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		<title>50 Energy opex saving strategies for Telecom operators</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend (and regular contributor at this blog) Pareekh Jain has just sent me an interesting post with fifty opex saving strategies related to green telecom. Please find it below. Enjoy it! &#8212; Energy is one of the largest opex head for Telecom Operators. Telecom Operators are looking for energy opex savings strategies both for increasing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=1526&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to succeed in a Network O&amp;M deal to reduce costs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following my previous post related to how to improve EBITDA through a cost reduction program, I would like to share our thoughts on what’s maybe one of the sub-topic where most of the cost reduction measures come from: Network operation and maintenance. Due to prevailing IP networking trend and urgent demand and growth in mobile [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=905&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Improving EBITDA through a cost reduction program.</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2009/06/05/improving-ebitda-through-a-pragmatic-cost-reduction-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consulting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cost reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[benchmark]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently concluded an interesting and challenging assignment: reducing costs in a mobile telecom operator to improve EBITDA levels in more than 5 percentage points in a 6 months period. As said, extremelly challenging. Why? After more than 6 months of crisis, the most obvious operational inefficiencies in telecom operators have already been wrung out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=803&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Size matters in telecom. 2008 Telecom EBITDA benchmark.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting the new year, I wanted to look back to my clients’ performance during 2008. As posted before, the financial markets took the telecom markets on a wild ride in the last quarter of 2008 and that clearly affected some of the operators’ performance for which we actually work. It is hard to avoid the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=475&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OPEX improvement: Making the best of a slowdown</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2008/11/07/opex-improvement-making-the-best-of-a-slowdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cost reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ebitda improvement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As posted in one of my previous posts, the current environment is showing a clear downturn for telecommunication service providers and operators that are currently reporting a relevant deceleration in their client’s average revenues per minute as a result of the significant decrease of the minutes of use of consumption. How are these operators handling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=302&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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