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+++ The first ever dedicated Wi-Fi event at MWC +++ 4 day programCarrier Wi-Fi in SummitHall 8.0 2014 +++ 1 Key highlights Speakers and Moderators
4-day event with a total of 825 conference and workshop Wednesday, 26 February Thursday, 27 February attendees, sponsors and speakers. JR Wilson, Chairman, WBA and VP, Partnerships & Alliances, JR Wilson, Chairman, WBA and VP, Partnerships & Alliances, 21+ 30+ AT&T Mobility AT&T Mobility
• Industry partners @WiFiAlliance, @GSMA and @WiMAX_Forum Dr. Reza Jafari, Chairman & CEO, Alex Sinclair, CTO, GSMA e-Development International • Principal Sponsor @ruckuswireless Diego Molano Vega, Colombian ICT Minister Brooke Partridge, President and CEO, Vital Wave Consulting • Premier Sponsor @CiscoSPMobility and @devicescape Selina Lo, CEO, Ruckus Wireless Gordon Mansfield, Chairman,Small Cell Forum • Associate Sponsor @Aptilo JR Wilson, Chairman, WBA and VP, Partnerships & Alliances, Kelly Davis-Felner, VP Marketing, Wi-Fi Alliance • Roamfest Sponsor @iPass @bt_uk and @BSGWireless AT&T Mobility Mohan Gyani, Independent Telecommunications Shrikant Shenwai, CEO, WBA Professional
Kris Rinne, Senior VP Network and Product Planning, AT&T Caroline Gabriel, Head of Research, Maravedis
Bill Hague, Executive VP for International Alliances and Dr. Seong-Mok Oh, President of Network Group, KT Operator attendance Integration, AT&T
Bill Huang, General Manager, China Mobile Research Institute Kelly Ahuja, Senior VP Mobility Business Group, Cisco “The conference Arqiva • AT&T • Atheeb Group (GO Telecom) • Botswana Fibre Networks • Tom Nagel, Senior VP and General Manager for Wireless program was Jinhyo Park, SVP and Head of N/W R&D Division, SK Telecom BT Global Telecom Markets • Cablevision • Cablevision Argentina • excellent” Services, Comcast Caribbean Cellular Telephone • China Mobile • Comcast • Deutsche Telekom AG • FRC • AT&T Greg Oliveau, Senior VP of Business Development, Kris Rinne, Senior VP Network and Product Planning, AT&T Gogo Inflight • Internet y Voz S.L • KT • KubiWireless • Liberty Global • Meteor Network • GoGo Inflight Mobitel (Pvt.) Ltd • NAIR – AIRI • NEC BiGlobe Ltd • Nomosphere • NTT Docomo • Orange • Bill Huang, General Manager, China Mobile Research Institute Monica Paolini, CEO, Senza Fili Consulting OTR Global • PT Bakrie Telecom • Reliance Jio Infocomm • Shaw Communications • SK Telecom • SKOLKOVO • Starhub • Tata Teleservices • TE Data • Telefónica • Telenet • Dr. Seong-Mok Oh, President of Network Group, KT Derek Peterson, CTO, Boingo Wireless Time Warner Cable • Wateen Telecom Daryl Schoolar, Principal Analyst, Ovum Evan Kaplan, CEO, iPass
Arnaud Vamparys, Senior VP Seamless Wireless Access Chris Bruce, Co-Chairman, WBA and Director, International Sales Strategy, Orange & Consulting at Global Telecom Markets, BT Agenda highlights Edgar Figueroa, CEO, Wi-Fi Alliance Mark Carter, CTO, BSG Wireless Dave Fraser, CEO, Devicescape
Jahangir Mohammed, Founder & CEO, Jasper Wireless Wednesday, 26 February Thursday, 27 February Erick Tseng, Product Manager, Facebook
• Transforming Connected World with • Delivering on the promise of Next Generation Hotspot Todd Haugen, GM Connectivity Engineering, Microsoft Next Generation Wi-Fi • Social Benefits Delivered by Wireless Technologies Chris Bruce, Co-Chairman, WBA and Director, International • Global Role of Wi-Fi in ICT Sales & Consulting at Global Telecom Markets, BT • Evolution of Wi-Fi Networks and Business Models • Driving the Mobile Broadband Revolution with Wi-Fi • Wi-Fi Trends and User Experience • Connected lifestyle – Vision 2020 – A View into the Future
