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The industry's top executives talk to Global Telecoms Business

  • Interview: Ted Griggs of Ribbit

    13 November 2009

    Ted Griggs, the CEO of Ribbit, now owned by BT, has been made CTO of BT Voice. So what is it about Ribbit that persuaded BT to spend $105 million on buying it — and what does his appointment mean for the future of BT’s services?

  • Interview: Rob Conway of the GSM Association

    11 November 2009

    Aim for 50 billion mobile connections by 2025, GSMA’s Conway tells the industry. Rob Conway has helped turn the GSM Association into the most influential organisation in the industry, representing the interests of its 800 operator members

  • Interview: Dan Dooley of Sprint

    09 November 2009

    The machines are coming to boost Sprint’s mobile services business. Dan Dooley runs Sprint’s wholesale solutions unit, covering everything from MPLS wholesale services into and out of the US to MVNOs with cable operators and the new growth area of machine-to-machine services

  • Interview: Steve Largent of the CTIA

    06 November 2009

    Steve Largent heads the wireless industry’s trade association in the US and sees a big challenge in persuading politicians that mobile telecoms services can be directly affected by their policies — such as net neutrality

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Finance and M&As

  • Interview: Ted Griggs of Ribbit

    13 November 2009

    Ted Griggs, the CEO of Ribbit, now owned by BT, has been made CTO of BT Voice. So what is it about Ribbit that persuaded BT to spend $105 million on buying it — and what does his appointment mean for the future of BT’s services?

  • Telekom Austria may merge mobile and fixed

    13 November 2009

    Telekom Austria is considering merging operations of mobile and fixed services in its home country

  • CEO : Zain Africa not for sale

    12 November 2009

    Chris Gabriel, CEO of Zain's African operations, says the Middle East-based group is not planning to split up and sell its 13 African networks

  • Motorola seeks buyer for $5bn network arm

    12 November 2009

    A split in Motorola is back on the agenda, with the company discussing selling its equipment side for up to $5 billion, as part of a potential three-way split in the company

  • Skype founders win 14% stake for patents

    06 November 2009

    Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis have won a victory in their legal battle against Skype owner eBay and will take a 14% stake worth $385 million in the IP telephony company in full settlement

  • Telefónica raises GVT bid to $3.99bn

    05 November 2009

    Spanish group Telefónica has raised its bid for Brazilian operator GVT to almost $4 billion, in a bidding war with France’s Vivendi

  • Telmex raises $500m in bond sale

    06 November 2009

    Telmex has raised $500 million through a bond sale, for general corporate purposes. The joint bookrunning managers on the sale were Bank of America and HSBC.

  • Goldman advises Iridium on funding new sats

    28 October 2009

    Mobile satellite phone company Iridium has appointed the bank Goldman Sachs to advise it on funding its new fleet of satellites, to replace the ageing set of craft it inherited from the original Iridium venture

Management

Infrastructure

  • Comms changes society but comms must help tackle climate change

    11 November 2009

    China Mobile’s Wang Jianzhou believes the industry must address climate change

  • Top 12 companies set rules for LTE voice

    04 November 2009

    Six mobile operators and six vendors have set out the way that they want 4G long-term evolution networks to carry voice — and have published rules that they will persuade the rest of the industry to follow

  • Bell Canada starts 21meg mobile broadband

    03 November 2009

    Bell Canada has launched its HSPA service, running at up to 21 megabits a second, several months ahead of schedule, and three days ahead of the launch by rival operator Telus

  • Indonesia operator to spend $2bn in 2010

    03 November 2009

    The Indonesian incumbent operator is increasing its capital expenditure by 15% in 2010 to $2 billion, more than two-thirds of which will be spent by the mobile business, Telkomsel

  • LTE services from 15 networks ‘by end 2010’

    29 October 2009

    There will be 15 LTE networks in commercial service by the end of 2010, and a total of 42 networks in 21 countries have already committed to the 4G technology, according to the industry’s suppliers

Business and consumers

  • BT offers Ribbit cloud phone service

    03 November 2009

    BT is taking names for a beta trial of the first consumer service to come out of its $105 million purchase in 2008 of Silicon Valley cloud computing venture, Ribbit: a web-based system to manage calls, messages and phones

  • Unlikely bedfellows agree on net neutrality

    23 October 2009

    As the US begins its debate on net neutrality and universal broadband access, the CEOs of Verizon Wireless and Google say it is essential that the internet remains an unrestricted and open platform

Emerging markets

  • Is there any hope for MVNOs in India?

    12 November 2009

    India is a highly competitive market with some of the lowest rates in the world, and penetration of all market sectors is growing. Kabeer Chawla is sceptical about the opportunities for mobile virtual network operators in such a market

  • Mobile green power market ‘to hit $2.3bn’

    20 October 2009

    Nearly 500 million mobile users will benefit from solar powered devices and the market for devices will reach $2.3 billion, according to new research from the GSM Association

  • CTIA to provide codes for Latin America

    30 September 2009

    The US mobile industry’s trade association, the CTIA, is to provide a short code text service for operators in South and Central America, following a request from the region’s two largest operators

  • Africa to benefit from high-capacity cables

    14 August 2009

    Over the next two years new submarine cables will connect Africa to the internet as never before — with projects for at least six coastal cables with 11 terabits of capacity. Global Telecoms Business presents a digest of the main plans

Wholesale

  • Interview: Dan Dooley of Sprint

    09 November 2009

    The machines are coming to boost Sprint’s mobile services business. Dan Dooley runs Sprint’s wholesale solutions unit, covering everything from MPLS wholesale services into and out of the US to MVNOs with cable operators and the new growth area of machine-to-machine services

  • Africa to benefit from high-capacity cables

    14 August 2009

    Over the next two years new submarine cables will connect Africa to the internet as never before — with projects for at least six coastal cables with 11 terabits of capacity. Global Telecoms Business presents a digest of the main plans

  • Vodafone in roaming hub peering deal

    13 October 2009

    Vodafone’s roaming offshoot has signed a peering agreement with one of its rivals, United Hubbing, to provide worldwide roaming services to other operators.

CEO and CFO Guides

CEO and CFO Guide to Managed Services, October 2009

CEO and CFO Guide to Mobile, October 2009

CEO and CFO Guide to OSS/BSS, October 2009

CEO and CFO Guide to Wholesale, August 2009

CEO and CFO Guide to IP transformation, June 2009

CEO and CFO Guide to Professional Services, June 2009

CEO and CFO Guide to Emerging Markets, June 2009

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