Telefónica O2 Europe comprises integrated fixed/mobile businesses in the UK, Germany and the Czech Republic, along with mobile network operations in Ireland and Slovakia – all of which use ‘O2’ as their consumer brand. Telefónica O2 Europe also owns 50% of the Tesco Mobile and Tchibo Mobilfunk joint venture businesses in the UK, Ireland and Germany respectively. In addition, the group includes the Isle of Man fixed/mobile operator, Manx Telecom. Telefónica O2 Europe, part of the Telefónica group, is headquartered in Slough, UK, and has more than 40 million mobile and fixed customers. www.o2.com


Orascom Telecom is a leading international telecommunications company operating GSM networks in seven high growth markets in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, having a total population under license of approximately 460 million with an average mobile telephony penetration of approximately 29% as at 31st March 2007. Orascom Telecom operates GSM networks in Algeria ("OTA"), Pakistan ("Mobilink"), Egypt ("Mobinil"), Tunisia ("Tunisiana"), Iraq ("Iraqna"), Bangladesh ("Banglalink"), and Zimbabwe ("Telecel Zimbabwe"). www.orascomtelecom.com


PCCW Limited (SEHK:0008) is the premier telecommunications provider in Hong Kong and a world-class player in Information and Communications Technologies. As the provider of Hong Kong’s first quadruple-play experience, PCCW offers a range of innovative media content and services across four platforms – fixed-line, broadband Internet access, TV and mobile. In addition, the Company meets the sophisticated needs of the international business community, while supporting network operators with cutting-edge technical services and handling large-scale IT outsourcing projects for public and private sector organizations. www.pccw.com


Percello, a fabless semiconductor company, was founded in 2007 to provide digital baseband solutions to the challenges of the 3G/HSDPA/HSUPA/HSPA+/LTE femtocells market: cost, power, level of integration, development time and flexibility. Percello team has vast knowledge in silicon design, software and 3G/HSDPA/HSUPA/HSPA+/LTE communication systems. The team has proven capability to deliver complicated SoC from standard to mass production. Percello SoC solutions include a CPU, L1 & lower MAC elements (based on Percello’s architecture). These elements are controlled by the protocol stack, provided by the customer, using the Iub I/F. In order to help its customers, Percello provides L1 reference design which includes Percello’s modem integrated with analog and RF components. www.percello.com



picoChip, located in Bath, England, is dedicated to providing innovative, flexible wireless solutions to help equipment makers minimize time-to-market, costs, and system power consumption. The heart of the company's offering is a scaleable, multi-processor baseband IC that combines the computational density of a dedicated ASIC with the programmability of a traditional high end Digital Signal Processor. This radically reduces both development time and materials cost and enables the strategic goal of the "Software Defined Radio". The company has the most comprehensive reference designs in the industry, with complete, standard-compliant solutions for both UMTS (including HSxPA) and WiMAX (802.16d and 802.16e). www.picoChip.com


Pioneer Telephone is a multi-service communciations company with more than 140,000 total customers/members in 30 Oklahoma counties. Serving customers since 1953, Pioneer is the fourth largest telphone co-operative in the United States. Pioneer provides an array of communications products and services, including Local Telephone Service, Digital TV, Cellular, High-Speed Internet, Long Distance, Internet, Paging, Security Systems, Key System Sales/Maintenance and Directory Advertisement. More information is available at www.ptci.com.


Pirelli Broadband Solutions is the Company within the Pirelli Group specializing in broadband access technology and photonics. The Access division provides a range of broadband CPE including access gateways, set-top boxes, multiple handsets, and a remote management system; while the Photonics division leverages nanotechnology and its use of tunable and pluggable solutions to deliver a complete range of components, modules and subsystems including dynamically tunable lasers, ITLAs, 10 Gbps transponders, DWDM XFP transceivers, and a CWDM/DWDM system for metro access and metro core networks. www.pirellibroadband.com


Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, RadioFrame Networks, Inc. is the leader in modular radio solutions for telecom operators. RadioFrame deploys cost-effective radio access via flexible and efficient software driven base stations. Unlike traditional approaches from vendors offering proprietary, single-technology equipment, RadioFrame Networks offers an agile, multiple-technology, future-proof solution that integrates into existing networks, increases capacity and reduces operating costs and capital expenditures. www.radioframenetworks.com

Founded in 1967 Rakon is the world leader in the design and manufacture of quartz crystals and oscillators for demanding applications such as GPS and wireless communications. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Rakon has offices in North America, Europe and Asia and supplies 50 to 60% of the world's GPS market. Rakon has been recognized as one of New Zealand's leading technology companies as well as Supreme Exporter of the year in 2005. Rakon listed on the NZX in May 2006. www.rakon.com


