AT&T Launches "Operation Hand Salute" In An Effort To Help Disabled-Veteran Businesses Improve Their Operations And Contracting Opportunities Tweet

The year-long program will arm participating DVBEs with the necessary tools and knowledge to be and remain competitive in the marketplace.

AT&T* announced the launch of Operation Hand Salute (OHS), a new supplier diversity program designed to mentor and develop Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBEs). The year-long program will match current AT&T suppliers and various industry experts and community leaders with a select group of California DVBEs and help coach and position them towards the next level of success.

The term “Hand Salute” signifies AT&T’s longstanding leadership in developing and promoting DVBEs and increasing contracting opportunities. AT&T’s goal is to spend 1.5 percent of its total purchases with DVBEs, a group of businesses who have historically proven to be valuable business solution providers in AT&T’s supply chain.

“DVBEs possess unique leadership skills and a remarkable mission-focused ethic that enable companies like AT&T to succeed and provide world class products and services. Some of this comes from their top-notch military training,” said Tim Harden, AT&T president of Supply Chain and Fleet Operations. “At AT&T, we are proud of our legacy and will continue to work with value-add suppliers, thought-leaders and stakeholders to promote supplier diversity.”

OHS’s goal is to address the challenges DVBEs face in the marketplace and provide them with the necessary tools to improve their business operations and subsequently their ability to win corporate contracts.

The year-long program will match seven qualified mentees with two mentors – a current AT&T supplier and an AT&T employee that is on the Operation Hand Salute Task Force. Members of the Operation Hand Salute Task Force include AT&T Supply Chain & Fleet Operations experts, veterans of the armed forces, and members of AT&T’s Global Supplier Diversity team. The diversity of experience and background will help program participants achieve success. John Lopez, founder and President of the Association for Service Disabled Veterans, is the subject matter expert consultant of OHS and will conduct formal training sessions as well as coach the DVBE businesses.

OHS will offer dynamic workshops covering everything from quality certification to a thorough overview of global procurement processes and corporate supply chain requirements. At the end of the program, mentees will be better positioned to register for TL 9000 certification, a quality management system designed to meet the supply chain quality requirements of the telecommunications industry.

"This is about finding more diverse vendors and suppliers to help support our California business," said Ken McNeely, President, AT&T California. "For the next year we're stepping up our help to disabled veteran business owners, so they can improve their operations and navigate the complex certification process required of them. We expect it will result in more businesses joining our supply chain–and will help disabled veterans in a significant way."

AT&T’s DVBE Program began in 1993. Working with the national Association for Service Disabled Veterans (ASDV), AT&T led the private sector in championing the passage of the Disabled Veterans Business Act of 1999. Charles Foster, a then AT&T group president in 1999, testified before Congress on the merits of this landmark legislation. The law has been described as the most significant legislation in history to promote broad economic opportunities for disabled veteran enterprises.

In 2009, AT&T spent over $74 million dollars with businesses owned by DVBEs. In the past 10 years, AT&T has continually increased its DVBE utilization, spending over $721 million dollars with DVBE firms. In a benchmark comparison, AT&T outperformed all other California utilities in including disabled veteran-owned businesses in its supply chain in 2009 by spending $36 million dollars in California alone.

AT&T is a long-time supporter and member of the Association for Service Disabled Veterans (ASDV), National Veteran Owned Business Association (NaVOBA), Elite Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses (SDVOB), the California DVBE Alliance, and the DVBE Alliance Corporate Advisory Board, in addition to supporting several other supplier diversity organizations.

Operation Hand Salute is not the first AT&T program designed to help diverse businesses succeed in the marketplace. Last year, AT&T coached and mentored a pilot group of small, women-owned business owners through its Women of Color Businesses (WOCB) Growth Initiative. A key component of the program was also to assist the small businesses in obtaining TL9000 quality certification.

OHS will kick off on Thursday, May 13, at the AT&T San Ramon Administrative Center, located at 2600 Camino Ramon, in San Ramon, California. The event will begin at noon with a brief overview of the program followed by a reception hosted by AT&T’s Tim Harden. Mentees are expected to graduate from the 12-month program in May of 2011.

To view Ken McNeely’s video about AT&T’s commitment to increasing opportunities for DVBEs or for more information about the program, visit http://www.att.com/gen/corporate-citizenship?pid=17206.

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Microsoft Delivers the Future of Productivity With Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Tweet

New products and cloud services available to businesses today.

