Latin America is, without a doubt, a potential market for any industry. In the telecommunications sector it is the area most desired by international entrepreneurs, who see it as a consumer that requires state-of-the-art technology to be able to communicate quickly, efficiently and economically with the rest of the world. Thanks to the socioeconomic growth of the region and the special dynamism of communications, the need to create meeting spaces for entrepreneurs is gaining strength every day.
The organization TDC Events presents for the month of February 2002 the eighth version of its annual event Andina Link, which will be held, as usual, in the historic city of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, and where its attendees can enjoy two days of conferences 18 and 19, and two days of exhibitions 20 and 21, which will give them the opportunity to evaluate the latest information on the pay TV market in the Central and South American region.
Annually, manufacturing companies, equipment suppliers, cable operators and programmers, among others, come together to learn more about cable television, convergent technologies, electronic commerce and high-speed networks, in addition to promoting the creation of business opportunities that will strengthen the telecommunications market in countries such as Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala.
In an area of 3,200 m2 of exhibition, divided into two pavilions of the Cartagena de Indias Convention Center, more than 130 companies representing the most important manufacturers and distributors of technology, services and programming in the world will meet.
Faced with the questioning that some attendees could make about the situation of insecurity that arises in Colombia for this type of events, José Miguel de Paz, president and CEO of Andina Link, told TV y Video that the meeting in Cartagena has all the security guarantees and that the representatives of various attending countries and the exhibiting companies should take advantage of it. this great opportunity to increase your business, establish relationships and share experiences with other companies. "The event added De Paz is the ideal setting for the launch of our portal that offers training services and useful information to cable operators throughout the region."
Andina Link offers its visitors quality seminars and expert speakers, in charge of presenting the conferences designed to put its audience at the forefront of commercial, technical and regulatory matters of the industry, allowing it to follow and understand the rapid changes that this market dynamic in the region is going through. These presentations are complemented by practical and personalized workshops, which will allow to see more clearly the new businesses in pay television and convergent technologies.
Among the conferences prepared are:
• How to invest your resources to gradually modernize your cable TV network. "Without a two-way network, all advanced data, voice and video transmission services are just a dream, not a reality."
• Forum on Pay Television in the Andean Region and Central America: Current Status and Perspectives.
• Strategies to start using the broadband network in the transmission of data and voice.
• From analog TV to digital TV.
• The responsibility of governments and the cable operator for better and faster socio-economic development.
• Training of the workforce for cable operations in Latin America.
The conferences will be moderated by Piero Falci, academic president of Andina Link, and in each of them there will be participants from companies, associations and government institutions involved in the region.
