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USA (2) -- News -- 2010
USA starts telecom reforms
Pavel Todorov
16.02.2010
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University published its report "Next Generation Connectivity" which was ordered on
July 14, 2009, by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to ensure independent expert study in support of the
National Broadband Plan being prepared by the Commission.
On 332 pages, experts of the Center investigate the current trends in telecommunications and their regulation in countries like
Australia, Canada, Danmark, Germany, France, Japan, Netherlands, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
The aim is to give clear picture about the place of USA between the other developped countries and to formulate main objectives and priorities for future development.
National Broadband Plan will be presennted as a report to Congress on March 17, 2010. The plan will formulate the American policy in managing
telecommunications.
The activities show a rival to catch up with more technologically advanced countries, like Japan and South Korea, which show the way towards the future:
a fast, integrated network to cover continuously increasing people's information needs. For example, the Berkman Center's report mentions that, per 100 inhabitants, in Japan
there are 72 3G subscriptions, in South Korea there are 63 3G subscriptions, and in the USA there are only 20.6 3G subscriptions.
3G or 3rd Generation, is a family of standards for mobile telecommunications that allows simultaneous use of speech and visual information
at high speed as a result of improved spectral efficiency.
USA (2) -- Analyses -- 2010
Coca-Cola restructuring to generate “immediate efficiencies”
01.03.2010
Coca-Cola has unveiled a wide-ranging corporate restructuring that will see it reconfigure its manufacturing, supply chain and logistics operations.
The restructuring centres on Coca-Cola Company (CCC) acquiring the North American Bottling business of Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE). In addition CCE has agreed in principle to buy the bottling operations in Norway and Sweden, in addition to gaining the right to acquire its German bottler.
According to CCE, the restructuring will generate "immediate efficiencies" with expected operational synergies of $350m over four years.
The Coca-Cola Company's chairman and chief executive officer Muhtar Kent, stressed that the deal did not mean CCC was acquiring CCE: "Rather we are acquiring their North American operations, and they remain one of our key bottling partners with world-class management, financial and operational capabilities."
He added: "Additionally, we will reconfigure our manufacturing, supply chain and logistics operations to achieve cost reductions over time. Importantly, the creation of a unified operating system will strategically position us to better market and distribute North America's most preferred non-alcoholic beverage brands."
The Coca-Cola Company, in a substantially cashless transaction, will acquire CCE's entire North American business, which consists of approximately 75 per cent of US bottler-delivered volume and almost 100 per cent of Canadian bottler-delivered volume.
In a concurrent agreement, The Coca-Cola Company and CCE have agreed in principle that CCE will buy The Coca-Cola Company's bottling operations in Norway and Sweden for $822m, subject to the signing of definitive agreements.
CCE's chairman and chief executive officer John Brock said: "Our European business serves an attractive market with growing volumes and profit driven by rising per capita consumption. As such, CCE will have an improved profile with enhanced revenue, margins and EPS growth prospects."
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