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Recent article from North America 2007

	Article no.:	9
	Topic:	Satellites - looking to the future
	Author:	Edward D. Horowitz
	Title:	President & CEO
	Organisation:	SES Americom
	PDF size:	252 KB

About author:
Edward D. Horowitz is President and CEO of SES Americom, a satellite operator. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of its parent company, SES. Prior to SES, Mr Horowitz founded EdsLink LLC, a venture fund providing strategic financial, operations and technology consulting services to financial services and the cable industry. Mr Horowitz was Executive Vice President for Advanced Development of Citigroup and Founder, Chairman and CEO of e-Citi. In addition he served as a member of the Management and Investment Committees of Citigroup. Formerly, Mr Horowitz was Senior Vice President, Viacom Inc, and a member of the Viacom Executive Committee. Prior to Viacom, Mr Horowitz held senior management positions at Home Box Office, HBO, a subsidiary of Time Warner and was a founder of Suburban Cable. Mr Horowitz also serves on advisory boards and as a Director of a number of companies, including EaglePicher, The Tennis Channel, One Laptop per Child, OLPC, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, the New York Hall of Science and the March of Dimes. Mr Horowitz holds a BS in Physics from the City College of New York and an MBA from Columbia University.

Article abstract:
Today, the satellite industry is doing well, but it will have to adapt itself to new customer expectations. Programming will become completely user dictated, and users will pay only for the channels and content they actually watch. Widespread connectivity is fostering the growth of a global economy. To become truly global, however, the online economy needs to connect a far greater percentage of the worldís people. When it does, it will bring unprecedented development to the worldís developing regions.

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Free article from Latin America II 1999

	Article no.:	6
	Author:	Houlin Zhao
	Title:	Director
	Organisation:	Telecommunication Standardisation Bureau of the ITU, Switzerland
	Topic:	Standardisation Strategies of ITU-T for a New Millennium
	PDF size:	32 KB

About author
Standardisation plays a key role in making telecommunications accessible to all. The ITU-T faces challenges from the market forces which require specifications and standards to be developed quickly in order to respond to growing demands for the accelerated development of new services and products. Here, Mr. Zhao talks about the efforts to make the ITU-T more dynamic and responsive to strengthen and maintain its leading position in global telecommunications standardisation of the 21st century.

Article abstract
Standardisation plays a key role in making telecommunications accessible to all. The ITU-T faces challenges from the market forces which require specifications and standards to be developed quickly in order to respond to growing demands for the accelerated development of new services and products. Here, Mr. Zhao talks about the efforts to make the ITU-T more dynamic and responsive to strengthen and maintain its leading position in global telecommunications standardisation of the 21st century.