Parallel to a mass process, with growth indexes far bigger than the dial-up connections worldwide, broadband is already facing highly complex challenges. Manufacturers, operators, and players from several segments are seeking to create feasible business models to extend broadband penetration and make more profitable technologies such as IPTV, which has proven efficiency and quality practical applications.

New options of use, mainly wireless, arise at a greater speed than the market capacity to find ways of giving them economic sustainability. In addition, the speed and multiplicity of possibilities engendered by new solutions often get out of pace with the current legislation not always capable of assimilating and regulating the new scenarios drawn by technologies in constant evolution.

Due to the high level of corporations, institutions, and professionals that will participate, Broadband World Forum Americas offers a rare opportunity to discuss the current situation and find ways to turn these challenges into new business opportunities and to disseminate broadband solutions worldwide.

For all that has been achieved in less than a decade of commercial use of broadband, the future holds pleasant prospects. Because of that, Telefonica is proud to sponsor an event of such magnitude, in which the exchange of ideas and experiences will certainly open new horizons for such a dynamic and competitive segment.

Antonio Carlos Valente
President
Telefonica Group Brazil