Content has gone digital and the next wave of industry growth will come from non-voice and value added services. With pipelines full of potentially lucrative services and partnerships, Operators need insight based on actual usage and driven by understood value.
The flexibility of IP-centric communications networks – means operators can maximize the inherent value of their networks by gathering information about their IP services, manage network access and enforce contract terms.
This panel will discuss state-of-the-art practices in identifying, authorizing and charging for services, strategic choices faced by Operators as they migrate from circuit switch to an IP-centric network, and customization of service business models by flexibly applying a mixture of payment policies depending on what is appropriate to the interaction.
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Jon Hindle
Director, Mobile Service Provider Marketing
Cisco
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Mr. Hindle's current role is to drive Cisco's vision for the evolution of networks and business models across the mobile service provider segment, business users, and the consumer market. Mr. Hindle joined Cisco working with service providers to develop business plans to support the rollout of IP networks. In 2000 he joined the mobile business at Cisco, where he led the technical strategy for Cisco's entrance into the mobile market. Prior to Cisco, Mr. Hindle was at GPT/Siemens and Fujitsu.
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Chung Chan
Chairman
Mobile Telecom Network Ltd.
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Mr. Chan founded or co-founded several high-technology companies in Asia and the United States. He was the Robert D. Black Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. Mr. Chan is a fellow of the IEEE and holds approximately 40 U.S. and international patents. Mr. Chan was also the chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Plasma Sciences in 1996 and the chairman of 1998 International Conference on Cross Field Devices and Applications. Mr. Chan graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1981 and has approximately 300 scientific publications.
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Bernd Hoogkamp
Head of Mobile Community
TeliaSonera International Carrier
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Mr. Hoogkamp joined TeliaSonera International Carrier in 2005. He has close to 10 years of experience in the telecommunications industry in various roles in wholesale, interconnection, and the regulatory field. Prior to joining TeliaSonera International Carrier, Mr. Hoogkamp worked as interconnect manager at Orange Netherlands. Prior to Orange Netherlands, he held several wholesale-related positions in various companies in the Netherlands. Mr. Hoogkamp holds a bachelor's degree in international business and languages from the Hogeschool Arnhem en Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
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Lothar Jakobs
Program Director, Asia Pacific
Openet
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Mr. Jakobs has more than 15 years of software engineering and delivery experience and more than 13 years of experience in designing, developing, and delivering revenue management systems in the telecommunication space. He was a solution architect with Convergys, Atos Origin, and Sema as well as part of the LHS global architecture team before joining Openet.
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