Telecom and ICT investors and stakeholders

Two new telecom licenses have just been awarded in Myanmar. The new Telecom Law is now being treated in its final stage in Parliament and is expected to be passed soon. Foreign investments in both the telecom and ICT sectors are welcome, and more new market opening are expected.

Beyond the two new telco licenses awarded, more new licenses for foreign joint ventures or foreign entities are in the pipeline. Amongst the wide array of services permitted, the two new operators will be allowed to offer mobile connections, fixed line services, IT and Internet offerings. The need for upgrading internet/ICT infrastructure is urgent, and the demand for cloud computing for enterprises in all industries and in government is also urgent and huge. What are the new opportunities in the Myanmar new telecom ecosystem? What are the urgent infrastructural requirements needed to be fulfilled? What are the IT and telecom bottlenecks needed to be cleared for the fast rollout or Myanmar's stock exchange this year?

At this global Summit, Myanmar's decision makers, corporate leaders of Myanmar's telco, internet, ICT sectors are expected to congregate with senior management and decision makers from international telecom companies, service providers and equipment companies, broadcasting companies, satellite companies from Asia, Europe, North America, Australia and the Middle East.

The Summit aims to provide a high-level strategic platform for foreign telecom operators, investors, equipment providers and technology leaders to meet with key decision makers in Myanmar's public and private sectors, in addition, in providing the latest updates on key changes in Myanmar's potentially promising telecom and ICT sectors.

A whole wide range of topics and issues that are related to telecom licenses, foreign investment in Myanmar's telecom and ICT sector, new market opening, new licenses for foreign joint ventures and foreign entities, upgrading internet/ICT infrastructure, cloud computing, ISP licenses and other related infrastructural requirements will also be the highlight of this Summit.

VIPs invited to the Summit include senior officials and telecom/ICT experts from: Ministry of Communications Information Technology, Post and Telecommunication, & Myanma Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development, President's Office, Yatanarpon Teleport, Myanmar ICT Development Corporation/Yangon ICT Park, ITU, International Finance Corporation, The World Bank Group and new foreign telco and other key ICT players in Myanmar.

The Summit will be held at Inya Lake Hotel.

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The World’s Fastest Growing Telecom Markets

Bharat Book Bureau presents the new report, on 'Telecom Equipment Market in India 2013'  states that India holds immense opportunities for telecom equipment products. The country houses a mammoth wireless subscriber base which is served by a number of wireless network operator and other service providers. Also, India being a major IT and ITES hub, there are significant number of companies dependent on telecom products. These have generated considerable level of demand for  telecom equipment in the India (http://www.bharatbook.com/market-research-reports/mobile-...).

India is largely dependent on import for telecom equipment. Dometic production of the same has been negligible as compared to imports. Chinese and European companies, leveraging on this deficiency, are catering to the needs of the country with wide range of telecom equipment products (http://www.bharatbook.com/market-research-report/mobile-a...) at competitive price points.

However, the Government of India has realized the essentiality of domestic production of telecom equipment and hence has come up with a number of policies and perks to enhance the same in the country. Apart from allowing 100% FDI for telecom equipment manufacturing, the government is also setting up telecom centers of excellence across India to promote domestic manufacturing. In 2012, the Union Cabinet approved INR 100 bn as financial support for the development of electronic manufacturing clusters while recently, additional INR 100 bn was approved to promote large scale manufacturing in India. This presents the best time for mobile accessory companies to establish manufacturing units in India. On the export front, India is gradually picking up pace, principally with export of mobile handsets.

Rapid growth in telecom subscriber base, and introduction of 3G and 4G induces telecom equipment requirements across the country. With rising usage of 3G services and adoption of 4G technology, the need of telecom equipment will only rise as service providers enhance their capability to handle more users and service requests from across the country and beyond.

Furthermore, IPv4 to IPv6 migration is being carried-out in phases which require service providers across India to adopt IPv6 compliant telecom equipment. Significant demand for telecom equipment will be created by the same in the coming years as service providers and stakeholders embrace the new internet protocol to achieve compatibility.

Foreign telecom equipment companies, however face heat from Indian security agencies over probabilities of threats from their products. This, however, creates opportunity for telecom equipment companies having manufacturing facilities in India.

