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A top Huawei executive's comments opened the door to the possibility of the Chinese firm gaining a strong foothold in the U.S. network gear market via a takeover of Nokia (NYSE:NOK), which could give Huawei control of Nokia Siemens Networks. Huawei is "open-minded" to the prospect of buying struggling Nokia in an effort to become the world's leading smartphone maker, said Richard Yu, chairman of Huawei's consumer business group. "We are considering these sorts of acquisitions; maybe the combination has some synergies but depends on the willingness of Nokia," added Yu, who made his comments to the Financial Times ahead of the launch of Huawei's Ascend P6 premium smartphone in London. Though the Register reported that Huawei later said it currently has "no plans" to buy Nokia, that did not stop observers from debating what a Nokia takeover by Huawei would mean to Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). Nokia is Microsoft's top ally in developing handsets based on the Windows Phone OS. However, Yu told the Financial Times that Windows Phone is "weak," and indicated the OS is especially unattractive because it requires a license fee, unlike Google's Android OS, which powers most of Huawei's smartphones. Lost in the discussion, however, has been the possible impact on the telecom network infrastructure market should Huawei make a bid for Nokia. The fact that Yu would even mention the possibility sets up what could become an intriguing scenario, because if Huawei were to buy Nokia, it might also end up with infrastructure vendor NSN. Nokia currently owns half of NSN but is in the process of buying out partner Siemens' 50 percent stake for $2.21 billion. Nokia has repeatedly stated its desire to make NSN an "independent entity," and Nokia could eventually spin NSN off as a public company but the timing for such a possibility is far from clear. Taking over NSN via Nokia could give Huawei a backdoor entry into the U.S. mobile network market, where its infrastructure gear has been effectively banned by persistent concerns that the Chinese company poses a national security threat. A report from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence recommended in October 2012 that the U.S. government and U.S. companies avoid using equipment from Huawei and ZTE. However, it is unclear what actions the U.S. government could or would take if Huawei (or ZTE, for that matter) gained a significant foothold in existing U.S. telecom networks by taking over an infrastructure vendor that already has a strong presence in the market. NSN and Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) are primary vendors for T-Mobile US' (NYSE:TMUS) $4 billion network modernization project. NSN has also won LTE radio access network (RAN) and mobile management entity (MME) contracts from U.S. Cellular (NYSE:USM). Further, NSN supplies Verizon Wireless' (NYSE:VZ) IMS core as well as the IMS core for smaller operators. Rick Corker, head of NSN North America told FierceBroadbandWireless early this year that NSN believes it has some 40 percent market share in IMS core in the United States. Although Huawei has repeatedly argued that it does not pose a security threat and has no ties to the Chinese military or government, the allegations refuse to die down. Former CIA and NSA head Michael Hayden told the Australian Financial Review last week that he believes Huawei has shared with China's government "intimate and extensive knowledge" of foreign telecom systems in which the company is involved. Huawei, China's largest maker of telecommunications equipment, was quick to defend itself once again. Huawei's vice president of external affairs William Plummer demanded critics produce concrete evidence of espionage or "shut up," said ZDNet, citing a report in Sina News. Even without new U.S. wireless network contracts, Huawei's wins around the globe put it in strong position. Ovum has estimated that Ericsson held a market-leading 34.7 percent share in the global RAN market at the end of 2012, followed by Huawei with a 20.5 percent share and NSN with 18.7 percent. For more:
- see this Financial Times article (sub. req.)
- see this Register article
- see the Australian Financial Review article and transcript
- see this Bloomberg article
- see this ZDNET article Related articles:
Huawei fends off more spying claims and faces UK security review
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Nokia paying $2.21B for Siemens' stake in NSN
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2. Ericsson CEO says Wi-Fi will be standard small cell feature
Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) expects to enable Wi-Fi, with few exceptions, in all of its small cell equipment, which certain mobile operators are expected to start deploying in the fourth quarter.  | | Vestberg (Image source: Ericsson) | Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg told GigaOM that although not all carriers will take advantage of the Wi-Fi capability in their small cells, the infrastructure vendor intends to take this opportunity to seed the market with Wi-Fi nodes. He didn't name the carriers that would roll out the technology. Carriers will be able to upgrade their small cells to offer Wi-Fi via two primary methods, depending upon equipment configuration. Boards could be slotted into a small cell chassis or, in some cases, a software patch delivered over the cellular network might be all that is needed to enable Wi-Fi communications. Ericsson jumped onto the Wi-Fi bandwagon more than one year ago, when it acquired BelAir Networks. BelAir's technology has now been fully integrated into Ericsson's small cell equipment, enabling operators to roll out small cell and Wi-Fi functionality, with Wi-Fi being integrated directly into the cellular network, Vestberg said. In true HetNet fashion, Ericsson's approach will treat macrocells, small cells as well as Wi-Fi nodes as part of a single network. The company's technology will handle "handover from macro to micro, micro to Wi-Fi and back to micro or macro all over again," Vestberg said. Operators that are considered likely to deploy Ericsson small cells starting this year include AT&T (NYSE:T) and Sprint (NYSE:S), which are both Ericsson customers and have committed to intensive small cell deployments. For more:
