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Opening Remarks: Sharon Nakama (PTC CEO) welcomes us to PTC ‘10, acknowledges hard work of leadership, program chairs. John Hibbard (Chair, Board of Governors) welcomes and thanks attendees, thanks sponsors, opens conference.
Program Co-Chairs Stephan, on behalf of himself, Gary, & Richard thanks attendees, others who contributed to program development and execution, encourages everyone to get involved in program development for next year. Gary Kim advises listening for clue: within next 10 years telecom will be replacing telecom model with new revenue streams. Richard introduces first speaker
Dr. Yan Bo of China Unicom: Making Information Life a Reality. Challenges and opportunities (innovation changes the world): Impact of global economic downturn (spending, rates, churn), intensified competition in telecom market (traditional services: long distance, local, mobile, also broadband; revenue and profits), full service competition (competition among three operators with full service licenses compete in every service aspect). Chinese economy growing 8% in 209, many market opportunities from 3G licenses. Many Asian countries will contribute to increasing demand and development.
Market players: China Mobile (TD-SCDMA), China Unicom (W-CDMA) and China Telecom (CDMA2000). China Unicom has integrated strength in North, WCDMA license, and international resources, producing synergies in market. Global operations can reach every corner of the world (carrier services, partnerships). Their aim: rich international network resources, extensive product portfolio (wireline, mobile, other), establishing broad partnerships (100 carriers in 70 countries/regions, business relationships w 400 mobile and fixed operators).
What’s information life today? virtualization, digital home, e-health, telepresence, e-govermnents; anywhere, any device, any time. Applications: video phone, broadband access, news, music and video streaming. Knowledge of customer’s business offer long term relationships, becomes a one-stop solution for networking needs. This builds experience and knowledge (2008 Beijing Olympic Games, fully experienced solutions providers).
Innovation is key to sustainable development and success: innovation of management practice for opportunity & challenge, multi-dimensional service & core competence, customer satisfaction. Cloud computing is a business model (demand, access, capex). Includes software as a service (SAAS), platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service. Ecosystem: users/brokers – providers – constructors; provides network and infrastructure resource as a constructor, platform and VAS w other service providers, large scales of customers as channel to users/brokers.
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