Session The Telephone is a Platform. Discuss Om Malik, Founder and Executive Editor, GigaOM Jeffrey A. Citron, Chairman & CEO, Vonage Hossein Eslambolchi, President of AT&T's Global Networking Technology Services, AT&T's CTO & CIO, AT&T Charlie E. Hoffman, CEO, Covad Mike McCue, President, CEO & Co-Founder, Tellme Date: Thursday, October 07 Time: 9:30am0 Location: Nikko Ballroom TrackBack Moderated by Om Malik, Business 2.0 As anyone who has traveled outside the US will attest, what used to be the telephone has become a primary data platform for much of the world. But that’s just the start of a new world order for our venerable communications device. Major players like Cisco and AT&T are pushing VOIP, as upstarts like Vonage declare open season on crumbling telephony models. Our panel of experts from across this landscape will make sense of the historic – and increasingly robust – telephony platform.

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