Reliance Communications Limited, founded by the late Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group currently has net worth in excess of Rs. 40,000 crore, cash flows of Rs. 9,000 crore, net profit of Rs. 5,000 crore and zero net debt. Rated among "Asia's Top 5 Most Valuable Telecom Companies", Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The company, with a customer base of around 46.5 million including over 1.4 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 10 Asian Telecom companies by number of customers. Reliance Communications’ corporate clientele includes 1850 Indian and multinational corporations, and over 200 global carriers. Reliance Communications has established a pan-India, next generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning the entire infocomm value chain, covering over 15,000 towns and 400,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world's largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 175,000 kilometers of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region. www.relianceadagroup.com


Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX: RCI; NYSE: RCI) is a diversified Canadian communications and media company engaged in three primary lines of business. Rogers Wireless is Canada's largest wireless voice and data communications services provider and the country's only carrier operating on the world standard GSM technology platform. Rogers Cable and Telecom is Canada's largest cable television provider offering cable television, high-speed Internet access, residential telephony services, and video retailing, while its Rogers Business Solutions division is a national provider of voice communications services, data networking, and broadband Internet connectivity to small, medium and large businesses. Rogers Media is Canada's premier collection of category leading media assets with businesses in radio and television broadcasting, televised shopping, publishing and sports entertainment. www.rogers.com


SafeNet is a global leader in information security. Founded 25 years ago, the company provides complete security utilizing its encryption technologies to protect communications, intellectual property and digital identities, and offers a full spectrum of products including hardware, software, and chips. SafeNet is the only supplier of complete Embedded Security Solutions that enable developers to integrate superior protection into mobile and networking products, while reducing cost and time to market. SafeNet's award-winning Embedded Security Solutions are deployed by leading global telecommunciations, networking, and semiconductor vendors that trust SafeNet's best-in-class security solutions for their next-generation networking products. SafeNet OEM customers include companies such as AMCC, AMD, Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Hitachi, HP, Juniper Networks, PMC-Sierra, NEC, Nortel, Siemens, Samsung and Texas Instruments. For more information about SafeNet's Embedded Secuirty Solutions visit www.safenet-inc.com/oem


A French, international scale, high technology company, Sagem Communications specialises in broadband communications and convergence in particular in the following areas: printing terminals, digital TV set-top boxed, broadband and residential terminals, communicating energy management solutions and telecom systems and partnerships. The company is in a leadership position in these sectors thanks to its proven capacity for innovation. Sagem Communications aims to become a world leader in convergence and broadband terminals. With a turnover of almost 1.3 billion euros, Sagem Communications employs 6,500 people on five continents and is headquartered in Paris. For more information: www.sagem-communications.com or www.sagem.com


Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2006 parent company sales of US$63.4 billion and net income of US$8.5 billion. Employing approximately 138,000 people in 124 offices in 56 countries, the company consists of five main business units: Digital Media Business, LCD Business, Semiconductor Business, Telecommunication Network Business, and Digital Appliance Business. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones, and TFT-LCDs. www.samsung.com


Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corporation (SaskTel) is the leading full service communications provider in Saskatchewan, offering competitive voice, data, dial-up and high speed internet, entertainment and multimedia services, security, web hosting, text and messaging services, and cellular and wireless data services over its digital networks. The Corporation also provides security monitoring services through SecurTek, directory services through DirectWest, in-room communications services to the healthcare sector through Hospitality Network, telecommunications consulting service through SaskTel International and an out-of-province sales and service channel in Alberta and British Columbia. SaskTel and its wholly-owned subsidiaries have a workforce of approximately 5100 full-time, part-time and temporary employees. SaskTel is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2008. www.sasktel.com.


SerComm Corporation is a worldwide leading manufacturer of broadband and wireless networking equipments. Founded in 1992, SerComm has been focusing on developing embedded solutions to make networking simple and affordable. Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, SerComm's global operation network covers markets of North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, and its customer base includes the world's top OEMs, telecommunication vendors and system integrators. Listed in Taiwan OTC market (OTC Code: 5388), SerComm posted sales revenue of approximately US$275 MN in 2006 and has more than 2000 employees worldwide. www.sercomm.com


SigNav is leading vendor of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) solutions including its unique subATTOTM technology, which is the cornerstone upon which the company’s offerings are built. SigNav supplies GPS chipsets, modules and custom developed products to a global customer base. The company has offices in Canberra and Sydney, Australia and Mission Viejo, California. www.signav.com


SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. is the Mobile communications segment of SOFTBANK Group (http://www.softbank.co.jp/en/index.html) which comprises Mobile communications, Broadband infrastructure (SOFTBANK BB Corp.), Fixed-line telecommunications (SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp.), Internet culture (Yahoo Japan Corporation), e-Commerce, and Other business segments. It is former Vodafone K.K. and has 11 millions of W-CDMA and 6 millions of Japanese 2nd generation customers. After joining to the Group in fiscal 2006, SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. has been able to utilize the resources of other Group operations such as abundant accomplishments and experience in portal, content and services, and IP backbone network amongst the largest in Japan. www.softbankmobile.co.jp


Sonus Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of IP-voice infrastructure solutions for wireline and wireless service providers. With its comprehensive IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution, Sonus addresses the full range of carrier applications, including residential and business voice services, wireless voice and multimedia, trunking and tandem switching, carrier interconnection and enhanced services. Sonus' voice infrastructure solutions are deployed in service provider networks worldwide. Founded in 1997, Sonus is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts. www.sonusnet.com



Starent Networks, Corp. is a leading provider of infrastructure solutions that enable mobile operators to deliver multimedia services to their subscribers. Starent Networks has created solutions that provide network functions and services, including access from a wide range of radio networks to the operator's packet core network. Starent Networks' solutions also provide management of subscriber sessions moving between networks and application of billing and other session policies. Starent Networks' products and services provide high performance and system intelligence by combining significant computing power, memory and traffic handling capabilities with a flexible, high availability operating system and other proprietary software. The company's products integrate multiple network functions and services needed for the delivery of advanced multimedia services, such as video, Internet access, voice-over-IP, e-mail, mobile TV, photo sharing and gaming. Starent Networks' products have been deployed by over 60 mobile operators in 25 countries. www.starentnetworks.com


Tatara Systems invents, develops, and deploys mobile convergence products for network operators. Tatara's fixed-mobile convergence strategy is focused on femtocell convergence as a significant new opportunity for mobile operators. It takes advantage of current cellular handsets to provide improved in-home coverage, and lower cost access to data services, via economical femtocell access points. Tatara's products also enable the industry's broadest set of PC convergence solutions, including mobile broadband services over cellular data and WiFi networks. Tatara is proud to count some of the industry's largest operators as customers of its award-winning Tatara Mobile Services Convergence Portfolio(tm) of products. www.tatarasystems.com

Tecom co Ltd is a leading OEM/ODM manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and was established in 1980 in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Tecom provides indoor and outdoor convergence solutions for wired, wireless, data, voice, and video. Since 2004, Tecom has been involved in UMA/GAN/WiFi Router, GSM Femto AP product design and manufacturing for major leading equipment providers. In addition, the company also has strong product development capabilities and experience in the following product categories like VoIP/IP Phone, xDSL Integrated Access Gateway, WiMAX BS and CPE, GPON and business communication systems etc. For more inforamtion, please visit: www.tecomproduct.com


Supplying 34.3 mobile lines, around 23 million landlines and 7.3 million broadband clients, Telecom Italia is Italy’s leading ICT enterprise, with a significant international presence in Europe and South America. The Group trades through pre-eminent brands Telecom Italia, Alice, TIM, La7, MTV Italia, APCom and Olivetti in fixed-line and mobile telecommunications, Internet and media, office & system solutions. www.tim.it.


TELUS is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9 billion of annual revenue and 11 million customer connections including 5.4 million wireless subscribers, 4.4 million wireline network access lines and 1.2 million Internet subscribers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment and video. Committed to being Canada's premier corporate citizen, we give where we live. Since 2000, TELUS and our team members have contributed more than $91 million to charitable and non-profit organizations and volunteered more than 1.7 million hours of service to local communities. Eight TELUS Community Boards across Canada lead our local philanthropic initiatives. For more information about TELUS, please visit www.telus.com.
World leader in digital video technologies Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS) provides technology, services, and systems to help its Media & Entertainment clients – content creators, content distributors and users of its technology – realize their business goals and optimize their performance in a rapidly changing technology environment. The Group is the preferred partner to the Media & Entertainment Industries through its Technicolor, Grass Valley, RCA, and Thomson brands. For more information: www.thomson.net



