At the beginning of March 2010, Orange Jordan became the country’s first operator to launch 3G, enjoying an official exclusivity period that extended to just under 12 months thereafter. Within that time the telco looked to establish a strong brand association with the technology and the services it enabled ahead of the introduction of competition. The launch by Zain of its HSPA service in February 2011 will be a test of how successful Orange has been in establishing its own 3G credentials

Nayla Khawam assumed her new responsibility as CEO of the telco as of July 1, 2009

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The year 2010 has been considered by industry commentators as a turning point for the adoption of mobile advertising services given the business model becoming better understood by brands and network operators alike. Hani Ramzi, Alcatel-Lucent’s executive director of Mobile Advertising for the EMEA identifies the levers required for the successful execution of a mobile advertising engagement

Hani Ramzi is Alcatel-Lucent’s executive director of Mobile Advertising for the EMEA

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In July 2010, Orange Group’s CEO Stephane Richard articulated a group-wide industrial project that would give the company a strategic direction in the period 2010-2015. Dubbed Conquests 2015, the telco’s business services unit has set about adapting the parameters of the programme to its respective operating environment, and has met with some early success

Badrinath says growth areas for the business include very high broadband, video, Internet of things (M2M opportunities), cloud computing, mobility, CRM, the workspace of the future, and security 

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After several years struggling to return to relevance in the highly competitive mobile handset market, Motorola Mobility at last appears to be finding its feet again, and producing compelling devices. The company’s market share of global handset shipments has fallen drastically in preceding years, though with Android identified as its operating system of choice, and smartphones as its market segment of focus, the Chicago-based manufacturer believes it has the right strategy in place to resurrect its fortunes

Hafez says Motorola Mobility always maintained its service provider partnerships, and it is encouraging how positively the market is responding to its new devices 

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Ericsson president and CEO, Hans Vestberg has reiterated his outlook that HSPA and 3G would remain his company’s main revenue generators in 2011, with LTE equipment becoming a more significant source of income in the 2012-14 timeframe. In the meantime, the manufacturer believes the combination of mobility, broadband, and cloud services forms the cornerstones of its vision to help create the networked society of the future

Vestberg believes that in the coming 10-20 years the networked society shall become a fully-functioning reality whereby everything that benefits from being connected to a network will be

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