The Telco equipment manufacturer giant, Nokia Siemens Networks, has agreed to purchase the network equipment division of Motorola for $1.2 billion.

The business proposition is easy: The dying Motorola’s business would prove out to be profitable for Nokia Siemens, as they now achieve #3 spot in Top wireless network vendors in the United States and hence expand business propositions with Motorola’s existing customers.

The acquisition gives  Nokia Siemens 7,500 employees plus solid relationships with Clearwire, Sprint Nextel, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone, and China Mobile.

Everyone seems to be complaining about the  iPhone 4 signal Reception issues, when held Incorrectly.  Holding iPhone 4 in left hand covering left side’s bottom bridges the left and bottom antennas which results in a serious attenuation in signal.

Obviously, the issue is not same for every one. Users living in areas having good signal coverage would not observe issues. Every phone, agnostic of brand/make, has antenna attenuation problems when covered with hand. These attenuations can lie anywhere between 14dB and 18dB drops. But iPhone 4’s attenuation is as high as 24db, which means total loss of signal in areas where .. Read Further »

iPad is definitely revolutionary and thats why Apple still sells One of them every 2-3 seconds.

Thanks to the popularity of Tablets, all eyes are now on Chrome OS Tablet and Android Tablet.  Knowing the fact that Google is already building one under the hood, several other companies are betting on the concept.

Cisco is .. Read Further »

Apple might have sold iPhone 4 in millions in its first week but it could have been way better if it had not been exclusive on AT&T, in U.S.

The good things are inevitable, and Verizon Wireless will start selling the iPhone in January of next year, according to a report from Bloomberg. Unless you are living under the rock, you must be well aware of .. Read Further »

Technology always gives you a double-edged sword. The one that lets you cut through the gates, and the other side can cut the holding hand. Similar the story of Traceability and the privacy.

The number of spamming, phishing have taken a new Horizon. Leaving the web aside, apart from spamming, Phishing is common on phones too. Consider this, .. Read Further »

Planning and building a Wide area Wireless Network could be painfully challenging.  Mobile service Providers have faced different kinds of challenges in Maintaining the 3G network throughout countries like US, UK, India, China where the urgency had taken flight long ago.

Lot of the back-end work deals with complex signalling and RF management which is both tedious and expensive to maintain. But seems like  IBM researchers in China have come up with a faster, yet, elegant solution that reckons shifting the signal-processing overhead from base stations into the cloud. This will make it cheaper and easier .. Read Further »

Closed Technologies have had the enough, the future is bound to be open. I can’t think of a stream where Open source has not contributed. In few of the relatively newer streams, like telecom, Open source is still catching up.

I had been into telecom for a long time now, and had often heard a complaint from Telecom startups and sometimes even giants about the cost to go to the market in rural/developing areas. A simple BTS (a.k.a Mobile .. Read Further »

Bharti Airtel, India’s mobile and Internet services giant having 118 million subscribers, will acquire 70 percent stake in Warid Telecom International, 4th largest  mobile operator in Bangladesh.

The acquisition is estimated to be around $300 million. As a result of the deal, Bharti Airtel control of the management and the board of Warid.

Airtel has long aspired to expand into international market, and this becomes the second practical step. In actual, this was the third attempt, the last one was with MTN Group, South Africa which didn’t get through approval from government. In addition to this years’ deal, last year also Airtel launched operations in Sri Lanka where it fetched over 1 million customers.