With the UAE’s mobile penetration rate above 200 per cent, and the country’s two serviced operators pushing technological advances to their networks and services all the time, regulating the market in a manner that enhances and not harms it is a delicate balance to maintain. The UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has been undertaking this task since 2004, and its director general, Mohamed Al Ghanim highlights the regulator’s policy direction and areas of focus

Mohamed Al Ghanim believes customers must be offered a choice of alternatives whenever possible

Speaking at a conference in Dubai late last year, Etisalat’s chief corporate aff

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Greg Brown became CEO of Motorola at the start of 2008, at a time when the company’s handset business was in steep decline having failed to recapture the momentum generated by the introduction of the iconic RAZR handset in 2005. Almost two years into his tenure, moves are underway to separate the handset business of Motorola from the network business, and Brown sounds more optimistic about Motorola’s future than at any time in the past

Brown says Motorola will continue to focus on existing customers, 4G, and over time, public safety

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On July 1, Nayla Khawam became CEO of Jordan Telecom Group Orange. Her predecessor, Mickael Ghossein was instrumental in transforming the incumbent from a stodgy government utility into a commercial integrated company, and Khawam’s early focus will likely be on driving the gains from integration. Jordan is a notoriously competitive market and part of Khawam’s mandate is to continue to differentiate Jordan Telecom’s services, and make the telco an operator of reference

Nayla Khawam is a France Telecom veteran whose eye for detail will likely see her focussiong her efforts on the further improvement of the overall Orange experience

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In the middle of June, Etihad Atheeb Telecom launched its Go fixed line service, thereby becoming the first of the new breed of licensed national fixed-line operators to do so. Go has rapidly rolled out its WiMAX network to four provinces in the kingdom and CEO Ahmad Sindi details the factors that give him optimism regarding his business moving forward

Ahmad Sindi would like to offer Saudi subscribers a range of offers and a quality of service they have not experienced elsewhere

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Do you know this guy? He uses an MMS barcode as a boarding pass to check-in, uses his mobile to remotely access his PC at home while he is away on business, does mobile banking but does not have a real world bank account, and uses his mobile GPS to find his way around a city he has never been to before. Who is this guy? He is the digital consumer of today and he is not all Generation Y either. This guy is everywhere, claims Abdul Karim, strategy director of Luciola DDB

Abdul Karim suggests that Baby Boomers are embracing technology 20 times faster than the younger generation and thus the presence of technophobes is set to diminish over time

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