[May 09, 2013] UBM India Recaps 4G World India Tweet May 09, 2013 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- UBM India announced that the 4G World India conference and expo, held at Gurgaon's Epicenter, saw participation from the entire ICT community. According to a release, UBM India organized the two-day confluence, that saw collective participation of more than one thousand exhibitors, delegates and speakers-discussing the evocative aspects to monetize 4G networks, optimize 4G services, and leverage mobile devices and applications for profit. The conference was chaired by International Analyst from Heavy Reading, Berge Ayvazian. UBM India said the event witnessed apex of the telecom community coming together to throw insights on vital aspects like regulatory, policy making, small cells, mobile backhaul and customer experience optimization solutions, to mobile device and new business role models. Few of the top telecom executive who presented at 4G World India were Alok Kumar, Chief Service Delivery Officer at Aircel; AK Bhargava, Director - Operations, Bharat Broadband Nigam Limited; RK Bahuguna, Managing Director, Railtel; Rajiv Bawa, Chief Representative Officer, Telenor; Vikram Tiwathia, Associate Director General, COAI; KK Minocha, Deputy Director General, Department of Telecommunications; Dr. CS Rao, President, Reliance Communications; Vimal Wakhlu, CMD of Telecom Consultants of India Limited, DOT; Sanjay Rohatgi, Managing Director, Service Provider, Cisco - India and SAARC and Abhay Savargankar, Chief of Network Operations, India and South Asia. The event started with an overwhelming presence in the inaugural session comprising of keynote address by Arvind Bali, CEO, Videocon Telecom and Exclusive Telco Business Leader Roundtable: 4G - enabling the next wave of telecom growth in India; and Operator presentation by Abhay Savargankar, Chief of Network Operations, India and South Asia, Bharti Airtel. After the epic first day, the Company said day two was packed with potent content as well. Starting with a keynote by Robert Sewell, Head of Technology Solutions, Aircel, followed by highly engaging presentations from Gulzar Azad, Head of Access, Google India; and Steve Northridge, Product Marketing Director, Oracle Communications. During his presentation at 4G World India, Gulzar Azad, Head of Access, Google India, said, "It is going to be more and more challenging (scale the mobile broadband). There are number of issues with quality which are also suppressing the demand." Not alone this, to nurture the telecom eco system, special seminars were organized on VoLTE technology, which covered aspects of VoLTE architecture, call scenarios and mobility. The support from media and vendor community for 4G India was superlative. The strong partnership for the event included Ciena, Oracle, Cisco, Juniper, Oracle, Qualcomm, Vidyo, Persistent, Huawei, IBM, Radisys, Pointred, Ixia, PeerApp and Tellabs. To top it, the encouragement from industry bodies like WiMAX Forum, ISP Association of India (ISPAI), COAI, Small Cell Forum, BWCI, ITU-APT and Broadband India Forum added to the overall experience. "After this successful show in Gurgaon, 4G World India has many expansion plans. We intend to also launch the Mumbai edition this year and we are certain that we can establish ourselves as one of the leading brand in the space," said Berge Ayvazian, Conference Chair, 4G World India & Analyst, Heavy Reading. UBM India is a part of UBM Plc, a global business media company. More information: www.4gworldindia.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]