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"NXTComm allows us to efficiently reach our SI and OEM partners in the Telecom Industry from across the USA and beyond and show them how they can create exciting value added services for end customers. This year especially, with the world-wide economic issues the industry faces, it’s those companies that think outside the box and aggressively drive new services at an affordable cost that will reap most rewards."
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Product Marketing Manager, TeleSoft Technologies
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IP Drivers of Convergence: Next Key Step
Wednesday, June 18 • 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM • Room S111
The pervasive migration to NGN technology, particularly in IP platforms has changes forever the competitive and regulatory environment and corporate focus of traditional communications companies, and created new and unprecedented "bed fellows". This presentation reviews the new competitors, technologies pushing convergence, partnerships, mergers, and joint ventures resulting from the new paradigm,and successes and failures to date in guessing at the right strategy based on few points of known data and many variables, not only in the telecoms industries but in the entertainment and media industries as they all converge. It includes EU and US operators, broadband technologies, IPTV vs traditional television, fixed-mobile convergence.
Speaker
Judith D. O'Neill, Shareholder and Chair of the New York Telecommunications Department, Greenberg Traurig LLP
Judith O'Neill has practiced law in the United States and internationally for 33 years, spending much of her time in the developing world. She concentrates her practice in telecommunications regulation, policy, privatizations, transactions and contracts or all types. She represents Governments, investment banks, large accounting firms and all sizes of private companies including enterprise consumers of communications, telecommunications carriers and new media companies. She works on telecommunications and new media mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, transactions, services and equipment contracts, interconnection, and call termination agreements, multiple dwelling unit telecommunications and media agreements and issues relating to converged technologies and industries, including fixed-mobile convergence, telecoms/entertainment convergence and changing market structures.
Judith lectures all over the world on the legal, regulatory, and business aspects of the telecommunications sector, including putting telecommunications companies and projects together with financing. Most recently, she has been involved in the growth of Voice over Internet Protocol and fixed-mobile convergence as well as issues related to potential content regulation and policy for new entrants into the media sector from the telecommunications sector. She has been active as well in Power Line Communications and WIMAX as alternative infrastructure solutions.