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We are all getting too much email, but it's not just the volume - it's the quality. The +Total Telecom daily email newsletter is one of those things it is worth getting - the latest stories, handpicked by our editors, keeping you up to date with the key events of global telecoms. Make sure you sign up today - it's free as well! To sign up click on THIS LINK and fill in a VERY short form: name, email, company and choose your password!

Develop your gigabit future - Brussels April 2017

In 2014 Total Telecom launched Gigabit Copper, a conference dedicated to the technologies enhancing the abilities and extending the life of existing copper networks. The event has been hugely successful and has grown to be the foremost conference for those interested in G.fast and other copper extension technologies, but now time has moved on.

It is not that telecom operators have lost interest in getting more out of their existing copper infrastructure, but rather that the debate has moved on. Today the discussion is how copper, fibre and other technologies can cohabit to fulfil the ultimate aim of providing gigabit access.

Gigabit Access will encompass the enhancement of legacy copper networks, but will also look at the opportunities provided by other next generation access technologies, primarily fibre, to provide the consumer with efficient, reliable and cost effective gigabit access.

In keeping with the Total Telecom ethos of covering the business of telecoms, Gigabit Access will not be a highly technical conference, but instead will be the opportunity for those tasked with monetising superfast broadband access to come together to explore strategies, meet potential partners and learn from global best practice.

Gigabit Access will be a strategic two day conference attracting more than 200 of the most senior and strategic executives in the field to learn, share and network.

BOOK YOUR PLACE AT GIGABIT ACCESS

Anna Krzyzanowska, Head of Unit Broadband, European Commission
Geert Standaert, CTO, Proximus
Oliver Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, Point Topic
Paul Callan, Head of Access Network Strategy, Eir
Raf Meersman, Chief Executive Officer, Comsof
Krzysztof Kozłowski, Director, Orange Labs, Director, Network and Service Platforms, Orange Polska
Matjaz Pogacnik, Director of Access Networks, Telekom Slovenije
Alexandre Fonseca, Executive Manager, Altice Labs and CTO, Portugal Telecom
Micha Berger, CTO, Telenet Group
Rupert Wood, Research Director, Analysys Mason
Carlo Filangieri, SVP Open Access, Telecom Italia
Frank Hellemink, Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone Kabel Deutschland Gmbh
Steve Haines, Group Managing Director, BT
Konstantinos Chalkiotis, VP Mobile Access, Deutsche Telekom
Hans Witdouck, CEO, Eurofiber Belgium
David Cullen, Director - Regulation and Policy, ITS Technology Group
Dana Tobak, CEO, Hyperoptic
Staffan Ingvarsson, CEO, Stokab

Visit totaltele.com/access to book

The event was very interesting and very well organized - Regulatory Director, Metroweb Italia

World Communication Awards 2016 - Photo's from the Night #WCA16

Check out the photo's from the World Communication Awards on Flickr

The World Communication Awards will return in 2017. Find out more at www.worldcommsawards.com

Post Event Report - Total Telecom Congress

On the 4-5 October 2016 the first Total Telecom Congress took place at the London Hilton Canary

Wharf in London. It heralded the launch of a new type of conference, one that thought like a telco, with an agenda designed to focus on how the industry thinks about new business models, strategic opportunities and how innovations in technology are enabling a new more customer centric approach to emerge.

Download the post-event report now to discover what happened at the event.

The Total Telecom Congress returns to London on the 31 October - 1 November 2017.
Visit the website for more information.

Leaders in Asian Communications Rewarded #ACA16

The winners of the 6th annual Asia Communication Awards (ACA) were named in Singapore on the 1 June 2016. The big winner of the night was Korea's KT who scooped three trophies, whilst we were delighted to to be able to welcome Ririek Adriansyah, CEO of Telkomsel to the event were he was named CEO of the Year.

