Friday, July 11, 2008

Technology: PCCW Group Managing Director IEC's broadband World Forum Asia in Hong Kong

Chicago (BUSINESS WIRE) - The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) brings its Broadband World Forum Asia back to Hong Kong next week at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre with PCCW as the official host sponsor.

The conference and exhibition takes place over four days from Tuesday through Friday.

"We're looking forward to sharing the winning solutions in broadband with the industry next week in Hong Kong," commented IEC President John Janowiak. "More than 200 industry leaders from around the world will speak in our educational program and present more than 50 keynotes addresses, plenary panels, workshops and sessions."

Themed "Broadband Next: The Winning Solutions," the Broadband World Forum Asia 2008 will present key industry leaders to keynote at the event including World Forum Chair and PCCW Group Managing Director Alex Arena; PCCW Chief Technology Officer Paul Berriman; Pacnet Chief Technology Officer Wilfred Kwan; Zee Entertainment Network President Bharat Ranga; and KT Network Group President of KT Gwang-Ju Seo.

"I'll share with participants on how the company plans to further grow its business and excel in the Hong Kong market, which is characterized by some of the highest telecoms service penetration rates in the world and intense competition among local operators," commented Mr Arena.

"With limited opportunity to grow our customer numbers, we're increasing our focus on raising total household ARPU in order to achieve significant profitability growth going forward."

According to Mr Arena, the success of PCCW's IPTV service and its unique quadruple-play capability are the keys.

This in addition to countless topics under the umbrella of broadband will be discussed at the World Forum in Hong Kong.

The IEC welcomes all industry professionals to attend. Conference badges as well as complimentary Exhibits PLUS Passes will be available at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre next week.

All accredited members of the media are entitled to full and
complimentary access to the entire four-day event.

Visit www.iec.org/events/2008/bbwf_asia/ or contact Lisa
Reyes at lreyes@iec.org or +1-312-559-3325.
IEC - Lisa Reyes+1-312-559-3325 lreyes@iec.org

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