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| 9:00 am - 6:00 pm | | Fontaine C |
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| 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm | | Outremont/Westmount Foyer |
| | Registration |
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| 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | | Portage & Garden (Lobby Level) |
| | Reception
Wine and beverage sponsored by NERA Economic Consulting |
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INTERNET ROOM - Sponsored by Telav
The Fontaine C room will be open Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday from 7:00 am - 5:30 pm for
delegates and speakers who require internet access.
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| 7:00 am - 5:00 pm | | Outremont/Westmount Foyer |
| | Registration |
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| 7:30 - 8:30 am | | Fontaine B |
| | Breakfast |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 am | | Westmount/Outremont |
Opening Session
Erik Bohlin, Chairman of ITS
Jacques Beauvais, vice-recteur à la recherche,
Université de Sherbrooke
Stéphane Dubreuil, Senior Vice President
Strategy and Consumer Marketing,
TELUS Communications Company
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| 9:00 - 10:30 am | | Westmount/Outremont |
PLENARY SESSION
Plenary 1 - The economic and public policy implications of emerging technologies
Chair
Brigitte Preissl, Intereconomics
Panelists
Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom
and Media Counsel, Google
Morgan Elliot, Executive Director of Global Policy
and Government Affairs, CISCO
Dragan Nerandzic, Chief Technology Officer,
Ericsson Canada Inc.
Michael Lee, Chief Strategy Officer,
Rogers Communications Inc.
Dennis Weller, Chief Economist, Verizon
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| 10:30 - 11:00 am | | Foyer |
| | Break - Sponsored by Criterion Economics, L.L.C. |
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| 11:00 - 12:30 pm | | PARALLEL SESSIONS |
| Lasalle | | Session 1.1 | | | Evolving Market Structure 1 |
Chair
Marcel Boyer, Bell Canada Professor of Industrial Economics, Université de Montréal
Vice-President and Chief Economist,
Montreal Economic Institute
- Intermodal telecommunications competition: Implications for regulation
William Taylor, Senior Vice President, National Economic Research Associates, Inc. (NERA)
- Competition between blended traditional and virtual sellers
Gary Madden, Professor
Curtin University of Technology
T. Randolph Beard, Auburn University
- The evolving structure of the worldwide telecommunications industry 1997-2007
Peter Curwen, Visiting Professor of
Telecommunications, Strathclye University
- The "dominant" firm revisited: The case of telecommunications
Timothy Tardiff, Managing Director,
Huron Consulting Group
Dennis Weisman, Kansas State University
| Lachine | | Session 1.2 | | | Competition, Regulation and Next Generation Networks 1 |
Chair
Dieter Elixmann, WIK-Consult GmbH
- Mobile virtual network operators - economic assessment and policy framework
Christian M. Dippon, Vice President, National Economic Research Associates, Inc. (NERA)
- Regulation of international roaming beyond 2010
Morten Falch, Associate Professor, CICT DTU
Anders Henten, CICT DTU
- Potential scenarios and drivers of the 4g evolution
Elias Aravantinos, Stevens Institute of Technology,
Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management
M. Hosein Fallah, Stevens Institute of Technology,
Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management
| Verdun | | Session 1.3 | | | Growth Strategies and Financial Performance 1 |
Chair
Christos Agiakloglou, University of Piraeus
| Cote St-Luc | | Session 1.4 | | | Changing Demands for ICT Services 1 |
Chair
Jason Whalley, Strathclyde Business School
- The new ICT ecosystem: Implications for Europe
Martin Fransman
Professor, University of Edinburgh
- Techno-economic models for mobile content
Claudio Feijoo, Scientific Fellow, IPTS, JRC, EC
Ioannis Maghiros, IPTS, JRC, EC
Jose-Luis Gomez-Barroso, UNED
- Different business and consumer usage shaping
wide area networks
Craig Randall, Ph.D. Student, Bentley College
Claudia Loebbecke, Department of Media and
Technology Management, University of Cologne
- The demand for video services
Paul Rappoport, Temple University
James Alleman, University of Colorado
Gary Madden, Curtin University
| Mont-Royal | | Session 1.5 | | | Broadcasting |
Chair
Christopher Sterling
George Washington University
- Measuring the value of Japanese public broadcasting in the age of convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications
Masatsugu Tsuji, Professor, University of Hyogo
Shoichi Miyahara, Aoyama Gakuin University
- Whet Chinese appetite: Viewing preference of American and Korean TV dramas among Chinese young-adult audiences
Qiaolei Jiang, Ph.D. Student,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- An analysis on demand for new devices
in transition from terrestrial broadcasting
to digital: The case of digital television
Norihiro Kasuga, Associate Professor,
Kobe University
Zeng Li, Kobe University
Manabu Shishikura, Nagasaki University
- A study on introducing universal service into
the broadcasting industry: Lessons from Korea
Jai Bin Jang, Student, Yonsei University
Myeong Ho Lee, Professor
| Hampstead | | Session 1.6 | | | Service Convergence: Industry and Regulatory Implications 1 |
Chair
Juergen Mueller, Berlin School of Economics (FHW)
- Regulatoy implications of "unified communications": Will Microsoft be the world's biggest phone company?
