10.00 Mobile WiMAX at 3.5GHz: The Momentum Is Building

Operator

• 3.5GHz – Can it really deliver mobile WiMAX?
• What’s happening with spectrum regulation?
• What about propagation?
• 2.5GHz versus 3.5GHz?
• What about hybrid networks?

1. Faisal Ahmed, VP Strategy & Planning, UK Broadband Ltd, (UK)

10.30 CASE STUDY: MTC-Vodafone Bahrain – Pioneering a Fully WiMAX-Based, National- Wide, Broadband and Voice Network

Operator

• MTC-Vodafone: from mobile-only to full telecommunications services
• WiMAX as an answer to lack of LLU
• The 16d vs. 16e question – practical answers
• Overview of MTC Vodafone’s WiMAX network
• The performance of the WiMAX network
• WiMAX product offering
• Relations with existing mobile business: competition or convergence?
• Competition with DSL

1. Esam Zainal, Network Technology Director & WiMAX Project Director, MTC-Vodafone, (Bahrain)

11.00 Networking & Refreshments Break

11.30 Creating a Successful WiMAX Experience

• What value can WiMAX bring to an operator?
• Convergence network and service experience; RAN Sharing (Wholesale); BCMC
• Opportunities, challenges and solutions for WiMAX deployment in Europe
• Learning from successful early experiences with WiMAX

1. Pablo Brito, Vice Director Europe Wireless Marketing, Huawei Technologies

12.00 Assessing Who Will Be The Winning Players (The Traditional Mobile Player, The Internet Players, Others?) Within The Mobile WiMAX Space

• How will the global landscape develop in terms of WiMAX and other wireless broadband technologies (Asia, America, Africa, Europe)?
• Comparing Mobile WiMAX to 3GPPs Long Term Evolution (LTE)
• Assessing the status of the key drivers for making Mobile Internet and Mobile WiMAX work

1. Santiago Castillo, Managing Consultant, Capgemini TME, (Netherlands)

12.30 Greenfield Operator PANEL DISCUSSION: How to Deploy & Position WiMAX in an Incumbent’s Playground

Operator

• Strategies for introducing WiMAX into a congested broadband market
• WiMAX vs. WiFi
• WiMAX vs. Wireline
• WiMAX vs. Cellular
• The important of plug & play CPE solutions to competing with the incumbent
• Pricing as a differentiator
• Does controlling network cost = controlling capacity?

1. Greg Ofili, Senior Product Manager, (Lead WiMAX Strategist), EarthLink, (USA)
2. Libor Studnicka, Chief Sales Officer, Mvox, (Germany)
3. Peter Ziegelwanger, CTO, WiMAX Telecom, (Austria)
4. John Munnery, Chairman, TransTelecom, (Bulgaria)
5. Esam Zainal, Network Technology Director & WiMAX Project Director, MTC-Vodafone, (Bahrain)
6. Nikola Percin, Chairman of the Board, OiV, (Croatia)

13.15 Networking & Exhibition Visit

Stream A

Spectrum Licensing, Regulation and Mobile Internet Technologies

14.15 3.5 GHz Spectrum Allocation In Germany

Regulator

• The 3.5 GHz band
• The 3.6 - 3.8 GHz band
• The 5.8 GHz band
• Spectrum in the 1.8 GHz, 2.0 GHz and 2.5 GHz band

1. Stefanie Wagner, Broadcasting Section, Bundesnetzagentur, (Germany)
2. Klaus-Udo Marwinski, Assistant Head of Section – Frequency Award & Assignment Policy, Bundesnetzagentur, (Germany)

14.45 Overcoming the Challenges of Radio Interference and Implementing a WiMAX System into Lightly Licensed Spectrum

Operator

• Exploring the opportunity, challenges and solutions in a highly competitive and constantly changing urban environment with other service providers in the 5.4 & 5.8 GHz band
• Interference, capacity, reliability, QoS, equipment, risks and future outlook
• Implications of DFS upon planning and available capacity

