Aligning with Customers' Needs: Laying the Groundwork for Change
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The following is an excerpt from "Laying the Groundwork for Change" in PricewaterhouseCoopers' InfoComm Review, Volume 10, No.3, titled "Aligning with Customers' Needs." To read more and view all articles, please click here. This is the second in a series of articles on cultural change. In the previous issue of InfoComm...
Samsung Claims Solution to LCD "Wash Out"
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LCDs are everywhere in the mobile world. You can find them on cell phones, notebook computers, PDAs and media players. Unfortunately, it's not easy to use LCD screens everywhere in the world. That's because even the best displays can fade away to near or total unreadability when placed under a strong natural or artificial light source. ...
TIM Hellas Seals Q-Telecom Buy
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TIM Hellas has announced that its Helen GAC unit has completed the acquisition of rival Q-Telecom. The company said that it paid 350 million euro (US$423.9) for its rival. TIM Hellas was itself acquired by two private equity firms in 2005. Significance: This acquisition is likely to be a precursor to a move by Orascom to acquire the...
In-Stat Study Finds Managed Services to Provide Competitive Edge in Maturing Mobile Markets
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- As the mobile industry matures and service providers seek innovative ways to reshape their businesses and successfully compete for subscribers, they are increasingly turning to vendors of outsourced and managed services solutions to support key areas of service delivery and network operations. These managed...
Verizon Wins Another Injunction
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Verizon Wireless is celebrating a big win today after a federal judge in Trenton, N.J., issued a preliminary injunction against the current and former owners of LocateCell.com -- Data Find Solutions, First Source Information Specialists and related companies -- and other affiliated Websites. The injunction, which Verizon says is...
France Telecom Gives CFO Le Boot
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Less than three weeks after issuing a profits warning, France Telecom SA (NYSE: FTE - message board) has axed its head of finance, Michel Combes, as part of a management reshuffle that cuts the number of senior executives from 20 to just eight. (See FT Revamps Top Table and FT Warns, Europe Quakes.) On January 12 the carrier cut its...
WiFi Phone Heats Up
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Voice-over-WiFi is one of the hottest markets in telecommunications, predicted to more than double this year, according to a report released today by Infonetics Research Inc. The report says that worldwide revenues from WiFi phone service (also known as "voice over wireless LAN," or VOWLAN) hit $102.5 million last year -- up 76 percent...
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