The 5 most powerful CEOs in African telecoms

Just five African telecom operators made it into the annual Total Telecom Global 100 report.

Are these five CEOs the most powerful in the industry in Africa? We’d love to hear from you.

Discover our round-up of the Top 5 most powerful CEOs in African telecoms. We'd love to hear your thoughts as well!

Find out which CEOs make the list based on Total Telecom's Global 100 telco rankings. This ebook was developed in association with Total Telecom Africa Awards (May 25th, Johannesburg) - the preeminent telco awards ceremony in the region.

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Nine who moved nine #Global100

Who moved nine places, who moved more? Was it up or was it down? The @totaltelecom Global 100 Operators report ranks the world's biggest network operators and these slides show who moved the most, plus some other useful facts and figures...

Nine who moved nine from Total Telecom

For more information from the Global 100, download your own copy from Total Telecom. 

Top 10 #telecom downloads of 2012

Last years ranking of the top document downloads on Total Telecom generated so much interest, that we decided to repeat the excercise for 2012. So what have users been downloading in 2012 and what have you missed?

1. The biggest threat to telecom operators - an eBook from Total Telecom, featuring speakers from the Total Telecom World conference
2. Growing Strong: The Global 100 Operators Report 2012 - our annual ranking of the world largest telecom operators by revenue and profit
3. Top 500 Telecom Brands - in association with Brand Finance, our annual ranking of the largest brands in telecoms
4. Tellabs Insight Magazine Q2 2012 - Cover story in this issue: Driving Mobile Backhaul In Latin America
5. Understand the Business of Telecoms - an eBook that was created to support the 2012 Finance Summit
6. Understanding LTE - White paper from Anritsu
7. Advancing the development of open virtualisation solutions -  White paper from Intel
8. Carrier Ethernet Basics -  White paper from EXFO
9. OTT services: How operators can overcome the fragmentation of communication - White paper from tyntec and mobileSQUARED
10. Best Practices in SDM (Subscriber Data Management) Reliability - White paper from Huawei

If you want to figure in the 2013 list, get an early start and talk to the sales team about how your document / white paper or customer magazine can figure.

Monday Headlines: #Telecom News to Start Your Week

Top #news stories you should read from Total Telecom:

Vodafone reorganises enterprise division, accelerates C&W integration
http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?C=0&ID=478109

Satellite operator casts doubt on Europe's broadband targets
http://totaltele.com/view.aspx?C=0&ID=478000

Joyn interoperable in Spain
http://totaltele.com/view.aspx?C=0&ID=478045

Big Euro telcos could save up to €2bn a year each from net sharing
http://totaltele.com/view.aspx?C=0&ID=478006

Friday Review: Gauging interest
http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=478102&G=2&C=1&Page=0

Also, don't miss...

Total Telecom+ November issue, including:

• Spectrum Strategies - CDMA 450
• Technology Trends - Vectoring
• Regulation - Sticky WCIT
• Statistics - Prime numbers

Growing Strong: The Global 100 Operators Report 2012
http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?C=0&ID=477941

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

Visualisation of the top 100 operators: #infographic

The annual Total Telecom Global 100 Operators report is stuffed full of information. This new infographic is just a snapshot. You can get loads more information by downloading the free report.

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 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.

Global 100 Operators take their place

Next week's Global 100 breakfast briefing will see 50 senior telecom executives gather for the launch of the 2011 Global 100 Operators report. They will be hoping to see if there are major changes at the top (will AT&T still hold the number 1 position) and also to discover who has gone up and of course who has gone down in our popular ranking.

Global 100 Speakers

Behind the headline figures, generated for us this year by Ernst & Young, is the true story of what drives the positions and what trends are influencing the shape of the industry, and to help you understand this we have an outstanding line up of speakers and panellists ready to give their views, answer questions and share insight with those in attendance.

Speakers for this years Breakfast include:

• Andrew Edison: Regional Vice President, AT&T Europe, Middle East and Africa
• Dominic Jones: Director of Products and Marketing, Cable&Wireless Worldwide
• Damian Skendrovic: Head of Managed Services Business Unit, NTT Europe
• Adrian Baschnonga: Associate Director, Ernst & Young
• Carl Murdock-Smith: Telecoms Equity Research Analyst, JP Morgan

The session will be moderated by Steven Hartley, Principal Analyst at the Ovum Telecom Strategy Practice.

2010 Global 100

Last year it was all about the companies from the Middle east, Latin America, and Asia, so it will be interesting to see this trends for 2011, and understand the impact of the buzz topics such as cloud, content, and 4G.

Places are now very limited for this breakfast briefing which provides unmissable insight for anyone doing business with the top telecom operators or wanting to understand the drivers in the market affecting not just the top 100 but every operator, so don't miss out, REGISTER TODAY