Nortel pushes wireless Internet access

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Nortel Networks Corp. has signed "multimillion-dollar" contracts to fund research and development by two competing companies, Sierra Wireless Inc. and Xircom Inc., in an attempt to accelerate the companies' efforts and produce high-speed wireless modems.

Telephone and telegraph apparatus, Computer network equipment industry, Network hardware industry, Modems, Sierra Wireless Inc., Xircom Inc., XIRC

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Nortel, U.K. giant make a bet on the Web

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United Kingdom's Cable and Wireless PLC will pay $1.4 billion to Brampton, Ont.-based Nortel Networks Corp. The deal, which will span a 10-year period, includes the transfer of Cable and Wireless' voice network to voice-over-Internet-protocol technology.

Telecommunications, Use of services, Telephone Communication, Communications Eqp ex Tel, Finance, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Telecommunications equipment, Cable and Wireless PLC

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Nortel chops equipment contract in half

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Nortel Networks Corp. has cut a contract to purchase wireless filters and amplifier subsystems from Mitec Telecom Inc. by almost half, raising issues among some analysts that the telecommunications company is feeling the effects of a slump.

ELECTRONIC & OTHER ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT, Contracts & orders received, All Other Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing, All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing, General industrial machinery, not elsewhere classified, Amplifiers ex Audio, Video, RF Power, Filters ex Air, Water & Waste, Electronics industry, Industrial equipment industry, Filters (Separation), Filter industry, Amplifiers, Mitec Telecom Inc.

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