Richard D. Taylor, J.D., Ed.D., Palmer Chair
and Professor of Telecommunications Studies,
Co-Director, Institute for Information Policy,
The Pennsylvania State University
- Roadmap towards a more consistent
regulatory approach for mobile TV
David Stevens, Legal Researcher,
ICRI - K.U.Leuven - IBBT
Katrien Lefever, ICRI - K.U.Leuven - IBBT
Peggy Valcke, ICRI - K.U.Leuven - IBBT
- From analog to digital: Technological
redeployment in the US cable industry
and its competitive implications
Claudia Loebbecke, Department of Media and
Technology Management, University of Cologne
Wilson Wong, Bentley College
- Technological convergence
and regulatory conflicts in Korea
Chang Ho Yoon, Professor of Economics,
Korea University
- Reconfiguring resource allocation routines: Process innovation at a European network service provider
Carsten Zimmermann
Philipp Zimmermann
Dieter Lange
| Fundy | | Session 1.7 | | | Evolution of Wireless Services: Technology, Markets, Regulation 1 |
Chair
Carol McDonough, University of Massachusetts
- Business models and business role interaction
for wireless broadband access services provided
by non-telecom actors and by mobile network
operators
Jan Markendahl, Wireless@KTH
Östen Mäkitalo, Wireless@KTH
- Locking down the third screen: How wireless firms thwart users' access to content
Rob Frieden, Pioneers Chair and Professor
of Telecommunications and Law,
Penn State University
- Customer confusion in mobile
telecommunications markets
Justus Haucap, Professor of Economics,
University uf Erlangen-Nuremberg
Ulrich Heimeshoff, Ruhr-University of Bochum
Ralf Dewenter, Ruhr-University of Bochum
Christian Pfeil, University of Wuppertal
- Cellular demand analysis in South Africa: Urban versus rural patterns of consumption
Farid Gasmi, Toulouse School of Economics
(ARQADE, GREMAQ, IDEI)
Marc Ivaldi, Toulouse School of Economics
(EHESS, GREMAQ, IDEI)
Laura Recuero Virto, Toulouse School of Economics (GREMAQ)
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| 12:30 - 2:00 pm | | Fontaine B |
Luncheon
Leonard Katz, Vice-Chairman, Telecommunications,
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications
Commission |
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| 2:00 - 3:30 pm | | PARALLEL SESSIONS |
| Lachine | | Session 2.1 | | | Competition, Regulation and Next Generation Networks 2 |
Chair
Paolo Siciliani, Office of Fair Trading,
Fleetbank House
- Competition and services in next generation
networks - first solutions and new challenges
Wolfgang Reichl, Director, OEFEG
Ernst-Olav Ruhle, Juconomy Consulting AG
- Next generation mobile networks development:
Technical, regulatory and strategic issues
of the roll-out of in-building solutions in
high traffic places
Antolin Moral, Ph.D. Researcher,
Polythecnic University of Madrid
Jorge Perez, Polythecnic University of Madrid
Arturo Vergara, Polythecnic University of Madrid
- Analysis of European mobile network operators
strategies towards next generation mobile
networks deployment
Sergio Ramos, Coordinator of Infrastructure
Deployment, REDTEL
José Luis Gómez-Barroso,
Associate Professor, UNED
Claudio Feijóo, Senior Research Fellow,
IPTS-European Commission
Arturo Robles, Ph.D. Researcher, UPM
| Verdun | | Session 2.2 | | | Measuring Regulatory Efficiency and Effectiveness: Benchmarks, Models and Transferability 1 |
Chair
William Withers, Executive Chairman,
Public Utilities Commission, Anguilla BWI
- Assessing the UK experience of functional
separation in fixed telecommunication markets
Jason Whalley, Senior Lecturer,
University of Strathclyde
Peter Curwen, University of Strathclyde
- Principle-based systems for telecommunications
regulation: A new model that moves beyond the ex ante versus ex post debate
Ken Jull, of Counsel, Baker & McKenzie LLP and
Member, Adjunct Faculty, University of Toronto
Faculty of Law, and Osgoode Hall Law School
Stephen Schmidt, Chief Regulatory Legal Counsel,
TELUS Communications Company
- Measuring barriers to trade and
investment in telecommunications
Eng Kooi Lim, Ph.D., Economist, Economic Policy
and Enforcement Branch, Competition Bureau
Zhiqi Chen, Carleton University
- The measure and regulation of competition
in telecommunications
Marcel Boyer, Bell Canada Professor of
Industrial Economics, Université de Montréal,
Vice-President and Chief Economist,
Montreal Economic Institute, Fellow of CIRANO
| Cote St-Luc | | Session 2.3 | | | Spectrum Management: Tools and Technology Impact |
Chair
Alain Houle, Université de Sherbrooke
- A study for spectrum license selection of
2.5GHz wireless broadband access in Japan
Yoshihisa Matsumoto, Ph.D. Candidate
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
Dr. Hitoshi Okada, Associate Professor,
Information and Society Research Division,
National Institute of Informatics
Masashi Ueda, Assistant Professor,
Information and Society Research Division, National Institute of Informatics
- Designing a mechanism for reallocating spectrum
as a resource with vested right and externalities
Hajime Oniki, Professor, Osaka-Gakuin University
- The theory and practice of spectrum allocation
Koshiro Ota, Professor,
Hiroshima Shudo University
Norihiro Kasuga, Kobe University
- Impact of cognitive radio technology
on spectrum management policy
Kiyotaka Yuguchi, Associate Professor,
Sagami Women's University
- Assessment of spectrum management options
Erik Bohlin, Associate Professor,
Chalmers University
Joakim Björkdahl, Assistant Professor,
Department of Technology Management &
Economics, Chalmers University of Technology
Colin Blackman, Editor, Info - The Journal of Policy
Regulation and Strategy for Telecommunications
& Foresight - The Journal for Future Studies
Strategic Thinking and Policy
Simon Forge, Director, SCF Associates
| Mont-Royal | | Session 2.4 | | | Broadband Development 1 |
Chair
Dennis Weller, Chief Economist, Verizon
- A policy-relevant means of comparing broadband
adoption among countries
Thomas Koutsky, Resident Scholar,
Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal
and Economic Public Policy Studies
George S. Ford, Phoenix Center
Lawrence J. Spiwak, Phoenix Center
- Toward wholesale markets in last-mile bottleneck
facilities: Market and policy challenges
Lorenzo Pupillo, Executive Director, Telecom
Italia & Columbia Institute for Tele Information
Alain Bourdeau de Fontenay,
CITI, Columbia Business School
William Lehr,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Diffusion of the broadband internet
and the structural separation
Arata Kamino, Executive Director,
InfoCom Research, Inc.
