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Joerg Erlemeier promoted to COO job and post on Nokia Group Leadership Team As it continues to refine its leadership structure, Nokia has promoted Joerg Erlemeier to the post of chief operating officer; he's immediately taking over from Monika Maurer who is leaving the company. Erlemeier,...

AT&T this week expanded the reach of its home broadband services with a combination of new fiber deployment and leveraging G.fast to improve data speeds in multiple-dwelling units using existing coaxial cabling. Residents in Biloxi, Miss., and Savannah, Ga., now have access to AT&T's fiber...

Microwave backhaul specialist DragonWave delisted from from TSX and NASDAQ; board of director resigns Once a significant player in the microwave backhaul space, Ottawa, Canada-based company DragonWave has effectively shutdown, with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice placing a financial receiver in charge of the...

The first 400G fiber route will link Denmark and Frankfurt As carriers around the world work to meet consumer and business demand for high-speed connectivity, transport providers and fiber network owners are similarly upgrading the backbone infrastructure to support the evolving industry. The latest upgrade, currently...

LONDON – When two giants of the industry merge – although in this case the merger was a takeover – it can often take a while for the dust to settle and for the new company to begin to realize the benefits. Sometimes the...

Up to 15,000 Nokia employees could lose their jobs by 2018 A year after announcing plans to acquire Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Networks is looking to save $1 billion in costs in part by cutting up to 14% of its approximately 104,000-strong global workforce, according to reports. Nokia and...

After announcing merger plans in April, today marks the first day of combined operations for telecom equipment giants Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent. The merger is valued at $16.5 billion cumulatively and the new company employs more than 100,000 people globally. It remains headquartered in Finland with strategic business...

IP platform will enable the Japanese firm to manage increasing data demand French telecom equipment provider Alcatel-Lucent plans to deploy its IP core/edge routing platform – the 7950 Extensible Routing System – for Japan’s largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo. The deployment is said to enable...

French telecoms vendor Alcatel-Lucent announced the deployment of its 7950 XRS IP core router in the China Mobile national IP backbone network and metro networks. The equipment provider affirmed that this deployment will enable the Asian operator to meet the growing demand for data in...

The deal stipulates deployment of LTE infrastructure in 12 Chinese provinces China Telecom awarded a contract to Alcatel-Lucent to expand the deployment of LTE infrastructure across 12 provinces of China. The Chinese telco aims to expand its LTE network and increase capacity to handle growing consumer...

The telco’s 4G infrastructure reaches 77% of the population French mobile operator Orange ended the third quarter of 2015 with 6.6 million LTE subscribers, posting 1 million net additions during the period, the company said in its earnings statement. The company’s LTE network reached 77% of...

For the last few years small cells have been looked at as the answer to fill coverage gaps at the edge of networks and keep up with increased network demands in densely populated areas. But the man who coined the term massive MIMO says...