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Workshop 3: Exploring Mobile Broadband Opportunities
Mobility World Congress
Monday, 3 December 2007
Hong Kong
Agenda
| 9:00 |
Welcome and Market Dynamics: An insight into the industry and market dynamics that are driving the evolution to advanced broadband technologies and services – with an emphasis on lessons learned
Joe Lawrence, Vice President, Marketing, CDMA Development Group (CDG) |
| 9:30 |
Deployment Experience: Sprint will share details of their Rev. A deployments (network, services offered, successes, challenges) and future plans
Teresa Kellett, Director, Global Development, Sprint (USA) |
| 10:00 |
Mobile Broadband Solutions: An overview and comparison of existing and planned mobile broadband solutions based on 3GPP2, 3GPP and IEEE standards
Ravi Kalavakunta, Director, Corporate Marketing, Qualcomm |
| 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 |
Mobile Broadband Performance Comparisons: An overview of the study that compared mobile broadband solution performance
Joe Lawrence, Vice President, Marketing, CDG |
| 11:30 |
Network Evolution for CDMA Operators: Overview of the network infrastructure elements incorporated into the next-generation mobile broadband solution with focus on revenue-generating services and the interface of the evolved network with legacy nodes
Danny Locklear, Director, Mobility Access Product Marketing, Nortel |
| 12:00 |
Air Interface Technology Advancements: A description of the advanced radio antenna techniques, control and signalling mechanisms incorporated into next-generation solutions – with a focus on their evolutionary interface with legacy networks and existing revenue-generating services
Jingnong Lu, Director, Market Plan, Marketing Operations Department, Huawei |
| 12:30 |
Lunch |
| 2:00 |
CDMA Femtocells: A description of how to support new and evolving indoor radio environments and the advantages of CDMA for femtocells – with a look at their application in emerging markets
George Huang, Managing Director, Greater China, Airvana |
| 2:30 |
Market Opportunities: A description of new and enhanced mobile broadband services and applications enabled by the family of CDMA2000 advanced broadband solutions – with a focus on their ability to generate revenue in mature and emerging markets
Anil Barot, Director, CDMA Portfolio, Motorola |
| 3:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 3:30 |
Business Advantages: An overview of the ecosystem, network capacity, economic performance, flexible deployment scenarios, device availability, economies of scale, time-to-market advantage, mobility performance, etc.
Ed Chao, Vice President, CDMA Product Management, Alcatel-Lucent |
| 4:00 |
Deployment Experience: Starcomms will share details of their Rev. A deployments (network, services offered, successes, challenges) and future plans
Paul Edwards, Chairman, Starcomms (Nigeria) |
| 4:30 |
Discussion/Q&A |
| 5:00 |
End of Workshop |
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