Open innovation - 31ème IDATE International Conference

Program

Workshop / Seminar

5th Trans-Atlantic Telecom Forum, Facing the crisis!

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Although the telecom services sector (voice, broadband and video, mobile, business) is not among the industries most directly affected by the deteriorating economic environment, the downturn has come at a time when the sector was already experiencing sharply declining growth. In Europe and the United States, effects of the maturity of the cellular market and the already widespread availability of broadband were compounded by an accelerated drop in the number of telephone lines, increased use of prepaid cards at the expense of mobile subscriptions, and downward pressure on business market services. At the same time, the investments needed to stimulate the emergence of innovative services, green policy, along with investments in Next Generation Networks (ie. LTE mobile network and FTTx ultra high-speed network rollouts) are in danger of being compromised by the heightened caution imposed by market conditions and the credit crunch, and by players’ desire to maintain their margins. In this environment, how will telecommunications factor into government stimulus packages and the effectiveness of regulatory frameworks governing the sector?

Programme

14:30
Welcome Speech

Yves GASSOT CEO IDATE

14:35
How is the crisis affecting the different telecom services markets (fixed-mobile-video-enterprise)?
Which players appear to be the most strongly affected and which ones the least?
ChairErik BOHLIN Chair ITS, Head of Division Technology & Society and Professor Chalmers University of Technology
Nicolas DIDIO European Equity Research Analyst Exane BNP Paribas
Didier POUILLOT Head Telecom Economics Practice IDATE

15:20
What is the impact of the credit crunch on investments (LTE and FTTx rollout timetables), R&D and on green objectives?
What place will infrastructure sharing have in efforts to reduce capex budgets? How is market consolidation likely to be affected?
ChairJames ALLEMAN Professor Emeritus University of Colorado
Jean-Philippe HAAG Senior Industry Adviser Société Générale
Marc LEBOURGES Economist France Telecom - Orange
Eli NOAM Directeur CITI, Professor of Finance and Economics Columbia Business School
Lawrence SUGARMAN Head of Western European Telecoms Research, Director ING Bank

16:30
Coffee Break hosted by Ericsson

16:50
Are we going back to state ownership and more stringent regulation?
Through the stimulus packages that include support for broadband and ultra-fast broadband? Through city and local authority-led initiatives? Do they need to do more to stimulate demand rather than focus on supply-side infrastructure provision? Are particular business models more suitable than others to ensure effective rollout and take-up of ultra-fast broadband? What regulatory frameworks need to be associated with the use of public finance?
ChairJohannes M. BAUER Director of Special Programs Quello Center, Michigan State University
Martin CAVE Professor and Director of the Centre for Management under Regulation Warwick Business School
Richard FEASEY Public Policy Director Vodafone Group Ltd.
Gabrielle GAUTHEY Senior VP Public Affairs Alcatel-Lucent
Tom KIEDROWSKI Principal Strategy OFCOM
Winston MAXWELL Partner Hogan & Hartson MNP

18:30
Closing Speech

Bernd LANGEHEINE Director,Electronic Communications Policy,Information Society and Media, Directorate-General European Commission

19:30
Gala Dinner hosted by the Languedoc-Roussillon Region and IBM

Managing Director

Yves Gassot
y.gassot@idate.org
+33 (0) 467 144 414

General Organisation

Nazia Cheick

mailto:n.cheick@idate.org
+33 (0) 467 144 449

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