2nd Annual Mobile WiMAX Congress
Operator Strategies and Service Delivery for Mobile Broadband
2nd-4th December 2008, Lisbon Portugal

Now firmly established as the meeting place for mobile broadband business leaders & service providers, the Annual Mobile WiMAX Congress takes place in Lisbon, Portugal on 2nd-4th December and will cover in-depth the very latest key issues concerning operators looking to determine their future Mobile WiMAX strategy.

Attending this event will enable fixed, mobile or broadband operators/service providers along with the new entrants to get the information they need to make the right decisions on Mobile WiMAX. In particular the congress will focus tightly on service provider strategies in response to the mobile WiMAX threat/opportunity, and evaluating business models for success in this marketplace. The congress will also enable business leaders to understand and evaluate the mobile WiMAX opportunity, get the latest updates on spectrum allocation, standards evolution, technology roadmaps, device availability - and of course the evolution of the consumer market for content and applications that will drive the personal broadband revolution.

The Mobile WiMAX Congress has been specifically developed for the Wireless/Mobile Broadband Community and is one of the only conferences in the marketplace focusing on Mobile WiMAX specifically. The conference has been developed for, marketed to, and successfully draws a global senior level business and technology audience from the entire EMEA Region and a total of 100+ countries around the world.

Confirmed speakers to date include:

• David Perlmutter, Senior Vice President, General Manager, Mobility Group, Intel Corporation (USA)
• Dr. Ali Afrashteh, VP WiMAX Development, Sprint Nextel Corporation (USA)
• Jeffrey M. Thompson, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Towerstream (USA)
• Michael Lai, CEO, Packet One Networks (Malaysia)
• Clement Hsiao, Head of WiMAX, Fitel (Taiwan)
• Nour Atout, Chief Executive Officer, Africa, VTEL Holdings (Dubai)
• Emil Nikolov, President & CEO, Nexcom Telecommunications (Bulgaria)
• Dr Hyacinth Nwana, Managing Director Mobile Media Solutions, Arqiva (UK)
• Phillip Redman, Vice President, Network Services and Infrastructure, Mobile and Wireless, Gartner, Inc. (USA)
• Naeem Y. Zamindar, Vice President & Head of Broadband Business Division, Mobilink (Pakistan)
• Dr. Khaled E. Ismail, GSM Services Director, Orascom Telecom (Egypt)
• Eduardo Duran Nardecchia, Director Innovation, Entel (Chile)
• Denis Seek Kwai Yin, General Manager, Access Technologies, Maxis Telecom (Malaysia)
• Torsten Thiele, Head of Telecoms, Project & Infrastructure Finance, Capital Markets, Investec Bank (UK) Limited
• Leonid Burakovsky, Director, Mobile and Convergence Solution Marketing, Juniper Networks EMEA
• Richard Swinford, Strategist, Arthur D Little (UK)

Key Themes to be Covered for 2008 Include:

• Mobile WiMAX business models and positioning strategies in developed and developing markets
• Latest operator experiences - case studies from recent 802.16e launches
  
• Timeframes for technology certification, interoperability testing, device availability beyond CPE
• 3G / mobile WiMAX / LTE coexistence and convergence
• Valuation models for WiMAX spectrum and update on licensing and spectrum policy, neutrality and availability globally
• Ecosystem development -- what has happened with Clearwire, Sprint, Intel partnership since the announcement in May 2008?
• Potential uptake of WiMAX by winners of Europe 2.6GHz auctions in 2008-2010
• What are the compelling services over mobile WiMAX – content, usability and application suite requirements for corporate users and consumers
• Roaming within WiMAX networks and with other mobile platforms
• New base station formats and access technologies - femtocells and remote radio heads – and their impact on indoor coverage and capacity
• Technological leapfrogging via WiMAX: case studies from Africa and Asia
• Progress on wave 2 certification; will there be a wave 3 and what it will look like; roadmap to 802.16m

Who Should Attend?
This event is for senior executives from all service providers operating or wishing to operate in the mobile WiMAX arena. That includes the CEOs, CTOs, CFOs and senior management of mobile operators, fixed telecoms service providers, broadband service providers and wireless ISPs – as well as new entrant WiMAX operators. Other attendees in the community will include Web 2.0 players, mobile content owners and mobile internet applications developers – as well as investors, analysts, regulators, equipment manufacturers and press. Geographically this is a truly global event.

To register contact Louisa Tribe on +44 (0) 20 8247 4000, Email: louisa.tribe@imago-group.com or go to www.mobilewimaxcongress.com

See also www.mobilewimaxcongress.com for further information

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