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Telecommunications (International Edition) archives from January 2004
Wanted: new business models.(Commentary)
January 1, 2004... It seems to me that telecom suffers from a lack of imagination of doing anything beyond its core business
Michael O'Leary is an ebullient Irishman. He is also CEO of European low-cost carrier Ryanair and recently he was--or so it was...
Gateway opens door to African calls; Africa.(Global News Analysis)
January 1, 2004... Gateway Communications, the London based pan-African telecom company, has launched a service that halves the cost of some calls made by multinationals based in Africa. It is said to be the first widespread alternative to African incumbent...
Sistema moves into CDMA; Eastern Europe.(Global News Analysis)
January 1, 2004... Sistema, the holding company that controls the leading Russian GSM operator, MTS, has taken a 50 per cent stake in SKylink, which is moving into CDMA.
Skylink has a number of analogue NMT-450 operations in Russia that are to be converted...
What now for Global Crossing? Global.(Global News Analysis)
January 1, 2004... After nearly two years in Chapter 11, Global Crossing emerged from US bankruptcy protection on 9 December 2003. With a new management team in place and comparatively little debt--US$200 m in the red as opposed to the US$12.4 bn it owed its...
VPN facilitator raises [euro]21 m; Europe.(Global News Analysis)
January 1, 2004... Nexagent, which has developed software to facilitate the provision of seamless, multi-carrier IP-VPNs, has raised [pounds sterling]15 m ([euro]21.3 m) from a consortium led by Apax Partners Funds. This brings the total that Nexagent has raised...
CEO perspectives.(CEO Perspectives)(Cover Story)
January 1, 2004... at the beginning of the year, it's fitting to assess the state of the industry and its future prospects. In the January 2004 issue of Telecommunications[R] International, we set about that task by conducting a series of qualitative interviews...
Rest assured on revenue: revenue assurance is a subject that operators need to take seriously if they are to avoid throwing bucketfuls of cash down the drain.(Towards Recovery)
January 1, 2004... The casual observer would presume that telecom operator revenue is easy to quantify and collect: a connection is made, the billing system calculates the charge and the user, usually, pays.
The casual observer would be wrong. According to...
Less is more: the advantage of outsourcing; telcos must focus on core competencies to move forward.(Towards Recovery)
January 1, 2004... One of the most valuable lessons of the past three years has been in deciding what the 'core competencies' of telcos actually are. Not just in terms of what they do best, and what they do badly, but, crucially, in terms of what to they plan to...
Businesses switch on to videoconferencing; although videoconferencing in the home looks a far-off prospect, the business market is showing signs of accepting the technology.(Towards Recovery)
January 1, 2004... Interactive video communications is a technology that captures our imagination. The idea of being able to connect to anyone face-to-face at a moment's notice has been the promise of science fiction movies for decades. Since its introduction at...