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December
Huawei and Alcatel-Lucent are to supply equipment for SkyLink’s planned GSM network across Russia
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Carriers have invested in NGNs and are forging ahead with migrations, new interconnections and new opportunities
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Insights for communications service providers, based on research by Oracle into how they deliver customer service
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France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom hope that the European Commission will give faster approval to their UK merger than the UK’s authorities
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Refarming the analogue TV spectrum will stimulate the LTE market and bring improvements to mobile broadband
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Supermarket executive Dido Harding has been appointed to lead Carphone Warehouse’s phone division as it separates from the parent company
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Almost no one in the telecoms industry users blogs to communicate their messages to customers
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Hewlett-Packard has launched a package of products designed to allow operators to offer cloud services to small and medium businesses
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Elisa, the pioneer of GSM services back in 1991, has refarmed its old 2G network to deliver mobile broadband
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Netherlands incumbent KPN is planning to install fibre to 30-60% of Dutch homes, following trials in ten cities
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América Móvil is to invest $850 million in its Mexican network, TelCel, in 2010 — where it already has a 72% market share
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TeliaSonera is offering LTE services to customers in Stockholm and Oslo, testing technology supplied by Huawei and Ericsson
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Google is expected to launch its own branded phone, believed to be called the Nexus One, in 2010
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Franco Bernabè, CEO of Telecom Italia, has come out against a proposal to separate out its fixed-line network into a different company
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France Telecom’s Orange is to roll out application stores for its mobile phone customers in France and the UK, followed by three other countries in 2010
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William Yeung is leading City Telecom on an ambitious drive to become Hong Kong’s largest fixed IP provider
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Skype’s business chief Stefan Öberg explains how the company plans to win over sceptical IT departments
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China Mobile and Lenovo’s Digital China are to distribute RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones in China
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Dell is setting up a new unit, headed by former Motorola exec Ron Garriques, to offer communications and mobile devices
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The head of the wholesale division of German incumbent Deutsche Telekom is launching a content broking service
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Voice over IP pioneer Skype has joined the rest of the industry by launching SIP-based technology, so that it can market a service to business users to make cheap outgoing calls via the technology
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The wholesale division of German incumbent Deutsche Telekom is launching a content broking service that is designed to allow owners of TV programmes, movies and other video to reach viewers
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Anssi Vanjoki, head of marketing at Nokia, says the company will launch just one Linux-based phone in 2010 but will make more when the market improves
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The Indian operation of Virgin Mobile has won a contract to manage 3G services for MTNL, after the operator won only 1,000 users in six months
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November
Chinese computer maker Lenovo is to buy back the mobile phone unit for $200 million, after selling it for $100 million in 2008. The unit will promote the company’s new mobile internet device
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Telefónica has bought a stake in a pay TV operation, Digital+, from the publisher of Spanish newspaper El País, for €470 million, including writing off €230 million of debt
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Supermarket group Tesco is to start selling the Apple iPhone in the UK on contract and pay-as-you-go by the end of 2009
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SaskTel, a profitable state-owned phone company, is promising fast broadband to everyone, even the remotest, and starting to invest in HSPA mobile data, with a plan to go to LTE. CEO Robert Watson explains how
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Mexico is planning to auction 3G mobile frequencies in 2010, offering the chance of competition for Carlos Slim Helú’s América Móvil
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After disposing of its investment in South African mobile operator Vodacom, the incumbent, Telkom, is planning to spend $800 million on its own mobile business
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Ananda Krishnan’s Aircel in India is planning to spend $5.5 billion on expanding operations across the country. It already runs services in 18 of India’s 23 regions
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Millicom has launched its Tigo brand in Rwanda, after spending $120 million on licences and network — including 3G services — and selling off its Asian operations
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Naguib Sawiris is still hoping that his Orascom group can launch its Canadian mobile operation, Wind, even though the regulator is ruling it is foreign owned
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NTT DoCoMo plans to launch commercial LTE services in Japan in late 2010, but is concerned both about the availability of terminals and about the lack of other operators launching services around the world
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Motorola is to buy video-on-demand company Bitband to merge with the home networks business that it is planning to split off or sell
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Singapore’s Starhub plans to double mobile broadband peak speeds to 42 megabits by 2010, deferring the likely date for the introduction of LTE services to 2012-13
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China Mobile and América Móvil will be the first two operators to offer Dell’s Android-based Mini 3 phone in the world. No prices have been announced yet
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Qualcomm is licensing its 4G technology to mobile phone maker LG, following deals with Samsung and Nokia
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Telekom Austria is considering merging operations of mobile and fixed services
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Kabeer Chawla is sceptical about the opportunities for mobile virtual operators in India
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GTB invited leaders from the industry to a roundtable to discuss opportunities in the cloud
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The machines are coming to boost Sprint’s mobile services business, says Dan Dooley
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Bell Canada has launched its HSPA service, three days ahead of the launch by rival operator Telus
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BT is taking names for a beta trial of Ribbit, a web-based system to manage calls and messages
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October
Dell and Juniper Networks have announced an agreement to work on virtualised data centres and ethernet-based systems including a common network management platform and network operating system
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The CEOs of Verizon Wireless and Google say it is essential that the internet remains unrestricted
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Loss-making Nokia has put its CFO, Rick Simonson, to head its mobile phone business, which is being separated from a new smartphones division. Simonson will also head strategic sourcing for the whole devices unit, including phones and smartphones.
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Vodafone is to offer its business and consumer customers the ability to backup their digital content, following a deal with a subsidiary of EMC. The service will start in Vodafone’s main markets in Europe.
