BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include local, national and international telecommunications services to our customers for use at home, at work and on the move; higher-value broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale.

In the year ended 31 March 2007, BT Group plc's revenue was £20,223 million with profit before taxation of £2,484 million.

British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York.

For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt

Telecom Italia is the top ICT company in Italy and a Europe -wide leader in offering high quality, value added, innovative services. The Group is a leading multimedia enterprise, operating in fixed and mobile telecommunications, internet and media, office and system solutions, research and development. www.telecomitalia.com

Juniper is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper offers a high-performance network infrastructure that creates a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network which fuels high-performance businesses. Unlike the competition, Juniper's open infrastructure delivers greater choice and control in quickly meeting high-performance business requirements, while reducing costs. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.

ADVA Optical Networking (FSE: ADV) is at the forefront of providing Optical+Ethernet solutions that advance next-generation networks for data, storage, voice and video services. Our company's strength comes from passionate and dedicated employees, all sharing a common vision: a fast, customized response to customers' ever-changing needs. Our innovative Fiber Service Platform (FSP) and strong customer focus provide carriers and enterprises the ability to scale their networks and deliver intelligent, competitive new services. ADVA Optical Networking's solutions have been deployed at more than 200 carriers and 10,000 enterprises around the world. For further information about ADVA Optical Networking: www.advaoptical.com.

Huawei Technologies is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications networks for operators around the world. The company is committed to providing innovative and customized products, services and solutions to create long-term value and potential growth for its customers.

Huawei's products and solutions cover wireless products_HSDPA/WCDMA/EDGE/ GPRS/GSM, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO/CDMA2000 1X, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX_, core network products ( IMS, Mobile Softswitch, NGN ), network products(FTTx, xDSL, Optical, Routers, LAN Switch), application and software(IN, mobile data service, BOSS), as well as terminals(UMTS/CDMA). Major products are based on Huawei's self-designed ASIC chips and shared platforms to provide high-quality and cost-effective products and solutions with quick response.

Huawei's products are deployed in over 150 countries, and serve 35 of the world's top 50 operators, as well as over one billion users worldwide.

For more information, please visit http://www.huawei.com

Part of the worldwide Fujitsu Group, Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe is a major supplier of broadband access equipment in Europe and is Fujitsu's worldwide design location for access network solutions — representing a centre of excellence for the development of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology. From its UK headquarters in the West Midlands, near Birmingham, Fujitsu designs, develops and manufactures telecommunications technology for the European market, specialising in supplying access network solutions to telecoms operators and service providers across Europe. Its technology is installed in telephone exchanges and commercial premises, delivering broadband services to millions of homes and businesses. In the UK alone, Fujitsu's technology accounts for over 5 million lines of DSL broadband.

Fujitsu plays a key role in the development of next-generation networks, and is contributing to BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) programme — the largest project of its type ever undertaken. The company's advanced Multi-Service Access Node (MSAN) technology, GeoStream Access Gateway, provides a common platform that supports fibre and copper terminations across a wide range of existing and next-generation end-user services. The GeoStream Access Gateway supports an extensive cross-section of residential and business IP services, which — for the 21CN — are managed and groomed over Gigabit Ethernet backhaul circuits onto BT's Metro Network. Fujitsu also provides network support, operation and management services to telecoms operators and service providers across Europe.

ZTE is a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions. The ZTE product range is the most complete in the world - covering virtually every sector of the wireline, wireless, services and terminals markets. The company delivers innovative, custom-made products and services to customers in more than 120 countries, helping them to achieve continued revenue growth and to shape the future of the world's communications. ZTE commits around 10% of annual turnover to research and development and takes a leading role in a wide range of international bodies developing emerging telecoms standards. It is the fastest growing telecoms equipment company in the world, and is China's only listed telecoms manufacturer, with shares publicly traded on both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges.
For more information, please visit www.zte.com.cn.

Huawei Technologies is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications networks for operators around the world. The company is committed to providing innovative and customized products, services and solutions to create long-term value and potential growth for its customers.