Connection is good. In a world full of busy and fragmented lives, we at T-Mobile USA, Inc have this idea that wireless communicaitons can help. The value of our plans, the breadth of our coverage, the reliability of our network, and the quality of our service are meant to do one thing: help you stick together with the people who make your life come alive. That's why we're here. Our headquarters are in Bellevue, Washington. T-Mobile USA is a national provider of wireless voice, messaging, and data services capable of reaching over 268 million Americans where they live, work and play. Around the country, our Personal Coverage Check gives customers a clear picture of their local coverage. We have 36,000 employees. T-Mobile USA is the US operating entity of T-Mobile International AG, the mobile communications subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE:DT). Deutsche Telekom is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, with nearly 120 million customers worldwide. www.t-mobile.com


Ubiquisys is a privately owned communications company formed in 2004 to bring the ground breaking ZoneGate femtocell technology to market. In June 2007 independent analysts ABI Research ranked Ubiquisys number one femtocell vendor. It was the first vendor to demonstrate a fully working femtocell solution at 3GSM World Congress 2006 and a year later unveiled the world's first commercial grade femtocell system. The company was recently named a Red Herring Europe 100 Winner. Ubiquisys CTO Will Franks dreamed up the idea for the Femto Forum in February 2007. www.ubiquisys.com


Unwired is an Australian publicly listed (ASX:UNW) wireless broadband carrier. It services residential, small office/home office and small to medium enterprise markets in Australia's two largest cities - Sydney and Melbourne. Unwired's objective is to be the largest wireless broadband provider in Australia. It is already seen as an international authority in wireless broadband, with carriers from around the world regularly seeking its expertise on building a wireless broadband network and business. It has the majority of licensed spectrum in the WiMAX designated 2.3GHz and 3.5GHz spectrum ranges in major population centers, equating to 64 per cent of Australia's total population. The company plans to move to mobile WiMAX (802.16e) when it is commercially available. www.unwired.com.au


UTStarcom is a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and international service and support. UTStarcom sells its broadband, wireless, and handset solutions to operators in both emerging and established telecommunications markets around the world. UTStarcom enables its customers to rapidly deploy revenue-generating access services using their existing infrastructure, while providing a migration path to cost-efficient, end-to-end IP networks. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Alameda, California, UTStarcom has research and design operations in the United States, Canada, China, Korea and India. UTStarcom is a FORTUNE 1000 company. www.utstar.com


Vodafone Group Plc is a leading mobile telecommunications company, with a significant presence in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the United States through the Company's subsidiary undertakings, joint ventures, associated undertakings and investments.The Group's mobile subsidiaries operate under the brand name 'Vodafone'. In the United States the Group's associated undertaking operates as Verizon Wireless. During the last two financial years, the Group has also entered into arrangements with network operators in countries where the Group does not hold an equity stake.  Under the terms of these Partner Network Agreements, the Group and its partner networks co-operate in the development and marketing of global services under dual brand logos.  At 30 September 2007, based on the registered customers of mobile telecommunications ventures in which it had ownership intersts at that date, the Group had 241 million customers, excluding paging customers, caluculated on a proportionate basis in accordance with theCompany's percentage interest in these ventures.  The Company had a total market capitalisation of approximately £88 billion at 3 July 2007. www.vodafone.com


Wipro Technologies is the world's largest third party engineering and technology services company. Wipro has a dedicated team of 5000+ professionals focused on Telecom engineering providing end to end solutions across the entire product
engineering life cycle.  Wipro's Innovation Council funds over 50 projects every year in the areas of product, process and service innovation.  Wipro has 500+ 'Centers of Excellence' that create solutions around specific needs of industries.  Wipro's Wireless Center of Excellence develops solutions for next generation Wireless Technologies (LTE, WiMax and Femto Cells). One such solution is a platform independent FemtoCell software reference design.  Wipro delivers unmatched business value to customers through a combination of process excellence, quality frameworks and service delivery innovation.  Wipro is the World's first PCMM, CMMi Level 5 TL IT Services company and the first comapny outside USA to receive the 'IEEE Software Process Award' www.wipro.com



Founded in 1985, with global headquarters in Shenzhen, P.R. China, and operations in more than 100 countries, ZTE (000063.SZ) (HKSE:0763.HK) is a leading global provider of fixed line and mobile telecommunications equipment and network solutions. The ZTE product range is the most complete in the world, covering virtually every sector of the wireline, wireless, and terminal markets. ZTE offers its customers a unique range of services. The company delivers innovative, custom-made products and services to major operators around the world, helping them to achieve continued revenue growth and shape the future of the world's communications. ZTE was the only Chinese IT and telecoms manufacturer listed in the Business Week 2005 Top 100 Information Technology Companies. wwwen.zte.com