Hidenori Fuke, Professor, Komazawa University
| Hampstead | | Session 2.5 | | | Revision of the EU Telecom Framework and its Performance Across Europe 1 |
Chair
Michael Ryan, Arnold & Porter LLP
| Fundy | | Session 2.6 | | | ICT, Productivity and Demand Forecasting |
Chair
Sudharma Yoonaidharma, Commissioner
The National Telecommunications Commission
- Enabling services - A new business perspective
for wholesale network operators
Ruediger Zarnekow, Head of Information
and Communication Management,
Technical University of Berlin, FG IKM
Walter Brenner, University of St. Gallen
Andreas Sidler, University of St. Gallen
Jochen Wulf, Technical University of Berlin
- Demand side analysis, consumer empowerment
and telecommunications policy
Patrick Xavier, Swinburne University of Technology
Dimitri Ypsilanti, OECD
- Simulating market scenarios based
on conjoint analysis
Carlo Hjelkrem, Senior Market Analyst,
Telenor Nordic, Consumer
| St. Pierre | | Session 2.7 | | | Panel |
- A panel on private equity and telecommunications
Chair
Hudson Janisch, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
Chair of Law and Technology Professor Emeritus,
University of Toronto
Panelists
Lawson Hunter, BCE
Raul L. Katz, CITI Columbia Business School
William Melody, Technical University of Denmark and London School of Economics
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| 3:30 - 4:00 pm | | Foyer |
| | Break - Sponsored by Osler,
Hoskin & Harcourt LLP |
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| 4:00 - 5:30 pm | | PARALLEL SESSIONS |
| Lasalle | | Session 3.1 | | | Universal Access: Definitions, Delivery and Alternatives 1 |
Chair
Leslie Shade, Concordia University
- Subsidies and distorted markets: Do telecom subsidies affect competition?
Eric Chiang, Associate Professor of Economics,
Florida Atlantic University
Mark Jamison, Director, PURC,
University of Florida
- Inequality and economic growth: Should
we be concerned by the digital divide?
Alain Bourdeau de Fontenay,
CITI, Columbia Business School
Fernando H. Beltran, University of Auckland
- Challenges of universal access in
new wireless telephony opportunities
Jean Lavoie, Ph.D. Student,
Université de Sherbrooke
Alain C. Houle, Université de Sherbrooke
- Digital poverty - An analytical framework
Roxana Barrantes, Senior Researcher,
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
| Lachine | | Session 3.2 | | | Pricing |
Chair
Brigitte Preissl, Intereconomics
- Regulatory policy impacts on pricing and
performance: An econometric analysis of
global telephony markets 2002-2007
Aniruddha Banerjee, Vice President,
Analysis Group, Inc.
Gary Madden, Curtin University of Technology
- Mobile service pricing strategy analysis from social tie and network effects
Jun Zhang, Ph.D. Student, Department of
Telecommunication, Michigan State University
- Access regulation under asymmetric information about demand
João Vareda, Ph.D. Student,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- Coping with heterogeneity in cross-national
comparisons of prices for communication services
Johannes Bauer, Professor,
Michigan State University
Sungjoong Kim, Michigan State University
- Analysis of benefits of operator cooperation using
end-user and operator performance metrics
Petteri Poyhonen, Nokia Siemens Networks
Jan Markendahl, Wireless@KTH
| Verdun | | Session 3.3 | | | Regulation and Competition Policy: Rivalry or Complementarity |
Chair
Paul Richards, British Telecom
- Essential facilities and Canadian
telecommunications regulation: Using economics
and competition policy to get back on track
David Krause, Director - Economic Analysis,
Bell Canada
Jonathan Blakey, Bell Canada
- Regulation vs investment: Striking an appropriate balance
Dr Martyn Taylor, Senior Associate, Freehills
- After telecom competition: Is there anything left for regulators to do?
