Interviews

YouTube: “72 hours of content is uploaded every minute; content discovery is very important”

May 23, 2013 Written by Benny Har-Even

Eric Mauskopf, Business Development, YouTube is delivering the opening keynote on Day Two of the Broadband LATAM conference, taking place on 2 – 3 July 2013 at the Grand Hyatt, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Ahead of the show we speak to him about his role at YouTube, what he’s working on right now and what YouTube plans are for future growth.

Tags; content, Google, video, YouTube, Americas, Broadband, Content & Applications, Google, Interviews, Topic

VP product development, Technocentre, Orange: “RCS, LTE and VoLTE mean customers will have no reason to go elsewhere for communications”

May 14, 2013 Written by Benny Har-Even

Pierre François Dubois, VP product development, Technocentre, Orange, France is speaking on ‘Maximising the benefits of LTE with RCS’ on Day One of the LTE World Summit, the premier 4G event for the telecoms industry, is taking place on the 24th-26th June 2013, at the Amsterdam RAI, Netherlands. Ahead of the show we speak to him about how RCS will both benefit consumers and help to maximise operator revenue.

Tags; interview, RCS, VoLTE, Middle East, Networks, Operator

Head of international standardisation and IP management, DT, UK: “competing with OTT is not the goal of Deutsche Telekom”

May 14, 2013 Written by Benny Har-Even

Michele Zarri, head of international standardisation and IP management, Deutsche Telekom, UK, is speaking on VoLTE vs OTT Voice on Day Two of the LTE World Summit, taking place on the 24th-26th June 2013, at the Amsterdam RAI, Netherlands. Speaking ahead of the show, Zarri explains why he feels the operator provided voice, services will still offer benefits to consumers over OTT VoIP applications.

Tags; LTE World Summit 2013, OTT, RCS, RCS-e, SRVCC, voip, Europe, LTE, Networks, Operator

CEO of TIM Fiber, Brazil: “Operators should play a key role in offering end-to-end cloud solutions to the business market”

Rogerio Takayanagi is CEO of TIM Fiber, Brasil

May 9, 2013 Written by Benny Har-Even

Rogerio Takayanagi, CEO of TIM Fiber, Brasil, is speaking on Day One of the Broadband LATAM conference taking place on 2-3 July 2013 at the Grand Hyatt, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Ahead of the show we speak to him about how Brazil’s broadband infrastructure is developing at a pace and how TIM Brasil is readying itself for the rapid expansion of demand for data in the country.

Tags; Brazil, broadband, Broadband LATAM 2013, Cloud, data services, Americas, Broadband, Networks, Operator

Director, radio access network development, NTT Docomo: “Improvements in backhaul will be essential to meet the requirements of the future”

May 8, 2013 Written by Benny Har-Even

Takehiro Nakamura, director of radio access network development for NTT Docomo, Japan is speaking in ‘The Future of LTE’ track on Day Two of the LTE World Summit, the premier 4G event for the telecoms industry, taking place on the 24th-26th June 2013, at the Amsterdam RAI, Netherlands. Ahead of the show we learn about how NTT Docomo is taking a lead in the development of LTE, with many of its home-grown technologies forming part of the latest 3GPP LTE standards.

Tags; C-RAN, carrier aggregation, Japan, LTE World Summit 2013, LTE-A, Asia Pacific, Networks, Operator

INTERVIEW: LTE in the City State

May 8, 2013 Written by Mike Hibberd

Telecoms.com talks to Mock Pak Lum, CTO of Singaporean operator StarHub, about the ongoing rollout of the firm’s LTE offering.

Tags; LTE, Mock Pak Lum, Singapore, StarHub, Asia Pacific, Interviews, LTE

Interview: Implementing stadium wifi at Liverpool FC

Liverpool FC has deployed a wifi network in the Centenary Stand of its Anfield stadium

May 1, 2013 Written by Dawinderpal Sahota

Telecoms.com talks to Andrew Robinson, head of digital media and tech at Liverpool Football Club about the decision to make wifi connectivity available to fans in its its Centenary stand and the revenue benefits that the club expects to derive from the installation.

