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Ted Lattimore pleaca de la Connex

12 Octombrie 2005



  • Liliana Solomon a fost numita in functia de Chief Executive Officer Connex incepand cu 1 noiembrie 2005


    Ted Lattimore, omul care a dus Connex de la 1 la 5,5mil clientiConnex va avea un nou Chief Executive Officer, Liliana Solomon, incepand cu 1 noiembrie 2005, a anuntat astazi Paul Donovan, CEO Regional OVS (Other Vodafone Subsidiaries). De asemenea, Paul Donovan a anuntat ca Ted Lattimore va pleca din pozitia de Presedinte si Chief Operating Officer al Connex in decembrie 2005, dupa aproape 6 ani de cand se afla la conducerea companiei.


    “Dinamismul cu care Ted a condus Connex, de la inceputul anului 2000, a fost un catalizator esential al cresterii impresionante a numarului de clienti si al rezultatelor financiare excelente inregistrate de Connex. Sub conducerea lui Ted, Connex a crescut de la 1 milion la peste 5 milioane de clienti, in numai 5 ani si jumatate. In acelasi timp, Connex a fost recunoscuta, an dupa an, ca una dintre cele mai importante si admirate companii, in Romania si dincolo de granitele tarii”, a spus Paul Donovan.


    “Connex a fost intotdeauna legat de Romania si de viitorul Romaniei. Sunt mandru de succesul inregistrat de Connex si de respectul pe care ni-l arata milioane de oameni. Pentru Connex si pentru clientii sai, viitorul inseamna acum alaturarea la grupul Vodafone, cea mai mare comunitate de comunicatii mobile din lume. Sunt onorat sa predau conducerea companiei si doresc ca succesul Vodafone in Romania sa fie la fel de mare precum cel al Vodafone in lume, in viitorul apropiat si pentru totdeauna”, a spus Ted Lattimore.


    Ted Lattimore se va intoarce in Canada, tara sa natala, unde intentioneaza sa se implice in pregatirile pentru Jocurile Olimpice de Iarna din Vancouver, 2010.


    Liliana Solomon a fost numita Chief Executive Officer Connex, incepand cu 1 noiembrie 2005.


    “Liliana va colabora cu Ted si cu Vodafone Group pentru a se familiariza pe deplin cu strategiile Vodafone si cu prioritatile de afaceri ale Connex”, a adaugat Paul Donovan.


    Romanca Liliana Solomon vine in Connex de la compania Cable & Wireless, unde a detinut simultan functiile de Chief Financial Controller pentru divizia din Marea Britanie si de Chief Financial Officer (CFO) pentru operatiunile internationale ale companiei. Anterior, Liliana Solomon a fost CFO al operatorului de comunicatii mobile T-Mobile, in Marea Britanie, fiind responsabila de operatiunile GSM curente ale companiei.


    De-a lungul carierei ei, Liliana a castigat o experienta considerabila, in special in comunicatiile mobile, si in industria de telecomunicatii, in general. In perioada in care a lucrat pentru T-Mobile, Liliana a fost relocata in Germania; anterior ea a detinut pozitia de Vice Presedinte Executiv, Controlling & Business Management, la Deutsche Telekom. Liliana a obtinut MBA-ul la INSEAD, Franta.


    Connex este prima retea video mobila din Romania, cu un numar de 5.250.621 de clienti, la data de 30 iunie 2005. Connex este marca inregistrata a MobiFon S.A., o divizie a Vodafone Group Plc. Vodafone este cea mai mare comunitate de comunicatii mobile din lume, cu divizii in 27 de tari si Retele Partenere in alte 14 tari. Cu o gama completa de servicii de telecomunicatii mobile de voce si de date, Vodafone ofera in prezent servicii catre 165 milioane de clienti din intreaga lume.



