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December
Sun founder Scott McNealy now has a strategic position in the company. He's having what he calls 'big conversations' with leaders of the telecoms industry about Sun's adherence to open standards, and his vision that they should be providing the 'webtone switch' as a way of achieving the company's long-held belief that 'the network is the computer'. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray
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KPN is ripping out its legacy networks, including telephone exchanges and copper wires, and replacing the whole system with a nationwide fibre-to-the-kerb system that will deliver broadband services at 30-50 megabits. Altnets will be welcomed onto the network with a street-cabinet version of local loop unbundling, says Eelco Blok, the CEO of KPN's fixed network. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray
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After a series of mergers Level 3 is bringing together services for traditional media giants such as broadcasters and IP-based services for rapidly expanding internet-based companies. Capacity is expanding as demand booms and it is looking for further acquisitions. Interviews with Kevin O'Hara and Brady Rafuse of Level 3
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There are four or five companies competing in most French cities to deliver advanced broadband telecommunications. Prices have been driven down but have stabilised, while the competition has moved to the services that the different operators can deliver via their rival platforms. Alan Burkitt-Gray interviews two of the leading CEOs in the market, Marie-Christine Levet of T-Online and Michaël Boukobza of Iliad
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HP explains how by enabling customers to manage these devices and services with minimal or no assistance from the call center, operators can maintain a far higher profit margin on new devices and services. Co-sponsored feature: Hewlett-Packard
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Telephony is seeing a revolution as small businesses and home users discover the benefits of IP. Martin Balaam explains how he expects voice over IP to be used in the future
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Service providers have to become efficient merchandisers of digital content to their customers, so that they become trusted providers, says Leapstone CEO Rick Orriss. The industry is in transformation and operators have to change their business models in order to survive. Co-sponsored feature: Leapstone
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It used to take months to put up new data services on mobile phone networks. Yet some of the events that make money might last only a few days, or for one evening. Drutt's mobile service delivery platform allows operators to offer revenue-generating services from content providers to their customers. It's easy to add a complete service for something that runs for just a few hours, says Drutt CEO Roland Svensson
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Under Jean-Yves Charlier, CEO for the past two years, Colt Telecom has built up its managed services business, offering storage, security and other services from re-opened data centres that had been dark since the dotcom collapse. Now Charlier is returning to the main investor, to be replaced by another managed services champion
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Interoute is expanding. With new investment from Dubai, it's expanding south and east to become a bridge to the Arab world. But it's also planning a big move into the corporate outsourcing market, with a scheme to bypass conventional operators and offer enterprises all-IP telephony through peering arrangements. Microsoft is an ally, CEO James Kinsella tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
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It's the ultimate outsourcing move in the industry: BT's local loop business is now run by a separate unit, Openreach, which offers equal access to all competing operators. Now it is exploring a strategy to build fibre into the local access network. CEO Steve Robertson reveals to Global Telecoms Business that the company will develop a business plan for fibre. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray
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October
The GSM Association is helping to promote projects which will bring mobile communications — voice and internet — to many of the millions who can't afford their own phone. View from the Top: Rob Conway, CEO of The GSM Association
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June
Telecoms operators have to solve difficult problems for their customers in order to develop new revenue streams. They should look at the opportunities in providing managed services for their clients, says Richard Brandon of Juniper Networks. Co-sponsored feature: Juniper Networks
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Ananda Subbiah of HP. Technology plays a contributing role, but convergence is more about the services you actually deliver to the subscriber as well as to the enterprise. Co-sponsored feature: Hewlett-Packard
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Vodafone is still reluctant to talk of the fashionable topics of triple play and quadruple play, and may be accepting DSL only grudgingly, but behind the rhetoric executives are looking forward to a world of integrated access. Up to a point
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April
The March-April issue of Global Telecoms Business is the biggest we've done for years. Five C-level executives are on the cover — clockwise from the top, Saad Al Barrak, CEO of MTC; Kris Rinne, CTO of Cingular Wireless; Peter Erskine, CEO of O2; Boris Nemsic, CEO of Mobilkom Austria and CEO-designate of Telekom Austria; and John Killian, CEO of Verizon Business.
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The Tellabs IntegratedMobile solution efficiently advances your network from 2G to 3G and beyond. Co-sponsored feature: Tellabs
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March
It used to be regarded as inward looking, but the addition of MCI in January is giving Verizon an international perspective. In his first interview since becoming CEO of Verizon Business John Killian explains how he is offering corporate and wholesale services to the US and the rest of the world. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray
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From mobile phones and IPTV to OSS and messaging, Microsoft is penetrating right through the telecommunications industry. The person right at the top of that effort is former Bell Labs engineer Maria Martinez, who not only heads building the company's strategic relationship with the industry but is also in charge of every single sale of Microsoft Office to a telco. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray
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How is BT's 21st Century Network project impacting the alternative providers — and how are they working with BT in the roll-out of the all-IP network? The head of one leading operator gives his views
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The new CEO of Telcordia is looking for white spaces — places where the company should be operating but is not. But in his first six months in the job Dan Carroll has also found hidden treasure on the existing map: work that the company did for one customer that, with modification, can be developed into products that can be marketed more widely
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European telcos must leverage their fixed-line customer bases and tailor their strategies to local markets in order to drive IPTV adoption, explains Analysys Research's Windsor Holden
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The picture's great, but will the sound match what we've come to expect from other home entertainment systems, asks Jason Power
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February
In this issue of Global Telecoms Business, we interview the two CEOs who are in charge of the reconstruction of BT as an incumbent unlike any other in the world. Here, Paul Reynolds, CEO of BT Wholesale, explains how 21CN will start to roll out within months. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Qualcomm's founder, Irwin Mark Jacobs, lost his battle for CDMA in much of the world when standards were set for the first digital mobile services but choices for 3G technology show he was right — and he's pleased to see mobile data is booming
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The management challenges of integrating fixed and mobile networks to deliver fixed-mobile convergence should not be underestimated, writes Jamie Anderson. Pure play fixed or mobile network operators need to avoid being squeezed into potentially narrow niche segments
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Payments where the mobile handset plays a key role in the initiation, authorisation and/or realisation of the transaction have taken hold and are about to boom, according to Karim Taga and Johan Karlsson from management consultants Arthur D Little