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Asia Pacific Infrastructure – Building Tomorrow Today |
| Author: |
Gregg Daffner |
| Title: |
President |
| Organisation: |
G3 Global Communications Consulting |
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Gregg Daffner is the President of G3 Global Communications Consulting, providing business development, regulatory and transactional advice to communications and information services companies. He specializes in strategic planning for enterprises engaged in satellite, broadband and emerging e-commerce applications. Prior to this Gregg served in a variety of positions including: Chief Strategic Officer for PacAmTel Broadband; Vice President for Global Market Access for Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications; Senior Vice President and Chief of Strategic Planning for Lockheed Martin Intersputnik based in London; Head of Broadcast and Fixed Satellite Services for Cable & Wireless Hongkong Telecom. He also acted as an independent consultant to numerous ventures including Hughes’ SpaceWay Asia-Pacific, Orion Network Systems and Columbia Communications Corporation; Vice President for Market Development and Regulatory Affairs for PanAmSat; and Director of International Policy for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Mr. Daffner is a practised attorney. He practised with NTIA, Jenner & Block and Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin and Kahn in Washington DC. He is a dedicated member of both the Board of Trustees and the Executive Board of the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC). Since 1994 he has also been a Founding Executive Board Member of the Asia Pacific Satellite Communications Council (APSCC). In addition to all his achievements he is also a founding member of the Satellite Industry Association (SIA) and the Alliance for Competitive International Satellite Services.
In a prior accomplishment Mr. Daffner was a based in New York filmmaker and video artist. |
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| Telecommunications infrastructure is sadly lacking in much of the Asia – Pacific region, without adequate telecommunications. Universal phones and Internet availability could fuel economic development. The region’s government, recognize this but lack resources to build the systems. As anchor tenants of private sector networks, they can insure their viability, provide cost-effective e-government services and underwrite the means for regional economic development. The next – generation satellite – based networks would provide a cost – effective way to rapidly extend service availability. |
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Article no.: |
2 |
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Choosing the Right Technology for Location – Based Services |
| Author: |
Jason Angelides |
| Title: |
Director |
| Organisation: |
TruePosition |
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| Jason Angelides is a director at TruePosition in King of Prussia, PA. He has been with the company since 1998, and has been involved in the design and development of wireless products since 1994. Jason has a BS from Villanova University and a Master’s degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. |
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| Location – based services differ in performance and in their ability to support legacy mobiles and low – cost devices. As a general rule, U-TDOA, which calculates location based on any user’s phone signal, is best for high accuracy and availability in indoor, urban and suburban areas. E-OTD, which uses the base station’s signals, is for suburban applications requiring moderate accuracy. A-GPS, based on satellite signals, is accurate in suburban and rural environments and Cell ID works for low – accuracy services in cities. |
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Article no.: |
3 |
| Topic: |
Déjà Vu for the FSS Industry |
| Author: |
Larry Valenciano |
| Title: |
Regional Vice President, Asia-Pacific |
| Organisation: |
Intelsat |
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Larry Valenciano is Regional Vice President, Asia-Pacific Sales, for Intelsat, an international communications provider that connects billions of people in more than 200 countries and territories via capacity on 21 satellites. In this capacity, he is responsible for business development and marketing Intelsat services in the region.
Mr. Valenciano, a citizen of the Philippines, joined Intelsat in 1990. Prior to becoming Regional Vice President, he held positions in the Sales and Marketing Division including Group Director, Asia-Pacific Sales Product Manager for Domestic/Regional Services; and Product Manager Cable Restoration Service. His responsibilities have included the development/establishment of domestic satellite applications in Latin America, Africa and the CIS states.
Before coming to Intelsat, Mr. Valenciano worked with PHILCOMSAT, in the Philippines, where he established the first customer premise IBS station, participated in the design of a Standard A station & TVRO station, TDMA implementation and numerous other projects.
