Telecom to hire 300 IT staff (New Zealand)
Telecom is expected to hire 300 information technology workers as it firmed up plans to bring work previously outsourced to computer company Hewlett-Packard back in-house.
Many of the jobs are expected to go to Hewlett-Packard staff that has been contracting to Telecom. Telecom has held “open days” in Wellington and Auckland in the past two weeks for HP staff interested in moving to Telecom, and more will be held in Christchurch this week.
The bulk of the new roles will be split between Wellington and Auckland with up to 20 new roles created in both Hamilton and Christchurch.
NSN appoints new head of Global Services Business
Nokia Siemens Networks has appointed Armando Almeida as the head of its Global Services business with effect from January 2011. He is currently responsible for sales and operations for the company in Latin America.
According to Rajeev Suri, Chief Executive Officer, Nokia Siemens Networks, Armando has a strong record of delivering results and deep experience in services. He takes over a business that has grown steadily under Ashish Chowdhary’s leadership and he is confident that Almeida is the right person to build on that momentum.
As per the previous announcement, Ashish Chowdhary, the current head of Global Services, is moving to a newly created position: head of Customer Operations East. In this role, Chowdhary will lead the company’s customer and business operations across India, Asia Pacific, Japan, Greater China and the Middle East.
Almeida has many years of international experience in the telecoms and IT industries gained at a number of companies, including Hewlett-Packard and Compaq. He joined Nokia Networks in May 2005.
Almeida holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. A Portuguese citizen, he has lived and worked on four continents. The company will appoint a successor to lead sales and operations in Latin America in due course.
ZTE to launch Android 3G tablet
ZTE, the fast-growing Chinese telecom equipment maker has launched its first tablet PC, ZTE Light. The device has a seven-inch touchscreen and uses the GSM family of standards, including WCDMA and runs on Android, the open source software platform created by Google.
According to the company, ZTE plans to sell the tablet through retail channels as well as in partnerships with telecom operators. All of the devices will carry the ZTE brand, but some may be co-branded with mobile operators.
ZTE joins Nokia, LG Electronics, Dell, Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard, which have all rolled out their offerings since Apple’s launch of the iPad. ZTE has not quoted prices for the device as yet
The company claims that it would start selling the ZTE Light before the end of the year.
Telstra re- organizes executive team (Australia)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Gordon Ballantyne, international telecommunications and technology executive of Telstra has been appointed as the new group managing director of Telstra consumer and channels. The changes have been done under re- organization work carried out by the company in its executive team. The changes will be effective from June.
Former GMD of strategic marketing Kate McKenzie has been given the newly created position of chief marketing officer. Glenice Maclellan who has resigned for personal reasons will be succeeded by Ballantyne as the GMD of consumer and channels. Ballantyne will have oversight of all of Telstra’s consumer retail sales outlets, including T[life] stores.
Earlier, Ballantyne worked in Hewlett Packard, where he was vice president of the Personal Systems Group in the UK. Before HP, he worked as director of Dell.com in Europe and also created Dell Ventures in Europe.
From now onwards, GMD of customer experience, simplicity and productivity at Telstra, Robert Nason, will also have the responsibility for corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and the programme office.
IBM to provide cloud computing to SK Telecom
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Winning the battle against four of its largest rivals, International Business Machines Corp. will operate a cloud computing platform for SK Telecom Co., Ltd. As per the deal, IBM will provide the infrastructure to SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecoms operator with more than 50% of the market.
The networks will be used by SK Telecom and its business partners to test and publish telecoms applications in order for the applications to later to be rolled out on its networks for consumers.
IBM beat Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. (JAVA) in order to win the contract but the value of the deal was not revealed. The technology giant has focused recently on building out infrastructure in Asia for cloud computing.
Cloud Computing has tightened its grip recently especially with smaller customers as it enables significant cost savings.
BT signs 7-yr network services deal with PepsiCo
LONDON (AFX) – BT Group said it has cut a seven-year deal with PepsiCo Inc to manage the US beverage giant’s telecoms network outside North America.
Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. However one analyst, who asked to speak off the record, said the contract would likely bring in around 100 mln stg in extra revenues over the lifetime of the agreement.
Under the terms of the deal, BT will provide and manage all of the communications services needed to run PepsiCo International’s IT network.
This will involve managing local and wide area network infrastructure across more than 900 locations in more than 60 countries, said BT in a statement.
PepsiCo has also signed a global IT services contract with US technology giant Hewlett Packard, which is a strategic partner of BT’s Global Services unit.
Source- http://www.forbes.com
