The 700 MHz Auction: Consequences & Opportunities - Executive Telecom Briefing on November 9 at New York Law School

Business Wire, Oct 29, 2007

BOSTON -- Information Gatekeepers Inc., Media Law & Policy Journal, and the Media Center at New York Law School will organize a one-day Executive Telecom Briefing on "The 700 MHz Auction: Consequences & Opportunities" on November 9, 2007, at the New York Law School.

The FCC has adopted an auction schedule for the 700 MHz UHF band that, among other things, incorporates a requirement that at least a portion of the spectrum will be open to any devices, applications, and services, along with third-party networks. The auction will begin in January 2008.

"The potential opportunities resulting from this new spectrum are enormous. It will affect all sectors of the industry, including incumbent carriers, potential competitors, the public safety and national law enforcement communities, Internet/Information Service Providers, equipment manufacturers and handset suppliers, third party mobile applications developers and many more," comments Dr. Alan Pearce, President and CEO of Information Age Economics, and formerly chief economist, Federal Communications Commission. Dr. Alan Pearce will serve as chair of the executive telecom briefing.

Conference participants will hear insights from the following speakers on the two panels:

The 700 MHz Auction - Policy & Business Strategies for the Incumbents, Rural Service Providers, & Public Safety

- Caressa Bennet, General Counsel, Rural Telecommunications Group

- Christopher Guttman-McCabe, VP, Regulatory Affairs, CTIA

- Dr. Gregory Rose, Public Interest Spectrum Coalition

- Gregory Kunkle, Keller & Heckman, LLP

- Dr. Mark Gaynor, Assistant Professor, Boston University

More of the Same or Something New - Emerging Competition, Opportunities, Financing, and Service & Equipment Innovation

- John Leibovitz, Cofounder & Executive Vice President of Business Development, Frontline Wireless

- Rick Whitt, Washington Telecom & Media Counsel, Google

- Seth Potter, Managing Director & Senior Analyst, Merriman Curhan Ford & Co.

- Jodi Steiger, Covington & Burling, LLP

For more information or to register for the Briefing, please visit http://www.telecombriefings.com/brief_T20NY.html or contact Dr. Hui Pan, chief economist, IGI, at 1-617-782-5033 or hpan@igigroup.com.