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ITU Secretary-General Yoshio Utsumi to Speak At
SUPERCOMM '99
BUSINESS WIRE
ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 1999--Yoshio
Utsumi, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU),
will share his vision of the competitive global information industry in a
keynote address at the Global Telecom Market (GTM)/International
Engineering Consortium (IEC) Luncheon at SUPERCOMM '99 at 1:00
p.m., Monday, June 7.
"The telecommunications industry is entering the crucial years of a new
century," explained Utsumi. "SUPERCOMM offers an excellent opportunity
to share with a top-level audience my vision of how to bring the benefits of
communications technology to people worldwide."
Often referred to as a founding father of Japan's competitive
telecommunications system, Utsumi was a major player in the introduction of
the country's Policy of Competition and Liberalization in
Telecommunications, which led to Japan's first telecommunications market
reform.
He was also a major driving force in many of Japan's most important
projects to develop multimedia industries, including a nationwide
optical-fiber network for advanced communications and the creation of the
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATRI).
On the international scene, Utsumi has played a very active role in many
negotiations, and in particular those leading to the historic World Trade
Organization (WTO) agreement on basic telecommunications. He also
chaired the 1994 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference.
At the senior policy-making level, he served as Japan's MPT
Director-General, assistant Vice-Minister and Deputy Minister until his
election as Secretary-General of ITU on October 20, 1998, by the
Minneapolis Plenipotentiary Conference.
"We are honored to have Mr. Utsumi speak as part of SUPERCOMM's
GTM/IEC Luncheon," said Matthew J. Flanigan, president,
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), co-sponsor of
SUPERCOMM. "His insights into the telecommunications industry will
provide attendees with a first-hand global perspective of where the industry
is headed."
SUPERCOMM '99, the premier annual international communications
technology exhibition and conference, will be held June 6-10 at the Georgia
World Congress Center in Atlanta.
For information on attending SUPERCOMM '99, call 800/2-SUPERC
(278-7372) or outside the U.S., call 312/559-3327. Visit the official
SUPERCOMM '99 Web site at www.supercomm99.com for
up-to-the-minute information.
SUPERCOMM, the premier annual international communications
technology exhibition and conference, is presented jointly by the
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), www.tiaonline.org,
Arlington and the United States Telephone Association (USTA),
www.usta.org, Washington, DC. SEQN: BW1167
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