NEW YORK — Microsoft Corp. announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010, as well as Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010, for business customers worldwide. More than 90 million businesses can now deploy the 2010 suite of products, and customers can expect to see significant productivity gains and greater return on their software investments.
Stephen Elop, President, Microsoft Business Division, launches Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 at an event in New York, May 12, 2010.
Stephen Elop, President, Microsoft Business Division, launches Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 at an event in New York, May 12, 2010.
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“Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 define the future of productivity,” said Stephen Elop, president, Microsoft Business Division. “With the 2010 set of products, organizations will save, innovate and grow as their people benefit from working across the PC, phone and browser.”
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A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, “The Total Economic Impact™ of Implementing Microsoft’s Integrated Office Productivity Platform,” May 2010,1 evaluated the 2010 releases of Office, SharePoint, Exchange and Office Communications Server 2007 R2. The Forrester TEI model employs four fundamental elements including costs, benefits to the entire organization, flexibility and risk. Based on the customer interviews, Forrester constructed a TEI framework for a composite organization and found the ROI to be 301 percent with a payback period of 7.4 months after deployment. The study also found that the composite organization would see more than $13 million in savings over a three-year period and on average, a savings of more than two work weeks per year.

Microsoft’s Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 beta programs were the largest ever, with three times the number of participants compared with the Office 2007 beta program. As a result, 8.6 million people are already using Office 2010 and related products. In addition, more than 1,000 partners are already building solutions for the 2010 set of products.

“We evaluated a number of competitive options in our recent technology assessment, and chose Microsoft Office 2010 as our new desktop productivity standard,” said Mark Mastrianni, manager, global technology licensing and acquisition for GE. “This platform will continue to position GE on the leading edge of technology and provide a clear road map that supports our business priorities in the coming years. Office 2010’s familiar, easy-to-use interface — coupled with its new tools that will enable better collaboration and drive improved efficiency and productivity for our employees and customers — made this selection the right decision for our company.”

Productivity Solutions Across the PC, Phone and Browser

With a familiar productivity experience across the PC, phone and browser,2 Office 2010 and related products deliver new capabilities to help people:
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Connect and collaborate with co-authoring in Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft OneNote; advanced e-mail management and calendaring capabilities in Microsoft Outlook; and the addition of the new Microsoft Outlook Social Connector, which brings communication history and social network feeds directly into Outlook.
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Work virtually anywhere with Microsoft Office Web Apps, the online companions to Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel and OneNote. Along with easy access to documents from virtually anywhere, Web Apps help preserve the look and feel of a document regardless of device, so content and format are generally preserved while moving between the PC, phone and browser. Effective today, Office Mobile 2010 will be available for free via Windows® Phone Marketplace for all Windows Mobile 6.5 phones with a previous version of Office Mobile. People using Office Mobile 2010 can perform lightweight editing of Office documents and take notes on the go. With Office Mobile, people can work with Office documents stored on their phone, attached to an e-mail, and can browse, edit, and update documents stored on a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 site. SharePoint intranet sites and communities also help people collaborate, regardless of location.
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Help bring ideas to life with video, text and image editing, new broadcast capabilities in PowerPoint, auto-previewing in Word, easy document preparation through the new Microsoft Office Backstage view, and new Sparklines in Excel for precise trend and data visualization.
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Quickly access data to make real-time decisions using the business intelligence capabilities in familiar Office applications that transform everyday work data into valuable information.

Flexible Cloud Solutions

Microsoft’s signature productivity technologies are available in the cloud, 3 offering unprecedented choice and flexibility for IT departments when purchasing and deploying solutions.

Office Web Apps will now be available to all Office volume licensing customers. In addition, customers will be able to purchase a subscription to Office Web Apps as part of Microsoft Online Services, Microsoft’s cloud-based applications.

With more than 40 million paying customers on Microsoft Online Services, businesses are embracing Microsoft’s vision for the cloud. New customers including Kraft Foods, Novartis International and Codelco, the largest mining company in the world, are choosing Microsoft Online Services for its ability to delight end users while delivering enterprise-grade capabilities, security and flexibility.

“We chose Microsoft Online Services for our collaboration applications in the cloud for our 100,000 employees around the world,” said Leon V. Schumacher, Group CIO of Novartis. “It will enable our large research and development population to better collaborate to innovate. We can trust Microsoft to provide the enterprise capabilities our company requires to further improve personal productivity and collaboration among our associates so we can focus on our core mission — improving the lives of patients worldwide.”

Developer and Partner Opportunities

SharePoint 2010 delivers the business collaboration platform for the enterprise and Internet, enabling developers to rapidly respond to business needs with custom applications and solutions.

