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A round-up of the latest industry
developments from across the continent.
Symbian Going Open Source Chairman Serge Tchuruk (who ran Alcatel), will leave in early
October. This leaves room for an outsider to come in and cut
Nokia is spending around Eur 264 million to buy the 52% of across old loyalties to tie this into a truly integrated company.
Symbian Ltd. shares it does not own to reinvest in the new
Symbian Foundation dedicated to creating a single, open source Vodafone Group CEO, Arun Sarin surprised critics and pundits
mobile operating system. Opening for business in the first half of alike by retiring at the end of July but did so leaving the company
2009, other founder members include Sony Ericsson, Motorola, cash rich and with a significant presence in developing countries.
NTT DoCoMo, AT&T, LG, Samsung, STMicroelectronnics, Sarin gives way to Vittorio Colao who, as the new head of
Texas Instruments and Vodafone. Motorola will contribute its Vodafone Group, leads one of the world’s largest telcos.
UIQ; DoCoMo MOAP and Nokia its S60 assets which will be
integrated into the new open operating system. Organisations Surviving the Storm
can join the Foundation and get royalty-free access to the
platform which will be released under the Eclipse public license. In a recent report on telecoms spend, Ovum suggests the
Selected components will be available as open source at sector will survive the economic turndown thanks to operators’
launch and software written now will be forwards compatible conservative financial management and far sighted infrastructure
investment. Fixed service provider revenues grew for eight
Changes at the Top consecutive quarters fuelled by the falling dollar and real growth
in new broadband based revenues. Mobile revenues grew 16%
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that CEO Patricia Russo in first quarter 2008 over 2007 topping $160 billion. Service
(formerly of Lucent), is to leave sometime towards year end and provider spend is strong, with fixed capex up 21% and mobile
capex nearly 13% in the most recent quarter over last year. Mobile
broadband is driving traffic increases and there are signs of
capacity exhaust rather than capacity excess in major networks.
Ovum suggests regulations could however cause a chill.
BT Moving Faster
British telco BT is investing £1.5 billion over four years to
build a super fast broadband network covering as many as 10
million rural and urban premises. Speeds up to 100 Mbps will
be available where FTTH is deployed and up to 40 Mbps with
FTTC, rising to 60Mb/s. Areas without fibre will be upgraded
using ADSL2+ to deliver speeds between 10-24 Mb/s.
BT will work with government and regional and local authorities
to deploy the right architecture for local demand.
Ofcom is expected to provide detailed proposals for new
regulations in September but BT wants ‘current barriers to
investment’ removed so all operators building fibre access
networks earn a fair rate of return. BT will make its ‘services
available on an equivalent basis to all communications providers’.

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