firm that manages telecom costs.
But the place where managed telecom services really hadn't caught on, Crump saw, was Japan, second behind only the U.S. as home to the headquarters of multinational companies.
In recent days, the GSMA, operators and the International Telecommunications Union, a UN agency that manages telecoms standards, have pledged to overcome the blockages, and release the data to researchers in an aggregated, anonymised way to preserve privacy.
In the mid-1990s venture capitalists gave Mr Vembu the cold shoulder when he shopped around a business plan for software that helped to manage telecoms networks.This rejection, says Mr Vembu, led him to do the right thing: be frugal and stay independent.
Both Mr. Harbour and Mr. Rohde said a roaming ban had more political support than a new attempt to enforce network neutrality, a more complex subject in which the technical realities of managing overloaded telecom networks can conflict with free-speech guarantees.
"If you're managing a telecom operator, you obviously see things that you don't necessarily see from the outside.
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Tangoe (TNGO, 20) sells software used by businesses to manage their telecom spending, replacing outdated and inefficient spreadsheets that many enterprises use.
James Cantwell, managing director of the telecom group at Donaldson , Lufkin & Jenrette Internationalin London, thinks most of Europe's old state phone companies are vulnerable to takeovers.
Now the 36-year-old, promoted last April to head the business responsible for managing the UK's telecoms infrastructure, instigates such conversations.
