EVENT INFORMATION

The event will take place on Thursday, June 11, 2009, from:
New York: 9AM to 5PM
Los Angeles: 6AM to 2PM
London: 2PM to 10PM

The Mobile 2012 Virtual Tradeshow will cover all things mobile, including LTE, femtocells, open access, 3G+, and the hottest wireless applications and services.

Mobile data is the fastest-growing mass-market telecom service in the world, reshaping communications and Internet services daily. Driven by 3G network performance, attractive pricing, advanced devices, social networking, and mobile-friendly Web content, the outlook is for a sustained transition of attention and innovation to the mobile platform. This event is designed to provide a forward-looking view on how the wireless market will evolve through 2012 and beyond.

Alongside the virtual show floor, Mobile 2012 will run a series of interactive Webinars covering the hottest topics in wireless, including:

• Transition to LTE – Examining Next-Generation Mobile Broadband
• Evolved Packet Core – The Network's Service Engine
• Working With Third Party Developers: Issues and Opportunities
• LTE Backhaul: New Architectures for All-IP

Why 2012?

Telco network engineers, planners, line-of-business executives, and CXOs are in the process of making major mobile infrastructure purchasing decisions this year based on growth in their markets, as well as the short-, near-, and long-term strategies of their prospective vendor partners. The period between 2009 and 2012 is both a practical period over which real innovation and progress will be made in mobile, and a time span around which sponsors can elaborate long-term visions on the shape of the wireless industry “beyond 2012.” Other notable data points on the year 2012 include:

• It will be 10 years since the launch of the first 3G networks.
• Mobile broadband services will surpass 1.5 billion active connections.
• Mobile data revenues are forecast to exceed $350 billion, equivalent to a CAGR of 16 percent between 2008 and 2012.
• There will be availability of digital dividend spectrum (equivalent to 700 MHz) in many global regions.
• Mainstream, large-scale deployment of LTE will be initiated by operators in all global regions.
• We like how it sounds. (And it's the year of the London Olympics, yay!)