Although it was initially intended to enable third-generation packet-switched mobile networks to access IP-based applications and services through Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), marketing hype has driven IMS to an overarching umbrella architecture for offering IP-based services regardless of the user's access technology. Regardless of the hype, IMS represents one of the most important telecom technology developments of this decade, enabling the transmission of any type of media (i.e., voice, video or data) using any type of access method. In this telebriefing Yankee Group will discuss the IMS reference architecture and it's importance to the future development of WiMAX.

Speaker: Brian Partridge, Director, Enabling Technologies, Yankee Group

The Mobile Internet will be everywhere, allowing consumers to access information no matter what their physical location. A unique promise of the mobile internet is the ability to combine access to everything in context with where the consumer happens to be. In this telebriefing, Yankee Group discusses the importance of location to mobile Internet technologies.

	Speakers: Jill Aldort Senior Analyst, Yankee Group
	Chris Collins Senior Analyst, Yankee Group

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Speakers: Philip Marshall Senior Vice President, Yankee Group

Tom Gruba Senior Director of Marketing, WiMAX Network Solutions, Motorola, Inc.

Pepe Lastres Marketing Director, LTE & Cellular Network Solutions, Home & Networks Mobility, Motorola, Inc.

Speaker Bios

Philip Marshall
Senior Vice President, Yankee Group

Philip Marshall, Ph.D., is vice president of Yankee Group's Enabling Technologies--Service Provider group. Dr. Marshall leads telecom technology research, which arms clients with the knowledge and tools to capitalize on global connectivity change. His expertise spans topics related to wireless, broadband, wireline and regulatory. He manages a team of analysts that investigate market and service opportunities and technology trends for existing and future telecommunication systems. He has been with Yankee Group since 2000 in various roles, including managing Yankee Group's wireless technology research. Complete Bio >>

Tom Gruba
Senior Director of Marketing, WiMAX Network Solutions, Motorola, Inc.

Tom Gruba is Senior Marketing Director responsible for WiMAX Marketing in Motorola's Home & Networks Mobility business.  Gruba started marketing Motorola's wireless broadband products with the 2002 launch of its award winning Canopy® wireless broadband portfolio.

He has been with Motorola for eleven years and has served in various business development and marketing roles in both Motorola Networks and the Internet Content and Software Group.  Prior to joining Motorola, Gruba was at ATT Bell Laboratories, ATT Network Systems and Lucent Technologies for 13 years where he held numerous management roles in engineering and product marketing.

Pepe Lastres
Marketing Director, LTE & Cellular Network Solutions, Home & Networks Mobility, Motorola, Inc.

Pepe Lastres is Marketing Director responsible for LTE & Cellular Marketing in Motorola's Home & Networks Mobility business.  In this role, he is responsible for overall LTE, 2G and 3G product marketing including activities related to product and technology direction. 

Pepe previously served as the Director of 3G Solutions Marketing where he supported the global introduction of CDMA 1X, DO Release 0 and DO Revision A.  He has also held the post of Director of Business Marketing for Motorola products in support of our key accounts.  In this role, Pepe was responsible for understanding customer requirements to insure delivery of critical network programs.

In November of 2007, Qualcomm acquired mobile payments solution provider Firethorn. This costly acquisition of a company with little revenue signaled great confidence in the nascent market. In this telebriefing Yankee Group discusses how far the market has come since then, and how Qualcomm's influence will shape its development.

Speaker:
John Paisner
Analyst, Yankee Group

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Consumer adoption of Femtocells has significant challenges to overcome, however the benefits of the technology are myriad. In this telebriefing Roberta Wiggins analyzes the femto market, and the inherent challenges and opportunities.

In the (near) future, what will consumers see when they first open up their mobile Internet? What do they want to see now? In this telebriefing Yankee Group discusses the potential for search engines, social networks, and potential upstarts to own the eyeballs in the next generation of the mobile Internet.

As the bidding winds down for the US 700MHz spectrum auction, Yankee Group analysts pause to discuss the implications of the like outcome.

• Will the auction be judged a success from the perspective of the original objectives of the FCC and commercial operators?
• What are the likely new owners of this spectrum chunk planning, and what will it mean for consumers in the US?
• What are the implications of the likely outcome of the D Block auction for the planned national public safety network?

