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Day One: Tuesday 15 July 2008
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07.30 | Registration and welcome refreshments
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08.30 | Chairpersons’ opening remarks
Hans van de Groenendaal, Features Editor
Engineer IT
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| STATE OF THE MARKET – WIMAX 16, CDMA/EV DO AND HSPA |
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08.45 | Examining the appetite for wireless broadband service
offering in Africa
- Evaluating optimum market conditions and related userbehavior patterns ideal for launching wireless broadband offerings
- Evaluating – WiMAX 16e, CDMA 2000/EV DO and HSPA
- Which services are most likely to succeed in which markets?
- Drawing comparisons – infrastructure, technology and cost of service offering
- Assessing optimal pricing strategies, market demographics and point of ROI?
Spiwe Chireka, Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan
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09.15 | Country focus – South African wireless broadband market
opportunities and implementation strategies
- Looking at user behaviors driving the wireless broadband market
- What is the right pricing strategy for the market?
- Examining successful business models in wireless broadband
- Drawing examples from uptake in terms of revenue and ARPU
- Regulatory issues and challenges
- The future competitive landscape?
Andre Wills, Managing Director, Africa Analysis
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09.45 | U-Turn: Create your own conference agenda
This is your turn to un-conference your conference experience! Personalise your learning by telling us the top 5 concerns that keep you awake at night! We will announce the topics and speakers for tomorrow’s U-Turn discussion by close of day.
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10.00 | Morning refreshments
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| REGULATORY INSIGHT – LICENSING, SPECTRUM AND CONVERGENCE THE NEXT 5 YEARS |
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10.30 | Keynote address: Opening up the wireless broadband
market
- The license conversion process going forward
- Initiatives for ensuring the stability of the telecoms market going forward
- Intended directions for spectrum allocation
- Process envisaged for the awarding of additional individual ECNS licenses
- Convergence
Paris Mashile, Chairperson, ICASA, South Africa
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11.00 | Panel discussion: Regulatory frameworks ideal in a thriving wireless environment
- Licensing strategies – ideal environments for developing new wireless broadband technologies?
- Spectrum allocation and management, ideal scenarios for the next 5 years
- Spectrum allocation and future applications, IPTV and more
- Spectrum availability and future plans
- What can be done with other frequencies?
- Convergence a blueprint for the next 5 years
Paris Mashile, Chairperson, ICASA, South Africa
Dr Krishna Oolun, Executive Director, ICT Information & Communications Technologies Authority Mauritus
Professor John S Nkoma, Director General,
Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority
Linden Petzer, Independent Spectrum Management Consultant, LPC, South Africa
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| BUILDING THE WIMAX BUSINESS CASE |
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11.45 | Panel discussion: Early WiMAX development in Africa and future outlook
- What is the role of WiMAX in Africa?
- WiMAX value creation: opportunities and threats
- Spectrum - Regulation - Equipment availability
- Infrastructure - Device availability
- How fast is the market for WiMAX likely to grow?
- ARPU trends and service revenue updates
- The evolution of WiMAX – how will new service offerings evolve linking Wimax, 3G, Wi-Fi and VOIP?
Vish Sethi, General Manager: Commercial, Botswana Telecommunications Corporation
Sadiq Malik, Director: Business Development, BCT Global
Antony McKechnie, Head of Product Development, iBurst
Gavin Coetzer, National Networks Manager, Samsung Electronics
Bevan Booy, Technical Officer, Amatole Telecommunication Services
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12.30 | Creating the WiMAX business case
- Designing a cost effective WiMAX Infrastructure
- The effect of radio technologies and spectrum on the financial parameters
- The Core Network and radical consolidations strategies
- Selecting billing and service delivery platforms strategies
- Working the variables: potential subscribers, service offerings, calculating the ROI
- Putting it all together: technologies and viable business case
Sadiq Malik, Director: Business Development,
BCT Global
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13.00 | Networking luncheon
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| WIMAX – INTERNATIONAL OPERATOR BUSINESS MODELS |
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14.30 | Case study: The 1st certified WiMAX network in Africa –
Teledata Mozambique
- Why WiMAX why now?
