TM Forum today reaffirmed its commitment to solving new challenges faced by service providers in Asia by opening the doors to its largest Management World Asia conference to date with a record-breaking number of attendees and service provider leaders participating. At the same time, the Forum also announced the creation of its first South East Asia Regional Council, an influential group of senior executives from service providers across the region committed to helping TM Forum positively respond to service providers\u2019 business challenges.
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\nManagement World Asia 2012, which begins today at the Pan Pacific hotel in Singapore, brings together leaders from the global communications industry to explore how service providers can profit from growth opportunities in the region. With support from Axiata Group, Reliance Communications and PLDT, the conference\u2019s strategic partners, Management World Asia 2012 allows over 400 delegates from more than 50 service providers to connect with leaders in Asia and hear how they are transforming the industry to enable operational efficiency and profit from growth.<\/p>\n
In addition, TM Forum confirmed that yesterday in Singapore it held the first meeting of a new South East Asia Regional Council. The new Council, comprising C-level executives from leading service providers in the region, will provide detailed strategic insight into the varied needs of global communication service providers and ensure that TM Forum\u2019s Frameworx suite of standards continues to evolve with the key communications challenges in South East Asia.<\/p>\n
The input gained from the South East Asia Regional Council will ultimately influence TM Forum\u2019s
\npractical initiatives for developing Frameworx, drive industry collaboration including the Forum\u2019s unique Catalyst rapid prototyping model, and continue to grow training and implementation support for service providers in the region.<\/p>\n
Members of TM Forum\u2019s South East Asia Regional Council include:<\/p>\n
\u2022\tBili Batbold, CEO, Unitel Mongolia
\n\u2022\tGil Genio, Head of Globe Business and Business CFU, Globe Telecom
\n\u2022\tMounir Hasrouni, Chief Technology Officer, Wataniya Maldives
\n\u2022\tSteve Hopcraft, Chief Technology Officer, Truecorp
\n\u2022\tTony Kalcina, Founder and Executive Director, Clarity
\n\u2022\tLavinia Koh, CFO, Asia-Pacific, Cable & Wireless Worldwide
\n\u2022\tMichael Lawrey, Executive Director, Online and Media, Telstra Operations
\n\u2022\tIdris Vasi, CEO, DST Group Brunei<\/p>\n
TM Forum\u2019s South East Asia Regional Council is one of five regional councils to be established during 2012\u2014the China Regional Council, the first council, met in late 2011. Additional Regional Councils planned for 2012 include India, Middle East and South America, with more to come in 2013.<\/p>\n
\u201cAsia is rapidly becoming the leader in addressing the challenge of future growth, with service providers in the region amongst the first to embrace adding value to innovative services for the digital economy. While it is one of the fastest-growing global markets, service providers in Asia are facing serious challenges with rising churn rates and falling average revenues per user for traditional services\u2014similar to the rest of the world,\u201d said Martin Creaner, President and CEO, TM Forum. \u201cThe growth in this year\u2019s Management World Asia conference and the newly formed Regional Council highlights TM Forum\u2019s commitment to the region and the commitment of our members to collaboratively solving common challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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