Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) said today that it wants to transform itself from a telecommunications generalist into an IP networking and broadband access specialist. The company’s new CEO Michel Combes said that these two business areas will represent 85% of the firm’s research and development expenditures within two years, and that Alcatel-Lucent will reorganize around these priorities. [...]

If it’s true that perception is reality, and that expectations impact perception, then a new reality meets at the corner of fiber and wireless. The world in which we live has gone mobile, and there will be no backtracking on this. Wireless is much too convenient for consumers. But one of the inconvenient truths to [...]

Middle school teacher Carolyn Hardwick took a summer job as a project coordinator for AirGate PCS 13 summers ago and never looked back. By the end of the summer, Hardwick had been offered a project manager job. AirGate became part of Sprint a year later, and Hardwick stayed with the company for almost five years, [...]

Telecom analytics is one of the most exciting areas in the wireless business. In a very competitive environment, carriers have to give a deeper look at how they manage all data they have in order to give them advantages and monetization opportunities. Information without any intelligence is just data. In this scenario, analytics tools for [...]

A billion wireless subscribers rely each day on a network operator who never sends them a bill or makes them an offer. Ericsson now manages networks covering a billion people, customers with whom the company has no direct relationship. The world’s top vendor of wireless network equipment now has more than 300 contracts to manage [...]

Corning’s new innovative platform is set to deliver the Optical Network Evolution (ONE™) that will address the next wave of wireless demand CORNING, N.Y. – Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today unveiled the first all-optical, converged in-building wireless solution to satisfy the increasing demand from enterprises, hotels, convention centers and arenas for high-speed, high-capacity wireless hubs [...]

Range Networks, which makes open-source cellular systems, announced that its equipment now integrates with operators’ SS7-MAP core networks and supports 4G. The company, which targets rural and developing markets and private industrial networks with low-cost network equipment, has been collaborating with SS7Ware and said that its One Core Network now supports 2G, 3G and 4G [...]

Third-generation and “4G” wireless networks are facing a severe capacity crunch caused by massive data demand created by smart phones and tablet devices. Deployment of macrocells will not solve the problem since most of the demand is generated indoors. Service providers are moving towards heterogeneous solutions (3G/4G/Wi-Fi) consisting of a dense network of femtocells, picocells and metrocells [...]

As network operators scramble to hire tower crews to keep up with the demand for wireless service, they are learning that every minute counts at the cell site. With time and talent both in short supply, getting the most out of each work crew becomes critical. This is the reality that inspires equipment makers to [...]

A competitive assessment by ABI Research ranked Nokia Siemens Networks first in macro base station vendors, with high scores in ABI’s innovation and implementation categories. Ericsson came in second, but had the best score in the implementation category, with the most LTE deployment contracts and subscriber potential. Alcatel-Lucent ranked third overall, but was ranked the [...]