Nortel
Nortel was a large Canadian telecommunications company and one of the oldest technology companies. It was founded in Montreal. The company started making phones in 1895, and the company was called Northern Electric and Manufacturing Company.
At the end of the 20th century Nortel had over ninety thousand employees. Nortel's value formed thirty percent of the capital of the Toronto Stock Exchange.[1]
Nortel filed for bankruptcy in 2009. [2] In 2020, the Vancouver Sun speculated that corporate espionage by Huawei caused Nortel’s failure. [1]
The First 100 Years
[change | change source]- 1895 – The company was created
- 1900 – The company started making wind-up phonographs[3]
- 1913 – Headquarters moved to Montreal
- 1914 – The company merged with Imperial Cable
- 1922 – The company started making radios
- 1928 – The company made the first talking movie sound system
- 1953 – The company started making television sets[4]
- 1958 – The world's longest microwave system
- 1969 – Started engineering digital telephone system
- 1972 – Opened a factory in Michigan USA
- 1975 – Shipped first digital phone system
- 1976 – The company changes names to Northern Telecom[5]
- 1977 – The company started selling digital central office telephone systems
- 1984 – The company was the first non-Japanese company to supply equipment to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone[6]
- 1995 – The company starts engineering of a terabit switch
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Exclusive: Did Huawei bring down Nortel? Corporate espionage, theft, and the parallel rise and fall of two telecom giants".
- ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/nortel-failed-amid-culture-of-arrogance-1.2582136
- ↑ "Nortel Networks: Corporate Information - Company History - 1900 to 1919". 2002-01-07. Archived from the original on 2002-01-07. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
- ↑ "Nortel: Corporate Information - Nortel History - 1950 to 1959". 2006-11-13. Archived from the original on 2006-11-13. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
- ↑ "The Winnipeg Tribune, 1976-03-01 (Page 3) | digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca". digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
- ↑ van de Kaa, G.; Greeven, M. J. (2017-05-01). "Mobile telecommunication standardization in Japan, China, the United States, and Europe: a comparison of regulatory and industrial regimes". Telecommunication Systems. 65 (1): 181–192. doi:10.1007/s11235-016-0214-y. ISSN 1572-9451. S2CID 37325954.
