Top 10 Global #Telecom Operators

The annual Global 100 Operator report published by Total Telecom is the definitive who's who guide to the largest telecom operators in the world.


This year the Top 10 saw two go up, one go down and seven stay the same, the most significant being the rise of six places by América Móvil into the top 10.


The complete Top 10 list looks like this:

1. AT&T
2. NTT
3. Verizon
4. Deutsche Telekom
5. Telefónica
6. China Mobile
7. Vodafone
8. France Telecom
9. América Móvil
10. KDDI

You can download the entire Global 100 from Total Telecom


Of course revenue and profit is not the only measure of success, and this year we've seen different approaches rewarded, including:


AT&T (#1) CEO, Randall L Stephenson named CEO of the Year at the World Communication Awards (view his acceptance video)


BT Global Services (#15) named Best Global Operator at the 2012 World Communication Awards


Singtel (#28) named the Users Choice at the 2012 World Communication Awards (find out more about the Gap to Winner report to see how you measure up to Singtel)


Vodafone (#7) named the most valuable brand in telecom in our annual ranking of the 500 most valuable brands in telecoms.


It will be interesting to see how the winners shape up in 2012...

Top 10 telecom video interviews of 2011

What have people in the #telecom industry been watching over the last 6-months? Here's the Top 10 executive interviews from Total TeleVision:

1. Stefaan Vanhastel - Alcatel Lucent: 10G GPON
2. Joe Weinman - HP - Is cloud a real telco opportunity?
3. Interview: Jorgen Nilsson - Acision 
4. Ruth Pickering: BT Wholesale at Carriers World 2011
5. Mike Millegan,President - Global Wholesale, Verizon
6. Bubble: Jim O'Neil - MWC 2011
7. Rakesh Bhasin, CEO of Colt
8. Harry Koiter, SeaChange at IBC 2011
9. Interview: Jay Patel - IMImobile
10.Interview: Mirko Voltolini, Director Network Design & Architecture, Colt Technology Services

In 2011 we've been across the world, from North America to Singapore, and from India to the Arctic Circle, and 2012 promises to be no quieter. We'll be at all the major events including Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, TM Forum in Dublin and CommunicAsia in Singapore, so make sure you watch out for our cameras!


But first stop for 2012 will be Film Day on the 2 February, the perfect opportunity to create your pre-Mobile World Congress video collateral. Find out more here...

http://www.totaltele.com/show.aspx?i=926

Check out all the video on the Total TeleVision channel

Top 10 #Telecom Downloads of 2011

We all love rankings, don't we, so it seemed a good idea to end 2011 with another, this time the Top Telecom Downloads of 2011.

Downloads with Total Telecom mean white papers and other special reports and documents that we've hosted for you to download from our website, providing a wealth of valuable information, so there are bound to be some here that you would benefit from. The list below are the Top 10 most popular downloads of 2011:

1. Global 100 Operators 2011 (annual report from Total Telecom)
2. Global 100 Operators 2010 (annual report from Total Telecom)
3. Beyond MPLS: Enabling Cloud-Ready Networks (White Paper from Ipanema Technologies)
4. Carrier Ethernet Basics (White Paper from EXFO)
5. Telecoms Reinvention: Death Of The Traditional Telco (White Paper from ATG)
6. Smart Mobile Networks, Not Dumb Pipes (Customer Magazine from Tellabs)
7. Five myths of cloud computing (White Paper from HP)
8. Seizing The Opportunity In Mobile Broadband (White Paper from Acision)
9. Next-Gen PON: Sardana merges metro & access networks (Customer Magazine from Tellabs)
10. Best Practice to Stay Ahead of Communication Industry Standards (White Paper from Progress Software)

This list has been compiled based on the data captured by our Nielsen NetRatings online measurement tool, a fantastic analytical tool, that not only tells us who read what, but is also audited by the BPA, meaning you don't have to take our word for it (we're the only website in the telco sector to do this).

So does the list throw up any surprises? Probably not. Any cheating? No, not unless you count the omission of our media pack from the list - wow a lot of people like reading what we're planning!