Stanford Levin, Emeritus Professor of Economics,
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Stephen Schmidt, Chief Regulatory Legal Counsel,
TELUS Communications Company
- The end or the means? The pursuit of competition
in regulated telecommunications markets
Bronwyn Howell, Victoria University of Wellington
| Cote St-Luc | | Session 3.4 | | | Changing Demands for ICT Services 2 |
Chair
Martin Fransman, University of Edinburgh
- Innovation without property rights and property rights without innovation: Recent developments in the ICT sector
P.M Rao, Professor,
Long Island University/C.W.Post Campus
Joseph A. Klein, Esq
- Consumers' preference for flat rates:
A case of media access fees
Hitoshi Mitomo, Professor, Waseda University
Tokio Otsuka, Researcher, Waseda University
- Comparative analysis of information communications
technology use among Japanese SMEs
Teruyuki Bunno, Associate Professor,
Kinki University
Hiroki Idota, Otemon Gakuin University
Masatsugu Tsuji, University of Hyogo
- Internet embeddedness: Links with online
health information seeking, expectancy
value/quality of health information websites,
and internet usage patterns
Louis Leung, Associate Professor,
Chinese University of Hong Kong
| Mont-Royal | | Session 3.5 | | | Broadband Development 2 |
Chair
Profesor Fallah, Associate Professor, Technology
Management, Stevens Institute of Technology
| Hampstead | | Session 3.6 | | | Changing Technologies, Intellectual Property Rights, and E-Government |
Chair
Matthew Kellison, Competition Bureau
- Intellectual property rights, innovation and
competition: How they fail in the market for news
Chris Borek, Vice President, Analysis Group, Inc.
- When is a commitment to licensing rivals credible?
Mihkel Tombak, University of Toronto
- Implementing e-government:
Obstacles and opportunities
LawrenceWood, Assistant Professor,
Ohio University
Phyllis Bernt, Ohio University
Carol Ting, Ohio University
- E-governance - policy, strategy, prescription
and prospect for the common person: A case
study of the government of India vis-à-vis the
government of Orissa
Dr. Kailash Nath, Chairperson-cum-Managing
Director, ASAR Software Technology Pvt Ltd
Anirudha Baral, ASAR Software Technology Pvt Ltd
| St. Pierre | | Session 3.7 | | | Telecommunications and Development 1 |
Chair
Eng Kooi LIM, Ph.D. Economic Policy and Enforcement Branch, Competition Bureau
- Process over substance: Why regulatory process is
more important than substantive regulatory decisions
Paul Kouroupas, Vice President, Regulatory
Affairs, Global Crossing Limited
- Causal relationship between telecommunications
and economic growth: A study of 100 countries
Dr. Alice Shiu, Assistant Professor,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr. Pun-Lee Lam,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- VoIP in developing countries:
The next disruptive technology?
James Alleman,
University of Colorado & Columbia University
Paul Rappoport, Temple University & CENTRIS
Gary Madden, Curtin University
- Long-term sustainability of tele-centers: Comparing model cases
Andrea Kavanaugh, Senior Research Scientist,
Virginia Tech
- The impact of telecoms regulatory reform
on national economic grow
Dr. Amit K. Maitra, Managing Director,
Satlink Communications
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| 6:30 pm | | Dinner - Marché Bonsecours |
Wine sponsored by Cogeco
Buses will depart promptly from the street in front
of the hotel (de la Gauchetière Street) at 6:30 pm |
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INTERNET ROOM - Sponsored by Telav
The Fontaine C room will be open Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday from 7:00 am - 5:30 pm for
delegates and speakers who require internet access.
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| 7:00 am - 5:00 pm | | Outremont/Westmount Foyer |
| | Registration |
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| 7:30 - 8:30 am | | Fontaine B |
| | Breakfast |
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| 8:30 - 10:00 am | | PARALLEL SESSIONS |
| Lasalle | | Session 4.1 | | | Evolving Market Structure 2 |
Chair
Aniruddha Banerjee, Analysis Group, Inc.
- Measuring concentration
in communications markets
Natascha Just, Hertha Firnberg Scholar,
University of Vienna
- Regulatory friction and the
reverse cellophane fallacy
Debra J. Aron, Adjunct Associate Professor,
Northwestern University, Director, LECG
David E. Burnstein, Managing Economist,
LECG
- Functional separation in telecoms in a changing
technical environment
Ernst-Olav Ruhle, CEO, Juconomy Consulting
Wolfgang Reichl, ÖFEG
- The new "emergence economics" of growth and innovation, and what it means for communications policy
Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom
and Media Counsel, Google
Stephen Schultze, Fellow, Berkman Center
for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
| Lachine | | Session 4.2 | | | Competition, Regulation and Next Generation Networks 3 |
Chair
Alan Hamilton, TELUS
| Verdun | | Session 4.3 | | | Measuring Regulatory Efficiency and Effectiveness: Benchmarks, Models and Transferability 2 |
Chair
Bronwyn Howell,
Victoria University of Wellington
- On the efficiency, effectiveness, and cost of
regulation: The case of telecommunications
Antonio Sciala, Assistant Professor,
University of Padua - Dipartimento di
Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno"
Paolo Lupi, AGCOM
Fabio Manenti, University of Padua
- How effective has regulation been in Latin
American countries?
