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To: Eric L who wrote (298)	4/26/2005 4:30:00 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356

Nortel, Siemens ponder partnership report: Both companies look to boost global market share Bert Hill The Ottawa Citizen Tuesday, April 26, 2005 Speculation is growing that Nortel Networks is talking to German industrial giant Siemens about new business combinations that would get telecommunications equipment sales moving again. Fresh from deals with LG Electronics in Korea, Putian in China and smaller deals in India and the United States, Nortel is building a network of new industry partners in a bid to end a four-year slide in sales. Der Spiegel, a German news weekly, said top Siemens and Nortel executives met recently in secret talks near a Munich airport. The magazine, quoting unidentified Siemens sources, said Siemens is considering product partnerships with Nortel or making an investment in Nortel in a bid to increase market share. "We don't comment on rumour and speculation," Nortel spokeswoman Marion MacKenzie said yesterday. Siemens also declined comment. Siemens is a much bigger and well-established player in the telecommunications industry than LG Electronics, which only entered during the bubble. Siemens has large wireless handset and networking equipment operations that generate about 20 per cent of sales -- the biggest division in the huge German conglomerate. But the Siemens communications division has been a big, money-losing disappointment and new top management is under pressure to fix or sell the division. It is doubtful Nortel would be interested in Siemens's wireless handset business -- it has lost market share and Nortel has no comparable products. Another German publication, however, said Siemens is in advanced negotiations with Acer Inc. of Taiwan on the handset business. Alcatel SA of Paris and Swedish giant Ericsson have also spun off handset businesses to Asian partners. But a partnership on networking equipment could help Nortel to strengthen sales in Europe, Asia and other parts of the world, where Siemens has a substantial installed base and annual sales of about $8 billion U.S. -- only 20 per cent less than Nortel. In a recent report, SG Research analyst Fabrice Theveneau said Siemens believes six of the eight networking divisions are performing well. It said Siemens's next-generation wireless networking sales have 15 per cent of the world market, trailing only Ericsson and Nokia. Nortel had about 10 per cent of the market in 2003, but is believed to have lost ground last year. The report said Siemens has an 11-per-cent market share in the voice-over-Internet equipment market, compared with 25 per cent for Nortel. However, older voice networking, optical and access equipment are money-losing disappointments that suck resources from profitable other divisions. Nortel is facing the same problems as demand for traditional voice gear plunges around the world and demand for optical gear is sluggish and losing money.

To: Eric L who wrote (298)	5/8/2005 5:47:01 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 356

With less than 300 million euro investments in two years about a hundred WiMax radio stations which could bring broadband on the whole country could be installed. SIEMS: WIMAX CHALLENGE, 300 MILLION FOR EXTRALARGE BAND (AGI) - Ischia (NA), Italy, May 7 - With less than 300 million euro investments in two years about a hundred WiMax radio stations which could bring broadband on the whole country could be installed. It is a "very broad" band and mobile, which can reach a transmission speed of 70 Mb/s in both directions. Not like the greater part of the already existing 4 million broadband connections which can be considered little more than fast access connections to internet at the most. The management of Siemens Italia, led by Vittorio Rossi, called a meeting in a hotel in Ischia for the leading figures of Italian telecommunications, public and private regional and government's companies, as well as four ministers: Stanca, Baccini, La Loggia and newly appointed Communications Minister Mario Landolfi to set the challenge. This was done by Luigi De Vecchis, Siemens Communications Managing Director, who always believed in this new technology, developed completely by Italian research centres of the German multinational. "WiMax is a mobile broadband wireless technology that can be the final solution to the digital divide problem". (AGI) . agi.it

To: Eric L who wrote (298)	7/19/2005 7:31:20 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 356

Siemens/NEC Claims 3G Leadership 07.18.05 MUNICH -- In their latest study, the market researchers at the MultiMedia Research Institute affirm Siemens/NEC's No. 1 market position in the field of 3G/WCDMA: over 30 percent of 3G base stations (Node Bs) used commercially worldwide by mobile providers are from Siemens and NEC (source: Worldwide W-CDMA Cellular Base Station Market Report, Tokyo 2005). On top of this success, Siemens and NEC will continue their 3G success story and partnership in the years to come. "The top position in the 3G market is the best evidence of the success of our partnership with NEC. The joint team is doing an excellent work", said Christoph Caselitz, President of Mobile Networks at Siemens Communications. ”90 percent of all 3G mobile customers worldwide are already using W-CDMA-based technology from Siemens and NEC.” ADVERTISEMENT The partnership between Siemens and NEC began over five years ago. In November 1999, both companies founded a joint venture to jointly develop and produce infrastructure technology for third generation mobile communication. Siemens and NEC have collaboratively and successfully established global supply chain management and structure. The companies started supplying their first 3G Node Bs outside Japan in December 2001 and supplied the first commercial service of Hutchison 3G group in the UK and Italy. Both companies have also greatly contributed to Node B standardization activity in the “Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI)”, and introduced the world’s first CPRI-compliant Node B “NB-88x” series in November 2004. "By combining our experience and expertise in the field of 3G five years ago, we were able to develop, produce and market the new technology much more efficiently right from the start, including a HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) end-to-end solution, one of the first to be available on the market. This gives us clear advantages as far as market entry and maturity are concerned", said Takakuni Kuki, Executive General Manager of Mobile Network Operations Unit at NEC. unstrung.com