Broadband deployment

Summary form only given, as follows. A record of the panel discussion was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings. Question: Should Pakistan leapfrog the developed world in broadband? The panel will open with the progress made by each panelist?s company progress towards deployment of broadband technologies, such as 4G cellular, backbone, etc. The discussion will close with each panelist?s vision of where the technology is headed. The title question will be answered while addressing the benefits of various technologies (WiMax, Edge Evolution, LTE, HSPA, MPLS, GELS, Triple Play) for Pakistan from a cost, user experience, and coverage perspective.