The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), owner and producer of GLOBALCOMM announced the GLOBALCOMM Summit Series, featuring how global communications is driving global commerce in some of the world's hottest regions and market segments. GLOBALCOMM, the next-generation communications marketplace and summit, will be held June 4-8, 2006, at Chicago's McCormick Place. For TIA, GLOBALCOMM replaces SUPERCOMM ® as TIA's annual event for the industry.

"The international communications market continues to expand at double-digit rates," states TIA President Matthew J. Flanigan. "According to TIA's 2006 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast, international telecom revenue will reach $2.7 trillion in 2009, with a compound average growth rate of 10.4 percent over the next four years. The Americas; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and Asia-Pacific are each experiencing healthy growth, and the GLOBALCOMM Summit Series will provide a snapshot of the success stories, trends and lessons learned from each of these dynamic regions."

Highlights include:

• GLOBALCOMM Summit: Americas -- Scheduled for Monday, June 5, the Americas Summit will feature case studies, business opportunities, hot trends and regulatory issues surrounding North, Central and South America. Highlights include prepaid IP services in South America, satellite communications and rural telephony, and the rise of multimedia content.
  
• GLOBALCOMM Summit: EMEA -- Held Tuesday, June 6, the EMEA Summit takes attendees on a "business opportunities and lessons learned" tour of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and features speakers from leading companies doing business and making headlines in these regions. Presentations include the latest in GSM networks over satellite, emerging wireless opportunities and ICT partnerships in Africa, global transformations of IT processes, and investment opportunities in EMEA.
  
• GLOBALCOMM Summit: Asia-Pacific -- Highlighting one of the most explosive business regions for global communications and commerce, the Asia-Pacific Summit, scheduled for Wednesday, June 7, brings the very latest technology opportunities, case studies and emerging companies to GLOBALCOMM attendees. Topics include FTTH in China, triple play and IPTV in Hong Kong and Japan, and communications business opportunities throughout Asia and India.

The GLOBALCOMM Summit Series complements the world-class speaker program planned for GLOBALCOMM 2006. GLOBALCOMM recently announced a lineup of top executives from worldwide service providers to address 20,000 delegates at the 2006 debut event. Those speakers include Alberto Duran, founder and CEO, Mundivox Communications; Sanjiv Ahuja, CEO, Orange; John T. Stankey, CTO, SBC; and Stefano Pileri, CTO, Telecom Italia. GLOBALCOMM will provide attendees a comprehensive view of the global ICT marketplace.

GLOBALCOMM 2006 will also feature 450 exhibiting companies, free keynote addresses and panels, paid conferences by the International Engineering Consortium and other organizations, and co-location with OSP EXPO, the Outside Plant Exposition and Conference. Programming highlights include the Innovations Summit, showcasing presentations by new and emerging technology companies. Additionally, TIA, organizer of the Supplier Diversity summits formerly held at SUPERCOMM, will produce a new TIA Supplier Diversity Summit at GLOBALCOMM. The final SUPERCOMM was held in June 2005. More than 85 percent of the GLOBALCOMM 200,000 net-square-foot exhibition showcasing global ICT solutions has been sold.