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October 2006, Volume 1 go to newsletter archive
In This Issue: WiMAX and More
Executive Perspectives
Critical insights from key industry leaders
Eros Spadotto Eros Spadotto
Executive Vice President, Technology Strategy
TELUS
Captured at the Broadband World Forum Americas 2006
Mr. Spadotto discusses TELUS' overall service offerings to remain competitive; goals and objectives for TELUS TV and CDMA wireless broadband; challenges and opportunities in migration from a PSTN-based network to an IP-centric network; his thoughts on TELUS' plans, progress and vision; and more.
 
Horst Melcher Horst Melcher
President
Deutsche Telekom K.K.
Captured at the Broadband World Forum Americas 2006
Mr. Melcher shares his executive insight on drivers for profitable broadband services and DT's Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). He also discusses plans and progress in the Japanese market; globalization and its impact on the industry; DT's progress, plans, and vision; and more.

Technology Briefing
Broadband Trends:
Enabling a Quality IPTV Customer Experience
Educational content provided by Telcordia
As IPTV services are rolled out, new challenges emerge in delivering a quality experience to customers. Providing a high-quality picture, clear audio, and instantaneous channel changes becomes more complex when video is delivered using IP.

This article focuses on design issues associated with providing a comprehensive customer experience, including QoS in terms of each of the elements of an end-to-end video and multimedia service chain and how these elements integrate to build a complete system for assuring the customer experience. Read full article...

Making Innovation Happen:
The Telecom Innovation Life Cycle
(Part 1 of 6)

Educational content provided by Eckart Pech, President and CEO, Detecon, Inc.
In today's dynamic markets, the ability to adapt and develop is playing a more important and increasingly critical role. The development of innovations and the implementation of these to the overall benefit of the company can provide significant competitive advantage.

In this special six-part article series by Detecon, we look at telecom innovation life cycles to present practical examples and methods for the identification of innovations in telecommunications companies, the analysis and assessment of their market maturity, testing them as prototypes, their rollout, and finally their operational implementation. Read part 1 of 6...

Analyst Corner
The Analyst Corner features perspectives from a range of leading information industry experts.

Wu Tao
Specialist, Network Marketing Department
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

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