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MWC debrief: Operator strategy

Mobile enterprise to deliver 25% of data revenues by 2014

Informa’s chief research officer, Mark Newman, and analyst Dario Talmesio discuss rich communications suite (RCS) capabilities and the slow development of the initiative as well as the G5 alliance and carrier billing.

Heinrich Stuttgen, NEC

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Dr Heinrich Stuttgen, Vice President of NEC Laboratories Europe, talks to telecoms.com about the industry’s appetite for cloud technology and the business models that go with it.

MWC debrief: Verticals

KPN and Telefónica have struck a deal to support the delivery of services to multinational customers

Informa analyst Camille Mendler talks about the way operators are finally addressing the enterprise market with a range of tailored options for vertical industries.

MWC debrief: M2M

Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile sign deal with M2M specialist Telit Wireless

Informa analyst Jamie Moss discusses the latest developments in the M2M space – a clear focus point among the operators this year.

Håkan Eriksson – Part 1

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In the first of three instalments, Ericsson CTO Håkan Eriksson talks to Telecoms.com about the firm’s strategic priorities and the state of the industry. Covering the ‘HetNet’, the evolving role of the operator and Ericsson’s favoured theme of the Internet of Things, the interview was filmed in the Ericsson Hall at Mobile World Congress 2011.

Gilad Garon, ASOCS

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Gilad Garon, CEO of terminal processor firm ASOCS, talks about SDR and the benefits of being able to roam across multiple radio technologies.

The MWC2011 debrief

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Mark Newman, chief research officer for Informa Telecoms & Media introduces this series of debriefings on MWC 2011. Under the banner of “fighting for inclusion,” Newman touches upon the show’s key themes, including the role of the operators in the many app ecosystems; cloud technology; and rural connectivity.

On the LTE bus with Hossein Moiin, CTO, NSN

Hossein Moiin, CTO of Nokia Siemens Networks

During the final day of my trip to Barcelona for MWC, I was treated to a bus ride. Not just any bus ride though. This was a bus loaded with tech kit, hooked up to a couple of prototype dongles and connected to the FDD and TDD flavours of LTE radio. The reason was a field demonstration of LTE’s capabilities, set up by Nokia Siemens Networks, Huawei, Vodafone and China Mobile.

Ken Denman, Openwave

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Ken Denman, Chief Executive Officer of global software firm Openwave Systems talks about the better management of bandwidth and how operators can better monetise the network information they have available. The company also announced a partnership with Juniper Networks, which will see Openwave technology integrated into Juniper hardware.

Renaud Duverne, Agilent

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Renaud Duverne, head of marketing for the signal analysers & sources unit at Agilent, talks about LTE Advanced and the obstacles operators face in deploying next generation wireless. Due to the complexity of LTE as a technology, testing times have increased but Duverne highlights developments that have made testing more affordable.