Vodafone’s New Telecoms Management Service - Simplifying the Management of Fixed and Mobile Telecoms Services

September 9th, 2009 SINGAPORE and LONDON - Telecom executives, investment bankers, law firms and professional intermediaries are gathering in Singapore on November 5-6 at TMT Finance and Investment Asia (www.tmtfinance.com/asia), the global content and networking rich forum. The forum features the Telecom Leadership Round Table chaired by Booz & Co with CEOs and CFOs from the leading international telecom operators; M&A Advisers Panel with Clifford Chance LLP, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and HSBC and National Broadband Networks, hosted by KPMG.

September 6th, 2009 DUBAI, UAE - - Acision Increases Commitment to Middle East and Africa With Hire of New GM Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announces the appointment of Sherif Hamoudah as Senior Vice President and General Manager for Middle East, Africa and Pakistan. With more than 20 years sales and marketing experience in the telecoms industry, Hamoudah will oversee the MEA and Pakistan operations and take responsibility for driving business development in the region as well as enhancing operator relationships.

August 27th, 2009 LONDON - Telephony is integral. Not only for the basic day to day upkeep and management of a company, but for any firm's integrity within the twenty-first century, awash with progress and innovation.

July 13th, 2009 DUBAI, UAE - Delta Partners, the leading management advisory and investment firm, has released its latest white paper, "Mobile Broadband in MEA: Promises opportunity but not a smooth ride", assessing the potential and risks for Middle East and African mobile operators to develop their data offer. The Middle East and Africa region has been the world's fastest growing region in terms of mobile penetration growth in the recent past, whilst fixed penetration has stagnated at 20% and 4% levels in the Middle East and Africa respectively.

June 29th, 2009 LISBON - - Business Assurance Systems Will Help C-Level Executives to Face Management Challenges Hosting the fourth meeting of its worldwide user group, WeDo technologies announced its findings that the current economic downturn has revealed a clear requirement for the implementation of Business Assurance systems. The company have proposed a Business Assurance methodology, supported by adequate systems, to monitor and control business operations and prevent risk.

June 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Mercantile Investment Group Ltd., today is very pleased to announce that Mr. Nadim Jawhari has joined the company as a Group Senior Vice President and President of the Telecom Division.

June 17th, 2009 LONDON - GSMA Recognised for Leadership in Advancing Industry Standard Universal Charging Solution and Carrier ENUM Offering PathFinder The GSMA, which represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry, received two awards at the third annual Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards held last evening. The GSMA with Orange took the award for the "Mains Charging Innovation" for the Universal Charging Solution (UCS) initiative, while the GSMA PathFinder Service was the recipient of the Editor's Award honouring innovation by an industry association.

June 16th, 2009 READING, England - Nationwide Mobile Location-Based Directory Search Solution is Awarded "Best Consumer Innovation" Award Acision, the world's leading messaging company, is pleased to announce it has won the Best Consumer Innovation Award at last night's Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards, in conjunction with SPH Search, the company behind rednano.sg, Singapore's local search and directory engine. The prestigious award was presented to Acision and SPH Search, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH), Southeast Asia's leading media organization, in recognition of the part the partnership played in the deployment of Rednano Locate, Singapore's first cross-telco mobile, location-based search application offered by Rednano Mobile, the mobile touchpoint of rednano.sg.

May 11th, 2009 PARIS - Leading company in the Telecommunications sector in Asturias, TeleCable, has selected OneAccess, a leader in multi service access routers, to offer new telecommunications services with VoIP technology for business clients in particular. OneAccess will supply TeleCable with its ONE100 router.

March 31st, 2009 LIVINGSTON, Scotland - Edinburgh, Scotland based telecoms company, CIQUAL today announced that it has secured funding of GBP1.25M to accelerate product development and sales of its Session Insight System to mobile operators' worldwide. The investment was financed by a consortium consisting of Par Syndicate and Scottish Enterprise's Scottish Co-investment Fund.

July 4th, 2009 BT offers staff time off in exchange for pay cutLONDON — Telecoms company BT Group PLC is offering staff a year off work in return for a 75 percent cut in that year's pay. BT is one of Britain's biggest companies, with more than 100,000 employees.

April 22nd, 2009 EU lawmakers approve new price cap on text messageSTRASBOURG, France — EU lawmakers voted Wednesday for a new price cap that will cut the cost of sending text messages from abroad by nearly two-thirds. Phone users will pay a maximum of 11 euro cents (14 cents) for sending text messages from another European Union nation starting July 1, down from the current average cost of 28 euro cents (36 cents).

April 27th, 2009 EU monopoly charges for Polish, Slovak telecomsBRUSSELS — European Union regulators on Monday charged Polish and Slovak telecoms operators with monopoly abuse, saying it suspected that Telekomunikacja Polska and Slovak Telekom both tried to hinder rivals from offering broadband Internet in both countries. The European Commission said it would deal with each case separately and there was no deadline before it took a final decision on whether they broke the law — which could see them fined up to 10 percent of their annual global revenue.

May 6th, 2009 EU Parliament rejects law allowing Internet cutoffSTRASBOURG, France — Worried about trampling on the rights of innocent consumers, the European Parliament rejected Wednesday attempts by EU governments to crack down on people who illegally download copyright-protected music and movies over the Internet. The EU assembly voted 407 to 57 to reject a compromise reached with EU governments a few weeks ago.

April 6th, 2009 LONDON - Details of every email sent and website visited by people in Britain are to be stored for a year as part of what campaigners claim is a massive assault on privacy. A European Union directive, which Britain was instrumental in devising, comes into force which will require all internet service providers to retain information on email traffic, visits to web sites and telephone calls made over the internet, for 12 months.

April 20th, 2009 China Telecom 1Q profit down 27.4 percentBEIJING — China Telecom Ltd. said Monday its first quarter profit plunged 27.4 percent as demand for traditional fixed-line telephone services weakened.

September 9th, 2009 Vivendi to buy Brazilian telecoms operator GVTPARIS — Vivendi SA will offer euro2 billion ($2.9 billion) to acquire Brazilian Internet and telecommunications company GVT SA, the French media and entertainment company said Wednesday. Vivendi said GVT's controlling shareholders Swarth Group and Global Village Telecom have agreed to sell at least 20 percent of GVT to Vivendi for 42 reals ($22.9) a share.

April 20th, 2009 China Mobile quarterly profit up 5.2 percentBEIJING — China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest phone company by subscribers, said Monday its first quarter profit rose 5.2 percent but growth slowed due to China's economic slowdown and stronger competition. Profit for the three months ended March 31 was 25.2 billion yuan ($3.7 billion), compared with 24 billion yuan for the same period last year, the Beijing-based company said.

February 6th, 2009 CHENNAI - As a first step towards launching a portfolio management services subsidiary, the city-based Indian Bank launched wealth management advisory services to its high net worth clients, said a top official. 'As per a study done in 2007, around $250 billion investible surplus is available in India and this figure will go up to $1 trillion by 2012,' the bank's chairman and managing director M.S.

June 5th, 2009 A glance at corruption scandals in GreeceATHENS, Greece — Greece's conservative government has weathered a series of political and corruption scandals despite a wafer-thin majority in parliament: 2009: — Former executives of German industrial giant Siemens are charged with corruption over contracts with a state telecoms company in the 1990s. Governing conservatives reject parliamentary probe.