Tags; Liverpool, Wifi, Xirrus, Content & Applications, Europe, Interviews, Networks, Operator, Vendor

CTO, SK Telecom, South Korea: “SDN and network virtualisation hold great promise for mobile carriers”

April 25, 2013 Written by Benny Har-Even

Dr J W Byun, the CTO of SK Telecom, South Korea is speaking on Day One of the LTE World Summit, taking place on 24-26 June 2013 at The RAI, Amsterdam. Ahead of the show we speak to him about how SK Telecom has been able to extend its global lead in LTE and gives some insights into what he sees coming down the line for telecoms.

Tags; LTE World Summit 2013, RCS, small cells, South Korea, VoLTE, Asia Pacific, Networks, Operator

CTO, Equateur Telecom, Congo: “LTE and fixed-line will be walking together for a long time”

April 24, 2013 Written by Benny Har-Even

Wilgon Berthold Tsibo, CTO, Equateur Telecom, Congo is speaking in the LTE Operator Strategies track on Day One of the LTE Africa 2013conference, taking place on the 9th-10th July 2013 in Cape Town, South Africa. Ahead of the conference we speak to him about the particular challenges Africa is facing as local telcos look for roll-out LTE.

Tags; greenfield, interview, LTE Africa 2013, Africa, LTE, Networks, Operator

Marketing and products executive director, GVT Brazil: “Cloud gaming is one of the services with high potential for retail”

April 19, 2013 Written by Benny Har-Even

Ricardo Sanfelice, marketing and products executive director for GVT Brazil, is speaking on Day One of the Broadband LATAM 2013 conference, taking place on 2-3 July 2013 at the Grand Hyatt, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Ahead of the show we find out why fibre is such an important focus for the Brazilian telco.

Tags; Brasil, Broadband LATAM 2013, Cloud, fibre, Americas, Broadband, Networks, Operator

Access field development director, Google: “We have to create more local content in Africa”

April 19, 2013 Written by Benny Har-Even

Kai U. Wulff, access field development director, Google is speaking on Day Two of the LTE Africa conference, taking place on 9th-10th July 2013 in Cape Town. Ahead of the show, we speak to him to find out more about his role, and why he is excited about Africa and its potential for growth.

Tags; Google, LTE Africa 2013, network sharing, Africa, Google, LTE, Networks

Changing the conversation

Peter Carson, Senior Director of Marketing, Qualcomm

April 17, 2013 Written by Mike Hibberd

Voice over LTE is one of the most complex technologies being deployed within the framework of the LTE roadmap, says Peter Carson, senior director for marketing at Qualcomm. And operators have a lot of work ahead of them if they are to retain their status as the natural providers of voice and maximise the benefits of the move to a single network technology.

Tags; IMS, LTE, Peter Carson, QoS, Qulacomm, VoLTE, Handsets & Devices, Interviews, LTE, Networks, Operator

CTO, UK Broadband: “We need to move away from the technology ‘wars’”

April 11, 2013 Written by Benny Har-Even

Philip Marnick, CTO of UK Broadband is speaking on Day Two of the inaugural TD-LTE Summit taking place on the 23rd-24th April 2013 at the Fairmont Singapore Hotel, Singapore. Ahead of the show we speak to him about how TD-LTE will develop and where voice fits in.

Tags; TD-LTE, TD-LTE Summit, UK, Europe, Interviews, LTE, Networks, Operator

CEO Yes, YTL Communications, Malaysia: “Cloud computing is one of the most exciting megatrends globally”

April 10, 2013 Written by Benny Har-Even

Wing Lee, CEO of Yes, the brand name of YTL Communications, Malaysia, is taking part in a panel discussion on Day One of the Broadband Asia conference, taking place on the 9th-10th April 2013 at the Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel, Hong Kong. Ahead of the show Lee tells us about the key challenges to data monetisation, where wifi fits into the overall Yes strategy and the opportunities that cloud computing presents to the carrier.

Tags; Broadband Asia 2013, Cloud, Asia Pacific, Broadband, Networks, Operator

Ahead in the cloud

April 9, 2013 Written by Mike Hibberd

Ahead of his presentation at the Telco Cloud World Forum in London next week, Jeurgen Urbanski, chief technologist for big data and cloud at Deutsche Telekom, talks to Telecoms.com about the role of telecoms operators in the cloud ecosystem and the challenges the sector faces.

Tags; Cloud, Deutsche Telekom, Jeurgen Urbanski, Telco Cloud World Forum, Interviews

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