Keynote Speaker:
Barry West
President & Chief Architect
Clearwire

Glenn Lurie
President of Emerging Devices
AT&T

Anthony Lewis
Vice President, Open Development
Verizon





Todd Rowley
Vice President of 4G
Sprint


Scott McElroy
Vice President, Technology Realization
AT&T

David Keegstra
Director, Wireless Access Technology
TELUS

Thank You to Our Sponsors

FierceWireless would like to thank the following companies for their support of The Path to 4G at CTIA Wireless 2009. For more information on how your company can sponsor other FierceMarkets events, click here.

Diamond Sponsor

Ericsson is the world's leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators. The market leader in 2G and 3G mobile technologies, Ericsson supplies communications services and manages networks that serve more than 185 million subscribers. The company's portfolio comprises mobile and fixed network infrastructure, and broadband and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises and developers. The Sony Ericsson joint venture provides consumers with feature-rich personal mobile devices. Ericsson is advancing its vision of 'communication for all' through innovation, technology, and sustainable business solutions. Working in 175 countries, more than 70,000 employees generated revenue of USD 27.9 billion (SEK 189 billion) in 2007. Founded in 1876 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Ericsson is listed on the Stockholm, London and NASDAQ stock exchanges. For more information, visit www.ericsson.com or www.ericsson.mobi.

Platinum Sponsors

IP Infusion delivers advanced software solutions that power communications equipment for packet-based Next Generation Networks (NGN). With a unique modular architecture and the industry’s broadest suite of communication protocols, IP Infusion enhances product differentiation and market agility for many of the world's leading network equipment vendors. Incorporated in Delaware in October 1999, IP Infusion is headquartered in San Jose, California, and is a wholly owned and independently-operated subsidiary of ACCESS CO., LTD., of Tokyo, Japan. For more information about IP Infusion, please visit www.ipinfusion.com.

Qualcomm Incorporated is a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions. The company enables the key participants of the wireless value chain—network operators, device and infrastructure manufacturers, application and content developers—with solutions that allow consumers, businesses and government entities to leverage the vast capabilities and benefits of wireless technologies and communications. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Qualcomm is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a 2008 FORTUNE 500® company traded on The NASDAQ Stock Market® under the ticker symbol QCOM. Learn more about Qualcomm at www.qualcomm.com.

Gold Sponsors

With more than 3 million units deployed in 150 countries, Alvarion (www.alvarion.com) is the world’s leading provider of innovative WiMAX and wireless broadband network solutions, designed to enable Personal Broadband to improve lifestyles and productivity with portable and mobile data, VoIP, video and other services.

Alvarion is leading the market to Open WiMAX solutions with the most extensive deployments and proven product portfolio in the industry covering the full range of frequency bands, with both fixed, nomadic and mobile solutions.  Alvarion’s products are designed to enable the delivery of personal mobile broadband, business and residential primary broadband access, corporate VPNs, toll quality telephony, mobile base station feeding, hotspot coverage extension, community interconnection and public safety communications.

As a wireless broadband pioneer, Alvarion has been driving and delivering innovations for almost 15 years from core technology developments to creating and promoting industry standards. Leveraging its key roles in the IEEE and HiperMAN standards committees and with experience in deploying OFDM-based systems, the company’s prominent work in the WiMAX Forum™ is focused on increasing the widespread adoption of standard-based products in the wireless broadband market and leading the entire industry to Open WiMAX solutions.

Fujitsu Network Communications Inc. is an innovator and strategic partner with over 20 years of experience as a leading provider of wireline and wireless networking solutions that solve critical business issues and enable new services. With the support of Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702), a $43.2B company with over 160,000 professionals in more than 100 countries, Fujitsu enables their customers to build or seamlessly migrate to fully converged networks that improve network performance and profitability. Fujitsu Limited consistently ranks within the top 15 organizations worldwide in terms of the number of patents granted per year and in 2006 alone, 1487 patents were issued to our company and our employees. Nearly 400,000 Fujitsu network elements have been deployed by all major carriers across North America. Fujitsu maintains a well-established and highly-regarded position as a market leader by providing the best-in-breed data networking solutions that drive next-generation access, core, and wireless networks. For more information, please visit http://us.fujitsu.com/telecom.

Silver Sponsors

Founded in 1999, BridgeWave Communications is the leading supplier of outdoor wireless gigabit connectivity solutions. The company’s exclusive AdaptRate™ and AdaptPath™ technologies combined with its advanced Forward Error Correction capability deliver the highest availability at the longest distances for full-rate gigabit links. BridgeWave’s point-to-point, wireless solutions are widely deployed in mainstream enterprise and service provider network applications and are poised to play a key role in the migration to 4G mobile network backhaul. With the largest installed base of GigE radios worldwide, BridgeWave delivers the highest levels of product quality and reliability. For more information, visit http://www.bridgewave.com

 FMHC Telecom Group is engaged in the business of outsourcing wireless telecom engineering professionals.  Services are available on a staff augmentation / time and materials basis or can be customized on a project basis.   FMHC Telecom Group provides a complete range of Network and RF Engineering services including system design, field test and optimization, equipment engineering, backhaul network engineering, IP and data engineering.   

Parent company, FMHC Corporation, is an industry leader in telecom site development services.  Headquartered in Chicago, IL with project offices nationwide, FMHC has been providing consulting solutions to major wireless carriers and equipment vendors in the telecommunications industry since 1984.  FMHC services include site identification and acquisition, zoning, installation, construction management and project management. 

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