NGN & Basestations Conference, femtocells,

International Conference on Next Generation Networks & Basestations tackles goes ‘Green’

News Release from: Open Basestation
19/03/2008

Prominent speakers from leading operators Vodafone, NTT DoCoMo, Telefonica 02, Teliasonera, BT (British Telecom), T-Mobile, Telecom Italia, Carphone Warehouse will share a platform with Industry Analysts from Deloitte, Yankee Group, ABI Research, Cartagena, Arete, Deutsche Bank, Frost & Sullivan and major network vendors Nokia Siemens Networks, ZTE, Huawei, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, at the annual NGN & Basestations Conference in Bath, UK, 22nd-25th April, 2008.

Keynote speaker John Carvalho, Head of Core Innovation at 02 will open the conference by examining the challenges and opportunities faced by mobile operators seeking to capture business from the fixed line carriers.

One of the hot topics to be debated is the deployment of home basestations / femtocells with both T-Mobile and Vodafone announcing likely commercial deployments in 2008. Green Basestations and Networks are also flavour of the month and the conference will be taking a long hard look at the claims made by vendors and operators alike to be eco friendly.

“Whilst there are many conferences on wireless networks, the International Basestation Conference is exceptional both for its clear focus and the high-quality of attendees,” commented Rupert Baines, VP of Marketing at picoChip, who will be addressing the hot topic of Architectures for Next Generation Networks on the opening day of the conference.

Each day of the conference brings together a mix of Operator, Network Vendor, Analyst and Subsystem/Chip Providers to provide delegates with the latest updates on LTE Standards, Backhaul, Femtocells, Spectrum Refarming, Mobile WiMAX, VoIP, HSDPA, Fixed/Mobile Convergence to name a few.