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Accessible and affordable connectivity in Singapore |
| Author: |
RADM (NS) Ronnie Tay |
| Title: |
CEO |
| Organisation: |
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore |
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254KB |
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RADM (NS) (Rear Admiral, National Service) Ronnie Tay is the CEO of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). Prior to joining IDA, RADM(NS) Mr Tay served in the Singapore Navy, including as the Chief of Navy. He was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Gold) (Military) in 2005 and the Long Service Medal (Military) in 2007.
RADM (NS) Tay was awarded the Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship to pursue undergraduate studies at Oxford University in the United Kingdom, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in Engineering Science. He also obtained a Master of Science in Management degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in USA. RADM (NS) Tay attended the Advanced Management Programme at Insead, France. |
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| Singapore is one of the most highly networked countries in the world; it has long recognised the importance of ICT as a driver of economic growth and social development and has systematically exploited ICT to accelerate the country’s development. Most Singapore households and businesses have computers and access to broadband Internet. The government is now investing heavily in its long-term plan, Intelligent Nation 2015 (iN2015), to meet new demands and to prepare the nation for the next phase of digital technologies. |
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2 |
| Topic: |
Business opportunities in the ‘Cloud’ |
| Author: |
Geoff Thomas |
| Title: |
General Manager, Asia, Communications Sector |
| Organisation: |
Microsoft Corporation |
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354KB |
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Geoff Thomas is the General Manager for Asia Pacific, Greater China, India and Japan within the Communications Sector at Microsoft.
Mr Thomas is responsible for sales and marketing, business development, consulting and support services in Asia. He began his career at Microsoft almost seventeen years ago in Sydney as an account manager, and has held various positions in Asia Pacific and the US, spanning the enterprise, SMB and channel segments. Prior to his current position, Mr Thomas was based in New York and held various regional and national sales leadership roles in the financial services, distribution and services sectors, rising through the ranks, first as Regional Sales Director for the Northeast and Central regions, and later as General Manager, where he oversaw sales, marketing, channels and technology strategy for the division. Mr Thomas has also served with IBM and Unisys during his career.
Geoff Thomas holds a Bachelor of Business degree from Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education in Sydney, Australia, majoring in accounting and finance.
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| To reduce both their operational and capital expenditures telcos, indeed most businesses, are compelled to transform their business and embrace new types of partnerships to deliver new revenue-generating services. The need to affordably access increasingly sophisticated services online is creating a demand for a new breed of online capability - Software-plus-Services. Telcos can create important revenue-generating services by partnering with software providers and offering both businesses and individuals pay-for-what-you-use access via the ‘cloud’ to sophisticated services. |
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3 |
| Topic: |
Cloud computing - what to look for in Asia |
| Author: |
Chris Whitney |
| Title: |
Director |
| Organisation: |
HP Labs Singapore |
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269KB |
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Chris Whitney is the Director of HP Labs Singapore, which undertakes exploratory and applied research into applications and data centre design for cloud computing. Prior to this Mr Whitney was the Director of the Service Automation & Integration Lab, as well as the Director for Research & Innovation for HP Services. He also served as CTO for the Customer Relationship Software Organization and worked at HP Labs Bristol. Before joining HP, Mr Whitney was the Founder & Chief Technology Officer for Active Reasoning, Vice President of Engineering for Cable & Wireless North America and Vice President of Service Development for Exodus Communications. Mr Whitney also held senior management and research positions for Marconi Software Research, British Telecom Research Labs, AT&T Network Systems International.
Chris Whitney has a BSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Computer Science, both from the University of London.
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| The ‘cloud’ is the next step in a revolution that began with the Internet. It will make computing capacity efficient and affordable, and redefine how people interact with technology. The total amount of digitised data is doubling every 18 months; it needs to be analysed, shared, and acted upon. The cloud will be the means to tame the information explosion and put it to use. Cloud services will displace traditional industries and bring extraordinary benefits to developing regions such as Asia. |
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4 |
| Topic: |
IP interoperability, sustainability and the cost of connectivity |
| Author: |
Mike DeVito |
| Title: |
Vice President |
| Organisation: |
BT Global Telecom Markets (GTM) Americas and Asia Pacific |
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295KB |
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Mike DeVito is the Vice President of BT Global Telecom Markets (GTM) in the Americas and Asia Pacific. Mr DeVito has more than 20 years’ experience transforming global companies in the technology industry; and has held a number of executive sales and general management positions with Equant, Qwest and MCI before joining BT. Mr DeVito worked extensively throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific regions.
