Meet our sponsors...
Gold sponsor
OTEGLOBE, headquartered in Athens Greece is the international wholesale arm of OTE Group, and the carrier with the strongest network presence in SE Europe. The company has grown to a regional hub delivering a complete portfolio of voice, transport, corporate and mobile services.
OTEGLOBE is the only carrier, which reaches Western Europe through Greece with two fully owned geographically diverse dual-path, multi-wavelength networks, the GWEN and the TBN, while it also operates an IP/MPLS network with 14 nodes in Western & SE Europe and an extensive international voice network with more than 150 direct interconnections.
By capitalizing both on its geographic position and extensive network footprint, along with its strong Group’s corporate presence in SE European region, OTEGLOBE aims to become the Network Bridge which connects Middle East with Western Europe through the Balkans. For more information visit:
http://www.oteglobe.gr/index.php?lang=en
Rostelecom is the leading telecommunications operator in Russia serving over 40 million retail customers.
Rostelecom’s 150 000 km network spans all 11 times zones of the Russian Federation with extensions into Europe, Asia, CIS and Baltic countries. The company has 7 international POPs in London, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Helsinki, New York, Hong-Kong and Tokyo. Based on its countrywide network, Rostelecom offers the high-capacity terrestrial route “Transit Europe-Asia” (TEA) for traffic transmission from Europe via Russia to China and Japan. This allows Rostelecom to be a strong partner on the wholesale market, providing voice, IP-based and access services to more than 600 fixed and mobile operators, international carriers, ISPs and content providers.
Tata Communications is a leading global provider of a new world of communications. With a leadership position in emerging markets including global international voice, Tata Communications leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across its global and pan-India network to deliver managed solutions to multi-national enterprises, service providers and Indian consumers. The Tata Global Network includes the largest submarine cable network, a Tier-1 IP network connectivity to more than 200 countries, and nearly 1 million square feet of data center and collocation space worldwide. Tata Communications’ emerging markets reach includes India, South Africa, Middle East, China and Southeast Asia.
Türk Telekom, the leading communication and convergence technology Company in Turkey, provides integrated telecommunication services from PSTN and GSM to broadband internet. As of June 30, 2010; Türk Telekom group companies have 16.3 mn Fixed Access Lines, 6.5 mn ADSL Connections and 11.5 mn Mobile Subscribers. Group companies have a modern network infrastructure covering the whole country and offer a wide variety of services to residential and commercial customers all over Turkey. Apart from 81% shares in Avea, one of the three GSM operators in Turkey, Türk Telekom owns 99.9% of TTNET, Argela, Innova, Sebit A.Ş. Sobee, and AssisTT companies. Türk Telekom also has an indirect minority share in Albtelecom, the Albanian incumbent telecom operator. 55% of Türk Telekom shares belongs to Ojer Telekomünikasyon A.Ş. and 30% belongs to Turkish Treasury. The remaining 15% is publicly traded. Türk Telekom shares are listed in Istanbul Stock Exchange since May 2008.
Silver sponsor
Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS)
ICSS, the international wholesale arm of Deutsche Telekom Group, is one of the biggest voice carriers worldwide and an increasingly important IP player across a growing European market with excellent interregional connections between Europe, the Americas and Asia.
With continuously changing markets, ICSS has redesigned its portfolio from traditional voice and transport services to advanced innovative wholesale services and customized IP solutions. The business activities and efforts of ICSS focus on serving the following market segments: broadband operators (ISPs, WISPs, and VoIP SPs), mobile operators and MVNOs, content, application and media providers, corporate service providers and VNOs, fixed voice carriers, and carriers’ carriers and their customers through a worldwide sales network. The basis for the delivery of the services of ICSS is an expanding ultramodern infrastructure - Deutsche Telekom’s international network.
