It's hairshirt time for AlcaLu CEO Ben Verwaayen, who has been telling the Financial Times (subscription required) that the well-documented problems at his company are all of its own making. "I am not going to blame anything else than ourselves," says Verwaayen, though he makes it clear that he plans to stick around to make things better. Last week the company announced plans to cut 5,000 jobs and bail out of its less lucrative services deals. (See Alcatel-Lucent: Too Little, Too Late? and Pressure's On in Paris.)
Tell it like it is, Vasyl: MTS's vice president of marketing, Vasyl Latsanych, has been having a go at Apple over its iPhone control-freakery, reports Bloomberg. Describing the Californian company as being in "dictatorship mode," the Russian operator's bigwig said: "Being arrogant with your partners in big markets doesn't pay off." What can he mean? Oh...
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