National Strategies for Ultrabroadband Infrastructure Deployment: Experiences and Challenges

I came about this today and I thought you might want to know. WIK Consulting is organizing a 1.5 day event (26-27 April in Berlin) to discuss some of the most debatable topics of the FTTH world:

• What are the key objectives, elements and instruments of the different national broadband strategies?
• What is the actual role of the state across the different national broadband strategies?
• What are the key elements of public and PPP-operator models?
• What role can “universal service obligations” play to reach national broadband coverage
  objectives?
• Which options are there to secure “openness” of high bit rate broadband infrastructures? What role does “separation” play in this context?
• What do we really know about costs and benefits of a (near) ubiquitous national high bit rate broadband infrastructure?

These are some serious issues and if you are interested go and check more on their web site.