Nigeria's Minister for Communications Chief Cornelius Adebayo would declare open next Monday Nigeria's first VoIP Forum and the third on the African continentholding under the auspices of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
"The Forum promises to be a meeting point for all stakeholders and also a major platform on articulating the way forward on a technology as important as IP," said Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem in Lagos. Ekuwem who is also the president of Knowledge Media International Limited publishers of IT Edge described the VoIP Forum as a watershed on the theme of promoting, understanding, deploying and regulating on the VoIP phenomenon.
"The Nigerian ICT sector has undeniably benefited from the VoIP. This Forum should further highlight areas in which more benefit could be made and how all stakeholders including the regulator should consider VoIP, said Ekuwem who also presides over one of Nigeria's successful ICT firm, the Teledom Group.
There is a main conference and three workshops in all featuring leading VoIP experts such as Tom Koster, GM, Sky-Stream, United Arab Emirates, Yossi Barkan, Executive Director, Africa, PCCW Global, Hong Kong, Sunday Folayan, MD, Skannet Nigeria, Mawuli Tse, Sales Director, Africa, iBasis, and Russell Southwood, CEO, Balancing Act, UK will be leading the speakers' list. Forum sessions will consider issues that include 'Assessing investment in new VoIP opportunities,' 'VoIP pricing and service strategies in a competitive market,' 'the business opportunities VoIP offer,' and 'Maximising international connectivity via a virtual service provider, among others. Forum partners are the African ISP ISPAN, the Nigeria Internet Group , the ATCON and the Nigerian Computer Society etc.
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