The future of mobile wireless is LTE and that will be the subject of a panel discussion at The 2011 Canadian Telecom Summit, which gets started just 2 weeks from today, on May 31 in Toronto. The LTE panel will feature some of the world’s most important suppliers of the hardware and software technologies that power next generation wireless services.

A number of Canada’s wireless carriers are already engaged in trials of LTE and some have announced service could launch later this year. If these developments are of interest to you, you will be interested in attending the panel at The 2011 Canadian Telecom Summit, LTE: The Future of Mobile, featuring

• Nokia Siemens Networks Canada CTO & Head of Services, Petri Lyytikainen
• Ericsson Canada CTO, Dragan Nerandzic
• Huawei Wireless Global CTO, Wen Tong
• Oracle Communications Director, Leonard Sheahan
• Acision SVP, Mobile Broadband, Steven van Zanen

The May 31 morning panel will be moderated by Natasha Tamaskar from GENBAND. The panel will be able to explore the capabilities and requirements for the next phase of wireless evolution, helping to provide context for the Wireless Broadband session that was the subject of yesterday’s blog posting.

The 2011 Canadian Telecom Summit is May 31 to June 2 in Toronto. It is only two weeks away. Have you registered yet?

The 2011 Canadian Telecom Summit opens in just 2 weeks, on May 31 in Toronto. Wireless broadband and the 700 MHz spectrum auction are certain to figure prominently in the discussions at this year’s event.

Continuing with the theme of last week’s postings, I’ll focus on another of the panels at The 2011 Canadian Telecom Summit, Wireless Broadband: Our insatiable thirst for spectrum.

The panel features

• TeraGo President & CEO, Bryan Boyd
• Sandvine President & CEO, Dave Caputo
• Qualcomm VP Government Affairs, Dean Brenner
• Rogers VP Regulatory, Dawn Hunt
• Xplornet Chief Strategy Officer, Allison Lenehan

The panel will be moderated by Mark Lowenstein, who is the Managing Director of Mobile Ecosystem. It is a session that will cover a range of issues: fixed versus mobile; urban versus rural; managing traffic and expanding capacity. With participation from both sides of the border, we’ll be looking for broader perspectives on this important component of Canada’s national digital network connectivity.

The 2011 Canadian Telecom Summit is May 31 to June 2 in Toronto. Have you registered yet?

Yesterday, the White House announced its proposal to enhance cybersecurity for the United States, including new rules for disclosure of breeches of personal information security by companies. What are the implications for Canadians and Canadian companies operating in the US? How do Canadian rules and practices measure up? The answers will be explored by the Privacy and Security panel at The 2011 Canadian Telecom Summit, which opens on May 31 in Toronto.

Privacy and Security: Guarding Information in a Transparent World will look at these issues with a diverse range of speakers who can share deep expertise in these issues.

The panel features

• Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart
• HP – Arcsight CTO (and former National Security Agency CIO/CTO) Dr. Prescott Winter
• Paypal Canada GM Darrell MacMullin
• Rogers VP for Enterprise Risk Management Don Huff

The panel will be moderated by David Craig, who leads the National Information Security Practice at PwC. It is a session that shouldn’t be missed.

The 2011 Canadian Telecom Summit is May 31 to June 2 in Toronto. Have you registered yet?

The British telecom regulator, Ofcom, opened a consultation on Tuesday to examine “Unexpectedly high bills.”

As Ofcom describes in its summary,

Communications services feature usage-based charging, which combined with the availability of a wide variety of services priced at different levels, some of which are used infrequently, means that consumers can find themselves facing bills that far exceed what they are used to, or expect. This is sometimes referred to as bill shock.

The consultation claims to be designed to enable Ofcom to better understand the issue of unexpectedly high bills “by inviting consumers to share their experiences.”

In parallel, Ofcom is asking services providers “about the steps that they take to protect their customers against unexpectedly high bills.”

Ofcom has also carried out some market research; the findings are set out in the Call for Inputs [pdf, 133 KB].

There are already a number of rules to protect consumers against unexpectedly high bills, such as requiring that service providers “supply consumers with clear and transparent information about their services and do not engage in unfair practices.” There are also some specific consumer protection rules that cover roaming in other EU countries.

Is this an exercise to develop new rules or to respond to political pressures? What additional rules would you seek? Should the CRTC act on bill shock?

A multi-screen universe has profound impacts on the communications industry. Our customers get to choose what content they want to watch, when they want to watch it and interact with it. They find and generate content, interact with it and share it across a variety of screens and devices.

How do the latest devices will enhance value and impact productivity for both businesses and consumers? What are some of the competitive dynamics at play engendered by these next generation devices? What are the designers and developers hearing from customers? How do voice and video calling interact with our gaming and TV experience?

The 2011 Canadian Telecom Summit will examine these kinds of questions and more on our June 2 panel Tablets, TVs and Smartphones, oh my!: The explosion of the multi-screen universe.

The panel brings together

• Rick Babington, Executive Director for HTC Canada
• David Neale, VP – Special Projects for Research in Motion
• Sean Seaton, VP Communications Sector for Microsoft Canada
• Jennifer Safruk, VP webOS for HP Canada

The panel will be moderated by one of North America’s leading consumer technology columnists, Marc Saltzman.

The 2011 Canadian Telecom Summit is May 31 to June 2 in Toronto. Have you registered yet?