Annual State of Telelcom Conference — October 15, 2010
The State of Telecom – 2010
Matching Supply and Demand for the Next Generation of Broadband
Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI)
Featuring a Trans-Atlantic Dialog co-organized with IDATE (France)
Co-Sponsored by the International Telecommunications Society
October 15, 2010
Columbia Business School
Davis Auditorium, Shapiro Center
New York, NY
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Video and other high-bandwidth applications have reached the internet in mass and may inundate its underlying infrastructure. What “Next Generation” broadband internet is needed beyond current broadband? How can it be assured? What are its investment economics and policy concerns? Will the next-generation internet be fundamentally different? Some of the issues are:
· Is there a business case for major capacity increase? Will private investment be sufficient? How do investors view the tasks ahead?
· What policy concerns lie ahead beyond those familiar to the present generation of broadband?
· To align supply with demand, what kind of throttling and similar network management techniques and demand-suppression are possible, which are acceptable, and under what rules and regulations?
· What is the outlook in Europe and Asia?
· What have been lessons about future demand from trials around the world?
· Can the centrifugalism of the internet be contained, and if so, how?
PRELIMINARY AGENDA
8:30 – 9:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 WELCOME - Eli Noam, Director of CITI; Yves Gassot, CEO of IDATE
9:15 NEXT GEN (ULTRA BROADBAND) DEMAND
Robert Pepper, Vice President, Global Technology Policy, Cisco
Yves Gassot, CEO, IDATE
Stephane Dufour, Executive Member in charge of Strategy and Innovation, Swisscom
Erik Bohlin, Professor, Chalmers University of Technology & Chair, ITS
Moderator: Robert Atkinson
10:15 Coffee Break
10:30 CASE STUDIES ON NEXT GEN (ULTRA BROADBAND) SUPPLY
Panel 1
Michel Guite, Owner, Vermont Telephone
Rick Whitt, Senior Policy Director, Google
Lorenzo Pupillo, Executive Director - Public & Economic Affairs , Telecom Italia
Kazuhiro Gomi, President & CEO, NTT America
Moderator: Heather Hudson
Panel 2
Karl-Heinz Neumann Managing Director, WIK, Germany
Steve Teplitz, Senior Vice President, Government Relations, Time Warner Cable
Tae-Yol Yoo, Executive Vice President, Korea Telecom
Link Hoewing, Vice President - Internet and Technology Policy, Verizon
Moderator: Rob Frieden
12:30 LUNCH (Possible lunch speaker)
1:45 TOOLS TO OPTIMIZE USE OF CURRENT SUPPLY
Tim Wu, Professor of Law, Columbia
Nick Karter, Senior Director, Qualcomm
Richard Feasey,Public Policy Director, Vodafone Group
Reinhard Wieck , Managing Director, Deutsche Telekom, Washington D.C.
Phong Le, Vice President, Strategic Finance, NII Holdings
Mark Cooper, Director of Research, Consumer Federation of America
Arnold Picot, Prof. Institut für Information, Organisation und Management, Munich School of Management
Moderator: Raul Katz
3:00 Refreshment Break
3:15 GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES TO INCREASE SUPPLY
Matthias Kurth, President, Network Regulatory Agency (Germany)
Gabrielle Gauthey, EVP Public Affairs, Alcatel-Lucent, former member of ARCEP (France)
Phoebe Yang, Senior Advisor to the FCC Chairman on Broadband
Susan Crawford, Professor, Cardozo Law School, former Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
Moderator: Sen. Larry Pressler, retired
4:15 INVESTMENT COMMUNITY’S SENTIMENT
Simon Flannery, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
John Hodulik, Telecom and Cable Analyst, UBS
Craig Moffett, VP & Senior Analyst, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co
Christopher Yoo, Professor of Law, Communication, Computer & Information Science and Founding Director, Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: Dan Reingold, Project Director for Telecom Finance, CITI
5:20 WRAP-UP
5:30 WINE & CHEESE RECEPTION
Fees: Corporate: $150; Academic, Government and Non-Profit: $50; CITI Affiliates and students: contact Jason Buckweitz at jab2322columbia.edu