Rumour Watch - Snow interrupts Singapore Conference

Today in Singapore, it is 26 degrees, but Total Telecom hears that there may have been a gap in the agenda of the TM Forums Management World Asia, due to snow.

In a city where the lowest ever recorded temperature is 17 degrees celcius this may sound unlikely, but we have it on good authority that amongst those heading for Singapore this weekend from the UK was the CEO of the TM Forum, Martin Creaner - the man due to give the keynote Rethinking Communications at 9:10 on day 1.

Total Telecom assume a directive was offered to the assembled telecom executives of talk quietly amongst themselves, whilst 6,000 miles away the agenda was no doubt Rethinking Transportation....

We hope we won't have to do any snow contingency plans in June, when we will run the 2nd annual Asia Communication Awards in Singapore. Entry deadline 16 March 2012, FIND OUT MORE

 

Top Telecom Vendors: Awards Shortlist Published #WVA2012

The shortlist for the World Vendor Awards 2012 is out and includes not only most of the big players, such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, and ZTE, but also a strong showing from smaller players and some more unusual names. One that stands out is Sage who we would recognise for their accounting software, but would not traditionally think of as a telecom vendor.

The list of 44 companies that have made the shortlist is on the website www.worldvendorawards.com plus there is still an opportunity for more companies to join the finalists as the voting has begun in the two industry voted categories: Best Brand and CEO of the Year.

Candidates in the voted categories have been nominated by the industry, World Vendor Awards judges and editors of Total Telecom, so make sure your favourites are in with a chance and VOTE TODAY!

The CEO's in the running are:

• Ben Verwaayen: Alcatel-Lucent
• Charlie Vogt: GENBAND
• Cui Liangjun: ZTE
• Gary Smith: Ciena
• Hannes van Rensburg: Fundamo
• Hans Vestberg: Ericsson
• Jean-Yves Leclerc: Ipanema Technologies
• Jeff Gordon: Syniverse
• Karl Thedéen: Transmode
• Kevin Freij: MYMobileSecurity Ltd
• Mike Frayne: VOSS Solutions
• Mohan Kumar: Plintron Technologies
• Rajeev Suri: Nokia Siemens Networks
• Ren Zhengfei: Huawei
• Thomas R. Stanton: ADTRAN, Inc.
• Vivek Ragavan: Actelis Networks

Whilst the Best Brand contenders are: Alcatel-Lucent, Amdocs, Ciena, Cisco, Corning, Ericsson, Harris, HP, Huawei, Juniper Networks, Motorola, NEC, NetCracker, Nokia Siemens Networks, Openwave, Qualcomm, Syniverse, Telcordia, Tellabs, ZTE.

The shortlist for the two voted categories will be announced after voting closes on the 23 March 2012, so don't miss out, CAST YOUR VOTE

CommunicAsia & ACA 2012

The second annual Asia Communication Awards #ACA2012 will take place in Singapore during CommunicAsia 2012.

Rupert Owen, International Director of CommunicAsia spoke to Brian Dolby about how they see the ACA as adding value the annual telecoms gathering in Singapore, as well as about other development this year, including more national and technology pavilions.



Entries for the 2012 Asia Communication Awards must be received by 16 March 2012. Find out more on the website www.asiacommsawards.com

Everything Everywhere: telecom brand turmoil

Today Total Telecom publishes it's annual ranking of the top 50 operator brands (by value) in global telecommunications, and whilst Everything Everywhere doesn't feature as a brand, their influence is there for all to see.

This might be being a little unfair to EE as it is more of a case of Everything All-over-the-place as on one hand speculation mounts regarding the relative positioning of Orange and T-Mobile in the UK, whilst thousands of miles away, the actions of the Indian Supreme Court in calling re-auctioning of Mobile licences will hit some major international players, such as Telenor, Etisalat, and Vodafone - see this weeks Friday Review.

The top 50 global telecom operator brands includes numerous players engulfed in turmoil, so it will be interesting to see if this impacts their brand value when we report next year, in particular whether this is another factor in play amongst the top three, Vodafone, AT&T, and Verizon.

>> The Brand Ranking is published in February Total Telecom+ <<