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People - 16/12/06
TPSA (Poland) will cut up to 5,700 jobs over the next three years. Lawrence Babbio, vice-chairman and president of Verizon, will retire in March 07. Gary Forsee is the new chairman of Sprint Nextel,as Tim Donahue retires as executive chairman at the end...
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People - 12/12/06
Safran' s chairman and CEO, respectively Mario Colaiacovo and Jean-Paul Bechat, are leaving the company. Francis Mer, former France' s finance minister, will become Chairman. Hilary Mine has been named head of Alcatel-Lucent’ s Australasia regional unit....
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People - 06/12/06
Alfredo Redondo will lead Alcatel-Lucent Iberian regional unit, formed with Spain, Andorra and Portugal. It will be also account manager for Telefonica and country manager for Spain. Heinz Klinkhammer, DT' s executive board member responsible for Human...
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People - 29/11/06
Ericsson plans to cut about 400 jobs in Sweden in administrative and sales workforce. In parallel, Ericsson has announced its key team of 12 executives memebers: Carl-Henric Svanberg as CEO, Karl-Henrik Sundstroem as CFO, Hakan Eriksson as CTO, Kurt Jofs...
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People - 25/11/06
Time Warner has named AOL veteran Ron Grant as unit COO. Change at T-Com' s CTO office: Friedrich Fuss replaces Roland Kittel. Ericsson will change its Strategy & Product Management director. Torbjorn Nilsson will quit, while Joakim Westh, head of group...
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People - 22/11/06
Kevin J. Martin is reconducted as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Comverse has promoted its current chief administrative officer, Paul Robinson, as COO. Raz Alon, (interim CEO), Susan Bodwick, Charles Burdick, Richard Nottenburg,...
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People - 18/11/06
Hemmer, CEO of Time Warner Telecom, will retire. KPN is appointing Libor Voncina as the new CEO of KPN's Belgian mobile unit BASE. Colin Giles, current head of Nokia' s customer and market operations in China, is appointed as the new president of Nokia...
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People - 28/04/07
FT has announced the departure of Orange boss Sanjiv Ahuja . Siemens CEO, Klaus Kleinfeld , resigns, and will leave in September when his contract ends. ATT CEO, Edward E. Whitacre , will retire as chairman of the board and chief executive officer effective...
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People - 24/10/06
Jazztel (Spain) could cut about 15% of its workforce. OTE (Greece) has completed its voluntary retirement programme with about 4,700 people leaving the company in the past year. TDC (Denmark) has named Jens Alder as new CEO from 1 November. Almost 2/3...
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People - 07/10/06
Ofcom (UK regulator) has appointed Ed Richards as Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect. Alcatel announced the appointment of Don Trace as Vice President of Sales, North American Channels. Avaya plans to cut about 364 jobs in its U.S. and Europe,...
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People - 25/03/06
At Siemens Communications, Eduardo Montes Perez (current Siemens Spain head) will replace Thomas Ganswindt as President; Heinz-Joachim Neuberger will become new CFO. Nripendra Misra has been appointed as chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of...
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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...
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People - 22/12/05
Mobilcom AG (Germany) wants to cut personnel costs by 10% to 15%. Motorola appoints industry veteran Tom Mader to corporate vice president and general manager of its Wireline Networks business. The WiMAX Forum appointed Jeff Orr director of marketing...
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People - 10/03/06
Vodafone' s CMO Peter Bamford will leave the company. Stan Sigman, Cingular CEO, is expected to remain in its position after the eventual merger between ATT and Bellsouth. Nokia has appointed Peter Bayer as general manager for its Chilean unit. Juniper...
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People - 17/12/05
Alan Horn will become a Vice Chairman of the Rogers board, while Bill Linton is moved into the position of chief financial officer. Kazuo Furukawa , current Executive Vice President, will become the new president of Hitachi. NTL has replaced Simon Duffy,...
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People - 14/12/05
Nortel announced the appointment of David Drinkwater as Chief Legal Officer, and Joel Hackney as senior vice president, Global Supply Chain and Quality. Rogers Communications announced the appointment of Randy Reynolds as president of Rogers Telecom....
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People - 15/11/05
Telstra has announced plans to cut up to 12,000 jobs over five years as part of a major restructuring program. AT&T: Ed Whitacre, chairman and CEO of SBC, will fill the same roles at the new AT&T. A "superior" team is formed with James Callaway, president...
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People - 26/02/06
SFR (France) decreases the number of directors, shorten the decision making process, outs Pierre Bardon from the executive committee and gives him a new role in PR. Frank Esser, its CEO, re-organizes the company into three businesses and an executive...
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People - 18/02/06
Nokia could cut 250 jobs in its CDMA unit, following the deal with Sanyo. Nokia has appointed Niklas Savander to the post of executive vice president for technology platforms, while its current CTO, Pertti Korhonen , is leaving Nokia, and Tero Ojanperä...
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People - 23/10/05
George Cope (ex Telus CEO) will become the new President and Chief Operating Officer of Bell Canada. John Killian, senior VP and CFO for Verizon Domestic Telecom, has been named president of the business unit that will combine MCI and Verizon' s Enterprise...
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People - 6/10/5
Jorma Ollila will quit Nokia in Spring 06. Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, 52, will take over the CEO position. Simultaneously, Kai Öistämö will become president of Mobile Phones unit, and Robert Andersson will lead the Consumer & Market division. De Benedetti...
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People - 11 June 2005
Nortel announced that Gary Daichendt, president and chief operating officer, resigned. Bill Owens, vice chairman and chief executive officer, will assume these responsibilities. In addition, Gary Kunis, chief technology officer, will also leave Nortel....
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People - 9/02/06
Guy Demuynck, CEO of KPN' s mobile operations, will leave the company as of July 1. Ralph Ballart, head of Project Lightspeed at SBC/ ATT, has joined Alcatel' s IP group. Brazil Telecom plans to cut 6,700 jobs to increase efficiency. Qualcomm announced...
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People 05-18-05
STMicroelectronics could cut up to 3,000 jobs outside Asia. About 1,500 jobs would be cut and 1,500 positions would be transferred in Asia. STMicroelectronics intents to cut $90m annual expenses via this new restructuring plan. Ypso is the name of the...
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People 05-14-05
IBM could cut up to 13,000 jobs in Europe, or up to 10% of its worldwide workforce. Big Blue will first cut jobs in heavy salaries countries, such as Germany, France and the UK. In Germany, 20,000 people could be concerned, and jobs transfered in Eastern...