Nortel, Genband clash over acquisition

Nortel Networks disagrees with Genband over the final price tag on a former Nortel division that makes network equipment for voice over Internet protocol (VOIP), reports Total Telecom.

In the dispute over the VOIP unit sale, Nortel says Genband is shaving too much off the price, offering to pay less than $143 million instead of the $179.5 million Nortel wants.

Nortel has raised about $3.2 billion by bankruptcy sales of its operating businesses as it seeks to raise cash for creditors. The Canadian company has yet to say whether it will reorganise as a technology licensing business or liquidate its patent portfolio and go out of business.

Croatia's VOIP Telecom is looking to recover some of the lost revenues from when other operators refused to connect its calls, states TechZone 360.

For eight months, its customers could not use its phone cards on mobile networks and use was limited on fixed telephony.

VOIP Telecom asked the Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services to intervene, which it did, giving T-Mobile and Promonte 30 days to comply with the demand. VOIP Telecom has now started proceedings to recover the lost profit for the period.

N-able has partnered with Mitel to roll out managed VOIP solutions, says Channel Buzz.ca

Although the company has a partnership with networking giant Cisco Systems, the Mitel agreement is N-able's first voice-centric partnership.

Derik Belair, vice-president of marketing and business development at N-able, says: “The Mitel deal is just the beginning - partners should expect to see the company forging more VOIP-related partnerships with channel-friendly vendors in weeks to come.”