Research and Markets: Wimax 2010 Conference - April 23rd 2010, New Delhi, India

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/fd6ed8/wimax_2010_confere) has announced the addition of the "Wimax 2010 Conference" conference to their offering.

April 23rd 2010, Hotel TBC, New Delhi, India

Wimax 2010: Strategies, Business Model Reengineering & Opportunities for WiMAX Development

With WiMAX subscriber base expected to reach 19 million by 2012 and WiMAX equipment market value projected to top US$600 million eventually following the auction of 2.3GHz and 2.5GHz licenses, Indian WiMAX market presents enormous business opportunities. India is slated to become the largest WiMAX market in the Asia-Pacific by 2013. A recent study sees India's WiMAX subscriber base hitting 14 million by Year 2013 and grow annually at nearly 130% which means that in the next four years about 20 per cent of the global WiMAX users will be in India, making it a $13-billion market.

Emerging markets are regarded as the primary market for the WiMAX industry, specifically India, whose market is expected to grow significantly. Currently, the number of people using broadband in India is relatively low. There are only 4.5 million users out of a population of 120 million. Therefore, it is certainly a great opportunity for WiMAX operators to increase their coverage area. It is predicted that there will be 27 million WiMAX users in India before 2012, which would account for 20% of the worldwide WiMAX market. These days, Indian operators, have already deployed a 802.16d fixed WiMAX network between 3.3GHz-3.4GHz. Some of them have already finished deployment in many cities. According to the data from the Indian government, the economic growth rate continues to rise 9% each year and mobile consumers continue to increase by roughly 8 million users each month. After the issuance of licenses for WiMAX network deployment, it is expected to bring large-scale business opportunities for purchasing WiMAX equipment and terminal products.

India probably will see the world's lowest end -to-end cost for WiMAX service and will drive costs down further than any other market. Integrated operators will erect WiMAX towers along with CDMA towers and derive further cost advantages. Third-party radio-tower companies have emerged within the last year in India who offer managed tower services for cellular operators. An extension of this would be to provide nationwide WiMAX tower services in managed -service mode. Bringing together thousands of towers is bound to create additional cost benefits to the WiMAX operator. Currently, cellular operators are deriving a 15 -18% cost advantage from shared tower services.

The Internet user population in India will have exceeded 200 million. This will be made possible by lower -cost PCs and notebooks, CPEs below US$40, and cheaper broadband service. It is predicted to accumulate 21 million BWA subscribers by 2014, counting both residential and business segments. WiMAX subscribers should represent the majority of this figure. Approximately 66% of the WiMAX subscribers will be mobile 802.16-2005, predominately residential, while fixed WiMAX will continue to be driven by large corporations and, to a lesser extent, by SME customers

The Indian market for WiMAX will continue to be one of the most sought after markets for global equipment vendors. The nation promises to offer huge, consistently high growth for the next several years, judging by its extremely low broadband penetration rates (under 3 million for a population of over 1 billion). It gives me immense pleasure in welcoming you to Virtue Insight's WiMAX 2010, and I wish you all the very best.

Key Themes Discussed at this conference:

• Increasing ARPU with innovative WiMAX services which are appealing to Indian consumers.
• Business applications: Best practices, service offerings & deployment
• Global marketing strategies in order to incite the user to use advanced data services.
• Strategies on boosting the penetration of WiMAX usage in smaller cities and rural areas.
• International success stories & lessons learnt from large-scale WiMAX deployments
• Exploiting the opportunities created by technology convergence
• Positioning yourself in light of new market entries & strategies for capturing the mobile market.
• Grabbing the WiMAX opportunity: regulation, network deployment & business models
• Analyzing the development of India's WiMAX policies, touching upon the overall telecommunications and broadband policies
• Outlining India's telecommunications market, stirring upon issues as broadband penetration and major players in the market
• Areas to be focused by network equipment providers, system integrators and testing service providers to tune themselves in the Indian environment.
• Analyzing the crucial issues and opportunities in standards, interoperability, spectrum, licensing, network optimization & frequency planning

Key Topics Covered:

08:30 Coffee and registration

09:15 Chair's opening remarks NK. Goyal, President, Communications & Manufacturing Association of India (CMAI)

EXAMINING THE WiMAX MARKET

09:30 Analysing the future market for WiMAX

10:00 Significance of mobility for operators investing in mobile WiMAX

10:30 Panel discussion: Challenges & Opportunities in upcoming markets

11:00 Morning coffee & Discussion

11:15 Turning the broadband revolution into winning opportunities

11:45 - International success stories & lessons learnt from large-scale WiMAX deployments L.V. Sastry,Vice President and Head, Bharti Airtel

12:15 - Panel Discussion - Regulator's Perspecitve Spectrum & Licensing policies for WiMAX To stimulate broadband access towards economic growth

12:45 Networking luncheon

13:50 Afternoon Chair's opening remarks Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, CEO, Telecom Industry Consultants

14:00 - Building successful wireless broadband services with WiMAX TV Sriram, Vice President - Technology, Airtel

14:30 Assessing the business case for delivering WiMAX services in emerging markets

15:00 Devices - Low Cost but a lot of features

15:30 Afternoon tea

TECHNICAL IMPACT

15:45 Network planning: The key issues for mobile WiMAX Neeraj Sonker, Vice President, Wireless Engineering & Implementation, Tata Communications

16:15 Mobile WiMAX drives speed to market for 4G networks

Data Sharn Mishra, Network Architecture Expert, Qatar Telecom

16:45 Panel Discussion SWOT analysis Strength, Weakness, Opportunities & Threats of WiMAX in India (Overall review of this WiMAX 2010 conference)

17:15 Chairperson's closing remarks and End of Conference Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, CEO, Telecom Industry Consultants

17:20 Networking Drinks Reception.

Speakers:

• NK. Goyal, President,
• L.V. Sastry, Vice President & Head,
• Vice President - Technology, Bharti Airtel
• Neeraj Sonker, Vice President, Wireless Engineering & Implementation, Tata Communications
• Vivek Vasishtha, Director, CMAI, Director, Intel
• Satyen Gupta, Chief Regulatory Advisor,
• Bharat Bhatia, Regional Director for Global Govt Affairs, Motorola
• Deval Parikh, Chief officer Handsets, VAS & procurement, Virgin Mobile
• Anil Prakash, Secretary General, ITU-APT Foundation of India, Secretary General, IPTV India Forum
• S.N. Zindal, Director General, Association of Competitive Telecom Operators (ACTO)
• S.D. Saxena, Chairman, PTC India Foundation (Former CFO BSNL, MTNL)
• Sridhar T. Pai, CEO,
• Communications & Manufacturing Association of India (CMAI)
• Bharti Airtel
• TV Sriram,
• BT Global Services-SAARC Region
• Tonse Telecom
• Data Sharn Mishra, Network Architecture Expert, Qatar Telecom

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