Challenging the mobile eco-system #TTWW12

Companies that refuse to do things differently will eventually die. That's why the most important speakers at Total Telecom Wireless World #TTWW12 aren't necessarily the biggest names from traditional operators, but are the disruptor's, the catalysts for change.

 So here's five reasons why you should attend Total Telecom Wireless World:

1. BBC - Stalwart of British broadcasting, the BBC has changed. Jane Weedon heads up Business Development for the Future Media & Technology division and will discuss: How is content consumed on different devices? How people approach content across different platforms. What does this mean for the operators? How do consumers interact with related content optimised for different devices?

2. China Telecom Europe shook up the industry when they announced their MVNO deal with Everything Everywhere. MD Yan Ou will explain what they learnt from the project as well as what they might do in the future...

3. Fast Future - if you want to know the future, you need a futurist. Rohit Talwar, CEO of Fast Future is one of the best. In his presentation he covers: Where will the next generation of business growth come from? What key socio-demographic trends will shape future market opportunities? How might changing business practices impact the demand for wireless services?

4. FonYou - winners at the recent World vendor Awards, FonYou are a unique proposition. They offer cutting edge Cloud Telephony solutions for telecom operators, but just to prove their model worked, launched their own operator! Speaker Clemens Rossberg is CFO and co-founder with an enviable international telecoms background.

5. Google - these guys don't often come last, but they do in this list! Google director, Peter Fitzgerald, talks devices, e-commerce, and tomorrows consumer....

Wireless World takes place on the 12 & 13 June in London. To book your place visit www.totaltele.com/wireless

COMPANIES ALREADY ATTENDING....
Amber Road / Analysys Mason / APi / AT&T / BT Wholesale / Cable & Wireless Worldwide / China Telecom Europe / Datora Telecom / Deutsche Telekom / DU / EM Finance Consulting LLP / Ericsson Telekommunikation GmbH & Co.KG / Everyting Everywhere / Forget Me Not Africa / Fujitsu / Google UK / Hot Telecom / Idea Cellular / JP Morgan / Microsoft / O2 / Omani-Qatari Telecommunications / Orange / OTR Global / Ovum / Pathena / Picochip / POKOTONTEL / PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk / Qtel (Qatar Telecom) / Sky / Telefonica UK / Telekom Austria / The Cloud networks / Three Group / Unisys Corporation / Utilities / UTS

View from the Top #RegSummit

Georg Serentschy - Chair 2012 - BEREC is the keynote speaker at next weeks ETNO / Total Telecom Reulatory Summit. Get a flavour of what he might speak about in this video.

Very limited opportunities to register for the event still exist. Visit www.totaltele.com/regulatorysummit


If you are attending the event and Tweeting, please use the hashtag #RegSummit

How can mobile empower the health sector? #TTWW12

A quick search on Total Telecom reveals a steady upturn in news stories relating to the health industry, with the main focus being on companies offering services for monitoring, connected devices, and addressing secutrity issues. Few however have connected the whole health issue up in the way the forthcoming Wireless World conference will.

Nurcombe: O2 Health

The morning of Day 1 features a major session on the Opportunities Created by M2M with significant emphasis placed on mobile health. Expert speakers on this subject include the Managing Director of O2 Health, Keith Nurcombe as well as the Medical Director of conference sponsors, Fujitsu, Joel Ratnasothy.


Between them, they will explore how technology is providing a catalyst to enabling mHealth, what challenges operators face moving into mHealth provision and also give you the chance to understand how O2 have provided groundbreaking successful development and delivery of mHealth.


If mHealth is one of the M2M developments you are looking at, you really need to come along, and if you book your seat today, you'll benefit from the early booker rate.


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A more balanced view of mobile issues #TTWW12

Total Telecom Wireless World is less than three weeks away and is not to be missed if you want a more balanced view of the key issues that are changing the industry forever. In one corner we bring together the true disrupters, Google leading the pack of OTT players, whilst in the other we have the traditional telcos who are reinventing the way mobile business is done.

Book your seat at Wireless World by the 25 May and save £75 on your ticket.

TEN THINGS YOU WILL LEARN:

1. What did China Telecom learn launching an MVNO 
2. Who is tomorrows consumer - Googles View
3. How does the Internet of Things impact operators
4. How will networks evolve in the future
5. What services will drive the mass market take up of 4G?
6. How can operators capitalise on mobile video
7. Where are the emerging market opportunities
8. How is (BYOD) changing the relationship with the user
9. How can businesses offset increasing complexity in IT
10. Which wireless technologies are going to win

Don't miss your chance to join leading global telecom operators, OTT players, analysts, commentators and more as we debate the catalysts for this change in the Wireless World...

BOOK TODAY www.totaltele.com/wireless 

Meet the judges #WCA2012

As entries are open for the 2012 World Communication Awards, it's a great time to think about who you have to impress!

Tony Lavender (Plum Consulting)

We are delighted to have a number of new judges this year, acting under the knowledgeable direction of Chair of Judges, Tony Lavender.

He'll be joined by newcomers to the WCA Judging team, Claus Hetting, Ewan Sutherland, Isabelle Paradis, and Joe Kelly as well as long term respected judges including David Molony, Audrey Mandela and Marlène Sellebråten.

