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Event Organizers

Forum Global www.forum-global.com

Forum Global specialises in policy focused conferences and events, providing a platform for discussion and debate on topical issues across a variety of different sectors. These events are organized with clients and partners and aim to progress ideas and actions on important issues, all within a balanced and neutral setting.

 

Forum Global is the international arm of Forum Europe, which was founded by Giles Merritt, columnist for the International Herald Tribune, and is widely recognized as the leading EU dedicated event provider.

 

Headed by a team of events specialists with over 19 years of experience, Forum Global works successfully with businesses, institutions and governments alike. Its strategic services can maintain and develop your key policy networks, and also deliver forums where key issues can be aired and debated.

Platinum Sponsors

AT&T www.att.com

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company and one of the most honored companies in the world. Its subsidiaries and affiliates – AT&T operating companies – are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation’s largest 4G network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet, voice and cloud-based services. A leader in mobile Internet, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide of any U.S. carrier, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T | DIRECTV brands. The company’s suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world.

Coleago Consulting www.coleago.co.uk

Coleago Consulting is a specialist telecoms strategy consulting firm advising operators and regulators around the globe. Coleago is recognised within the industry as one of the leading specialists in spectrum strategy, valuation and auction support. Coleago’s team of spectrum specialists has delivered more than 40 spectrum valuation and auction bid strategy projects around the world. Our regulatory and spectrum related projects include spectrum and technology strategy, advice on Administered Incentive Pricing options as well as reports for regulators and NGOs such as “Best Practice in Spectrum Renewal and Pricing” for the World Bank.

Motorola Solutions www.motorolasolutions.com

Motorola Solutions is a leading provider of mission-critical communication solutions and services for government and enterprise customers. Our products enable seamless communications among government and public safety customers around the world, helping them carry out the mission-critical tasks that keep our communities safe. Our products also touch every part of the supply chain from the back-end transportation and logistics to the front-end, customer-facing experience. You can find our products at work in a variety of industries including retail, manufacturing, hospitality, healthcare, education, utilities, transportation and logistics, and government services.

Verizon www.verizon.com

Verizon Communications Inc., headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to consumer, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America’s most reliable wireless network, with more than 100 million retail connections nationwide. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America’s most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated business solutions to customers in more than 150 countries. A Dow 30 company with nearly $116 billion in 2012 revenues, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of 180,900. For more information, visit about.verizon.com.

Gold Sponsors

Globalstar www.globalstar.com

Having recently launched the world’s most modern satellite communications network, Globalstar has re-emerged as a leading provider of mobile satellite voice and data services, including its SPOT-branded consumer products which have initiated more than 2,500 rescues worldwide. Globalstar offers the best voice quality and superior data services to commercial and recreational users in more than 120 countries around the world so users can do business smarter and faster, stay connected to friends and family and access emergency assistance if needed. Globalstar continues to innovate in areas beyond satellite communications, as evidenced by introducing Terrestrial Low Power Service (TLPS), a unique solution to help alleviate existing Wi-Fi congestion and offer mobile broadband services over its licensed spectrum. Working closely with the FCC, Globalstar’s requested Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) was placed on circulation for consideration by the full Commission. For a complete list of products and services, visit www.Globalstar.com and www.FindMeSPOT.com.

SES www.ses.com

SES is a world-leading satellite operator, providing reliable and secure satellite communications solutions to broadcast, telecom, corporate and government customers worldwide.

 

We own and operate a fleet of more than 50 geostationary satellites that are complemented by a network of teleports and offices located around the globe. This far-reaching infrastructure enables our customers to reach 99% of the world’s population and places SES at the heart of the global communications chain.

 

SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) holds participations in Ciel in Canada and QuetzSat in Mexico, as well as a strategic participation in satellite infrastructure start-up O3b Networks.

Refreshment Sponsor

Ericsson www.ericsson.com

Ericsson is a world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and related services to mobile and fixed network operators globally. Over 1,000 networks in more than 180 countries utilize our network equipment and 40 percent of all mobile calls are made through our systems. We are one of the few companies worldwide that can offer end-to-end solutions for all major mobile communication standards.

Communication is changing the way we live and work. Ericsson plays a key role in this evolution, using innovation to empower people, business and society.
 
We provide communications networks, telecom services and multimedia solutions, making it easier for people all over the globe to communicate.

Cocktail Sponsor

O3b Networks www.o3bnetworks.com

O3b Networks is a global Ka-band satellite services provider operating a next-generation Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite network for telecommunications operators, Internet service providers, and enterprise and government customers in emerging markets. The O3b system will combine the global reach of satellite with the speed of a fiber-optic network, providing billions nearly 180 countries with low-cost, high-speed, low latency Internet and mobile connectivity.  From O3b‘s orbital altitude of 8,062km, latency is dramatically reduced, bringing it on par with long haul fiber transmission and enabling operators to consider satellite technology for applications that are latency sensitive. O3b’s satellites utilize multiple spot beams, which significantly increases satellite capacity and decreases the cost of bandwidth. On June 25, 2013 O3b’s first four satellites were successfully launched into orbit. Launch of the next four is scheduled for early 2014.  Commercial service will commence soon afterwards.  O3b's investors include SES, Google, Liberty Global, and HSBC.

