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Conference Organizer

Forum Global www.forum-global.com

Forum Global specialises in policy focused conferences and events, providing a platform for discussion and debate on topical issues across a variety of different sectors. These events are organized with clients and partners and aim to progress ideas and actions on important issues, all within a balanced and neutral setting.

 

Forum Global is the international arm of Forum Europe, which was founded by Giles Merritt, columnist for the International Herald Tribune, and is widely recognized as the leading EU dedicated event provider.

 

Headed by a team of events specialists with over 19 years of experience, Forum Global works successfully with businesses, institutions and governments alike. Its strategic services can maintain and develop your key policy networks, and also deliver forums where key issues can be aired and debated.

Knowledge Partners

NERA Economic Consulting www.nera.com

NERA Economic Consulting is a global firm of experts dedicated to applying economic, finance, and quantitative principles to complex business and legal challenges. For half a century, NERA’s economists have been creating strategies, studies, reports, expert testimony, and policy recommendations for government authorities and the world’s leading law firms and corporations. We bring academic rigor, objectivity, and real world industry experience to bear on issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation.

 

NERA’s clients value our ability to apply and communicate state-of-the-art approaches clearly and convincingly, our commitment to deliver unbiased findings, and our reputation for quality and independence. Our clients rely on the integrity and skills of our unparalleled team of economists and other experts backed by the resources and reliability of one of the world’s largest economic consultancies. With its main office in New York City, NERA serves clients from more than 25 offices across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Aetha Consulting www.aethaconsulting.com

Aetha Consulting provides strategic advice to the telecommunications industry and specialises in undertaking rigorous quantitative assessments to support major strategic and regulatory decisions. Our senior staff collectively have over 100 person-years of experience of advising telecoms operators, regulators, and financial & legal institutions.

Throughout the recent growth of wireless services, Aetha’s staff have been at the forefront of spectrum policy. In particular, three of Aetha’s founders (Amit Nagpal, Lee Sanders and Marc Eschenburg) have undertaken over 50 spectrum management policy and auction support projects for clients across the world during the last 5 years, including assisting regulators with the award of new spectrum bands and development of regulatory frameworks – for example supporting the European Commission to resolve high-profile issues such as spectrum trading and the digital dividend.

Aetha also support operators in understanding their spectrum needs, valuing spectrum and bidding in auctions. Our staff have supported bidders in over 15 spectrum awards worldwide in the last five years and, at the time of writing, are currently supporting operators in seven countries for forthcoming auctions. Our technical knowledge combined with our rigorous valuation modelling approach ensures that our clients are comprehensively prepared for auctions.

Platinum Sponsors

AT&T www.att.com

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company and one of the most honored companies in the world. Its subsidiaries and affiliates – AT&T operating companies – are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation’s largest 4G network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet, voice and cloud-based services. A leader in mobile Internet, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide of any U.S. carrier, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T | DIRECTV brands. The company’s suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world.

Lemay-Yates Associates www.lya.com

LEMAY-YATES ASSOCIATES INC. (LYA^®), founded in 1993, is a leading independent research and management-consulting firm. We bring a unique ability to integrate market, technical, network, economic, regulatory, licensing and investment analyses across the blurring lines of mobile-telecom-cable, as well as the carriage-content, in a competitive environment that is increasingly dynamic, complex and risky. 

LYA^®’s independently developed Combinatorial Clock Auction (CCA) Game Simulator provides for conducting live mock auctions for spectrum licenses as well as a robotic simulation of game outcomes. This provides for testing of the impacts of different rules and their implementation as well as developing bidding tactics in a realistic setting, including looking at how bidders are incented to bid honestly. Multiple bidders can bid “against” a set of robots or against each other.

LYA^® is a recognized expert in mobile and fixed spectrum with background ranging from public policy development to licensing and spectrum auctions. LYA^® has developed a methodology to forecast carrier spectrum needs, for different business strategies and considering specifics of bands, technologies, services and deployment criteria.

 

Our spectrum auction-related services include preparation and development of strategy, license and business case valuation, assessment of bidding strategies and tactics, and hands-on bid room support during auctions. We also offer pre-auction management training and spectrum strategy seminars, as well as tracking tools for use during bidding.

LYA^®’s c-Ahead^® strategic research program provides timely, accurate and actionable insight about your customers and competitors. LYA^® has been valuing spectrum-based businesses and tracking auction valuations for mobile and fixed spectrum since 1995, including c-Ahead^® Reports on Spectrum pricing worldwide.

 

Microsoft www.microsoft.com

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Qualcomm www.qualcomm.com

Qualcomm is the driving force behind the growth and progress of the global wireless industry. It is the world’s leader in patents and other intellectual property that provide the technological basis for the global wireless communications industry. That goes for existing 3G (third-generation) technology that makes wireless Internet data as well as voice transmissions practical around the world. It also applies to next-generation, 4G technology, which delivers an even more enhanced and seamless user experience.
 
In addition to licensing its intellectual property to more than 170 companies worldwide, Qualcomm also manufactures highly sophisticated chips that are the engines of some of the most advanced wireless handsets and devices on the market. The company is the driver behind the very latest next-generation devices, which combine mobile communications, computing, and consumer electronics, that are now coming to market.

Verizon www.verizon.com

Verizon Communications Inc. headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to consumer, business, government and wholesale customers.  Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, with more than 94 million retail customers nationwide.  Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated business solutions to customers in more than 150 countries, including all of the Fortune 500.  A Dow 30 company with $111 billion in 2011 revenues, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of more than 188,000.

