Leading Telco's to speak at the The IPTV Asia Forum

A number of leading Telcoms providers in the region will be outlining their IPTV roll out strategies at what promises to be the leading IPTV event in Asia this year. Click here to view this years full program - iptvasiabrochure.pdf

Much of the Asian market has a particularly high level of broadband penetration, and there are huge opening markets, particularly in India and China. Government legislation in China is rapidly changing to allow for access to the right bandwidth provision for massive IPTV rollout. India continues to build its already robust telecoms infrastructure, and strong government support for new technology means that the continent could have as many as five million IPTVs subscribers within the next three years.

The IPTV market in the Asian region overall is predicted to grow to a value of $300 million during 2005. The number of IPTV subscribers in the Asia/Pacific region (excluding Japan) is expected to grow from nearly half a million subscribers in 2004 to over 20 million subscribers by 2009. Providers have unveiled IPTV services, or are running market trials in seven out of the thirteen Asia-Pacific economies.

Leading Telcos players speaking include;

Hou Ziqiang, Chief Technology Advisor, China Netcom, China

Katsushiko Ogawa, Vice President and Director, Cyber Solutions Labatory, NTT, Japan

Roger Lynch, Chairman & CEO, Videonetworks, UK

Philippe Beliaeff, Business Development Director, Atlas Telecom Network, India

Francesca Mari, Director of Marketing and iTV services, Fastweb, Italy

Paul Berriman, Head of Strategic Market Development, PCCW, Hong Kong

Chain-Chin Yen, Deputy Managing Director, Digital Content Strategy Group, Chungwha Telecom Co., Taiwan

Belinda Chan, COO, PCCW, Hong Kong

Seeram Chakravarthy G omadam, Head Technical, Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd, New Delhi

Ricky Wong, Chairman, City Telecom, Hong Kong

Mr. Li Huaiyu, Deputy General Manager, SMG's IPTV Co., China

For more information about the event visit  http://www.iptv-asia.net.

The IPTV Asia Forum will be held at Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong on the 28th an 29th of November 2005.