

NXTcomm08: NEC to sell Genband femto gateway 

NEC has selected Genband’s G9 Converged Media Gateway for its femtocell portfolio, giving Genband key exposure to NEC’s customers Asia and South America. ...

Embarq outsources NOCs to NSN 

In a major move that could be the start of a North American trend, Nokia Siemens Networks today announced that as of the fourth quarter of 2008, it is assuming ownership of the Embarq voice network operations center (NOC) and will provide that functionality to Embarq on an outsourced, managed services basis...

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