Time To Ditch The Switch?
For Prepaid Service Providers, The Economics of IP Migration
Are Increasingly Compelling
Wednesday,
June 25, 2008, 11:00am EDT / 8:00am PDT |
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With large IP carriers now providing comprehensive, economical PSTN interconnection and service inter-working, and service delivery platforms supporting cost-effective, margin-friendly IP service delivery, prepaid service providers are increasingly asking if now is the time to migrate? Is it time to embrace Darwin’s evolve or die imperative?
This informative one-hour session will examine several of the shifting factors that are making IP migration increasingly compelling for prepaid service providers, including:
- The Basics of Prepaid Service Delivery Platforms: a look at the costs & components
that enable IP service migration
- New IP-Enabled Business Model Control: how IP-based controls and innovations
give service providers unprecedented control over margins & services to:
- easily, quickly self-customize services & rates by inserting new service
logic – without waiting for and paying for vendor upgrades
- expand service products while collapsing costs – with IP-based capabilities such
as sharing access numbers across multiple service products and diverse rate plans
- maximize rates: with new control to vary rates based on service provider-defined factors
- The Wholesaler Migration to IP and Its Negative Effects on TDM-based Prepaid Providers
- Upward Expansion: a look at how and why TDM-based service providers first migrated to IP,
and then expanded into wholesale
- A look at the relative investments, risks and rewards of IP Migration, Cap-and-Grow Strategies,
and TDM stasis
After the presentation, the Webinar will be open for a live Q&A. Be sure to have your questions ready!
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 Kenneth M. Osowski
Vice President of Marketing and Product Management
Pactolus Communications Software Corp.
Ken was a lead contributor of the company’s business plan to support funding activities and market entry, now directs its product strategy and marketing activities, and has helped Pactolus to become one of the industry’s most widely-deployed, flexible and customizable service delivery platforms. A frequent VoIP industry spokesperson and writer, Ken’s teamed with executives across the industry to educate the market on SIP-based voice service delivery. A veteran in the enhanced services industry, he directed Boston Technology’s introduction and commercialization of its carrier-focused voice messaging platform, and subsequently defined IPeria’s market entry strategy as its Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. He holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Franklin & Marshall College and an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.
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 Brian Partridge
Director
Yankee Group
Brian Partridge is Director of Yankee Group’s Enabling Technologies Service Provider group. Partridge focuses on the challenges that vendors, carriers and large enterprises face as voice and video services migrate to packet-based networks. Specifically, he examines market drivers, vendor/operator strategies, economic justification and critical technologies used for deploying and marketing next-generation VoIP and video infrastructure solutions.
Prior to joining Yankee Group, Partridge served as senior director of marketing and business development at ReefEdge Networks, a leading vendor of wireless security and management systems. Before ReefEdge, Partridge was the worldwide director of industry analyst relations at 3Com Corporation. At 3Com, he worked with product teams to achieve market leadership in several key technologies, including CDMA wireless systems, carrier-grade softswitches, IP-PBXs, SIP-based servers and end-points, stackable/core Ethernet switching and xDSL infrastructure. Before 3Com, Partridge held a number of sales support and product marketing roles at Enterasys Networks, a Tier 1 enterprise networking vendor.
Partridge holds a B.S. degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire and an M.B.A. from Plymouth State University.
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 Erik K. Linask
Group Managing Editor
Technology Marketing Corporation
Erik oversees the daily operation of TMCnet, which delivers news, information, videos, white papers, podcasts, and more to three million visitors each month. He is also a contributor to TMCnet as well as TMC’s IP Communications publications.
Prior to joining the TMC team, several years ago, he was Managing Editor at Global Custodian, a global securities services publication, where he also managed the magazine’s survey research. Erik began his professional career at management consulting firm Leadership Research Institute. |
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