Tel.Com Africa 2002
PROGRAMME
DAY ONE
PLENARY
Chairperson: Dr Andile Ngcaba, Director-General, Department of Communications
Top international communications industry specialists have been invited to join key representatives from SA's major operators to
present their views and strategies for the future. Each representative from the operators will position their organisation's role in
shaping the future of Southern African telecommunications amidst the key forces of change. Each will be asked to identify the single
biggest challenge facing the industry and the country as a whole, and to put forward their organisation's approach to meeting this
challenge head on.
07:30
REGISTRATION
08:30
Welcome
Peter Davies, Conference Chairperson
08:40
Opening Address
Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, Minister for Communications (via video due to cabinet obligations in CT)
09:00
The Digital Bridge Initiative
Gerard Dega, VP Alcatel France & member Thabo Mbeki’s Presidential Task Force
09:40
Effective Regulations: in a Developing Country
Andrew C Barrett, MD, Barrett Group Inc, USA & former US Federal Communications Commissioner, USA
10:00
Effective Regulations: a Global User Perspective
Ewan Sutherland, Executive Director, INTUG, Belgium
10:20
Overview of the SA Fixed Networks Market – will we see real competition?
Dopek Pater, Business Unit Manager: Telecoms, BMI-TechKnowledge Group
10:35
TEA
Future Plans, Strategies and Views of the Future from the Operators pending liberalization and Open
Competition
Chairperson - Dr Erwin Schumann, MD, Grintek Telecom
11:00
Telkom
Sizwe Nxasana, CEO, Telkom
11:30
SNO
Dr Angus Hay, CTO, Transtel
12:00
Sentech
Dr Sebiletso Mokone-Matabane, CEO, Sentech
12:30
Panel Discussion – Stimulating growth & a stable competitive communications environment in Africa
13:00
LUNCH
Future Plans, Strategies and Views of the Future from the Operators pending liberalization and Open
Competition continued
Chairperson - Pete da Silva, CEO, Siemens Telecommunications
14:00
Overview of the SA Cellular Market- Can the cellular operators still grow or is it time to diet ?
Dopek Pater, Business Unit Manager: Telecoms,, BMI-TechKnowledge Group
14:15
Vodacom
Robert Pasley, Director: Strategy, Vodacom Group
14:45
MTN
Dr Georges Bongi, Group Executive, Marketing and Strategies, MTN
15:15
Cell C
Norman Ober, Head of Corporate Office Group, Cell C
15:45
TEA
16:15
Panel Discussion – Stimulating growth & a stable competitive communications environment in Africa
16:45
Closing summary
19:30
Gala Dinner – Sandton Convention Centre
(Cocktail reception 19:30 – Dinner 20:00 to 23:00 )
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DAY TWO
TRACK A
TRACK B
TRACK C
Revenue Management
Policy & Regulatory Issues
Skills Development Forum
Chairperson: Rex van Olst, WITS
Chairperson: Mike van den Bergh,
Gateway Communications
Hosted by ISETT SETA
Chairperson:Thabo Mpama, Marconi
Communications
The new technology platforms allow for a
greater
degree
of
granulation
of
information enabling today’s operators to
understand more about their customers,
their needs, habits and preferences.
Today’s revenue management systems,
incorporating
traditional
elements
previously found only in billing systems
and customer relationship management
systems, are now moving into new
spheres with new products and services
creating payment platforms for boosting
profitability.
Policy formulation and the effective
regulation
of
telecommunications
have been
identified
as
critical
prerequisites for success if we are to
derive the benefits promised by market
liberalisation. The role of the government
in policy formulation is well-defined – its
role in regulation perhaps less so. Fixedmobile convergence is creating fresh
challenges and increased complexity. This
session will examine these and other
issues, on both the local and international
fronts, and give valuable insight into
the way ahead.
South Africa along with most of the
developed and developing world suffers
from a shortage of ICT skills. A number of
initiatives
from
government,
quasi
government and business are currently
addressing this challenge. In this session
we examine some of these initiatives and
finish by debating; “ are we on the right
track – are we succeeding – what more
can we do”.
