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Martin Creaner
President & Chief Operations Officer
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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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June 2009 - Martin Creaner's Blog

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LTE: Lets not repeat the sins of past generations

There are no new mistakes - just old ones that we make again and again. This truism applies to all aspects of life and business, and never more so than to the launch of a new mobile generation. It seems that everytime we begin the process of launching a new generation of mobile (1G to 2G; or 2G to 3G) we delete the painful memories of how we got it wrong the last time, and blindly repeat the usual mistakes. Lets try and break this cycle with LTE! First of all lets talk about the easy bit of launching...

Published 06-26-2009 3:38 AM by Martin Creaner
Cloud Computing: Taking an Holistic View

The speed at which Cloud computing has planted its feet firmly in the center stage of the IT and Communications world is quite interesting. It's not a technology play - in fact I would be hard pushed to identify a single piece of new technology that is fundamental to cloud. And unlike Twitter or Facebook it's not a social-psychology phenomenom in any real sense - there is no "man-in-the-street' movement that is driving the uptake or need for cloud computing. It is one of those rare...

Published 06-23-2009 1:15 AM by Martin Creaner

Filed under: Cloud Computing SDP SOA
Grown-up discussions about Net Neutrality

The topic of Net Neutrality has waxed and waned over the past three or four years as more fashionable and sexier topics have dominated the media. But it has not gone away - nor can we expect it to. In truth Net Neutrality is a central issue for the future of communications. In its simplest form it is an argument about whether the people who provide and operate the networks should be able to charge differently depending on which type of service is consuming their network capacity. The Operators argue...

Published 06-18-2009 2:51 AM by Martin Creaner
How fast will 4G grow?

As anyone who regularly reads my blog will know I am a fan of the potential of LTE . In terms of speed of growth, my gut feel tells me that it will move on a much faster curve than 3G - but in reality it couldn't be much slower! A recent report by Pyramid research tells us that LTE will grow at around 400% between 2010 and 2014 - much faster than 3G. To date, 27 mobile operators worldwide have publicly committed to deploying LTE, with 12 of them expected to roll out commercial services in 2010...

Published 06-04-2009 1:13 AM by Martin Creaner