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By Tim
Young, with
Claire Hara
The annual TeleManagement World
show in Nice is approaching quickly.
As is generally the case, OSS
types around the globe are getting
jazzed for several days of innovation,
technology, and Mediterranean
sunshine. Here at Pipeline, we
thought we'd take a look at what
the show will have in store for
you, our readers, and the rest
of the attendees.
The show seems to be shaping
up to be one of the largest yet.
It boasts over 75 hours of conference
sessions in 6 different tracks,
featuring 180 speakers. The expo
will include over 100 exhibitors
and 20 hours of floor time. “We
have attended TMW, both in Europe
and the Americas, for a number
of years,” said Loughlin
O'Nolan of Aran Technologies, “and
we find that it is routinely
a very beneficial event for us.
In terms of networking, the size
of the event and solid focus
on this industry sector is unrivaled.”
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Here
at Pipeline, we thought we'd take
a look at what the show will have
in store for you, our readers,
and the rest of the attendees. |
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book, Being Digital.”
The other keynotes promise
to be solid, as well.
Rory Sutherland, Vice
Chairman of Ogilvy UK,
will have some stirring
words on how convergence
will completely change
advertising, billing,
revenue assurance, and
payment. Stefano Pileri,
CTO of Telecom Italia,
will talk about how SPs
will continue to push
the envelope in the range
of services they offer.
Bonnie Gray of UPC Broadband
will talk about the effects
of convergence on cable
providers.
This
is an era of great change,
according to Willetts,
and the show hopes to
explore that.
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Indeed, the focus is appealing for
many companies. “Though there
are a number of other telecom focused
forums and events, we believe that
none of them are as focused as TMF/TMW
is on the service provider marketplace,” said
Venu Venugopal of CA. Comptel's Suard
Oliver echoes this sentiment. “TMW-Nice
is by far the most important and
comprehensive OSS show in the world---
not just in Europe. It brings together
OSS software vendors, system integrators
and operators from many parts of
the world. This event is where new
ideas are discussed and business
relationships formed.”
So what's in store for the show? “We've
been focusing on convergence as a
theme, which, of course, means a
thousand different things,” said
Keith Willetts, TMF's Chairman and
Founder. “We've been focusing
on what operational impacts will
more converged services throw at
us. We've got some very interesting
speakers, including Nicholas Negroponte
who started this whole convergence
theme back in the 90's with his
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“We're entering
the theater of not just connectivity
services, but content and information
services”, he says. “What
does that do to the operational/
service delivery piece? If web
services aren't charged for, and
are free at the point of use or
paid for indirectly through advertising,
does that mean that billing has
become, or potentially will become,
redundant inside a telecom operator,
or does it just change the way
that billing works? What does it
mean for who is facing the customer
and who is where in the value chain?
What does it mean for traditional
telecom services that have stopped
at the little box in your hallway,
but now go through the home gateway
and into your TV set, or, the other
way through the content aggregator
to the content source? How do you
manage all that to make sure the
customer gets the service they
pay for?” Great
questions.
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