1. Oliver Bosshard, Shadow CTO, Urban Wimax, (UK)

15.15 WiMAX Within The Scope Of IMT-2000 & IMT-Advanced

Operator

• Spectrum for IMT
• IMT-2000 6th radio interface: "OFDMA TDD WMAN"
• IMT-Advanced timeline
• Uwe Löwenstein, Manager Spectrum Technology, o2 Group Technology, (Germany)

15.45 The Allocation of BWA Frequencies in Portugal

Operator

• How can the conditions attached to the allocation of frequencies contribute for the promotion of competition?
• The advantages and disadvantages of the beauty contest and the auction system
• Portugals support for mobility within the 3.4 - 3.8 GHz spectrum band
• The principle of technology neutrality in the allocation of frequencies

1. Senior representative, ICP Anacom, (Portugal)

16.15 Networking and Refreshments Break

16.45 CASE STUDY NEXTGENTEL Uncompromised Wireless Internet

Operator

• The transition from fixed, via nomadic to mobile Internet
• WiMAX as backhaul for WiFi zones
• Maritime broadband solutions

1. Ingvar Henne, Product Manager WiMAX, Nextgentel, (Norway)

17:15 Mobile Internet Technologies - How to do an Apples-to-Apples Comparison?

Operator

• Technologies adressing The Wireless Internet Challenge: 3G, HSPA+, WiMAX & LTE
• Research community efforts to push the limits further
• What Matters: Peak, Average or Cell-Edge Users?
• NGMN Performance Evaluation Metrics and Adaptation in 3GPP LTE & IEEE 802.16
• Reference Depolyment Scenario
• Performance Results between Touting and Realism

1. Dr. Ralf Irmer, Principal Engineer, Vodafone Group Strategy, Group R&D, (UK)

17.45 Greenfield Operator Businesses Models: Lessons & Pitfalls and Spectrum Constraints

• Is WiMAX really an "easy way into the game" for those who lack 3G spectrum?
• WiMAX spectrum purchasing costs & forecasts for Europe
• The pitfalls of building out a WiMAX network

1. Robert Westwick, Principal Consultant, PA Consulting, (UK)

18.15 Hearing the Regulatory Perspective of the Auctioning Of WiMAX Frequencies in The Netherlands

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1. Remko Bos, Acting Director Broadband, OPTA, (Netherlands)

Stream B

Global Roaming Initiatives

14.15 WiSOA Update on Global Roaming Initiatives & the World’s First WiMAX Roaming Agreement

Association

• Technical overview of Global Roaming Initiative and partners
• Business model for WiMAX Roaming
• How to enable Roaming today and earn incremental revenue

1. Kenneth Ashworth, Director, WiSOA, (USA)

14.45 Preparing the Early Growth Of WiMAX Through Global Roaming

• Roaming; key to growth
• WiMAX Roaming Roadmap
• True wireless IP roaming, WiFi and WiMAX

1. Bram Jan Streefland, Co-founder/Managing Director, Trustive, (Netherlands)

15.15 WiMAX in the Caribbean - The Great Equalizer – A Mobile Phone Operator’s view

• Digicel – Corporate overview
• Market statistics (Jamaica and Cayman) – setting the stage (Competition, market size, legal/regulatory, etc.)
• Business case/Strategy – High Level
• Technology and frequency choice (Fixed vs. Mobile WiMAX vs. 3G and 2.3, 2.5, 3.5GHz)
• Network design (Utilizing GSM infrastructure, backhaul options, pros & cons etc.)
• Product portfolio (From mobile operator to full service provider “over night”)
• Lessons learned (What WiMAX do well vs. its challenge, etc.)
• Mobile WiMAX the next frontier (Our vision of the next generation WiMAX and its potential)

1. Magnus Johansson, Director Broadband, Digicel, (Jamaica)

WiMAX QoS, Billing and Indoor Coverage

15:45 CASE STUDY MOBITV: Protecting Network QoS Over WiMAX Triple Play Services

Content Owner

• Managing datarates across data, voice and video
• Efficient delivery architectures for multimedia
• Balancing the needs of upstream and downstream traffic
• Managing mobility with real-time services

