Broadband World Forum 2013 is the world’s largest Broadband event attracting thousands of decision-makers from across the globe. Now celebrating its 13th anniversary year, the event is the only place to meet the entire broadband industry in one place at one time.

The 2013 conference agenda will deliver an impressive 5 tracks over 3 days. The packed 3 day programme will be delivered by 250+ service provider speakers and panelists. With 200+ exhibitors the world class exhibition will showcase ground breaking broadband technologies, applications, solutions and services.

Furthermore the show floor consists for a FREE exhibition masterclass theatre, private meeting rooms, networking zone and a dedicated media zone allowing you to make the most of networking opportunities available to you.The Broadband InfoVision Awards will take place on the evening of the 23 October 2013 – visit the website for more information.

THE OFFICIAL BROADBAND WORLD FORUM BLOG

January 23, 2013.  By Benny

BAD NEWS DAY FOR BROADBAND

It was bad news for broadband industry earlier this week at the EU voted to reduce its budget plans from an infrastructure investment of €50bn down to just €24b, with UK Prime Minister David Cameron one of the biggest pushers for the cut.

This means that the broadband fund that Digital Commissioner Neelie Kroes was pushing for at last year’s Broadband World Forum was essentially decimated, with only have €1bn to play with instead of €9bn.

Ms Kroes said: “It is clear that there can be no support for broadband with a pot of only €1bn, so this funding will be exclusively for digital services. Our 2020 fast broadband targets, agreed by everybody, may be harder to reach but I am not giving up on them. I will keep fighting, and I will support innovations that help roll-out fast broadband to underserved areas.” >Read More