Why not check out other White Papers yourself by visiting http://www.totaltele.com/whitepapers or speak to us about hosting your own.

The Year of the Device

It's official, 2011 has been the year of the #device. Apple, Android, HTC, iPad, iPhone, iOS, even dare we say Nokia have all been prevalent buzz words amongst news stories this year, with the most read story of the year being "Rumour mill in overdrive pending iPad 2 launch"

So it's no surprise then that we've added some great analysis to the mix through Total Telecom+. So in case you've missed out during the year, check out the following issues:

October issue - Tablets: No cure-all

Mobile operators are looking to tablets as an area of future growth, but in the face of stiff competition they will need to prove they can add value for users.


November issue - Bring Your Own Device
Mobile operators show BYOD is on their agenda as enterprises deal with the risks associated with employee-owned tablets and smartphones.



December - January issue - Dangerous Duopoly

Vodafone keen to see more competition in the mobile OS space, but analysts and
handset makers believe the battle is already over.

and Augmented Reality: Real world view. Mobile operators are starting to find their feet in a new market segment, but the places in the value chain are still up for grabs.

These links are all to simple PDF downloads, but you can also read these on you mobile DEVICE (Android or iOS) or online

Of course there's no sign of device fever ending any time soon, so why not keep up to date by following Our Devices RSS feed

Snap! Were you in the picture? #WCA2011

Selected photo's from this years World Communication Awards are now on our Flickr stream

And the winner is Total Telecom

Total Telecom was yesterday named Digital Brand of the Year at the PPA Independent Publisher Awards in London. This is effectively the third year running that we have won this prestigious award (Online Brand of the Year 2009, Digital Brand of the Year 2010 and 2011) and reflects the ongoing strength of the Total Telecom publishing portfolio, and in particular our efforts to serve our market in multiple digital formats, including online news, digital analysis, and video.

Nick Carter - Sales Director, and Brain Dolby, Total TeleVision,
with Total Telecoms trophies

In addition, Total Telecom was Highly Commended in the category of Media Brand of the Year, recognising the way we have extended our portfolio into a range of events, conferences and briefings.

Our most recent event, also yesterday, was the Breakfast with Total Telecom briefing on Next Generation Cloud Services, which saw a range of participants join sponsors HP for informative presentations and lively discussions. You can download supporting documents from HP here.

What do Facebook and Cossacks have in common?

What do Facebook and Cossacks have in common? The answer is Lulea. It's a little place on the edge of the Arctic Circle, ravaged by the Cossacks at the end of the 18th century and now the site for Facebooks first data centre outside of the US, and Total TeleVision has been there! 


Watch our interview with Tomas Sundstrom - CEO of local fibre network provider, Lunet, from the edge of the facebook construction site...

We anticipate an event-full week

The week might be eventful but it will certainly be event-full. On Tuesday we have our last Breakfast with Total Telecom for 2011, Next Generation Cloud Services, as well as discovering the results of the PPA's 2011 Independent Publisher Awards. On Wednesday the cameras will be out for Film Day, whilst Friday is the deadline for entries for the 2012 World vendor Awards.

Tomorrows breakfast briefing looks like a busy affair with fantastic speakers from COLT, CE On-Demand, NTT Europe, Verizon Business, as well as sponsors HP, and IDC who are moderating. You can meet the speakers on the event website, and there are still a few seats available.

At lunch tomorrow we discover if Total Telecom are the winners as the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) unveils the winners for this years Independent Publisher Awards (#Indpub). We're up for Digital Brand of the Year (which we won in 2010) and also for Media Brand of the Year. If you hear cheering from the direction of Vinopolis, it might well be the Total Telecom team!

Wednesday will see Total TeleVision busy at Film Day, generating more great executive insight for our channel. The next event will be early in 2012, so worth baring in mind if you are looking for pre-MobileWorld Congress expsoure for your executives...

Finally, Friday will see the traditional rush of companies getting their entries in for the 2012 World Vendor Awards (#wva2012). With new categories including areas such as Best Cloud Solution and The Small Cells Award we anticipate fierce competition. Don't miss out, get your entry in.

All in all, it's going to be busy. Who said it quietens down before Christmas?