1. Alan Moskowitz, Director, CTO Office, MobiTV, (USA)

16.15 Networking and Refreshments Break

16:45 Test Strategies for Mobile WiMAX Networks

• Interoperability testing
• Conformance testing
• Mobile WiMAX Air Interface Testing
• Mobile WiMAX Security Testing
• Mobile WiMAX Protocol Testing

1. Othmar Kyas, Director Strategic Marketing Network Diagnostics, Tektronix Inc

17.15 ROUNDTABLE: Addressing the OSS/BSS Challenges of Global Roaming WiMAX Service

• Understanding the complexities of OSS/BSS in WiMAX
• What are the possibilities for global roaming in WiMAX from an OSS/BSS perspective?

Delegates will divide into groups to discuss their experiences and seek solutions to important questions currently facing WiMAX operators. Feedback will be presented by each group at the end of the time allotted, giving every delegate the chance to make their voice heard and interact with the audience and speaker panel.

17:45 Indoor, High-Capacity Coverage with WiMAX: How Are Operators Meeting The Challenge?

• What are the specific challenges that operators face in indoor coverage?
• Support for mobile devices, bandwidth-intensive applications, high throughput requirements from subscribers?
• What will be the role of 802.16j?
• Backhaul: fixed or wireless? In-band or out-of-band?
• Can microcells and picocells reduce site acquisition costs and efforts?
• What solutions are network operators considering?
• What is the impact of microcells, picocells, femtocells on CAPEX and OPEX?

1. Monica Paolini, Founder/President, Senza Fili Consulting, (USA)

18.15 Close of Conference Day Two

Day 3: Thursday 29th November 2007

EASTERN EUROPEAN OPERATOR FOCUS DAY

8.30 Registration and Refreshments

9.00 Chairman's Welcome & Introduction

9.30 CASE STUDY WiMAX TELECOM: Business Models for Eastern Europe

Operator

• Changes in WiMAX business models
• An operator’s perspective of the technology evolution of WiMAX
• Exploring Fixed WiMAX for rural areas
• Market experience Slovakia and Austria
• Mixed WiMAX/WiFi applications

1. Peter Ziegelwanger, CTO, WiMAX Telecom, (Austria)

10.00 CASE STUDY: TURKCELL: Turkish WiMAX Case: New Opportunities

Operator

• WiMAX vision in Turkey
• Possible Application fields
• WiMAX as a R&D topic

1. Ahmet Akan, Product Manager WiMAX, Turkcell, (Turkey)

10.30 CASE STUDY: MAX TELECOM: Evaluating the Critical Success Factors for WiMAX Deployment in Bulgaria

Operator

• Deployment of Wave 2 mobile 16e solution
• Offering voice services
• Offering content

1. Krassimir Stoitcheff, CEO, Max Telecom, (Bulgaria)

11.00 Networking & Refreshments Break

11.30 CASE STUDY: TRANSTELECOM BULGARIA: The Realities Of Setting Up A WiMAX Operation

Operator

• 16d/e transition
• The market approach and product portfolio
• Turning an access technology into a service
• Differentiation from other WiMAX and data operators
• Technical issues – coverage and planning for mobility; vendor selection
• Financing the business

1. John Munnery, Chairman, TransTelecom, (Bulgaria)

12.00 CASE STUDY: BALTIC BROADBAND (BaltMAX) Mobile WiMAX - Thorny Path in Highly Competitive Market: Time to Market vs. Maturity of Technology

Operator

• How is WiMAX already impacting on the Baltic market?
• Which customer segments and types of service are best addressed via WiMAX deployment?
• Understanding the full range of technology and regulatory challenges

1. Sergejs Millers, CEO, Baltic Broadband, (Estonia)

12.30 CASE STUDY: NETIA: The Polish Example

Operator

• Market and regulatory environment
• Rationale for WiMAX
• Products and offers
• Next steps