SharePoint 2010 delivers on the promise of flexible deployment options: Use Sandboxed Solutions to limit code central processing unit time, Microsoft SQL Server execution time, and exception handling. Plus, use these same technologies to deploy custom code to SharePoint Online.

Through design integration with Visual Studio 2010, developers can use familiar application development tools to create, package and debug SharePoint solutions. It also includes rich application programming interfaces and support for Open XML, Microsoft Silverlight, Representational State Transfer (REST) and Language-Integrated Query (LINQ), which help developers build applications quickly. Developers can also build applications that connect to line-of-business data, use custom workflows, and provide business intelligence data and dashboards to an entire organization.

The SharePoint integration services opportunity for Microsoft partners and developers today is $5.6 billion and is expected to grow to $6.7 billion in 2011, according to Microsoft data.

Availability

Available today in 14 languages, over the course of the next few months, Office 2010 and related products will eventually be available in 94 languages.

Microsoft’s global launch website http://www.the2010event.com for the 2010 suite of products was built on Microsoft SharePoint 2010, reaching more than 60 countries and 26 languages worldwide. The site includes a rich set of content that will help customers choose and benefit from the 2010 products, which are available for business purchase now.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

1 “The Total Economic Impact ™ of Implementing Microsoft’s Integrated Productivity Platform” is a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft in May 2010. The study evaluated Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010 and Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Based on interviews with early adopter customers, Forrester constructed a TEI framework for a composite organization and the associated ROI analysis illustrating the financial impact areas.

2 An appropriate device, Internet connection and supported browser are required. Some mobile functionality requires Office Mobile 2010, which is not included in Office 2010 applications, suites or Web Apps. There are some differences between the features of the Office Web Apps, Office Mobile 2010 and the Office 2010 applications.

3 Cloud services may have different features than installed software.

Note to editors: For more information, news and perspectives from Microsoft, please visit the Microsoft News Center at http://www.microsoft.com/news. Web links, telephone numbers and titles were correct at time of publication, but may have changed. For additional assistance, journalists and analysts may contact Microsoft’s Rapid Response Team or other appropriate contacts listed at http://www.microsoft.com/news/contactpr.mspx.

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Nokia C5 review: Smart and trusty Tweet

Gsmarena have posted their review of the Nokia C5. Here are the phone's key features, main disadvantages and their final impression.

Key features:
* Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
* Dual-band 3G (900/2100) with 10Mbps HSDPA and 2Mbps HSUPA
* Neat and well built, metal on the body
* 2.2" 16M-color QVGA display, excellent sunlight legibility
* Symbian OS, S60 3.2 user interface
* ARM11 600 MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM
* 3 megapixel fixed-focus camera with LED flash
* VGA video recording at 15fps
* GPS receiver and free lifetime voice-guided navigation license
* Stereo FM radio with RDS, Visual radio
* Bluetooth (with A2DP)
* Standard microUSB port (with charging support)
* microSD card slot (16 GB supported, 2GB included)
* Smart dialing
* 3.5mm audio jack
* Great audio quality
* Document viewer preinstalled

Main disadvantages:
* No WLAN
* Small screen
* No accelerometer (hence no auto screen rotation)
* Fiddly memory card slot
* Document viewer doesn't support editing

It's pretty clear that we lost the geeks way back on page 1. Congratulations to all those of you who're still with us. We think we've got a phone for you. The Nokia C5 hasn't got all the features ever invented - it's the sensible buyer's choice. Performance within budget and a sense of style, the C5 is well on target.

A device trying to redefine classic, the Nokia C5 is very well built and packs the smartphone punch. Take away the voice-guidance charges and it goes for pennies really. Adding Wi-Fi to the mix would have made it an excellent package, but alas, we're in no luck on that. Besides, web browsing on a small screen isn't great anyway.

Let's not forget though, this is a phone for users that aren't keen on jumping on the touchscreen bandwagon. The Nokia C5 is definitely a phone for them to consider. By the way, it's exactly the kind of handset Nokia are so good at making. The C5 compares much more favorably to rivals in its class than the Finnish touchphones so far. A brief look at the (few) Nokia C5 alternatives available should convince you about that.

The Sony Ericsson Elm is a compact bar-shaped phone that packs a 5 megapixel camera to make up for the lacking smartphone capabilities. It will even throw in WLAN to match up the free navigation on the C5. And the GreenHeart badge counts too we guess. The Elm however costs more than the C5. All in all, it's less bang for your buck unless you get a good carrier deal.

