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LTE base station market to hit $6.37 billion this year
Although 3G services were rolled out just five years ago, the mobile boom has generated more demand for bandwidth than the "old" standard can handle. That means 4G is expanding, quick, from Ethiopia to Europe. -
University exposes IT overcharging
In a recent case, California State University found that Cisco's proposals to refresh its 23-campus network were $100 million different to an offer from Alcatel-Lucent. -
EU declares war on Chinese telecom makers
Huawei and ZTE compete globally in the telecom equipment business with European vendors such as Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Siemens-Nokia. -
Whitespace internet tests declared successful by tech consortium
Others involved in the consortium includes: Adaptrum, Alcatel-Lucent, Arqiva, BBC, BSkyB, BT, Cambridge Consultants, CRFS, CSR plc., Digital TV Group (DTG), Microsoft, Neul, Nokia, Samsung, Spectrum Bridge, The Technology Partnership (TTP) and Virgin Media. -
Micron shows off the first working RLDRAM 3 hardware
RLDRAM 3 is expertly positioned into the whole ‘caching’ business, which allows for all sorts of performance enhancements in just about any processing background. -
Freescale sticks a mobile base station on a chip
It is not entirely blue sky. Freescale said it has Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens Networks coming up with ideas based around the technology. So far, the ideas are called cloud radio access network, or cloud-RAN, which takes the base station away from the cell site. -
Microsoft and Alcatel bury the hatchet
Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent appear to have settled a patent dispute, which might mean that Steve Ballmer will not have to write a cheque for $70 million. -
Wikileaks cables shows the world it's being watched - always
Others such as Alcatel-Lucent and Siemens also make an appearance. Nokia Siemens Networks has its woeful record featured after a subsidiary, sold to Trovicor, was found to have supplied monitoring equipment to repressive regimes. -
Cisco beats Wall Street forecast
But the figures do seem to indicate that Cisco looks to be on track while rivals like Juniper Networks forecast disappointing fourth-quarter results and Alcatel-Lucent scaled back its profitability goal for the year. -
Never mind fibre, there's a future in copper
While many telcos are investing shedloads of cash into fibre based broadband, Alcatel-Lucent thinks that there is more mileage to be squeezed from existing copper connections. -
Aussie's meow minister over broadband deal
Quigley used to be head of the telecommunications equipment firm Alcatel-Lucent, which was fined $137 million (US) for paying bribes to government officials in Costa Rica and other countries to secure contracts. Quigley has denied doing anything wrong. -
Vodafone soars on smartphone sales
However Ericsson isn't Sequans only bedmate, with the company also working with Nokia Siemens Networks, Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent and ZTE on LTE technology. -
Telecoms service market on the up
Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson didn't do too badly, with year-on-year growth of 13 percent and 11 percent respectively, while Nokia Siemens Networks' (NSN) revenues in the fourth quarter of 2010 grew by 0.5 percent to hit $5.4 billion. -
Aussies to construct a new undersea web cable
The cable is being built by Alcatel-Lucent. It's currently in the design and route survey phase. Construction starts in early 2012 and the cable is expected to be operating in 2013. -
Ex California candidate Meg Whitman joins HP in director shake-up
The new directors also includes Shumeet Banerji, chief executive officer of Booz & Company; Gary Reiner, former chief information officer of General Electric Company and a current special advisor to private equity firm General Atlantic; Patricia Russo, former chief executive officer of Alcatel-Lucen -
Alcatel-Lucent's Multimedia Patent Trust sues Apple, LG, Canon, TiVo
LawMultimedia Patent Trust, a subsidiary of French telco Alcatel-Lucent, has filed a lawsuit against Apple, LG, Canon and TiVo, claiming that the companies infringed up to four of its video codec patents. -
EU approves NSN Motorola buyout
AcquisitionThe European Commission said that Motorola's network business had a “limited presence” in Europe and that even after the deal Nokia Siemens would face stiff competition from “large and effective competitors”, such as Sweden's Ericsson, France's Alcatel-Lucent, and China's Huawei. -
AT&T will launch its first LTE network in summer of 2011
Speaking at a Bank of America conference, AT&T Operations CEO John Stankey said the company believed it could cover between 70 and 75 million POPs (points of presence) by the end of 2011.
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