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When Arun Sarin, CEO of British mobile-phone operator Vodafone, flew to New Delhi last month to announce a $1.5 billion investment in India, he signaled that the country was back on the radar of the telecom giants. In the 1990s, American and European companies--including Vodafone--rushed in. They soon rediscovered an old problem: India's government was less business friendly than advertised. Vodafone sold off a stake in an Indian regional mobile-phone operator in 2003; many other foreign companies left...
Pyongyang is not a key stopover on the business-traveler circuit. There's no cushy InterContinental, and the brutal, hermetic regime that runs the place doesn't lure much foreign investment. But the communist state does see a trickle of capitalists, from telecom engineers to bottled-water vendors. And, perhaps most surprisingly, animators. North Korea has some of the world's cheapest cartoonists, typically specialists in the art of propaganda. In 2001 French-Canadian Guy Delisle went to Pyongyang to manage the production of an animated preschool special for French television. "It was based on children's books with rabbits...
Making the broad push into emerging telecom markets will require Motorola's disparate working parts--half network infrastructure, half consumer products--to work together in a way they rarely did before Zander arrived. "The leaders of the business units would have tried to optimize the business for themselves," Rau says. Under Zander, part of senior executives' compensation is now tied to Motorola's overall performance, not just that of their own units. They meet in person more often, and each of the top 14 executives is now personally responsible for two major customers or regions. Zander won't make...
Theft of mobile data eats into carriers' profitability too. This year network operators worldwide stand to lose more than $5.6 billion, or 18% of their total revenue, Qpass reports. The broader problem stems from the fact that about half of the telecom industry relies on outdated billing systems that were fine when charging by the minute was standard. Today back-end operations must handle a variety of complex charges, often from third parties, ranging from e-mail services to games, screensavers and other data transactions. As more consumers buy Internet-ready smart phones, and media giants like MTV, Disney, Time...
...housewife is entertaining a mysterious daily visitor, and her husband hires Clot to investigate. Meanwhile, magicians are missing the sawn halves of their lovely assistants, stolen in mid-act. Improbably, these trails lead to the doorstep of Manex Chopeitia, boss of the genetic-engineering firm that controls the national telecom and much else in the U.S.-Iberian Federation. Clot faces a dilemma: unmask Chopeitia's plans for world domination and risk death; or play ball and obtain Chopeitia's genetic treatment for his brain-damaged daughter. As in all good westerns, justice triumphs and a cowboy comes to the rescue...