The Asia Communication Awards are organised by Total Telecom and were presented at the prestigious Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel

For a full list of winners is listed below or download the magazine of the night here

ROLL OF HONOUR

Best Brand Campaign
Progresif Cellular
(Highly commended: Telstra)

Best Customer Care: Business
Singtel

Best Customer Care: Consumer
Ooredoo Myanmar
(Highly commended: Globe Telecom)

Best Emerging Market Initiative
Ooredoo Myanmar

Best Enterprise Service
KT

Best SME Service
Voyager Innovations
(Highly commended: KT)

Operator of the Year
KT
(Highly commended: Indosat Ooredoo)

Project of the Year
Progresif Cellular

Satellite Operator of the Year
Singtel Satellite

The Connected Asia Award
Indosat Ooredoo

The Green Technology Award
Tata Communications

The Innovation Award
KT

The Social Contribution Award
Smart Communications

Vendor Initiative of the Year
Huawei
(Highly commended: Syniverse)

Wholesale Operator of the Year
NTT Communications

CEO of the Year
Ririek Adriansyah, Telkomsel
(Highly commended: V.D. Wadhwa, SITI Cable Network)

Meet the IoT champions

The winners of the 2nd annual Internet of Things Awards - the IoTA's were revealed alongside the World Communication Awards at the iconic Wembley Stadium on the 1 December 2015.

The winners were as follows:

Best Turnkey Solution
Vigilent

Contribution to the IoT EcoSystem
Pegasus Global Holdings, LLC

Most Innovative Connectivity Solution
Kore

Most Innovative Device Solution
Essence

Most Innovative Platform Solution
Eurotech SpA

Most Innovative Use of Data
Embarcadero - InterBase

Smart Cities Initiative
Tech Mahindra Ltd.

Smart Home Initiative
digitalSTROM

Transforming Business Award
Jasper

In addition, Jasper won The Connected World Initiative at the parallel World Communication Awards. View the WCA winners on Total Telecom.

If you missed out this year, make sure you enter the 2016 IoTAs that will once again accompany the World Communication Awards and will be presented at London's Supernova on the 29 November 2016. Find out more

Meet the experts - Pathways to IPX Innovation webinar

The Total Telecom webinar "Pathways to IPX Innovation" to be held on the 16th September 2015 brings together three recognised experts on the subject to discuss the opportunities for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) due to the migration of services to all-IP.

The webinar will be hosted by Total Telecom editor Mary Lennighan and will feature:

Isabelle Paradis, President, Hot Telecom who has worked with many of the world's global wholesalers and service providers to help them define their IP evolution strategy and has published a number of articles and reports on the future of wholesale and IPX.

Tom Schroer, Director Service Provider Marketing at Dialogic who has many years of experience with both wireless and fixed data and voice networks, including previous work with NetScout Inc. and Tektronix

Steve Heap, CTO of Hot Telecom, who focuses on providing strategic and technology consulting and training to companies either looking to deploy an IPX, or planning to use IPX services from others.

To find out more or to register for this free webinar taking place at 14-00 (London) on 16 September, 2015 visit www.totaltele.com/webinars or go direct to the registration page

16 Giants of African Telecoms Named

The question at hand is 'who is the leading CEO in African telecoms' - and we at +Total Telecom don't know the answer - YET!

We will soon, because you are going to help us find out, by voting for CEO of the Year for the first ever Total Telecom Africa Awards.

The shortlist has come from the industry, who have been busy nominating their favourites, and now it's time to narrow this down to the one who stands head and shoulder about their peers.

Have your say and vote now.

The contenders are:

Abdeslam Ahizoune - Maroc Telecom
Bob Collymore - Safaricom Limited
Chris Wood - WIOCC
Eng. Saeed AlHamli - Etisalat Misr
Joseph Ged - Ooredoo
Karim Khoja - Smart Telecom
Lex van Wyk - Teraco Data Environments
Michael Ikpoki - MTN Nigeria Communications Ltd
Nic Rudnick - Liquid Telecom
Shameel Aziz Joosub - Vodacom
Sifiso Dabengwa - MTN Group
Sipho Maseko - Telkom SA SOC
Stanley Jegede - Phase3 Telecom
Sunil Joshi - Neotel
Theo Klein - Telecom Namibia
Ziad Dalloul - Africell

All votes must be cast by Friday 24 April 2015 - VOTE HERE

Your opinion matters more than anyone's

Total Telecom are conducting our annual User Survey and your opinion is the most important. Before we get carried away, let us explain; when a media owner like Total Telecom asks for your opinion, it's very easy to ignore it and let someone else complete the survey, but the reality is we conduct this research to try to create better products, one's that you and your colleagues get value from, and the only way we can do this is by understanding what YOU want and need.

So please take five minutes to help us achieve this. the survey is short and should give us some more insight into what we should be writing about, how we should be presenting it, and what other events and solutions we should offer to help you do your job better.

All the information will be treated in confidence and the results used only in aggregate, unless you have specifically asked for more information. The more responses we get, the better the result, so please feel free to share with your colleagues, on social networks, the company intranet etc...

