Hong Kong, March 8, 2012--Despite a nearly US$7 billion multichannel TV market, only 60% of India’s vast population owns a television. The CASBAA India Forum 2012: Beyond Digital, staged on 20 March 2012 at the Shangri-La Hotel, New Delhi, will examine important issues affecting multichannel TV in India.
London, March 5, 2012--Oil & Gas Communications Brazil 2012: ‘21st Century Digital Oilfield & Gasfield Imperatives Onshore, Offshore, and in Deepwater’ (O&GC Brazil 2012) brings the GVF & EMP Oil & Gas Communications Series to its 14th international event on 25th & 26th April in Rio de Janeiro. Just three weeks later the 15th conference in the Series, Oil & Gas Communications Europe 2012: ‘Digital Applications & Communications Dynamicsin the Mature & Emergent Northern Fields’ (O&GCE5),takes place in Aberdeen, over 16th & 17th May.
Hong Kong, March 2, 2012 – Indonesia’s pay-TV market is taking off, speakers told a capacity crowd of delegates at CASBAA’s Indonesia in View: Growing Pay TV forum, held in Jakarta on February 29th. With more than 2 million paying subscribers at the beginning of 2012, a host of new distribution platforms coming online, and strong economic fundamentals, Indonesia is looking to become one of Asia’s fast-growth TV success stories.
London, UK, February 22, 2012-The most recent GVF-EMP Conference Partnership event in its Broadband Maritime Series, which for the first time co-located with an InterManager regional conference in its Shipping KPI Project, under the joint title of ‘Maritime Insights’, concluded with an across-the-board acknowledgement of its success. ‘Maritime Insights’ took place in two streams over 14th & 15th February 2012 at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore, and comprised the GVF-EMP ‘Broadband Maritime Offshore & Oceanic 2012: Information & Communications Networking Mobility South East Asia’ conference as Stream One on day one, with Stream Two on the second day featuring the Shipping KPI Project, InterManager’s shipping industry KPI standards event.
Geneva, Switzerland, February 17, 2012--The World Radiocommunication Conference 2012 (WRC-12) concluded its deliberations today with the signing of the Final Acts that revise the Radio Regulations, the international treaty governing the use of radio-frequency spectrum and satellite orbits.Over 3000 participants, representing 165 out of ITU’s 193 Member States attended the four-week Conference, braving the extreme winter conditions prevailing in Geneva. Over 100 Observers from among ITU’s 700 private sector members along with international organizations also attended WRC-12.
Jakarta, Indonesia, February 14, 2012--CASBAA’s first forum of the year, Indonesia in View: Growing Pay TV will be held on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 in Jakarta at the Hotel Mulia Senayan. The Indonesian economy grew by 6.5 percent in Q4 2011, "a level not seen since before the 1990s Asian crisis" – and the media economy is growing even faster with the country's pay-TV industry recently passing the 2-million subscriber mark. With growth spurred by innovative pricing strategies, higher quality content and new advertising strategies, there is plenty of room to expand as new players enter the landscape…but competition could be tough.
Singapore, February 3, 2012--CommunicAsia2012 and BroadcastAsia2012 will highlight pertinent industry developments and address emerging trends as well as provide enhanced networking opportunities for industry professionals from around the world. EnterpriseIT, held in conjunction with CommunicAsia, will showcase innovative applications and end-to-end solutions across the entire value chain and transform the way companies operate and communicate internally and beyond. And once again, the event will present Asia’s largest contingent of satellite companies witnessed at any single event.
London, February 1, 2012--Taking place on the second (29thFebruary) and third (1stMarch) days of CABSAT 2012, at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Center (DICEC), is GVF MENASAT @ CABSAT, which this year will comprise the Satellite Interference Mitigation Forum, and the Satellite Markets & Services Summit.
San Diego, California, January 31, 2012-- In contrast to recent military shows like MILCOM in Baltimore last November and last year’s WEST show, there is more of a cautious optimism over the impending defense budget cuts now that it’s inevitability has more or less sunked in.
Geneva, Switzerland, January 23, 2012--The World Radiocommunication Conference opened in Geneva today to review and revise the Radio Regulations, the international treaty governing the use of radio-frequency spectrum and satellite orbits. The work of this international treaty-making Conference will be conducted over four weeks until 17 February to address the changes required to the regulation of orbit/spectrum resources in the interest of the users of these scarce resources, with global implications for policy-makers, regulators, the industry as well as end-users.