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Marcus Evans Announces That Chip Pickering Will Present Keynote Speech at Fiber To The Home Forum

Posted on: Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 09:00 CST

marcus evans is proud to announce that Chip Pickering, the United States Congressional Representative from Mississippi's Third district (Vice Chairman, Energy and Commerce Committee, Assistant Majority Whip in the House of Representatives, and a Member of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet) will be presenting a keynote speech at the upcoming Fiber To The Home Forum - Identifying Solutions for the Technology, Business and Political Challenges of Broadband conference, taking place in Washington, D.C., on March 27-28, 2006.

Additional presentations will be feature: Felix Boccuchi, Vice President of New Business Development, KNOLOGY; Paul Morris, Executive Director, UTOPIA; Hershel Abbott, Vice President of Governmental Affairs, Bell Canada; Dae Hee Kim, Information and Communications Counselor, Embassy of the Republic of Korea; Joe Savage, Senior VP, FTTH Council; Takashi Ebihara, Senior Director - Corporate Strategy Planning Department, NTT East; Danny Briere, CEO, Telechoice; Mike Arden, Principal Analyst - Broadband & Residential Entertainment Group, ABI Research; in addition to many other distinguished individuals.

Event website - www.marcusevansmo.com/FTTH

With an ever-increasing demand for bandwidth, hungry communications applications such as Triple Play, IPTV, Video on Demand, HDTV, etc. offer tremendous revenue opportunities for today's telecommunications operators. At the same time, this demand for increasingly robust networks by communications companies, municipalities and real estate developers is among the factors contributing to the rapid growth of Fiber To The Home (FTTH) deployments.

Federal and state legislation is rapidly forcing these FTTH developments to come to a halt. In anticipation of the telecommunications industry being positioned at the center of a pending legislative battle, the need for a collective discussion and debate on the issues is at an all time high. Only through resolving the issues that stand in the way of optimal revenue potential, will the telecommunications industry be able to climb to the top of the world's technological leaders. This conference will focus on the imminent political issues, cost-saving measures, economic development potential, emerging technologies of the future, and a current analysis of the current state of the FTTH industry.

Key topics that will be addressed:

-- National and international perspectives on the total economic potential of fiber deployments

-- Legislation - What are the barriers and how to overcome them? Addressing current and imminent forthcoming FCC standards and regulations

-- Profitable Business Models - How to create accurate business models to generate a ROI from the FTTH infrastructure? Managing initial costs through innovative investment strategies and solidifying a solid ROI

-- State of the Industry - Updates on the status of planned and future fiber deployments. What will we be able to accomplish with 100 Megs per home? Forecasting of future deployments and revenue potentials.

-- Technical challenges to overcome: Arguments and analysis of the varying views involved with FTTH vs. FTTN and FTTC?

-- Power Perspectives Panel - Discussing the virtues and potential growth of value added services

-- The Final Frontier: Emerging technologies to optimize in-home services offerings - The Gadgets and gizmos of the future

Current Fiber To The Home Industry Facts:

-- "Fiber to the home installations have grown 83% since October 2004, reaching 398 communities in 43 states, with the IDC forecasting the market for fiber access equipment to grow from $503 million in 2003 to $2.4 billion by 2008 ..."

-- Verizon is investing $65 million to equip 65,000 city homes, offices and businesses with optical fiber in Ft. Wayne, Indiana ...

-- UTOPIA is a consortium of 14 Utah cities engaged in deploying and operating a 100% fiber optic network to every business and household (approximately 140,000) within its footprint. Operating at the wholesale level, it supports open access and promotes competition in all telecommunications services.

-- South Korea's New Songdo City, a 1,376-acre, US $25 billion investment, 500,000 person extrusion from the mega city of Seoul. It is, by most accounts, the largest real-estate venture in the world.

Industry luminaries and key decision-makers will convene in order to develop optimal strategies for bringing together top-level industry players to work together in breaking down the barriers, and building towards a brighter future.

About marcus evans:

marcus evans, one of the world's leading business information companies, is dedicated to the provision of global business intelligence and information to assist in strategic and effective decision-making. Established in 1983, the company's international network of offices creates major sector-focused events for business learning and networking opportunities across a variety of industries and professions.

Source: Business Wire

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