Mike DeVito earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
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| As networks converge, operators must migrate towards an all IP environment while controlling their costs. Commodity pricing, and over-the-top services and content are undermining traditional business cases so collaboration with other operators, sharing infrastructure and high-end technological capabilities, is important, as is, the use of interoperability services to ease and speed the transition to all IP networks. Interoperability is a key to unlocking the ability to provide services efficiently and cost-effectively across multiple networks and multiple providers. |
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5 |
| Topic: |
Painting the town ‘green’ |
| Author: |
Nick Lambert |
| Title: |
Managing Director - Global Markets |
| Organisation: |
Cable &Wireless Worldwide |
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235KB |
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Nick Lambert is Managing Director of all Cable&Wireless Worldwide’s Global Markets operations; he also continues in his role as President of Asia Pacific. Mr Lambert’s previous position was at IBM as the Vice President of Infrastructure Management Services in Asia-Pacific, as well as the Asia Pacific General Manager for the company’s ‘i series’, mid-range servers. Earlier, Mr Lambert was the Managing Director of IBM New Zealand. Mr Lambert also held senior leadership positions with organizations such as Wang Computers System. At Sequent Computer Systems, Mr Lambert served as Managing Director for New Zealand, Managing Director for the Australia - New Zealand (ANZ) region and as Vice President of its Asia Pacific operations.
Nick Lambert graduated from the Victoria University with a bachelor’s degree in Biology. He attended the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania as well as the Boston University Executive Management Programme.
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| ICT accounts for two per cent of worldwide carbon emissions - about the same as the airline industry, and this could double over the next decade. ICT users can do much to reduce their carbon footprint and they can reduce their operating expenses while doing so. Steps such as consolidating and ‘virtualising’ data centre servers, optimising network utilisation and adopting video-conferencing and promoting remote working to reduce travel economises energy usage, reduces CO2 emissions and drastically cuts the associated costs. |
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Article no.: |
6 |
| Topic: |
Mobile finance - a service revolution |
| Author: |
Justin Ho |
| Title: |
Co-CEO |
| Organisation: |
Utiba Pte Ltd, Singapore |
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256KB |
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Justin Ho is the Co-CEO of Singapore-based Utiba Pte Ltd, a pioneer in the field of mobile-based transaction systems. Mr Ho has more than two decades of experience in the technology and finance sectors. Before founding Utiba, Mr Ho worked with NCR and Compaq Computers in a variety of various senior positions in the security and electronic commerce sectors. Mr Ho also founded Emerge Asia wand was its Managing Director.
Justin Ho earned an Engineering degree from the University of Melbourne.
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| In the coming years mobile industry growth will come from subscribers in rural areas and developing economies where access to conventional financial systems and services is lacking. Mobile financial services will be an important driver of mobile use; they let subscribers perform a wide variety of secure transactions - banking, payments, international remittances, loan operations - without needing a bank account. A recent study revealed that customers using electronic bill payment were almost twice as profitable and much more loyal. |
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Article no.: |
7 |
| Topic: |
Evolving voice messaging to call completion |
| Author: |
Mark Williams |
| Title: |
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific |
| Organisation: |
Acision |
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234KB |
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Mark Williams is the Senior Vice President and General Manager for Acision in Asia Pacific. Mr Williams brings with him over 30 years
of experience in the telecoms and IT industry. Prior to Acision, Mr Williams headed the global sales team in Amdocs where he also held the position of VP for Australia and New Zealand. Prior to Amdocs, at Ericsson Australia, he served as VP services for ANZ and as VP for the global service delivery centres in Asia Pacific. Mr Williams also held the position of inaugural Country Manager for Sony Ericsson in Australia following the merger of Ericsson and Sony’s mobile handset business.
Mark Williams has an MBA (Executive) from the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, Australia.
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| Mobile subscribers are now using their phones for more than voice and text. Nevertheless, voice still generates up to 70 per cent of mobile operators’ revenues, but these revenues are threatened and operators need new tools to maintain profitability. Visual Voicemail, Missed Call Alerts, Voice SMS, and Email Push are among the new solutions that operators are using to build call-generated revenues. By optimizing voice-messaging systems, stemming revenue leaks and stimulating additional calling, operators can often compensate for declining call revenue. |
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8 |
| Topic: |
The cost of connectivity |
| Author: |
Christian Fruean |
| Title: |
CEO |
| Organisation: |
Digicel Samoa |
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235KB |
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Christian Fruean is the CEO of Digicel Samoa. Mr Fruean oined the company as its Commercial Manager and subsequently took over as CEO to oversee the launch of its services. He had previously worked for the government-owned incumbent, Samotel.
