Comments on: Top 40 to watch in mobile

By: Mehdi

Mehdi — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:24:12 +0000

What about Motorola leaders in this list, definitely Top40 is not enough considering all the comments and the missing people in the industry..

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:08:13 +0000

I think MTN’s Phuthuma Nhleko should have been on this list. He is shaping the telecoms future in Emerging markets.

By: Bridget Fishleigh

Bridget Fishleigh — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:46:22 +0000

I agree that this isn’t really a list of the innovative people who are changing the telecoms landscape. When I was in India this week someone from the regulator there said that Rajiv Mehrotra is the most important person in Indian telecoms. He’s the founder and inspiration behind VNL which has developed solar powered GSM base stations for use in areas where ARPUs are less than $2 a month. http://www.vnl.in Because this is a start-up vendor not known to MCI he won’t make this list. But as he has found a way for operators to build sustainable business models to connect the next xx billion then maybe he should.

By: Klaus

Klaus — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:14:07 +0000

Unfortunately not a single woman here… still way to go for women in the technology career.. hope that this improves in next year list.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:33:15 +0000

What a narrow view!!
What about Telkomsel (Indonesia) senior management who has more than 70 million subs? Perhaps the largest prepaid subs in the world, with more than 65% EBITDA!
What about SMART (Philippines) who pioneered micro payment using its stored value in the prepaid SIM Card?
What about NTT-DoCoMo, who perhaps has the most exptensive Location Based Service products, and managed to nurture and incubate more than 20,000 application developer???
You guys are so narrow, and you called yourself Leading Telco publiser?
What a shame….

The operators world are dominated by the Asians! The vendor world may still be dominated by the likes of NOK, ALU, ERIC, but mark my word, it will not be for long!!!!

By: Karl Galea

Karl Galea — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:15:07 +0000

I think we need more females in the list.

By: Miebi Senge

Miebi Senge — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:08:03 +0000

With all due respect, but I think you’re missing out an African name: Mr. Ernest Ndukwe. He is probably the most influential African in the mobile business. As chief regulator of the Nigerian mobile industry, Ndukwe has won great respect and admiration from operators, consumers and governments. Transparency has always been his watchword in the industry. His drive has seen the growth of the mobile industry from a mere 400,000 subscribers in 1999 to an all time 68 million by end of July 2009.

By: Tarek Abdel Hamid

Tarek Abdel Hamid — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:00:48 +0000

I’m really surprised that the list doesn’t include Naguib Sawiris ceo and founder of Weather Investments and Orascom Telecom..

By: Ap Reader

Ap Reader — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:54:23 +0000

Wow?! Really? When do CEOs of huge monolith followers ever make revolutionary direction setting decisions? Seems a pretty easy plug - wouldn’t change be driven by some engineer buried in a hole somewhere? And one woman & one black person seems to linear…

By: peter tatischev

peter tatischev — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:14:58 +0000

If you’re including Boris Nemsic it could probably make sense to include Alexander Izosimov who made Vimpelcom what it is now. I’m not sure what he’s up to now, but I’m sure that a person with such a track-record is the man to follow. But then again, it could also make sense to have Arun Sarin on the list as well.