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TalkTalk Business boss Lawton heads for the exit
TalkTalk Business managing director Paul Lawton has relinquished the hotseat to IBM UK Commercial head Charles Bligh, who will take up the role in mid-November, reporting directly to TalkTalk Group CEO Dido Harding. In a statement issued late yesterd... News | 09 Nov 2011
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More aggressive cost cutting planned at Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent has cut its profitability goals and vowed to cut further operational costs as it tries to keep its transformational plans on track. The telco made the disclosure as it revealed its third quarter numbers this afternoon which included a... News | 04 Nov 2011
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Avaya to drive under-performing VARs out of channel
Over 500 under-performing EMEA partners, including an unspecified number in the UK, will be cut in the coming weeks as networking and comms vendor Avaya gets tough with its channel. At its EMEA partner conference in Berlin this morning, Avaya's world... News | 04 Nov 2011
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Avaya blows lid off grey market
Avaya worldwide channel vice president Jeremy Butt vowed to crack the grey market wide open today, as the vendor showed its teeth on a number of fronts. Speaking this morning at the vendor's partner conference in Berlin, Butt said that in the past ye... News | 04 Nov 2011
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Avaya tweaks VAR programme at Berlin partner conference
Avaya has kicked off its EMEA partner conference in Berlin with a series of tweaks to its partner programme to line itself up for further success in 2012. The comms and networking vendor is hoping that the changes will "recognise and reward&... News | 03 Nov 2011
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Flat services performance hits BT revenues
A decline in the wholesale business and a flat performance in the global services business hit BT in the second quarter. The telco giant saw its Global Services division increase revenues by just 1% for the three months ended 30 September to £... News | 03 Nov 2011
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BE Wholesale pollinates Daisy channel
Daisy Wholesale has announced a new partnership with BE Wholesale to offer O2 broadband services to its channel partners, extending its existing mobile-centric relationship with O2. BE'sservices will be made available to its 1,000-strong partner comm... News | 02 Nov 2011
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Channel all dressed up for Halloween
The channel has come out in force for Halloween, withthe offices ofManchester-based networking and comms distie Nimans (pictured above) among thoseresembling scenes from a very busy horror movie as staff dressed up to raise money for the National Dea... News | 31 Oct 2011
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BT launches broadband recruitment drive
BT is to recruit 520 new engineers in the UK as it brings forward £300m of investment in its commercial fibre broadband venture, with the bulk being hired from ex-armed forces personnel. The telco today said it was speeding up its roll-out of s... News | 31 Oct 2011
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Smartphone sales boost Samsung Q3
The success of Samsung's Galaxy smartphone fuelled a 37% increase in its telecom business in Q3 and helped to offset declining sales at its semiconductor and display panel operations. The results revealed the telecom unit contributed nearly 60% of th... News | 28 Oct 2011