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Conference day 1
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08.00 | Registration
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08.45 | Chairman opening remarks
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09.00 | Welcome keynote address: Identifying the carrier model of the future |
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09.30 | Opening keynote address: The 21st century carrier – Insights into its successful and innovative strategies for Asia
- Examining the current carrier landscape in Asia and its opportunities for further growth
- Capitalizing on the opportunities in the booming Asia market
- Can successful regional carriers build a platform for entering new markets
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10.00 | Morning refreshments hosted by
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| Special Focus 1: Successful strategies for emerging markets |
IDENTIFYING THE OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN EMERGING ASIAN MARKETS
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10.30 | Keynote panel discussion: Recognizing the immense potential of the emerging Asian markets
- Identifying the new emerging markets and investment opportunities for wholesale/fixed line market
- Meeting regulatory and licensing challenges in tightly regulated markets
- Exploring the financing options and legal implications
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| | Mr Owen Irving, Director, International Carriers Services, Asia Pacific, Sales Operations, Cable & Wireless
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11.15 | Special Country focus: Bangladesh - Improving revenue streams in a low ARPU market
- Recognizing the opportunities in rural mobile penetration
- Strategies for improving revenue streams in a traditinally low ARPU market
- Case study on Grameenphone Bangladesh
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11.45 | Networking lunch hosted by:
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12.45 | Special country focus: India - Developing global partnerships for greater success
- Enhancing global Networking through global partnerships - Carriers perspective
- The evolution of the India market
- Building partnerships on a global platform
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| | Mr Ajay Chitkara, Chief Operating Officer – Global Data Business, Bharti Airtel Limited (Enterprise Services)
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| Exploring new cable capacity from Asia to the rest of the world |
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13.15 | Special Country focus: China - Successfully building a world class for the Beijing Olympic Games
- Strategies for building a world class network infrastructure capable of transmiting high speed data
- Measures put in place to minimize network failure during real time transmission of data
- Case study: Beijing Olympics
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| | Mr William So, Chief Operating Officer, China Netcom (HK Operations)
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13.45 | Special Country focus: Hong Kong - Building the Next Generation Network in the 21st Century
- The Success Story of HKBN in FTTB/FTTH network deployment in Hong Kong
- Examining our business model and how HKBN can achieve this with the FTTB/FTTH technology
- What is the critical consideration in the FTTB/FTTH technology selection for such expansion plan?
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| | Mr Mike Ng, Senior Manager, Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited
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14.15 | Special country focus: Russia - Connecting Asia and Europe via terrestrial route
• Examining Europe-Asia traffic: trends, volume and forecasts
• Evaluating submarine to terrestrial route substitution
• Rostelecom’s Transit Europe Asia cable update
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14.45 | Afternoon refreshment
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15.00 | New service opportunities in wholesale optical transport |
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15.30 | Special Country focus: Australia – The future of the wholesale market
- A future embracing the opportunities that FTTN provides for the broad Telecommunications industry in Australia
- What Asian telcos facing deregulation could learn from the experience of the Australian wholesale industry?
- Wholesale: is it the 'enemy' within or just another cost-effective channel to market?
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16.00 | Identifying the trends and developments in the wholesale market from 2008 and beyond
- A peek into the future: regulation and key consumer trends carriers need to be aware of
- Where do social networks sit vis-à-vis operators: are they friends, partners or potential competitors
- Can the onslaught of demand sustain the revenue streams of carriers from now till 2010?
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| | Mr Owen Best, President/Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific, FLAG Telecom Mr Matthew Healy, National Executive, Regulatory & Government, Macquarie Telecom Pty Ltd
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| Analyzing the business case for carriers service offering and outsourcing |
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16.30 | Carriers insourcing: The next big thing in Asia?
