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Martin Creaner
President & Chief Operations Officer
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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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July 2009 - Martin Creaner's Blog

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Game Changing LTE

DoCoMo have announced their LTE launch plans - 2010. Interesting their comment that they feel they suffered from being an early adopter of 3G and essentially were too far ahead of the mass market. If they hit their 2010 dates, they will be in good company - not too early, not too late - right alongside Verizon and multiple other major players! Also interesting was their statement about viewing LTE as a solution built on top of and co-existing with 3G, rather than an instant replacement. But the most...

Published 07-14-2009 8:38 AM by Martin Creaner

Filed under: Cloud Computing SDP SOA, 4G LTE Wireless, TD-LTE
Sitting on Cloud Nine: How Cloud Computing Will Change Communications as We Know It

Over the past year or so, cloud computing has become all the rage. Everyone is talking about it as the next great hope for the IT industry in general and communications in particular. But I have to wonder if those who see cloud computing as a sort of miracle worker really know what it is. If you ask 10 people to supply a definition of cloud computing, you’ll likely get 10 divergent responses. But first things first – cloud computing is not a technology play - in fact I would be hard-pressed...

Published 07-07-2009 6:51 PM by Martin Creaner
The Devil is in the Detail!

Everytime we hear a story about mergers and acquisitions in the Telecom industry we get excited by the strategic opportunties. There will be economies of scale we hear, there will be new marketing critical mass created we hear, and of course there will be huge benefits to the consumer base from more integrated services, etc., etc., . This weeks story of the potential merger between Vodafone and T-Mobile in the UK is a classic example. The headline stories are the potential $5bn price tag and the...

Published 07-03-2009 1:40 AM by Martin Creaner