Huawei's products and solutions cover wireless products_HSDPA/WCDMA/EDGE/ GPRS/GSM, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO/CDMA2000 1X, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX_, core network products ( IMS, Mobile Softswitch, NGN ), network products(FTTx, xDSL, Optical, Routers, LAN Switch), application and software(IN, mobile data service, BOSS), as well as terminals(UMTS/CDMA). Major products are based on Huawei's self-designed ASIC chips and shared platforms to provide high-quality and cost-effective products and solutions with quick response.

Huawei's products are deployed in over 150 countries, and serve 35 of the world's top 50 operators, as well as over one billion users worldwide.

For more information, please visit http://www.huawei.com

Virtual Press Office is the leading online news management company offering innovative services to facilitate the communications process between high-tech firms and the Media. Information is centralized under one roof to ensure that journalists, analysts and industry consultants have the fastest and easiest access to the latest press releases, company backgrounders, white papers and graphics from the world's premier high-tech companies. www.virtualpressoffice.com

Business Wire is the leading source for full-text breaking news releases, multimedia and regulatory filings for companies and groups throughout the world. home.businesswire.com

Telecommunications® is the global authority on the business of telecom. Through monthly print magazines and a series of push e-mail products, interactive webinars and live events, Telecommunications® plays a leading role in informing agenda-setting service providers around the globe on the technology and business issues that affects their businesses, their networks and their bottom lines. Telecommunications® Magazine is owned by Horizon House, Inc., which also publishes Microwave Journal. Artech House, a sister company, is an industry-leading producer of high-tech books. www.telecommagazine.com

BCS Public Relations is a U.K.-based specialist telecom and technology agency with a global client base. With a staff of 20, the agency provides full-service support, including expert consultancy, technical writing, and trade show support, as well as a full complement of marketing skills, for companies aiming to raise their media profile and grow sales.

TelecomTV is the only online TV channel for the global ICET industry providing over 30,000 decision makers with essential news, analysis, and interviews with industry thought leaders every day. With 150,000 visitors watching 35-40,000 videos a month, TelecomTV is the channel of choice to access important industry information and disseminate rich media and video corporate communications. web20.telecomtv.com/

The TM Forum partners with the IEC to provide special programming focused on the latest OSS developments.

The TM Forum provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the management and operation of information and communications services. Our open membership of more than 500 companies comprises incumbent and new-entrant service providers, computing and network equipment suppliers, software solution suppliers and customers of communications services. TM Forum has been contributing to the Information and Communications Services (ICS) Industry for over 15 years. www.tmforum.org

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is the largest professional engineering society in Europe and the second largest of its type in the world, with 150,000 members worldwide. The Institution serves engineers and technologists working in an increasingly interdisciplinary, global and inclusive profession - providing technical and professional networks, journals, events and qualifications to meet the needs of today's technology industry. For more information, please visit www.theiet.org

Telecom Strategy Partners is a consulting and market analysis company with operations in Europe and North America. It provides forward-looking qualitative market analysis and consulting services, focused on product and service strategy, management, and marketing, delivered by a team with significant real world experience in both vendors and service operators. For more information, please visit www.telecomstrategypartners.com

Europe's leading source for on-line broadband media industry news is www.advanced-television.com, which incorporates a daily electronic news service and weekly news digest to keep executives up to speed on all important news stories in the sector. EUROMEDIA magazine, established as the leading exponent of in-depth analysis across the broadband business spectrum, is also available by qualified subscription. Further, a range of valuable data and management reports is available covering the sector.

AutomatedBuildings.com is an on line magazine and web resource providing the news, as well as connection to the exciting and rapidly evolving industry that automates large buildings. We have become the industries B2B web site providing connection for all new and existing automated building industry stakeholders. For additional information, visit www.automatedbuildings.com.

The Connect-World series of magazines is a forum for the highest-level decision makers in the telecommunications and information technology sectors to give their opinion about the impact of technologies upon developing regions of the world. Connect-World's editions (in Africa, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, eastern Europe and the CIS, and Latin America) address how telecommunications and ICT can help shape regional development. Connect-World's writers and readers are leaders of industry, governments, and international organizations; legal experts; bankers; and the like. Visit Connect-World at www.connect-world.com.

