Etisalat discusses cooperation with Ericsson during High-level delegation meeting

On 03.08.11, In Mobile, By Editor

Leading Middle East and North African operator, Etisalat recently hosted a senior delegation from Swedish-based company Ericsson at Etisalat’s head office in Abu Dhabi.

Etisalat Chairman HE Mohammad Omran, welcomed the delegation which comprised of senior management from Ericsson headquarters as well as regional and country heads. The delegation included Ericsson President and CEO Hans Vestberg and Executive Vice Presidents (EVPs) Jan W¤reby, Johan Wilbergh and Magnus Mandersson. The regional Ericsson representatives included Anders Lindblad, Head of Region; Rafiah Ibrahim, EVP and Head of GCU Etisalat and Ray Hassan, Head of Country unit GCC.

In addition to the Chairman, the top management attendees from Etisalat included Ahmad Abdulkarim Julfar, Group Chief Operating Officer and Nasser Bin Obood, Acting CEO.

The meeting follows the recent partnership announcement between the two corporations to bring mobile healthcare solutions to the UAE.

Amongst the topics of discussion were general trends, challenges and opportunities within the telecommunications sector, with a view to potential future cooperation on such issues. They also discussed future collaboration in different sectors including mobile and fixed networks.

Etisalat is now one of the world’s largest operators and the largest telecommunications company in the Arab world. It operates across 18 markets servicing over 135 million customers out of a total population of approximately two billion people within its coverage areas.

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Integra Telecom Names Brian Lippold EVP and COO

On 11.17.10, In Mobile, By Editor

Integra Telecom Inc., a fiber-based, integrated wholesale and retail telecommunications provider for business, has hired Brian Lippold as executive vice president and chief operating officer. Lippold will oversee Integra’s wholesale carrier business and lead Integra’s national account strategy. Lippold has a proven track record in building capabilities to serve the wholesale, government and national account segments of the market.

Brian brings extensive telecom knowledge and experience to Integra’s executive management team,” said Dudley Slater, CEO of Integra Telecom. Integra’s reputation of providing quality service combined with our extensive fiber network assets, position the company to capture greater market share. Brian’s mission is to leverage our extensive metro fiber network to serve important segments of the market that we have either not served or served on a limited basis in the past. I look forward to Brian working with Steve Wachter, Integra’s chief operating officer for the small to enterprise business segments, together meeting the telecommunication needs for businesses of all sizes.”

Lippold has more than 20 years of telecommunications management experience including leadership positions at Fairpoint Communications, Level 3 Communications Telcove and Long Distance North.

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Nokia EVP claims they might sell their handset manufacturing business. (updated)

On 11.30.09, In Mobile, By admin
Nokia Executive Vice President Anssi Vanjoki: We may sell our handset manufacturing business
Nokia’s EVP, Anssi Vanjoki in an interview to a German publication (Wirtschaftswoche) admitted that Nokia may look to sell it’s hardware manufacturing unit.
After all, RIM (blackberry), Apple and Google don’t make their own handsets, they have all outsourced the hardware bit of it. Then, Why should Nokia?
Interestingly, the smartphone segment is different from the mass market phone segment, but then there is pretty stiff competition there too.
As we all know, in Q3 2009, Apple did knock Nokia off to become the Most profitable handset vendor.
After the “sweet” comments from Vanjoki, Nokia is in damage control mode now and Nokia spokesman Thomas Jonsson has issued a statement claiming that the “Logistics and Manufacturing network” are a very important “competitive advantage” for them (Nokia) and a core part of their business, and that they have no plans to change their business.  model”.

Nokia‘s EVP, Anssi Vanjoki in an interview to a German publication (Wirtschaftswoche) admitted that Nokia may look to sell it’s hardware manufacturing unit.

After all, RIM (blackberry), Apple and Google don’t make their own handsets, they have all outsourced the hardware bit of it. Then, Why shouldn’t Nokia?

Interestingly, the smartphone segment is different from the mass market phone segment, but then there is pretty stiff competition there too.

As we all know, in Q3 2009, Apple did knock Nokia off to become the Most profitable handset vendor.

(Update) After the comments from Vanjoki, Nokia is in damage control mode now and Nokia spokesman Thomas Jonsson has issued a statement claiming that the “Logistics and Manufacturing network” are a very important “competitive advantage” for them (Nokia) and a core part of their business, and that they have no plans to change their business model.

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