Federico Kuhlmann, Head,
Digital Systems Department, Itam
Judith Mariscal, Cide-Telecom
- Hong Kong and Singapore: Two Asian models
of telecommunications regulation?
Richard Wu, Associate Professor,
Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong
Grace Leung, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Year in review: Telecom in the United States
Christopher S. Huther,
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Megan H. Troy,
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
| Mont-Royal | | Session 4.4 | | | Broadband Development 3 |
Chair
Pierre Vialle, Institut National
des Télécommunications
- International regulatory comparisons:
The evolution to IP-based fibre
J Scott Marcus, Department Manager,
WIK-Consult GmbH
Dieter Elixmann, WIK-Consult GmbH
- Competition and access price regulation
in the broadband market
Nelli Valmari, Ph.D. Student,
Helsinki School of Economics
Michiel Bijlsma, CPB Netherlands Bureau
for Economic Policy Analysis
Viktoria Kócsis, CPB Netherlands Bureau
for Economic Policy Analysis
- Varieties of capitalism in the OECD: An empirical
study of broadband regulatory framework
Jose Maria Castellano, Visiting Scholar,
Columbia Institute of Tele-Information (CITI),
Columbia University
- The economic impact of broadband:
A simultaneous approach
Pantelis Koutroumpis, Ph.D. Candidate,
Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London
| Fundy | | Session 4.5 | | | Evolution of Wireless Services: Technology, Markets, Regulation 3 |
Chair
Erik Bohlin, Chalmers University
- The evolutionary ecology of information
and communication networks
David McCarty, Assistant Professor,
East Carolina University
- Beyond diffusion: The effective use of ICTs for livelihood development?
Michelle Helen Commosioung,
University of the West Indies
Lloyd G. Waller, University of the West Indies
- SD-WAN: A technology for bandwidth and traffic switching efficiency
Alain C. Houle, Professor,
Université de Sherbrooke
Louis-Patrick Boulianne, do Networks
Louis Dupras, do Networks
- Estimating the switching costs of changing
mobile phone carriers in Japan: Evaluation
of SIM card locks
Akihiro Nakamura, Associate Professor,
Tezukayama University
| St. Pierre | | Session 4.6 | | | Panel |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 am | | Foyer |
| | Break - Sponsored by Criterion Economics, L.L.C. |
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| 10:30 - Noon | | Westmount/Outremont |
PLENARY SESSION
Plenary 2 - Regulatory perspectives on the
emerging telecommunications structure
Chair
Michael Ryan, Arnold & Porter LLP
Panelists
Annegret Groebel, Head of International
Coordination, Federal Network Agency, Germany
Danny Lau, Assistant Director (Operation), Office
of the Telecommunications Authority, Hong Kong
Ian Scott, Chief Policy Advisor to the Chair, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Hank Intven, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP |
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| Noon - 1:30 pm | | Fontaine B |
| | Luncheon and Student
Paper Awards
Awards sponsored by BELL
Presented by Alan Bernardi,
General Manager,
Bell University Laboratories |
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| 1:30 - 3:00 pm | | PARALLEL SESSIONS |
| Lachine | | Session 5.1 | | | Competition, Regulation and Next Generation Networks 4 |
Chair
Christopher Marsden,
University of Essex Law School
- Voice over IP in the WiFi network business
models: Will voice be a killer application
for WiFi public networks?
Jorge Infante, Associate Professor,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Boris Bellalta, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- The comeback of rights-of-way as essence for
facilities based NGA and broadband roll out
Jörg Kittl, Senior Consultant,
Juconomy Consulting
Ernst-Olav Ruhle, Managing Director,
Juconomy Consulting
Fabian Schuster, Attorney at Law
- Regulation and innovation: The case of broadband technologies
Anastassios Gentzoglanis, Professeur titulaire,
Département de finance, Faculté d'Administration,
Université de Sherbrooke
| Verdun | | Session 5.2 | | | Growth Strategies and Financial Performance 2 |
Chair
Alain Bourdeau de Fontenay,
CITI, Columbia Business School
| Cote St-Luc | | Session 5.3 | | | Changing Demands for ICT Services 3 |
Chair
Hitoshi Mitomo, Waseda University
- Development of a consumption model for data and value added services in mobile communications under consideration of communication habits
Dr. Matthias Pohler, Post Doc,
Technische Universität Dresden
Georg Schuch, Technische Universität Dresden
- Technological competency of leading ICT firms:
US panel data evidence
Warren Kimble, Research Associate,
Curtin University of Technology
- Analyzing the effectiveness of communication
platforms for electronic commerce: A three dimension
framework
Yan Xu, Associate Professor, Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology
Sean Xin Xu, HKUST Business School
Xu Yan, HKUST Business School
Xiaona Zheng, Assistant Professor,
Peking University
| Mont-Royal | | Session 5.4 | | | Regulation, the Internet and Network Neutrality 1 |
Chair
Craig McTaggart, TELUS
- Network neutrality, industry structure and
implications on welfare
Emin Koksal, Research Assistant,
Bahcesehir University
- Network neutrality: Legal answers
from an EU perspective
Peggy Valcke, Lecturer; Postdoctoral Researcher,
ICRI K.U.Leuven - IBBT
Liyang Hou, ICRI K.U.Leuven - IBBT
David Stevens, ICRI K.U.Leuven - IBBT
- Getting what you pay for: Analyzing
the net neutrality debate
Mark Jamison, Director, PURC,
University of Florida
Janice Hauge
- A two sided view of net neutrality:
US and EU competition policy towards
discriminatory conduct by access platforms
Glenn Woroch, Adjunct Professor of Economics
University of California
- How low can they go?: The future of broadband access prices with and without net neutrality
Hal Singer, President, Criterion Economics, L.L.C.
