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Event highlights:

  • Keynote Addresses
  • Plenary Panels
  • InfoVision Award
  • Technology Exhibition
Opening Ceremony
Wednesday Keynotes
Thursday Keynotes
Friday Keynote
World Forum Chair
Chunjiang Zhang
Chairman of the Board and President
China Network Communications Group Corporation
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Xu Qin
Director General
National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)
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Houlin Zhao
Deputy Secretary-General
ITU
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Yaoping Jiang
Vice Minister
MII
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*Note: Spoken in Mandarin
Xun Sheng Zuo
Executive Director and CEO
China Netcom
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Alex Deng
Senior
Vice President
Huawei Technologies
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*Note: Spoken in Mandarin
Tony Park
Vice President
The9
 

Alex Arena
Executive Director and Group Managing Director
PCCW Limited
 
Bill Barney
Chief Executive Officer
Asia Netcom
Daily news highlights will be provided during the event.
"Disruptive" apps like P2P and video-oriented services like YouTube are pushing up average user's traffic to 50-100% per year
Bill Barney, president and CEO of Asia Netcom, receives his prize from IEC EVP Roger Plummer. Hong Kong-based Asia Netcom was recognized by the judging paor an intnel for its call aggregation service. Other winners in the InfoVisio awards included Cisco felligent services gateway, Microsoft for its XBox IPTV, Samsung for personal intelligent TV and China Netcom Labs for an integrated service platform for mobile.
Zuo Xun Sheng says network traffic growth is outpacing revenue growth
WiMAX to play an important role in rural areas in Asia and elsewhere
The world's large operator will set up 3G networks in eight cities and introduce HSPA next year
Nokia Siemens Networks is to provide China Mobile Beijing with a turnkey push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) system.
Over 200 million customers worldwide are now using DSL and xDSL for broadband connection, up 29% from a year earlier
Chunjiang Zhang talked about the power of broadband to fuel economic growth and the challenges traditional operators face
The broadband battle is being fought between "imperialist" telcos and "guerilla" Internet firms, the Yankee Group says
Security, storage, home networking and optical are among the favorite investment targets for American venture capital firms this year
The Chinese government says telecom operators and service providers should increase their broadband investment in rural areas
Gigabit passive optical network (GPON) is set for growth, predicts Alcatel-Lucent, as carriers look to meet the increased the demand for high-bandwidth services
The operator will go ahead with trials of the domestically-developed AVS standard
The 2008 Olympics in Beijing looks set to become a testbed for a mix of new wireless technologies, both homegrown and foreign
OUHK tutor Jack Mak (left) and Christopher White, Stanford student and CEO of White's Consulting, use directional antennas, a helicopter and laptops running new experimental software to hunt for Wi-Fi access points and test SmarTone Vodafone's HSDPA connections
The home gateway is all about eliminating complexity, sayd CTO of the Home Gateway Initiative
Bandwidth management is gaining increased interest from telcos, thanks to the growing rollouts of VoIP, IPTV, VoD and gaming
The Japanese giant has formed an alliance with local map publisher Zenrin to jointly provide advanced map and navigation services for mobile customers
Ericsson has signed a five-year contract with KPN in the Netherlands for access network field maintenance for the Dutch operator.
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