Andrew LLC, a CommScope company, designs, manufactures, and delivers innovative and essential equipment and solutions for the global wireless infrastructure market. Andrew supports the entire wireless radio frequency (RF) footprint with transmission line systems, antennas, base station subsystems, in-building distributed wireless systems, and network solution products and services.

Andrew, opened a new office in Dubai in 2004. Andrew Middle East is located in the Dubai Internet City Free Zone Area and was established as a separate Andrew unit reporting into the main corporate organization. Andrew Middle East offers equipment and complete turnkey system solutions and services for customers deploying mobile essential and public network systems (e.g. Tetra, GSM and UMTS).

Local presence enables dedicated and continuous support with immediate response times, through a dedicated team covering sales, project, technical and logistical resources.
Morever, Andrew has partners and agents in several other countries throughout the region.

 In 1937, Dr. Victor J. “Doc” Andrew founded Andrew Corporation as a sole proprietorship in his basement on Chicago’s South Side, selling communications products and services. In 2007, CommScope, Inc., based in Hickory, North Carolina, acquired Andrew Corporation for $2.6 billion. Andrew is now the wireless business unit of CommScope, Inc., a recognized world leader in infrastructure solutions for communications networks. The company’s signature “flash” logo is seen on microwave tower and cellular equipment throughout the world.
Website: www.andrew.com

Blue Coat customers include almost every major Internet Service Provider and Mobile Operator in the Middle East, as well as other leading providers across Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Service Providers choose Blue Coat to accelerate web traffic, save on bandwidth, as well as filter content and protect against threats. For example, many customers use Blue Coat to provide parental controls to keep children safe while accessing the Internet, while others use Blue Coat to block illegal or unwanted content, like malware. Increasingly, Service Providers are also gravitating to Blue Coat solutions to deliver new managed services addressing application performance management, WAN optimization and the security needs of enterprises.
Website: www.bluecoat.com

Based in the Republic of Cyprus, Cyta provides a variety of advanced telecommunications products and services, covering fixed and mobile voice and data communications. More over, Cyta provides a range of broadband services such as fast internet access, internet protocol television (IPTV) and convergent products.

Cytaglobal, the International Commercial Services Division of Cyta, has developed an extensive submarine fibre optic cable network connecting Cyprus with other countries and international networks beyond.

Furthermore, as an initial party of INTELSAT, EUTELSAT, INMARSAT and NEW SKIES and having access to many major satellite systems, Cytaglobal makes available an equally impressive satellite telecommunications network boasting enhanced, high quality international connectivity.

Through its international network, Cytaglobal has developed competitively priced, innovative, international products and services and achieved to become an important telecommunications hub in the Eastern Mediterranean and the telecommunications bridge between east and west.
Website: www.cytaglobal.com

Datability is a Saudi Company focusing on building niche products and services in the area of data, the services spectrum includes data Quality and Standardization services, data warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions.

Our customers include the fortune 500 companies in the GCC region including large Telco operators, banks, service companies and government agencies. The company operates mainly in the GCC markets and offers its products and service through a focused effort by industry experts.
Website: www.datability.com

Dilithium® is the global leader in high-quality multimedia delivery over mobile and broadband networks to any device. Dilithium provides the most comprehensive and innovative mobile video solutions,with unmatched breadth of deployments in 60 countries reaching over 1 billion subscribers. Dilithium pioneered mobile video communications and our solutions are deployed by leading network operators, content owners, and aggregators across 2G, 3G, and WiFi networks
Website: www.dilithiumnetworks.com

Ericsson is the world's leading provider of mobile telcoms infrastructure technology and services to telecom operators world-wide. As a market leader in 2G and 3G mobile technologies, Ericsson also supplies telecommunication services and manages networks that serve more than 195 million subscribers. The company portfolio comprises mobile and fixed network infrastructure, broadband and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprise and developer solutions. In addition, the Sony-Ericsson joint venture provides consumers world-wide with feature-rich personal mobile devices.

Ericsson has been doing business in Lebanon for 60 years now. Its driving philosophy is to advance its vision of, 'communication for all', through innovation, technology and sustainable business solutions. It is proud to be in the business of, ‘taking you forward’. Working in 175 countries, with more than 70,000 employees, who generated revenue in 2007 of some USD 27.9 billion (equivalent to Swedish Kroner 188 billion), Ericsson was founded in 1876, it is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden and it is listed on the Stockholm and NASDAQ stock exchanges.
Website: www.ericsson.com

Hinduja Global Solutions Ltd.(HGSL), part of the multi billion dollar conglomerate - Hinduja Group, excels in providing outsourcing solutions that includes Back Office Processing, Contact Center & Customized IT Services to its global clientele comprising of several Fortune 500 companies. The company has over 14,500 employees with 23 delivery centers spread across India, USA, Canada, Philippines and Mauritius.