| Hampstead | | Session 5.5 | | | Panel |
Opening Remarks by Session Chair
Randy Spence, PhD, Director, Economic and Social Development Affiliates (ESDA) and former Senior Economist, International Development Research Centre
- Mobile opportunities: Poverty and telephony access in Latin America and the Caribbean
Hernan Galperin, PhD, Associate Professor,
Universidad de San Andrés, and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California
- Towards an African E-Index: Understanding individual and household ICT access and usage
Alison Gillwald, Associate Professor,
University of the Witwatersrand, and former Councillor, Independent Communications Authority of South Africa
- Non-owner teleusers at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) in emerging Asia
Helani Galpaya, Director Strategic Development, LIRNEasia and former Senior Manager, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka
- Discussants' comments
Yuli Liu, PhD, Professor
National Chengchi University and Commissioner, National Communications Commission
William H. Melody, PhD, Professor
Denmark Technical University and LIRNE.NET
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| St. Pierre | | Session 5.6 | | | Telecommunications and Development 2 |
Chair
Heather Hudson, University of San Francisco
- Digital divide among low income people in Colombia, Mexico and Peru
Luis Hernando Gutiérrez, Associate Professor,
Universidad del Rosario
Luis Fernando Gamboa, Universidad del Rosario
- Sustitution and complementarities in telecom services use among the urban poor. A case study of Peru.
Roxana Barrantes, Senior Researcher,
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
- Designing a wireless broadband network for developing countries: A proposal for Mexico
Arturo Robles Rovalo, Doctorate Student
UPM - UNAM
Claudio Feijóo González, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)
José Luís Gómez Barroso, Universidad Nacional
de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
- Broadband impact on state GDP:
Direct and indirect effects
Christopher Garbacz, Consultant
Herbert G. Thompson, Jr., J. Warren McClure
School of Information and Telecommunication
Systems, Ohio University
| Fundy | | Session 5.7 | | | Evolution of Wireless Services: Technology, Markets, Regulation 3 |
Chair
Paul Richards, British Telecom
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| 3:00 - 3:30 pm | | Foyer |
| | Break - Sponsored by Osler,
Hoskin & Harcourt LLP |
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| 3:30 - 5:00 pm | | PARALLEL SESSIONS |
| Lachine | | Session 6.1 | | | Competition, Regulation and Next Generation Networks 5 |
Chair
George Ford, Phoenix Center
| Cote St-Luc | | Session 6.2 | | | Panel |
- Comparison between US and EU regulation of electronic communications
Chair
J Scott Marcus, Department Manager,
WIK-Consult GmbH
Panelists
Heinrich Otruba, Professor, Research Institute
for Regulatory Economics, Vienna University
of Economics and Business Administration
Ingo Vogelsang, Professor, Boston University
Johannes Bauer, Professor,
Michigan State University
| Mont-Royal | | Session 6.3 | | | Broadband Development 4 |
Chair
Christian Dippon, NERA
- If you step on this rung you may lose your
balance: Is bitstream the highest spot on the
ladder of investment?
Rob Nicholls, Consultant, Gilbert + Tobin
- New information policy marketing: A case study
of M-Taipei initiative
Ming-Chang Chan, Doctoral Program Student,
The Graduate School of Global Information and
Telecommunication Studies (GITS), WASEDA
University
- Business partnership models of wireless
broadband services: Case studies
Youngsun Kwon, Associate Professor,
Information and Communications University
Seungmi Yang, Daejeon University
- An international comparative analysis of
consumer sovereignty in telecommunications
and broadband: The evolving interrelationship
among industry-specific, consumer protection,
and competition laws
Barbara Cherry, Professor, Indiana University
| Hampstead | | Session 6.4 | | | Panel |
Opening Remarks by Session Chair
Hank Intven, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP and Member, Telecom Policy Review Panel appointed by the Government of Canada (2005-06)
- Banded forbearance: A new approach to price regulation
Rohan Samarajiva, PhD, Executive Director,
LIRNEasia and former Director General of Telecommunications
- Universal service for next generation networks: Alternative funding mechanisms and public-private partnerships
Anders Henten, PhD, Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark
- Scrapping the access deficit charge in India: A case of tardy regulatory response
Payal Malik, Senior Research Fellow LIRNEasia,
Reader in Economics, University of Delhi; Consultant, National Center for Applied Economic Research
- Discussants' comments
Sudharma Yoonaidharma, PhD, Member,
National Telecommunications Commission
Roxana Barrantes, PhD, Research Associate & Board Member, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and former Board Member of OSIPTEL, telecom regulatory agency,
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| St. Pierre | | Session 6.5 | | | Telecommunications and Development 3 |
Chair
Leslie Shade, Concordia University
| Fundy | | Session 6.6 | | | Evolution of Wireless
Services: Technology,
Markets, Regulation 4 |
Chair
Dimitri Ypsilanti, OECD
- New product development and firm
value in mobile handset production
Heli Koski, Head of Unit, ETLA
Tobias Kretschmer, LMU Munich
- How has internationalization affected the structure
of the mobile telecommnications industry?