Certification of Mobile WiMAX products has started and several big name operators are committing to starting commercial roll-outs during 2008. These include BSNL in India, with an ambitious 3G/4G program; the new spectrum holders in Japan; and Orange, with plans to expand in many African territories using 802.16e. But there have been doubts cast over the risks attached to the flagship US deployments, Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, and meanwhile many other large operators are looking towards an accelerated development roadmap for LTE, which will provide many of the same performance improvements as WiMAX. Behind the grand statements, where will the dollars really be spent on WiMAX systems in 2008-10, and which operators will take the lead? Caroline Gabriel, research director of Rethink Research Associates, will discuss these issues in light of a newly updated survey of the WiMAX plans of about 500 service providers.

Speaker:
Caroline Gabriel
Research Director, Rethink Research

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In this session, the latest market forecast will be presented and the key drivers and inhibitors for adoption will be discussed. The salient characteristics of emerging and mature market service delivery requirements will be discussed, and the competitive threats of competing technologies investigated. Coverage includes:

• Drivers and inhibitors for WiMAX adoption
• Emerging and mature market ecosystem development
• Competitive market threats and companion market support
• Conclusions and Recommendations

Speakers: Philip Marshall VP Enabling Technologies, Yankee Group Carlton O'Neal Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Proximetry Paul Trubridge Vice President of Product Management, Airspan

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As the fastest growing telecom market in the world, India has been rolling out WiMAX to meet market demand for broadband services. India's adoption of WiMAX technology is crucial to the success of WiMAX initiatives. This presentation will cover the following topics:

• India WiMAX user base forecast for the next five years
• Current status and trends of 3.3G Hz fixed wireless access in India
• Regulatory issues of WiMAX in India
• Major India service providers' WiMAX strategy

Speaker:
Philip Marshall
Senior Vice President Enabling Technologies Research, Yankee Group

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Simultaneous with the evolution of WiMAX is the development of community broadband wireless networks. As a licensed resource, WiMAX provides cities with a reliable, future-proof infrastructure designed to integrate with the Wi-Fi ecosystems that many municipalities are implementing today.

• How do WiFi and WiMAX play together in digital cities?
• How do municipal broadband initiatives relate to the broader national service provider network deployments, and
• How can cities become customers on these nationwide broadband networks?

Speakers: Roberta Wiggins Research Fellow, Enabling Technologies Service Provider Group, Yankee Group Angela Whiteford Director, Municipal Wireless Solutions, Nortel

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The US has been the most significant region in blazing the WiMAX trail, with Sprint Nextel and Clearwire now joining forces to create a national network that could be highly disruptive to existing telecoms operators. This major roll-out is not the only WiMAX activity in the country, with AT&T also owning suitable spectrum and some smaller providers using the technology for broadband and metrozone applications.

In this telebriefing, Caroline Gabriel will examine the likely impact of the WiMAX operators on other wireless activities in the US and the level of investment they will need to make to capture major market share. She will also look at the vendors that will be best positioned to serve the US operators, and at some of the innovative business models that the technology could support.

Finally, there will be new opportunities for WiMAX in the US as new spectrum becomes available, and the technology's backers will have their eyes on the valuable but hotly disputed 700MHz band in particular. The briefing will offer forecasts of how WiMAX operators will fare in that band and the likely impact of the auctions on product development and service roll-out.

Speaker:
Caroline Gabriel
Research Director, Rethink Research

There is no area of technology which has had a greater number of systems proposed for how it should work, than mobile TV, with no less than 12 separate methods of organizing radio signals to carry mobile video, each falling into clearly distinct approaches, and that's not counting simple cellular streaming. Your options are to:

• build a dedicated terrestrial OFDM network
• build a dedicated OFDM hybrid satellite terrestrial network
• use existing audio multiplexes to deliver video as well
• dedicate bandwidth from voice services to broadcasting video
• add a mobile signal in the spectrum which carries digital TV

The right system for a given country depends upon its terrain, existing spectrum allocations, overall wealth, population density, mobile devices penetration and the allegiances' of its operators.

Should WiMAX networks add to this confusion by developing their own technique for mobile TV or should operators look to borrow from what's already there?

Speaker:
Peter White, President, Rethink Research; Editor, Faultline

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