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The Age of the Total (Tele)Communications

7th Telecom Arena, Croatia 2011 - Conference on Electronic Communications

Location:

The Regent Esplanade hotel, Zagreb, Croatia

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Date
08
03.2011

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What is the situation in the telecommunications sector in South East Europe? What challenges lay ahead proposers of policies, regulators and industry? Can the Europe’s Digital Agenda be the guidance for determining the national objectives of the Croatia and countries in the region? How will the convergence of telecom, media and IT impact on market development?

The answers to these and many other questions will be provided by the leading experts from the telecommunications sector in Croatia, region and the EU in the 7th Telecom Arena - Conference on Electronic Communications.

End of January 2011, in Croatia, has marked the end of the application of paper prescriptions. After that time, in fact, all doctors of family practice should have begun to prescribe only e-prescriptions. According to preliminary data, there were no major problems in implementing the new system. However, although the system works, it does not work perfectly, and the biggest problem occurred in the local Internet connections that were often interrupted.

Promotion of the introduction and use of such modern on-line service, is one of the duties of member states according to Digital Agenda for Europe, presented by the European Commission in May last year, as part of its strategy for Europe 2020. In addition, the obligation of members is to make the operational strategies of fast internet and provide public funding for its implementation.

Among the main objectives of the Agenda are the creation of a digital market, ensuring the provision of much faster internet access, improving the interoperability of informational and communicational products and services, encouraging investments in research and development, as well as application of information and communication technologies in addressing the key challenges of society. The leaders of the telecom industry, from public and private sector, will speak at the Conference about features and guidelines of Digital Agenda for Europe, as well as preconditions of its use in identifying and achieving national objectives of Croatia and other countries in the region.

The representatives of Croatian Telecom, Telekom Austria, Telekom Serbia, and Nokia Siemens Networks will discuss on the Conference to what extend telecommunications sector supports economic development and competitiveness of a country. It will be some lectures on consolidation of the telecom sector in the region with regard to future acquisitions and new investments in the regional market. The hottest topic will be sale of 51 percent shares of Telekom Serbia, for which some of the world's leading telecom companies expressed their interest. Participants will be, also, informed on Vipnet’s takeover of Metronet and possible merger of Tele2 and Optima Telekom in Croatia.

The Conference will address the subject of new networking technologies, as a postulate for the development of complex services that require an increasing flow of data, as well as the convergence of telecom, media and IT and its impact on the development of the market and society.

This year as well, the Conference’s participants will hear review of news from Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress.

Detailed information on program of the Conference is available at www.infoarena.hr.

Contact: On behalf of the Infoarena Group is the agency LuxLucis
Ana Krpan
LuxLucis
Agency for PR, Marketing and Interim Management Consultancy
Dr. Ante Šercera 84, 10 000 Zagreb
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