Peter Curwen, Visiting Professor of
Telecommunications, Strathclyde University
Dr. Jason Whalley, Strathclyde University
- The structure of the United States' wireless
telephone industry: Theory, reality, and
the role of government regulation
Carol McDonough, Professor of Economics,
University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Mobile services in sub-Saharan African countries:
An analysis of the demand
Isabelle Garron, Associate Professor, ENST
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INTERNET ROOM - Sponsored by Telav
The Fontaine C room will be open Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday from 7:00 am - 5:30 pm for
delegates and speakers who require internet access.
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| 7:00 am - 5:00 pm | | Outremont/Westmount Foyer |
| | Registration |
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| 7:30 - 8:30 am | | Fontaine B |
| | Breakfast |
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| 8:30 - 10:00 am | | PARALLEL SESSIONS |
| Lasalle | | Session 7.1 | | | Evolving Market Structure 3 |
Chair
Payal Malik, LIRNEasia
- Diffusion with dueling platforms: Dynamic
spillovers in the cable-telco broadband race
Armando Levy, The Brattle Group
Glenn Woroch, Adjunct Professor of Economics,
University of California
- Market structure, demand patterns and
investment in the telecommunications sector:
A new model to analyze regulation policies
Romain Lestage, Ph.D. candidate,
Paris 13 University
David Flacher, Paris 13 University
- The implications of community network rollouts
on the future telecom market structure
Jan Van Ooteghem, Researcher,
Ghent University - IBBT
Koen Casier, Ghent University - IBBT
Bart Lannoo, Ghent University - IBBT
Sofie Verbrugge, Ghent University - IBBT
Mario Pickavet, Ghent University - IBBT
- Incentives to innovate for an integrated
network supplier and the market structure
in the downstream market
Nina Czernich, Junior Researcher, ifo Institute for
Economic Research at the University of Munich
| Verdun | | Session 7.2 | | | Measuring Regulatory Efficiency and Effectiveness: Benchmarks, Models and Transferability 2 |
Chair
David Krause, Bell Canada
| Cote St-Luc | | Session 7.3 | | | Changing Demands for ICT Services 4 |
Chair
Mathias Pohler, Technische Universität Dresden
- The rapid diffusion of Web2.0-based applications:
A psychological perspective research
Yan Xu, Associate Professor,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Nan Zhang, Ph.D. Student
- A socio-technical interpretation of IT convergence
services: Applying a perspective from actor
network theory and complex adaptive systems
Jeongho Kwak, Researcher, Yonsei University
Do Hun Kim, Graduate Student, Graduation
School of Information, Yonsei University
- Optimal bundling of communications services
Johannes Bauer, Professor,
Michigan State University
Tithi Chattopadhyay, Michigan State University
Jun Zhang, Michigan State University
| Mont-Royal | | Session 7.4 | | | Broadband Development 5 |
Chair
Claudio Feijoo-Gonzalez, IPTS, JRC, EC
- Is it good to share? A case study of the FON
and Meraki approaches to broadband provision
Catherine Middleton, Canada Research Chair,
Ryerson University
Amelia B. Potter, Community Wireless Infrastructure Research Project
- New challenges in municipal broadband network management: From vertical
integration to wholesale-retail model
Alberto Nucciarelli, Researcher,
Eindhoven Technical University
Bert M. Sadowski,
Eindhoven Technical University
- Exploring broadband network upgrading
in a complex multi-disciplinary, multi-actor
environment - An industry perspective
Marieke Fijnvandraat, Ph.D. Student,
Delft University of Technology,
Faculty of TPM, ICT Department
Harry Bouwman, Associate Professor
at Delft University of Technology,
Faculty of TPM, ICT department
- Modelling the adoption of digital TV: Economics
and policy for the digital switch-over
Elad Harison, Assistant Professor,
University of Groningen
Nicola Matteucci,
DMOI-Marche Polytechnic University
| Hampstead | | Session 7.5 | | | Service Convergence: Industry and Regulatory Implications 3 |
Chair
Richard Taylor, The Pennsylvania State University
- Mobile vs fixed networks: Economics and
regulation, the African experience
Laurent Gille, Professor, Telecom Paris
- The displacement effect of the converged service:
IPTV as an example
Yu-li Liu, Professor,
National Chengchi University
Hsu Wen Yi
- Some implications of interdependency in innovation in the telecoms sector
Paul Richards, Senior Regulatory Economist,
British Telecom
Bruno Basalisco, Imperial College
- Can competition regulate rates for basic services?
