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About the Organisers and Partners

Event Organisers

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 organised 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 recognised 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. It's 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 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

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

Lemay-Yates Associates Inc www.lya.com

Lemay-Yates Associates Inc. (LYA) founded in 1993, is a leading independent research and management-consulting firm supporting clients in the mobile-telecom-cable industry. We bring a unique ability to integrate market, technical, network, economic, regulatory and investment analyses. LYA’s c-Ahead strategic research program focuses on providing timely, accurate and actionable insight about your customers and competitors. 

LYA is a recognized expert in mobile and fixed spectrum matters 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, and taking into account growing mobile data demand and fixed line replacement.

 

LYA has been valuing spectrum-based businesses and tracking auction valuations for mobile and fixed spectrum since 1995 and published a Report in late 2009 covering values in 82 auction processes in 45 countries.  This report is in the process of being updated based on our continued monitoring of global industry developments.

LYA has participated in licensing processes around the world, as well as in all spectrum auctions held in Canada since 1999. Our services include preparation and development of strategy prior to the auction, license and business case valuation, assessment of bidding strategies and tactics, and hands-on bid room support during the auction. We also offer pre-auction management training and spectrum strategy seminars, as well as tracking tools for use during bidding.

Ericsson www.ericsson.com

Ericsson is a world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and related services to mobile and fixed network operators globally. Over 1,000 networks in more than 180 countries utilize our network equipment and 40 percent of all mobile calls are made through our systems. We are one of the few companies worldwide that can offer end-to-end solutions for all major mobile communication standards.

 

Communication is changing the way we live and work. Ericsson plays a key role in this evolution, using innovation to empower people, business and society.

 

We provide communications networks, telecom services and multimedia solutions, making it easier for people all over the globe to communicate.

Gold Sponsors

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 (or by clicking on the link above).

NII Holdings, Inc. 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.

Supporting Partners

GSM Association www.gsm.org

The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. Uniting nearly 800 of the world’s mobile operators and more than 200 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, the GSMA is focused on innovating, incubating and creating new opportunities for its membership, and driving the growth of the mobile industry. It also produces the premier industry events including the GSMA Mobile World Congress and the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress.

 

For more information, please visit Mobile World Live, the online portal for the mobile communications industry, at www.mobileworldlive.com or the GSMA corporate website at www.gsmworld.com.

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.

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.

Analysys Mason www.analysysmason.com

Analysys Mason provides strategy and management consultancy, information services and start-up support throughout the telecommunications, IT and media sector. Their firm grasp of market dynamics, distinctive combination of creativity and rigour, and renowned objectivity enable them to consistently exceed the high levels of quality and innovation which their clients expect. Analysys Mason is trusted throughout the world for its expertise, impartiality and its ability to get the best results for clients. They focus solely on the telecommunications, IT and media sector and so have developed unparalled industry knowledge, techniques and data sources. This gives them and their clients a head start. They shape the industry through extensive work on policy, regulation and finance, and have worked with most of the sector’s key players to identify solutions to the problems they face.

Exhibitors

LS telcom www.lstelcom.com

LS Telcom specialises in software solutions & consulting services for spectrum management and radio network planning for all kinds of wireless technologies. Our comprehensive portfolio includes market and technology developments regarding future spectrum management challenges and solutions.

 

Therefore we are at the forefront of Spectrum Auctioning, GSM Refarming, Cognitive Radio and Digital Dividend.