Thomas Geitner , Vodafone CTO responsible for new businesses and innovation, is to leave by year end. Motorola has appointed Casey Keller as Chief Marketing Officer.

It was in the air during past week, now it is official. Google has bought YouTube, the the internet video-sharing success story, for $1.65bn. YouTube is a young company, created in 02/05, that has built an exciting and powerful media platform that attracted...

A major hurdle in the ATT-Bellsouth merger has been cleared with the Department of Justice decision to approve the merger plan, without any competitive or consumer conditions . The final hurdle will be to get the FCC approval. The vote was scheduled for...

Ericsson and Nokia were the lowest bidders among the five vendors shortlisted for the $5bn GSM mobile network expansion contracts. Siemens will be part of Nokia contract, when they merge. Motorola and ZTE were dropped from the process of selection for...

WiMAX World was held in Boston last week. It is a good occasion to review top vendor's offerings. Alvarion introduced a “low-cost” WiMAX system in the 3.5GHz and 5.8GHz frequency bands, with built-in WiFi connectivity. Nortel unveiled its mobile WiMAX...

For about one year, Telenor and Altimo, the telecom arm of Alfa Group in Russia, have been in conflict to control Vimpelcom (Russia) and Kyivstar (Ukraine) both in shares and board seats. Alfa owns a 44% stake in Kyivstar, while Telenor owns 56%. Telenor...

Their dispute last for months and is not finished. The case is raised by Broadcom saying that Qualcomm infringe three Broadcom patents. Last ruling decided that Qualcomm did infringe on one of the three Broadcom patents, but Qualcomm says the patent is...

According to EITO, the European information technology and telecommunications (ICT) market should rise 3% in 2006 to €644bn. Information technology market should grow 3.8% to €305bn, while the telecom market is to increase by 2.5% to €339bn. 2007 forecast...

We have to acknowledge that 3G is slowly taking off. We are, more or less, on the same trend than 2G when it takes off almost two decades ago. 2G had the double handicap of new technology/ new service, and had to penetrate the mass market. Analysts thought...

Telco2.0 is a new industry body, formed with traditional telecom operators but cooperating with vendors and ISPs, to focus on developing new offers that will create new revenue streams on top of access. The move has been initiated by KT (Sth Korea). KT...