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Articles tagged with: Chief Technology Officer
Telenor Pakistan Names New CTO
Telenor Pakistan has appointed Khalid Shehzad as the firm's new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with immediate effect. Formerly, Khalid was heading the IT division of the company as its Chief Information Officer (CIO). Atiq Ahmed, Director Operations & Maintenance, Technical Division, is taking up an expanded role as Deputy CTO. more
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Vodafone Australia prepares to switch on national 3G network
Vodafone Australia has announced it is in the final stages of testing and tuning its high speed 3G network in major regional centres, which will go live during the first week in May 2009. more
Related Tags: 3g, vodafone, tim, testing, Australia
Verizon Announces LTE Deployment Plans - Going Live in 2010
Verizon's CTO, Dick Lynch has outlined the company's plans to roll out an LTE upgrade for its wireless network. Lynch announced that Verizon Wireless has selected Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent as primary network vendors for its initial LTE network deployments. These two vendors are expected to build the underlying infrastructure that will enable Verizon Wireless to become the first wireless company to offer commercial LTE-based service in the United States, starting in 2010. more
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DiGi appoints new Chief Technology Officer
Ole Martin Gunhildsbu has been appointed by Malaysian mobile network, DiGi Telecommunications as its new Chief Technology Officer ("CTO") with immediate effect. He has been acting CTO since November 2008 when his predecessor left to take up a new role within the Telenor Group. more
Related Tags: 3g, telenor, digi, tele2, Malaysia
Tata Wins $100 Million IT Contract from UK Mobile Phone Retailer
UK mobile phone retailer, Phones4U has signed a US$100 million agreement with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to provide a full range of managed IT services to 4uGroup, the holding company behind Phones 4u and other organisations in the UK telecommunication and financial services marketplaces. more
Related Tags: outsourcing, ovum, phones-4u
T-Mobile CTO to Leave the Firm
T-Mobile International's Chief Technology Officer, Joachim Horn has announced that he is to leave the company at the end of March to pursue a new professional opportunity outside of Germany. A successor for him will be announced in the near future. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, edge, hspa, mobile-broadband, gsma
LTE-Advanced Relaying Demonstrated in Germany
Nokia Siemens Networks has announced that it has successfully demonstrated Relaying for LTE-Advanced, which will enable operators to install additional relay stations without the need for extra backhaul facilities. more
Related Tags: nokia, base-station, intel, edge, mobile-broadband, lte, mimo, 3gpp, base-stations, backhaul, siemens, nokia-siemens, bandwidth, Germany
Airspan Succeeds in First-Ever Multi-Band Mobile WiMAX Handover
Airspan Networks has successfully demonstrated a unique, seamless, uninterrupted handover from one frequency band on a mobile WiMAX network to another frequency band. As mobile WiMAX deployments become more common, users will benefit from the ability to transfer from one operating network to another. For instance, in the United States, a user with an Airspan MiMAX USB device connected to their laptop may be able to roam from a license-exempt 3.65 GHz network into a national, license-owned 2.5 GHz WiMAX network. more
Related Tags: base-station, wimax, mobile-wimax, roaming, starent-networks, laptop, tdd, freedom4, handover
New CEO for Bangladesh's Grameenphone
Bangladeshi mobile operator, Grameenphone has appointed Oddvar Hesjedal as the company's new Chief Executive Officer. He takes up the position immediately, succeeding Anders Jensen, who in September announced his decision of shortening his tenure as CEO for family related reasons. more
Related Tags: edge, telenor, grameenphone, Bangladesh
Daily Telegraph Newspaper Sees Surge in Traffic from the Google Phone
A surge in early adoption of the new Google based G1 smartphone indicates AppleĆ's iPhone may have another challenger for the title of hip mobile device, according to WebTrends, a provider of web analytics and online marketing solutions. more
Related Tags: android, google, iphone, analytics, smartphone, apple, apple, UK