A conference to be held in Colombo in October will promote wireless broadband (high speed data transmission) technologies, such as WiMax and LTE, as 'critical infrastructure' for the improvement of the North and the East. In fact, according to Dr. Zoran Miljanic, Head of Technology Networking International (TNI), the event's organizer, any new ICT introduced into the area "creates opportunities by exposing people across the economic classes, professional fields and age levels to newer ways of doing things and doing it more and more efficiently as the role of ICT and computer literacy of workforces increase”.
Dr. Miljanic's comments were part of a recent TNI announcement launching the 2nd South Asia Broadband Communications Conference and Expo. Scheduled for October 6-7, 2009, at the Hilton Colombo, the event will encompass “leading vendors, regional operators, service providers, regulatory agencies, [and corporate customers]". Meanwhile, this event was last held, also in Colombo, in 2007.E
xpected to highlight the broadband landscape across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, this two-day conference plans to offer presentations by government, corporate and technology leaders as well as panel discussions covering the potential of broadband across emerging economies in South Asia, including in areas such as: "Metro Ethernet Services and Applications", "Broadband Wireless Technology", "Infrastructure Solutions and Services", "Emerging Communications Paradigms and Network Services", "Next Generation Broadband Infrastructure" and "Service Policy, Reforms and Economy behind Broadband Telecommunications". |
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