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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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August 2009 - Martin Creaner's Blog

  • WiMax may still be in the race

    For the last 12 months a debate has been raging as to whether WiMax or LTE would dominate the 4G world. For my part I have come down on the side of LTE for a variety of reasons, and my view has been reinforced when I see major equipment vendors ramping up their LTE development programs, often to the detriment of their WiMax development plans. But over recent weeks I've concluded that a 4G world is more likely to include a decent chunk of both WiMax and LTE, and that we need to view this entire...
  • Winning in the new services world

    I saw recently that there is speculation that Apple is going to go into competition with PayPal by producing their own multi-purpose payment system. This would allow the iTunes and App store payment system to be applied to a wider range of participating products across the web. I'm not sure why this seems to have been greeted with shock and surprise by the industry. It is after all a logical move to further improve the return on investment they have made, and hints at a future where the enabling...

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