To meet all the judges visit the awards website.

This year we have 18 awards, including the new Best Place to Work category. This is based on an extensive industry survey of employers and employees, and we need your help to get the best possible picture of what it is like to work in the telecom industry. There is more information on this category on Total Telecom.

Party On - 1st Night at CommunicAsia 2012

If you are going to be attending CommunicAsia this year you really don't want to miss the main party of the show! This year the Asia Communication Awards #ACA2012 take place on the first night, the 19th June 2012 at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel.


It will be a night of networking, fine dining and of course awards, but most importantly it will draw together hundreds of the most senior executives present in Singapore for CommunicAsia.


You can expect to meet operators from across Asia and the globe, analysts and thought leaders, as well as a variety of colleagues and partners, so why not use the event to bring your team, customers and prospects to get the week off to a flying start! 


Amongst the attendees you will of course meet all the finalists from this years awards, from AVEA to ZTE, as well as the sponsors: Citycell, Huawei, SingTel, Starhub and Telstra, and judges.


Last year the ball room was bursting at the seems, so don't risk out, book your table today...


COMPANIES ON THE SHORTLIST: Aegis, Avea, Batelco, Blackberry, BT, Celcom, China Mobile, Ciena, CITIC, Comviva, CSL, Du, Ericsson, Flytxt , Huawei, Hutchison, Lavastorm, Mobily, NTT, Pacnet, PCCW, Qtel, Roshan, SingTel, Smart, StarHub, Syniverse, Tata, Telstra Tulip, U2opia, Ufone, Unitel, Verizon, YTL, ZTE

Event Partner: CommunicAsia

Who’s who in telecom consulting

We are working again with Hot Telecom on a new report profiles the world’s top 37 telecom consulting firms, which account for over 90% of the industry’s total revenue.

The unchallenged market leader continues to be Accenture, with a market share of 17.8% but as telecom vendors have moved into this space, we have started to consider them in our tables. This moves Ericsson up to number 2 ahead of Alcatel-Lucent and traditional players like Deloitte and McKinsey, as illustrated by the graph below.




For more on this, read the story on Total Telecom: http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=473521 
Or purchase the report via the Hot Telecom shop.  

More from #CTIAw12

Continuing yesterdays theme of (fairly) interesting images from CTIA, here's some of todays dragged from Twitter using the hashtag #CTIAw12


Love the way LG are promoting themselves with @theLGgirl series - quite 'lively'!

Better photo's today, including the gang at the #DirtyLittleSecretsParty via @friendbzur

But press rooms clearly don't get any more exciting (thanks @dougsmithstpete)

But at least this guy found a friend.... @thedroidguy 

and finally, thanks @kalske for sending  this #NokiaSiemens cool Flexi Zone with a New Orleans flavor image

Keep sending them through to @totaltelecom mentioning #CTIAw12

More wireless for the diet? Check out Total Telecom Wireless World

http://www.totaltele.com/wireless

12 - 13 June 2012, Millennium Mayfair, London, UK

Stand-ard of photo's #CTIAw12

I feel a Dr. Seuss moment coming on when I look at the photos from CTIA, because if you haven't taken them on your smartphone and posted them via twitter perhaps you should. In the words of the great man "If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good"


But why are so many of the photo's of your stands? Very nice, very expensive, but what does it tell me about CTIA?


So here's a few of the the better one's I've spotted:

Tyntec drinks via @MachaufStefanie

@kalske from the #NokiaSiemens stand

@ashmatty Phablet - whatever that might be!

@dregie New Orleans celeb....




So can you do better? Send them to Total Telecom @totaltelecom mentioning of course #CTIAw12


And if you have a more conventional story from the show, post it on our press releases: http://www.totaltele.com/press-releases (click the post link at the bottom of the screen)

Is your company the Best Place to Work? #BPTW

New for the 2012 World Communication Awards, the Best Place to Work category seeks to identify the telecom operator or service provider that offers the best working environment.

This is a free to enter category with the winners assessed based on submissions both from the company and the votes of their employees and is the first time such research has been carried out in the telecoms sector. For more information and to participate, visit the information page. 


In order for a company to be considered, at least 50 employees (or 1% of the workforce if less than 5,000 employees) must participate in the employee survey. This is totally anonymous, so why not start the ball rolling for your company by voting today, and share the Best Place to Work on Twitter using hashtag #BPTW

The Best Place to Work is one of 19 categories to be awarded at the 2012 World Communication Awards (WCA) The WCA have been established since 1999 and are truly the blue chip recognition of excellence and innovation amongst global telecom operators and service providers. The highlight of the annual programme is a awards dinner in November when up to 600 of the most senior executives in the industry gather to see who has been rewarded for their success.

The World Communication Awards are one of three such events organised by the team at Total Telecom, the others being the World Vendor Awards and Asia Communication Awards. The team have been recognised for the events they create by making the shortlist for Best Awards Team at this years Conference Awards.

Click here to find out more about the Best Place to Work
Click here to find out more about the 2012 World Communication Awards

The Best Place to Work category is sponsored by Harvey Nash