For further information please go to
www.deutschetelekom.com/icss
Convergys is a global leader in relationship management enabling leading companies in over 70 countries to deliver exceptional customer experience. Convergys employs nearly 70,000 employees, speaking more than 35 languages, in 70 facilities across the globe, and routinely handles more than two billion customer interactions every year.
Convergys provides the most intelligent and innovative convergent solutions to the telecoms, cable, satellite, broadband, and utilities markets through its software and services division. Through its smart solutions, Convergys pioneered the event agnostic, convergent billing solution that transcends networks and services, which perfectly maps the need of retail, wholesale, and enterprise sectors. Providing best of breed billing and customer care products, which are embedded with real-time intelligence, empower Convergys’ clients to build customer loyalty, reduce costs, and grow revenues. Convergys is globally trusted and proven in the market, reflected by the fact that its top 40 telecoms clients have been with Convergys for more than 25 years.
Extending its smart solutions suite to utilities, Convergys was the first in the market to launch a dedicated utilities platform for smart meter billing and customer care. Convergys continuously innovates to combine technology, actionable insights, and consulting to help its customers meet business challenges. Investing over $1 billion since 1998 in research and development, Convergys has received 153 patents across its business divisions.
www.convergys.com
Associate sponsors
BT Wholesale is Europe’s largest wholesaler, contributing £4.5bn to BT Group’s annual revenue. It provides traditional and next generation services and managed solutions to over 1,300 mobile and fixed line operators, internet services providers, broadcast organisations and resellers in the UK. Through the wholesale arm of BT Global Services, BT Wholesale supports its customers worldwide.sellers in the UK. Through the wholesale arm of BT Global Services, BT Wholesale supports its customers worldwide.
Founded in 1996, iBasis (NASDAQ: IBAS) is a leading wholesale carrier of international long distance telephone calls and a provider of retail prepaid calling services and enhanced services for mobile operators. iBasis customers include KPN, KPN Mobile, E-Plus, BASE, and many other large telecommunications carriers such as AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, China Mobile, China Unicom, IDT, Qwest, Skype, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, and Yahoo. In October 2007, iBasis acquired KPN Global Carrier Services to create one of the three largest carriers of international voice traffic in the world, and KPN became a majority stockholder of iBasis. On a pro forma basis, the combined company carried more than 23 billion minutes of international voice traffic in 2007. The Company can be reached at its worldwide headquarters in Burlington, Mass., USA at +1 781-505-7500 or on the Internet at www.ibasis.com
BICS delivers best in class global solutions for Voice, Messaging, Roaming, Connectivity and Mobile Financial Services to hundreds of telecommunication providers around the world.
With our passionate and creative teams located in Brussels, Bern, Monaco, Dubai, Singapore and New York, we continuously strive to provide our customers with the highest levels of quality, reliability and interoperability that enable them to maximise End-user value.
Our innovative approach is visible through our place at the forefront of the market consolidation and technology advancement. We are a joint venture of Belgacom, Swisscom and MTN, and have rolled out transformative Next Generation Networks (NGN). This together with our continued focus on Value Added Services for Mobile Operators and our growth strategy has enabled us to reach a world-leading position both on the International Voice and Mobile Data markets. For more information, please visit www.bics.com
Cable&Wireless Worldwide aims to be the first-choice provider of mission critical communications. It is one of the world's leading communication providers delivering a range of high-quality managed voice, data and IP-based services and applications to large corporates, multinational companies, governments, carrier customers and resellers across the UK, Asia Pacific, India, Middle East & Africa, Continental Europe and North America.
In the UK, the company owns the country’s largest fibre network dedicated to business users and provides ubiquitous access through a combination of fibre, digital, microwave, radio and leased circuits.
Internationally, Cable&Wireless Worldwide’s next-generation network (NGN) provides connectivity to 153 countries. Its Multi-Service Platform offers a single environment on which voice and data applications converge to drive business efficiencies. This network is designed with inbuilt resilience and the capability to re-route traffic across diverse paths.
