Next Generation Access Strategies '08

POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

3rd April 2008, Amsterdam

How Can You Make Money From NGA?

Led by: Ovum

As broadband service providers move towards the next generation of broadband services it is becoming obvious that a solution beyond ADSL is going to be required. But what solution should that be, who is going to pay for it, and will the revenue from these future broadband services be worth the heavy investment? These are the big questions we need to find an answer to.

This workshop aims to explore all such issues throughout four separate sessions covering:

• Customer demand for next generation broadband services
• NGA options and expected investment
• NGA Regulation
• Possible justifications for Government intervention.

The workshop will be hosted by Michael Philpott, principal analyst – broadband access, and Stefano Nicoletti, principal analyst

• telecommunications regulation. Attendees to the workshop will include representatives from key European telecommunication operators and regulators.

Ovum – Advising on the commercial impactof technology and market changes in telecoms, software and IT services

Ovum is the leading European headquartered authority on telecoms, software and IT services, with unique expertise where these sectors converge.We deliver essential advice on market trends and drivers, and unrivalled insight into companies, markets and technologies.

We work in a global market and that applies regardless of the size of your business. Our client relationships are founded on accessibility, responsiveness and good service.We have the highest client-retention rates in our industry and work hard to sustain these. Our global clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies and governments. They include IT vendors, IT service providers, technology user organisations, telecom operators, regulators, equipment suppliers, consultancies and investors.We have increasingly strong links with a number of trade associations such as the GSMAssociation and the EVUA.

Workshop Leaders:

Michael Philpott, Practice Leader – Consumer Group
Michael Philpott is a principal analyst specialising in broadband access strategy and technology. Michael is also manager of Ovum’s Broadband and ConnectedHome teams and is responsible for all of Ovum’s consumer broadband research. Michael’s contribution to this research includes reports in areas of broadband technology, operator strategy, broadband markets as well as detailed broadband network cost modelling and service demand forecasting. Michael joined Ovum in September 2000 and became manager of the Broadband@Ovum service in 2003. In 2004 Michael also helped to establish Ovum’s Telecommunications Technology group, and in 2006 developed and launched Ovum’s newest Telecommunication service, ConnectedHome@Ovum. Before joining Ovum Michael spent four years with BT Laboratories designing next-generation access networks.

Stefano Nicoletti, Principal Analyst, Regulation@ovum
Stefano is the service manager for the Regulation@Ovum advisory service. He is responsible for managing this service which provides interconnect and regulation advice to more than 50 clients around the world. Stefano also contributes to projects in the area of economic regulation and interconnection. He joined Ovum in 2003 and has a strong background in regulation gained through his work as a regulatory economist specialising in tariff regulation. He was responsible for implementing the new regulatory tariff regime in the Italian water services regulatory authority following the structural reform of the sector in view of the future privatisation.

Before joining Ovum, he worked as an IT consultant in Accenture and as a project manager with the Italian web services group Dada. He holds a MSc in Economics at the Universita’ degli studi di Siena and and a BSc in Economics from the Universita’ degli studi di Firenze, Italy.