Watch This: Light Reading TV Gets Ready for Mobile World Congress

By Light Reading, PRNE
Thursday, February 11, 2010

LRTV interviews give viewers a concise update on the hottest tech trends under discussion at the world's largest mobile event

NEW YORK, February 12 - TechWeb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the top
research-led media company serving the global communications marketplace,
today reminds its readers that it has a series of video clips to help them
prepare for Mobile World Congress (www.lightreading.com/mobile-world-congress),
which takes place in Barcelona on Feb. 15 to 18.

Surviving Barcelona: The GSMA's Michael O'Hara gives us an update on the
big themes at Mobile World Congress, and dispenses some personal safety
advice for travelers:

www.lightreading.com/video.asp?doc_id=187289

Mobile World Congress Overview: Heavy Reading's analysts give you the top
topics you'll be hearing about at the show and what questions they'll be
asking of vendors and operators:

www.lightreading.com/video.asp?doc_id=187483

If you want a deeper look at the big themes in mobile broadband this
year, we've tracked the following four topics and have analysts offering the
latest insights on themes such as…

Backhaul Bottlenecks: Heavy Reading analyst Patrick Donegan gives us an
update on the backhaul bottlenecks, and what vendors are doing to help
carrier networks thrive under fire:

www.lightreading.com/video.asp?doc_id=187325

The State of LTE: Heavy Reading analyst Gabriel Brown talks about Long
Term Evolution's performance and what we can really expect when these new
technologies are first deployed:

www.lightreading.com/video.asp?doc_id=187609

Mobile Growth in Africa: Pyramid Research Analyst Badii Kechiche
discusses the market saturation happening in Africa's largest cities and
contrasts that with what's going on in rural areas:

www.lightreading.com/video.asp?doc_id=187655

Traffic Management: Heavy Reading Chief Analyst Graham Finnie discusses
how mobile broadband growth is demanding new and innovative ways to manage
mobile traffic growth and implement new network policies:

www.lightreading.com/video.asp?doc_id=187741

All of Light Reading's Mobile World Congress coverage can be reached at
www.lightreading.com, or by visiting its special show site:
www.lightreading.com/mobile-world-congress.

    Contact:
    Amy Averbook
    Light Reading
    +1-212-600-3373
    averbook@lightreading.com

About Light Reading

Founded in 2000, Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) is the
leading online media, research, and focused event company serving the US$3
trillion
worldwide communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate
source for technological and financial analysis of the communications
industry, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, and
reputation. Light Reading's research arms, Heavy Reading and Pyramid
Research, provide the most comprehensive communications research, market
data, and technology analysis in close to 100 markets around the world. Light
Reading produces nearly 20 targeted communications events including TelcoTV,
and TelcoTV Asia, Ethernet Expo New York and Ethernet Europe, and The Tower
Summit @ CTIA, as well as focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile,
and wireline executives in the US, Europe, India, and China. Light Reading
was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005 and operates as a unit
of TechWeb.

About TechWeb

TechWeb (techweb.com/aboutus), the global leader in business
technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of
technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most
respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today,
more than 13.3 million* business technology professionals actively engage in
our communities created around our global face-to-face events, Interop, Web
2.0, Black Hat, and VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network,
Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and
The Financial Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning
InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, and Wall Street &
Technology magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services including
next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, research, and
analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United Business Media, a global
provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a
market capitalization of more than US$2.5 billion. *13.3 million business
decision-makers: based on number of monthly connections

About United Business Media Limited

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information
distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation
of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve
professional commercial communities — from doctors to game developers, from
journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists — with
integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500
staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that
serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them
to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For
more information, go to www.unitedbusinessmedia.com

Amy Averbook, Light Reading, +1-212-600-3373, averbook at lightreading.com

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