- Status 12 months after launch in Mozambique
- Insight into network design and deployment
- Service delivery capabilities of WiMAX
- Customer migration implications
- Defining the spectrum profiles
- Exploring success factors and pitfalls of rural WiMAX deployment
Neil du Plessis, Technical Director, Rapid Cloud
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15.00 | Case study: The architect of the worlds’ largest WiMAX
network – Pakistan’s communications infrastructure
- Key insights into the network design and deployment
- Realising a converged Multi-Service network
- Service delivery capabilities of WiMAX
- Defining the spectrum profiles
- Last mile connectivity options for emerging markets
- Rural vs. Urban WiMAX deployment
- Lessons to remember
Noel Kirkaldy, Director of Wireless Broadband,
Motorola Home & Networks Mobility in Middle East and Africa (MEA)
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15.30 | Speed networking and afternoon refreshments
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16.15 | Case study: WiMAX deployment in Uganda
- Network design strategy
- WiMAX as part of MTN Uganda’s service portfolio / strategy
- WiMAX’s role in MTN Uganda’s future technology roadmap
- Rural vs. Urban WiMAX deployment
- Lessons to remember
Erik van Veen, Chief Commercial Officer, MTN Uganda
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16.45 | Chairpersons’ closing remarks and close of day one
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Day Two: Wednesday 16 July 2008
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07.30 | Welcome refreshments
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08.30 | Chairpersons’ opening remarks
Hans van de Groenendaal, Features Editor,
Engineer IT
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| WIMAX IN A HSPA AND CDMA ENVIRONMENT |
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08.45 | Panel discussion: Drawing comparisons from CDMA & WiMAX
- Examining successful business models:CDMA & WiMAX
- Drawing examples from uptake in terms of revenue and ARPU
- Regulatory issues and challenges
- CDMA2000 EVDO vs WiMAX:
- Technology - Coverage - License conditions
- CDMA vs WiMAX in rural and urban areas
- Comparative costs of deployment
Angus Hay, Chief Technology Officer, Neotel
Bill Hearmon, Chairman, Africa CDMA Forum
James Munn, Vice President: Business Development, Qualcomm International SA
Noel Kirkaldy, Director of Wireless Broadband,
Motorola Home & Networks Mobility in Middle East and Africa (MEA)
Gavin Coetzer, National Networks Manager, Samsung Electronics
John Joslin, Chief Executive Officer, Future Proof Consulting
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09.30 | Panel discussion: Disruptive potential of WiMAX in an HSPA environment
- Are there inherent cost advantages of mobile WiMAX over 3G
- Different solutions to different challenges: When to use mobile WiMAX, HSPA and other access technologies
- Architectural differences and approaches to integrating 3G and WiMAX, Wi-Fi and WiMAX
- How will new service offerings evolve linking WiMAX, 3G,
WI-Fi, VoIP and improve devices, systems and software?
Vish Sethi, General Manager: Commercial, Botswana Telecommunications Corporation
Erik van Veen, Chief Commercial Officer, MTN Uganda
Antony McKechnie, Head of Product Development,
iBurst
John Joslin, Chief Executive Officer, Future Proof Consulting
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10.15 | Morning refreshments
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11.00 | UTURN: Things that keep you awake at night
You have voted for these topics! Your chosen speakers will now offer you real-time, spontaneous solutions and commentary on the issues that keep you awake at night. Bring your questions to this spontaneous discussion
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| BUILDING THE CDMA BUSINESS CASE |
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11.45 | Analysing the business case for deploying CDMA over WiMAX in AFRICA
- Examining the benefits of CDMA for the delivery of broadband services in Africa
- Evaluating the comparative deployment costs
- CDMA2000 EVDO vs WiMAX:
- Technology - Coverage - License conditions
- CDMA vs WiMAX in rural and urban areas
Bill Hearmon, Chairman, Africa CDMA Forum
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12.15 | Networking luncheon
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13.15 | Assessing opportunities in deploying CDMA
- Contributing factors for launching CDMA technology in Africa
- Deployment costs - Coverage - License conditions
- Lowering the costs of CDMA 2000 handsets
- Laying the foundation for next generation broadband services
- User experiences
- The technology
James Munn, Vice President: Business Development,
Qualcomm International SA
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| CDMA – OPERATOR BUSINESS MODEL |
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13.45 | Case study: Neotel deployment of CDMA 2000
- Drivers for deploying CDMA 2000
- Evaluating deployment costs and point of ROI
- Projecting subscriber growth
- Pricing as a new entrant
- Addressing the costs of CDMA 2000 handsets
- CDMA2000 EVDO vs WiMAX
- Billing platforms
Maneesh Mittal, Head Consumer Business – Products and Services, Neotel
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14.15 | Afternoon refreshments
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| NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS AND BROADBAND
POSSIBILITIES – 4G! |
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14.45 | Future broadband possibilities in 4G
- What 3G and WiMAX roll-out have taught us
- Hyper-connected devices and new communication revenues?
- Applications and services that will drive personal broadband in
Africa
- Scenarios for mobile business and private communication –
the next 10 years
- Next generation devices?
Arthur Goldstuck, Managing Director, World Wide Worx
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15.15 | New and emerging telecommunication technologies within the African context
- Introduction to users and operating environments in Africa
- Trends in services and applications and its impact on the way services are offered
- How operating and user environments determine the telecommunication networking solution
- Brief discussions on traditional and new and emerging telecommunications technology solutions
- What are the emerging solutions (e.g. 4G) and the associated value proposition
- Access to content (handset capabilities, creation of content)
- Impact of emerging solutions on wide adoption and deployment of services across different market segments in Africa
- Reflections on voice, data and multimedia services integration and impact on telecommunications business and value chain
Peter J. Chitamu, Centre for Telecommunication Access and Services, School of Electrical & Information Engineering, Wits University
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16.00 | Chairpersons’ closing remarks and close of conference
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