07:30
REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION
08:30
Effective Strategies for Active
Revenue Management
Jeremy Deaner, VP Group Sales
EMEA, Convergys, UK
Update on Current Status and
What’s Ahead
Mandla Langa, Chairperson, ICASA
Developing ICT Skills in South
Africa – from demand to delivery
Mateli Mpuntsha, CEO, ISETT SETA
09:00
New Realtime Payment Method
for new services in fixed, mobile
& converged networks - Madelein
van den Berg, Technology Solutions
Manager, Siemens Telecommunications
Policy or Policing –
Government’s Role
Andrew C Barrett, MD, Barrett Group
Inc, USA
Building the School
Infrastructure – Rodwyn Grewan,
CEO, SchoolNet SA
09:30
Techniques for Minimising Fraud
Losses
Nick Dunlop, Director: Fraud
Management Group, Alcatel UK
South Africa’s Investment in a
Telecommunication
Infrastructure – the truth behind
this apparent liberalization
Edwin Thompson, Regulatory
Director, UUNET SA
Youth Internship Programme –
Developing ICT Skills
Alan Hirsch, General Manager:
ICT/Electronics Industry, Trade &
Investment South Africa, DTI
10:00
From Network to Customer
Centric Business – How can
Telecoms leverage their
customer assets
Kris Tokarzewski, CRM Solutions
Manager, SAP
Mobile Telecommunications –
Competition or career?
Ewan Sutherland, Executive Director,
INTUG, Belgium
Business, Tertiary & THRIPS
Partnerships – Developing SA’s
Engineers for the Future
Thami Msimango, Executive,
Technology Direction and
Integration, Telkom
10:30
TEA
TEA
TEA
Mobile Commerce
Policy & Regulatory Issues
continued
Skills Development Forum
continued
Strengthening Developing
Countries Participation in
International Decision Making –
the case of South Africa?
Alison Gillwald, LINK Centre, WITS
University
Skills Development & Job
Creation in the
Telecommunications and IT
Sector
Lennox Tshwete, Director, Siemens
Hosted by the Swedish Trade
Council
Chairperson:- Hans Josefsson, Trade
Commissioner, Sweden
Having survived the dot com / dot gone
era, many companies have learned much
from the hype and disappointments of
over stated promises and somewhat naive
expectations. Companies are now buckling
down to realistic developments combining
traditional business approaches and
infrastructure with the facilities and
potential of the Internet. Here we look at
some of the successes.
11:00
Mobile Internet Applications –
dot com to dot reality
Jan Lindgren, VP Mobile Internet,
Ericsson, Sweden
Tel.Com Africa 2002
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DAY TWO CONT…
TRACK A
TRACK B
TRACK C
11:30
The Stairway to e-Customs
Lars Karlsson, Director
Development: Head Customs Future
Centre, Swedish Customs
The Information Security
Implications of the Electronic
Communications & Transactions
Act - Prof Basie von Solms,
Chairman, RAU-Standard Bank
Academy for Information
Technology, RAU
Advanced Skills Development &
Entrepreneurship
Dr Andile Ngcaba, Director General,
Department of Communications
12:00
GPRS for Mobile Corporate IT
Solutions
Michael Franze, Senior Technical
Solutions Manager, GSM Cellular
Telecoms Networks, Siemens
Telecommunications
Panel Debate
Panel Debate
12:30
LUNCH
LUNCH
LUNCH
Leading Edge Applications
Internet Protocol
Access Solutions
Hosted by the Swedish Trade
Council
Chairperson: Hans Josefsson, Trade
Commissioner, Sweden
Chairperson: Thoko Mokgosi,
Siemens
Chairperson: Ian Braid, Altech SA
Mobile communication is one of Sweden’s
most dynamic industries with a number of
Swedish companies recognised as world
leaders in pioneering new technologies
and applications in their field. In this
session we look at a number of leading
edge applications and developments from
Swedish companies and their global
partners.
