AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall L. Stephenson will provide the featured keynote address on June 17 at the Las Vegas Convention Center for NXTcomm08, the industry's leading convention and exhibition entity announced this week. NXTcomm08, the one event delivering the ecosystem of network-enabled voice, video and data, comes to the Las Vegas Convention Center June 16-19 and will co-locate with InfoComm08, the leading audiovisual business-to-business marketplace. For more information, go to www.NXTcommShow.com.

“We are honored to have Randall Stephenson return to NXTcomm, the June 2007 site of his first address as head of AT&T,” NXTcomm Executive Director Wayne Crawford said. “Mr. Stephenson is one of the most influential leaders in the communications industry. We look forward to hearing him share AT&T’s perspective on the future of network-enabled voice, video and data with the technology suppliers, content providers, carriers and service providers, enterprise, international visitors, and press and analysts who will be in attendance at NXTcomm08.”

NXTcomm08 is expected to draw 20,000 communications professionals from more than 100 countries and U.S. territories. NXTcomm08 will feature more than 500 exhibitors occupying 200,000 net square feet of exhibit space, as well as 100 keynote addresses, sessions and conference events and coverage by over 450 press and analysts.

To view biographical information for AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson, go to http://NXTcommShow.com/keynotes.html

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Look for TIA staff and active presence at this year's National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA) annual meeting and expo, February 10-13, in New Orleans, La. 

Some of the programming scheduled for the meeting includes general sessions featuring invited guests Sen. Mary Landrieu (D–La.) and Meredith Attwell Baker of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA); telecom futurist Lowell Catlett, Ph.D.; and FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein; as well as expert panel discussions on disaster planning and the future of video entertainment.

For questions or comments about TIA's activities at the meeting, please contact Lora Ann Magruder, TIA Director, Member Relations, at lmagruder@tiaonline.org.

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NXTcomm, the one event delivering the ecosystem of network-enabled voice, video and data, has announced that the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), CMP’s Broadband Wireless World, FierceMarkets and the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) have been named as Conference Partners for the 2008 show. This means that industry professionals who register for NXTcomm08 Partner Conferences will have complete access to NXTcomm08 conference sessions presented by these organizations. NXTcomm comes to the Las Vegas Convention Center June 16-19 and will co-locate with InfoComm08, the leading audiovisual business-to-business marketplace.

In addition to the NXTcomm Partner Conferences, NXTcomm08 will feature NXTcomm Keynotes (complimentary for all NXTcomm08 attendees); Original Programming (complimentary for all NXTcomm08 attendees); targeted sessions developed as part of the NXTcomm Summits; and Special Interest Sessions. More information on these NXTcomm08 Conference Components will be announced in the coming weeks and made available at www.NXTcommShow.com. NXTcomm08’s single-day conference programming fee is $295 (early bird rate) and $395 onsite. NXTcomm08’s full conference programming fee is $695 (early bird rate) and $795 onsite. For more information on NXTcomm08, go to www.NXTcommShow.com

“When we started planning the conference portion of NXTcomm08, our goal was to bring together the most respected communications industry organizations and give them free rein to develop the best educational content anywhere and make that programming available to all NXTcomm attendees at a reasonable price,” NXTcomm Executive Director Wayne Crawford said. “With the participation of ATIS, CMP’s Broadband Wireless World, FierceMarkets and the IEC as NXTcomm08 Conference Partners, and with our all-access pass concept, we’ve achieved those goals. Now communications industry professionals can choose from a diverse package of educational sessions and learn about IPTV, convergence, network transformation, home networking, content and applications, international developments, wireless or VoIP trends at one low price, over the course of one day or throughout the entire three-day conference. We are honored to have these four organizations working with us and playing such prominent roles at NXTcomm08.”

ATIS TechThink Conference will showcase programming on IPTV and Convergence at NXTcomm08 on Tuesday, June 17, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. ATIS TechThink will also present Home Networking on Wednesday, June 18 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. For more information on ATIS, go to http://www.techthink.org/.

As part of its co-location with NXTcomm08, CMP’s Broadband Wireless World will feature a two-day conference led by Heavy Reading analysts who will detail issues concerning the migration to 4th-generation wireless infrastructure, including Evolved 3G, WiMAX, and LTE networks, on Wednesday, June 18, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. and on Thursday, June 19, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. For more information on Broadband Wireless World, go to http://www.lightreading.com/live/event_information.asp?survey_id=376.

FierceMarkets will review voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) trends in NXTcomm08 conference programming slated for Wednesday, June 18, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. and on Thursday, June 19, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. For more information on FierceMarkets, go to http://www.fiercemarkets.com/.

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Argyle Executive Forum is pleased to present its 2008 Deal Making in the Telecom Sector Forum, February 21, 2008,. The forum, to take place in Manhattan, will bring together 135–150 CEOs & Board members of public and private large cap and mid cap telecom corporations, complementary areas of executive leadership (CFOs & COOs) and select founders/senior managing partners of investment firms.

This event is by invitation only, and an invitation code is required. TIA members who qualify will receive a $200 discount off the regular $875 price. For more information about the event, click here. For information about TIA's member discount,, please contact Florence Sumaray at +1.703.907.7471 or fsumaray@tiaonline.org.

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