another new ntop March event; this doesn't show on their website either --
Audio Conferences
A New Wave of Telephony: The Role of Competitive VoIP Providers
A Pike & Fischer interactive audio conference
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Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2004
Time: 2 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. EST
Voice-over-IP (Internet Protocol) technology promises to dismantle the century-old local telephone business by wiping out traditional geographic boundaries and blurring the traditional dividing lines separating the Internet from the public phone network. Along the way, VoIP could propel broadband penetration, pushing high-speed Internet access into more and more homes and businesses.
While VoIP is the hot broadband topic for 2004, how the competitive landscape will shift is far from clear, with daily announcements of VoIP deployments and alliances obscuring the seismic changes in the telecommunications and broadband world. Cable companies will go head-to-head against dominant telcos, while competitive telcos will also aim for a slice of the nearly $200B voice and broadband service pie. Upstarts seek to gain entrée into the world of virtual telephony by piggybacking on the proliferating broadband connections already in place. Using the global Internet as a telecommunications platform undercuts the need for local infrastructure, cracking open voice service to all comers, regardless of location.
Find out how all these dynamic changes are heating up competition not only in the voice and broadband businesses but also the full panorama of communications and entertainment services.
Please join Pike & Fischer's top communications analyst Cynthia Brumfield as she questions leaders of this new wave of telephony, including Jeffrey Citron, CEO of Vonage and Bryan Wiener, President of Net2Phone Global Services. This 90-minute event will include 25 minutes of interactive Q&A to ensure that you have ample time to call in with your own questions.
What You'll Learn
· The latest developments driving the deployment of VoIP and how newcomers to the voice business are shaking up the established companies.
· Our exclusive projections for how quickly VoIP will penetrate the residential broadband market.
· The key technical, regulatory and competitive challenges facing the full development of VoIP.
· How VoIP will change how consumers and businesses use voice services and the new applications that VoIP will foster.
Who Should Attend
· Cable, telecom, wireless, satellite and technology vendor executives.
· State and federal regulators.
· Lobbyists and attorneys.
· Wall Street analysts covering the telecommunications business.
About the Speakers
Jeffrey Citron: Mr. Citron, a technology pioneer and visionary, aims to redefine the telecommunications industry as Chairman and CEO of Vonage. The company, based in Edison, N.J., offers VoIP service in over 100 U.S. markets and is regarded as the nation's fastest growing telephony company. Mr. Citron founded Vonage in 1999 after departing his role as Chairman and CEO of Datek Online Holdings, which he founded and led to become the fourth largest online brokerage in the U.S. In 1995, Mr. Citron founded The Island ECN, a computerized trading system designed to eliminate the problems associated with order execution. Apart from his entrepreneurial activities, he serves on the board of Montclair Art Museum and through his family foundation routinely funds medical research, supports the arts and devotes his time and resources to children's charities.
Bryan Wiener: As President of Net2Phone Global Services LLC, Mr. Wiener has full responsibility for sales, marketing, business development and P&L management of all business units. Before becoming President, Mr. Wiener was General Manager of Net2Phone's International division from November 2001 until July 2003, increasing Net2Phone's core growth business by over 30% in revenue and operating margin. Before assuming leadership of the ICS group, Mr. Wiener managed the company's value-added product offerings, including: voice hosting, enhanced services such as voice activated dialing and the company's flagship PC-to-phone service. Before joining Net2Phone in early 2000, Mr. Wiener held management positions at Standard and Poor's and theglobe.com.
Moderator Cynthia Brumfield: Ms. Brumfield is Director of the Communications Media Analysis Group at P&F. Ms. Brumfield joined P&F with the company's acquisition of broadband media consulting firm, Broadband Intelligence, which she founded in 1999. Ms. Brumfield is a veteran media and communication industry analyst, having served as a Senior Analyst at Paul Kagan Associates, V.P. of Research and Policy Analysis at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association and Director of Research for The Media Institute. |
