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December
Europe used to have the lead in the mobile business. Now lack of harmony in areas such as spectrum licensing means the lead has been lost to the US and Asia, writes Bengt Nordström
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Chinese vendor will restrict its business activities with present clients and will also not look for new customers
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World first as New Zealand infrastructure provider Chorus becomes standalone company after Telecom NZ splits
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November
Canadian government may allow increased foreign investments in telecoms sector to improve competition
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Finding people for CEO and other top jobs in the industry is a tough challenge, say recruiters and their clients. Companies are wanting people with skills that didn’t exist a few years ago
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Colombian government may liquidate Colombia Telecomunicaciones venture with Telefónica over capitalisation plan
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Nokia Siemens Networks plans saving of €1bn a year with 17,000 staff to go as company announces restructuring
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Telefónica and China Unicom reach strategic agreement to use points of presence on each other’s networks
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ZTE to pursue deals with US operators despite political obstructions on Chinese firms by US authorities
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Nokia Siemens Networks sues Vodafone-Hutchison joint venture over disputed $8.2m performance bond
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Women make up a small number of the GTB Power 100. Why? The Women in Telecoms & Technology group looks for answers
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Orange and Publicis create €150m venture capital fund to focus on e-commerce, social networks, mobile content and services
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Orange/T-Mobile UK joint venture to cut further 550 staff out of 15,000, says CEO Olaf Swantee
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October
ZTE president Shi Lirong writes for GTB about the remarkable rise in the price of patent portfolios
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Five industry leaders discussed changing attitudes to customers
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Procurement staff should be trained for the strategic role they have in the industry
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Shareholders of Australia’s Telstra approve incumbent’s participation in National Broadband Network
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View from the Top: Joe Weinman of HP: The leadership challenge is for operators to coordinate initiatives in services, product management, IT and network infrastructure
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Russia’s Rostelecom looks to accelerate the acquisition of CDMA operator Sky Link from Svyazinvest
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Tele2 and Telenor joint venture Net4Mobility win bandwidth in Sweden’s 1800 MHz auction for $65m
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Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom-Orange procurement joint venture starts operating as Buyin
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France Telecom Orange and China Telecom to share expertise for expansion of network and services
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Indian telecoms minister Kapil Sibal to let mobile carriers consolidate and share spectrum
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Telecommunications Industry Association urges India to review capital requirements and licence fees
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Indian government doubts Tata’s plans and questions performance of its international units
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September
Agreement between Vodafone and Swiss incumbent will allow both parties to jointly source and deploy solutions
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Global Telecoms Business brought the industry’s top 40 executives under the age of 40 to a summit in London to discuss their views of the challenges and opportunities they will face
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Spanish operator’s Brazilian unit will switch to Vivo brand by first quarter of 2012 following merger
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Telefónica creates global resource unit, moves Spain into Europe and puts digital operation in UK
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Canadian cable operator cites high investment required as a reason for scrapping the plan
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India’s government telecom department looks for investment in equipment maker Indian Telephone Industries
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Rob Conway, who headed the GSM Association until the end of August, has joined Russian operator VimpelCom as head of international affairs
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August
Companies’ initial offers for the 4G frequencies hit €2.3bn before auction starts on August 31
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Tim Cook takes over as the new chief executive of Apple as Jobs asks to continue as chairman
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We listed this year’s GTB 40 under 40 in the May-June issue and gave details about their careers. Now we report on a survey on who they are and what makes them who they are
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Delegates to Telecom World conference in Geneva asked to pick winners from 60 shortlisted innovations
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Mobile industry’s trade association chooses France Telecom’s Anne Bouverot to replace Rob Conway, who headed the organisation as CEO for 12 years
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Philippines operator asks regulator to cancel the licences of PLDT, claiming foreign control
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July
Carrier in talks with government of independent South Sudan for licence to operate in new nation
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Equipment firm plans to achieve $1 billion in savings in 2012 with 10,000 job cuts
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Operator reorganises into consumer and business units in drive for efficiency
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As Nortel’s creditors get a surprising $4.5bn from five vendors for its intellectual property, former executives talk to GTB about what went wrong with this highly innovative company
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Scandinavian operator joins group set up by France Telecom Orange and Deutsche Telekom
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Indian mobile carrier must seek government permission to sell six licences after acquiring rival Spice
