March Meeting – Monday March 13
This month Chetan Sharma and Hans Hanspal will be giving a presentation on 3G entitled “3G Diffusion, Impact, and Opportunities”. Chetan has recently had an article entitled “3G: Hitting the Mass Market” published as the cover article for Wireless World that is an overview of the current state of 3G. Chetan and Hans will be speaking about the current state of 3G and what we can expect in the short and long term.
“We will focus our attention on 3G’s diffusion to mass-market in key geographies, look into key drivers for 3G growth, and discuss the short-term (12-18 months) and long-term (1-5 years) trends. We will also discuss some of the challenges associated with the increasing volumes of data.”
So if your business is mobile content, networks, services, or applications; your business is going to be affected by 3G networks. You don’t want to miss this one.
Where: Downtown Seattle, The Harbor Steps in the Terrace Room
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Chetan is a recognized industry expert in strategy and implementation of wireless data and pervasive computing solutions. His expertise is in developing innovation-driven technology, product and IP strategy. He has worked with major wireless carriers around the globe and advised some of the major content brands and wireless technology companies. Chetan is author of several books, articles, papers, and reports on wireless industry and sits on the advisory board of several startups and VC firms. He has also been involved as a wireless technology expert witness in intellectual property litigation cases. He is chair/member of several telecom industry consortiums and committees. Some of his clients include NTT DoCoMo, Disney, Qualcomm, Reliance, SAP, Merrill Lynch, American Express, Infospace, BEA, and HP. |
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Harinderpal (Hans) Hanspal is currently a member of EMC Corporation’s Global Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment Initiatives group, where he has responsibility for defining EMC’s strategy and solutions for global mobile markets. Prior to EMC, Hans has held various positions at Metapath Software, Sequent Computer Systems, and Amdahl Corp. His roles have spanned business strategy, sales, marketing, engineering, services, business & alliance development, and solution development. He has been in the IT industry for over sixteen years, with the past nine years focused exclusively on global telecommunications providers. Hans has extensive international experience and has worked with some of the largest mobile service providers around the world, including NTT DoCoMo and Cingular Wireless |