Most Influential Person in Communications (ZT)

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Marco Tronchetti Provera,Chairman,Telecom Italia

Pirelli's chairman deserves extra marks for trying to make sense of Telecom Italia's labyrnthine ownership.

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Solomon Trujillo,CEO,Orange SA

From US West to Orange SA, convergence has been always on his mind.

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Ben Verwaayen,CEO,BT

BT's chief is dictating the pace in UK broadband rollout.

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Antonio Viana-Baptista,CEO,Telefonica Moviles

Spain's mobile operator is powering ahead under leadership of Viana-Baptista, who took over in mid-2002 after TEM's ill-timed move into 3G joint ventures around Europe.

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XiaoChu WANG,CEO,China Mobile

The world is waiting to see if XiaoChu will unleash the power of the largest-ever domestic mobile operator into regional or even global markets.

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Edward Whitacre,CEO,SBC Communications

An RBOC man through and through - he started with Southwestern Bell and has merged Pacific Telesis, SNET and Ameritech into SBC. And he's taking the big Bells into broadband - forecasts 29 million broadband homes in the US in three years.

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Anthony Wong,Director General,OFTA

Anthony Wong Sik-kei has kept up the pace of competitive liberalization in the China SAR since 1998.

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Jichuan WU,Minister,Ministry of Information Industries (China)

Retiring Head of China's multimedia, Telecoms and Internet super-ministry. He is credited with driving the reconstruction of China Telecom.

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César Alierta Izuel,Executive Chairman and CEO,Telefónica Group

Entered by popular demand. He has steered Telefonica through the worst excesses of the bubble, while expanding in Latin America.

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John Chambers,President and CEO,Cisco

Led with evangelistic zeal by Chambers, Cisco survived the Internet bubble-trouble with a market capitalisation bigger than many of its competitors combined. Owns the enterprise markets are telcos next?