1. Marek Trznadel, Product Development Director, Netia, (Poland)

13.00 Lunch Break

14.15 CASE STUDY: NORBY TELECOM: Mobile WiMAX Strategy and Development Plans In The Baltic Region

Operator

• Mobile WiMAX Pilot Project Scope In Riga, Latvia
• WiMAX deployment plans in Lithuania
• One ecosystem for broadband access - integration of WiMAX with existing network infrastructure
• WiMAX service evolution from fixed to mobile

1. Edgars Ricevs, CTO, Norby Group, (Latvia)

14.45 PANEL DISCUSSION Key Business Case Considerations for WiMAX Network Deployments: 16d vs 16e

• Exploring the decision making process behind 16 d vs 16e
• Determining coverage range and requirements
• What types of services are enabled? Comparing the opportunity for commercial success

1. Randall Schwartz, Principal Consultant, WiMAX 20/20, (USA)
2. Emil Nikolov,President & CEO , Nexcom, (Bulgaria)

15:30 CASE STUDY: VIMPELCOM

Operator

• Learning from Vimpelcom's experience of WiMAX technology trials and considerations
• What are the strategic and technical challenges for Vimpelcom with WiMAX?

1. Natalya Roudenko, Director Technological Development, Vimpelcom, (Russia)

16.00 CLOSE OF CONFERENCE

Pre-Conference Workshop – 26th November 2007

Planning A Profitable, Long-TermWiMAX Network Strategy

This in-depth workshop is ideal for those interested in deploying WiMAX networks. Attendees will learn about the basic design considerations for fixed, portable and mobile WiMAX networks along with a framework for the successful planning and deployment of these networks. This workshop will cover the access services network and associated network infrastructure required to support the complete spectrum of services delivered by a WiMAX infrastructure.

WiMAX technology has quickly gained ground as a preferred broadband access technology. This session is designed to dig deep beyond the hype and into the reality of deploying networks, addressing the technical and practical issues that a network operator must address prior to deployment. Attendees should leave the workshop with a clear framework of the various tradeoffs, and a practical sense of how to evolve a WiMAX network over time to maximize the return on investment in the transition from fixed to portable to mobile usage models.

09.30 Registration Opens

10.00 Workshop Opens

Session 1: Situation Audit

• State of the standard an update on the evolution of IEEE 802.16 standards for fixed and Mobile WiMAX and associated WiMAX Forum working group projects
• Review of operator business models for emerging and developed markets: Should I go after the urban market or rural? How do I incorporate fixed, portable or mobile? Single use or Hybrid network?
• Capacity and Performance Tradeoffs: How much data can I deliver? How far? What about interference? Non Line of Sight performance?

Session 2: Network Architecture & Services Architecture

• The Basics: Planning a WiMAX access network with Quality of Service
• Delivery of voice & video: lawful intercept, multicast, deep packet inspection
• Portable and Mobile Services: radio resource management, user authentication, service flow management, handoff and integration with IMS
• Management and Control Plane

Session 3: Putting it all together

• Service Offerings: Business and Residential Internet; Voice; Video; Mobile IP; VLAN and VPN; Hybrid WiFi/WiMAX
• A Project Management Framework for success
• Service Provider Case Study: Putting WiMAX in Motion

17.00 Workshop Closes

Kevin F. R. Suitor - Vice President, Business Development and Marketing, Redline Communications

Mr. Suitor joined Redline in 2001 and brings to Redline extensive market and technology knowledge of North American service providers and equipment manufacturers. Before joining Redline, Mr. Suitor held various senior level positions in several organizations, most recently with CopperCom's Business Development Group. Earlier, Mr. Suitor built a solid track record at the executive level in a variety of roles with organizations such as CTI Datacom, Tekelec, DCI Digital Communication Inc. and Wandel & Goltermann. Mr. Suitor has written numerous contributed articles in a variety industry publications and is a regular speaker on topics such as WiMAX, ATM, Gigabit Ethernet, Virtual Private Networks and Voice Services.