Short-Bio: Tsunehiko Chiba has four years experience developing the commercial IS-95B and CDMA2000 systems at KDDI Corporation. He has been conducting research in the field of CDMA2000 and SAE networks, IMS, Femtocell and protocol testing since he moved to KDDI R&D Laboratories. He is also involved in several standardization activities including 3GPPs and ITU-T. He received the Young Engineer Award in 2008 from IEICE.

Abstract: This presentation will discuss how open competition creates a greater sense of urgency to differentiate from competitors. Real time charging provides operators a platform to personalize and customize user experience: what services they receive, how they pay for it, what limits or restrictions they put on it, how they experience it. In hypercompetitive markets, service differentiation is critical to attract and retaining customers.

Short-Bio: P.K. Nag is Vice President, Business Development at Telcordia, India. He is responsible for Telcordia’s Service Delivery Solutions portfolio which is a global leader in real time Pre-Paid solutions for voice, data and a Converged Application Server delivering both TDM and IP services. He has 30 years of experience at various departments within the Ministry of Communications like, Telecom Engineering Centre, CDOT, in the area of digital microwave, intelligent network & convergent billing systems. He was associated with the implementation & operation of GSM network operators like BSNL & MTNL in India from 2000 to 2007. Mr. Nag has also held executive positions with Saudi Telecom from 1983 to 1993 for the O&M of SAIK M/W Network, Riyadh. Shri P.K. Nag is a Fellow & Chartered Engineer from IETE India. He holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering .

Short-Bio: Sachin Agarwal is a senior research scientist at Deutsche Telekom A.G.'s research laboratory (T-Labs) in Berlin, Germany. This laboratory is a joint collaboration between Deutsche Telekom (the largest integrated telecom service provider of Europe) and the Technical University of Berlin. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Boston University's Networking and Information Systems Laboratory in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has interned at Microsoft Research in Redmond, USA, in the Communications and Collaboration Systems group and worked for a technology start-up in Boston, USA, in the past. He was a visiting scholar in Stanford University's Electrical Engineering department in summer 2008. Sachin has authored dozens of peer-reviewed international publications in the fields of Information Theory and Coding, Overlay Networks, Peer-to-peer paradigms, Trust management, Sensor Networks, and Game Theory. He holds multiple patents in the fields of video streaming, coding theory, and trust management systems. He is deeply involved in new multimedia/video technologies, standards, and efficient communication protocols for the mobile computing context.