Motorola, Nortel in talks to combine units: paper
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Motorola Inc  and Nortel  Networks Corp  are in talks to combine their wireless  infrastructure units, The Wall Street Journal reported, quoting  people familiar with the situation.
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Motorola Inc. MOT.N, the world's No.  2 maker of cell phones, on Tuesday said it would cut 1,000 jobs  in three of its units as it puts its effort behind wireless  communications in an increasingly competitive market.
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Japanese mobile phone operator DoCoMo and Motorola announce plans to jointly develop third-generation (3G) handsets.
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Japan's top cellphone operator NTT DoCoMo and US telecoms giant Motorola announced a deal to jointly develop a third-generation handset for business users, marking the American company's first major foray into the lucrative Japanese mobile phone market.
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CHICAGO - Motorola Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday said they agreed to an expanded deal to help mobile telephone service providers use Linux-based computers to run their core network systems.
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BCE Inc. , Canada's largest telecommunications group and the possible target of three international buyout bid groups, said on Wednesday it was in talks to explore the possibility of combining with rival Telus Corp.
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Motorola Inc (MOT.N), the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, said on Thursday it would explore strategic alternatives including a possible separation of its mobile devices business from its other units.
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Nortel Networks on Monday declined to comment on a news report that the company is negotiating with Motorola to combine wireless infrastructure units.
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Nextel Communications and Sprint are negotiating a possible merger, according to a source familiar with the discussions. It was not clear how far the talks had progressed, and
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Nextel Communications is in advanced talks to merge with the Sprint Corporation, according to executives involved in the negotiations.
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Motorola Inc., the world's No. 2 maker  of cell phones, on Tuesday said it would cut 1,000 jobs in  three of its units as it puts its effort behind wireless  communications in an increasingly competitive market.
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News reports indicate that the two sides may be preparing to sit down at the bargaining table once more to combine their respective WiMAX networks.
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Struggling cell-phone maker Motorola Inc. said Thursday it is considering separating the handset unit from its other businesses in an effort to snap a deep slump that has followed its meteoric success with the Razr.
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Sprint Corp. said Tuesday it reached multiyear agreement totaling $3 billion with Lucent Technologies Inc., Motorola Inc. and Nortel Networks Corp.
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Motorola said on Thursday it has extended for three years a deal to supply Nextel Communications with telecommunications equipment, allaying fears that Sprint buyout of Nextel would threaten the relationship.
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DECEMBER 20, 2004  - Last week&#39;s merger deal between Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. continues a consolidation trend among wireless carriers that could help lower prices and bolster
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(InfoWorld) - Nortel Networks reached a definitive agreement to sell its UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) business to Alcatel-Lucent on Monday, locking down a nonbinding agreement announced in September. The Brampton, Ontario, company is selling the 3G (third-generation) infrastructure business so it can focus on developing faster 4G mobile systems and supporting customers with earlier CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) technologies. "We didn't have the scale or momentum to be where we wanted to be and to be able to lead in this space," said Richard Lowe, president of Nortel's Mobility and Converged Core Networks unit. The deal is part of an overall restructuring kicked off by President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Zafirovski after he took over Nortel last year. The company is trying to cut costs to become more competitive and turn around years of poor financial performance. When Nortel signed a memorandum of understanding to sell the UMTS business earlier this year, Alcatel was in the process of closing its merger with Lucent Technologies Inc. Those companies closed their deal and became Alcatel-Lucent last Thursday. What Nortel now has is a binding agreement to sell the UMTS business, which it hopes to close by the end of the month. Alcatel-Lucent will pay US$320 million for the business, minus certain deductions and transaction-related costs. The timing of the agreement just days after the Alcatel-Lucent deal closed was a coincidence, said Alcatel-Lucent spokeswoman RÃ©gine Coqueran. About 1,700 employees from Nortel's UMTS unit will move to Alcatel-Lucent, the companies said. That includes substantially all the research and development team and a portion of other employees in other roles such as sales and support, Lowe said. Nortel will now focus its research on what it calls 4G technologies, including WiMax, EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) Revision C, and the LTE (Long-Term Evolution) generations of UMTS, according to Lowe. All these eventually will deliver multiple megabits per second of bandwidth to mobile devices, he said. Â