Most Influential Person in Communications (ZT)

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Leonid Reiman,Minister,Ministry of Information and Communications (Russia)

Russia's Minister of Communications, he is inviting private investment into Svyazinvest. How does that work, then?

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Kai-Uwe Ricke,CEO,Deutsche Telekom

He's giving divisional managers at Deutsche Telekom new freedoms to build their businesses.

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Brian Roberts,CEO,Comcast

The quiet fixer who catapulted Comcast to number one in cable in the US.

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Ivan Seidenberg,CEO,Verizon

Chief of the biggest US Bell, now reaching into AT&T's long distance markets.

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Carlos Slim Helu,Chairman,Carso Global Telecom

Banking telecoms and tobacco entrepreneur, and thorn in the side of Washington's WTO negotiators.

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George Soros,Philanthropist,Svyazinvest

Philanthropist, foreign funds dealer, Treasury buster-all of theses and he owns bits of eircom, Swiss Cablecom and Svyazinvest too.

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Masanobu Suzuki,CEO,NTT Communications

He's already in charge of the world's biggest telecoms services company by revenue. His strategy for partnership with global IT companies like EDS suggest he wants to take the Japanese powerhouse much further still.

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Keiji Tachikawa,CEO,NTT DoCoMo

Tachikawa has made DoCoMo synonymous with mobile data. The I-mode service took Japan by storm and is breaking in Europe. Can he repeat the trick in 3G?

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Serge Tchuruk,CEO,Alcatel

By concentrating on DSL, Tchuruk has given a lifeline to the European telecoms equipment market-leader he has headed since 1995. Now he is quietly preparing a new services-led strategy, but is he keeping up with IP services development?

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Edward Tian,President,China Netcom

Chinese Internet entrepreneur who took charge of China Netcom in 1999 an this year acquired Asia Global Crossing.