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Dalfen to close Telecom Summit


TORONTO – CRTC chairman Charles Dalfen will deliver the closing keynote address at the 2006 Canadian Telecom Summit.

Canada’s leading event for the telecommunications industry, the summit attracts more than 500 from the telecom industry.

Other speakers are: Mitel chairman Terry Matthews, Telus CEO Darren Entwistle, Vonage founder Jeffrey Citron, Avaya Chair and CEO Donald Peterson; IBM Canada president Dan Fortin; Alcatel North America CEO Hubert de Pesquidoux; Allstream president John MacDonald; Mark Henderson, president of Ericsson Canada; Michael Moskowitz, president of Palm Canada; Chris Rooney from the new AT&T; Nortel North America president Dion Joannou, Siemens Group executive Andreas Bernhardt; and the heads of telecommunication service provider groups at Cisco, Microsoft and HP, Mike Volpi, Gurdeep Singh Pall, and Sebastiano Tevarotto, respectively.

The Summit will also feature various special sessions looking at next generation voice over IP, new wireless applications, next generation networks, outsourcing and professional services, consumer and business services and community networks.

The regulatory blockbuster session on Tuesday June 13, will explain more about the battles between cable companies and telephone companies, especially in the wake of this spring’s upcoming local forbearance decision and report from the Telecom Policy Review.

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