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Robert Townsend to join Softbank as chief legal officer

Softbank Group has appointed Robert Townsend as chief legal officer and senior vice president of Softbank. He will also take on the same role at SoftBank Group International.

In this newly created role, Townsend will lead the group’s legal, compliance operations and corporate governance program on a global basis, Softbank…

China Mobile Hong Kong and China Mobile International have signed a fresh strategic cooperation agreement with subsidiaries of China Taiping Insurance Group to collaborate on a number of business initiatives.

China Taiping subsidiaries China Taiping Insurance (HK), Taiping Financial Holdings and China Taiping Life Insurance (HK) have agreed to work with China Mobile in areas including…

Thai state-owned Operator CAT Telecom is deploying a nationwide TETRA digital mission-critical communications network for government agencies, emergency services and critical industries.

The operator has contracted Motorola Solutions to deploy the shared operator system, which will have the capacity to serve more than 200,000 users. Deployment of the network is well underway, Motorola…

This paper reviews policies to strengthen Germany’s productivity growth and prepare for changes in labour markets brought about by new technologies. This paper also discusses how social protection and the bargaining framework should be reformed for the future of work. Germany enjoys a relatively high labour productivity level but productivity growth has been modest in recent years. There is room…

Many telecoms operators are placing customer experience at the heart of their strategies, and are seeking to differentiate themselves from competitors by better meeting the needs of their customer base. In many cases, a focus on customer experience is also helping to reduce costs through, for example, customer-driven capex programs. Customer experience itself has many aspects including network…