Christian Fruean holds a Bachelor Degree in Management from Waikato University, New Zealand; a Masters of Commerce from the Australian National University (ANU); and is a Certified Public Account.
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| Since the Pacific Islands spread across one third of the earth’s surface, investment in connectivity is critical to the development and prosperity - to the very lives, of Pacific Islanders. Telecommunications, aviation and shipping are the bridges that connect Samoa to the outside world. So telecommunications are especially vital to the economic and social growth and development of the Samoan nation. The introduction of competition in telecommunications drove a significant increase in connectivity investments that provide the population with tangible dividends. |
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Article no.: |
9 |
| Topic: |
Multi-carrier enterprise connectivity in emerging markets |
| Author: |
Owen Best |
| Title: |
President Asia Pacific |
| Organisation: |
Reliance Globalcom |
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228KB |
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Owen Best is the President Asia Pacific for Reliance Globalcom. Before Reliance Globalcom, Mr Best was Vice President of Telstra Japan and Regional Director for Telstra Korea. Mr Best has over 22 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry, and has worked extensively in the Asia Pacific region in various senior engineering and operational positions with Telecom Australia, Telecom Australia International, OTC, and Telstra.
Owen Best earned a Bachelor of Engineering Degree (Electronics/Communications), a Master of Engineering Studies, and an MBA - all from the University of Queensland, Australia.
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| Emerging markets are increasingly important to the plans of many companies. Efficient communications are essential not only to integrate the enterprise’s local operation with the rest of the company, but also to integrate it into the local market. Global providers with experience of managing multi-vendor global networks work closely with local carriers to select the appropriate best-of-breed suppliers for each emerging market location and to integrate the solution under a single contract, with a consistent Service Level Agreement (SLA). |
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Article no.: |
10 |
| Topic: |
Data services and revenue growth |
| Author: |
Monica Ricci |
| Title: |
VP Product Management |
| Organisation: |
Intec Telecom Systems |
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228KB |
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Monica Ricci is VP Product Management for Intec Telecom Systems; she has 20 years of experience in the communications industry, 15 of which have been working with BSS vendors delivering billing solutions and consulting with service provider customers..
Monica Ricci earned a B.S. in Physics and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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| The building network capacity, speed and quality is essential if communications service providers (CSPs) are to support new types of content and media services. To pay for this they need new revenues. The revenue-building services require real-time, integrated, systems for managing, servicing and settling with third parties in complex and sophisticated ways. CSP business support systems (BSS) infrastructure must cope with multifaceted relationship management requirements and flexible charging models with per-partner pricing in the context of increasingly varied consumer service bundles. |
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Article no.: |
11 |
| Topic: |
A very different connected world |
| Author: |
Michael Lai |
| Title: |
CEO |
| Organisation: |
Packet One Networks (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd |
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288KB |
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Michael Lai is Chief Executive Officer of Packet One Networks, Malaysia (‘P1’). Mr Lai has over 20 years of experience in the Information, Communications and Technologies (ICT) industry. Prior to joining the group, Mr Lai was the CEO of TMNet, the region’s largest Internet service provider. Mr Lai was also previously Senior Vice President of Branding and Market Development for Celcom and Marketing Director for Oracle Malaysia. The Peak Magazine dubbed him the “Wizard of Wireless” and Malaysia’s English daily, The Star, reported that Mr Lai has one of the best resumes in the country to drive broadband forward.
Michael Lai is an Electrical Engineer by training with a Masters in Business Administration.
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| We increasingly get our information not from books and newspapers, but from screens of every type. Even our televisions, our ‘first screens’ will soon be connected to the Internet (a somewhat tougher job than it seems). Our social lives - especially if you are under 30 - now depend on the Net. Social history is being written on the net by Twitter; the US Library of Congress is archiving every public tweet since the beginning to document this era. |
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12 |
| Topic: |
In-building wireless |
| Author: |
Colin Abrey |
| Title: |
VP of Sales and Marketing |
| Organisation: |
Zinwave |
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234KB |
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Colin Abrey is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Zinwave. Mr Abrey came from Cambridge Broadband Networks Limited, where he was VP of Business Development before taking up the role of VP of Sales for Europe. Prior to that Mr Abrey was VP, International Sales & Marketing for Global Network Solutions, a division of L-3 Communications.
