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Michael CotePresident
The Cote Collaborative![]()
Michael Cote is an Independent Telecommunications Consultant and Principal of the Cote Collaborative. He specializes in enterprise mobility, sales and distribution strategy, online strategy, smart phones, and customer care and billing. Mr. Cote has over...
Jacob LarsenVP, Global Operations and Business Transformation
Alcatel-Lucent - CC![]()
Jacob Larsen is the Vice President, Global Operations and Business Transformation at Alcatel-Lucent. He oversees the company's global real estate portfolio across all practice areas including sales, R&D, manufacturing, and logistics. Post-merger, he coordinated...
Hong JiangPresident and Chief Executive Officer
HJ Solutions, LLC![]()
Hong Jiang, PhD, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of HJ Solutions, a technology consulting firm. Dr. Jiang is an expert on LTE, WiMax and China 3G. Dr. Jiang has over 10 years of experience in wireless technologies including LTE and WiMax....
Senior Executive Consultant
Breen Management Group![]()
Steve Ospalak is the Senior Executive Consultant of Breen Management Group, specializes in mobile device technology. He helps operators, mobile device OEM/ODMs, and technology companies with technology and device aggregation. Prior, Steve was the Director-Subscriber...
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...
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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.
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.
The rise of Microsoft's view on Mobile Web at Vodafone.T
September 27, 2009
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.
Netbooks Promise a Sea Change in the PC Industry
August 28, 2009
Acer Q2 results show risks of cheap netbooks | www.reuters.com
The age of high-powered, application-generic desktop and notebook PCs is giving way to smaller, lighter, more targeted netbooks that satisfy most consumers' needs.
August 14, 2009
Is Ericsson the Hope for Nortel's MEN? | www.lightreading.com
As Nortel disposes of its business units, gaining market share via acquisition will be an way for vendors in the optical space to give the top two players (Huawei and Alcatel-Lucent) ar run for the money. This article examines the potential suitors for the Nortel MEN unit and their likelihood to bid on these assets, in addition to key considerations for each vendor. The list includes Ciena, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Infinera, Juniper, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) and Tellabs.
July 9, 2009 | Palo Alto
GLG Seminar: (Palo Alto) Carrier Infrastructure BottlenecksApril 9, 2009 | New York
GLG Seminar: (NYC) CTIA Insights and UpdatesJuly 29, 2008 | Hong Kong
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04/09/2009
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