Elitecore has announced a broadband workshop series in SEA with the first event to commence from Thailand on 19th April 2012. As part of its workshop agenda, Elitecore is organizing a forum on Monetizing Data: Challenges, Strategies & Solutions through PCRF, panel discussion on creating differentiated customer experience and a case study presentation on the benefits of Wi-Fi offload.
According to a new study from Nielsen conducted across six countries - Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines, smartphones are on track to becoming the primary access point to Internet in Southeast Asia. For instance in Thailand, out of 21 million internet users, 17.6 million connect to web-based services via their mobile phones. Mobile social media services are a growing buzz, with more than 12 million users having signed up in the previous year.
Vaibhav Mehta, Sr. VP, New Business Development, Elitecore said, "South-East Asia is becoming a global innovation hub in high speed data services. In this workshop, we look to exchanging ideas with operators on new opportunities in revenue generation from data services. Even as active mobile broadband subscriptions in the APAC region crossed 421 million, operators today face an immediate need to upgrade their back-end infrastructure to be able to offer next-generation services. Working together with our partners, we will showcase how solutions like PCRF and Wi-Fi offload help operators reduce investment while providing best-of-breed service experience to mobile data users."
