CEOs Of Major Mobile Phone Operators Join GSMA Board
29 November 2006
29th November 2006 - London: Cable & Wireless International, MTN, Softbank and Mobilkom Austria Group have all joined the board of the GSM Association, the global trade association for mobile phone operators.
Harris Jones, CEO of Cable & Wireless International, Phuthuma Nhleko, CEO of MTN, Tetsuzo Matsumoto, Chief Strategy Officer of Softbank, and Boris Nemsic, CEO of Mobilkom Austria Group, join the new board, which will serve a two-year term from January 2007. Senior representatives from the world's top mobile phone operators, including China Mobile, Orascom, Telefonica and Vodafone, are also among those on the 25-strong GSMA board.
"The role of the GSMA is expanding as the mobile industry matures into one of the most important and influential sectors of the global economy," said Craig Ehrlich, chairman of the GSMA. "We plan to maintain that expansion to ensure the GSMA continues to play a leading role in strategic, technical and public policy matters of importance to the operator community. At the same time, a key consideration for the new board will be prioritizing the many calls on the Association's time and resources."
GSMA board members are typically CEOs or board-level representatives of mobile operator groups. Rob Conway, CEO of the GSMA and member of the board, added: "I am extremely pleased with the composition of the new board, which is well-placed to ensure that the Association continues to make a major contribution to the development and growth of the mobile ecosystem to the benefit of both end-users and the industry itself."
Those appointed to serve for a two-year term from January 1, 2007 are:
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Bharti Cable & Wireless International Cingular China Mobile China Unicom GSM Association GSMA EMC (Telenor) Hutchison KTF Mobilkom Austria Group MTN NTT DoCoMo Orange Orascom SFR Singtel Smart Napoleon Softbank Telecom Italia Mobile Telefonica Telenor T-Mobile Turkcell Vimpelcom Vodafone |
Sunil Bharti Mittal Harris Jones William W. Hague Lu Xiangdong Zhang Fan Rob Conway Stein Hansen Craig Ehrlich Young-Chu Cho Boris Nemsic Phuthuma F Nhleko Takanori Utano To be confirmed Naguib Sawiris Frank Esser Allen Lew Napoleon Nazareno Tetsuzo Matsumoto Mauro Sentinelli David Williams Arve Johansen Matthias Schröter Muzaffer Akpinar Alexander Izosimov Alan Harper |
About the GSM Association
The GSM Association (GSMA) is the global trade association representing 700 GSM mobile phone operators across 215 countries of the world. In addition, more than 180 manufacturers and suppliers support the Association's initiatives as key partners.
The primary goals of the GSMA are to ensure mobile phones and wireless services work globally and are easily accessible, enhancing their value to individual customers and national economies, while creating new business opportunities for operators and their suppliers. The Association's members serve more than two billion customers - 82% of the world's mobile phone users.
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