Larry Valenciano holds a B.S. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines. He is a member of various international organizations and has represented Intelsat at a number of international conferences. He also serves on the Pacific Telecommunications Council’s Board of Trustees. |
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| Geo-stationary satellite communications have grown rapidly, fuelled by deregulation, digital technology, enhanced satellite capacity, increased demand and a wider range of applications. The global economic downturn has harmed this sector, but there are still opportunities to provide end-to-end solutions. Satellite-broadband Internet access market in the Asia-pacific could reach US$4.51 billion in the US by 2006. South Korea has the highest household penetration (55%) for Internet access; China and India are far behind. The sector should grow strongly in Asia – Pacific during the next 10 years. |
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Article no.: |
4 |
| Topic: |
Digital Broadcasting – Choice and Cultural Diversity in Asia – Pacific |
| Author: |
Graham Cradock |
| Title: |
General Manager |
| Organisation: |
TANDBERG Television Asia – Pacific |
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Graham Cradock is the General Manager of Tandberg Television Asia-Pacific. He is responsible for all commercial operations of Tandberg Television in the region, including northeast and southeast Asia, Japan and Australia. During the past few years at Tandberg Television, he has been instrumental in developing technology and business opportunities in the areas of Broadband Media, Digital Television Compression Technologies, Data Broadcasting, Mobile Digital Television and the use of wireless networks. Graham joined Tandberg Television’s Asia-Pacific team when he was appointed Director of Business Development, Asia-Pacific, in late 2001. Prior to this, Graham created new business development strategies in many areas while working closely with Tandberg Television’s commercial Team and R & D groups.
Graham graduated with a Master of Engineering degree in Electronics and started his career with Mitsubishi Electric in Japan. Later, at NTL in the UK, he led the team that created the first digital terrestrial receiver. In 1997, Graham joined NDS Ltd. as New Business Development Manager in the sales and marketing department. In 1999, when Tandberg Television acquired the digital broadcasting business of NDS, Graham took on the leadership of the New Business Development Group. |
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| Digital broadcasting will play a significant role in education, entertainment and maintaining cultural diversity in the Asia-Pacific region. Digital satellite can provide over 200 TV channels and digital terrestrial over 30. Digital technology makes possible a wide range of interactive applications. It facilitates entertainment services, data delivery via the television, e-commerce and e-learning. Digital makes it easier and cheaper to offer multi-language broadcasting; this is very important in Asia where countries such as Indonesia have large numbers of people speaking different languages. |
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Article no.: |
5 |
| Topic: |
E-business for Poverty Alleviation in Rural Areas |
| Author: |
Hak Su Kim |
| Title: |
Executive Secretary |
| Organisation: |
UNESCAP |
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| There is little doubt that access to information and knowledge can alleviate poverty, but there is still a need to identify those solutions that have the greatest impact and work best under different circumstances. Mr. Hak Su Kim, Executive Secretary of UNESCAP, examines best practice for applying new technology to support rural needs for market, educational and health information, and defines the scope for ICTs in small and micro-enterprises that have a direct and growing relationship with poverty alleviation. |
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Article no.: |
6 |
| Topic: |
Global Seamless Networks for Digital Revolution |
| Author: |
Takuro Ito |
| Title: |
General Manager, Optical Network Product Marketing Division |
| Organisation: |
NEC, Japan |
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| The convergence of voice and data has created new opportunities in Asia-Pacific as the digital revolution, in the form of data and Internet usage, spreads from the USA. Global carriers are emerging to utilise new and high-capacity trans-oceanic networks that are so vital in the Asia-Pacific geographical context of island nations. Takuro Ito of NEC, proposes a dual-aspect network architecture solution comprising mesh networks (in a change from ring) and terrestrial and submarine integration of global networks. |
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Article no.: |
7 |
| Topic: |
Grasping the Essentials – A Strategic View of Telecommunications in China |
| Author: |
Peter Lovelock |
| Title: |
Deputy Director |
| Organisation: |
Telecommunications Research Project, University of Hong Kong |
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As Director of MFC Insight, Peter Lovelock brings a long background in telecommunications and Internet research, analysis and consulting. He has worked extensively on regulatory assessment, implementation and execution projects, as well as due diligence and market entry strategic guidance projects in China and Asia. His PhD (1993–97) was on the subject of telecom and infrastructure policy-making in East Asia, focused on China.
