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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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November 2009 - Martin Creaner's Blog

  • The Vendor Battle for LTE Dominance Heats Up

    The battle for being a credible 4G/LTE vendor is certainly heating up. In a very interesting article a few months ago, Light Reading listed out the myriad vendors of LTE , and which pieces of the puzzle these companies were focusing on. In total they listed about 80 vendors and indicated whether they were supplying Core or Access equipment or both. They also listed the vendors that were only supplying subsystems or Software or Services. All in all a very useful list. It also showed about 9 companies...
  • Linking LTE and Cloud to avoid the Dumb Pipe Scenario.

    There's an art in writing headlines to really draw in the reader. This one in TelecomAsia is a brilliant example "DoCoMo plans LTE Cloud to Avoid Dumb Pipe" . In one single sentence they manage to capture my attention from three different perspectives. As any regular reader of my blog will know I very interested in the emergence of LTE ; I'm also very interested in the potential of Cloud ; and for several years I've been immersed in how Operators avoid the dumb pipe scenario...
  • Helping companies to get the basics right

    While I spend a fair bit of my time looking over the horizon at whats going to impact the industry in the coming three years, it's easy to forget that it is the simple things that we currently have to get right in order to survive in the current marketplace. I spent the last week at an interesting event in Panama that was attended by a good number of Latin American C-levels. While people are aware of the emerging issues of Cloud Computing, App Stores and 4G/LTE, most of their interest is around...
  • Time for Service Providers to take apps seriously

    One of the media obsessions that irks me is the obsession with how many iPhone apps are available in the various appstores. Latest number I heard was 87,000 or so (and it may well be 100,000 by today) with around 2bn downloads. Meanwhile the Android counter-attack with droid applications has been flooding the market with the fact that it is catching up and now has 15,000 or so apps. What matters from a business perspective is the number of apps that are being downloaded and paid-for. The vast majority...

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