Day 1, Tuesday 4th November 2008 Day 1, Tuesday 4th November 2008
8.50am Chairman’s opening remarks
Managing Partner, Hardiman Telecommunications Ltd.
THE NEW COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE9am Keynote: Prevailing trends that will shape the future of wholesale markets
- Developing your wholesale offering in response to prevailing trends: the key opportunities in 2008-2012
- NGN: counting the overall impact of network evolution on CAPEX and OPEX spend
- Incorporating a future data service model whilst supporting traditional voice revenues
- The opportunities presented by consolidation and outsourcing of non core services
Head of Wholesale, Telekom Austria TA AG
9.30am Keynote: Looking for stability: protecting your assets in unpredictable wholesale markets
- Identifying key markets and players within the region
- Traffic patterns and the future of IP based services
- Developing the optimum IP product portfolio to ensure ‘ring fencing’ of wholesale revenues
10am Realising the potential of an all IP World and the associated issues and challenges
- Charting the industry transformation and assessing the implications of evolution towards an all IP world
- Building a full IP industry transformation- the highway to new solutions and new territories
- Fully implementing new services and business models by measuring the challenges that lay ahead
- What the traditional players can bring to the industry.
Vice President Carriers Sales Europe, Orange
PROTECTING YOUR VOICE AND DATA STRATEGIES THROUGH NGN MIGRATION11.20am Panel: Defining and catering to different customer base requirements
- Meeting customer needs across a multiplicity of sectors
- Where should a carriers invest time?Mobile operatorsAltnetsValue Added Service providers/ Content providersISPsFixed service providers
- Implementing previously efficient retail customer segmentation to the wholesale market.
- The impact of convergence upon the scope of segmentation and tackling less clearly defined product lines
Head of Wholesale Department, Colt Head of International Voice, Croatia Telecom Carriers Relations Director, ISKON Internet Regional Director CEE - Global Voice Solutions, Tata Communications
12.10pm Panel: Identifying and maximising key IP services that will help drive your business
- The current status of IP in the CEE region- current usage and bandwidth demand.
- The implications of a diverse IP product portfolio- increasing APRU through value added services
- Responding to the technical evolution: maintaining QoS
- Carving out a successful business model.
Director Carrier Services, Romtelecom Chief Wholesale Officer, Telefonica O2 Czech Republic Managing Director, 3C Hungary
2.30pm Panel: Assessing migration models in order to meet NGN requirements
- Implementing a successful business plan that ensures key benefits are delivered
- Highlighting the key dependencies and critical success factors for the NGN strategiesCost transformationTime dependenceInteroperability
- Comparing IMS, non-IMS and SIP application infrastructure: what is still needed and how can it be rolled out?
- OSS/BSS system challenges when migrating and integrating towards NGN
- Legacy support requirements whilst rolling-out new networks: bandwidth, QoS, synchronisation
Rizat Nurshabekov, Chief Director of Business Development, JSC Kazakhtelecom
Lazslo Binder, General Manager, Hungaro Digitel
Ida Srdic, Special Advisor, Craotian Telecom
F.Tolga Yalcin, Expert in senior Regulatory and Economic Affairs, Telecomm Authority of Turkey
General Manager, Hungaro Digitel Special Advisor, Croatia Telecom Rizat Nurshabekov, Chief Director of Business Development, JSC Kazakhtelecom
IMPLEMENTING NGN SERVICES IN THE CEE REGION4.30pm Case study: The imminent rise of non-voice services and the implications for revenues and margin growth
- Current capacity demand, pricing strategy and investment in infrastructure
- The regions ability to increase ARPU through non-voice services
Quantity/Price ratio
Bundling of services
- A critical analysis of new revenue streams
Data
Video messaging
Emerging services
- Developing niche IP businesses: what is the next stage?
Head of the section for non-voice services, Telekom Srbija
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- Do you have a story to tell to the world largest carriers?
- Do you have an ability to service multinational client’s cross-border requirements?
- Do you have expertise in this market that you want to share in front of Europe’s largest audience?
- Have you benefited from a product or service that could help others?
If your answer is yes to any of the questions above please contact us to find out how you can help develop the programme for your peers.
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Evgeny Moskalev
