Pacific Telecommunications Council

Vinton Cerf to Headline PTC'09

Vinton G. Cerf
Vice President and
Chief Internet Evangelist
Google

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Industry Leaders Featured at PTC'09


William Barney CEO Pacnet Hong Kong SAR, China		Vinton G. Cerf VP and Chief Internet Evangelist Google USA		Norikazu Endo GM, Advanced Electronic Department Toyota Motor Corporation Japan		Larry Irving Co-Chairman Internet Innovation Alliance, and President & CEO Irving Information Group USA


J.H. Kah Vice Preisdent, Global Business SK Telecom Republic of Korea		Dr. Shyue-Ching Lu Chairman and CEO Chunghwa Telecom Chinese Taipei		Hiroshi Matsui Senior Executive VP & Member of the Board of Directors NTT DoCoMo Japan		David McGlade CEO Intelsat USA


Michael R. Nelson Visiting Professor Georgetown University USA		Andrew Odlyzko Director Digital Technology Center University of Minnesota USA		Claire Paponneau Executive VP, International Wholesale Solutions Orange France		Shigeo Tani Dir-Gen Int'l Affairs, Global ICT Strategy Bureau, MIC Japan


Michael Tyler Managing Director Tyler and Company UK		Jack Waters Executive VP and CTO Level 3 USA		Greg Wyler CEO O3b Networks USA		Jidong Zhao Senior Vice President China Unicom People's Republic of China

Official Council Meetings at PTC'09

Notification of Meetings:

All meetings of the Board of Governors, Advisory Council and Members during PTC’09 are held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort and Spa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Credit Crisis Intensifies Collaboration Among Telecoms

PRESS RELEASE - 28 October 2008
PTC'09 Looks to Partnerships to Recession-Proof Telecoms Industry

HONOLULU - In response to the international credit crisis, telecoms have stepped up their level of collaboration with uncommon partners in a strategic move towards recession-proofing. Sharon Nakama, Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC), forecasts a major reduction to the number of costly projects-such as network infrastructure-building-which are financed and operated by just one entity.

Submarine Cable Sessions at PTC'09

Rational Initiatives or New Bubble?

by: John Hibbard, Executive Vice Chair, PTC Board of Governors and CEO, Hibbard Consulting Pty. Ltd., Australia

The PTC Submarine Cable sessions should once again prove one of the high points of the annual conference. With the submarine cable industry still booming and more and more countries aspiring to benefit from cables, the interest in new developments is intense.

Rationality has returned since the hubris of 2000, but this has not stopped competitive builds and the suggestions of excesses akin to a few years ago along with the obvious prognostications that we are headed for another bust.

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What participants have to say about PTC:

"PTC is a great opportunity for international service providers to meet and interact with fellow operators. The leadership seminars, panel sessions and keynotes provide a good complement to the formal and informal interactions that the event promotes."

-- Vinod Kumar, President, Global Data and Mobility Solutions, Tata Communications

"PTC'08 convinced me that the PTC conference is really the place where telecom service providers, content providers, academics and policy makers worldwide get together to exchange views on future telecommunications services within the Asia-Pacific region, and discuss the issues facing us..."

-- Yoshikazu Kobayashi, Senior Professionals for Governmental Programs, IBM, Japan

“It was a great pleasure attend the PTC'08 conference and learn more about the growth of ICT in the Pacific...This meeting provides an excellent opportunity for interaction and cooperation amongst the stakeholders, including policy makers, regulators, industry, as well as the international community. The ITU looks forward to continuing its excellent and very fruitful collaboration with the PTC.”

-- Sami Al-Basheer, Director, Telecommunications Development Bureau, ITU