alcatel in comment and analysis
Good and bad year for comms
AS Analysis Where are the CEOs from the big telecoms providers or those from household names making phones and other equipment, names such as Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung? The striking absence of the heads of some of the biggest organisations in... [12 Oct 2007]
3GSM Diary, day 5: Protests and porn
Comment This morning, there was a group demonstrating under banners highlighting job losses at the newly merged Alcatel-Lucent - 12,500 are set to go. The Alcatel-Lucent demonstrators weren't the only ones making their feelings known. [15 Feb 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Mobile internet reality
Comment One interesting trial being conducted by Alcatel in a semi-rural area of Belgium is using the capacity of IPTV to offer community channels. The success of a 'mobile internet' doesn't mean trying to replicate the desktop on a handset but extending... [11 Jan 2007]
ITU 06 diary - Reindeer, Green hardware and the digital divide at home
Comment One exhibitor that's gone overboard is Alcatel-Lucent. Although ITU is still officially on on Friday, the show was definitely shutting up shop yesterday. Before the doors closed, I decided to have a look at some of the hundreds of stands around the... [08 Dec 2006]
The right way for SMEs to make calls
Comment According to Alcatel's business development manager for small business, Trevor Evans, the most significant shift we will see in business telephony systems in the coming years is the inclination to rent. [18 Jul 2006]
Leader: Alcatel-Lucent - a "merger of equals"?
Leader So it looks like Alcatel and Lucent might tie the knot - something they weren't able to do five years ago when merger talks broke down. Now it looks more the case that Alcatel saw out the telecoms bust better than others - Lucent included - and has... [24 Mar 2006]
VoIP handsets: Greater choice means greater complexity
Comment Alcatel offers some interoperability but some phones may need a firmware upgrade to become fully SIP compliant. At the moment, says Nigel Jones, general manager at Alcatel, this kind of compatibility is not the priority for his customers. [01 Aug 2005]
Linux comes to the telephone
Comment These have typically been built on proprietary operating systems, from large companies such as Alcatel, Avaya, Nortel or Siemens. Linux desktops and servers are widespread. But Linux telephones? It could be the biggest use yet. [06 Jul 2005]
Leader: BT's fluid core
Leader Some old European friends are in - Alcatel and Ericsson, for example - as is a current major partner: Cisco. The big contract win story of the day - actually a story about contract wins, plural - is interesting on several levels. [28 Apr 2005]
ITU03: Final analysis
Comment The show was poorer for absentees such as equipment powerhouses Alcatel, Ericsson, Lucent, Motorola, Nokia and Siemens as well as Vodafone and other significant telcos from around the world, especially the US. [17 Oct 2003]
The death of the equipment provider
Comment Many giant equipment companies - the likes of Alcatel, Ericsson, Lucent, Motorola, Nokia and Siemens - have given the ITU Telecom World 2003 show this week a miss, or at least had a low-key presence. So we see in recent months Ericsson and Nokia... [14 Oct 2003]
ITU 03 diary - a weekend of two halves
Comment Should we be surprised if the absence of European giants such as Alcatel, Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens and Vodafone is literally overshadowed by the giant stands of LG, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, Samsung, Sanyo, Sony and Toshiba? [13 Oct 2003]
Not even Nokia can only do handsets
Comment Indeed, Ericsson and others such as Alcatel, Motorola and Siemens realise there has to be a closer link between a mobile workforce and the offices where they probably still spend most of their time. Nokia, by far the biggest and most successful... [26 Sep 2003]
Convergence: IPv6 migration - a necessary pain?
Comment Europe’s technology leaders like Alcatel, Ericsson and Nokia are also supportive of IPv6 because of the need for hundreds of millions of mobile IP addresses to support the hoped-for boom in mobile. There are so many reasons why IPv6 is a good thing... [05 Jun 2003]
3GSM: The future's bright. The future's crustacean...
Comment Not hogging column inches but still overshadowing such get-togethers with their awnings and marketing clout are veteran suppliers such as Alcatel, Lucent and Nortel. After several days trudging around Cannes, Tony Hallett looks back on some of the... [21 Feb 2003]
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