The survey should not take more than 5 minutes to complete, and can be found on the Survey Monkey platform at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HXJXY6K

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

p.s. don't forget - your opinion matters most!

10 most read #telecom articles from last week

Here's what people were reading in their first week back at work, from the latest news by Total Telecom:

Huawei says 2014 revenue hit $46bn

DoCoMo tackles Tata on India stake sale

Android market share falls in Europe, US

T-Mo posts strong Q4 net adds, but is likely still behind Sprint

Global tablet market still stagnant - analysts

T-Mobile US to trial LTE on unlicensed spectrum

Nokia completes Panasonic base station buy

New year in telecoms, same old story

Verizon mulls AOL deal, but CEO says no to takeover

Bezeq appeals competition ruling

Get the latest news by email, register for free at www.totaltele.com/register or follow us on Twitter @totaltelecom

The Dynamic Dozen - 12 Whitepapers You Should Have Read

Every year Total Telecom starts looking at what people have read during the year, including
the whitepapers and eBooks that have stimulated the greatest interest.

We measure this based on views of the synopsis, and for 2014 see that LTE / 4G tops the interest area, followed by security, IPX, cloud and small cells.

So here's the top dozen (in alphabetical order), including multiple offerings from Oracle, as well as Accedian, AdaptiveMobile, FlexiTon, Huawei, Neustar, and ZTE - and a couple that we at Total Telecom put together ourselves...

Analysing impact of SRLG failures in multi-layered networks [FlexiTon]
Capitalising on your network - 5 leading voices share their views [Total Telecom]
Capturing the Digital Revenue Stream - TMForum Quick Insights [Oracle]
Case Study: Cable Operator Saves $11M Annually in Bad Debt [Neustar]
Centralized Operations: Strategies for Today and Tomorrow [Huawei]
Cloud Network Function [ZTE]
Intelligent Evolution to 4G Networks [Oracle]
IPX: Now and Next [Total Telecom]
Oracle Communications LTE Diameter Signaling Index [Oracle]
Re-defining the Mobile Enterprise Security Ecosystem: The Operator Opportunity [AdaptiveMobile]
Small Cell Backhaul Performance Assurance - Mobile Data Reality [Accedian Networks]
The A-Z of Telecom Security [Total Telecom]

If you'd like to have your white paper distributed and archived by Total Telecom, please get in touch: info@totaltele.com

The 10 ICT companies delivering the greatest user satisfaction #WCA14

The Users' Choice award at the World Communication Awards is all about delivering outstanding levels of satisfaction to the user.

The top ten are determined through research conducted by Ocean82 and Total Telecom [METHODOLOGY] with the winner being named at the gala dinner on the 2 December 2014.

The top ten this year are:

Atos

KDDI Global

NTT Com

Orange Business Services

PCCW Global

SingTel

Telmex

T-Systems

Verizon

Considering that the winners for the last 5 years have all been traditional telco's, it's interesting to note that for the first time this year we have a finalist in Atos who isn't a telco. There again, it's entirely in line with the corporate ambition of the company that on acquiring Siemens IT Solutions and Services in 2011 said “Today is a momentous day for our company as we embark on the next chapter in our history to become a top 10 global IT services provider" (Thierry Breton, CEO, Atos) - it looks like they've made that happen!

So who were the previous winners? Well, one of them, no longer exists, Global Crossing now being part of Level3.

2009 >> Global Crossing

2010 >> Verizon

2011 >> SingTel

2012 >> Orange Business Services

2013 >> NTT Com

Who will triumph in 2014, find out on the 2 December...

If you want to find out more about becoming or choosing an outstanding ICT company, Ocean82 CEO, Janet Watkin, will be running a session at this years Total Telecom Festival - come along and join the debate.

10 ICT companies that are the choice of the user #WCA14 #TTFest

Every year Total Telecom partners with Ocean82 to conduct research amongst enterprise users of telecoms into the service providers who they rate most highly; the company most highly rated takes the coveted Users' Choice Award at the World Communication Awards. The result is determined through an assessment of the survey responses resulting in a customer satisfaction index (CSI) - the company ranked most highly wins.

The 10 most highly rated have now been revealed, one of which will be named this years' Users' Choice on the 2 December 2014.

