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Orange on verge of Bouygues takeover

SoftBank buys back $4.39bn in shares
Nokia fails to gain more than 92% in Alcatel
Vodafone Ghana appoints management roles
ALE appoints APAC VP of sales
Bharti Airtel creates 40,000 green towers
Omantel to launch subsea cable to East Africa
Telekom Malaysia boosts Packet One stake
Tim Brasil to lay off 1,000 workers
Saudi telcos in talks for tower company
NTT subsidiary appoints new president
Verizon to trial new LTE-U system
Axiata and Airtel may merge Sri Lankan units
Telefonica launches infrastructure company
Amazon in telecoms BSS cloud launch
Swisscom to migrate fixed-line customers
Telekom Austria to spend 750m on capex
EU to rule on Hutch-VimpelCom deal
GSMA unveils IoT security guidelines
Turkcell submits bid for TeliaSoneras stake
Indian court backs Reliance takeover

Telefonica launches infrastructure company

11 February 2016
Telxius will initially manage approximately 15,000 mobile towers and Telefonica's
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Interviews with the industry's leaders

The industry's top executives talk to Global Telecoms Business

Fall in rouble adds to Rostelecoms challenges in improving efficiency, says CFO

Kai-Uwe Mehlhorn
04 February 2016
Like many incumbents, Rostelecom has been working hard to transform its network and
systems. CFO Kai-Uwe Mehlhorn says that the work has been even harder because of the
falling exchange rate. He is speaking at the GTB Telecoms Finance summit in March in
London

CEO rolls up his sleeves to ensure Juniper adapts to the new skill sets that
virtualisation will demand
20 January 2016
The industry needs to adapt to the opportunities that virtualisation offers, says Rami
Rahim, the engineer who has been CEO of Juniper since late 2014, but was its 32nd
employee

MTS is redefining what success will look like for mobile providers, says CMO
13 January 2016
Marketing upside: MTS marketing chief Vasyl Latsanych tells George Stenitzer how its
distinctive business model, strategy and marketing approach drive differentiation

Telecom Italia rolls out a unified brand to make choices simpler for customers
15 December 2015
Brand strategy and media chief Carlotta Ventura explains why the company is
converging many brands into just TIM. The company will unveil a new logo in January,
writes George Stenitzer

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Latest Analysis by Sector

Finance and M&As

IP skill is Ciscos attraction to Ericsson in super-important strategic decision

Nokias shareholders approve Alcatel-Lucent acquisition
Marcus Weldon: X is the unknown as Bell Labs continues innovation in the network
of the future
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Management

50 CMOs to watch, 2015

CMOs decide how to promote benefits of new services through IPX
Europes challengers say they are better at innovation than the incumbents
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Infrastructure

Pan-Net is Deutsche Telekoms key to rolling out new services across European
footprint, say co-CEOs
Gearing up for the future of ICT beyond fixed and mobile
Huawei white paper: The growing market for OSS-as-a-Service in
telecommunications
Broadband at your airline seat will become norm following launch of Inmarsat's
new GX satellite
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Business and consumers

CFO Hugo Eales: Colt winds down IT services as Fidelity takes 100% control
Wearable technology requires standards to ensure privacy, security and usability
Search engine shows who is dominant in telecoms to global energy sector
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IT & OSS/BSS

Danaher deal takes Netscout performance assurance beyond the core

When it comes to data, its time to think smart, not big
CTOs take on the big data challenges to improve services and revenues
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Emerging markets

Fast rise in mobile money accounts shows demand continues among unbanked
people
Myanmar survey reveals a rapidly growing market with strong demand for
telecoms services
Orange Money expands to petrol stations
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Wholesale

Inside the Canadian border, but not too far from the US
The internet of everywhere will even show when the truck driver has gone fishing
New frontiers for voice as international operators look for quality connections

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CEO and CFO Guides

Analytics, December 2015

Video operators must learn to take real action based on data analytics insights
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IPX, April 2015

Why assuring and enhancing customer experience is essential to the monetisation of

VoLTE investments
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NFV, April 2015

Its time for operators to define a plan to take away the complexity of NFV
deployment
Operators will face service performance visibility challenges as NFV becomes key
component in service delivery
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White papers

Huawei white paper: A step-by-step maturity model for service provider ICT
infrastructure and cloud transformation
Juniper white paper: Building Your Business Case for Network Virtualization
Juniper white paper: SDN and NFV: Transforming the Service Provider
Organization
Huawei white paper: The growing market for OSS-as-a-Service in
telecommunications
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