• Examining current applications and models
• Understanding where consumers see value
• Rethinking how carrier service revenue is realised
• Meeting the challenge through innovation

The Australian Broadband Guarantee under the microscope

• Highlighting the strategic changes that have been made
• Enhancing protection for consumers
• Opportunities for ISPs registering under the program

• The NBN and the national interest
• Looking at key policy options and implications
• Understanding consumer impact – choice and pricing

• Open access – what does it mean?Who should define it?
• Why is structure important to effective open access?
• Does open access mean no price disputes?

• The importance of getting the regulatory framework right – why structural separation is critical
• Fostering competition to ensure innovation
• Delivering on the NBN promise

• Telstra’s Open Access Guarantee
• Industry opportunities in a FTTN world
• Why separation is off the table

• Achieving the objective of equivalence
• Stopping anti-competitive behaviour
• Allowing pricing to emerge with access seekers
• Fostering more competition for the benefit of consumers

• Beyond OPEL – what regional customers can expect
• Building a service that the customer wants
• Maximising the utilisation of existing service platforms

• Residential and business uses of broadband services
• Implications for productivity gains
• Understanding the investment cost – the real economics

• The importance of broadband in nation building
• The economy wide implications of a national broadband network
• Which industries benefit most?
• Rolling out fibre – should the incumbent pay?

• Enabling architectures for residential broadband services
• Maximising residential broadband revenues
• Assessing the benefits to ISPs
• The potential for businesses providing online content

• Peaceful co-existence of ADSL2+ and VDSL2 in the FTTN
• Measuring the impact of VDSL2 on the enterprise market
• Assessing opportunities for the corporate ISP market
• New differentiators between corporate and retail broadband

• Supporting health services in regional and remote Australia
• Providing bandwidth and quality of service
• E-government applications and their benefits to end users
• Australian initiatives in E-Learning and tele-education

• How high speed broadband can enable a lower carbon future
• Telstra’s solutions to reduce its customer’s carbon footprint
• What Telstra is doing to reduce its own carbon footprint

• Examining the Amsterdam open access three layer model
• Providing ubiquitous broadband to all of Amsterdam
• Facilitating economic and social growth

1Gbps service to the masses

• Real infrastructure-based advantage
• Winning by commoditizing bandwidth
• Future proofing the network investment

• The pace of broadband change
• Evolutionary steps and impact of 100x traffic increase
• Key drivers of future value for telecom providers

• Open access broadband for creating communities
• The role of true next generation broadband in reducing CO2
  emissions
• FTTH as a positive contributor to the environment
• Changing the way we live and work

• Changes in home telephony – the Skype generation
• Solving the enterprise mobility challenge
• Teleworking – part of the ‘green’ revolution
• Kitting out the workplace nomads

• Creating certainty and uniformity through standards
• Looking at technical performance – isWiMAX the best?
• Delivering excellent value and services to ensure business
  model success
• Spectrum and access to spectrum is key to true wireless
  broadband services
• Ensuring cost optimisation through operational excellence

• Revolutionising communications infrastructure
• Bringing together voice, data, internet and broadcasting
• Looking at fixed, portable and mobile wireless
• The importance of a sustainable partner ecosystem
• The value of ‘presence’ information to wireless operators

• Roundtable 1:  Next generation broadband for the corporate market

• Roundtable 2 :What technologies will drive telcos?

• Roundtable 3: Regulation to stimulate competition and innovation?

• Roundtable 4: Developing new services and applications on the new infrastructure

• Roundtable 5: Focus on the customer: Measuring Broadband Performance where it matters

• ADSL2+/VDSL 2 delivery from the cabinets
• The design challenges
• Developing ease of installation to minimise installation costs
• Ensuring low power consumption and low power dissipation
• Assessing compliance with acoustic noise standards

• Investment lessons learned
• Understanding the bitstream service model
• Ensuring the capacity for tomorrow

• Supporting customers through access technology migration
• How to port hundreds of PSTN customers at a time
• Does higher bandwidth at higher cost mean higher churn?

• Acknowledging FTTX as a strategic infrastructure investment
• Moving from FTTN-centric discussions to FTTH
• Does FTTH deliver competitive advantage and are users willing to pay?

• Which existing technologies will still be in use by 2020?
• Projections of data rich applications delivered over broadband
• A Gigabit/s future – where will demand for speed be?
• ICT as a core enabler to economic prosperity