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Latin America's WiMAX Market to Surpass $1 Billion in Revenues During 2009-2013

Signals Telecom Consulting has published a couple of reports which estimate that Latin America's WiMAX market is to to surpass US$1.04 Billion in revenues during 2009-2013. WiMAX will also account for around 1.8% of broadband connections in the region over the same time frame.  more

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Nortel Exec - Will Consdier Bids for the Company Divisions

Canadian infrastructure vendor, Nortel Networks will give serious consideration to any offers to buy divisions in the company as it restructures under court approved bankruptcy protection.  more

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RIM Looking to Hire Thousands of New Staff in 2009

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is reported to be bucking the general economic trend and is seeking to hire several thousand new employees this year - scooping up available talent as people are laid off at other firms.  more

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Nortel Considering Break-Up of the Company

Canada's Nortel Networks, which is currently working through a restructuring may seek to break itself up rather than emerge from bankruptcy protection as a whole company. Citing people close to the issue, the Wall Street Journal said that the firm is in talks to sell it component divisions to two of its main rival.  more

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Record year for GSM rollouts, more to come with 3G buildouts in China, India

Market research firm Infonetics Research released the fourth quarteredition of its Mobile Infrastructure and Subscribers report and noted that the worldwide mobile network infrastructure equipment market grew 6% to US$50.8 billion in 2008 over 2007, and will continue to grow in 2009 and 2010.  more

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Telecom Equipment Market Expected to Suffer a Sharp Downturn in 2009

The global telecommunications equipment market grew by close to 5% in 2008: a moderate rate of growth that involved a shift in the contribution made by handset components and infrastructure hardware reports IDATE. From a geographical standpoint, Asia was the prime source of growth - specifically China and India - which accounts for two-thirds of the increase in sales worldwide, while representing only just over 40% of the total market (and China and India combined accounting for less than 20%).  more

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2008 Mobile Base Station Contracts Reach 550, Led by Nokia Siemens Networks

Total contracts awarded within the wireless industry for 2008 reached 550 as activity surged in Q4 according to the latest report from EJL Wireless Research.  more

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Industry Big Guns with no Bullets to Fire

After a devastating end to 2008, the future is looking bleak. At the start of 2009 the mobile industry is starting to implement strategic job cuts and closing of overseas offices. This is just the beginning. The New Year started with Nortel Networks filing for Chapter 11. Many companies are not far behind. The question remains: how will some of the largest blue chip companies fare this year? Based on recent findings, Frost & Sullivan expects several firms to have a tough time fighting this year's projected internal and external challenges.  more

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Nortel's bankruptcy filing enables radical change, and not just at Nortel

Opinion piece by Dana Cooperson and Matt Walker, analysts at Ovum

On 14 January 2009, Nortel Networks moved beyond talk of divestiture and speculation of bankruptcy, and filed for creditor protection in Canada and the US, with Nortel UK entering administration separately under a filing managed by Ernst & Young. The company reached this point after multiple management regimes failed in their attempts to remake the company after the bursting of the telecoms bubble. Nortel's move may result in a more balanced industry structure for communications equipment.  more

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Telecom Suppliers: The Pressure is on

A recent study by global management consultancy Arthur D. Little has found that traditional telecoms suppliers are facing an overall critical situation as the recession deepens in 2009. The increasing strength of the Asian market was identified as the primary threat that telecom suppliers face, due to its expanded reputation, innovation and consistent delivery of quality. For example, the Chinese telecoms provider Huawei has already achieved more than 10% of the global market share for investments of fixed and mobile network infrastructure, while the expansion rate for investments in fixed and mobile networks in industrialized countries is stagnating.  more

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