By Alana Grelyak
Greetings, and welcome to July! This month’s NewsWatch brings you some news about the digital TV transitions, Nortel’s self-sales, Nimbuzz, some customer wins and awards, and of course, some information about the brand new Apple iPhone . Sound interesting? Then read on and enjoy what we offer to offer you in the same way we hope you’re enjoying the beautiful July weather. Happy reading!
As usual, the iPhone is in the news again with Apple’s release of the iPhone 3G S. The new device offers video recording, longer battery life, and various other enhancements that further Apple’s stronghold on the personal device marketplace. If you’re a new customer to AT&T, you can snag the phone for $199 at the 16GB level and $299 for 32 GB. If you plan to upgrade or are already an AT&T customer, expect to pay a much heftier out of pocket price for the new devices. Following Apple’s success with the iPhone, touch screen devices are now hugely popular in today’s industry and are seemingly the big thing in the foreseeable future, at least until devices can start to read their owners’ minds. The Palm Pre is also getting some good reviews, (and some bad ones, including comments about crashed devices) with its touch screen and ability to run multiple applications at one time. It seems we’re currently in an era where consumers are demanding that their one device do nigh everything. But have consumers considered what will happen if they lose that device, or if it gets stolen? Are we living in an era where lives will begin to unravel because someone happened to misplace their multi-function device? Only time, as it so reliably does, will tell.
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(to our publishing date), Nortel agreed to sell “substantially” all of its CDMA business and LTE access assets to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) for US$650 million, contingent on a “stalking horse” sale agreement, where a higher bidder may step in at the last moment, though it’s considered unlikely. The sale will turn NSN one of the largest CDMA vendors in the world, a big leap for a company that currently has no CDMA product line at all. It may also open some doors for the company to pick up business from the likes of Verizon and Sprint, both of which use CDMA, thereby giving NSN a far larger presence in North America than it previously had. In a release issued on the sale, Richard Lowe, President of Carrier Networks, Nortel, commented that, "Seeking a strong and stable buyer is the best path forward for our CDMA business and LTE
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Nortel Networks, which recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January of this year, has decided to forgo its original plans to restructure and is, instead, breaking itself apart with various sales, a move the company confirmed as possible in May. Most recently
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Access assets. If successfully completed, this transaction would give many of our CDMA customers a clear roadmap for the future evolution of their networks and the
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