Gates takes spotlight at Telecoms fair
Reuters | at | by Mike
Microsoft the world's largest software maker, on Monday called on telecom companies to tap new revenue streams with its software as it stepped up efforts to muscle into a $250 billion market. Chairman Bill Gates secured a keynote speech ahead of Arun Sarin, the chief of top mobile phone firm Vodafone Group Plc, at the ITU Telecom World 2003 trade fair in Geneva, to tout his wares. His message was clear: that software is vital to the health of the telecommunications industry as it emerges from one of its most precipitous downturns ever.