PTC’09 will focus on the vital role of collaboration in bringing new communications services to market. It will simultaneously highlight the impact that collaborative efforts have on the industry, while featuring the importance of collaboration as the means by which ever more complex systems and services are developed and distributed, including user-driven applications that are accelerating demand in the global marketplace.
Special consideration will be given to proposals that address the conference theme. Proposals for PTC’09 participation are encouraged but not limited to the following topics:
International Communications: A World of Opportunity
The international wholesale market; the role of global companies in regional telecommunications markets; the role of regional companies in global telecommunications markets; global opportunities; network transformation; transformative business models; emerging vs. mature markets; value-added services. Leveraging global partnerships.
Submarine Networks: Growth and Transformation
Submarine fiber optic communications and infrastructure; network topologies and standards; system design and applications; project economics and financing; the system supply market; what´s old is new -- club cables and the future of international networks; future revenue sources. Land and sea partnerships.
Satellite Communications: Where the Earth Meets the Sky
Market developments; building satellite market share by driving applications; new technologies on the ground and in the sky; creative strategic alliances; space infrastructure -- building and launching satellites; the role of satellites in the new mobility; policy issues, e.g., spectrum battles, export issues; financial and investment perspectives.
Mobile Communications: Life with Ubiquitous Broadband
The world’s insatiable appetite for “mobility“; traffic flows; revenues; applications; business strategies; 3G, 4G, and WiMax; convergence of wireline and wireless; Wireline and wireless partnerships.
Whither Voice? Do voice carriers have a future?
What is the future of voice communications? Will voice become completely mobile? What is the future of interconnection? Should voice be free? What is “Telco 2.0“? Where are we in the transformation process to the “Soft Telco“?, Is PSTN dead?, ramifications of open networks and collaborative service development in a changing ecosystem,Understanding the impacts of “unified communications“; contextual voice (voice-enabled IP applications). Partnering with private voice applications.
New Applications Driving Broadband Demand
Will video choke the Internet? Lessons from Korea, Hong Kong and Japan; broadband supply and demand; new sources of traffic; trends in ultra-fast broadband; video, delivering HD-IPTV, femtocells and home networking, three screen services, social networking and user-generated content driving new requirements; what’s happening at the edge -- new applications. Partnering with advertisers and high-traffic applications.
The Enterprise Market: Becoming One with the Customer
Is retail the future of wholesale? Understanding user communities; a new generation of customers; new opportunities for business partnerships; identifying and meeting the needs of large users; understanding the prospects for telepresence. Partnering with your customers.
Public Policy and Building Civil Society
Development challenges in the age of broadband; de-regulation or re-regulation for the NGN? Distance learning and training; intellectual property; regional and country case studies; disaster management; Internet governance; serving smaller and island communities; the role of global and regional bodies (ITU, APEC, etc.); the role of ICT in economic development for emerging economies. Public-private-civil society partnerships.
Hot Topics
Proposers are invited to suggest (for a speaker or panel) topics, events or circumstances of unique importance or controversy which might impact or interest the PTC membership.
Example: 1.Entertainment and Telecom: Convergence Collision or New Partnership Opportunity? IPTV, VOD, MP3 downloads, Streaming Media—what’s the business model that works for both content and transport? What’s the role of the carrier in the entertainment industry of the future? Should telcos abandon the subscription revenue model in favor of targeted advertising to their customers? Who owns the customer? Who owns the content?
Proposals are accepted for Featured Speakers, Managed Sessions, Topical Presentations, Industry Briefings, Workshops and Research Papers including submissions for the research paper prizes for participants and students. See the flyer for details.
Submit your proposal online no later than 6 July 2008