- Developing the business case for carriers offering insourcing to other carriers
- Determining the avenues for insourcing – products, technology, services and infrastructure
- Identifying the optimum insourcing strategy for your business model
- Lessons learnt from multiple life case studies
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17.00 | Carriers outsourcing: Improving revenue streams by outsourcing wholesale functions
- Exploring the business benefits of outsourcing wholesale functions
- Evaluating outsourcing vs. partnerships with other carriers/service providers
- Identifying the key challenges of international carriers outsourcing
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17.30 | Close of conference day 1
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18.00 | Dinner cruise hosted by
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Conference day 2
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08.30 | Registrations and morning coffee
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08.45 | Welcome keynote from chairperson opening address |
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09.00 | Opening keynote address: Meeting the challenges of the traditional carrier in a highly competitive industry
- Successfully meeting the challenges of the traditional carrier today
- Strategies for coping with decline revenues in the voice market and dealing with market saturation
- Identifying new profitable models
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| Special focus 2: Profitability in developed markets |
Developing profitable business models and revenue streams for sustainable competitive advantage in developed markets
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09.30 | Keynote panel: Moving away from the traditional carrier model for greater profitability
- The value proposition of monetizing the customer base through multimedia
- Delivering multimedia to clients in a converged era
- Identifying the type of bundled services can be offered wholesale
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| | Mr Helmut Angst, Senior Executive Vice President and Head of ICSS, Deutsche Telekom
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10.15 | Morning refreshments
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10.45 | All the hype on VOIP - Are VOIP business models really profitable?
- Evaluating VOIP models vs traditional voice models
- Determining if VOIP models create greater risks or opportunities
- Are VOIP models really profitable for carriers or is it really just a hype?
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11.15 | Developing a strategy for international carrier VOIP networks
- Evolving security needs at the network edge
- Ensuring seamless interconnects as a basis for enhanced, media-rich services
- Anticipating mobile VoIP interconnect challenges
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11.45 | Networking lunch hosted by
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12.45 | CXO Panel: Exploring the impact of bandwidth heavy applications such as high definition video, video on demand and online gaming as new revenue streams
- The impact of heavy bandwidth applications as new revenue streams
- Dealing with increased traffic and capacity issues
- Exploring security issues following heavier bandwidth traffic
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13.30 | The evolution of internet TV and its effects on bandwidth availability
- The popularity of Internet TV as a new alternative revenue stream
- What is the impact on bandwidth availability?
- Overcoming the challenges of a highly regulated content market for Internet TV
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14.00 | Achieving successful bandwidth optimization
- Strategies for effective bandwidth management
- Successful application of software tools to serve a broad customer base with efficient services
- Case study
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14.30 | Afternoon refreshment
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| Evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of mobile substitution for traditional voice market |
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15.00 | CXO Panel: Evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of mobile substitution for traditional voice market
- Exploring new revenue streams in a mature and saturated voice market
- Identifying the advantages and disadvantages of carriers moving into the mobile arena
- Competing effectively and successfully with the mobile operators
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| | Mr Mu Pio Shih, Mobile Business Group, Mobile Business Group, Chunghwa Telecom Moderator: Mr David Chalmers, Vice President Sales, Wholesale Voice, Asia Pacific, Teleglobe
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15.45 | Mobile backhaul: Challenges and opportunities for carriers and mobile operators
- Increasing backhaul expenditure due to increasing demand for mobile broadband services HSPAI and EV-DO
- Economic driver for mitigating legacy backhaul techniques (ATM, TDM) to packet based backhaul
- Challenges & solutions for increasing efficiency of operators’s backhaul network, while ensuring optinum SLA and QOS for subscribers
- The relationship between mobile backhaul and potential revenue streams
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16.15 | The impact of wireless broadband growth on mobile operators
- What is driving uptake in wireless BB
- How much is a fixed BB subsitute, how much is for true mobility?
- HSDPA vs WiMax vs others
- Impact on the network and operator business model
- How might mobile operators and other wholesale carriers respond to these shifts?
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16.45 | Close of conference
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17.00 | Cocktail by the pool hosted by
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Nikhil Shah
Ola Korsmo
CW Cheung
