Welcome to Convergence to Casablanca 2010

The domains of technology have diverged into an endless array of directional possibilities. The industry has grown through innovation gaining its motivation from the need to continually grow and improve to service the technology savvy consumer market's escalating demands.

In an extremely competitive industry it's important to take the lead and collaborate to allow the industry to transcend innovation to the next evolutionary pedestal. It is crucial to widen the horizons to look at the collective picture to ensure that all spheres of the industry are analyzed, explored and tapped to identify a road map for progression. The recent trends in the industry are explicating the importance of integration of various technological strands to deliver innovative solutions. The need of the hour is to collaborate to create a knowledge intensive pool to allow the industry to develop a more informed and innovative direction complimenting the competition.

The event "Convergence to Casablanca" will be held on October 26th - 28th in Morocco and will vindicate SAMENAs sensitivity to the importance of collaboration, It will implicate the importance of 'Convergence' of industry experts and market leaders to discuss key technology areas and their impacts on the technological progression and revenue generation.

Highlights

SAMENA Awards 2010 - Results

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Meeting Photographs

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Presentations

 

Conference Overview

Broadband

• Government subsidies for speeding up broadband (and general telephony)
  for rural and underserved areas
• What does it entail to develop a sound mitigation path to 4G?
• Challenges in connecting users to fiber based networks and providing
  coverage to rural areas

Optical Networks and Applications

• IPTV: Accelerating via FTTx.
• Why may IPTV be among the key services capable of stimulating
  investments in FTTx networks?
• Can IPTV help generate a return on fiber rollout costs by helping to
  increase ARPU?
• How is FTTx developing and what regulation is there on fiber access?

Mobile TV

• Mobility and mobile TV
• "Free" Mobile TV: A way to encourage take up in the SAMENA region
• Mobile TV ecosystem: Integration with broadcast, cable TV and
  movie industries

Content

• Content Industry: How is it a new "revenue" supermarket for operators?
• Localized Mobile Content: An emerging trend in SAMENA
• Mobile Content: How to get the right content to the right user
• Ownership, copyright and content security

Roaming

• International Roaming rates: Re-evaluation
• WiMAX and International Roaming: The next big thing for operators
• Arrangements for unified Roaming Rate in SAMENA:
  Developing effective strategies

Regulatory

• IPTV regulations: A progress check
• Broadband proliferation and the regional Universal Services Obligation