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中华电信股份有限公司(Chunghwa Telecom Co., CHT)周二表示，董事会已批准在北京和上海成立办事处，并向全资子公司Chunghwa Telecom Singapore Pte.注资新台币33亿元（合1.048亿美元）。

Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest phone company by market value, fell to a one-year low in Hong Kong trading after JPMorgan Chase & Co. and DBS Vickers Ltd. cut their investment ratings on the stock.

Telecom operators are transforming from being classic telephony providers into aggregators and distributors of multimedia and entertainment services, which include converged communications, gaming, social networking, news and the like. As they say, content makes the king.

More than ever, revenue management needs to become a high-level strategic initiative for operators to compete and sustain in the changing telecom marketplace and grow their current customer base.

超3G标准LTE定稿：下行速率326Mbps

Verizon Rejected iPhone Deal, Prior To Cingular Posted by Rafat Ali Sun 28 Jan 2007 08:02 PM PST Time will tell whether Verizon made a huge mistake, or was rational: Verizon Wireless passed on the chance to be the exclusive distributor of the iPhone almost two years ago, balking at Apple’s rich financial terms and other demands, this USAT story says, quoting Jim Gerace, a Verizon Wireless VP. Among other things, Apple wanted a percentage of the monthly cellphone fees, say over how and where iPhones could be sold and control of the relationship with iPhone customers, the story says. All of these have been agreed to by Cingular, at least in parts. The problem on distribution control? While Apple and Verizon stores would have it, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and other Verizon distributors could have been left out. “That would have put our own distribution partners at a disadvantage” to Apple and Verizon stores, Gerace said. Customer care responsibilities were also a big hitch.

China Telecom, together with its strategic partner IBM, successfully launched Innovation Works. IBM's Innovation Factory solution has enabled our researchers to be more productive in generating new ideas. We look forward to the next phase of collaboration.

The European Commission has adopted a raft of proposals that will see Europe's telecommunications infrastructure dramatically shaken up.

Ofcom crackdown on BT line access

Britons enjoy cheapest media, telecoms deals

Huawei Goes Underwater

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用户体验与产品管理(完整版)

用户体验(User Experience, UE)专业人员正逐渐从商业角度对他们的工作感兴趣，在他们的核心观念中，UE的重点是理解用户需求并创建有用和易用的产品来表达这种需求。 UE人员常常在他们的研究、设计和创意没有得到相应的尊重时感到非常失落。差不多每个UE人员都有过与那些尽管缺少交互方面的需求和流程的知识，却根据他们的感觉或毫无道理的看法来驳回一个建立在研究基础上的设计的领导者打交道的糟糕经历。 很多UE人员逐渐意识到他们有经验和洞察力来运用权威性并在帮助构建的产品中发挥更大影响力，产品管理人员也对这些希望扩大影响以保证以用户为中心的产品开发顺利进行的交互设计师、信息架构师和易用性工程师等有了更多的兴趣。 对很多UE实践者而言，成为产品经理(Product Manager, PM)是一个合理的转换，因为两者往往需要类似的技能，特点和能力。此外产品管理是很多组织共有的角色，向这样一个已存在的角色过渡是较为容易的，只是信息架构师或交互设计师如果选择用这种直接方式来影响产品的话，他们还需要学会换位思考。

产品管理和用户体验的差异 尽管PM的职责很广也很有战略性，他们还需要负责在战术层面具化他们的战略。在一些细节上，PM可能存在与UE人员重叠的问题。正如Johathan Korman写道: 当我向那些不了解"交互设计"的人们描述我是做什么的时候，首先我说:"我观察用户的需要，确定哪类产品最适合他们，然后制定关于这个产品的行为规范，以此推动开发团队的工作。"人们常常回应说: 在我的组织里，我们管这个叫"PM"。 乍一看，用户体验的角色和产品管理惊人的相似。然而你仔细观察就会发现产品管理和用户体验在职责、重点和依赖度上是有区别的。 职责: PM负责整体成功，而UE人员负责界面设计使之满足用户需求并易于使用。UE人员同样应该像销售、营销、工程人员那样关注整体的成功，尽管并不负责这些方面。 重点: 当UE人员聚焦在界面与产品体验之时，PM会从市场整体反馈、特定市场规划、竞争力、技术、收益与损耗以及可调用的资源等方面来审视这些界面与产品体验。 依赖: 信息架构师(IA)、图形设计师、易用性专员等主要精力集中在界面上，他们需要依赖自身或类似角色的其他人一起来完成工作。PM则坚定地要求他人能执行其产品策略，他们更多地需要融合一些微妙的产品目标、策略、影响力、坚定和公平的决策等因素，这些要求多甚于UE人员。 或许Johathan Korman最好地诠释了PM与其他角色如UE之间的差异: PM负责产品应该做什么(What the product should do)，而其他角色负责产品怎么做(How the product does that)。

Verizon 4Q Profit Drops 38 Percent; Wireless Sales Up; Data ARPU Increases 63 Percent Posted by David Kaplan Mon 29 Jan 2007 08:58 PM PST Updated below, with details from conference call: Verizon (NYSE: VZ) on Monday reported a 38 percent drop in 4Q profit after divesting several businesses, but the telco added 2.3 million net wireless subscribers during the last three months of 2006. Including the 2.3 million net customers added, the company’s Verizon Wireless business saw its U.S. subscriber base reach 59.1 million, up 15 percent from the same time a year ago. Other highlights included: -- The telecommunications giant had net income of $1.03 billion, or 35 cents a share, for the quarter, down from $1.66 billion, or 59 cents a share, a year ago. -- Verizon’s broadband FTTP network—over which customers receive FiOS Internet and FiOS TV services—passed a total of more than 6 million premises by the end of 2006. -- Revenue in the latest quarter rose 26.1 percent to $22.6 billion. -- On the data side (which includes mobile content, among other things) revenues doubled over the previous year, contributing $4.5 billion in revenues in 2006.  In Q406, data revenues were 15.8 percent of all service revenues, up from 9.8 percent in Q505.  Data service ARPU in Q4 increased by 63 percent over the year-ago quarter.  The company had 34.3 million retail data customers in December—a 44 percent increase over Q405. -- Data made up $7.91 of total service ARPU, up substantially year over year, and $0.75 sequentially. -- About 35% of data revenue comes from business-focused applications. Revenues from its Internet access and e-mail products increased 120% year over year, and more than 50% of its data revenue growth comes from services other than messaging, primarily EVDO-based. -- During Q4, Verizon Wireless customers exchanged 17.7 billion text messages—which it says is a company and industry record (not sure why they claim that)—and 353 million picture/video messages.  Customers also completed more than 78 million downloads of games, ringtones, ringback tones and exclusive content.