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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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February 2010 - Martin Creaner's Blog

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Its a small, small world

Spent a very interesting week at Management World Africa this week in Johannesburg. Travelling so far from home, I was looking forward to learning about the challenges of a communications market that must be very different from my day to day experience in Europe and the USA. But, its a small, small world - and getting smaller! I was surprised to find that the challenges and opportunities facing the African market are pretty similar to what i am hearing across the globe - saturating markets; a major...

Published 02-26-2010 5:52 AM by Martin Creaner
Bringing Mobile Applications To The Next Level

The most interesting thing to come out of the MWC in Barcelona this week is the multi-company announcement of Wholesale Applications Community. A number of the world’s leading telecommunications operators and device manufacturers are trying to establish a simple route to market for developers in the increasingly complex world of mobile apps. The huge questions is whether they can succeed. This is the big non-Apple initiative that the industry has been mumbling about for the past 6 months. Most operator...

Published 02-17-2010 4:19 AM by Martin Creaner
Making Sense of Mobile Banking, Advertising and Bandwidth

Our Management World Asia event in Singapore last week threw up a load of interesting topics. Some of the topics that caught my eye included The keynote presentation from Telenor was an eye-opener. Although a Norwegian company, it has over 70million subscribers in Asia and has just launched a new operator in India which could add a huge number of subscribers to this already large presence. What was particularly interesting was the whole area of mobile banking. Telenor have purchased a bank to address...

Published 02-01-2010 6:18 AM by Martin Creaner