Technical Symposium 49 PRESENTATIONS: * The Rural Broadband Initiative: Toward a New Model for Broadband Access in Haiti and Beyond * On Building Sustainable Broadband Networks in Rural Areas * Rural Service Delivery by Technology Adoption Broadband Internet connectivity is becoming widespread in the developed world but large parts of the developing world remain largely disconnected. These countries fall further behind every day. Narrowing this broadband access gap requires new service models that radically lower capital and operating costs, and thereby the ARPU threshold for sustainability. What models and strategies have been successful catalysts for the implementation of sustainable broadband networks in rural areas of developing regions? Wednesday 26.10.2011 16:00-17:30 LabSpace #4 Broadband Networks for Rural Service Delivery Technical Symposium Session PRESENTATIONS: * A Broad Spectrum of Decisions * Challenges of Interoperability and Roaming * Facilitating Convergence Between Broadcasting and Mobile Services Using LTE Networks The focus of the first LTE networks, already in commercial operation, is on capacity to deliver mobile broadband. But LTE networks are also capable of delivering broadcast and multicast services and performance figures for such capabilities are now being released. How attractive is LTE as a technology for delivering broadcast content? How much additional investment in spectrum can operators justify and which frequency bands are the most valuable? And what are the challenges in actuating interoperability across LTE and existing 2G/3G networks to achieve seamless roaming for voice and data? Wednesday 26.10.2011 16:00-17:30 LabSpace #3 LTE Deployment Challenges Technical Symposium Session