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		<title>What can Telecom operators get from Managed Services?</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2009/06/19/what-can-telecom-operators-get-from-managed-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facing increasing competition and commoditization from traditional telecom products, service providers are either in the process of or planning for the move to next generation, converged, network infrastructures in order to offer new, revenue-generating services. Making this transformation can be complex and difficult. However, if done correctly, working with a managed services provider and outsourcing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=859&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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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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>Bite Group posts 3.1% drop in Q1′09 EBITDA: our opinion</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2009/04/30/bite-group-posts-31-drop-in-q1%e2%80%b209-ebitda-our-opinion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ebitda improvement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.WirelessFederation.com posted a new update on the Bite Group, the Baltics telecoms group, declaring a drop of 11.8% in its Q1′09 revenues year-on-year (the Q1 revenues totalled to EUR 46 million). The group EBITDA has reached EUR 7.3 million, a dip of 3.1% as compared to Q1′08. On top, The Lithuanian operation fell by 16.9% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=684&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>Loyalty programs and profitability &#8211; part 1: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telecom service providers in mature markets face a sea of troubles. In wireless, the days of double-digit market growth are over, leaving competitors to fight for one another’s customers. Not surprisingly, share prices in the sector have tumbled from their highs in 2000, but even today’s depressed prices are hard to justify without much-improved margins. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=125&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Customer churn should be treated like the flu</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2008/06/17/customer-churn-should-be-treated-like-the-flu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Customer churn is often treated like the ﬂu. Management assumes the root cause of the problem can’t be eliminated; the best they can hope for is to minimize the symptoms. But just as new medical breakthroughs empower physicians to attack the ﬂu virus directly, it is possible to diagnose and repair the root causes of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=34&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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