I happened upon this somewhat seemingly boring Public Mobile press release about Public Mobile announcing Alek Krstajic (pictured) as Chief Executive Officer to lead its introduction of wireless services in Ontario and Quebec in 2009. I suggest somewhat boring only because Alex has been involved with Public Mobile for some time. Alex is an extremely competent capable Telecom executive with years of business experience.
The part of this fairly innocent press release that caught my attention is the piece at the end:
“Nortel supports an industry-leading wireless solution for the PCS G Band Spectrum for delivering advanced voice, data and multimedia services, and this competitive solution will help any new wireless entrant such as BMV establish a viable, reliable and profitable business,” said Richard Lowe, President of Nortel’s Carrier Networks division.”
Why on earth is Public Mobile using Nortel carrier hardware ? Have they heard the news ? Nortel is bankrupt and has sold, or is in the process of selling all of their business divisions. Although the carrier division hasn’t officially shut down, the future of their technology is obviously in question. What position would that leave Public Mobile in ?
I have profiled all 3 carriers over the last month, and you can read more here:
Coming to Canada this Fall – profiling Public Mobile
Coming to Canada this Fall – profiling Wind Mobile
Coming this winter to Canada. Profiling Dave Wireless.
Written by: Jeff Wiener. www.digitcom.ca. Follow TheTelecomBlog.com by: RSS, Twitter, Identi.ca, or Friendfeed
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Please forgive my ignorance, but why not use Nortel equipment.
Nortel may be a shell of it’s formal self, but what about all of the DMS-100’s in service at just about every central office in Canada, and many in the U.S.? Are we just going to turn them all off, and install Avaya equipment, or former Lucent switches?
I may be missing something, but perhaps Nortel as a company may not be around for too much longer, but the legacy and all incarnations from Nortel Networks, Norhern Telecom, to back to Northern Electric, and well before that. This includes equipment that is still in service and working quite well all over the place.
We have to continue to support them.