IP, or Internet Protocol, lies at the heart
of modern communications. From Internet
access to the growing field of IP telephony
(including VoIP), IP is central to the
explosive growth being experienced in
telecommunications
worldwide.
Unfortunately, this rapid growth has
not impacted upon much of the African
continent in the same way that it has
elsewhere, and so this session also
focuses on the role that IP can and must
play
in extending
cost-effective
communications to the whole of Africa.
Variously regarded as the last mile, the
first mile, the golden mile…, access
solutions are the key to ownership of the
customer. Much development has taken
place in other areas to increase bandwidth
capacity, but the access domain remains
the bottleneck in terms of high-speed
delivery
to
customers,
especially
residential
customers.
Incumbent
operators throughout the world own this
part of the network and are not going to
give it up easily. New developments in
access technologies will go along way to
overcoming these issues.
14:00
Cost Effective Solutions for Rural
Areas
Henrik Björendahl EMEA, Allgon
Systems, Sweden
IP- Foundation of New Market
Innovations in Africa
Rob Strange, Market Development
Manager, Cisco Systems
CDMA2000 Access Technology
Dr Rao Yallapragada, Director of
Technology Marketing, Qualcomm,
USA
14:30
Communications for all
Pieter van der Westhuizen, Senior
Manager: Mobile Systems, Ericsson
VoIP and Internet Telephony –
their role in opening
telecommunications markets
Mike van den Bergh, Regional
Director, Gateway Communications
Supervised Public Access
Eckart Zollner, Business
Development Manager, PSITEK
15:00
TEA
TEA
TEA
15:30
Attracting and Managing Content
Providers – providing customers
with what they need on time
Anders Kinberg, Marketing Director,
Blue Factory, Sweden
Public Telephone and Internet
Services in Africa - the telecentre
& cybercafe market
Mike Jensen, Independent
Consultant
Making the Business Case for
BWA at 3.5 GHz
Paul Alberts, Task Group Leader Access, Siemens
Telecommunications
16:00
Revenue Assurance aligned for
future technologies
Stefan Robsen, Account Director,
Visual Wireless AB
Quality of Service in the
Converged Network
David Hill, Principal Systems
Consultant, Alcatel SA
Migrating to IP – based in
Business and Wireless Access
Gideon van Zyl, Sales Engineering
Consultant: SA, Tellabs
16:30
Creating a Wireless Society
Anita Jonsson, Director IT &
Telecom, Global Projects, Swedish
Trade Council
Negotiating the Internet
Prof Ernest Wilson III, Director:
Centre for International
Development and Conflict
Management, University of
Maryland, USA
The Access Paradigm Shift –
wireless, wireline, broadband
and fibre
George Debbo, Technical Director,
Marconi Communications
17:00
FINISH
FINISH
FINISH
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DAY THREE
TRACK A
Multimedia
Chairperson: Peter Davies, CSSA
New licenses have recently been granted both in
terms of value added content and multimedia
services. Multimedia services today are being
provided on a common IP Platform that has the
potential to severely affect revenue streams of
the traditional telecommunications providers.
This session will give delegates the opportunity
to learn about the options, both commercially
and
technically,
emanating
from
the
implementation of these new services in South
Africa.
TRACK B
TRACK C
New & Emerging
Technologies
New Routes and Services for
Africa Chairperson; Hans van de
Chairperson: Roger Dawes, EIF
Groenendaal, Telkom
This session looks first at some of the new and
innovative developments taking place in South
African universities and technikons followed by a
look at emerging technologies about to be
introduced into the global markets. These
include high altitude transit solutions, integrating
copper and fibre for delivery solutions, providing
services in metropolitan areas, and a look at the
new office environment at which communications
originate and terminate.
With the
NEPAD
programme
successfully
launched, telecommunications will be one of the
most important driving forces in developing the
African economies. Many African countries are
already striving to improve their internal landline
and mobile service delivery and expand their
Internet connectivity, hence the development of
SAT3 / WASC / SAFE submarine cable project
linking the continent with Europe and the East
comes at a most appropriate time. These
initiatives
will
undoubtedly
boost
the
telecommunications industry and provide many
opportunities.