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Telemanagement Decreases Huntington County Telecom Expenses

Huntington County Government is able to accurately track and reduce their telecom costs thanks to a new Mitel Unified Communications Platform including OfficeWatch Telemanagement.  The deployment and design of the new system was implemented by Metropolis partner Gibson Teldata.

“We had several older Nortel phone systems throughout the county and even a few NEC systems,” explained J. Ryan Wall, Information Systems Director for the County.  “It was a hodgepodge with different vendors managing each department.  I.T. would call us to work on their varied systems but we were unable to help them because we didn’t have the qualifications.”

Wall began to investigate vendors in the county to explore a unified communication solution that would help the county simplify the management of their phone system and reduce costs.  After speaking with many of his colleagues, Wall decided to reach out to recommended reseller Gibson Teldata, a leading Mitel phone system provider that specializes in solution-driven communication products.

“Gibson is top notch,” commented Wall.  “It is one of the reasons we went with them, especially after I talked with other customers they have worked with.  If I have a question, they have been good about getting right back to me with an answer.”

“Huntington County had an older Nortel solution in three physical facilities that was no longer meeting their needs,” described Dorothy Jones, Senior Account Executive at Gibson.   “We installed a new Mitel UC Solution that included wireless solutions and voicemail.  With this, we were able to consolidate all of their trunking services and get that down to two PRIs.”  

In addition to standardizing the phone systems among the offices with a core Mitel Solution, Huntington needed a call accounting solution that would allow them to look at assessments using account codes and to pull auditing reports on those assessments.   Jones suggested OfficeWatch Telemanagement which would eliminate the department’s need to manually extract costs from their phone bill to break down charges by internal departments.  

“Metropolis’ OfficeWatch is one of our primary call accounting systems,” Jones added. “Among our choices, it is easier to work with, easier to upgrade, and the package is easy to implement.”

OfficeWatch Telemanagement integrates seamlessly into the Mitel 3300 phone system to enable businesses to gain insight into call patterns, telecom costs, and phone abuse within the organization.  In addition to over 200+ reporting templates, the telemanagement solution includes rate tables to easily associate costs with the calls, improving budgeting and departmental accountability for government clients.  

“It has been a cost savings for us,” claimed Wall, who cited an almost 67% cost savings after the system installation.  “OfficeWatch is able to break down our long distance bill which is the variable cost we couldn’t get our hands on.  In times when tax rate funding in Indiana is limited by numerous factors, now the individual departments can pay for only what they need and use.  The county general fund was paying over $3,000 per month originally and after the project was completed to include breakouts in OfficeWatch, it will drive us down to only $995 per month.”  

Wall concluded, “I have and will continue to recommend Gibson whenever I have the opportunity.  And I would wholeheartedly recommend OfficeWatch as well.”

For more information about Gibson Teldata, visit their website at http://www.bgibson.com.

About Metropolis Technologies, Inc.

Metropolis Technologies is a long-standing Mitel MSA Development Partner that has provided progressive telemanagement and call accounting solutions for all types of businesses since 1993. Metropolis’ products integrate seamlessly with Mitel phone systems to provide detailed call tracking, productivity reports, expensive call alerts, trunk analysis tools, and emergency notifications. Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Metropolis provides solutions to businesses throughout North America as well as on a global scale. For more information, please visit http://www.metropolis.com.

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Strong loan market expected to drive telecom goes into Central and Eastern Europe

Telecom bankers predict that a strong and healthy telecom debt market in all of Central and Eastern Europe in the next 12 months, before opening the TMT Finance CEE Conference is held in Warsaw in September to a dozen telecom transactions could trigger. The new regional event to assess the increase in opportunities in the region as a whole, and takes place on the Warsaw Stock Exchange on 25 September 2013 http://www.tmtfinance.com/cee/

"The current loan market is healthy and generally we expect the debt markets across the region remains very receptive to TMT issuers," said Bruno Padron, Managing Director, Global TMT Group, Crédit Agricole CIB, which is one of the 40 speakers at the Conference will be. "In particular, there are a half dozen to a dozen potential m & A of decent size (a mix of corporate takeovers and Lbos) on our radar now, and while only a few power eventually happen, we does not have the intention to a show stopper for every individual transaction financing."

Pezy offers in addition to other leading regional investment bankers, investors and Cfos on the telecom operator panel session ' Financing TMT-how will access to capital effect strategy? ' that is one of the seven main sessions at the Conference.