If it's the camera performance of the Nokia C5 that bothers you, check out the Sony Ericsson C902. The Cyber-shot impressed us back in the day, but its screen is even smaller and there's neither GPS nor Wi-Fi. Still, the good build quality and the slim 10.5mm waistline makes it worth at least a second look.

The Samsung i7110 has it all: killer screen, imaging, media and a steel body. But it sure seems like ages that Samsung last made a phone like this. The i7110 never really caught on but it was pretty close to the ultimate of technology at that time. Sadly, it does look less likely to succeed on today's market.

It doesn't look like Samsung are having big plans about Symbian at this point, even if they say they do. So, Nokia are preparing to have the non-touch Symbian market all to themselves. The Cseries are an important part of that. Phones like the C5 are taking over from the likes of Nokia E51. Eseries will continue to offer premium service while the C5 and the ones to follow will be smartphones for the masses.

In any case, the first of the Cseries handsets to hit the shelves finds itself in a comfortable position in its market segment. The problem is that segment is perhaps shrinking in size, but the good feature set, quality finish and competitive pricing will help the C5 sell well. Not to mention, it looks like a phone that carriers will love.

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U.S. CELLULAR TO REWARD TEACHERS WITH ANOTHER $1 MILLION IN CLASSROOMS Tweet

Calling All Teachers program returns; Public School Teachers encouraged to register on DonorsChoose.org.

CHICAGO – U.S. Cellular believes teachers deserve something better. The wireless carrier is continuing its commitment to schools with the return of its Calling All Teachers campaign. As part of the company’s countdown to something better in 2010, U.S. Cellular is giving $1 million to help teachers erase classroom needs.

In a partnership with DonorsChoose.org, the company and its associates are encouraging teachers to register on the site in May and throughout the summer. Then, they can come back this fall and post their classroom projects for potential funding. DonorsChoose.org is a philanthropic Web site that helps public school teachers find money for classroom projects that exceed their limited budgets.

The pinch of budget cuts has compelled many teachers to supplement shortfalls by purchasing basic supplies like crayons, textbooks and calculators with personal resources. A 2010 national survey* said K-8th grade teachers spend hundreds of dollars of their own money every year to help teach our kids. The study also said 70 percent of teachers believe their schools are financially unable to provide necessary teaching tools.

Throughout the summer, U.S. Cellular associates are encouraging teachers to visit DonorsChoose.org and register as a “U.S. Cellular Teacher.” In August, as the new school year kicks off, they can revisit the site for more details on posting their classroom projects.

“Teachers can request everything from textbooks to microscopes to art supplies,” said Charles Best, founder and CEO of DonorsChoose.org. “It’s important to give teachers the opportunity to have unique projects for their classrooms that help them provide creative ways for children to learn and be engaged.”

During September and October, U.S. Cellular plans to fund $1 million in posted projects in the areas where it does business.

“Our associates are excited to once again show teachers how much we appreciate everything they do to help our children learn and grow,” said Karen Ehlers, vice president of public affairs and communications for U.S. Cellular. “We believe children deserve the best. As a company, we are doing what we can to help teachers because it’s the right thing to do and the right time to do it.”

During last year’s Calling All Teachers campaign, U.S. Cellular funded more than 2,000 classroom projects that benefited nearly 175,000 students. More than 40 percent of the funded projects were in rural schools while another 26 percent were in urban schools. Due to the overwhelming response to the campaign, the company decided to increase its funding to $1.1 million to cover all of the projects in the areas where it does business.

For more information, visit uscellular.com/callingallteachers.

About U.S. Cellular
The 9,000 associates of U.S. Cellular believe a wireless phone enhances people's lives and a wireless company should be in the business of bringing people together. U.S. Cellular has a wide range of monthly plans, including those with unlimited nationwide calling, unlimited free incoming calls and options to prepay. The company has a growing catalog of phones like the BlackBerry® Tour and the touch-screen LG Tritan and HTC Touch Pro 2, which offer e-mail and Web access. U.S. Cellular believes in the power of the community and has made a commitment to invest more than $4.5 million in teachers and schools during 2009 and 2010. Based in Chicago, the company is the nation's sixth-largest wireless carrier, serving 6.2 million customers across the country. To learn more about the company visit one of its retail stores or uscellular.com. You can also check out U.S. Cellular on Facebook.