07:30
REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION
08:30
Interactive TV for Africa
Nolo Letele, CEO, MultiChoice
Connecting Africa to leverage
ICT for Economic Development
Nombulelo Moholi, Chief Sales &
Marketing Officer, Telkom
09:00
Video over DSL
Herve Cloarec, General Manager,
Thomsom Multimedia
Telecon Learning: The Telkom
Centre of Excellence – a model
for Telecommunication
Development and innovation
Thami Msimago, Executive :
Technology Technology Direction and
Integration, Telkom
09:30
10:00
10:30
Technical Challenges facing
African Broadcasters - Rufus
Andrew, Strategic Market Executive:
Communications, arivia.kom
Review of the best 5 papers from SATNAC
2002 by Post Graduate Students from
Telkom Centre of Excellence at various
Universities in South Africa
Designing Usable Applications for Mobile
Computing - Darelle van Greunen
Delivering ATM-based video-on-demand
Across Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber
Lines - Emile W Swanson
NEPAD and its role in Developing
Telecommunications in Africa
Dr Henry Chasia, Executive Deputy
Chairman, e-Africa Commission
International Interconnectivity
Services in Africa
Roger Chiume, Group Executive,
Sentech
Set Top Boxes – opportunities for
innovation - Peter Griffiths,
Marketing Manager, MediaVerge
Solutions
Progress Towards Copper Cable
Identification - Martin Poole
Evaluation of Speaker Identification Using
GSM data - Lerato Lerato
SAT3/WASC/SAFE Sub Marine
Cable and Beyond - Wally
Beelders, Managing Executive:
International and Special Markets,
Telkom SA Ltd
TEA
TEA
TEA
Next Generation Networks
New & Emerging
Technologies continued
New Routes and Services for
Africa continued
Chairperson; Reuben September,
Chief Technical Officer Telkom
Fast Packet Filtering Using N-Ary Decision
Diagrams - Adi Attar
A number of new services are being introduced
into South Africa over next generation networks
offering convergence of voice, data and video via
intelligent high-speed network technology. This
provides facilities for a host of new applications
and cost savings for users, additional revenue
streams and reduced operating costs for
operators as well as new opportunities for
innovative management.
11:00
Wireless Connection: end to end
management of next generation
services - Michael Marks, Director:
Service Provider Product Marketing,,
Concord Communications, USA
Replacing the traditional PABX
In the new office environment
Fred Maurus, Divisional Manager:
Product & Technology Management,
Siemens Telecommunications
VSAT- Data Connectivity in Rural
Africa - Geoff Daniell, Director ,
Geoff Daniell Communications CC
11:30
Triple Play: Bundling of services
in the access network - Segopotso
Moshapo, Technology Solutions
Manager, Siemens
Telecommunications
High-Altitude
Telecommunications – the new
horizon - Ronel Smith, Manager,
Wireless Technologies, CSIR icomtek
The role of softswitches in
enabling new services and in the
liberalization of Telecon
Neta Weiss, Product Manager,
VocalTec Communications, Israel
12:00
The Profitability of Fixed
Wireless Access Solutions for
delivery of voice and data
services - Jacob Kanner, Director
Sales & Marketing Africa, InnoWave
ECI Wireless Systems Ltd, Israel
Integrated Fibre Copper: A New
Viable Access Architecture - Dan
Parsons, Senior product Manager:
Advanced Fibre Communications.
USA
Public Telephony in Africa – the
challenge of universal service
Clive Pink, GM: Wireless Terminals,
Tellumat
12:30
Managing the New Convergent
Networks – Case Study, MTN
Uganda – Reshaad Ahmed Sha,
Telco Services Director, Protek
Enabling Next Generation
Services in the Metro Area
Network - Hugh Wylie, GM
Solutions, Alcatel SA
Closing address - Hans van de
Groenendaal, Telkom
13:00
Closing address
Peter Davies,CSSA
Closing address
Roger Dawes, EIF
13:15
FINISH
FINISH
FINISH
Tel.Com Africa 2002
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