WHAT:

This year's CDMA Americas Congress will provide attendees valuable insights from more than sixty of the wireless industry's leaders who will discuss such subjects as migrating from TDMA to CDMA2000, opportunities with WLAN, implementing advanced CDMA technologies and generating revenue with innovative mobile devices.

The event will include keynotes, general sessions, special interest tracks, the eighth annual CDMA Test Forum and pre- and post-conference workshops.

WHO:

Industry experts will share their knowledge and experiences in deploying CDMA2000. Keynotes this year are senior executives from BellSouth International, Ericsson, IBM Corp., KDDI, Kyocera Wireless Corp., Lucent Technologies, Openwave Systems, Oracle, Qualcomm, SmartCom PCS, Sprint, Sun Microsystems and Verizon Wireless. Additional companies on the program include: Bell Mobility, Deutsche Bank, Gartner Group, Industry Canada, Monet Mobile Networks, Movilnet, Nextel, NTIA, Rutberg & Co., SK Telecom, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, Telesp, Telstra, US Cellular and Yankee Group.

Americas Congress sponsors include Airvana, Convergys Corporation, Ericsson, Huawei Technologies, Kyocera, Lucent Technologies, Metawave, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Openwave Systems, Qualcomm, Spirent Communications, Starent Networks, Tahoe Networks and Wavecom.

Exhibitors at the CDMA Americas Congress are Advanced RF Technologies, Agilent Technologies, Airvana, Anritsu, Audiovox, Bridgewater Systems, Celerica, Comarco Wireless Technologies, Comverse, Elektrobit, Ericsson, Funk Software, Gemplus, Grayson Wireless, Kyocera, Lucent Technologies, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Qualcomm, Racal Instruments, Rohde & Schwarz, San Diego Telecom Council, SchlumbergerSema, Spirent Communications, Sprint, Superconductor Technologies, TestQuest, UCSD Extension and Wavecom.