McLachlan notes, "We are in the process of reaching out to all our clients, providing regular updates on what we are doing, how we are doing it and why we are doing it, so that they would fully understand how we plan to continue to go forward."

As for its local presence in the country, Laura Lariosa, account director of Nortel says that their core team is still intact and it is business as usual for them, as they continue to provide products and solutions ranging from carrier voice,transmission, LAN switches to unified communication (UC) and voice over IP (VOIP).

"We try to focus our portfolio in areas such as 4G technology, 40G platform, UC, and VOIP, where we can differentiate ourselves in the marketplace to gain leadership position, and we will continue to do so while we work on increasing our communication efforts with our clients and partners to show transparency," adds McLachlan.