General Telecom Forums

TM Forum is the world’s leading trade association that provides leadership & guidance, technical & business innovation, and education & training to improve the way telecoms, media and information services are created, delivered, assured and charged. TM Forum also facilitates marketing and networking activities for its members.

Telecommunications® is the global authority on the business of telecom. Through our monthly print magazine, Telecommunications, our website, www.telecommagazine.com, and a series of push e-mail products, interactive webinars and live events, Telecommunications plays a leading role in informing agenda-setting service providers around the globe on the technology and business issues that affects their businesses, their networks and their bottom lines. Telecommunications Magazine is owned by Horizon House, Inc., which also publishes Microwave Journal®. Artech House, a sister company, is an industry-leading producer of high-tech books.

Telecommunications is a fascinating, fast paced industry that influences every aspect of our daily life like normal voice phone calls, connectivity to the Internet, satellite communications, surfing the web, fax transmissions, video conferencing, high speed data communications, and cable tv.

Our strategic goal is global recognition of femto technologies as the de facto solution for mobile coverage in the home and to drive worldwide take-up of such technologies.

Wifi-Forum is an online community of Wifi enthusiasts around the world. Wifi-Forum is dedicated to the exchange of technical and non-technical idea related to Wifi, Bluetooth and other wireless technologies.

Fairfax Business Media (FBM) is the business information and publishing division of Fairfax Media, Australia’s oldest and biggest publisher of quality newspapers, magazines and digital media.

Information Gatekeepers Inc. (IGI), in cooperation with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, will organize the Emerging Telecom Market Forums; BRIC Opportunities on June 5-6, 2008 at the offices of Paul Hastings in Washington, D.C. The Forums will focus on the opportunities and challenges in four of the largest telecom markets in the world – Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC).

Westbay Engineers Limited has been providing telecommunications project management and network design services since 1989. As far as we know, we provided the world's first free online Erlang traffic calculators in 1996, and, to this day, they have remained the most popular part of our Web site

NetRing Community

The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.) was established in 1998 as a pilot organisation under the Austrian government´s Kplus Competence Centers Program. The founding partners were departments from Vienna University of Technology, several well-known telecommunications companies - both network operators and equipment manufacturers - some smaller enterprises, the Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf and the Association of the Electrotechnical and Electronics Industry. Its goal is to bring together academia and industry to carry out application-oriented research in one of the central scientific fields of tomorrow´s information society.