International Conference on Telecommunication - Karachi
Guest Post By Rakesh Gopchandani - originally published at his blog - Paths.
The International Telecom conference at ITCN-ASIA 2007 was held on Aug 9-11 at Karachi Expo center. Over the years, ITCN (Ecommerce Gateway Pakistan) has become known for industry gatherings in which high profile technological announcements are made. Last year at the ITCN conference, Telenor announced its EDGE service. This year at ITCN, it was Wateen which announced WiMax’s commercial deployment.
The first session was mostly filled with keynote addresses from big-hats of Nortel, Wateen, PTCL and Motorola along with a little opening ceremony by the City Nazim right in the middle of the session. The speakers were talking about how big the Telecommunication infrastructure has grown in the country and how desperately we need the killer applications to ride on this new wave of data-com infrastructure. When inquired on what that killer application might be, the speakers pointed towards Video-on-demand and Internet-applications as the biggest contender. I particularly liked the session on Hyper-connectivity and the place for 4G wireless networks in it by Nortel, their managing director explained how future devices that can be connected and need to be connected will be connected. Also, the exchange of sentences between the two Qureshis from Wateen and PTCL (now to-be fierce competitors for their common market in OFAN and Broadband links) was interesting.
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