Personnel Category

Ericsson Closing Its Telecoms Cables Division - Loss of 154 Jobs
May 21st 2013 - 16:00 GMT
Ericsson has announced that it is to close down its telecom cables operation within its Networks division, with the loss of 154 jobs...more

Tellabs Chief Financial Officer Resigns
May 20th 2013 - 17:00 GMT
The Chief Financial Officer at the struggling telecoms equipment manufacturer, Tellabs, Andrew B. Szafran has resigned from the company, citing personal reasons....more

Vodafone New Zealand Ordered to Reinstate Top Lawyer
May 20th 2013 - 10:30 GMT
Vodafone New Zealand has been ordered to give their former legal council his job back after he was made redundant last year, although Vodafone has said that it will appeal the verdict....more

Ingram Micro Hires 300 Costa Rican to Repair Mobile Phones
May 16th 2013 - 10:00 GMT
Consumer electronics distributor, Ingram Micro has announced the opening of a new facility in Costa Rica, creating some 300 local jobs....more

GSMA Opens Kenyan Office to Tap into African Telecoms Market
May 15th 2013 - 09:30 GMT
The trade association, the GSMA has opened a permanent office in Nairobi, Kenya. The office will be based in the heart of Nairobi's Innovation Hub (iHub) for the technology community ...more

US Engineers Lobby Opposes Increased Immigration for Technical Employees
May 14th 2013 - 11:10 GMT
An organisation that represents American technical engineers, the IEEE-USA is urging politicians to reject amendments to a planned immigration bill that would increase H-1B temporary visa numbers....more

Nokia Siemens Networks Opens New GDC in China
May 13th 2013 - 08:25 GMT
Nokia Siemens Networks has inaugurated a Global Delivery Center (GDC) hub in Zhengzhou, province of Henan. ...more

Digicel Shakes Up Senior Management Roles
May 10th 2013 - 09:30 GMT
Digicel Jamaica CEO, Andy Thorburn, has been promoted to the role of CEO for the Caribbean and Central America reporting to Group CEO, Colm Delves, it was announced today....more

Google Wallet Boss Leaves the Company
May 9th 2013 - 09:55 GMT
The head of Google's own payment service, Google Wallet has left the company two years after he joined the firm from rival payments provider, PayPal....more

Square Hires Advisor for International Expansion
May 9th 2013 - 08:35 GMT
USA based smartphone credit card processing provider, Square has hired Demetrios J. Marantis to lead the company's international government, regulatory, and policy work....more

VimpelCom's Chief Financial Officer to Leave the Company
May 8th 2013 - 09:40 GMT
Russia's VimpelCom has announced that its Chief Financial Officer, Henk van Dalen has decided to leave the Company when his contract expires in September 2013....more

Huawei Offices Raided by Swiss Police in Immigration Probe
May 7th 2013 - 13:00 GMT
Switzerland based Swisscom has warned that it will drop Huawei as a supplier if the company is found to have broken local laws....more

Former Palm CEO Joins Qualcomm Board of Directors
May 7th 2013 - 08:30 GMT
Qualcomm has announced the election of Jonathan Rubinstein to its Board of Directors. ...more

New CEO Named at Smartphone Manufacturer, Jolla
May 5th 2013 - 08:40 GMT
Start-up smartphone manufacturer, Jolla has announced that Tomi Pienimäki is taking over as the new CEO with immediate effect....more

Pregnant T-Mobile Employee Told to Use Up Holiday Time for Toilet Breaks
May 4th 2013 - 10:10 GMT
A former customer care employee working at a T-Mobile USA call center claims that she was forced to use up some of her holiday time while at work because her manager thought she was going to the toilet too often....more

Lebanese Telecoms Engineer Starts Hunger Strike
May 3rd 2013 - 11:34 GMT
A former telecoms engineer who was arrested by the Lebanese security forces under allegations of spying for Israel is reported to have started a hunger strike in protest at his detention....more

Intel Names Chief Operating Officer As Its New CEO
May 3rd 2013 - 09:15 GMT
Semiconductor giant, Intel has announced that its current chief operating officer, Brian Krzanich is to take over as its new CEO from the middle of this month. ...more

NII Holdings Names Chairman As Its New CEO
May 2nd 2013 - 14:25 GMT
NII Holdings -- which operates Nextel branded services across Latin America -- has named Steven M. Shindler as its new CEO, effective immediately....more

Huawei Founder Rules Out Family Taking Over Following Retirement
April 30th 2013 - 15:50 GMT
Huawei's founder, Ren Zhengfei has ruled out a dynastic succession for the company when he eventually retires from his post as President....more

AT&T to Provide 5,000 Career Opportunities for Veterans
April 30th 2013 - 14:05 GMT
USA based AT&T has announced that it is to reserve at least 5,000 future job vacancies for military veterans and their family members over the next five years....more