• Delivering a Better Customer Experience on Wi-Fi “Overall I found “I wish I was the CWS extremely able to attend interesting and useful more sessions” and hope to participate Senza Fili Consulting in more WBA events “Great content soon” and awesome GoGo Inflight speaker list” Digicert
2 Carrier Wi-Fi Summit 2014 Carrier Wi-Fi Summit 2014 3 “Great environment, Attendance statistics great place, great Major tweets people… stimulating Birdstep Technology @BirdstepTech and exciting” #FF #MWC14 @WBAlliance @MOSA_Analysis @Foggmobile - thanks for a terrific week in Barcelona - rest up this weekend! BT Attendance by company type Ken Rehbehn @krehbehn Last day of #MWC14 ends with great visits to @NSNtweets @Huawei @ericsson @Tek_Comms Kathrein @WBAlliance Kumu Networks & TEOCO #ygmb
Aptilo Networks @Aptilo 95% take rate of users automatically connecting to #WiFi w seamless offload@Aptilo bit.ly/1epGtS5 @WBAlliance @TeleSemana #MWC2014
Attendance by group TeleSemana.com @TeleSemana #WiFi: WBA realiza pruebas de Hotspot 2.0 en el congreso de Barcelona shar.es/FidKp cc @WBAlliance @Aptilo
Boingo Wireless @boingo Curious about Hotspot 2.0? Boingo CTO will introduce what’s next for Next Gen Hotspot today @WBAlliance #MWC14CWS ow.ly/u2YZi Operators Roaming/Solutions providers David M Weston @davidmweston Vertical industries Technology providers #MWC14CWS Day 1 done and dusted! #JobDone @PurpleWiFi @WBAlliance “Good business @MWC_Barcelona Regulatory / Associations Media / Consultancy networking in a great Marie-Louise Kanon @MimisKanon Quality Experience Continuity meetings @WBAlliance WiFi Offload event for environment…” @BirdstepTech #MWC14 pic.twitter.com/8p0eoeD4bb Ericsson CEO/CTO/CSO EVP/VP Director/Manager Dave Wright @wifidave Media Analyst Technical Selina Lo @ruckuswireless CEO discusses Wi-Fi’s transformative role at @WBAlliance Carrier Wi-Fi Summit. pic.twitter.com/EMw4gPEsVQ
Attendance by department Sarah Reedy @SReedy Checking out the @WBAlliance’s Carrier WiFi Summit at #MWC14 today. Lots of great operator speakers lined up. Attendance by region Dave Wright @wifidave Columbian ICT Minister, Diego Vega, talking about Wi-Fi as a key to ending poverty & inequality. @WBAlliance Carrier Wi-Fi Summit
Birdstep Technology @BirdstepTech Thanks to @WBAlliance for our great Workshops at #MWC14CWS. Read our Experience Continuity white paper birdstep.com/english/white-…
Peter Jarich @pnjarich Here at @WBAlliance lounge for the “meet the analysts” panel with @MobileExperts1 and @canicoll. Packed audience! pic.twitter.com/BKVATBmVhC Business development Marketing / PR
Operations Product management Peter Jarich @pnjarich Has 2.0 working great at @WBAlliance lounge. No interaction needed...it just worked. Nice. #CAatMWC Regulatory Sales Asia Europe Africa
Strategy Technology / R&D Middle East North America South America Erich J. Hermanns @ErichinATL @WBAlliance excited to have you guys in the @GSMA #MWC14 theatre district. #WiFi workshop area is looking great! pic.twitter.com/xZmgmu2zpZ
Wi-Fi Alliance @WiFiAlliance Standards-based #WiFi roaming will be the tipping point for broad industry deployment ubm.io/1gT3soL @WBAlliance @Light_Reading