The top 10, in alphabetical order are:

Atos Origin
BT
KDDI Global
NTT Com
Orange Business Services
PCCW Global
SingTel
Telmex
T-Systems
Verizon

This year, for the first time Total Telecom is delighted to be able to offer greater insight into what drives outstanding performance at a roundtable discussion chaired by Ocean82 CEO, Janet Watkin, on day two of the Total Telecom Festival, 3 December 2014.

This session forms part of a unique day, immediately after the World Communication Awards where we will explore what makes a great telco. This will take the format of discussion panels and interactive roundtables and so is unmissable for anyone wanting to ensure their company stands out in a sea of competitors, and of course to ensure they are best placed to win WCA trophies in the future.

To find out more about attending the Total Telecom Festival, visit www.totaltele.com/festival

Viewpoint: What Juncker, Ansip and Oettinger should do for the telecom sector in Europe

This viewpoint is presented by Total Telecom Festival speaker, Luigi Gambardella.

The European Commission should carry out a whole review of the digital sector regulatory regime as soon as possible, because of the following reasons:

1) The telecom industry is a strategic sector for Europe. The perspective of having networks controlled by non European companies entails enormous risks in terms of security for member states and citizens as well
2) The current regulatory regime was designed and thought of for liberalization. Market context has changed. US and Asian companies are in good health, especially internet players in the US and manufacturers and device producers in Asia. The regime is too complex and hampers large scale investments in new broadband networks and service.
3) Europe needs a new wave of investments in the digital industry as a driver for economy recovery: in this moment fiscal and monetary policies have limited capacity to invert the economic cycle - after years of economic turn-down - and public finances are not in such a state to afford broad investment plans. Therefore private investments must be encouraged as much as possible. The investor community is expecting new policy moves soon and they need trust and confidence in the actions of the EU institutions for the next mandate.

The review should be carried out first of all by means of the publication of a white paper or a communication, to be released for public consultation, that gives straight away positive signals for investors, for companies and for citizens. Positive signals are needed because the policy debate is now centred around a draft regulation that, after Parliament first reading, serves no objectives of growth and is reduced to a mere draft law regulating roaming and net neutrality. The Parliament and the Council, which are stuck in such discussions, should be brought on board as from the very beginning in the building of reasons in favour of a general review, while now this is not the case.
The review should take into account the following areas / lines of proposals, that must be further developed and deepened with a new approach and out of the box thinking:

1) The relationship between ex ante rules and competition rules. No more lengthy procedures and reduction of the litigation and appeals. Times are mature, after 16 years of liberalization, to really rethink the way rules are applied to networks. Too much regulatory effort is being spent with no clear results of the positive effects in terms of market growth and rise in investments. Such a brainstorming needs also to take into account the overall role of Regulatory agencies as they are defined in the current Directives and their relationship with competition law authorities. We need a new liberalization: the liberalization from rules that are not fit for purpose and only justify regulatory functions per se.
2) More consumers attention: no more roaming (for example) but more needs to be done. High value content should be made available over networks and new agreements must be encouraged (see e.g. Netflix agreements with Comcast, Verizon and ATT). This requires a review of copyright and the regime of protection of content owners. TV over fibre should be encouraged. All players of the content distribution chain should be brought into the discussion as well. Happy and satisfied consumers will be ready to pay more for better services. We must get out of the regulatory cycle that has brought prices down over years in favour of for free services. Such developments has benefited US companies to the detriment of declining revenues for EU companies (telcos, broadcasters, publishers).
3) A new model of market development: consolidation of players throughout the EU. No other comparable markets have such a high number of fixed and mobile players. More efficient companies will likely generate a new wave of revenues and keep the debt under control (difficult to finance on the capital markets), again generating with more confidence for investors. Such moves can keep under control the risk of massive foreign market access and all related dangers and threats. Can the EU afford foreign control of the information and communication networks? A strategic analysis should be carried out.
4) Privacy and data protection: because of the reasons explained, European citizens and member states’ governments are very concerned about the protection of data. Legislation in favour of better protection has limited effects but more can be done if companies are put in a position to manage traffic and keep data flows under control.

Reproduced with the kind permission of Luigi Gambardella, founder Broadband4Europe.

Luigi will present "Perspectives of reform for the future of the European telecom industry" at the Total Telecom Festival on the 2nd December 2014. Reserve your seat at www.totaltele.com/festival

Discover the 20 candidates for #WCA14 CEO of the Year and vote for your favourite

The candidates for this years World Communication Awards CEO of the Year are in, and represent a eclectic list of 20 of the most powerful, innovative and outspoken names in global telecoms. Now it's time to decide the winner and that's down to you, but first here's the list and some of those reasons why they all have the X-factor.