Written and compiled by an internationally renowned team of writers in the communications, IT and media marketplace, Convergence World informs and updates 10,500 senior executive decision makers by helping them to understand the full implications of the major commercial opportunities that convergence in all its various guises currently presents to their businesses. Convergence World aims to bring the highest quality to the reader through editorial opinion, news analysis, industry roundtables, sector features, reports, case studies, interviews with convergence industry leaders, new products, and viewpoint articles from industry commentators on a bi-monthly basis.

Read by corporate telecommunications professionals and senior technical management, European Communications (now approaching its 20th year of publication) is established as the leading journal addressing communications issues essential to the competitive success of network operators, service providers, content providers, carriers, OEMs, solution vendors, developers and businesses active in the deregulating and rapidly expanding European comms marketplace. Visit www.eurocomms.com to subscribe free of charge to receive print or electronic quarterly issues of European Communications magazine, to register to our monthly e-newsletters, regular keyword alerts and RSS feeds, and to check out the very latest information — updated daily — on the European Telco community.

Over the past 10 years FibreSystems Europe has become Europe's no. 1 publication for the optical communications industry. The magazine is being published quarterly and will continue to deliver highly respected, independent editorial coverage and analysis of optical communications technology and applications. The monthly Fibers Alert will keep you up to date with the latest industry news, products, events, and recruitment opportunities by e-mail. You can sign up at fibers.org.

FierceTelecom is an easy to read, daily email service covering the telecom industry. Benefit from our time-saving briefing on IPTV, WiMAX, Carrier Ethernet, IMS, Fixed Mobile Convergence and other network and service innovations. Learn why thousands of telecom insiders rely on FierceTelecom by signing up for your complimentary subscription today! www.fiercetelecom.com/subscribefull.php

HomeToys is an e-Magazine and Web Library focused on Home Technology Solutions — Thousands of Articles, News Stories, Companies, Products, Services, Links, and more. Whether for research or to share your knowledge and promote your products and services, HomeToys is the place to be. For more information, visit www.HomeToys.com.

ITP has been publishing the ITP Report, a cutting-edge business-to-business industry report, since 2001 and has become a brand synonymous with delivering high levels of service to both its partners and readers.

ITP Global's portfolio of market-leading industry reports set the agenda for today's C-level executives looking to maintain their business edge. With four regional hard-copy reports covering Europe, USA, Asia and the Middle East and ITPReport.com, the premier online destination for exclusive thought leadership on the ITSM, IP communications, Wireless and Business Continuity industries, ITP Global provides exclusive thought leadership and in-depth reportage to help your business get ahead and stay ahead.

MobileIN.com strives to help educate and inform industry professionals through focusing on a balance of wireless and mobile technology and applications as well as regulatory and business issues. MobileIN.com is dedicated to professionals engaged in the wireless and mobile network profession, including product and service providers, infrastructure and software developers, consultants and analysis, and the investment community. Come visit us at www.MobileIN.com.

Pipeline is a publication dedicated to in-depth discussion of OSS, featuring news coverage and perspectives from the industry's top analysts, leading OSS vendors, and our in-house editors. The monthly publication is read in over 130 countries in its web format. Free subscriptions to Pipeline's e-newsletter are available online at www.pipelinepub.com.

Telecompaper is a well respected, independent research and publishing company focused on the telecommunications industry. Founded in 2000, Telecompaper now employs 15 editors and analysts at its headquarters in Houten, the Netherlands, and also employs correspondents in various countries who track their local telecom markets. Telecompaper provides international customers with newswires, reports, research support, and advisory services.

