Meet Teddy the dancing robot #MWC15

Our camera crews are busy in Barcelona, covering all the excitement from Huawei's massive 7000sqm exhibit. Here's the highlight video of day one - but the best bit is Teddy the robot - a collaboration with Softbank. Enjoy!

View all the footage on the playlist on Total Telecom

19 candidates for the #ACA14 CEO of the Year

The nominations are in and 19 candidates have been gathered for CEO of the Year at the 4th annual Asia Communication Awards.

Last years' winner, Vinod Kumar of Tata Communications makes the list again and is joined by a stellar line

up of industry talent comprising:

• Ahmad Al Hanandeh: Zain Jordan
• Akira Arima: NTT Communications Corporation
• Carl Grivner: Pacnet
• David Thodey: Telstra
• Dr. Amer bin Awadh Al-Rawas: Oman Telecommunication (Omantel)
• Ehsan Bayat: Afghan Wireless Communication Company
• Karim Khoja: Telecom Development Company Afghanistan (Roshan)
• Lalith De Silva: Sri Lanka Telecom
• Masayoshi Son: Softbank
• Naeem Zamindar: Wateen Telecom
• Napoleon L. Nazareno: Smart Communications
• Yousuf Abdulla Al-Kubaisi: Ooredoo Group
• Nguyen Manh Hung: Viettel Group
• Osman Sultan: du
• Salih Al Abdooli: Etisalat
• Salman Abdulaziz Al-Badran: Kuwait Telecom Co. VIVA
• Tan Sri Dato' Sri Zamzamzairani: Telecom Malaysia
• Tan Tong Hai: StarHub
• Vinod Kumar: Tata Communications Limited Group

To cast your vote for this years CEO of the Year, go to the poll hosted by Survey Monkey

The winner will be revealed during the spectacular gala dinner in Singapore on the 19 June 2014, the last night of CommunicAsia, so why not come along as a fitting end to a busy week?

10 stories from Total Telecom editors you may have missed

We've been looking at what you've been reading on Total Telecom this month, and here's the most

popular stories from our editors for you to catch up with...

1. Telcos losing battle of the boards to OTT players
2. Myanmar details Telenor, Ooredoo price plans
3. Vodafone hits back in battle of the boards
4. Softbank takes ownership of new Sprint Corp
5. Russian telcos angered by threat of LTE spectrum seizure
6. BYOD support: a difficult call
7. BT 'has to' move to cloud-based STBs, but content owners need convincing
8. M2M VAS market to hit $10bn in five years
9. G.fast on track to be approved by 2014
10. Telenor moves Thai exec to head Myanmar business

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Fighting talk from the East

‘I aspire to be number one in the world, but everything should be done in steps’ says Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, number 13 in this years Global 100 Operators report.

Growth from the East is one of the key trends in this years Global 100 which can now be downloaded for FREE from Total Telecom