TelecomWeb Presents Virtual Seminar On IP Managed And Hosted Services

Business Wire (ROCKVILLE, MD) January 5, 2006— In response to the growing interest in voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), TelecomWeb is hosting a unique virtual seminar, “Value Over IP: Managed and Hosted Services,” on Jan. 24, 2006, from noon to 1 p.m. ET. This virtual seminar will provide critical information on how managed and hosted services can help telecom service providers go to market faster, reduce opex and provide a foundation for next-generation revenue.

In this hour-long presentation, attendees will learn how they can best use third-party services for providing hosted and managed services to better satisfy VoIP demands from their customers—including security, unified communications, and innovative and personalized “blended lifestyle services.” After the event, attendees will:

• Know how the latest VoIP technological developments are complicating traditional services and creating challenges for service providers;
• Understand the benefits of managed and hosted applications within individual business structures and how they can impact current and future customers;
• Identify the areas of business that can be best served by managed and hosted services; and
• Have answers to their questions about managed and hosted applications, and how they can take the next step toward leveraging this model for launching new services profitably.

In this live, interactive virtual seminar, attendees also will have an opportunity to ask the presenters specific questions regarding their own concerns about managed and hosted services.

Featured Speakers:

• David Dial, Vice President/ Managed Services, Lucent Worldwide Services
• Zeus Kerravala , Vice President, The Yankee Group

This virtual seminar is offered at no cost to the attendees, and it can be accessed by multiple listeners via computer—at your own desktop or conference room. It will be moderated by TelecomWeb Managing Editor Debra Wayne, and it is sponsored by Lucent Technologies. To register online for “Value Over IP: Managed and Hosted Services,” click on www.iian.ibeam.com/events/acce002/14638/index.jsp .

TelecomWeb (www.telecomweb.com), the telecom industry’s most authoritative voice for telecom news and analysis, also publishes the “Managed Services Report,” an online guide to managed services news and developments along with subscriber-supported B2B print and e-letters focusing on policy, broadband, fiber, satellite, digital TV and wireless.

For further information, go to www.telecomweb.com/reports/lucent/vseminar.htm.

TelecomWeb is part of The Telecom Intelligence Group, a division of Access Intelligence LLC that publishes news, analysis and research covering all areas of telecom. Programs include TelecomWeb.com, market research provider InfoTech, tariff consultancy Tarifica and Web-based product database TelecomTactics. Publications include Broadband Business Forecast, Wireless Business Forecast, Telecom Policy Report, Satellite News and Inside Digital TV.

Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs and delivers the systems, software and services for next-generation communications networks for service providers and enterprises. Backed by the research and development of Bell Labs, Lucent focuses on high-growth areas such as broadband and mobile Internet infrastructure; communications software; web-based enterprise solutions that link private and public networks; and professional network design and consulting services. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit its Web site at www.lucent.com.

Contact: Sharon Valencik svalencik@accessintel.com