DEFENCE NEWS
The managing director of the UK's largest surface warship builder has warned that continued competition for warship orders, coupled with a lack of long-term coherency in the Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) equipment programme, could threaten the future of the UK's naval industrial base. IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS NEWS - Operators Should Focus on Marketing, Argues Alcatel“Service differentiation has to be network-based if telecom is to have a long-term perspective,” says Serge Tchuruk, the CEO of Alcatel, speaking at the idate conference in Montpellier, France. This sounds like quite a comforting notion for operators, one where most of the value in service provision might accrue to them. However, Tchuruk does not necessarily believe that operators will be the ones to deliver this differentiation. |