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Martin Creaner
President & Chief Operations Officer
TM Forum

Martin Creaner has been working in the Telecommunications Industry for almost 25 years and is currently President of the Telemanagement Forum (TMForum). The TM Forum is the industry body for the the global Telecommunications industry. It has 750 member companies in over 185 countries, including all the major carriers and all the leading equipment and software Vendors.

Prior to joining the TM Forum Martin held a number of executive positions with Motorola and British Telecom.

Martin is widely published and is featured and quoted regularly in business and trade journals. Martin is also the author of the leading telecoms business book “NGOSS Distilled”.

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October 2007 - Martin Creaner's Blog

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The Killer Application

I’ve come to the realization – a bit late in life you may think – that the killer application doesn’t exist. For many years, the Telco industry was obsessed with identifying the killer application that would justify the huge investments they were making in core and access bandwidth. Some thought it was video-conferencing, others thought video-on-demand, and there are some present-day advocates of IPTV. The thinking has always been that if only they could identify the killer application, then they...

Published 10-25-2007 4:28 PM by Martin Creaner
The fast pace we live in

I spent last week attending TeleEvo, the TM Forum sponsored summit in Moscow. The traffic in Moscow is perhaps the worst I’ve seen in any major city – with last Tuesday being officially the worst traffic day ever experienced by Moscow since measurements began. Let’s face it; a city has to have pretty bad traffic problems in the first place to even have official measures!! But in contrast, it was fascinating to see how fast that market is moving. We had over 300 attendees at the event from multiple...

Published 10-18-2007 2:19 PM by Martin Creaner
Martin's First Blog

Welcome to my blog, which shares some of my thoughts and impressions on how the telecom world that we know and love is changing faster than almost anyone can keep up with. I don’t seem to be able to find the time to chat with all the people who might help me understand this, so I’m blogging my thoughts and hoping that some people out there will chat back. No one person can ever hope to understand the depth and breadth of this industry in its entirety, so we all need to learn from each other. So what...

Published 10-05-2007 3:16 PM by Martin Creaner