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September
Margrit Sessions analyses new types of international mobile data and voice roaming products
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July
Sanjiv Ahuja, former CEO of Orange, has assembled a team of senior executives from companies such as Celtel and Vodafone who are planning to buy up operators' existing infrastructure in order to share it between competitors
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Matthew Key, the head of Telefónica's European operations outside Spain, is at the centre of the new agreement to share masts with Vodafone in four countries. But, he tells Alan Burkitt-Gray, he's adamant that no deal should adversely affect the service or experience customers receive
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June
If you want to build a digital economy you need fibre to the home. Paul Budde comments on Australia’s strategy to fund a $35 billion national fibre network, which the government believes will deliver massive social and economic benefits. The network will be build by a huge private-public partnership, funded through government bonds
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Equipment from two leading vendors will be compared this year when Verizon Wireless tries out its first LTE systems in two US cities. The company hopes for commercial roll-out in 2010, says Brian Higgins, who is heading the development of innovative services
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A seamless service experience achieved with a core network strategy and migration steps using the principle of ‘always best connected’, write Manfred Schmitz and Karsten Knüttel. Co-sponsored feature: Detecon
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Sprint’s employees have been testing the benefits of unified communications across the company’s US offices — saving an expected $6 million a year in local phone charges alone, plus millions in PBX costs and power costs. And that’s before counting better productivity and effectiveness. Co-sponsored feature: Sprint
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The Olympics are coming to London, but don’t expect to be able use your mobile phone when you’re on the UK capital’s underground rail network, complains Michael Flanagan — even though call revenue would repay the investment
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May
AT&T Business Solutions has not been seduced by desires to offer IT to giant multinationals, says CEO Ron Spears. Its own network is key to all it does, but he tells Alan Burkitt-Gray that the company is expanding network-based applications
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Telekom Austria's CEO Boris Nemsic explains the challenges of running a fixed network plus a range of mobile businesses across eastern Europe, while preparing for the task of becoming CEO of VimpelCom
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Stand by for Nokia top-of-the-range phones with built-in Skype, so owners can make national and international calls for a fraction of the prices charged by mobile operators. Skype COO Scott Durchslag tells Alan Burkitt-Gray about the company's bold new plans
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Look to the software industry for the real innovation among telecoms vendors, says Oracle's Bhaskar Gorti. Operators are moving to standard architecture and opening up their networks, he tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Greg Brown is co-CEO of Motorola, in charge of the broadband equipment side of the business and sharing responsibility with the head of mobile devices for restructuring one of the industry's famous names. He talks to Alan Burkitt-Gray about the challenges ahead
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Now that India has announced two providers for the biggest mobile number portability project so far, the pressure is one for other countries to offer similar flexibility to customers — but the technology should allow operators, as well as the portability service companies, to make money from extra services, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Mobile Office is a powerful value added service for 3G and WiMax networks, writes Jon Doyle. Co-sponsored feature: CommuniGate Systems
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International voice services are an essential part of any operator's service mix, but competition and the financial crisis mean that wholesale margins are tiny. Dan Powdermaker of Arbinet offers service providers a one-stop-shop to address this challenge. Co-sponsored feature: Arbinet
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Rupert Wood looks at what telecoms companies need to do to survive the recession. They're healthier than companies in many other industries, but the downturn will create change and opportunity
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The rise of mobile banking in emerging markets is going to create challenges for regulators as they ponder whether to allow one provider to dominate or look for alternatives such as interoperability, writes Jamie Anderson
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The data centre industry remains one of the few bright spots in a time of economic downturn, says Cesar Bachelet. There are great opportunities for telecoms operators
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March
Zain CEO Saad Al-Barrak has led the company through more than six years of rapid growth from its Kuwait home to the biggest operation in Africa and the Middle East. Now he's set to take over Palestine's Paltel
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Australia's incumbent operator Telstra is about to start marketing bundled Microsoft software over its broadband network to business users. Telstra director Holly Kramer explains that this is a bold experiment for both companies
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Blyk gives 16-24-year-olds free calls and texts if they agree to receive ads. CEO and founder Pekka Ala-Pietilä is talking to operators worldwide about selling them the technology to run Blyk-like services
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If service providers are to embrace the promise of the mobile broadband era, the costly tax of proprietary integration must be eliminated in favour of the internet based open standards model, says Richard Hallett
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We’re entering the era of broader and broader mobile broadband, says Michael O’Hara: in three years, there will be a billion connections around the world, and operators and regulators are moving towards networks with peak rates of 100 megabits a second
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January
Didier Lombard has rebranded France Telecom as Orange worldwide. Now the CEO is set for his next challenge: a three-year programme starting in March 2009 to integrate the company's operations globally so that fixed and mobile services are seamlessly linked. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray
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The merger of Alcatel and Lucent two years ago has not worked. Now, the founding management team has been replaced by former BT boss Ben Verwaayen who is restructuring the company and focussing it on key areas — and listening to the customers and the employees. Alan Burkitt-Gray asks him about his plans
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Nearly three years after creating Verizon's international operations out of the old MCI company, John Killian continues to build up assets and is taking the company into professional services
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Telcos are being squeezed, writes Matthew Vallance. They have invest more to acquire new customers and must help existing customers find the best deal. Many are now telcos looking to external specialist business process outsourcing companies with deep understanding of the global telecoms industry
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As the Global Mobile Suppliers Association celebrates its first 10 years as the representative organisation for mobile suppliers worldwide the president, Alan Hadden, looks at the tasks for the next decade
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View from the top: Today's network is a strategic asset that allows companies to displace costs in other areas, such as corporate travel or fuel for service fleets, and reap the benefits of more efficient and greener resource utilisation, writes Sherry Charles
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There's a growing need for future-proof billing systems as operators offer new services in a bid to increase average revenue per user, says Orga CEO Rainer Neumann