If you follow cell phone network news (which you are, I guess, if you’re reading this site), you might be familiar with a company called Nortel. They provide communications technologies to, among other businesses, cell phone service providers. They’re usually hanging around CDMA companies, offering their solutions. U.S. Cellular is their latest contract, as the nation’s sixth-largest wireless company will use Nortel’s services to make it’s CDMA network more powerful.

The deal will allow U.S. Cellular, the sixth-largest wireless company in the United States, to keep adding subscribers and provide services such as web browsing, e-mail, instant messaging and gaming. U.S. Cellular has 6 million subscribers in 26 states.
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U.S. Cellular will buy Nortel’s CDMA switching, base stations and software. The pact also includes emergency technical support, performance monitoring and other services.

It’s tough to comment on deals like this, since I’m not too familiar with Nortel’s competitors. Still, they are the largest telephone equipment company in North America, so it’s tough to go wrong…I guess. It’s seemingly working out for Cricket.

[Reuters]

Posted By : Joe
Posted at : March 26th, 2008 - 7:30 am
Filed under : U.S. Cellular