The Contact Center & Back Office Services Division houses multiple international voice centers & back office processing units for leading Telecommunications, Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, Life Sciences, Banking & Financial Services, Consumer Electronics / Products, Technology, Automotive, Government, Media & Entertainment, Energy & Utilities and Transportation & Logistics companies.

We provide services in English, Hindi, Malayalam, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Oriya, Marathi, Gujarathi, Kannada, French and Spanish languages. We also have the capability of providing Tagalog/Filipino and Arabic language support.

Today, with a customer base of over 75 clients and revenues of US $165+ million, HGSL is one of the top 10 BPO service providers in India. 

Our mission is to ‘To Make Our Clients More Competitive’ and our vision is ‘To be a globally preferred business process transformation partner for our clients, creating value in their business through innovative outsourcing solutions’

Website: www.htmtglobal.com

ITS group, a leading integrated information technology
solutions provider, offers cutting-edge IT solutions to support the operations of telecommunication service providers enabling them to keep pace with the everlasting evolving and aggressive market.

ITS is proud of its successful track record since its establishment in 1981. It started as a local company in Kuwait and grew to become a leading IT solutions provider in the region with over 2400 skilled IT professionals based in 24 offices worldwide. Our wide range of in-house developed products support the telecommunication operations with more than 175 telecommunication consultants stationed in the MEA, North African, and East Asian regions.

ITS develops product-based customer management and billing solutions for communications and content service providers. ITS’ convergent platform enables service providers to deliver voice, data, video, and content services with multiple networks, payment models, pricing plans, and value chains. ITS’ unique approach is designed to provide its customers superior return on innovation with maximum value and lower total cost of ownership.

TABS provides the foundation for ITS’ comprehensive product offerings. It offers a single business platform with proven support for all types of services, including voice, data and content over wireless and wireline networks. As a result, TABS enables service providers to swiftly develop, price and provision service offerings while strategically managing customer usage and billing.

For more information, please visit our website www.its.ws.

KnowledgeView Ltd is a UK-based company, founded in 1995 to develop cross-media publishing, news management and editorial sharing systems. It has a top management team with over 50 years' experience serving the media sector.

Outside the UK, KnowledgeView has an office in Beirut, Lebanon.  Its client base extends over four continents with such names as Independent News and Media, Media Communications Group, Abu Dhabi Media Company, Annahar of Lebanon, and Dar Al-Hayat.

With its Publish live Suite, KnowledgeView makes rich-media multi-publishing very easy:

• Publish live with convergent Newsrooms design for multi-publishing
• Publish live with software solutions for multi-publishing to paper, Web and mobile
• Publish live editorial training and help with editorial change management
• Publish live TV for Web, mobile and broadcast
• Publish live news content by helping to enhance and add value to the conten
  

Website: www.knowledgeview.com

MaliaTec is a leading systems integrator in ICT solutions that specializes in data-capture, automation and mobility. MaliaTec combines application software development, hardware and tracking with business consultancy services, to provide total automation solutions. Our concept-to-completion approach ensures that we provide comprehensive answers to supply chain information needs. MaliaTec has the knowledge and expertise to implement mobile solutions into your enterprise in order to help you manage your products and services inside warehouses and in the field. MaliaTec represents Intermec, Extech and Globaltrack. website: www.maliaholding.com

Mobision is the first in the Middle East and North Africa region to commercially launch Mobile TV service via DVB-H technology. Using the state-of-the-art network infrastructure, Mobision serves the Iraqi market by broadcasting 20 of the most popular local and regional satellite TV channels live to customer’s mobile handsets. website: www.mobision.tv

mobivention, operating from Cologne (Germany), is a leading international provider of mobile content and services. The product and service offering is targeted to mobile network operators, mobile portals and handset manufacturers around the globe. mobivention is delivering the best expertise in production, licensing, development and management of content and services internationally.

Specialized in personalization products, mobile entertainment and information services, mobivention‘s content portfolio includes wallpaper, animations, greeting cards, videos, games, applications, widgets and MMS alert services. mobivention also offers wap shops, master content providing and hosting solutions for outsourcing portal management for mobile network operators worldwide. Recently mobivention has launched a stand-alone mobile content portal called Pixel Party.

Recognized as a leader in innovation and quality, mobivention focuses on best user experience, handset support and new features in mobile phones. mobivention has its own in-house production for different media types and partners with well-known brands to bring them to mobile phones worldwide.

The privately owned company has been founded in 2003 and has build up a significant international footprint in the mobile industry. mobivention is publishing it’s products and services in more than 60 countries globally. website: www.mobivention.com

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of communications services. The company provides a complete, well-balanced product portfolio of mobile and fixed network infrastructure solutions and addresses the growing demand for services in the telecommunication market.

