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Alcatel-Lucent in Pole Position to Take Over Nortel's GSM Unit
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Alcatel-Lucent is in pole position to buy Nortel's GSM business, Les Echos reports. According to the newspaper, the companies signed an agreement granting Alcatel-Lucent a call option giving it the right of first refusal if Nortel was to put its GSM unit up for sale. Alcatel had acquired Nortel's UMTS RAN business in September ...
EU Lawmakers Divided over Mobile Roaming Charges
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European Union (EU) lawmakers have failed to reach a consensus on how the proposed reduction in mobile roaming charges will be enforced. While the centre-left deputies in the consumer protection committee and the EU's executive commission want a mandatory price cap with consumers opting out at will, centre-right parliamentarians, ...
Tutorial: Building Carrier Grade Applications Using a Highly Available Data base Management System
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In many areas, including the network infrastructure, developers are challenged with the task of building applications that run for very long periods without appreciable downtime. These are called highly available applications. Because they often manage large amounts of data, such applications are well-served by a high-availability ...
FMC Picks Up Steam
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Worldwide, the number of dual-mode, Wi-Fi/cellular phones has accelerated quickly, and most telecom operators -- both fixed and mobile -- are expected to have some kind of dual-mode strategy this decade. But this one-phone-fits-all scenario presents opportunities as well as challenges. The Wi-Fi Alliance said recently it has ...
BT Stares Down 21CN 'Complexity'
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Spring VON -- BT Group plc is already feeling deadline pressure from its ambitious plan to go all-IP and unplug from the PSTN in 2011. BT's Silicon Valley-based VP of technology and innovation, Jean-Marc Frangos, who spoke here yesterday, says his company is already facing a mountain of technical ...
Cellular South, Kyocera Trial Wireless Wallet
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Cellular South, a privately held wireless network provider, and handset maker Kyocera will launch what they're calling a Wireless Wallet trial in two markets starting in May. The trial makes use of near-field communications (NFC) technology and will be available to Cellular South subscribers in Jackson, Miss., and Memphis, ...
Oh No, Moto: Shock & Awe In Schaumburg
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Admitting that its January estimates of the disaster in its cell phone business were at least a billion bucks too low and that it's operating in the red, Motorola has named a new president and COO, replaced its CFO, hinted at more layoffs to come and announced what amounts to a $2 billion attempt to side-track corporate raider Carl ...
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