Cable&Wireless Worldwide is committed to delivering exceptional customer service and developing long term partnerships with its customers.
To find out more, visit www.cw.com
China Telecom Corporation Limited is a full services integrated information service operator and the world's largest wireline telecommunications and broadband services provider, providing basic telecommunications services such as wireline telecommunications services and mobile telecommunications services, and value-added telecommunications services such as Internet access services and information services in the PRC. As of the end of 2009, the Company has wireline access lines in service of about 189 million, wireline broadband subscribers of over 53 million and mobile subscribers of about 56 million. The Company's H shares and American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") are listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and the New York Stock Exchange, respectively.
The company delivers world-class products, solutions and services to customers and clients worldwide by leveraging the innovative capabilities of its team.
Infonova works with a number of Distribution partnerships to broaden its reach, so that Infonova’s products and solutions are available faster and more directly to customers worldwide.
The expansion of our customer base is focused on companies that need to map new, innovative and highly automated business processes efficiently based on next-generation information and communications services for their end-users. www.infonova.com
Interoute owns the largest Next Generation Network covering the European Union, from London to Warsaw, from Stockholm to Sicily and beyond into the Continent's emerging economies, including Turkey, with nine subsea landing stations ringing the edge of Europe. To the West, the network links to North America's major telecoms hub. To the East, the network connects the Middle East to Europe through Dubai. In the South, Africa from Cape Town to Tunis connects directly to Europe through Interoute.
Supported by 55,000 kilometres of fibre, 21 metropolitan area networks, 8 data centres and 32 colocation centres with local operations in the 26 largest cities of Europe, we serve customers in the 15 major languages of the European Union.
Interoute provides a single platform for Information Technology services, which we call Unified ICT. Connectivity, Communication and Computing services are integrated on a single infrastructure that reduces cost and optimises security, performance and efficiency.
As a result, Interoute is key to Europe's digital supply chain, serving all the major incumbent operators as well as enabling for corporate customers more than €1 billion of e-Commerce transactions daily through our network. Consistently recognized as Europe's leading providing of bandwidth and transmission services¹, Interoute is increasingly distinguished for enabling Cloud Computing across the European footprint². For more information, please visit www.interoute.com
The France Telecom Group through its Orange brand is a world class carrier serving over 171 million customers in more than 220 countries and territories.
Its network spans the entire globe and allows Orange to be an established partner on the wholesale market, providing solutions to more than 1,000 mobile operators, international carriers, ISPs and content providers.
The Group delivers content-rich, innovative and easy-to-use fixed, mobile, Internet and bandwidth solutions under the Orange and France Telecom brands.
These solutions include different levels of customization to match carriers' requirements.
Dedicated wholesale teams, combined with leading-edge networks and R&D investments - that will reach 2% of its global turnover in 2008 - make it possible to offer top-end quality to its customers.
Being present on both retail and wholesale markets, Orange benefits from a global, in depth understanding of the industry. This allows a constant evolution of its solutions and a unique comprehension of retail players' needs as well as their wholesale implications. For more information visit www.orange.com/wholesalesolutions
Pacnet is more than a leading telecom and Internet provider. We are purpose-built to enable you to connect Asia in transformational ways. To elegantly bridge the national, cultural, and technological barriers that can routinely sap your momentum and waste resources. To provide you with an adaptive organization and infrastructure that delivers just the right mix of pan-Asian connectivity with reliability, value and efficiency. For more information, please visit: www.pacnet.com
Surf Telecoms supplies quality managed services including dark optical fibre carrier wholesale bandwidth, and leased lines.
Surf Telecoms manages a large portfolio of communications mast sites and colocation facilities throughout the region on behalf of Western Power Distribution Group.
Customers include communications providers, broadband ISP’s and broadcasters, systems integrators, communications intensive businesses, utilities, corporate sector business and the education and health sectors.
Surf Telecoms is a Western Power Distribution Group company. Visit our website: www.surftelecoms.co.uk
