Colliers Turley Martin Tucker has significant experience with helping hyper-growth telecommunications companies realize their operating goals. The challenge put forth was to provide a wide range of real estate services to a rapidly expanding telecommunications company. The solutions offered were to meet the company's critical path scheduling by negotiating complex...
European incumbent telecom operators are struggling to reduce their expenses, but cost cutting alone won't revive their fortunes. Revenue from voice traffic, which still accounts for 70 to 90 percent of all wireline revenues, is shrinking by up to 9 percent a year for some telcos. Meanwhile, though data volumes...
Tata Communications has agreed to acquire a 30% stake in South African fixed-line provider Neotel, bringing its total share in the firm to 56%. The Indian telco, which is owned by business conglomerate Tata Group, bought the share from state-owned South African firms, Eskom and Transnet. However, terms of...
"So we get married but we don't sleep together?" I asked billg Bill Gates facetiously. It was a late night meeting which had coalesced in his office over whether to make a huge deal with AT&T or MCI. Interested parties drifted in as word...
Once again you can make calls to landline phones in many countries around the world for the price of a call to Iowa. Pat Phelan, CEO of Cubic telecom group, posted the good news that www.yak4ever.com is now live replacing the defunct allfreecalls.net which was...
Telecommunications companies face twin challenges associated with hyper-connectivity with their business partners, customers and suppliers: the increased security risk of pursuing new business opportunities and expanding business partners and the onerous costs of rapidly growing connectivity with business partners and customers. This article shows why the Federated identity management represents...
Telecommunications is the quintessential global business. As a result, it's difficult to find another industry on which transfer pricing has a bigger impact. Inappropriate transfer pricing policies can expose organization to serious business risks which give rise to more than just the payment of additional taxes. This report summarizes the...
Telecommunications companies won't be able to afford their expensive call centers much longer, given their shrinking margins. Fortunately, they can cut their customer service bills in half by following the lead of airlines and retailers that have successfully moved many of their transactions to the Web. Many customers are willing...
As The East London Communities Organisation Telco, a coalition of faith-based, union and grass-roots bodies, began approaching other companies on behalf of cleaners working in the City, this has been the consistent response. Employees are the responsibility of the employer. It is an orthodox, logical, market-orientated position. Telco tried to...
To remain competitive in a turbulent and rapidly evolving market, telecommunication companies have found it necessary to invest large sums of money on the latest technologies and IT infrastructure. This new reality is increasingly forcing companies to focus on improving processes in order to increase profitability. Process simulation is proving...
Telecommunications companies want to reduce costs while enhancing their ability to reach end customers. Success depends on maintaining close, efficient relations with dealers. Dealer management capabilities from SAP provide the full range of functions and tools that telecommunications companies need to manage dealer relationships. One can monitor and support the...
In today's highly competitive world, telecommunication companies looking to implement CRM successfully need fully integrated information systems in order to provide a common view of the customer throughout the organization. For telcos, CRM should support effective processes, customer communication via different channels and be a core element in a customer-centric...
The paper highlights that conceptualizing a new operating model for telecommunications carriers is one thing and designing and implementing it is another. It also suggests that telecommunications companies need to transform their operating models (defined as the sum of organization structure, business processes, management systems, decision rights, and culture) to...
Revenues or barter? Reportedly, SEC goes with the latter; some telcos may have to restate. Plus: survey says directors getting tough, and AOL set to buy back stake from AT&T. According to a story in The Washington Post, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants has warned the SEC's...
PRIMUS Telecommunications Group, Incorporated(OTCBB: PRTL), an integrated communications services provider, invites thepublic to participate in a conference call and streaming audio webcast toreview the Company's second quarter 2008 financial results. The event will be held on Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 5:00 PM ET. The conference call will be broadcast...
TransAKT Ltd. (OTCBB: TAKDF) (the "Company" or"TransAKT"), a global manufacturer and distributor of telecommunicationshardware for commercial and residential users, is pleased to announceresults of its Special and Annual General Meeting of shareholders SAGMheld June 30, 2008. The shareholders considered and approved the following matters at the SAGM,the particulars of which...
ATLANTA & LONDON -- Faulty forecasts have been the downfall of many CFOs. Last year the retirement of Motorola's finance chief, David Devonshire, coincided with the technology company dropping its revenue projections by a billion dollars in the first quarter. At Ericsson, the telecommunications giant, the CFO departed last October...
Yosi Albagli to Retire From the Company HERZLIA, Israel -- VocalTec Communications Ltd. (Nasdaq Capital Market: VOCL), a global provider of carrier-class multimedia and voice-over-IP solutions for communication service providers, announced today that Yosi Albagli, President and CEO of the Company, has notified the Board that he wishes...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-16 July 2008-Nortel selected by Bahamas Telecommunications CompanyC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The Bahamas Telecommunications Company Ltd BTC, a telecomms operator based in the Bahamas, has selected communications solutions provider Nortel (NYSE:NT) (TSX:NT) to expand its wireless network services throughout the country. Nortel's upgrade of BTC's...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-16 July 2008-BT to invest GBP1.5bn in fibre based home broadband by 2012C1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com On 15 July BT, a British telecommunication company, announced plans to invest GBP1.5bn in fibre optic cables and promised to make faster broadband access available to up to 10 million households...
