Conference Agenda

Rohit will be giving a Welcome Note to the audience. This would be a presentation on Telco Transformation experience of Tech Mahindra as a lead IP transformation company, which is already working with 6 Telco's across the globe (2 in Oceania region) to help them transform. This welcome note would give an opportunity to the audience to know what TechMahindra brings as a company to the Telcos in this region.

• Investing in knowledge infrastructure - education, research and technology
• Creating an information-rich business enabling environment
• Lowering transaction costs in the Pacific - the impact of cheaper information, communication, transport and removing the middle-man
• Networked economies in the Pacific - some thoughts on economic integration

Guest of Honour, the Hon David Cunliffe MP will share his Government's views on the evolution of the telecoms industry in New Zealand and the wider Oceania region

Guest of Honour, the Hon Neville Christian will share his Government's view on the challenges of improving communications infrastructure and services in the region's micro-states

• Reviewing the evolution of Telecom New Zealand:
  • competitive response to unbundling of the local loop and rival operators’ access to Unbundled Bitstream Access (UBA) services
  • operational separation of the business
• Competing with the incumbent telecoms business in Australia:
  • challenging the incumbent carrier in the long distance and voice services market
  • leveraging the investment and technological capabilities of the parent company to offer personalised and adaptable ICT solutions

"Strategic Transformation" which would focus on steps to create a highly efficient, convergent Telecom Business in today's competitive markets.

• Why are structural changes needed to reform the telecoms industry?
• How will regulatory measures invigorate competition?
• How can consumers expect to gain from the evolution of the industry?

• Incumbent operator viewpoint on the effect of new entrants on the size and value of the mobile services market
• Reading the incumbent business for effective differentiation and competition
• What would be the impact of liberalisation of the fixed-line market?

• Why a truly competitive market is vital for growth and innovation
• Understanding how challenger telecoms brands need innovative approaches to branding, sales and alliance marketing
• Competing across the full range of telecoms services offered to small and medium businesses, nationwide buying groups, associations and mid-tier corporates and small/mid-sized telecommunications service providers

• How LLU is rapidly extending the availability of next-generation, high-speed broadband services
• Offering customer genuine choice and highly competitive services in markets previously owned by a monopoly incumbent carrier
• Making it simple for customers to migrate to your services

• Offering competitive services to business users
• What regulatory intervention is needed to make the consumer voice and broadband market more competitive?
• Creating commercially viable arrangments needed to enable the launch of value-adding MVNOs

• Encouraging industry players to self-regulate
• Developing flexible regulatory instruments around the rapid evolution of new technologies
• Innovative management of radio spectrum
• Assisting Pacific island nations and territories with technological challenges

Guest of Honour, Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy will share his Government's views on the evolution of the telecoms industry in Australia and the wider Oceania region

• Access and connectivity: the real needs of developing countries
• Initiatives within the ITU and CTO
• Universal services: some new realistic objectives required
• Opportunities for operators, the banks, and Asia-Pacific developing countries

• How legacy infrastructure inhibits the ability to offer affordable access to services for all citizens
• How investment in an undersea cable project will impact on the provision of services
• Assessing the drivers for challenges around upgrading the cellular network infrastructure

• How will liberalisation impact on the company’s position in the fixed and mobile services markets?
• Improving the customer-centricity of the business and achieving positive differentiation vs. new entrants
• Experiences of competing effectively in an already liberalised mobile services market

• Working with the Regulator and the Government to ensure that customers enjoy a greater choice of more innovative services at reduced prices
• Affordability of international connectivity
• Improving the availability and affordability of broadband services
• Delivering value for money in mobile voice and data

• How mobile communications have rapidly boosted the national economy
• Remaining profi table and competitive while driving down the price of services
• Bringing coverage to under-served regions and population segments
• Managing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for customers through low-cost handset initiatives

• Commercial drivers for the nationwide deployment of HSPA
• Understanding the challenges of establishing a 3.5G network on a very large scale
• Creating an effective deployment roadmap
• Future evolution of wireless broadband

• 3G/UMTS/HSPA worldwide market update
• 3G/3G+ - operator strategies: Which services are boosting ARPU and growing the subscriber base?
• From 2G/GSM to 3G/UMTS/HSPA - cost-effective steps
• A look to the future: 3G LTE
• Perspectives for small markets and emerging economies

• Mobile phone/service ownership: prospects, rejecters and owners in comparable markets
• ARPU levels and high-value subscriber profiles
• Understanding device and service purchase behaviour
• Encouraging users to take up value-added services

• Commercial drivers for the deployment of WiMAX
• How to compete with fixed-line operators
• How far will WiMAX enable competition with service providers that have a full mobility proposition?

• How UTMS-TDD enabled early deployment of wireless broadband and added value to the broadband market
• Comparing the capabilities of UMTS-TDD and competing technologies - coverage economics, CAPEX, future-proofing
• Preparing to deploy WiMAX