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Operators Network and Wi-Fi Provider (GSMA Partner)
1. AT&T - Host Operator 1. CISCO
2. Bell Mobility WRIX Hubs / Clearing House
3. Boingo 1. Accuris Networks
4. BT 2. BSG Wireless 3. Aicent 5. CableLabs Wi-Fi Alliance Passpoint Demonstration Partner 6. China Mobile 1. Ruckus Wireless 7. Comcast Mobile Equipment Partners 8. Fon 1. Apple 9. KT 2. Intel 10. Mobily 3. LG 11. NTT DOCOMO 4. Mediatek
12. PCCW-HKT 5. Samsung 13. Portugal Telecom (MEO) “We have seen Media coverage fantastic examples 14. Shaw of innovation…” 15. SK Telecom Arqiva
16. Time Warner Cable
17. Towerstream
18. True
WBA, Wi-Fi Alliance & partners demonstrated roaming with seamless and secure access
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Mobile World Live – Industry body defines ‘carrier Wi-Fi’; seeks closer alignment with operators
Mobile Europe – WBA Unveils First Carrier Wi-Fi Standards
The Mobile Network – A week in the net: SON, fronthaul, backhaul, small cells, and a manifesto for change
Wireless Week – FirstNews Briefs: Wireless Broadband Alliance, Ericsson, Ciena, Anite, CommScope Total Telecom – WBA defines carrier WiFi WBA Wi-Fi Global Congress Information Age – Wireless broadband alliance unites industry stakeholders to define carrier Wi-Fi Palace Hotel, San Francisco, USA Radio-Electronics – WBA defines Carrier Wi-Fi 7-10 October 2014 Telecompaper – WBA releases Carrier Wi-Fi definition www.wifiglobalcongress.com Wireless Mag – MWC 2104 Preview: Wireless Broadband Alliance defines Carrier Wi-Fi “The ability to learn so much Fierce Wireless – AT&T, Cisco promise Hotspot 2.0 Wi-Fi roaming for MWC attendees about the WiFi WBA Wi-Fi Global Congress ecosystem… where Telecom Lead – MWC 2014: Wi-Fi Alliance, WBA to demo Wi-Fi roaming it’s going… it has Principal sponsors Telecom Lead – MWC 2014: Cisco, AT&T, Accuris Networks to demo Hotspot 2.0 been an invaluable experience” TelecomPaper – WBA and Wi-Fi Alliance to demonstrate Wi-Fi roaming at MWC WiFast
Daily Wireless – WiFi Roaming Demoed at MWC Premier sponsor Associate sponsor
Fierce Cable – Comcast, TWC-backed alliance to demo Wi-Fi roaming at Mobile World Congress
Voice and Data – ‘Monetizing Wi-Fi is slightly different from monetizing 3G’
ETNews (Korea) – AT&T, Cisco and Accuris Networks deliver automatic carrier-grade Wi-Fi for visitors to MWC
Light Reading – Momentum Mounts for Cable WiFi
Rethink Wireless – MWC key themes; the software network and IoT
Light Reading – Carrier WiFi: The Handoff Tradeoff
Think Small Cell – What can we expect at Mobile World Congress 2014 from a Small Cell perspective?
InversorLATAM – Wireless Broadband Alliance and Wi-Fi Alliance demonstrate the power of Wi-Fi roaming
Fierce Wireless – Small Cell Forum makes the case for urban deployments
RCR Wireless – Boingo updates 21 airport Wi-Fi networks with Hotspot 2.0
Light Reading – AT&T: Hotspot 2.0 Integral to Multimode Small Cells
Fierce Wireless – Ruckus CEO touts ‘Wi-Fi as a service’ to make headway in land grab for sites
Fierce Wireless – Boingo inks Wi-Fi offload deal with Verizon, hopes for ‘significant revenue’ from Hotspot 2.0
GulfTeleNews – Boingo launches Hotspot 2.0 at 21 airports in U.S.
Daily Wireless – Lightpoles Get Small Cells & Hotspot 2.0
Think Small Cell – Mobile World Congress 2014 - Small Cell Report
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