California Telephone Association Holds First Annual Focused Technical Symposium.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2004

Top decision makers and telecommunications technical experts will be gathering at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego on Thursday and Friday to begin the process of changing California's telephone landscape. Over 30 highly qualified and specialized speakers will talk about the latest technologies geared toward delivering video, internet and voice over a single line to the home or business.

Some call it the Triple Play. Other's see it as the beginning of an entire new era in telecommunications with services beyond imagination. Whatever it is, this gathering of industry professionals marks the beginning of change to the basic telecommunications infrastructure serving customers in the western US. Companies are posed to make the investments. This week's forum will help guide their choices.

This gathering is the first annual Focused Technical Symposium, sponsored by the California Telephone Association. It represents a giant leap forward for telephone company professionals in their efforts to move an industry that just provided plain old telephone service (POTS) for the past 100 years, to a new industry using pretty amazing new stuff (PANS) to bring advanced services to all corners of the wireline system.