People - 24/12/05

Telefonica has appointed Luis Lada as chairman of its domestic fixed-line unit Telefonica de Espana, and intends to keep Peter Erskine in its position of O2 CEO.

KPN (NL) appointed Eelco Blok as operating officer of its fixed-line division.

Polish Polkomtel CEO Jaroslaw Pachowski has resigned.

Cisco has hired back Ajaib Bhadare, a Cerent founder and former Cisco VP, to head its newly shuffled optical division, while Ramaswami is now vice president and general manager of its Gigabit Systems business unit.