During 1997–98, Dr Lovelock worked as a policy analyst at the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva. During this period he was a contributing author to a range of the ITU’s research publications, including World Telecommunications Development Report 1998, Challenges to the Network, and Worldwide Telecommunications Regulatory Trends (6 volumes).
He has written extensively on both the telecoms and media industries, including chapters in Telecommunications in Asia, the IEC’s Annual Review of Communications, and Sage Publication’s The Handbook of New Media, along with contributions to Telecommunications Policy and Politique Internationale among others.
Peter is the Deputy Director of the Telecommunications Research Project at the University of Hong Kong (www.trp.hku.hk) and a partner in the quarterly Telecoms InfoTechnology Forums (TIF). |
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| China’s telecommunications is still a nearly monopolistic market. Nevertheless, network growth, market development, industry restructuring and domestic liberalization are breathtaking. However, the industry and its controlling policy-makers are at a crossroads trying to sustain growth, meet the nation’s access requirements, embrace new technologies and promote network value. The continued use of licensing and regulatory control to promote a market-directed telecom industry seems likely. Although this may appear contradictory, it is not, and will provide ample opportunity for foreign service providers. |
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Article no.: |
8 |
| Topic: |
Malaysia's Approach to Communications, Multimedia, Information and Content Services - Aspirations of a Hub |
| Author: |
Tan Sri Nuraizah Abdul Hamid |
| Title: |
Chairman |
| Organisation: |
Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission |
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| This article presents an overview of the economic and regulatory perspectives on the regional issues of the digital revolution and technological convergence. The author, Tan Sri Nuraizah Abdul Hamid is Chairman of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission. In her eminent career Tan Sri has worked in various economic Ministries and she brings this experience to bear in a comprehensive analysis of the industrial and technological issues facing Malaysia, ASEAN nations and Asia-Pacific as a whole. |
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Article no.: |
9 |
| Topic: |
Singapore – Wired With Wireless |
| Author: |
Khoong Hock Yun |
| Title: |
Assistant Chief Executive Officer |
| Organisation: |
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore |
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| Khoong Hock Yun is the Assistant Chief Executive Officer for Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore. He has the task of providing the vision and approach to turn Singapore into a knowledge-based economy and society. In the last ten years, Khoong Hock Yun, a Singaporean, has held senior management, marketing and technical positions in the U.S. and Asia. More recently, he was the Director for one of Mentor Graphics Corporation’s Strategic Business Units in Singapore, with responsibilities for marketing, engineering, quality assurance, documentation and customer support. Prior to joining Mentor, he was the Deputy Head of Software Engineering Laboratory at the Defence Science Organisation in the Ministry of Defence, Singapore. There, he handled research in software engineering, real-time operating systems and artificial intelligence. He holds Master’s degrees in Engineering and Business Administration from the National University of Singapore. He is also a Chartered Engineer (UK). |
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| Singapore aims to be an Infocomm-savvy nation a test-bed for emerging technologies in Asia. Accordingly, Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has introduced ‘Wired With Wireless’, a wireless industry development programme that fosters collaborative endeavours among complementary and competitive wireless industry suppliers and users. Each collaborative project serves as a platform for industry players to interact, identify collaboration opportunities and propose synergistic solutions. Users will derive the benefits of integrated or end-to-end solutions generated through interaction between industry partners. |
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Article no.: |
10 |
| Topic: |
The Intricacies of Internet Businesses in Asia – Pacific – What Lessons Can We Learn? |
| Author: |
Martin Roll |
| Title: |
CEO |
| Organisation: |
VentureRepublic |
