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FRANCE TÉLÉCOM TAKES THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE BOARD OF EURESCOM
Heidelberg. In a move that reflects France Télécom's increased commitment to collaborative R&D as a key mechanism for accelerating innovation, Michel Dupire from France Télécom was elected as the chairman of the board of governors of Eurescom, the European organisation for collaborative innovation in telecoms. Mr Dupire has declared that European telcos need to accelerate the pace at which they innovate in order to generate the broad spectrum of services needed on the emerging high-capacity home, wireless, mobile and fixed networks. To this end, France Télécom want to work closely with their peer telco organisations and to give clear signals about how the telcos perceive the future and what types of products are needed. The telecommunications community is now on the edge of a new era of pervasive converged communications. There is a lot of work to be done jointly to ensure services are portable and interoperable across many different network technologies and terminals. Collaboration at the development stage of these future scenarios is the best strategy for developing an open competitive services market for the benefit of all users and the commercial success of the telcos. Specifically, Mr Dupire sees the integration of home networks with public networks and the cooperation of access networks as a first challenge that the telecommunications community must address. This must allow for the development of a rich set of services which may be accessed any time, anywhere, fully answering the customer's needs, which is the second challenge for the industry. In his plans for Eurescom, the new chairman promises to refocus the objectives of the organisation to reflect the changing role of the telcos and the critical need for accelerated innovation in the telecommunications sector.
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