Alcatel-Lucent launches LightRadio base station (USA)
Alcatel-Lucent is working on developments that it announced last week for low-energy telecoms infrastructure to develop LightRadio, a new system that the company claims will end of the mobile industry’s reliance on masts and base stations around the world.
According to Ben Verwaayen, Chief Executive Officer of Alcatel-Lucent, today’s and tomorrow’s demands for coverage and capacity require a breakthrough in mobile communications. LightRadio will signal the end of the base station and the cell tower as they know it today.
LightRadio represents a new approach where the base station, typically located at the base of each cell site tower, is broken into its components elements and then distributed into both the antenna and throughout a cloud-like network.
The company added that LightRadio will shrink today’s clutter of antennas serving 2G, 3G, and LTE systems into a single Bell Labs-developed antenna that can be mounted on poles, sides of buildings or anywhere else there is power and a broadband connection.
The total addressable market for the radio technology necessary to serve such networks and devices is expected to exceed US$135.83 billion over the next seven years.
KPN appoints Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs as strategic adviser
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Bell Labs has been selected by KPN to advice on a network and business transformation program. As a part of an ongoing relationship with Alcatel-Lucent, the new engagement will support KPN to meet the complex challenges of managing explosive growth in traffic on its networks.
Bell labs and KPN will work together to develop strategic technology roadmaps that provide a systematic approach to network transformation. Comprehensive business scenarios will also be generated taking into account dozens of business and technology parameters.
According to Joost Farwerck, executive vice president of KPN Wholesale & Operations, KPN considers Bell Labs as a strategic adviser not only because of their ability to provide state-of-the-art network advisory and modeling services but because they offer insights into the business implications and address issues that are top of mind in the boardroom.
Alcatel, Lucent receive US govt approval for merger
Alcatel and Lucent Technologies have received approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), under provisions of the Exon-Florio amendment, to proceed with their proposed merger transaction. Alcatel and Lucent submitted a voluntary notice of the merger to CFIUS in August. CFIUS prepared a recommendation on the merger transaction to the President of the United States in the final phase of the approval process and the President has accepted the CFIUS recommendation that he not suspend or prohibit the proposed merger transaction, provided that, in time periods specified, the companies execute a National Security Agreement and Special Security Agreement to which they have agreed with US government agencies.The companies are moving quickly to finalise the transaction and expect to complete the merger on 30 November, which is within the six-to-twelve-month timeframe originally announced 2 April. The transaction offers Lucent shareowners 0.1952 of an ADS (American Depositary Share) representing ordinary shares of Alcatel for every common share of Lucent they currently hold. Upon completion of the merger, Alcatel shareholders will own approximately 60 percent of the combined company and Lucent shareholders will hold around 40 percent.
The combined company will be incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. The North American operations will be based in New Jersey, US, where global Bell Labs will remain headquartered. The combined company intends to form a separate, independent US subsidiary holding certain contracts with US government agencies. The merged company will have revenues of approximately EUR 21 billion and staff of 88,000, with synergies from the merger estimated at EUR 1.4 billion within three years of completion.
Source- telecompaper Wireless Mobile Telecom
