12 Leading Telco CEO's Named #WCA13

The CEO of the Year shortlist has been compiled for this years World Communication Awards and brings together 12 of the most influential names in global telecoms. One of them will be named CEO of the Year at the awards dinner on the 3 December 2013, the winner determined by your votes.

Those making the list have been compiled through nomination from the industry and the careful deliberations of WCA judges and Total Telecom editors, so here's the list and a recent editorial reference:

• AT&T - Randall L. Stephenson. The winner in 2011 leads the worlds largest telco by revenue, amongst the success stories this year we covered the ACQUISITION of Leap Wireless
• EE - Olaf Swantee. The story at EE has been one of the UK's first 4G network, and despite some doubters, it looks like Oalf has lead them to meet or beat target for LTE SUBSCRIBERS.
• Globe Telecom, Inc. - Ernest L. Cu. The Philippines might be a long way from London, but Globe seeks to serve it's customers on a global basis and in July announced the launch of an MVNO
• Gulf Bridge International - Ahmed Mekky. This Middle East companies FIBRE OPTIC CONNECTIVITY is enabling some exciting new partnerships, opening up markets such as Iraq.
• Ooredoo - Dr. Nasser Marafih. This years rebrand no doubt helped the Qatari telco push PROFITS up 44%
• SK Telecom - Sung Min Ha. The South Korean operator has achieved great success with LTE-A and LTE ROLLOUT and told Total Telecom all about their plans and strategy. 
• Smart Communications, Inc. - Napoleon L. Nazareno. More activity from the Philippines, this time with a massive FIBRE ROLLOUT delivered 6-months ahead of schedule.    
• Softbank - Masayoshi Son. Rarely out of the news this year, one of the highlights from Softbank was a doubling of quarterly NET PROFIT
• Telekom Austria - Hannes Ametsreiter. Calls for a truly SINGLE EUROPEAN MARKET have abounded this year with Hannes being one of the loudest
• Telenor - Jon Fredrik Baksaas. More strong PROFIT PERFORMANCE with the Norwegian operator seeing strength from the East
• Verizon - Lowell C. McAdam. Verizon outperformed the competition and deliver OUTSTANDING SUBSCRIBER GROWTH of 941,000 postpaid subscribers
• Vodafone - Vittorio Colao. And last but not least, last years winner has delivered another strong performance. We will wait to see what develops after they launch their 4G offering in the UK

12 outstanding CEO's, but only one can be named CEO of the Year - it's in your hands. VOTE NOW

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. 

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