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Mohamed Elagazy has been elected as vice chairman of the advisory committee of the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC). Elagazy is SVP of international relations and business development for submarine cable operator Gulf Bridge International (GBI) with over 20 years experience in the US and MENA telecoms sectors. He is a member of the Establishing Committee who has contributed to building GBI’s international industry recognition and market position. Elagazy’s experience includes business development and strategic relations with GCC regional operators and international carriers such as AT&T, Primus, Verizon and Telcordia.

SEACOM, which owns a subsea cable linking southern and east Africa, Europe and south Asia, has appointed Keith Shaw as its head of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Shaw has almost 30 years experience in the telecommunications industry. His previous role was as sales director for Asia-Pacific and Africa regions for European network provider Interoute, when he was primary responsibility for developing all Asia-Pacific and African sales. Prior to his position at Interoute, Shaw worked for Dynegy Europe Communications, a subsidiary of US energy and communications firm Dynegy, as sales director for the European sector of the Dynegy network.

Several of Europe’s biggest telecoms companies have expressed dissatisfaction with European Union proposals for regulating the next generation of broadband networks.

Peter Cladingbowl has been appointed as senior vice president, engineering and operations support at Interxion. Cladingbowl will oversee the development of Interxion’s 28 European data centres, and the continuing development of the company’s pan-European footprint and services. Prior to joining Interxion, Cladingbowl was vice president of operations at Global Crossing and has 11 years’ experience in the telecoms industry. He has a background in the offshore oil industry and spent six years working in manufacturing.

International carrier’s carrier WIOCC has appointed Mike Last as director of marketing and international business development. The newly created position will see Last become responsible for signing high-capacity users to WIOCC’s connection, as well as marketing in Africa and other international markets. Before working with WIOCC, Last held a variety of positions in marketing, business analysis, business development and consultancy with a number of companies, including Turk Telekom, FLAG-Reliance, Colt and BT.

Research conducted on behalf of fibre network provider Geo suggests that public internet infrastructure congestion is affecting enterprises across the UK.

It would appear that the new regime at France Telecom are all for action.

US-based fibre network operator RCN Metro has relaunched itself as Sidera Networks, following the acquisition of parent company RCN Corporation by private investment fund Abry Partners.

Kavit Majithia looks at the development of mobile money services as France Telecom’s Orange money launches further mobile payment services across Africa

The heavyweights of European telecoms have been flexing their muscles again – Telefonica is shoring up its investment in Latin America with the acquisition of Vivo, finally, from Portugal Telecom, while France Telecom Orange’s new CEO Stephane Richard has laid out his five-year plan “Conquests 2015”.