Workshop

Deploying Innovative Services:

The Business Case for WiMax and IPTV

The deployment of new disruptive technologies will allow service providers the delivery of innovative services and guarantee new sources of revenue beyond usual data and voice services.  One of the most pressing questions that service providers have is about the investment requested to offer those kind of services and the main question is how to meet and/or exceed business expectations.

Part I

The Business Case for Wimax

Agenda: 13h30 – 15h Coffee Break

Objective:  This presentation is addressed to executives that require a broader understanding regarding the business aspects of applications, services and operations involving Wimax.  This workshop will focus on each area involved in the implementation of a successful Wimax business model, including the commercial, financial and technological aspects.

Topics to be addressed:

• How to choose the adequate business model:  market assessment and launching strategy
• Spectrum and license policies
• Evaluating the challenges concerning fixed and mobile network business
• Building a strategy regarding fixed or mobile network
• Planning the Wimax technology implementation:  structuring the assessment of investment and return on investment (ROI)
• Network’s technical aspects and commercial challenges

Part II

The Business Case for IPTV

Agenda: 15h30 – 17h Close

Objective:  This presentation will address the IPTV development and the opportunities for all service providers and will provide analysis of the key points concerning IPTV deployment and checking the potential impact on business.

Topics to be addressed:

• Will IPTV generate income or will it represent a competitive differential?
• Definition of the business models
• Identifying consumer segments in the beginning of the IPTV, VoD launching
• Choosing the content to be adopted by the IPTV content providers
• The importance of content to make the triple play offer viable
• Offers already implemented in the market
• Experiences and models in IPTV

Led by:  Jose F. Otero, President, Signals Telecom Consulting

Jose F. Otero is the President and founder of the international consulting firm Signals Telecom Consulting. Mr. Otero is one of the leading experts on the Caribbean Basin and Latin American telecommunications industry. His experience includes work on projects related to the development of the Pay-TV industry (CATV, IPTV and DTH), the implications of convergence and consolidation within the sector, the commercial viability of long distance services and MVNO’s, VoIP within a regional framework, mobile services and 3G, WiMax, etc.

Signals Telecom Consulting is a consulting firm that provides different services for the Latin American and Caribbean Basin telecommunications industry. The company has an international client base that includes service suppliers, infrastructure suppliers, financial institutions, governments and entrepreneurs.