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    Nicoale Oaca
    Vodafone rings the changes Financial Times; Oct 11, 2005 By Alan Cane People use their mobile phones all the time: when they are not announcing to their other half that they are "on the train", they are madly contributing to the millions of text messages sent each month. At least, that is the theory. In practice, Vodafone, the world's largest mobile phone group, says people use their phones for just four minutes a day on average and send less than one text message every 24 hours. Not enough, says the UK-based network operator, which sees its growth running into the sand unless it can find ways of persuading its customers to make more and better use of their phones. To this end, the group yesterday launched a poster campaign, the first element in a global initiative. The emphasis will be on the benefits of third generation services that bring moving pictures and high quality sound to the handset. Based around the slogan "Make the most of Now", the initiative is more than a ÂÂsimple media campaign, although the company is committed to spending millions of pounds over the next few months on posters, television commercials and newspaper and magazine advertising. Peter Bamford, the group's 51-year-old chief marketing officer, says: "We don't view this as a campaign. We view it as the launch of a 'creative framework' which sets out a different way of talking to our customers". It will be introduced in seven of Vodafone's markets, including the UK, the Netherlands and Australia, before Christmas this year and a further 13 before the end of the company's financial year. Japan, however, where Vodafone is trying to recover from a series of cultural and technical setbacks, will not be included until further research has been carried out, Mr Bamford says. Essentially the initiative is being portrayed as a sustained attempt to break away from the mobile phone industry's historical reliance on trumpeting the virtues of the latest technology. Like other large operators, Vodafone knows that most of its markets are saturated and that further growth is possible only if people buy more than one mobile device to connect to its network or use more of its services. Vodafone has also to persuade its customers to switch from low yielding second generation (2G) services to third generation (3G), where video and high quality sound services mean average revenues per subscriber can be more than double those for 2G services. In Europe, Vodafone has under 2m 3G subscribers and analysts worry that the migration to the new technology is taking place too slowly. Vodafone believes that its customers are still unaware of many of the advantages of "communications to go". "We asked ourselves what was attractive about mobile phones," Mr Bamford says. "Mobility was obvious, as was the fact that a mobile phone is personal. You call an individual not a location. The thing we've concentrated on, however, is the issue of time and the ability of the mobile phone to help people make the most of their time. 'Now' is the word we've focused on. Not in the sense of 'do it now' but in the sense of 'make the most of now'." Mr Bamford was reticent about exactly how this is to be achieved. "This is not something that will create new services. It is something that will communicate, explain and promote services that we were developing anyway," he says, adding that 3G technology is critically important to the success of services such as Vodafone live!, whose content is specifically designed to appeal to young people. "Without 3G, you are limited to a set of voice and text services. 3G enables moving media. You need 3G for e-mail on a mobile phone." So is "Now" a breakthrough at a deep strategic level as Vodafone claims, or merely an advertising campaign in philosophical livery? Customers have undoubtedly been put off by the technical gee-whizzery of much of the mobile industry's marketing approach to date. Rival operator Orange is partly resurrecting the advertising slogan that helped its early success - "The future's bright, the future's Orange" - which projected an image that owed nothing to technology and everything to a glamorous lifestyle. While Vodafone's new "creative framework" is in no sense a makeover for the group (it will not lead to simpler or cheaper tariff structures nor will its high street shops change), if it proves successful in persuading customers to use their phones more, all the operators could benefit. "If it moves the whole industry into becoming more attractive and generates more usage overall, I won't mind that," Mr Bamford says. "We have the capability to remain one step ahead." (?)
    12 Octombrie 2005, 10:04:00
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    Desi costurile pentru castigarea unui client 3G sunt mult mai mari ( subventionare terminal, promovare servicii multiple, infrastructura ) si venitul mediu pe acest segment este mai mare. Raportul este probabil similar celui dintre utilizatorul cu abonament si cel cu cartela preplatita, acest ultima caz fiind evident neinteresant din punct de vedere al profitului. Iarasi devine evident ca ratele de crestere nu mai pot fi sustinute doar de cresterea bazei de clienti ci trebuie oferite mai multe servicii.Desi la noi venitul pe client este mult mai mic fata de Europa de Vest asta nu a fost o piedica nici pentru Orange nici pentru Vodafone. Cred ca in urmatorii 2-3 ani nu se va cheltui sensibil mai mult dar astfel de planuri sunt pe termen lung.
    13 Octombrie 2005, 09:54:15