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| Martin Roll is the founder of VentureRepublic, an international strategy consulting firm with core competency in global branding and marketing based in Singapore and Copenhagen. Mr. Roll is Danish and a resident of Singapore. He earned his MBA from INSEAD and his Bachelor’s degree from the Copenhagen Business School. Prior to founding VentureRepublic he served as the Vice President of Global Marketing and PR for Ascio Technologies Inc. in Singapore, as the Chief Marketing Officer of the NetDoktor.com Group, Copenhagen/London and as Account Director for DDB Needham Advertising Worldwide in Denmark, among others. He is a Member of the board of the Danish Business Association of Singapore (DABS) and, from 1991 to 1999, served as Chairman of The Marketing Management Board of the Danish Marketing Association. Martin Roll is fluent in several languages and an avid sailor and sailing instructor, photographer, student of Asian culture and art collector. |
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| Internet statistics are performance indicators in the global development race. In the Asia-Pacific region, government and industry have programmes to catalyse Internet business. We have learned from the Internet bubble burst that it is more important to start well than to be first. The key to success is to prepare, scale your business model for constant change, integrate marketing and branding from the start, educate your customers, track results to constantly improve and always deliver what you have promised. |
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Article no.: |
11 |
| Topic: |
The Telecommunications Transformation and China’s Key-Role |
| Author: |
Lothar Pauly |
| Title: |
Board Member |
| Organisation: |
Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group |
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| Lothar Pauly has been a member of the managing board at the Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group since April 2000. He has helped Siemens to gain worldwide success with its mobile phone standard GSM. Today, the group has more than 180 customers in 90 countries. Under Pauly’s supervision Siemens mobile managed to reach third place amongst mobile networks suppliers. Pauly, who was born in Bad Homburg, belongs to those pioneers who initiated the UMTS era in the late 1990s by talking with regulatory authorities. The business studies graduate has been with Siemens since 1987. Pauly worked as sales director for various telecommunications segments in Indonesia and Poland before managing the business segment Mobile Networks between 1996 and 2000. |
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| In some parts of the world mobile phone ownership is close to saturation. China, though, with its 1.26 billion population, is expected to have 500 million mobile users by 2008, many of these using third – generation (3G) ‘UMTS’ technology. UMTS is the 3G international standard that will provide ‘always on’ mobile voice and data for interactive applications and mobile business. China is betting upon TD-SCDMA technology to implement UMTS and provide important benefits to customers, operators and the economy. |
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Article no.: |
12 |
| Topic: |
The Next Steps – Regulatory Contributions to Growth |
| Author: |
Anthony S. K. Wong |
| Title: |
Director-General of Telecommunications |
| Organisation: |
Office of the Telecommunications Authority, Hong Kong |
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Anthony S. K. Wong is the Director-General of Telecommunications at the Office of the Telecommunications Authority of Hong Kong. After graduating from the University of Hong Kong, he joined the Telecommunications Branch of the Post Office in 1974 and was responsible for a range of activities of the then telecom regulator. In 1988, he was appointed Assistant Postmaster General (Telecommunications), head of the Telecommunications Branch.
With the establishment of the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) in July 1993 as an independent government agency, Anthony Wong was appointed Senior Assistant Director of Telecommunications in charge of the Regulatory Affairs Branch. In March 1997, he became Director-General of Telecommunications. Mr Wong was the Chairman of the Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee from 1997 to 1998. He is also a member of the Broadcasting Authority in Hong Kong. In the international arena, Mr Wong continues to represent Hong Kong in various international and regional telecoms conferences and events.
Anthony Wong holds a Bachelor of Science Honours degree in Electrical Engineering, a Master of Philosophy and a Master of Social Science. |
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| Hong Kong’s regulatory authorities have aggressively opened local telecom markets to competition and levelled the playing field for incumbents and newcomers alike. As a result, Hong Kong now has ten operators offering local services and six mobile operators. Innovative regulations and licensing are being used to create business opportunities. 3G licensees, for example, must cede at least 30% of their capacity to mobile virtual network operators and/or content providers and innovative Class Licences lower the barriers for small business entrants. |
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