About DonorsChoose.org
Founded in 2000, DonorsChoose.org is a nonprofit Web site where public school teachers describe specific educational projects for their students, and donors can choose the projects they want to support. After completing a project, the donor hears back from the classroom they supported in the form of photographs and teacher thank you letters. To date, 127,000 public and charter school teachers have used the site to secure funding for $52.8 million in books, art supplies, technology, and other resources that their students need to learn. Through DonorsChoose.org, individuals from all walks of life have helped 3.2 million students.

About Calling All Teachers
U.S. Cellular, in partnership with DonorsChoose.org, launched the Calling All Teachers campaign in 2009 with a giving goal of $1 million to help teachers erase classroom needs.

DonorsChoose.org is a philanthropic Web site that helps public school teachers find money for classroom projects that exceed their limited budgets. In 2009, U.S. Cellular funded more than 2,000 classroom projects that benefited nearly 175,000 students. This year, classroom projects posted by teachers during May will be funded in the fall of 2010.

About Calling All Communities
For the past two years, U.S. Cellular has invited communities to rally around their favorite school to share $1 million in its Calling All Communities campaign. Ten schools across the country with the most votes each won $100,000 to use in any way they chose. Schools of all sizes, public, private, urban and rural, K- 12 participated for a chance to become a Calling All Communities champion. The program will return in the fall of 2010.

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2012 Will Be a “Bellwether” Year for 4G, Says ABI Research Tweet

ABI Research has been tracking cities and population coverage for 4G for the past year. At the end of 2009 there were more than 170 802.16e carriers across 65 countries, covering 480 million people. That number is projected to cross the 1 billion mark by 4Q-2012. USB dongles have been an excellent vehicle to prime the market along with CPE and laptops, but mobile handsets will be essential to the success of WiMAX. Yota, Sprint, and Clearwire have already started beefing up their lineups with models from HTC and Samsung.

ABI Research's Google Earth 4G deployment tracker

Meanwhile, mobile operators are seeking out LTE licenses. Twenty carriers will launch by 4Q-2010. Population coverage lags WiMAX but will catch up, reaching 600 million people by 4Q-2012. LTE coverage will start in urban hotspots but carriers indicate they will push coverage rapidly in order to handle the increasing mobile data wave.

The 4G market could well have 150 million subscriptions by 4Q-2014. The split between WiMAX and LTE will depend on WiMAX carrier commitments to upgrade to 802.16m. WiMAX vendors such as Motorola and Huawei are gearing up to offer “802.16e+” which will bring features of 802.16m to the current market. Many companies in the ecosystem are already working on interoperability testing for 802.16m.

“TD-LTE is the wildcard,” says VP for forecasting Jake Saunders. “It was originally primed as an evolutionary technology for TD-SCDMA carrier China Mobile, but has been gaining interest from some WiMAX carriers. Both camps will be frantically trying to ramp up IC wafer manufacturing, product portfolios and population coverage. There will be considerable scrutiny over the next few years.”

Practice director Philip Solis adds, “Some WiMAX service providers may switch from WiMAX to TD-LTE, but others are doing this partly as insurance and partly to assure investors of an alternate path so they may go forward with WiMAX. This is something for smaller greenfield service providers to consider. Large mobile operators will move forward with LTE whether it be on FDD or TDD spectrum. Clearwire can do both WiMAX and LTE if it wants to since it has the spectrum to do so.”

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HTC sues Apple for patent infringement Tweet

HTC on May 12 took legal action against Apple, filing a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) to halt the importation and sale of the iPhone, iPad and iPod in the United States. The complaint outlines five HTC patents that center around address book and power management technologies infringed by Apple products, HTC said.

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Orange and T-Mobile Unveil Joint Venture Name, Team, Vision and Plans Tweet

Companies outline vision to give customers instant access to everything, everywhere

Everything Everywhere ™: One company, running two of Britain’s most famous brands – Orange and T-Mobile

Best for customers: Scale of new company allows delivery of best value, best choice, best coverage and best quality in the industry

Biggest Network: Plans for a single super-network that will give bigger and better coverage for customers, with a smaller impact on the environment

Benefits begin this year: Roaming across both networks due later this year, at no additional cost to the customer

Boost for Sales: Biggest operator retail presence on the high street with over 700 stores today

Brilliant Service: Focus on quality, to ensure customers receive the very best service, helping people discover more from their mobile

Acceleration in new markets: New assault on business market, continued leadership in wholesale, and focus on new revenue streams

One Team: New Leadership Team announced to take the company forward

London. 1 May 2010. Britain’s biggest communications company was unveiled today, promising to transform the industry and give UK consumers the best coverage, devices, service and communications experience possible.

