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President Bush named Kevin Martin, a FCC commissioner, to the seat of FCC Chairman.

Ed Nafus, current CSG Broadband Services Division president, will become CSG CEO effective April 1, 2005 . John Muleta, the FCC's wireless telecommunications head, will quit at the end of the month. Carlos Bustelo, chairman of Spanish telecom regulator,...

France Telecom named Didier Lombard as new Chairman and CEO, taking over when Thierry Breton was appointed France 's finance minister last week. KPN (NL) plans to slash some 8,000 jobs (between 1,500 and 1,750 jobs a year) through 2009. Nortel appoints...

Jeff Rosen, from Tellabs and former key figure of AFC, has resigned. Telekom Malaysia offers staff voluntary layoff plans for up to 10% of its workforce. UTStarcom will axe about 15% of its workforce or 900 jobs. Siemens will cut some 950 jobs in its...

Ericsson named Hans Vestberg, current president of business unit Global Services, as executive vice president. Samsung named In-Soo Kim as the new CEO and President of Samsung Electronics Europe .

Vodafone named Bill Morrow president of Vodafone K.K. in Japan and Shiro Tsuda executive chairman and chairman of Vodafone K.K.'s board effective April 1. Tim Miles will take over Morrow's position as chief executive of Vodafone UK . Robert Wayman has...

Qualcomm appoints Pertti Johansson as president of QUALCOMM Europe. Nortel announced Peter Currie as Chief Financial Officer.

HP hired Steve Smith, a Lucent executive, as boss of its fast-growing managed services business. Graeme Allan has been appointed vice president for Northern Europe of Alcatel Enterprise Solutions. Kristin Rinne, Chief Technology Officer for Cingular Wireless,...

BT Wholesale appoints Cameron Rejali as managing director for products and strategy.