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April 20, 2007
Dual Mode
Given the controversy that Vodafone and Orange have asked Nokia to disable the dual mode of the N95. The Dual Mode Phones Session is going to be interesting at Spring VON Europe.
Many of us saw this phone and others like it as the device that makes office mobility as productive as possible. So the point of this session is what opportunities exist for the end user both corporate and mobile consumer to pressure the market in the other direction.
Dual - Mode Phones: The Single Device of the Future?
Thursday, June 14, 2007, 9:00am - 9:55am
Everywhere you turn today the talk is never about the phone service, but the phone itself. And no wonder. Bundles of Cameras, PDAs, IM, music, and video come with each new device. But dual - mode represents an opportunity for the network to have some value again. Or does it just mean you will access features from your traditional service provider?
Are dual-mode phones subsidized?
Can seamless pass through occur for all features?
What concerns do service providers have in supporting these phones?
Claudio Adriani, CTO, Elitel S.p.A.
Claudio Adriani has spent more than twenty-seven years in the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) industry, where he has been always dealing with innovation and advanced technologies for mission critical solutions and services. Mr. Adriani began his professional career in 1979 joining the Olivetti group at its headquarters in Ivrea, Italy, where he held different positions at corporate and group’s company level, including that of Director, Corporate Technology Strategies, Head of System Offer Architecture, and Networking & Communications Product Planning Manager in research and development. More recently, he was also Vice President, Solution Development at Unisys, Head of Internet Strategies and New Services & Solutions at Olivetti Tecnost, Chief Technology Officer for a start-up company in the Getronics group, Integration Services Director at Getronics and Wang Global. Mr. Adriani joined Elitel in November 2003. Mr. Adriani earned a Degree in Informatics at the University of Pisa, Italy.
James Body, Network Director, Hurst farm, Truphone
James Body is responsible for the Truphone network infrastructure. A founding member of the UK Internet Telephony Service Providers Association (ITSPA), he has been closely involved with the implementation and regulation of new internet based telephony systems for past four years. He was responsible for SIPCall, the first UK public SIP<>PSTN system and was also co-founder of Gossiptel, a leading consumer based VoIP offering. He spent 20 years as a an officer in the Royal Corps of Signals before retiring from the British Army to focus on implementing VoIP based telephony systems.
Frank Kettler, Dipl.-Ing, HEAD acoustics
Frank joint HEAD acoustics in 1991, one of the leading manufacturer of speech quality test systems. He has experiencs for more than 10 years in this field. HEAD acoustics is working closely together with ETSI in conducting the ETSI's international Speech Quality Test Events for VoIP.
Posted by carl at April 20, 2007 08:36 AM