Exhibitors

Adaptrum www.adaptrum.com

Adaptrum is a Silicon Valley based startup developing wireless technologies and market based mechanisms to enable new multi use network infrastructure and service models to meet the growing wireless broadband demand. Adaptrum was an active participant in the FCC TV Whitespace Device Testing in 2008 and was instrumental in helping pass the FCC TV Whitespace rules in November 2008 and September 2010. Earlier this year, Adaptrum became the first company to demonstrate a fully functional TV Whitespace radio system that conforms to the FCC Whitespace emission rules while offering superior performance and flexibility over a wide tuning range in the spectrum below 1 GHz.

iconectiv www.iconectiv.com

Telcordia Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ericsson, doing business as iconectiv, develops market leading solutions that enable operators to interconnect networks, devices, and applications critical to evolving the global telecommunications marketplace.

iconectiv’s White Space Database solution enables you to get the best of two worlds: Access to spectrum with superior coverage capabilities, and interference free operation, enabling  high quality and cost-effective wireless broadband access for a wide range of applications.  iconectiv is a FCC certified White Space database administrator, and is a leader in implementing commercial database solutions for communications service providers and regulators worldwide.

iconectiv's powerful, trusted, neutral solutions for the telecommunications industry includes spectrum management databases, number portability clearinghouses, mobile messaging services, anti-theft mobile device registries and other interconnection information services. iconectiv's solutions are used by more than 1,000 operators, regulators and content providers and are currently used to provide services to over 1 billion end users.

For more information visit www.iconectiv.com/whitespaces

LS telcom www.lstelcom.com

LS telcom specialises in software  and hardware solutions as well as consulting services for spectrum management and radio network planning for every type of wireless technology. Our comprehensive portfolio includes market and technology developments regarding future spectrum management challenges and solutions.

We are at the forefront of Spectrum Auctioning, GSM Refarming, Cognitive Radio and Digital Dividend world wide.
 
Our customer portfolio includes most of the spectrum regulators world wide, major network operators and commercial customers in 81 countries.

Knowledge Partners

Aetha Consulting www.aethaconsulting.com

Aetha Consulting provides strategic advice to the telecommunications industry and specialises in undertaking rigorous quantitative assessments to support major strategic and regulatory decisions. Our senior staff collectively have over 100 person-years of experience of advising telecoms operators, regulators, and financial & legal institutions.

Throughout the recent growth of wireless services, Aetha’s staff have been at the forefront of spectrum policy. In particular, three of Aetha’s founders (Amit Nagpal, Lee Sanders and Marc Eschenburg) have undertaken over 50 spectrum management policy and auction support projects for clients across the world during the last 5 years, including assisting regulators with the award of new spectrum bands and development of regulatory frameworks – for example supporting the European Commission to resolve high-profile issues such as spectrum trading and the digital dividend.

Aetha also support operators in understanding their spectrum needs, valuing spectrum and bidding in auctions. Our staff have supported bidders in over 15 spectrum awards worldwide in the last five years and, at the time of writing, are currently supporting operators in seven countries for forthcoming auctions. Our technical knowledge combined with our rigorous valuation modelling approach ensures that our clients are comprehensively prepared for auctions.

NERA Economic Consulting www.nera.com

NERA Economic Consulting is a global firm of experts dedicated to applying economic, finance, and quantitative principles to complex business and legal challenges. For half a century, NERA’s economists have been creating strategies, studies, reports, expert testimony, and policy recommendations for government authorities and the world’s leading law firms and corporations. We bring academic rigor, objectivity, and real world industry experience to bear on issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation.

 

NERA’s clients value our ability to apply and communicate state-of-the-art approaches clearly and convincingly, our commitment to deliver unbiased findings, and our reputation for quality and independence. Our clients rely on the integrity and skills of our unparalleled team of economists and other experts backed by the resources and reliability of one of the world’s largest economic consultancies. With its main office in New York City, NERA serves clients from more than 25 offices across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Supporting Partners

4G Americas www.4gamericas.org

4G Americas is an industry trade organization composed of leading telecommunications service providers and manufacturers. The organization's mission is to promote, facilitate and advocate for the deployment and adoption of the 3GPP family of technologies throughout the Americas. 4G Americas contributes to the successful commercial rollout of 3GPP mobile broadband technologies across the Americas and their place as the No. 1 technology family in the region. The organization aims to develop the expansive wireless ecosystem of networks, devices, and applications enabled by GSM and its evolution to LTE. 4G Americas is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., with an office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Dallas. More information is available at www.4gamericas.org

NSMA www.nsma.org

The NSMA is a voluntary international association of microwave radio/wireless and satellite frequency coordinators, licensees, manufacturers and regulators. Established in 1984, the Association provides a forum to develop industry guidelines for efficient use and management of the frequency spectrum by the wireless telecommunications community.

Media Partner

Media telecom www.mediatelecom.com.mx

Mediatelecom is a group that concentrates a regional news agency and think tank on telecommunications regulation. Mediatelecom is the most important web site in spanish in Latinamerica.