• Assessing the region’s demand for WiMAX networks – where does the market lie for wireless data services?
• Price modelling, billing and revenue assurance for WiMAX services
• Who benefits and how? Profiling the customer segments for who WiMAX is attractive and delivering applications to suit

• Why WiMAX and why now?
• Positioning the service as complimentary to a GSM offering
• WiMAX and ADSL
• Deployment experience in an emerging market: opportunities and potential pitfalls
• Launching against an incumbent and in a congested broadband market

• Carving out a place for WiMAX in the next generation converged network
• Understanding the potential of WiMAX in the consumer segment
• Fitting into the competitive landscape – the place of WiMAX for carriers, mobile operators and ISPs
• Economics of operating a WiMAX network

• Combating the challenges to successfully implementing a Wireless Broadband rollout
• Is there a market requirement for wireless data services?
• Fitting into the competitive landscape – the place of Wireless Broadband solutions for carriers, mobile operators and ISP

• Evaluating the long term impact of WiMAX as an alternative broadband technology
• Ensuring performance and network success in NLOS environments
• The relative cost of deliver integration and support services vs. wireline broadband
• Bandwidth growth combined with low affinity to data: is the business case sustainable?
• LTE vs. WiMAX: which technology will deliver the promise of broadband at affordable prices

• Scale advantages offered by LTE
• What lessons have been learnt from previous HSPA deployments
• Opportunities for synergy

• Evaluating the challenges in the telecoms industry and assessing best practices
• Building operational efficiency
• Identifying the location and potential of tomorrow’s growth hotspots: what can be expected in these countries/regions in the next five years
• Analysing the factors that encourage growth: where can they be found and how they can be maintained and leveraged?
• Extending the benefits of an international operation to your customers
  Nasser Bin Obood, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer,
  Etisalat

• Identifying the opportunities presented in an emerging, steadily liberalising telecommunications market
• Seizing upon the dynamics of consumers in mature markets and continued 3G deployment
• Capitalising on the business opportunity provided by new markets, technologies and models
• Adding value through additional services and enhanced QoS and customer experience

• 3G strategies and building and migrating subscriber bases of size and value
• Cost-effective steps forward: what has been learned from global case studies?
• Developing and deploying wireless content services to deliver ARPU
• Understanding the market for VAS in urban areas and the regions
• Will WiMAX complement or compete with 3G?

• Identifying three key growth sectors: consumer wireless markets; fixed wireless, and managed data services
• Looking to acquisitions to provide immediate scale in the MENA region and beyond
• Capitalising on the significant growth opportunities provided by Africa
• Looking east to expand: the attractive investment opportunity of populous nations with similar legal systems

• Building operational efficiency and resilience
• Developing a comprehensive, diversified service portfolio and growing subscriber base
• Delivering cutting edge technology and field-leading VAS
• From newcomer to 40% market share: where next?

• Strategies for growth and opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa
• Consolidation and opportunities in M&A in the region
• Building a platform to enter a new market
• Importing business models – does it work?
• Financing growth in the region – equities, loan and fixed income
• Investment opportunities in the region

• The financial challenges and implications of growth in emerging markets
• Acquisitions: where, when and how to fund
• Conventional and Islamic funding: pros and cons
• Capital markets: evolution from syndicated financing to accessing the international capital markets

• Accelerating the speed of innovation: simple, scalable and effective integration
• Delivering an assured user experience and not just scalable solutions
• Promoting the uptake of new services by retail and enterprise consumers: what needs to still be done?

