Trade Shows / Events -- ntop; wednesday & thursday
April 27, 2005
Kagan's Cable VoIP Summit
New York, NY
Speaking:
Michael Pastor
President, Net2Phone Cable Telephony
"Small Markets, Big Bundles: IP Voice Strategies for Main Street"
Wednesday, April, 27, 2005, 2:30-3:45 PM
Exploring Cable Phone Expansions, Probing New Revenue Opportunities and Gauging Market Strategies : After accelerating their footprint expansions, U.S. cable operators are focusing on customer acquisition and the marketing muscle to grab share from the incumbents. With IP phone services available to broad tracts of cable customers, it's time for the industry to refine product positioning, and it's never too early to explore new revenue opportunities in the commercial and residential space. The Kagan Cable VoIP Summit will examine the conditions impacting the segment in what promises to be the category's breakout year.
research.kagan.com
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April 25-26, 2005
Global IP Carriers/ VoIP World 2005
London, UK
ADOPTING VOIP IN THE MOBILE WORLD
carriersworld.com
Speaking:
Gerry Pearce
Vice President, Business Development
Managing Director, Net2Phone Europe
"Fixed Line Operators Embracing the Technology That Threatens Them - The Convergence of Mobile, VoIP and Wi-Fi"
Thursday, April 28, 2005, 3:00 PM
SMALL MARKETS, BIG BUNDLES: IP Voice Strategies for Main Street
* Richard Dowling, Sr. Vice President/Corporate Development, GCI
* Mark Dzuban, Vice Chairman, Cedar Point Communications
* Phil Giordano, Vice President/Sales & Business Development, Vonage
* Patrick Knorr, General Manager, Sunflower Broadband
* Mike Pastor, President, Net2Phone Cable Telephony
With the advent of VoIP, operators large and small are rapidly adding voice to their menu of services to round out the triple play and better compete against satellite. This panel will explore the strategies employed by operators in smaller markets to add this critical service to the bundle.
* What are the alternatives and how do the economics vary?
* Has the deployment of telephony in smaller markets curtailed subscriber defection?
* What has been the competitive response from the local incumbents?
* For those getting started, what do marketers need to be doing to prepare entry into the phone business? |