Executives of Raiffeisen Bank International, EBRD, Crédit Agricole CIB, Societe Generale, Bank Pekao and EMSA EmiTel, capital will also feature on the TMT Finance Panel. The session will opportunities in capital on the stock markets and the return of both initial and debt financing, private equity, Lbos, supply and alternate financing. Prices, liquidity and valuation trends also fixed.

Other session topics at the Conference include: Telecom Operator Strategies – leads the next wave of growth; Cable strategy Roundtable – Delivering content and to make use of the network; Mergers and acquisitions – how will M A form the market &?; Regulation and growth; Broadband infrastructure and the future of TMT-invest in adjacent markets and technologies.

Other companies that have announced speakers include: Google; Telenor; Vectra; Netia; Telekom Austria; Resource partners; MCI management; Warburg Pincus; Barclays Capital; GSMA Europe; Deutsche Bank; Dentons; EBRD; Arthur D. Little; Neostratus; Akira Partners; Bank Pekao; Analysys Mason; and Rothschild. More speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.

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StartMeeting’s Greg Plum Named to CompTIA Telecom Advisory Council

StartMeeting, a synchronized audio and web conferencing service, announced that Greg Plum, Vice President for Channel Development, has been named to CompTIA’s Telecom Advisory Council, a new industry group centered on the growing convergence of telecommunications and information technology (IT).

CompTIA is a recognized authority in IT education and public policy advocacy, and the largest non-profit IT trade association in the world. Its Telecom Advisory Council was created to provide strategic insight and vendor-neutral guidance on the evolving and expanding relationships between agents who sell telecom services and IT solution providers who focus on data needs – historically two separate sales channels that are moving closer together out of business necessity and customer demand.

“The worlds of telecom and IT continue to converge as a rapid pace, making it incumbent on our industry to identify the challenges and develop strategies to address this trend,” said Annette Taber, vice president, channel strategies, CompTIA. “CompTIA is pleased to welcome Greg Plum and StartMeeting to the Telecom Advisory Council. Their expertise, insights and perspectives will be valuable in the discussions we have and the results we deliver.”

StartMeeting is a suite of telecommunications services to maximize person-to-person contacts through three options:  StartMeeting Audio, StartMeeting Studio, and StartMeeting Live.

StartMeeting Audio is free reservationless Audio Conferencing with up to 1,000 callers.

StartMeeting Studio allows users to create a presentation with audio and desktop content, and share it for free via email or upload to the web for the world to see.

StartMeeting Live is a synchronized audio and web conferencing service that incorporates state-of-the-art features including screen sharing of files, spreadsheets, presentations, and other content; cloud-based meeting recording and playback; and a customizable online Meeting Wall.

With the combination of free and fee-based services, StartMeeting gives the customer an unparalleled versatility with the highest value.  The quality of StartMeeting’s offerings was recognized in 2012 with an Internet Telephony Excellence Award from TMC.

“It's an honor to be a member of CompTIA’s (http://www.comptia.org/home.aspx) Telecom Advisory Council and to be joining such a distinguished group of council members,” says Plum. “CompTIA is a leader in the IT industry and it is important in shaping best practices within the changing IT and telecommunications marketplace.”

Among the issues before the council are establishing and protecting account ownership; rules for interfacing with customers; structures for formal contracts and communications; project management rules; adoption of new technologies, business models and markets; and operational efficiencies.

About StartMeeting

Founded in 2011 and using the experience of 10 years in conferencing services, StartMeeting offers audio and web conferencing that synchronizes versatile real-time screen sharing and cloud-based meeting recording (does not require large files to email or save).  StartMeeting features a unique Meeting Wall, or homepage, for the host to manage meetings, high definition sound, and a permanent, dedicated meeting credential for reservationless service.  StartMeeting was recognized for its leadership and innovation with an INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award by TMC in 2012.  StartMeeting’s innovative and robust service provides full functionality at a fraction of the cost - $19.95 per month for basic service with more capacity than major competitors’ basic service at $39/$49/$55 per month.  

For more information, visit www.StartMeeting.com.  

About CompTIA

CompTIA is the voice of the world’s information technology (IT) industry. Its members are the companies at the forefront of innovation; and the professionals responsible for maximizing the benefits organizations receive from their investments in technology. CompTIA is dedicated to advancing industry growth through its educational programs, market research, and networking

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