• Overview of recent developments in telecommunications competition and pricing regulation
• Gauging the impact on operator growth
• Reviewing the next phase of regulation in the wake of increased convergence
• Facilitating fair competition between new entrants and established incumbents
• Regulatory frameworks required to promote sustainable growth

• Moving from a state monopoly to a competitive market place
• Analysing the economic impact of network extension, enhancement and the corresponding rise in fixed line subscriptions
• Determining the potential of fibre-optic transmission and wireless networks
• Examining the prospect of local loop unbundling

• Assessing the present condition of the region’s wholesale market and forthcoming opportunities in 2009
• Discussing the risk of new entrants and players from other industries on the ‘traditional’ wholesale market
• Evaluating the likelihood and potential pattern of carrier consolidation and the emergence of a dominant regional communications hub
• Analysing the role of broadband in wholesale growth
• The role of online Arabic content in driving broadband traffic

• Moving from capacity to integrated services
• Ensuring your market visions and QoS requirements match
• The implications of market liberalisation
• Partnering effectively to optimize capacity and global connectivity
• Future growth opportunities and key challenges to seizing the opportunities

• Developing access to markets: key considerations when looking for a partner
• Build-out of new access and backhaul networks
• Establishing roaming agreements more rapidly and efficiently with new market entrants
• End-to-end connection and maintaining QoS
• Supporting convergent multi-service operations through OSS and BSS planning
  
  
  Erdem Ozsaruhan, Carrier Relations and Wholesale Manager,
  Borusan Telekom

• Identifying major trends influencing enterprise mobility
• Outlining the drivers for the purchase of wholesale mobility
• Exploring the consequences of meeting the needs of all-IP enterprises on your future SLAs

• The key financial challenges for telcos investing in NGN and Next Generation access
• Projected revenue streams and aligning future cost structures
• Challenges and how to overcome them

• Removing barriers to entry for broadband services
• The role of available Arabic content in encouraging uptake in broadband services
• Meeting the differing needs of residential and business users
• Establishing effective pricing for differentiated broadband services

• Areas of greatest potential for the MVNO model across the region
• Determining the manner of market entry: what lessons can be learned from previous MVNO launches and recent operator launches in regional markets?
• Regulatory positioning and the current climate for MVNOs
• Forming a symbiotic relationship between MVNO and MNO
• What constitutes success for an MVNO?

• Leveraging your customer relations to become their central digital media hub for VAS
• Adding value to existing business markets and opening up the web n.0-centric consumer mass market with ease
• Best practices of a leading international telco in site building, online storage and hosting services

• Examining the region’s key success stories: air time transfer, VSMS…
• New territories: mobile advertising, mobile money
• Key success factors

• Meeting the needs of users – what type of content do customers want?
• Developing winning partnerships in order to deliver a top quality service
• Will the delivery impact what kind of content is delivered?

• Promoting social and economic development through investment for mutual, long-term interest
• Mobile money transfer: bringing financial services to the unbanked
• Influencing consumer lifestyle and spending habits through technological innovation

• Identifying market opportunities and trends in the region 2008-2009
• Bridging the connectivity gap between developed and developing countries
• Improving efficiency and and reliability of international bandwidth service delivery to the region
• Making access available at a lower cost

• Meeting demand with a multi-faceted approach – deploying new technologies and forming partnerships with competing carriers
• Identifying ideal routes and landing points
• Making necessary provisions for route diversity
• Ensuring improved survivability and reducing repair time in
  event of an outage

• The impact of content drivers (p2p multimedia sharing, gaming etc.) on capacity utilisation
• The impact of demand drivers – the evolution of ethernet and carriers moving into the ethernet space
• Will these drivers radically change your exsisting business model?

• Identifying market opportunities and trends in the region 2008-2009
• Bridging the connectivity gap between developed and developing countries
• Improving efficiency and reliability of international bandwidth service delivery to the region
• Making access available at a lower cost

• Identifying global capacity demand trend patterns
• Determining the life span of current demand
• Aligning it with your business objectives

• Identifying the various restoration options during a network outage
• Evaluating the cost effectiveness of each option
• TPE/AAG are they effectively adding new routing options?

• Forcasting the traffic of terrestrial networks
• The development, utilization and availability of terrestrial networks – user perspective
• How network coverage can be enhanced through complimenting terrestrial networks with submarine networks

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