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New pan-Asian event to bring together communications service providers to discuss upcoming challenges for the diverse region

TM Forum announced today their new pan-Asian event – Management World Asia – to be held in Singapore, January 12 to 15, 2009 at Raffles City Convention Centre. The event will examine the upcoming challenges for this diverse region, through a C-level keynote led conference; TM Forum certified training and industry exposition.

With telecommunications revenues for Asia expected to exceed North America for the first time in 2008, there has never been a more critical time for regional communications service providers to discuss the key challenges facing the market, as they embrace opportunities in the extended value chain of content, digital commerce and advertising.

Management World Asia in 2009 will build on the success of previous regional events in India, China, Japan and Kuala Lumpur to provide an event for the whole of Asia. The event will offer scope to better assess and address Business Transformation – looking at ways to reduce costs, improve processes and to deliver new services. At the conference, attendees will be able to see how to:

Identify the challenges and opportunities for business transformation to help companies survive in an increasingly competitive market;
Reduce friction in the content value chain – understand how value chains are changing and new business opportunities they can deliver;
Rollout IPTV and Mobile TV Services – challenges and lessons learnt rolling out these new services;
Find out about perception and charging issues for Mobile Advertising and Personalization;
Maximize customer experience and customer retention;
Hear about revenue models for new generation services – the latest trends in billing, charging and revenue assurance;

Management World Asia will bring together top experts to discuss, explore and solve the industry’s most pressing issues. Keynote speakers will include:

Dr. Shyue-Ching Lu, Chairman & CEO, Chunghwa Telecom;
Paul Berriman, Chief Technology Officer, PCCW and;
Sigve Brekke, Executive Vice President and Head of Region Asia, Telenor ASA

The event will also include expert speakers from major regional service providers including Shwu ong Ong, Principal Quality Manager SingTel, Chris Thompson, Head of Sales and Marketing, Next Generation Telecoms, Telecom New Zealand and Bengris Pasaribu, Manager TMN Laboratories, Telkom Indonesia.

Mark your calendar now to join these and other leading companies at this year’s Management World Asia Pacific January 12 to 15, 2009.

For further details on the Conference and each of its summits, visit the Management World Asia Pacific homepage at http://www.tmforum.org/mwasia

Press interested in attending with a complimentary press pass should contact Geoff Devlin on +44 (0)7894 300 280 or gdevlin {at} tmforum(.)org

About the TM Forum
With more than 700 member companies in 75 countries, the TM Forum is the world’s leading trade consortium focused on enabling digital services. Serving the information, communications and entertainment industries, the Forum provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the way that services are created, delivered and charged. Members include the majority of the world’s service providers, network operators, software suppliers, equipment suppliers and systems integrators.

The Forum currently facilitates over 80 technical projects and provides extensive training, conferencing and information services to its members. Through its initiatives to help providers move to low cost, high quality ‘lean’ processes, the Forum helps its members automate business processes and work seamlessly across various parts of the service delivery chain. The organization provides industry benchmarks, guidebooks, process and software frameworks and downloadable software standards. These give service providers the direction and specific roadmaps to achieve much greater business efficiency and operational flexibility.

For further information regarding the TM Forum, related programs such as the Prosspero initiative and its Management World conferences, please visit www.tmforum.org

or contact;

Global TM Forum Media Contact
Geoff Devlin, Director of PR
gdevlin {at} tmforum(.)org
+44 (0)7894 300 280