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4G Executive Summit Chicago Doubles Expected Attendance

Attendees Gain Insight into the Opportunities and Challenges of 4G Evolution

Chicago IL, September 30th, 2008 - The 4G Executive Summit, an event providing unique insights into the market potential for 4G wireless broadband services debuted today in Chicago.  The one day summit leveraged the extensive research conducted by Yankee Group focused on broadband services based on 3GSM/LTE, Wi-Fi and WiMAX technologies.

"4G Executive Summit provided business and communications executives a forum where they gained insight into the current trends and projected capabilities of next generation mobile broadband systems, networks, advanced technologies, services and applications", explained Eliot Weinman, conference founder, co-chair, and president of Trendsmedia.  "The Summit provided attendees with a clear roadmap for success as they begin to build their business models for the future."

The 4G Executive Summit focused on assessments of key technologies and new business models that enable service providers to profitably deliver the intrinsic value of mobile Internet access to businesses and consumers.  Additional expert-led breakout sessions offered attendees opportunities to examine technology infrastructure, device and applications strategies as well as exploring regulatory and spectrum policy challenges.Some of the industry experts sharing their insights with attendees included:

• Dr. Peter Meissner, NGMN Alliance
• Dr. Mo Shakouri, Alvarion Chris Pearson, 3G Americas
• Charlie Martin, Huawei Technologies
• Herns Pierre-Jerome, Qualcomm
• Hank Kafka, AT&T
• Eric Dentler, Cisco Systems
• Mark Pecen, Research In Motion
• Fred Campbell, WCA

Summarizing the event's success Weinman offered that "with over 800 attendees the importance of 4G in the future of mobile broadband to major carriers, start-up content providers, solutions vendors, broadcasters and investors has been well demonstrated."

About Trendsmedia

Trendsmedia is the events and publishing division of Yankee Group Research, Inc. Our mission is to help our clients stay ahead of the major technology trends that are likely to impact their businesses significantly. Trendsmedia provides their clients with independently researched media products that target emerging technology markets in depth, including focused conferences, independently produced online media, and in-depth newsletters. For more, see www.trendsmedia.com.