Abdullah Orkun Kaya: TTNET
Ahmed Mekky: GBI
Akira Arima: NTT Communications

Akira has already been recognised as a winner this year, being named CEO of Year for the Asia Communication Awards in June, just one of several awards taken by NTT Com - see the roll of honour here

Alex J. SInaga: PT Telkomsel

Interviewed at last years Total Telecom Festival

Chris Wood: WIOCC
Daniel Hajj Aboumrad: America Movil

Daniel is leading the South American companies battle with the regulators, whilst also battling for control of Telekom Austria

Ernest L. Cu: Globe Telecom
Gavin Patterson: BT

Leading BT to reenter the mobile space

John Legere: T-Mobile US

Sharing his forthright views, especially on the competition!

Masayoshi Son: Softbank
Michalis Tsamaz: Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE)
Napoleon L. Nazareno: Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company
Nasser Marafih: Ooredoo
Paul Taylor: Botswana Telecommunications Corporation

Read the interview about transforming the country’s telecom incumbent into a customer centric, world class operator

Randall Stephenson: AT&T Inc.

Boosting TV and video business

Saleh Al Abdooli: Etisalat
Vinod Kumar: Tata Communications Ltd
Vittorio Colao: Vodafone

Encouraged by signs of stability in Europe

Yiannos Michaelides: GO plc, Malta
Yousuf Abdulla Al-Kubaisi: Ooredoo

CAST YOUR VOTES FOR THE CEO OF THE YEAR

The winner will be announced at the World Communication Awards on the 2 December 2014

Vote NOW

A-Z of Telecom Security

This A - Z of Telecom Security eBook outlines How the leading companies are securing your network.

Security is now the number one issue facing communication service providers as they seek to head off multiple threats from sources as diverse as BYOD, data storage and privacy, cloud based applications, cyber attack, and many more.

This eBook highlights some of the biggest names and most significant events in the market segment over the last few months.

There is so much happening it's hard to cover everything but this A-Z will give you a peak at what's happening in the industry.

If Security in telecoms is important to you and your company, download the eBook today.

On this day in time...from the Total Telecom archive

Top story currently on the Total Telecom website is AT&T announces $48.5 billion DirecTV deal, giving AT&T a significant foothold in the TV market, but do you know what the big news would be if we turned the clock back 10 years?

Well as least somethings' don't change, as 10 years ago Google were still dominating the news with the headline being: Google planning desktop software search tool – NYT - but of course the idea of desktop search doesn't sounds very revolutionary today!

Going back ten years is a nice example of the depth of the Total Telecom archive, but did you realise we can actually perform the same trick right back to 1997, so on the 19 May 1997 we reported C&W and GTE Face Off in Bid for Foothold in Central America, written by one Jeremy Scott-Joynt.

How times have changed!

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU USED THE TOTAL TELECOM ARCHIVE?
Access to content up to 1-month old is free of charge. Access to the entire archive is just £499 for a year and can be as little as £350 if you subscribe for three years. Visit www.totaltele.com/subscribe

Don't miss a thing with custom #telecom news

RSS is old tech, right? Well yes, but it's still a great way to take customised content from Total Telecom and integrate it into a personal news feed or to feed it into a social network tool, it's also really easy to do from Total Telecom Search

To get you started, here's some we created earlier...

OPERATORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS
RSS feed of AT&T news
RSS feed of BT news
RSS feed of Orange news
RSS feed of BT news

BIG VENDORS
RSS feed of Alcatel-Lucent news
RSS feed of Ericsson news
RSS feed of Huawei news

COUNTRIES
RSS feed for China
RSS feed for India

Of course you might not be interested in any of these options, but might for example be really interested in Google, here's how you set it up:

1. Type Google into the SEARCH BOX on the homepage (or alongside any article)

2. Click on the "This search as RSS" link above the filters (add in any filters at this stage if you wish)

3. Hey presto, there's your RSS feed with a dedicated URL in the address box

Try it out, it's a great way of getting the news you want as it's published.

Asia Communication Awards - three days left to get your entries in. www.asiacommsawards.com

You entries for the 2014 Asia Communication Awards must be in by this Friday, 14 March 2014. This is with the exception of:

Best Regulatory Initiative where you have until the 28 March 2014 (enter this free category HERE)

Best Place to Work (in Asia) where responses can be submitted until Friday 2 May 2014 (submit votes HERE)

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