Silver Sponsors

Analysys Mason www.analysysmason.com

Analysys Mason is a trusted adviser on telecoms, technology and media. We work with our clients, including operators, regulators and end users, to:

 

•design winning strategies that deliver measurable results
•make informed decisions based on market intelligence and analytical rigour
•develop innovative propositions to gain competitive advantage
•implement operational solutions to improve business efficiency.

 

We work extensively in the fields of spectrum management and spectrum auctions, including detailed analysis of radio spectrum value, award strategy, auction support, technology co-existence and interference analysis.

 

With over 250 staff in 12 offices, we are respected worldwide for our exceptional quality of work, independence and flexibility in responding to client needs. For 25 years we have been helping clients in more than 100 countries to maximise their opportunities.

NII Holdings www.nii.com

NII Holdings, Inc., a publicly held company based in Reston, Va., is a differentiated provider of mobile communications for business and high value customers in Latin America. NII Holdings has operations in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru and Chile, offering a fully integrated wireless communications tool with digital cellular voice services, data services, wireless Internet access and Nextel Direct Connect® and International Direct Connect(SM), a digital two-way radio feature. NII Holdings, a Fortune 500 and Barron’s 500 company, trades on the NASDAQ market under the symbol NIHD and is a member of the NASDAQ-100 Index.

Cocktail Reception Sponsor

Hogan Lovells www.hoganlovells.com/

Hogan Lovells is a global legal practice that helps corporations, financial institutions, and governmental entities across the spectrum of their critical business and legal issues globally and locally. We have over 2,300 lawyers operating out of more than 40 offices in the United States, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia.

 

Hogan Lovells offers: 

•an exceptional, high quality transatlantic capability, with extensive reach into the world’s commercial and financial centers;

•particular and distinctive strengths in the areas of government regulatory, litigation and arbitration, corporate, finance, and intellectual property; and

•access to a significant depth of knowledge and resource in many major industry sectors including hotels and leisure, telecommunications, media and technology, energy and natural resources, infrastructure, financial services, life sciences and healthcare, consumer, and real estate.

Our practice breadth, geographical reach, and industry knowledge provide us with insights into the issues that affect our clients most deeply and enable us to provide high quality business-oriented legal advice to assist them in achieving their commercial goals.

 

A distinctive culture

Hogan Lovells is distinguished by a highly collaborative culture which values the contribution of our diverse team both within Hogan Lovells and in the wider community. Our style is open, service focused, and friendly. We believe that our commitment to client service, commerciality, and teamwork provides benefits to our clients and enhances effective business relationships. www.hoganlovells.com

Refreshment Sponsor

Computech www.computechinc.com

Computech, Inc. an information technology firm, develops, implements and maintains business-critical information systems. The firm’s experience designing, developing and operating Internet-based spectrum auction systems is unparalleled, and Computech holds contracts with regulators worldwide to provide auction services.

 

To learn more about Computech’s spectrum management expertise and "CAP," our spectrum auction platform, please visit us at www.computechinc.com

Supporting Partners

4G Americas www.4gamericas.org

4G Americas is an industry trade organization composed of leading telecommunications service providers and manufacturers. The organization's mission is to promote, facilitate and advocate for the deployment and adoption of the 3GPP family of technologies throughout the Americas. 4G Americas contributes to the successful commercial rollout of 3GPP mobile broadband technologies across the Americas and their place as the No. 1 technology family in the region. The organization aims to develop the expansive wireless ecosystem of networks, devices, and applications enabled by GSM and its evolution to LTE. 4G Americas is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., with an office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Dallas. More information is available at www.4gamericas.org

NSMA www.nsma.org

The NSMA is a voluntary international association of microwave radio/wireless and satellite frequency coordinators, licensees, manufacturers and regulators. Established in 1984, the Association provides a forum to develop industry guidelines for efficient use and management of the frequency spectrum by the wireless telecommunications community.

Satellite Industry Association www.sia.org

The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) is a Washington D.C. based trade association representing the leading global satellite operators, service providers, manufacturers, launch services providers, and ground equipment suppliers. SIA is the unified voice of the satellite industry on policy, regulatory, and legislative issues affecting the commercial satellite industry including spectrum, regulatory, telecom, international trade, export controls, government procurement, national defense, homeland security and industry trends. SIA represents its members’ common interests to domestic and international government officials, the press, the public, and other industries. SIA’s work on issues undertaken by international bodies and various foreign governments creates opportunities to weigh in on global policy matters. SIA provides a forum to discuss issues, to develop consensus-based industry positions, and to engage key government decision makers. SIA strives to promote the benefits and uses of commercial satellite technology and its role in the national and global communications infrastructure and economy.

Exhibitor

LS telcom www.lstelcom.com

LS telcom specialises in software  and hardware solutions as well as consulting services for spectrum management and radio network planning for every type of wireless technology. Our comprehensive portfolio includes market and technology developments regarding future spectrum management challenges and solutions.

We are at the forefront of Spectrum Auctioning, GSM Refarming, Cognitive Radio and Digital Dividend world wide.
 
Our customer portfolio includes most of the spectrum regulators world wide, major network operators and commercial customers in 81 countries.

Media Partner

Media Telecom www.mediatelecom.com.mx

Mediatelecom is a group that concentrates a regional news agency and think tank on telecommunications regulation. Mediatelecom is the most important web site in spanish in Latinamerica.