Colin Abrey is an Electrical Engineer. |
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| Businesses are increasingly hungry for bandwidth. Businesses expect seamless wireless coverage everywhere. High bandwidth 3G and 4G mobile signals are severe attenuated indoors. Picocells and femtocells short-range base stations improve indoor coverage, but are limited to a single service. Businesses need in-building systems that simultaneously handle multiple standards; only distributed antenna systems (DAS) currently do this. Passive and active DAS antenna networks and remote radio units deployed throughout a building amplify the wireless signals from a nearby macro base station. |
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Article no.: |
13 |
| Topic: |
Approaching IPv4 flatline |
| Author: |
Mohamad Rozaimy B Abd Rahman |
| Title: |
Executive Vice President |
| Organisation: |
Global of Telekom Malaysia |
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256KB |
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Mohamad Rozaimy B Abd Rahman is the Executive Vice President, Global of Telekom Malaysia (TM). Mr Rahman has also served as TM’s Chief Operating Officer, as Vice President of TM Global, responsible for the UK, USA, Hong Kong and Singapore and General Manager of Product Marketing. Currently, Mr Rahman also serves as a board member of several TM subsidiaries. Mr Rahman started his career as a Systems Engineer with AT&T Network Systems, moved to Concert Global Network anNetwork an AT&T and BT joint venture and then back to AT&T as Sales Director of AT&T Global Wholesale for South East Asia and South Asia before joining TM.
Mohamad Rozaimy B Abd Rahman obtained his Bachelor in Distributed Computing from the University of East London, and a postgraduate degree in Technology Management. He received early training in telecommunications technology at AT&T Bell Labs and attended the AT&T School of Business and Technology’s programme for Advance IP and Technology Management.
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| Only 330 million IPv4 addresses remain. Within a year and a half these addresses will be gone. IPv6 is the new version of the Internet addressing scheme that must be used to connect to the Internet. These addresses link everything and everyone to the Internet - your refrigerator could be next. Switching the addresses on the four billion currently connected devices is a big job, but a date must be set and a plan adopted to ensure an orderly transition. |
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14 |
| Topic: |
Chipsets and 4G in Asia-Pacific |
| Author: |
Raj Singh |
| Title: |
President and CEO |
| Organisation: |
Wavesat, Inc |
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354KB |
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Raj Singh is Wavesat’s President and CEO. Prior to Wavesat, Mr Singh served as VP of Marketing and Business Development at MoSys,
a provider of system-on-chip (SoC) embedded memory solutions. Prior to MoSys, Mr Singh served as Executive VP Worldwide Sales at Virage Logic; as the Co-founder, Executive VP and General Manager of 3Dlabs until its acquisition by Creative Technology; and also at Dupont as VP of the company’s Pixel operation.
Raj Singh holds an MA English Literature degree from the University of Aberdeen.
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| There is a massive demand for greater bandwidth service and applications. Wireless carriers worldwide are planning to move to 4G broadband (LTE or WiMAX) networks. Getting the radio bandwidth needed is one of the most serious problems many carriers face; there just aren’t enough frequencies readily available so the frequencies are fragmented and found in a number of different bandwidths. Multi-protocol 4G chipsets for both WiMAX or LTE will cut handset prices and facilitate roaming between the many WiMAX and LTE frequencies. |
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Article no.: |
15 |
| Topic: |
The hidden costs of mobile messaging |
| Author: |
Cyrille Even |
| Title: |
VP, Asia |
| Organisation: |
Tyntec |
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230KB |
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Cyrille Even is Tyntec’s Vice President for Asia; he is responsible for the company’s operations and business development in the Asian region. Mr Even has extensive experience in multinational telecommunications, media and gaming companies. Mr Even was previously COO and Vice President of Mobileway, now Sybase365, and a Marketing Director at Alcatel. Mr Even also worked as a consultant in IT Management in Canada and for System Interface Inc, as well as with Grundig in Malaysia.
Cyrille Even followed the INSEAD Telecom Program in Singapore, holds an MBA from Ottawa University in Canada and a Masters degree from Ecole de Management of Grenoble, France. |
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| SMS reaches nearly every corner of the world and anyone - that’s almost everyone today - can instantaneously transmit messages internationally for a matter of cents. In Asia alone SMS traffic is expected to grow to over 2.1 trillion messages in 2010. Messaging is a simple, profitable, mobile service, but as European operators quickly found out when they offered MMS picture messaging, there are hidden costs to deal with when done incorrectly, when it doesn’t function intuitively, simply correctly. |
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