Registration, coffee

8.30-9.00

Welcome Address

Purpose of the conference, presentation of the agenda

Dan Georgescu, President of ANRC

Alexandrina Hirtan, Vicepresident of ANRC

9.00-9.05

First Session:

Romania’s Electronic Communications Sector Facing the European Integration

Government policy for Electronic Communications

Ø    Present status and the schedule for the following years; landmarks - 2007, 2010

Zsolt Nagy, Minister of Communications and Information Technology

9.05-9.20

Romanian Communications                – 2007 and Beyond

Dan Georgescu, President of ANRC

9.20-9.40

Romania’s progress towards accession on Chapter 19 – Telecommunications and Information Technologies

Giorgio Ficcarelli, EC Delegation in Romania

9.40-9.55

EU Electronic Communications Policy

Ø     The underlying principles and wider context.

Richard Harris, independent telecommunications consultant

9.55-10.15

Technology knows no borders

Ø    Romania’s competitive advantages in view of the EU accession

Varujan Pambuccian, President of the IT&C Committee in the Chamber of Deputies, Romanian Parliament

10.15-10.30

The regulator’s priorities when joining the Common Market: lessons learnt

Ferenc Banhidi, member of the Board, National Communications Authority, Hungary

10.30-10.45

Q&A, Media

10.30-10.45

Coffee

10.45-11.15

Second session:

Electronic Communications – Doing Business by the Rules of the Common Market

Vision for the Sector in the next 5 years:

Ø     Highlights, Teledensity, Service range, Prices

Ø    Expected Industry Structure: players/investors, mobile and fixed telephony, broadband access

Hugh Collins, ICC, UK

Hugh Collins, ICC

11.15-11.35

EU Electronic Communications Policy

Ø     Financial and development aspects.

Richard Harris, independent telecommunications consultant

11.35-11.55

Financing an Electronic Communications Business - the Investors’ Perspective

Raymond A. Breden, KPMG Romania and Member of Foreign Investors Council

11.55-12.15

Developing a Successful Business Model – new entrant’s view

Miroslav Reznicek, Contactel, Czech Republic

12.15-12.30

Developing a Successful Business Model - some practical advice from around the world

Bryan Pearson,      Pearson Associates, UK

12.30-12.45

Q&A

12.45-13.30

Lunch

13.30-14.30

Third Session:

Roundtable

Developing Sustainable Competition – Interconnection and Local Loop Unbundling

Developing Sustainable Competition - Interconnection and Local Loop Unbundling

Interconnection – experiences or best practices from other European countries

Interconnection – pricing issues

Interconnection and LLU – functionality of the Romanian framework

Annegret Groebel, RegTP, Germany

Dinu Malacopol, Astral, Romania

Catalin Cuturela, Digicom Systems, Romania

Marian Velicu, Mobifon, Romania

Dorin Odiatiu, Orange, Romania

Harm Aben, Romtelecom, Romania

Hugh Collins, ICC, UK

Robert Hall, Sunrise Consultants, UK

Attila Kovacs, MATAV, Hungary

Daniel Kapusy, AAM Group, Hungary

Miroslav Reznicek, Contactel, Czech Republic

Radu Tudorache, ANRC Director for Economic Market Regulation

14.30-16.00

Coffee

16.00-16.15

Fourth Session:

Roundtable

Shaping the Future of Technologies in the Romanian Electronic Communications Market

Urban access – role of new technologies to provide affordable service

Optimum technology for rural service delivery

Core networks – the move to IP

Achieving widespread Broadband access

Florin Bejan, MCTI, Romania

Marius Catalin Marinescu, IGCTI, Romania

Michael Rothenberg, AccessNet International, Romania

Dan Bedros, Alcatel, Romania

Dinu Malacopol, Astral, Romania

Decebal Schiller, CHIP, Romania

Vlad Doicaru, Huawei Technologies, Romania

Marian Velicu, Mobifon, Romania

Yves Gauthier, Orange, Romania

Dieter Angerer, Siemens Romania

Vasile Stan, Telemobil, Romania

Varujan Pambuccian, President of the IT&C Committee in the Chamber of Deputies, Romanian Parliament

16.15-17.30

Cocktail

17.30-19.00