For all the attention on Nortel’s (NRTLQ.PK) CDMA business, which was sold to Ericsson (ERIC) for $1.3-billion, most people are probably unaware that Nortel still has a GSM wireless business that had sales of $377-million during the first-half of the year.
Given that GSM has supplanted CDMA has the technology for most wireless carriers around the world, it will be interesting to see how much interest Nortel attracts for its GSM business, which was split off from the CDMA business earlier this year.
For all the talk about Nortel’s LTE patents, which could play a leading role in next-generation wireless networks, the GSM business is Nortel’s bastard child that gets no love and little attention.
