Summit updates on broadband opportunities

May 06, 2014 at 05:24 pm by Staff


Broadband scenarios in Australia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Myanmar will be explored at the CommunicAsia2014 Summit in June.

Among speakers are Celcom Axiata chief corporate and operations officer

Suresh Sidhu, Tran Tuan Anh, head of the Vietnam Telecommunications Authority’s policy and regulation division, Telstra executive director for networks and access technologies Mike Wright, and Ross Cormack, chief executive of Ooredoo Myanmar.

Strong subscriber growth in fibre broadband in the Asia Pacific – responding to increased demand and an explosion in online gaming and video streaming – is also covered in a track on June 19, the third day of the conference.

Earlier, Wright and Cormack will take part in a panel discussion on broadband networks in Asia – particularly in Myanmar – and the challenges and opportunities in these regions. Other panelists are Wing K Lee (chief executive of YTL Communications) and Khoong Hock Yun, infrastructure and services development group assistant chief officer at Singapore Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore.

The CommunicAsia2014 Summit is being held at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore from June 17-20. More details of the event and supportiung exhibition from www.communicasia.com

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