Shazam Names New CEO and Prepares for Stock Market Listing
April 30th 2013 - 11:30 GMT
Mobile music recognition service, Shazam has named a new CEO, Rich Riley as the company prepares for a stock market listing....more

Vivendi May Seek New Chairman from 2014
April 29th 2013 - 11:10 GMT
French conglomerate, Vivendi may get a new Chairman next year as the company continues to divest itself of assets to pay down debts....more

MTS India Announces New CEO
April 24th 2013 - 10:30 GMT
India's Sistema Shyam TeleServices (SSTL), which operates its telecom services under the MTS brand has announced that Dmitry Shukov is to take over from Vsevolod Rozanov, the current President and CEO of SSTL....more

Alvarion Names New Acting CEO
April 23rd 2013 - 11:15 GMT
Israel's Alvarion has named Assaf Katan as its Acting CEO, effective immediately. He is replacing Hezi Lapid who resigned as President and Chief Executive Officer last week after just a year in the role....more

UK's IT & Telecoms Jobs Market Sees Growth in 2013
April 17th 2013 - 17:50 GMT
The UK's IT and telecoms jobs market has accelerated in 2013, with job opportunities growing by 11.5% since March last year, according to the latest Reed Job Index....more

Facebook Hires Apple Maps Executive
April 17th 2013 - 12:01 GMT
Facebook is reported to have hired Apple's former manager who handled the company's derided mapping service....more

Vodafone Qatar CEO to Leave the Company for Personal Reasons
April 16th 2013 - 18:30 GMT
Vodafone Qatar has announced that it will appoint a new Chief Executive Officer from June 2013....more

Vodafone to Outsource 500 German Jobs to Romania and India
April 16th 2013 - 13:45 GMT
Vodafone's German subsidiary is planning to cut around 500 jobs as the roles are outsourced to cheaper providers in Romania and India....more

Ericsson Opens New Service Delivery Facility in Lebanon
April 16th 2013 - 11:43 GMT
Ericsson is expanding its existing offices in Beirut, Lebanon to boost its capacity to support BSS capabilities....more

Mozilla CEO Announces Intention to Step Down
April 14th 2013 - 10:00 GMT
Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox web browser and the future smartphone OS has announced that its CEO is to resign from his role at the company....more

Alvarion's CEO Announces His Resignation
April 14th 2013 - 08:45 GMT
Struggling Israeli wireless infrastructure vendor, Alvarion has announced that Hezi Lapid has resigned as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. ...more

Telenor Connexion CEO to Take on Additional M2M Responsibilities
April 11th 2013 - 16:15 GMT
Telenor has announced that Per Simonsen, CEO of Telenor Connexion has been promoted to take on the overall responsibility for M2M organized in Digital Services, Telenor Group's first global business unit....more

Nokia Siemens Networks Hiring More Staff for Philippines R&&D Facility
April 3rd 2013 - 11:44 GMT
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is reported to be looking at doubling the size of its research and development (R&D) facility in the Philippines....more

O2 Staff Agree to Below Inflation Rate Pay Rise
April 2nd 2013 - 15:15 GMT
The UK's Communications Workers Union (CWU) says that its members have voted to accept a below inflation rate 2.5% pay rise offered by the O2 mobile network operator....more

Head of HTC Sales in EMEA Region Moves to Nokia
April 2nd 2013 - 11:49 GMT
The head of HTC's European, Africa and Middle-East division, Florian Seiche has left the company -- and moved over to a similar role at Nokia heading up its European handset sales....more

Huawei USA Boss to Take Over As Acting Group CEO
April 2nd 2013 - 09:00 GMT
Huawei has announced that Mr. Ken Hu is to be the company's new Acting CEO from today until September 30th 2013, according to Huawei Rotating CEO system. ...more

Chunghwa Telecom's CEO Resigns With Immediate Effect
April 1st 2013 - 13:50 GMT
Chunghwa Telecom's CEO has resigned with immediate effect for unspecified personal reasons, the company has announced....more

Telecel CEO Resigns With Immediate Effect
April 1st 2013 - 10:45 GMT
The CEO of Zimbabwe's Telecel, Francis Mawindi has reportedly resigned with immediate effect....more

2degrees CEO Killed in Plane Crash
April 1st 2013 - 09:25 GMT
New Zealand based mobile network, 2degrees has confirmed that a fatal plane crash that occurred on Saturday was owned by the company's CEO, Eric Hertz and his wife Kathy....more

Shazam Hires BBC Manager to Support Push into TV Services
April 1st 2013 - 07:55 GMT
The music identification service, Shazam has hired a former BBC TV executive to take up a new role as the company's Chief Product Officer....more