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December
Ericsson has acquired OSS company, Optimi, a US-Spanish company, for an undisclosed price
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November
Barclays and Discover are working with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon to launch mobile payments in the US
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The Symbian operating system, dropped by Sony Ericsson and Samsung, is to be wholly owned by Nokia
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October
Analysts believe the market for machine-to-machine communications is about to take off
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BT is saving IT spend by virtualising its data centres, 21CN executive Rob Thomas tells Broadband World Forum, and the company will use cloud for a new IPTV service
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A Salesforce.com executive tells the Broadband World Forum that telecoms companies have a huge opportunity in selling cloud-based services to customers
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China Mobile is consolidating IT services in a trial project with ZTE, and the operator will offer services to business customers
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The GSMA-backed Wholesale Applications Community has expanded from 16 to 48 members
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September
IBM, IT provider to Bharti Airtel in India, has a new 10-year deal for the operator’s new African businesses
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Microsoft’s new Windows Phone7 operating system will be available for GSM phones and networks only at first
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The TM Forum has decided to switch its Management World conference and exhibition in 2011 from Nice to a new convention centre in Dublin
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T2B is about reinventing the service provider’s actual business, says Erwan Ménard, as they compete against “over the top” suppliers
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May
Management World 2010 report: systems vendors are broadening their focus to markets outside their core telecoms focus. George Malim reports
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Management World 2010: Dynamic charging for cloud services, smart bundling of broadband offerings and collaboration between networks in disasters were among innovative projects in the TMForum’s catalyst section in Nice
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Management World 2010: Mobistar is part of the Orange group but the CTO of the Belgian operator pursues an independent line on suppliers and product offerings
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Management World 2010: New Zealand operator TelstraClear is using a new product from Clarity to offer white-label ISP services
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Management World 2010: Bob Lento of Convergys has announced agreements with Alcatel-Lucent, HP and Tech Mahindra
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Management World 2010: Bob Lento of Convergys has announced agreements with Alcatel-Lucent, HP and Tech Mahindra
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Management World 2010: Former Portal executive Dave Labuda’s Matrixx Software is one of the new vendors at this year’s TMForum conference in Nice
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Management World 2010: Service providers should expose the assets they own in an industrialised process to allow apps developers to offer new services, says Alcatel-Lucent
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Management World 2010: The TMForum has announced Amdocs, BT, Huawei and Saudi Telecom have won its annual awards
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Management World 2010: The TMForum's Martin Creaner has announced executives from Alcatel-Lucent, BT and Progress Software as distinguished fellows of the organisation
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Management World 2010: NEC’s OSS/BSS subsidiary NetCracker has won a deal from a US government-owned electricity company
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Mobilkom Austria has launched its own Visa card to ease mobile payments for customers and seeks growth in a market where credit cards are still a rarity
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Management World 2010: Pakistan’s PTCL says it is reducing costs with a central NOC using HP’s OSS in a joint project with Huawei
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Management World 2010: Telcordia has launched a system to allow operators to bring together backhaul, fixed and enterprise network investments
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Global Telecoms Business will be publishing news stories and a daily email newsletter from the TMForum’s Management World conference in Nice
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April
IT companies and network operators will be competing for contracts from Bharti Airtel to run its newly acquired African networks
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January
China Unicom, one of China’s three telecoms operators, is integrating its fixed and mobile operations and reorganising its business