Total Telecom Magazine is "The Economist of the communications industry". It provides expert commentary and authoritative analysis, incorporating both fixed and mobile communications services and focus on understanding today's business models in telecoms. Total Telecom Online has over 105,000 unique users every month and is updated constantly with the latest news and analysis. Subscribe now at: www.totaltele.com/Subscribe.aspx

Established in 1957, the British Computer Society (BCS) is the leading body for those working in IT. With a world-wide membership now over 60,000 members in over 100 countries, BCS is the qualifying body for Chartered IT Professionals (CITP). For more information please visit www.bcs.org

DSL Forum is a consortium of approximately 200 leading industry players covering telecommunications, equipment, computing, networking and service provider companies. Our work ensures that service providers are able to rollout, as well as introduce new services quickly and effectively, using common platforms and practices that makes all they do easily scalable, and economical. www.dslforum.org

The Fixed-Mobile Convergence Alliance (FMCA) is a global, non-profit organization focused on providing today's and tomorrow's Convergence customers with high-quality, seamless and easy to use products and services. Representing a global base of over 700 million customers who stand to benefit from the development of Convergence products and services, its objective is to ensure, through collaboration with industry, that devices, access points, applications and underlying networks interoperate to deliver the best user experience possible. For more information please visit: www.thefmca.com

The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) is an open forum launched by Telcos in December 2004 with the aim to release specifications of the home gateway. The HGI specification 1.0 has been published in July 2006, with 2.0 updates and additions in September 2007 and both consolidated in the merged version of the "Residential Profile" specification for the Home Gateway published on January 2008.The HGI is boosting the market of home communication services and driving the development of residential gateways supporting the delivery of multiple-play services. HGI is a non-profit organization of approximately 70 worldwide key players (operators and vendors) in the broadband home domain. For more information visit www.homegatewayinitiative.org

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is the largest professional engineering society in Europe and the second largest of its type in the world, with 150,000 members worldwide. The Institution serves engineers and technologists working in an increasingly interdisciplinary, global and inclusive profession - providing technical and professional networks, journals, events and qualifications to meet the needs of today's technology industry. www.theiet.org

The IPv6 Forum is a world-wide consortium of worldwide leading Internet vendors, Industry Subject Matter Experts, Research & Education Networks, with a clear mission to advocate IPv6 by dramatically improving technology, market, and deployment user and industry awareness of IPv6, creating a quality and secure new Generation Internet and allowing world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology, embracing a moral responsibility to the world. www.ipv6forum.com

The MPEG Industry Forum is a not-for-profit organization with the following goal: To further the adoption of MPEG Standards, by establishing them as well accepted and widely used standards among creators of content, developers, manufacturers, providers of services, and end users. www.mpegif.org/mpeg4/

The Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) is the leading professional organization promoting the advancement and commercial use of information and communication technologies, services, policies, and knowledge, to benefit its members and the people of the Pacific Hemisphere. www.ptc.org

The Software & Information Industry Association is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to the leading companies that are setting the pace for the digital age. For more information please visit: www.siia.net

The SIP Forum is an IP communications industry association that engages in numerous activities that advance and promote SIP technology, such as the development of industry recommendations, the SIPit interoperability and testing events, special interoperability workshops, and general promotion of SIP in the industry. For more information, please visit: www.sipforum.org.

The TM Forum is the industry association focused on transforming business processes, operations and systems for managing and monetizing on-line Information, Communications and Entertainment services. The Forum has almost 700 global members from across the converging industries of telecom, cable, media and the Internet. The Forum provides strategic leadership, business guidance, best practices, and pragmatic standards that empower companies to reduce costs, reduce time to market and improve service quality. For more information, please visit www.tmforum.org

The Wireless Communications Association International (WCA) is the world's premier association for wireless broadband, including but not limited to WiMAX. It hosts two annual conventions of industry leaders-in Washington, DC and Silicon Valley-and is particularly active in government relations on behalf of its 250 members from 6 continents For more information, visit www.wcai.com

The Wi-Fi Alliance is a global, non-profit industry association of more than 300 member companies devoted to promoting the growth of wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). Since the introduction of the Wi-Fi Alliance's certification program in March 2000, more than 4,000 products have been designated as Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™, encouraging the expanded use of Wi-Fi products and services across the consumer and enterprise markets. For more information, please visit www.wi-fi.org