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Article: Alcatel-Lucent, NEC partner for LTE.(Spotlight)
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- RCR Wireless News
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- February 18, 2008
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Byline: TRACY FORD
With the LTE market just starting to develop, Alcatel-Lucent and NEC Corp. believe combining their resources early on will help them develop a market advantage. Alcatel-Lucent CEO Patricia Russo said the move is an offensive play, rather than a defensive one.
"It's about scale, time to market, and pooling existing R&D,'' she told reporters during an afternoon press conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. "This is not a way to reduce our investment.''
Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc. already has selected NEC to help deploy its LTE solution, while Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility have selected Alcatel-Lucent as trial partners for ...