In AT&T & T-Mobile Merger, Everybody Loses
The lull of my lazy, rainy weekend was broken by the news that AT&T plans to acquire T-Mobile USA for a whopping $39 billion in cash and stock. Who wins and who loses in this deal? It’s hard to...
View ArticlePrevent the data tsunami from swamping cell networks
Nokia Siemens Networks published a blog post Friday called “Wake-up call: Industry collaboration needed to make Beyond 4G networks carry 1000 times more traffic by 2020.” Such a headline is designed to...
View ArticleWhy LTE sucks (your battery, that is)
LTE phones are fast, but they can also suck a battery dry in a few hours. Nokia Siemens Networks did some preliminary studies on LTE phone’s power drain versus their HSPA (3G) counterparts and found...
View ArticleWhoa: You might pay just a $1 for a daily gigabyte in 2020
“By 2020 the average person will download one gigabyte of personalised data each day, and it will be delivered for less than $1 a day.” That’s a striking comment from Hossein Moiin, CTO of Nokia...
View ArticleYou’d better sit down for this: Nokia is actually doing reasonably well
Nokia may not be in such steep decline as people have been thinking. The Finnish handset manufacturer has just outed preliminary financials for the last quarter of 2012 and updated its guidance for the...
View ArticleNokia solidifies mobile broadband role by buying out Siemens’s NSN stake
Nokia is buying out Siemens’s stake in their 50-50 telecoms equipment joint venture, Nokia Siemens Networks, for $1.7 billion ($2.2 billion). The move will give Nokia full control of a business that...
View ArticleThe Mobile Lowdown 04-14-11: Apple Cloud, iOS; Moto/Huawei; Millennial Ads
Our look at some of the stories today in mobile: the latest Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iOS question marks on its cloud strategy and iOS devices; the details on the Huawei/Motorola (NYSE: MMI) settlement and...
View ArticleThe LTE Ship Finally Docks In The UK, Led By BT And Everything Everywhere
LTE is far from being a widely available technology, but operators in some countries — such as the U.S., Russia and Sweden — have been quicker off the mark to offer it than others. Today, the UK could...
View ArticleMobile Lowdown 8-17-11: Kodak; Samsung/RIM; Nokia/China Mobile
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: » Kodak: Looks like Kodak investors might really have something to smile about: it is apparently now being eyed up as a breakup target, with a patent...
View ArticleNokia Siemens Networks Buys Atrica
[qi:069] Ethernet’s growing importance as part of the carrier networks, especially in newer telecom economies such as India and China, is one of the main reasons why Nokia Siemens Networks is acquiring...
View ArticleU.S. Makes the Best Use of Its Broadband
A new report ranking broadband connectivity argues that it’s not how much you have but what you do with it. And according to the Connectivity Scorecard, no one is doing enough. Instead of measuring...
View ArticleComing Soon, Even Faster EDGE Networks
With 3G and 4G wireless broadband becoming part of the daily mobile lexicon, who has time for pokey old EDGE networks? Nokia Siemens Networks, a wireless equipment maker, does and has come up with a...
View ArticleLTE Patent Framework Planned
A group of equipment vendors and handset makers have teamed up to craft a licensing framework for the fourth-generation LTE mobile standard. Essentially the group wants to prevent the pain and...
View ArticleThe Fastest 3G Connection in Austria Hits 10.1 Mbps
Mobilkom austria recently made the fastest data call with a mobile device using the pioneering Internet High Speed Packet Access (I-HSPA) technology from Nokia Siemens Networks. Stelera Wireless, a...
View ArticleAlcatel-Lucent: Sign of an Industry-Wide Malaise
The problems at Alcatel-Lucent are not unique to the Franco-American communications equipment maker. Instead they are part of a bigger disease that ails some of the older gear makers in the West, which...
View ArticleHeidi Rocks Out, CA Prop 8 Passes: NTV Station Today
So in the mess of videos documenting Election Day aftermath, what is the one non-politically-oriented piece to break through the crowd? The latest in the viral ad series promoting Guitar Hero World...
View ArticleCarriers Demand More Data, Consumers Get Less Privacy
While the revenue from wireless data plans is rising to about a fifth or a fourth of carrier's wireless sales overall, a survey released today indicates carriers aren't satisfied. Taking a page from...
View ArticleNokia Siemens Networks Makes Deeper Cuts
Nokia Siemens Networks plans to cut an additional 1,300 employees as part of an overall restructuring. The telecommunications equipment maker has cut about 6,000 workers and plans to lay off a total of...
View ArticleNortel Keeps Market Guessing, Will It Sell or Slim Down?
Like any celebrity coyly letting the tabloids speculate about the status of her relationship, the bankrupt Nortel seems to have the business press all aflutter with news that instead of emerging from...
View ArticleLike Facebook or Google, Wireless Carriers Need to Scale
Most in the technology world think about scaling in relation to web sites and data centers, but the carriers operating the world’s wireless networks are worried about scale as well. As they transition...
View ArticleNortel Won't Be Coming Back from Bankruptcy
Nokia Siemens Networks has offered to buy several business units of bankrupt telecommunications gear provider Nortel, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal reports that Nokia Siemens has...
View ArticleNortel Falls To Telecom's Tectonic Shift
[qi:gigaom_icon_4G] Earlier this month, when I wrote about Telecom’s Titanic Shifts and the decline of the once mighty service providers, in passing I noted the slow-mo descent of Western equipment...
