Alcatel-Lucent Investors Wonder The Company Depends Too Much On The High Demanding Region Like The U.S.

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The most handy equipment maker of Telecom Industry, Alcatel-Lucent, are seeing no hope that the highly rising demand in the region of United States, where its most major operators invest, is going anywhere. Most of the cellphone operators in the North American region mostly have to keep up with their extraordinarily high demands leading to data overload driven, especially by streaming video, infer with the company. It was indicated by the reports of the company's first-quarter, that almost its entire financial status is largely determined by the sales in North America, which gave birth to the question for some investors, that whether Alcatel-Lucent has become more dependent on this particular region for growth, than it should be.

The V.P. of the company Tim Krause, who is also in charge of the company in the U.S., shared that the major operators, like AT&T and Verizon, are keeping up the company’s keep investment since they were themselves lacking the networks required to accommodate the large bandwidth caused directly be huge customer demand. He stated that "hiven the competitive landscape with AT&T and Verizon and the overall shortage of capacity, I would be shocked if they took their foot off the pedal in terms of investments," he said at an investor day held by Alcatel-Lucent on Wednesday. Krause, who also happens to be in charge of the relationship and deals of Alcatel-Lucent with AT&T, dodged the question asking him how long he actually sees this extensive demand of the U.S. supporting the company.

Verizon Announces To Stickers on Mobiles to Spread Awareness Regarding Location Data Being Tracked

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Verizon has announced that it will be fitting an additional a peel-off sticker on the face of every mobile phone it has to sell from now onwards. The sticker will actually convey the warning to each user that the Verizon or even the mobile phone manufacturer might keep record of the user's location data. Additionally it will be mentioned on the sticker, that the users should be careful while installing any third-party applications, as they also have the permission to send the user location. So in order to avoid location information being shared with third parties, they should avoid installing unknown apps.

This step has not been taken in reply to the very recent controversies involving the location-tracking which have encompassed the giant mobile phone manufacturers like, Apple of iPhone and Google for Android phones. It was mentioned that it is a separate Verizon scheme which was under process from quite some time now. However, it was also found out that this idea was first suggested in the response from Verizon to the House Bipartisan Privacy Caucus, which had circulated a critical letter to four mobile companies just last month, after they had discovered that a German mobile operator actually practiced the to track users' locations.