The FCC’s recent intercarrier compensation ruling will have a significant impact on the business decisions that carriers will make over the next several years.  What will be the short- and long-term effects of this industrywide reform?  Speakers in this session will discuss the bill and keep model being adopted and examine the significant internal costs and process changes – such as auditing, revenue assurance, fraud control and the legal aspects – required.

In this session, panelists will analyze the current state of lending for the telecom industry and discuss M&A activity that is reshaping the marketplace. Panelists also will take a look into the crystal ball and share their predictions for future financial trends in telecom.

About $10 billion of publicly funded, open access networks are being built in rural America as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) awards program. Now two years since the start of the program, the first of the networks are operational.  Panelists will share the construction and operational status of these first networks and discuss the effectivness of the program in meeting the promise of bringing broadband to rural America. 

Blogs, targeted e-mail and Web pages are so “last year” when it comes to ways to attract potential customers. Now learn about new strategies designed to jump start your sales and marketing program, and discover Internet tools that will enhance the customer experience, Panelists will discuss strategies including video, social media, mapping, search engine optimization (SEO), and customer references/testimonials programs that can take your company to the next level. This session also will feature insight as to why publishing your carrier map data to enable prospects to gain more actionable intelligence earlier in their vendor search will result in carriers enjoying more successful sales cycles.