In Middle East and Africa – a region with 68 countries and 1”3 people -, Nokia Siemens Networks operates with a workforce of approximately 4,000 employees, of which 3,000 are service professionals, with key locations in Dubai, Cairo, Riyadh, Islamabad and Pretoria. Nokia Siemens Networks supports more than 130 fixed and mobile operator customers in the region. Dubai is the Regional Hub with a workforce of approximately 500 employees..

Some of the major customers of Nokia Siemens Networks in the fixed network operations include - without being limited to - Telecom Egypt, Saudi Telecom, Telecom South Africa, Neotel South Africa, Syrian Telecom Equipment, PTCL (Pakistan),  Angola Telecom and Motac in Iraq.

The customer list of mobile operators include - without being limited to -  Etisalat, du (both UAE), Telenor Pakistan, MTN Group companies, Zain Group companies, Qtel Group companies, Orascom Group companies, IAM Morocco and Vodafone / Vodacom Group companies in Middle East and Africa.
Website: www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is one of the world's leading innovators of software applications and infrastructure designed to enable revenue-generating, personalized services, including mobile analytics, content adaptation, mobile and broadband advertising, and a suite of unified messaging solutions.

As the communications industry intersects with the Internet, Openwave software enables service providers to converge services, in an effort to increase the value of their networks by accelerating time to market and reducing the cost and complexity associated with new service deployment. Openwave's unique product portfolio provides a complete range of mobile internet service management, messaging, and location based solutions. Openwave is a global company with a blue chip customer base spanning North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Openwave is headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information please visit www.openwave.com.

Leader in Europe and in the offshore countries, 6 Times Best Product of the year winner in the USA, The VoIP CALL CENTER SOLUTIONS supplier, VOCALCOM, equips already more than 4000 call centers in the world with more than 470.000 displayed posts.

Company Profile Details

Legal Form: S.A
Capital : 5 M €
Foreign Parts (%): 100%
Year of Establishment: VOCALCOM France 1999
Implantations: France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Morocco, UAE, Tunisia, Lebanon, Algeria …

Products & Services:
1. Web Based Call Center Software, VOIP software Platform, CTI Avaya, Predictive Dialer, Web Costumer Management, Predictive Dialers Avaya, Gateway Video, Voice recognition, Real time supervising and management, Recording conversations, Teleworking solution …
2. Telecoms Hosting, VoIP terminal in France , SIP Provider
3. ASP Platform
4. Training programs : For Management, Middle Management and
5. Call Centers Management Follow up

Web Site: www.vocalcom.com

About Oracle Communications
Oracle is #1 in Communications globally with 20 of the world's top 20 communications companies running Oracle applications.Oracle Communications integrates industry-specific BSS and OSS solutions with the capabilities of Oracle's industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, and carrier-grade middleware and database technologies.  Oracle Communications enables service providers to deliver next generation convergent services rapidly, increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, and reduce costs in the business and the network. 
For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com/Communications.  

About Oracle
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company.  For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com

Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E. (“Orascom Telecom” or “OTH”) was established in 1998 and has grown to become a major player in the global telecommunications market. OTH is considered among the largest and most diversified network operators in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.

Orascom Telecom is a leading mobile telecommunications company operating networks in high growth six emerging markets having a population under license of 498 million with an average mobile telephony penetration of approximately 46% as of December 31st, 2008. Orascom Telecom operates GSM networks in Algeria ("Djezzy"), Pakistan ("Mobilink"), Egypt ("Mobinil"), Tunisia ("Tunisiana"), Bangladesh ("Banglalink"), and North Korea (“Koryolink”). OTH has an indirect equity ownership in Globalive Wireless which has been granted a spectrum license in Canada. Through its subsidiary Telecel Globe, OTH also operates in Burundi, the Central African Republic, Namibia and Zimbabwe. Orascom Telecom had 78 million subscribers as of December 31st, 2008.

OTH established a strong presence in the GSM Association (the world's leading wireless industry representative body) only five years after its inception. OTH's Chairman and CEO, Mr. Naguib Sawiris, was selected to join the GSM Association's CEO Board in 2002.

Orascom Telecom is traded on the Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchange under the symbol (ORTE.CA, ORAT EY), and on the London Stock Exchange its GDR is traded under the symbol (ORTEq.L, OTLD LI). Website: www.orascomtelecom.com

Alfa is the brand name of one of the two Lebanese mobile networks owned by the Republic of Lebanon. Alfa is managed by Orascom Telecom (OTH) starting February 1, 2009.

