By John
16 August 2007
4:24 pm
As I indicated in my post yesterday, I invited Richard Lowe, the president of Nortel’s Carrier Networks organization, to do a guest blog on Nortel’s 4G strategy, in order to address the considerable dialog around that topic recently and to address some of the very specific questions that have emerged.
Richard Lowe
I appreciate the opportunity to articulate and clarify Nortel’s wireless strategy. I thought the best way to do that would be to directly tackle some of the comments and questions that Paul Stevens asked.
1) You’ve opted out of 3G. How do you compete ...
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By John
15 August 2007
8:00 am
Location: Ottawa
Based on the recent dialog around 4G, I’ve invited Richard Lowe, the president of Nortel’s Carrier Networks group, to do a guest blog on Nortel’s 4G strategy, which he’s agreed to do and which I expect to post within the next couple of days. Because Richard ultimately owns the delivery and execution of our 4G solutions, his views are obviously very relevant. In the meantime, a few observations on the dialog from my last entry…
As a level set, there is a huge difference between strategy and tactics. Strategy is a long-term sustainable view of where you want to take a company, market or technology. Tactics are what you do today, tomorrow and the next day ...
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By John
2 August 2007
9:24 pm
Location: On vacation
Earlier this week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S made several changes to the rules governing the commercial services portion of the 700 MHz band. The goals of these changes are aimed at helping create "a national broadband network for public safety that will address the interoperability problems of today’s system, provide for a more open wireless platform that will facilitate innovation and investment, and facilitate the emergence of next-generation wireless broadband services in both urban and rural areas."
This ruling is an important step in the continued evolution of the industry and is helping pave the way to 4G.
I invited John Hoadley, Nortel’s newly appointed Vice President of 4G ...
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