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Peter Curnow-Ford, Chairman

Peter Curnow-FordChairmanEisar Ltd. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

As Orange launches iPhone in UK, Apple requests marketing assistance

November 3, 2009

Orange to sell iPhone in UK from 10 Nov | www.totaltele.com

As Apple expands beyond exclusivity in markets it is using additional means to ensure it delivers high levels of service to its end customers.France Telecom - Orange UK, along with Vodafone are now selling iPhone in competition with O2 and some of the Orange dealers are looking at the detail of the marketing costs that are emerging.Dealers will need to ensure they can both make the upfront investment in 'in-store' merchandising and also staff training, this means committing to some big sales targets.

Peter Curnow-Ford, Chairman

Peter Curnow-FordChairmanEisar Ltd. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Samsung handset shipments up 15pc and aims to take 20pc market share

November 2, 2009

Samsung shipments up 16pc | www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk

Samsung continues to dominate in sales growth in the key low to mid-end markets and in developing markets where it shows how to build channel strength.Samsung is also a leader in fashion touch handsets, ie devices in the mid-sector that sell on looks and touch screens to a mainly younger audience.Growing qtr on qtr sales by 15pc, means it is bucking the annual trend which will see an 8pc drop in worldwide sales.

Peter Curnow-Ford, Chairman

Peter Curnow-FordChairmanEisar Ltd. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Orange UK sees strength while revenues suffer interim slide

October 29, 2009

Orange UK revenues down 15pc | www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk

The competitive UK mobile (cellular) market shows signs that it can weather the current financial strains.Orange (part of France Telecom group) has seen its revenues shrink 15% yet underlying margins are holding and customers, especially contract customers have increased in Q3.Orange is also in the throws of merging with T-Mobile UK, to create the UK's largest mobile operator with reach from MVNO's, low revenue SIM only customers through contract to large enterprise customers.

Tarik Fawzi, Chief Executive Officer

Tarik FawziChief Executive OfficerAeneas Strategy What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Increased competition, mobile internet boom lead to German contraction

October 13, 2009

German mobile services market contracts 3.3% in Q2 | www.telecompaper.com

Increased penetration in the German market is mostly caused by MVNOs on the E-Plus network. These are price-fighters which lead to lower average prices in the market and is hurting the big MNO margins.The growth in mobile internet traffic is not leading to big increases in data ARPUs for MNOs. Flat-fee data plans are great for heavy users, who are basically getting more speed and data for a lower price.

Tarik Fawzi, Chief Executive Officer

Tarik FawziChief Executive OfficerAeneas Strategy What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Still early days for LTE

October 1, 2009

Telefonica picks 6 equipment providers for LTE trials | www.telecompaper.com

Telefonica and other operators are setting up trials with LTE. As 3G revenues for operators are still staying behind 9 years after 3G-license acquiring, operators will not speeden up LTE commercial roll out. Telefonica is smartly inviting the big-six infra suppliers to participate in the LTE trials in different countries, thereby having the ability to assess their qualities and indicating to the providers to need to fight to get the LTE- contracts.

Peter Curnow-Ford, Chairman

Peter Curnow-FordChairmanEisar Ltd. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Deutsche Telecom T-Mobile & France Telecom Orange - UK Merger to happen

September 8, 2009

Financial Times FT.com | www.ft.com

By creating a joint venture Deustche Telecom's T-Mobile and France Telecom's Orange will aim to head off competition authority concerns over significant market power and yet reap the benefits of economy of scale. The two operators share similar spectrum and technology & have already discussed networking sharing to reduce costs and this takes it one step further. Initially both operators will continue to use their own brands but will have to consider whether to adopt an MVNO approach going forward/

Peter Curnow-Ford, Chairman

Peter Curnow-FordChairmanEisar Ltd. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Apple to penetrate last market for iPhone

August 13, 2009

China Unicom Rumoured to Have Placed Order for 5 Million IPhones | www.cellular-news.com

At last Apple gets to make a sizable entry into the Chinese mobile market and launch Chinese versions of its iTunes and Applications for the iPhone with China Unicom. It will also be a good money earner, as the models launched have already recouped their R&D costs so margins will be higher, perhaps one reason it was prepared to forgo its normal revenue sharing approach. This should add at least $13bn to Apples revenues, of which $300m will be operating margin.

Michael Horsch Fizz, Senior Advisor

Michael Horsch FizzSenior AdvisorFCI Inc. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Cisco's advantages and challenges. Comparisons to Juniper, ProCurve, Brocade.

August 5, 2009

Cisco’s Sales Will Drop as Much as 17%, Chambers Says | www.bloomberg.com

Cisco's strengths and challenges for their first fiscal quarter and beyond can be further defined when we compare them to their competition.  Juniper, HP ProCurve, Avaya, Brocade (Foundry), Nortel, 3COM are vendors that can help us define and understand Cisco. Cisco's success may very well be due to the weakness of their competition versus the strengths of Cisco.  In addition, with $30 plus billion of cash they are better positioned than most.

Peter Curnow-Ford, Chairman

Peter Curnow-FordChairmanEisar Ltd. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

T-Mobile UK - Deutsche Telekom looking for asset swap?

July 5, 2009

Financial Times FT.com | www.ft.com

Deutsche Telekom are setting the stage for the exit of its current position in the UK mobile market with either, a) an outright exit matched by an acquisition elsewhere b) merger with an existing competitor The former would mean no further brand presence in the UK, while the latter would mean brand presence but a relationship closer to that of its MVNO partner Virgin Mobile. Seeking growth in a non-UK market as a swap is a much better goal for future investment with the promise of higher growth and easier execution of the strategy.

Peter Curnow-Ford, Chairman

Peter Curnow-FordChairmanEisar Ltd. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

T-Mobile - end of the road in the UK?

July 5, 2009

Telefonica, France Telecom interested in T-Mobile | uk.news.yahoo.com

T-Mobile as a brand may not wish to exit the UK market altogether, however it does not have the marketing strategy and investment needed to maintain its brand strength and more importantly ARPU growth. A merger with 3 and/or Orange of their respective networks could free up valuable funds for market/sales investment. O2 (Telefonica) would only contemplate purchase if it meant over hauling Vodafone on its home territory.

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