WiMAX Forum® Announces Keynote Speakers for Latin America Congress in December

Business Wire, Oct 22, 2008

Industry Leaders Set to Convene in Rio de Janeiro for WiMAX[TM]

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The WiMAX Forum and Informa Telecoms & Media today announced the keynote speakers for WiMAX Forum Congress Latin America Conference and Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on December 3 - 4, 2008. As part of WiMAX Forum's series of global tradeshows, this event is the largest WiMAX focused tradeshow for the Latin American region and will bring together thought leaders from across the industry to focus on the WiMAX adoption and deployment.

Keynote speakers for WiMAX Forum Congress Latin America include:

* Ronaldo Sardenberg, President, ANATEL (Brazil)

* Teresa Kellett, Director Global Development, Sprint (USA)

* Alex Ternero, CTO, Movilmax/Omnivision (Venezuela)

* Henry Fuentes Lain, Network Director, Radiografica Coastarricense S.A. RACSA (Costa Rica)

* John Xiong, Marketing & Solutions Director, Huawei (Brazil)

* Gonzalo Dona, Strategic Technology Director, VTR (Chile)

* Carlos Marino, President, Avantel (Columbia)

* Dr. Frank Perthel, Head of Business Development Broadband Wireless, Nokia Siemens Networks (Brazil)

* Francisco Varela, Head of Mobile Operator Relationships, YouTube (USA)

* Ron Resnick, President, WiMAX Forum[R] (USA)

Currently, the show has confirmed more than 70 speakers which include plenary speakers for its two-day multi-track conference. WiMAX Forum Congress Latin America targets 2,000 senior level business and technical attendees from across Central, South and North America. The conference is designed to address a variety of commercial and technical issues, focusing on spectrum and regulation, business models and equipment certification. WiMAX Forum Congress Latin America allows participants to witness first hand the true capabilities of WiMAX, experience educational programs such as "The WiMAX Ecosystem at Work" and engage in the "Connectivity Q & A."

In addition, attendees will have the opportunity to experience live demonstrations, interactive workshops, educational programs, analyst briefing breakfasts and the WiMAX Forum RF Network Engineer Certification Boot Camp.

The WiMAX Forum Series Tradeshows has shown great success generating over 5,300 attendees and 130 sponsors and exhibitors at WiMAX Forum Global Congress Asia and WiMAX Forum Global Congress. For more information on the WiMAX Forum Congress Series, please visit the WiMAX Forum event homepage at www.wimax-vision.com.

About WiMAX Forum([R])

The WiMAX Forum[R] is an industry-led, not-for-profit organization formed to certify and promote the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products based upon the harmonized IEEE 802.16e/ETSI HiperMAN standard. A WiMAX Forum goal is to accelerate the introduction of these systems into the marketplace. WiMAX Forum Certified products are interoperable and support broadband fixed, nomadic, portable and mobile services.

Along these lines, the WiMAX Forum works closely with service providers and regulators to ensure that WiMAX Forum Certified systems meet customer and government requirements. Through the WiMAX Forum Congress Events Series of global trade shows and events, the WiMAX Forum is committed to furthering education, training and collaboration to expand the reach of the WiMAX ecosystem. For more information, visit the trade show link at www.wimaxforum.org.

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