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"On behalf of France Telecom-Orange and the IEC's group of global carrier members, we're pleased to welcome the entire global broadband industry to Paris for the Broadband World Forum Europe 2009! Together with top solutions providers and equipment manufacturers, industry associations and media, we will continue to 'Deliver the Promise' of broadband as one industry."

— John Janowiak, President, International Engineering Consortium

Monday Keynotes	Tuesday Keynotes	Wednesday Keynote
World Forum Chair Scott Alcott Executive Vice President, Service Delivery Engine Belgacom Didier Bellens President and Chief Executive Officer Belgacom First Public Address Ben Verwaayen Chief Executive Officer Alcatel-Lucent	John McMahon President and Managing Director, Europe Sony Pictures Television International Carl-Henric Svanberg President and Chief Executive Officer Ericsson Hear Executive Perspective Interview >	Julio Linares Chief Operating Officer Telefónica S.A. View IEC Fellow Induction > Hear Executive Perspective Interview >

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Daily news highlights were provided during the week of the event!

BBWF: Linares looks to the converged future
Keynote provides a view of industry integration

By Kendrick Struthers-Watson

Delivering Wednesday's keynote at BBWF was Julio Linares, COO, Telefonica S.A., who detailed how networks are developing to meet the demands of converged services.

Building the fiber nation
Alcatel-Lucent VP identifies drivers to accelerate building of fiber networks

By Kendrick Struthers-Watson

Broadband is well entrenched thanks to the recent advances in mobile broadband uptake. Fiber, which is also well accepted, h as a different journey to make to reach more offices and homes. What will it take to build a fiber nation?

NSN and Huawei strike IPR licensing deal

Deal aims to ease problem of patent licensing disputes

Broadband boom borders 120 million in Europe

Region commands 32 percent of overall worldwide growth, says Broadband Forum

Qwest's CTO Pieter Poll sticks to his guns

By Sean Buckley

Out of the three remaining RBOCs, Denver-based Qwest, formerly known as US West, is the most conservative of the trio. Unlike AT&T and Verizon, both of which have their own wireless subsidiaries and aggressive video plays, Qwest has neither in its hand.

Huawei launches industry firsts in new converged ultra broadband era

VP Daniel Tang speaks at BBWF

MegaPath targets the sub-10 Mbps market with new SMB offerings

Niche carrier launches symmetrical bonded T1 and Ethernet over copper services

Integration worries aside, Level 3 looks ahead

Concentrates on order provisioning and intelligent traffic management

Cable broadband is beating DSL to a pulp

Telco customer defection contributed to subscriber decline

Survey reveals what UK thinks about broadband

July 2008 study puts Sky at top of customer satisfaction chart

Comcast caps broadband download limit at 250 Gigabytes

Leading MSO ends all-you-can-eat broadband service