Harold Ware, Vice President, National Economic
Research Associates, Inc. (NERA)
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| 10:00 - 10:30 am | | Foyer |
| | Break - Sponsored by Criterion Economics, L.L.C. |
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| 10:30 - 12:30 pm | | Westmount/Outremont |
PLENARY SESSION
Plenary 3 - Regulatory analysts' perspectives
on future issues
Chair
Richard Schultz, Program Chair, ITS
Panelists
Robert Crandall, Brookings Institution
Eli Noam, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University
Rekha Jain, IIM Ahmadabad India
Minoru Sugaya, Institute for Media
and Communications, Keio University
Hudson Janisch, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
Chair of Law and Technology Professor Emeritus,
University of Toronto
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| 12:30 - 2:00 pm | | Fontaine B |
| | Luncheon |
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| 2:00 - 3:30 pm | | PARALLEL SESSIONS |
| Lasalle | | Session 8.1 | | | Universal Access: Definitions, Delivery and Alternatives 2 |
Chair
Phyllis Bernt, McClure School, Ohio University
- The future of the e-rate: U.S. universal service
fund support for public access and social services
Heather Hudson, Professor,
University of San Francisco
- Canadian telecom policy: From the right to
communicate to the consumer right of access
Leslie Shade, Associate Professor, Concordia
University, Department of Communication Studies
- Re-examining universal service policies
in telecommunications lessons from
three South Asian countries
Payal Malik, Senior Fellow, LIRNEasia
Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia
- Universal service, the regulation and application
of this concept in Turkey and comparison with
other countries
Ayhan Tozer, Expert,
Telecommunications Authority of Turkey
| Lachine | | Session 8.2 | | | Trust and E-Commerce |
Chair
Anastassios Gentzoglanis,
Université de Sherbrooke
- The tragedy of the commons vs P2P success:
An analysis of the conditions for cooperative
sustainability in the file-sharing world
Carlos Macian, Professor,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Jorge Infante, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Perceptual and personal determinants
of trust on a commercial web site
Rihab Zarrai, Manager Account,
LIGUE Laboratory, Jendouba University
Jamel-Eddine Gharbi, Ph.D.,
LIGUE Laboratory, Jendouba University
- An experiential approach of satisfaction
in e-learning
Wafa Kort, Doctorate Student,
LIGUE Laboratory, Jendouba University
Jamel-Eddine Gharbi, Ph.D.,
LIGUE Laboratory, Jendouba University
| Cote St-Luc | | Session 8.3 | | | Country Studies |
Chair
Helani Galpaya, LIRNEasia
- The plausibility of the SCP paradigm for strategic
industry analysis - Evidence from the Bulgarian
mobile telecommunications industry
Nikolina Grigorova, Teaching Assistant,
Berlin School of Economics
Dr. Juergen Mueller, Professor,
Berlin School of Economics
Dr. Kai Hueschelrath,
Centre for European Economic Research
- Research in government agency decisions:
Observations about the FCC
Daniel Brenner, Senior Vice President,
Law & Regulatory Policy, National
Cable & Telecommunications Association
- Public-private partnerships and development: A new and effective model?
Elizabeth Fife, Institute for Communications Technology Management, (CTM) Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Laura Hosman, Institute for Communications Technology Management, (CTM) Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Francis Pereira, Institute for Communications Technology Management, (CTM) Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
| Mont-Royal | | Session 8.4 | | | Regulation, the Internet and Network Neutrality 2 |
Chair
Erin Emmott, TELUS
- Incentives for sabotage in electronic
communications markets
Viktoria Kocsis, Researcher, CPB Netherlands,
Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
Michiel Bijlsma, CPB Netherlands Bureau
for Economic Policy Analysis
Paul de Bijl, CPB Netherlands Bureau
for Economic Policy Analysis
- Project-selection aiding system based on the
web technologies and a Bayesian approach
Mbibi Sidi Mahmoud Aidara,
Assistant Professor (Professeur adjoint),
Faculté des Sciences Juridiques,
Economiques et de Gestion de Jendouba
Sangaré Cheick Oumar, Student in Computering
Applied to Management
Tall Seydou, Student in Computering Applied
to Management
- Study on impact of charging internet service
to the loyalties of the users
JongTae Lee, Graduate (Ph.D. Course) Student ICU
- Efficiency and sustainability of network neutrality proposals
Toshiya Jitsuzumi, Faculty of Economics,
Kyushu University, Visiting scholar at CITI
of Columbia University
| Hampstead | | Session 8.5 | | | Revision of the EU Telecom Framework and Its Performance across Europe 2 |
Chair
Peter Humphreys, The University of Manchester
- How market regulation affects network
and service quality in related markets
Gordon Jochem Klein, Research Fellow,
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
Justus Haucap, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Functional separation in telecommunications:
A comparative analysis of infrastructural sectors
Anders Henten, Associate Professor,
CMI, Aalborg University
Morten Falch, CICT, DTU
- Assessment of the effects of imposed regulatory
obligations on the electronic communications
market in Slovenia
Matej Svigelj , Ph.D.,
Teaching and Research Assistant,
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics
- Europe and investment in infrastructure with
emphasis on electronic communications
Pierre Larouche, Professor of Competition Law,
Tilburg University (TILEC)
| St. Pierre | | Session 8.6 | | | Telecommunications and Development 4 |
Chair
David McCarty, East Carolina University
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| 3:30 - 4:00 pm | | Westmount/Outremont |
| | | Closing Session
Brigitte Preissl, Intereconomics
Announcement
of the 2010 Biennial
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| 6:30 pm | | Dinner - Salle Windsor
Dinner sponsored by TELUS
Entertainment
sponsored by LECG
Wine sponsored by
Arnold & Porter LLP |
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