Nortel Networks, the bankrupt Canadian maker of telecommunications equipment, said over the weekend that Ericsson of Sweden had won an auction of its wireless technologies unit with an offer of $$1.13 billion, thwarting a bid by a rival, Nokia Siemens Networks. Last month, Nortel signed a deal to sell the division, which is profitable, to Nokia Siemens for $$650 million. A bank owned by the Canadian government also agreed to provide $$300 million in financing for the deal. But other companies were ...

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