The Global Mobile WiMAX Congress is the meeting place for mobile broadband business leaders. It's for the next generation of mobile broadband service providers: new entrants or existing fixed, mobile or broadband operators. the executive management of operators and service providers to get the information they need to make the right decisions on mobile WiMAX. The congress is focused tightly on service provider strategies in response to the mobile WiMAX threat/opportunity, and evaluating business models for success in this marketplace.
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Time to market seems mission critical for mobile broadband technologies and most speakers seemed convinced that the wireless broadband crown has already been passed to WiMAX.
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The congress will 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.
Key themes to be covered 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
Past and present speakers include:
Tim Burke, VP, Liberty Global (USA)
Joe Muscat,CTO, Vodafone (Malta)
Jim Madsen,EVP, NextWave (USA)
Jeanine Van Der Vlist, CEO, WorldMAX (Netherlands)
Peter Jerry Sorenson, CEO, Clearwire Denmark
Eric Hamilton,CTO, Unwired Australia
Scott Wickware, Vice President Carrier Networks, Nortel