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Samsung drops suit to streamline legal proceedings on alleged patent infringement
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June
Telenet and Tecteo will pay €71.5 million for 10-year licence
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Apple responds to Samsung’s suits by claiming Samsung infringed many patents of Apple
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Netherlands’ Opta reduces price controls on incumbent as competition increases
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The latest printed issue of Global Telecoms Business is now being distributed to subscribers
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Global Telecoms Business announces the 40 most exciting young executives in the telecoms industry under 40 years old
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The joint procurement venture of France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom will have trouble getting the best out of vendors unless the two merge their operations, as they have already in the UK, says Bengt Nordström
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Who are the industry’s young leaders of today and the leaders of tomorrow? For the third year in a row, Global Telecoms Business readers helped us make the selection
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Karin Kollenz talks to Jamie Anderson and Shlomo Ben-Hur about the changes René Obermann has brought about at Deutsche Telekom — a case study they are now using to teach managers and MBA students about the challenges of achieving strategic renewal and change
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Malaysian operator Axiata revises business plan to secure 2.6GHz for LTE
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Spain is looking at raising up to €2 billion in second auction for 4G spectrum in two months
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US cable operator may sell mobile network or abandon the venture completely
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Telecoms vendor aims to double production of radio base stations in São Paulo
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French telecoms regulator Arcep looks to raise at least €2.5bn in two-stage 4G spectrum auction
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Apple will be paying the Finnish phone maker ongoing royalties as well as an undisclosed one-time fee
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Poste Italiane plans to hand fixed telephony licence to its MVNO, PosteMobile
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Reliance says that BSNL switched off its point of interconnection in Punjab and Haryana
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Huawei asked to stop manufacturing and using ZTE’s TD-LTE equipment
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The UAE operator does not plan to raise capital at the moment
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Report from the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Summit in London
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MobilePeak's complete UMTS/HSPA+ solution to enable Spreadtrum to broaden its portfolio
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New financing to fund future acquisitions, repay outstanding indebtedness and fund network build-out
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New Israeli mobile network deal worth 200 million shekels over three years
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Mobile industry’s board meeting concludes with departure of CEO Rob Conway after 12 years
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Australia’s telecoms minister and Alcatel-Lucent’s laboratories among winners of GTB Innovation Awards
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MVNO signs network deal in France
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New board will supervise local strategy and develop further inroads into the Australian market
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Vendor and operator will look at developing international telecoms standards, says BT CIO Clive Selley
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In advance of the Future of Wireless International conference, which takes place in Cambridge, UK on June 27-28, five of the speakers held a roundtable to debate the problems faced by networks under stress
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May
The telecoms company will use a 'flexible logo', said CEO Hans Ametsreiter
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Thai regulator’s move to block imports expected to result in additional delays to the 3G projects
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UK communications regulator Ofcom cuts broadband and mobile contracts to two years and bans ‘slamming’
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Nokia Siemens Networks two Saudi companies to form a joint-venture firm
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Orange and Barclaycard launch service to enable customers to make payments on the high street with mobile phones
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France will require 4G services in rural areas as well as cities, says industry minister Éric Besson
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VimpelCom appoints ex-Telenor executive Jo Lunder as new CEO, replacing Alexander Izosimov
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Australia’s National Broadband Network is asking the regulator for more radio spectrum
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Swedish-Finnish incumbent has introduced a new brand for all its operations worldwide
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The Brazilian regulator is to sell spectrum licences for WiMax in the 3.5GHz band
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Jorma Ollila, who transformed Nokia from a conglomerate making rubber boots, retires as chairman next year
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Partner Communications in Israel has won the right to continue to operate under the Orange brand
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ZTE has responded to Huawei’s allegation of patent infringement by suing its rival in Chinese courts
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April
Nokia is outsourcing its Symbian software development to Accenture, which will also work on Windows Phone projects
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Ilissa Miller responds to Meryl Bushell’s article in the last issue. The glass ceiling is a myth created by those who can’t see beyond it
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Sprint has agreed access charges to use Clearwire’s WiMax network over the next two years
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France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom aim to save €1.3bn a year through a procurement joint venture as their relationship deepens
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BlackBerry maker RIM is said to be considering bidding against Google for Nortel’s patents
