Nokia Siemens Network(NSN), the second largest mobile equipment maker in the world is about to cut 4,100 job in its home countries, including some 2,900 jobs in Germany and 1,200 in Finland. The job cuts is part of its restructuring plans announced last November where it will lay off 17,000 jobs globally, or 23% of [...]
On November 23rd, Nokia Siemens Networks announced a major company reorganization that would primarily focus the company on mobile networks. As part of this new focus, the vendor said it would be shedding those assets that don’t fit with its long-term strategic plans. NSN’s WiMAX assets, which it acquired from Motorola earlier in the year, [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks(NSN) recently said that it will cut 17,000 jobs globally, or 23% of its work force of 74,000, to save €1 billion ($1.35 billion) in annual costs by 2013. NSN said it will focus on mobile broadband and services, and aims to divest or “manage for value” units that aren’t central to its [...]
Maxis Broadband Sdn Bhd (Maxis) and U Mobile Sdn Bhd (U Mobile) have entered into a multi-billion ringgit agreement to share Maxis’ 3G radio access networks (RAN) with U Mobile. The agreement will be for an initial period of 10 years. (From L to R– Mark Dioguardi, CTO Maxis Berhad, Sandip Das, CEO of Maxis [...]
Ericsson has announced the appointment of Janne Laitala as President of Ericsson Malaysia & Sri Lanka. Laitala will be responsible for developing and strengthening Ericsson’s business in the country, and will lead a team of approximately 700 employees in Malaysia and Sri Lanka. Prior to this position, Laitala was the President of Ericsson Finland, and [...]
Nokia Siemens has announced Liquid Net, a new approach in handling wireless data traffic. Liquid Net allows current wireless broadband networks to automatically adjust to demand by utilizing spare capacity and can boost the traffic handling ability of base stations by 10%, according to Phil Twist, head of marketing at NSN’s network systems division. Basically, [...]
U Mobile last month announced the deployment of its HSPA+(42Mbps) network in Johor Bahru. The mobile operator now has recently completed its network upgrade in the Klang Valley to support the new speed. The U Mobile 3G network in the Klang Valley is now HSPA+ enabled and offers broadband speeds up to 42Mbps.
GSM(Global System for Mobile Communications) network are protected by a 20-year old security algorithm known as A5/1 which is no longer secure. Recently, the same researcher who revealed the weakness in GSM network claims that the encryption in GPRS is no longer secure as well. Karsten Nohl, chief scientist of Berlin-based Security Research Labs, will [...]
Maxis has upgraded its core transmission network to cope with increased data traffic. The mobile operator has choosen Alcatel-Lucent’s 100 gigabit per second (100G) optical coherent network solution. [(L to R) Mark Dioguardi, Chief Technology Officer of Maxis, & Mohd Fazlin Shah Bin Mohd Salleh, President & Managing Director of Alcatel-Lucent Malaysia] Maxis currently has 5,000 [...]
DiGi has turned on their 3G network at the following underground LRT stations(Kelana Jaya Line)- Ampang Park, Kampung Baru, Dang Wangi & Masjid Jamek. Except for KLCC LRT station, commuters traveling between Ampang Park to Masjid Jamek LRT station can now surf at 3G or higher speed on the DiGi network.
I have been a DiGi customer for over 7 years and watched this company with a few hundred thousand customers grown to millions of customers today. I still remember the “glory days” of DiGi, a very successful mobile operator under the leadership of Tore Johnsen and Morten Lundal between the year 2003-2008. I would say [...]
Malaysia – 10 May, 2011 Malaysian network operators must start planning for 100G, for the benefit of consumers and businesses, as demand for bandwidth across industries is expected to continue surging throughout 2011 and beyond, according to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). The leading global enabler of telecommunications technologies said this as it rounded up the [...]
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