Sponsors

Platinum Partners

Ericsson is the world's leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators. Ericsson is the leader in 2G, 3G and 4G mobile technologies, and provides support for networks with over 2 billion subscribers and has the leading position in managed services. The company's portfolio comprises mobile and fixed network infrastructure, telecom services, software, broadband and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises and the media industry. The Sony Ericsson and ST-Ericsson joint ventures provide consumers with feature-rich personal mobile devices.

Ericsson is advancing its vision of being the "prime driver in an all-communicating world" through innovation, technology, and sustainable business solutions. Working in 175 countries, more than 80,000 employees generated revenue of SEK 206.5 billion (USD 27.1 billion) in 2009. Founded
in 1876 with the headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, Ericsson is listed on OMX NASDAQ, Stockholm and NASDAQ New York.

Gold Partners

Founded in 2006, Aito Technologies Oy is a developer of an innovative Customer Experience Analytics (CEA) product suite for network operators and digital service providers. As the brainchild of a group of telecom experts, Aito brings a unique approach to the market.
Aito software, which effectively combines customer usage, experience and business information, simplifies the understanding of the customer experience environment. It provides key business management stakeholders with the richest end-to-end view of their customers, in an easy-to-use form, within minutes. Aito is used to manage the experience and behaviour of tens of millions of customers around the world.
About Aito Technologies Oy - visit: www.aitotechnologies.com

Aricent is a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications. A strategic supplier to the world's foremost infrastructure, application and service providers, Aricent combines the leading innovation capabilities of frog design with unparalleled domain expertise in communications to co-create, along with its customers, the world’s most innovative communications products and services. Headquartered in Palo Alto CA, Aricent is a recognized world leader in innovation and telecom R&D services. With operations across 19 countries worldwide, we help our customers to solve the most complex communication challenges. For more information visit www.aricent.com

Blyk is a mobile messaging media that partners with MNO’s to link young people with media content and brands, in order to create shared advertising revenues. Blyk launched its innovative mobile service in the UK in September 2007 and quickly became known as a leader in mobile advertising, audience engagement, and for its ability to drive unprecedented response rates and return on investment for advertisers.

Blyk pioneered the use of interactive text and multi-media messaging as an advertising format, leveraging the most predominant, everyday behaviour of young people (sending and receiving messages on their phones) and enabling them to communicate with brands in the same way they do with their friends.

Blyk partners with Orange in the UK and Vodafone in The Netherlands and is soon to launch in India.

Blyk has offices in Helsinki, London, Amsterdam, Delhi and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.blyk.com and blog.blyk.com

To read Blyk’s Guest Post on the Telco 2.0 Blog “A Message from the Advertising Industry” please click on the following link - http://www.telco2.net/blog/2010/09/guest_post_blyk_-_a_message_fr.html

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of communications services. The company provides a complete, well-balanced product portfolio of mobile and fixed network infrastructure solutions and addresses the growing demand for services with 20,000 service professionals worldwide. Nokia Siemens Networks is one of the largest telecommunications infrastructure companies with operations in 150 countries. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.

Oracle is #1 in Communications globally with 20 of the world's top 20 communications companies running Oracle applications. Oracle Communications integrates industry-specific BSS and OSS solutions with a standards-based service delivery portfolio, as well as the capabilities of Oracle's industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, and carrier-grade middleware and database technologies. Oracle Communications enables service providers to deliver next generation convergent services rapidly, increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, and reduce costs in the business and the network.

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Silver Partners

Aepona provides software products and solutions to Telcos globally, empowering them to fully embrace the emerging Network as a Service (NaaS) business model and unleash the full potential of their network assets.

Headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland with offices in North America, the UK and Europe, Aepona's products have been deployed by Tier 1 operators such as France Telecom/Orange, Sprint, Vimpelcom, Bharti Airtel, TELUS, TDC, BT and KPN, in networks supporting several hundred million subscribers worldwide.

Aepona's core product offering, the Universal Service Platform, enables the transition to NaaS by allowing operators to securely publish their network capabilities - communications, information and intelligence - to the outside world as Web Services-based APIs, enabling thousands of 3rd parties to telecom-enable both Enterprise business processes and web-based consumer services.

Aepona's solution provides the crucial bridge between the Web / IT and Telecoms domains, creating new channels to market and opening up new revenue sources from existing network assets. New services can be developed and rolled out faster than ever before, and can be seamlessly deployed across mobile, fixed, circuit-switched and IP/IMS networks.

Aepona is also the technology provider for the GSM Association's "OneAPI" initiative.

Bronze Partners

Huawei Software is one of the four divisions (namely, Network, Software, Service, and Terminal) of Huawei. Our mission is to help telecommunications carriers enhance their operational revenues, improve operational efficiency, and ultimately achieving business success through an open application environment, an intelligent operation platform, and rapid professional services.
Huawei Software is organized into 3 business lines: Consumer, Enterprise, and BSS product lines to better serve our customers. We provide end-to-end solutions such as the SDP and Digital Shopping Mall Solution, BSS Solution, Digital Home Solution, Rich Communication Solution (RCS), and Mobile Office Solution. Huawei Software focuses on the pressure and challenges of customers. We proactively respond to customers' needs and help carriers develop long-term values on their assets & operations.

Martin Dawes Systems specialises in delivering advanced billing, customer management and data analytics solutions to the convergent communications market. We consistently deliver complex projects on time and to budget.

Combining process innovation with robust and proven systems, Martin Dawes Systems offers attractive propositions that help build customer loyalty, improve efficiency and increase revenue for telecommunications, media and web players. Choosing our Managed Service also streamlines implementation, reduces operational impact and helps control CAPEX and OPEX.

Headquartered in the UK, we have offices in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific from which we support customers, including Vodafone, O2 and BT, internationally.

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Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com) offers practical solutions to the complex demands our clients face in the global telecommunications, media and technology industries. Our analysis is uniquely positioned at the intersection of emerging markets, emerging technologies and emerging business models, powered by the bottom-up methodology of our market forecasts for more than 100 countries–a distinction that has remained unmatched for nearly 25 years. As the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network, Pyramid Research works with Heavy Reading, providing the communications industry’s most comprehensive market data, trusted research and insightful technology analysis.

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