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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India wants to boost domestic production, with subsidies for local operators
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Telefónica plans 20% workforce cuts in Spain as CEO Cesar Alierta focuses on Latin America and Germany
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A settlement of the patent dispute between Motorola Solutions and Huawei removes barrier to NSN takeover deal
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Mirs and Xfone’s Marathon are to compete against Israel’s three existing mobile operators after a government auction
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ZTE has responded to Ericsson’s patent lawsuit by filing its own suit in Chinese courts
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The House of Representatives in the US has rejected the FCC’s proposed net neutrality rules
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The Indian government is telling Aircel, Etisalat and Sistema Shyam to explain why their coverage does not meet licence obligations
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Rwandatel, 80% owned by the state of Libya, must suspend mobile operations from Friday
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Google is offering to buy the last vestige of Nortel, its patent portfolio, for an initial bid of $900m in an auction that starts in June
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Ericsson is claiming that ZTE is infringing some of its 2G and 3G patents and is starting legal action
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Syria has selected two finalists for its third mobile licence auction, as Etisalat, Orange and Turkcell drop out
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The Spanish government is to auction digital dividend spectrum for 4G uses in June, hoping to raise €1.5bn or more
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The UK regulator is proposing cuts in prices for Openreach’s local loop unbundling and wholesale line rental
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March
Etisalat’s withdrawal leaves France Telecom, Qatar Telecom, Turkcell and Saudi Telecom competing for licence
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For the first time, Global Telecoms Business offers its list of the top 50 CFOs to watch in telecoms — and wonders why there are only five women among them
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For the first time, Global Telecoms Business offers its list of the top 50 CFOs in the industry
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In a continuing dispute, Nokia is alleging that Apple is using seven of its patents in its products
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US politicians in the house of representatives are blocking the FCC’s planned rules on net neutrality
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Mobile operators in the UK will be able to charge 80% less to other networks for connecting calls
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CEO Franco Bernabè becomes executive chairman with new heads of Italian and Latin American operations
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Rural operator Open Range is the first to sign a deal to use LightSquared’s terrestrial and satellite LTE services
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Bill Morrow has left Clearwire suddenly and the chairman has stepped in as acting CEO
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Volvo CEO Leif Johansson will be the new chairman of Ericsson
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Former chairman and CEO of France Telecom Didier Lombard drops special adviser role in company
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February
Two weeks extra to get nominations to Global Telecoms Business: new deadline March 11
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Stéphane Richard is now officially chairman of France Telecom Orange as well as CEO
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In the latest of a series of roundtable discussions, Global Telecoms Business asked a panel of consulting, legal and industry experts how they see valuations of cloud providers changing in the wake of Verizon’s $1.4 billion acquisition of Terremark
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Egypt and Tunisia show need for broadband for all, says ITU head
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The GSM Association shifts dates for 2012 MWC in Barcelona as visitor numbers hit a record 60,000
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Wang Jianzhou, the chairman of China Mobile, has received the GSMA chairman’s award at Mobile World Congress
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A vendor has analysed information from Analysys Mason and concluded that many mobile networks will be losing money on their data operations as early as the first quarter of 2013
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January
Adopting a new address system will be complex, but will offer trillions of new addresses and other features
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US mobile operator MetroPCS is to take the FCC’s net neutrality rules to court
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Barcelona is still in the running to host Mobile World Congress from 2013, but it challenges three other cities
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Nokia Siemens Networks’ plan to buy Motorola’s network equipment unit for $1.2bn has been hit by a lawsuit from Huawei
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Rapid innovation of new offers plays a critical role in a service provider’s ability to realize its potential
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Verizon is challenging the FCC’s new rules designed to prevent US operators blocking some web services
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Only 12% of the top of leading operators are women. Is it because they are building the wrong type of networks?
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Five European telecoms groups are warning the EU that Apple and Google are creating a smartphone duopoly
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Blyk takes youth advertising strategy to India’s Aircel
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Orange is claiming that the government of Jordan has breached an exclusivity deal by allowing Zain to compete
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Operators see over-the-top companies as threats — yet they should also learn from them
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Telefónica and América Móvil will be the first mobile operators to compete with Costa Rica’s incumbent
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National regulators must abandon competitive auctions for LTE radio spectrum
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Swiss cable operators have complained about Swisscom’s plan to develop fibre to the home in two regions
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Motorola is two separate companies from January 4. Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions will be separately traded