
Industry forums love launching certification programmes, and the Broadband Forum is no different. On Tuesday, at the MPLS & Ethernet World Congress in Paris, the forum announced its first ever certification programme to help drive multi-service network architectures and equipment interoperability testing.
Australian carrier Optus intends to double the amount of available 3G spectrum it owns in the country’s capital cities, by buying licenses from US chip vendor Qualcomm.
Middle East and African regional operator Zain has announced that its talismanic managing director and deputy chairman Saad Al Barrak has resigned. In a brief statement the firm said that the chairman would convene the board to discuss the news.
Vodafone, the world’s biggest operator by revenues said Thursday that group revenue increased ten per cent year on year to £11.5bn in the quarter ended December 31 2009, compared to £10.47bn in the same quarter in 2008. Revenue for the full year came in at £41bn, up from £35bn in 2008.
- Vodafone cheers on developers with 360 vision
- Apple thwarts location-based advertising
- Zain MD Saad Al Barrak resigns
- Adobe, Motorola bring Flash Player to Android
- UK OFT voices concern over Orange T-Mobile merger
- German incumbent makes M2M moves
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- Ovi Maps racks up almost 1.5 million downloads
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Ten years is a long time in any industry, but especially in one that moves as fast as the mobile sector. The last decade has seen the industry ride out by far its toughest times and still manage to turn out truly world-changing products and services. Here we take a look at what we can expect to happen in the ten years that stretches ahead of us.

Matthew Key, CEO of Telefónica Europe, talks exclusively to telecoms.com about the challenges faced across his portfolio, his future plans and the new shape of the mobile industry.
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Not long after ITV announced that former Royal Mail chief executive Adam Crozier would be its new chief executive – and with variations on the “now he’s got the post, can he deliver?” joke beginning to run thin – ideas about what Crozier needs to do to turn around the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster are starting to be fine-tuned.