Community broadband
More coverage of the opening day at The Canadian Telecom Summit, discussing Monday’s Community and Private Broadband Network panel can be found at itBusiness.ca.
Illegal content session
With a line-up of 21 global telecom industry leaders as keynote speakers, one of the highlights so far of The 2006 Canadian Telecom Summit was a panel of non-telecom professionals. Not to diminish in any way the speeches delivered by the industry insiders, but some of the most impactful discourse was from Paul Gillespie and Bernie Farber delivering impassioned calls to action to help clean up the darker sides of the Internet.
The Canadian Press wirestory talks about the session.
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What a start
The National Post carried a preview story of The 2006 Canadian Telecom Summit in this morning’s paper, kicking off a discussion of some of the regulatory issues that will be canvassed over the next 3 days.
The opening 3 keynotes, from Vonage founder Jeff Citron, Palm Americas head Michael Moskowitz and Ericsson CTO Nikos Katinakis got things going.
Messages included the future of mobile TV – including highlights from Palm’s MOBIfest. A new enabler for mobile blogging. Nikos spoke of some of the early success stories for service providers.
On the wires
Canadian Press has an advisory out about The Canadian Telecom Summit taking place this week.
It is sandwiched between an announcement about a fertilizer company holding their investor day Monday and an investment symposium by the Canadian Petroleum producers… there is a joke in there somewhere… comments, anyone?
Bookends
Tomorrow, The 2006 Canadian Telecom Summit opens with a keynote address from a pioneer of the new world order, Jeff Citron, founder, chairman and chief strategist of Vonage. The first day closes with a keynote address by Ron Spears, President of AT&T; Business, the icon of the last century of telecommunications. In between, there will be addresses from leaders of wireless and device companies, such as Palm, Nokia and Ericsson, as well as keynotes from HP and the newly rebranded Orange Business Services (formerly known as Equant).
Panel discussions will cover Wireless applications and competition issues, VoIP evolution and community and social issues, such as rural broadband and illegal content.
The juxtaposition of the new and old is appropriate as we look at the industry moving forward. Tuesday’s sessions will hear from more industry leaders as well as look at policy issues: how the government needs to evolve its approach to telecom regulation and IT strategies. Wednesday, the conference wraps up with a closing address from CRTC Chair Charles Dalfen.