View ArticleAs Its Stock Sinks, We Wonder What's Wrong With Nokia
Nokia today posted a 66 percent plunge in second-quarter earnings and a 25 percent drop in sales, and said it’s no longer expecting its market share this year to increase over 2008, sending its shares...
View ArticleWhy BlackBerry Maker RIM Wants to Buy Nortel's Wireless Biz
[qi:gigaom_icon_lte] It’s been sad, watching the proverbial vultures that have been circling overhead during the past few months, waiting to swoop in and feast off the carcass of a once-exalted company...
View ArticleThe iPhoto Backup Dilemma
Recently, David tee’d up a great article about migrating from Aperture to iPhoto. And iPhoto is a great photo management application — it’s easy to use and extremely powerful. But the problem (for me...
View ArticleMicrosoft: No Restrictions on Windows 7 Version for Netbooks
Microsoft has confirmed to tgdaily that OEMs will be free to install any version of Windows 7 on netbooks. This is a change from the original policy that stated only Windows 7 Starter or Basic Editions...
View ArticleNokia's U.S. Disappearing Act Continues
Shares of Nokia plummeted after the world’s largest handset maker posted a brutal quarter and a loss of $832 million. And while the company raised its industry outlook for the rest of the year, its...
View ArticleOne Voice Means Your LTE Calls Will One Day Be VoIP
[qi:083] A large group of carriers and equipment makers yesterday came out in support of a standard called One Voice to provide voice over the next-generation Long Term Evolution mobile networks. For...
View ArticleCiena Buys Growth With Nortel Metro Ethernet Deal
Ciena today beat out Nokia Siemens Network to buy bankrupt Nortel’s metro Ethernet business for $769 million, winning the bidding war for the assets that it began in October. A court will still have to...
View ArticleNokia Siemens to Buy Motorola's Network Biz for $1.2 Billion
Nokia Siemens Networks will buy Motorola's wireless infrastructure business for $1.2 billion, which will allow NSN to increase its presence in two key wireless markets -- the U.S. and Japan. It also...
View ArticleNokia Siemens Networks Wins $7B Contract to Build Harbinger's LTE Network
In a deal valued at $7 billion over the next eight years, LightSquared, backed by Harbinger Capital Partners, has hired Nokia Siemens Network to create a wholesale 4G wireless network on its behalf...
View ArticleCould Crowdsourced Data Put 4G Networks on Auto-Pilot?
Nokia Siemens Networks today launched a mobile application to measure and report real-time 3G connectivity service levels. That's similar to a crowdsourced consumer app from Root Wireless, but if NSN...
View ArticleThat Gigabyte Phone Will Cost You
Nokia Siemens Networks today released data showing consumer spending on mobile broadband in Europe is up 40 percent from a year ago. The data is a barometer not only for demand for mobile broadband but...
View ArticleThanks to Nokia Siemens Networks, iPhones May Run Longer
Have you noticed your iPhone battery lasting longer since the iOS 4.2.1 update? If so, you might have Nokia Siemens Networks to thank. The company says Apple included support in the latest software...
View ArticleMobile Bytes: LTE; Motorola / NSN In Europe; Youth Mobile Data Use
-- LTE: With more operators announcing roadmaps for LTE investments, ABI's come out with some service forecasts: by 2015, LTE will generate… Mobile Bytes: LTE; Motorola / NSN In Europe; Youth Mobile...
View ArticlePot Calls Kettle Black. Huawei Sues Motorola
Huawei filed suit Monday to stop Motorola Solutions from selling its wireless network business to Nokia Siemens Networks, because the sale would transfer trade secrets and competitive intelligence from...
View ArticleNokia: Profit And Market Share Down; CEO: ‘Significant Challenges’ Ahead
Nokia's Q4 and full-year earnings report is coming in just now, and it spells out in numbers some of the issues facing the world's biggest h… Nokia: Profit And Market Share Down; CEO: ‘Significant...
View ArticleHere Comes Roaming for Electric Cars
Will electric car charging networks have the type of roaming commonly found between cell phone providers? Nokia Siemens Networks and a German utility group called Smartlab are developing an...
View ArticleWill We Finally See Service Bars On The London Underground? Huawei Hopes So
One by-product of travelling to a different city -- for example, Barcelona last week -- is that it serves as a reminder that not everyone ha… Will We Finally See Service Bars On The London Underground?...
View ArticleHuawei Wins Some, Loses Some in the U.S.
Huawei scored a victory last night in U.S. District Court when a judge ruled that Motorola, which is attempting to sell its wireless business to Nokia Siemens Networks for $1.2 billion, couldn't share...
View ArticleHuawei Wins Injunction Against Motorola In NSN Case
One more advance on the lawsuit that Huawei has brought against Motorola (NYSE: MOT) in the latter company's attempt to sell its networks bu… Huawei Wins Injunction Against Motorola In NSN Case...
View ArticleDaily Mobile Lowdown: 8 Billion Apps In 2010; Taptu; NSN/Motorola
Our look at some of the stories today in mobile: ABI gives its post-mortem on app downloads in 2010; Livewire reports full-year results; Tap… Daily Mobile Lowdown: 8 Billion Apps In 2010; Taptu;...
View ArticleDaily Mobile Lowdown: Verizon iPhone; HP TouchPad; NSN/Motorola
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Verizon's stake of iPhone sales; some details leak out on HP's TouchPad tablet; Nokia (… Daily Mobile Lowdown: Verizon iPhone; HP TouchPad;...
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