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March 2008
This month, we investigate the arrival of a brand new mobile broadband technology, 3G Long Term Evolution, which was one of the main talking points at the recent Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. We look at the equipment and applications demonstrated there and ask how LTE compares with competing mobile broadband standards such as WiMAX. In Technology we take another look at RFID developments. The market has been buoyed in recent months by standardization initiatives that promise to move the technology out of pilots and into open applications that can transform businesses. And finally this month's Regional Report investigates the complex communications world in the Middle East and Africa and asks how Orange is helping transform the market with its Solutions for Operators initiative.
We hope you enjoy this month's Enterprise Briefing.
news
- Liz Claiborne expands relationship with Orange Business Services by deploying IP Telephony solution
- Orange Business Services and Experian team up to offer comprehensive card payment services
- Orange to deploy a fiber optic pilot in Catalonia
- Orange Business Services wins Financial-i magazine’s Leaders in Innovation Award for Voice over IP solution on trading floors
- France Telecom Group 2007 annual results: a very good performance
all-new mobile broadband awaits
The Mobile World Congress always throws up an unexpected hot topic and this year was no exception with 3G LTE (long term evolution) the buzzword on everyone’s lips. LTE is the industry’s vision of what next for mobile broadband and will be the natural successor to HSPA, itself the star of the 2006 show.
businesses start to embrace open RFID projects
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) has matured over the last couple of years as large public deployments drive down the cost of technology. Standardization initiatives now promise to change the nature of RFID projects and allow companies to share information stored on tags with the wider business community.
a tale of two cities: telecoms in Africa and the Middle East
Carving up the global atlas into manageable chunks, the term MEA, or the Middle East and Africa, is often presented as a unified theatre of operations but this belies the significant differences in industrial and technological progress in these regions. Both regions have made
great strides since the Millennium but their paths are divergent.
Mondi Europe & International: the partnership principle
Mondi Europe & International needed a single standardized SAP platform that could fully integrate the company’s holdings and drive efficiency throughout the organization, but its segmented network was not up to the task. It needed to find a trusted partner to replace the legacy network with a managed global IP network and ensure ERP performance in a demanding environment.
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