- see this GigaOM article Related articles:
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Ericsson buys Wi-Fi gear specialist BelAir Networks Read more about: small cells, Wi-Fi
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3. Apple addresses 802.11ac Wi-Fi coverage problem
Addressing the fact that inclusion of 802.11ac Wi-Fi in its latest Macbook Airs apparently resulted in spotty wireless connectivity, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) released an update aimed at fixing the problem. The issue came to light in late June, when users began complaining about connection problems and Apple reportedly began investigating the issue. Releasing "MacBook Air (Mid 2013) Software Update 1.0" last week, Apple said, "This update fixes an issue that in rare instances may cause an intermittent loss in wireless connectivity, an issue with Adobe Photoshop which may cause occasional screen flickering, and an issue which may cause audio volume to fluctuate during video playback." Some commenters have suggested the connection issue was due to the way Apple's OS X software handled the additional bandwidth provided by 802.11ac. According to The Register, the problem likely stemmed from a GPU or driver issue and should be easily corrected with the new software update. 802.11ac products, which operate in the uncongested 5 GHz band, should provide reduced latency and data rates more than double those of a typical 802.11n network. Most Wi-Fi certified 802.11ac products are expected to operate in both bands, providing support for the older 802.11n standard at 2.4 GHz. The Wi-Fi Alliance officially launched its "Wi-Fi Certified ac" program for 802.11ac, last month in advance of finalization of the IEEE standard. ABI Research forecasts shipments of dual-band Wi-Fi chipsets will exceed 1.5 billion by the end of 2014. For more:
- see this Apple update
- see this Register article
- see this CNET article Special Report: 802.11ac Wi-Fi--Top Wireless Technologies in 2013 Related articles:
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4. Gogo says San Francisco flyers use the most in-flight Wi-Fi
Gogo said San Francisco is the top airport for travelers who take advantage of its in-flight Wi-Fi services. The company's airport rankings cover the number of passengers who used the service and calculate it as a percentage of the total amount of passengers who actually board an aircraft with Gogo Wi-Fi. The data includes usage rates over a 12-month period. To make the list, an airport had to have a minimum of 500,000 passengers board a Gogo-connected aircraft and had to be located in the continental United States. In second place behind San Francisco International Airport was John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, followed by John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Calif., and Los Angeles International Airport. "Almost all of the top 10 is made up of airports on the coasts in markets where we see a large number of business travelers who also are likely traveling on longer, cross country routes," said Ash ElDifrawi, Gogo's chief commercial officer. Pensacola International Airport in Florida was rated the airport with the least connected air travelers, according to Gogo. For more:
- see this Gogo release Related articles:
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Analyst: Gogo's growth appears to be stalling Read more about: in-flight, Wi-Fi
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5. Meru pushes aggressive pricing on 802.11ac access point
Meru Networks hopes to jumpstart the market for 802.11ac Wi-Fi technology by pricing its first 802.11ac-compatible access point for enterprises at $1,295, which is only $100 more than the company's comparable 802.11n access point. This was intentionally done so enterprise verticals looking at 802.11n might start considering 802.11ac today rather than eyeing it as a purchase for next year. "It's a slight difference from our .11n solution but provides three times the performance," said Dennis Huang, Meru's director of product marketing. He alleged that while other vendors have been announcing 802.11ac solutions they have been conservative in pushing the technology and continue aggressively marketing their existing 802.11n product lines. Meru's contends its new AP832 access point, which will ship next quarter, is the market's fastest 802.11ac access point, in part because its single-channel option, part of Meru's MobileFlex architecture, can support the use of 80 MHz channels as outlined in the IEEE 802.11ac draft specification. Wider channels by default mean there are fewer channels to work with, said Huang. He alleged rival multichannel architectures from companies such as Ruckus Wireless, Aruba and Aerohive for the most part restrict support to 40 MHz channels so as to avoid co-channel interference. But that restriction has the effect of reducing data rates to about 600 Mbps, or about half of the 1.3 Gbps-per-radio that the 802.11ac specification allows. By not using the full channel size specified in the standard, "you're really not getting what you've called out for in adopting 802.11ac," Huang told FierceBroadbandWireless. "It's really not serving the purposes of why you want people to migrate to it." Meru's access point also includes two dual-band three-stream 802.11a radios capable of simultaneously transmitting on the 5 GHz band. This allows users to overlay 802.11ac APs on 802.11n networks to solve capacity problems in high density environments, said the company. For more:
- see this Meru release
- see this Network Computing article Related articles:
Wi-Fi Alliance says 802.11ac-certified devices will drive more Wi-Fi offloading
Broadcom sampling 802.11ac chips for entry-level devices
Growing WLAN demand sets stage for 802.11ac shipments Read more about: access point, AP832
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