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Nortel alumni mount rescue bid

Nortel alumni mount rescue bid

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by Stuart Corner
Thursday, 04 June 2009
According to a report from Canada's CanWest news service, the former president of Nortel, along with several long-retired colleagues are trying to raise $US1bn to buy Nortel and keep it intact, in contrast to the current management which is doing its best to sell off various parts of the bankrupt company. Featured Whitepaper 5 Best Practices for Smartphone Support According to the CanWest report , the group is headed by former Nortel president, Robert Ferchat, now 74, and includes Ian Craig, who was chief marketing officer in the late 1990s and David Mann, who retired as vice-president in 2001. The report said that other ex-Nortel executives now in their 40s and 50s had been approached to take over the management. Ferchat is nothing if not ambitious: in addition to reviving the moribund Nortel he hopes to use hundreds of millions of dollars in R&D tax credits - available only if the company is profitable and Canadian owned - to partially fund the building of a Canadian version of Australia's NBN - a high-speed Internet network to link businesses, schools, hospitals and other institutions across the country. This article first appeared in ExchangeDaily, iTWire's daily newsletter for telecommunications professionals. Register here for your free trial. Tags See All Tags Nortel Powered By Joomla Tags Please enable JavaScript in your browser to post your comment!

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