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Mobile standardization headache could stall the future

Posted by Kris Szaniawski Friday, November 6th, 2009

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Operator and vendor frustration with the European mobile standardization environment seems to be coming to a head.

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Nokia Siemens Networks or Nokia Siemens Solutions?

Posted by Kris Szaniawski Monday, October 5th, 2009

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One of my colleagues has already blogged about NSN’s new “solutions & services” marketing pitch unveiled at an analyst event last week. It’s always healthy to be sceptical about repositioning exercises of this type but nevertheless I reckon that some interesting and dare I say it genuinely transformational developments are happening at NSN.

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Flurry of European network outsourcing announcements suggests turning point

Posted by Kris Szaniawski Friday, March 27th, 2009

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If the last week is anything to go by running a network has become an increasingly optional component of a European mobile operator’s business.

In the space of one week we’ve seen four managed services announcements from European mobile operators. Four swallows don’t make a summer but it’s the calibre of the operators making these decisions that is just as significant as the number of contracts.

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Mobile operators get serious about customer data

Posted by Kris Szaniawski Monday, March 2nd, 2009

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In one sense it’s no surprise that CEO Simon Beresford-Wylie chose to highlight the fast-growing subscriber data management market at the NSN analyst event at this year’s Mobile World Congress.

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Christmas cheer from Alcatel-Lucent and Bell Labs

Posted by Kris Szaniawski Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

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The glory days of basic science research at Bell Labs may be over, but there was a buzz in the air at last week’s Bell Labs Innovation Day taking place at Alcatel-Lucent’s plush Paris HQ just off the Champs-Elysées.

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Kris is a Principal Analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media and is responsible for the Networks and Mobile Operator Intelligence Centre research portals.