The company – called Everything Everywhere™ – will run two of Britain’s most famous brands, Orange and T-Mobile, and has a customer base of 30 million people: over half of the UK adult population.
Orange and T-Mobile will continue as leading brands in the market, with each brand having its own shops, marketing campaigns, propositions and service centres. However, behind the scenes, the two brands will be run by one company, with one team and one vision to give consumers instant access to the people, places and things they want, wherever they are.
Everything Everywhere™ is the name of the company that runs Orange and T-Mobile, and the company that all 16,500 employees will work for. The company will be officially integrated on July 1.

Tom Alexander, Chief Executive of Everything Everywhere™, said: “Together, we are Britain’s biggest communications company, with over 30 million customers.

“We are on the verge of a communications revolution. Up until a few years ago, mobile was just about voice and text – not now. Multimedia phones have already started to change the way our customers access the world – for entertainment, education, information – wherever they are, whenever they want.
“That is why, through our scale and Britain’s only super-network with its unsurpassed coverage and capacity, we will be leading this revolution, giving customers instant access to everything, everywhere.
“We are Everything Everywhere – it’s our name, our vision, and our ambition – and we run two of the UK’s biggest brands Orange and T-Mobile. It’s our vision to give our customers instant access to everything everywhere, opening up a world of endless possibilities.”


FURTHER INFORMATION

The brands

Everything Everywhere™ will give the two trading brands of Orange and T-Mobile a shared platform of strength, with each brand owning clear emotional territory in terms of propositions, marketing and brand identity.
To customers, Orange and T-Mobile will continue to compete as distinct brands in the market, each having its own shops, campaigns, propositions and service centres.

Best network


Everything Everywhere™ is creating the country’s biggest and best mobile network. The ambition is to combine both the Orange and T-Mobile networks, cut out duplication, and create a single super-network.


For customers it will mean bigger network and better coverage, while reducing the number of stations and sites – which is good for cost reduction as well as being good for the environment.

Later this year, customers will experience the first benefits of the merger, with the ability to roam across both networks at no additional cost.

Boost for sales

Together Orange and T-Mobile have over 700 stores on the British high street today. The company is now looking at continuing to improve and evolve its estate to generate more sales and cement its position as the UK’s number one communications company.

Brilliant service

It is an ambition of Everything Everywhere™ to deliver the best service in the industry to the company’s 30 million customers across both brands.
The company intends to do that by offering an excellent level of service, with the best-trained and motivated people helping customers.

Acceleration in new markets

The company intends to propel itself beyond mobile communications, with a greater focus in developing new revenue streams based on the way customers will use their devices in the future.
With greater scale, the company intends to develop new revenue streams in adjacent markets, such as mobile advertising and mobile commerce.
With the company’s new coverage and scale, it also intends to ramp up offers to the business market, with the best propositions and value for businesses across Britain.

One Team

There is a new Leadership Team for Everything Everywhere, with key personnel from both Orange and T-Mobile running key areas of the enlarged business.

The team is led by Tom Alexander, Chief Executive, and Richard Moat, Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Chief Executive.

Joining them in the Leadership Team, are:

Andrew Ralston, Chief Commercial Officer
Guillaume van Gaver, Vice President of Marketing
Mark Duncan, Vice President of Sales & Loyalty
Andrew Coull, Vice President of Retail
Pippa Dunn, Vice President of Orange Propositions
Lysa Hardy, Vice President of T-Mobile Propositions
Gerry McQuade, Chief Development Officer
Marc Overton, Vice President of Wholesale
Martin Stiven, Vice President of Business
Bruno Duarte, Vice President of Home
Russel Taylor, Vice President of Business Development and Online
Neal Milsom, Vice President of Finance
Emin Gurdenli, Vice President of Network
Fotis Karonis, Vice President of IT
Jackie O’Leary, Vice President of Customer Operations
Rui Pereira, Vice President of the Programme Management Office
John Cromack, Vice President of Purchasing
Linda Kennedy, Chief Change Officer
Ian Pitcher, Vice President of People Operation
Nicolas Ott, Vice President of Strategy, Planning and Regulatory
Steven Day, Vice President of Brands and Communications
James Blendis, Vice President of Legal
Ben Messore, Vice President of Strategy

Appendix

Everything Everywhere™
fact sheet
Our name
Everything Everywhere™
Our registered company name
Everything Everywhere Ltd.
Our vision
To give people instant access to everything everywhere, opening up a world of possibilities for our customers and our business.
Our two tra

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