Study Group: Mobile Phone Handset Evaluators (EU)
Council Members in this Study Group: 24
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Leading Experts in this Study Group
Ian WoodPartner
Wireless Foundry
Ian Wood is the Founding Partner of Wireless Foundry, a telecom and IT consultancy founded in 1998. His clients include France Telecom/Orange, SonyEricsson, Vodafone, Openwave and Qualcomm. He was among the first employees of Motorola Cellular Communications...
Peter Curnow-FordChairman
Eisar Ltd.Peter Curnow-Ford is the Chairman at Eisar Ltd, a handset manufacturer. He is responsible for the development, sales, marketing and branding of mobile and cellular handset products from Chinese and Taiwanese handset manufacturers into EMEA. He is also...
- Alfred "Alfie" Kane
Chief Executive Officer
Baker Capital CorporationAlfie Kane is a Non-Executive Director at Vodafone, Ireland, a wireless carrier. He is also the Chief Executive Officer at Baker Capital Corporation, a private equity fund. Previously, he was the Group Chief Executive Officer at Eircom, Plc; Executive...
- George Kapetanakis
Former Vice President
T-MOBILE (UK) LTDGeorge Kapetanakis was a Vice President of Business Development & Innovation for T-Mobile International. In this role George is leading a team that evaluates and incubates new business ideas from technology and marketing firms which can be commercially...
Dirk-Jan KoemanIndependent Consultant
StrigidaeDirk-Jan (DJ) is currently working as consultant, primarily in telecoms. He is doing both national as international assignments with all major carriers. Previously, he was a Product Rollout Manager for a Caribbean mobile operator, and launched operations...
GLG NewsSM Analyses by this Study Group's Leading Experts(?)
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As Orange launches iPhone in UK, Apple requests marketing assistance
November 3, 2009
Analysis by: Peter Curnow-Ford, Chairman,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.
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Samsung handset shipments up 15pc and aims to take 20pc market share
November 2, 2009
Analysis by: Peter Curnow-Ford, Chairman,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.
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Orange UK sees strength while revenues suffer interim slide
October 29, 2009
Analysis by: Peter Curnow-Ford, Chairman,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.
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The rise of Microsoft's view on Mobile Web at Vodafone.T
September 27, 2009
Analysis by: Ian Wood, Partner,Vodafone updates internet portal services with Vodafone 360 | www.telecompaper.com
The launch of Vodafone360 is the latest indicator of Peter Knook's influence on Vodafone since his joining from Microsoft 18 months ago. Vodafone Internet Services are now trying to present a consumer face for Vodafone that sees it capable of utilising investment in 3G and 3.5G Mobile Broadband.The interesting element is that this will be the first two handsets in Europe that use the LiMo standard. One from Samsung and one from Huawei.
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Deutsche Telecom T-Mobile & France Telecom Orange - UK Merger to happen
September 8, 2009
Analysis by: Peter Curnow-Ford, Chairman,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/
Members in this Study Group include these company types:
- Wireless Carrier
- Handset Distributor
- Individual/Small Consultancy
- Mobile Application Software
- Independent Consulting Firm
- Group Purchasing Organization, Non-Profit
- Private Equity/Leveraged Buyout
- Embedded Software
- Consumer Electronics Distributor
- Systems Integrator (SI)
- Wireless Infrastructure Manufacturer
- Cable Provider/MSO
- Consumer Electronics Retailer
- Handset Manufacturer
Members in this Study Group often have these job titles:
- Consultant
- Marketing Director
- Sales Manager
- Board Member
- Product Development Director
- Director
- Operations Executive
- Owner
- National Sales Manager
- President
- Principal
- Purchasing Manager
- Sales and Marketing Director
- Account Manager
- Chief Executive Officer
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