• 1994 - end of August 2002à Alfa (previously Cellis), was operated by FTML (France Telecom Mobile Liban S.A.L.) under a BOT (Build, Operate and Transfer) contract.
• September 2002 - end of May 2004à The mobile network assets were transferred to the Republic of Lebanon. Alfa (previously Cellis), was operated by FTML (France Telecom Mobile Liban S.A.L.) under a Network Custody and Operation Contract (NCOC).
• June 2004 - end of November 2008à The network new brand name became Alfa, under the management of Fal Dete Telecommunications S.A.L.
• December 2008 - end of January 2009à Alfa network was operated and managed by the Ministry of Telecommunications of Lebanon.
• Starting February 1, 2009 à Alfa network is managed by Orascom Telecom (OTH), under a management contract.

 
Alfa capitalizes on its expertise in the telecom field in order to deliver a global and professional solution for the GSM sector in Lebanon.
For more information about Alfa visit www.alfa.com.lb

QUALCOMM Incorporated is a leader in the development of CDMA2000® 1x, 1xEV-DO, UMTS and HSDPA/ HSUPA chipsets and solutions.
In 1989 Qualcomm introduced Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), changing the global face of wireless communications forever.

Today, Qualcomm plays a central role in the adoption and growth of 3G and next-generation wireless around the world.  Qualcomm has an intellectual property portfolio of more than 7,200 United States patents licensed by more than 145 telecommunications equipment manufacturers worldwide.

QUALCOMM is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a 2008 FORTUNE 500® company traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market®

website: www.qualcomm.com

Redline Communications is the leading provider of fixed and mobile standards-based wireless broadband solutions. Redline’s RedMAX™ WiMAX Forum Certified™ system, RedMAX 4C WiMAX™ products, and its award-winning RedCONNEX™ and RedACCESS™ families of broadband wireless infrastructure products enable service providers and other network operators to cost-effectively deliver high-bandwidth services, including voice, video and data communications. Redline is committed to maintaining its wireless industry leadership with the continued development of WiMAX and other advanced wireless broadband products. With more than 135,000 installations in 85 countries, and a global network of over 170 partners, Redline's experience and expertise helps service providers, enterprises and government organizations roll out wireless broadband networks to support advanced communications. website: www.redlinecommunications.com

The Lebanese Broadband Stakeholders Group is an informal and independent forum for people and organizations across the broadband value-chain to discuss and propose solutions for the issues related to the development and usage of broadband connectivity across the whole country and within the framework of the national interest.

It focuses on strategic, short to medium-term challenges with the ultimate national aim of achieving economic growth and social development for the country. These issues have been identified in the Broadband Manifesto, which received wide endorsement from the Lebanese society.

The Lebanese Broadband Stakeholders Group’s 2-year goals are to:

• Create broad support and non-partisan cooperation for broadband and protect it from political and other controversies
• Work to make broadband available as soon as possible as per the Broadband Manifesto’s 10 points
• Achieve the above through transparent, open, and competitive market structures
• Strive to make available affordable, reliable, and high-speed connections to all businesses that require it
• Strive to achieve ubiquitous broadband access across Lebanon for all citizens and residents

All organizations and individuals that have endorsed the Broadband Manifesto are automatically members of the Lebanese Broadband Stakeholders Group. They can opt out of the group by sending an e-mail to opt_out@broadbandlebanon.org.
Membership is opened to all organizations from all sectors (public, private, and civil society). If your organization is interested please send an e-mail to info@broadbandlebanon.org

Steering Committee and Spokesperson:

The Steering Committee will be working to achieve the objectives of the Broadband Manifesto within the framework of the Scope of Work defined in this document.

Membership in the Steering committee is currently open to Broadband Stakeholders of the private sector only. In time, the Steering Committee will evolve to become more representative of society at large, including membership from government, NGOs, academia, research, etc.

The ten (10) Members of the Steering Committee Oct 2008 – Oct 2009 are:

• Bassam Tueini
• Dani Richa
• Gaby Deek (founding member)
• Jalal Fawaz
• Jennifer Sarraf
• Khalil Letayf
• Nabil Bukhalid (founding member)
• Salam Yamout (founding member)
• Salim Edde
• Toni Issa

The bodies represented in the Steering Committee of the Lebanese Broadband Stakeholders Group are:

All chambers of commerce - Enterprises and Small Medium Businesses
Banks and all financial sector
Manufacturing and industrial sector
Entrepreneurs – Outsourcing – Global internet business
Lawyers and Legal Framework
ICT and Software industry – Content development
MEDIA and content producers – Pre/Post production houses – TV and radio stations
The Steering Committee has kindly asked Mr. Salim Edde from among its members to be its spokesperson.
A seat for the ‘Telecommunications Industry, Operators, Service Providers and Under Marine Cables’ on the Steering Committee has been reserved but remains vacant.