Pyramid Research to Lead NGT20 Session at NGT Latin America Summit

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the
telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network, has been
chosen to participate in the Next Generation Telecom Summit for Latin America,
to be held on November 10-12 in Panama (www.ngtsummitla.com).

Cristiano Laux, Manager of the Global Telecom Consulting Practice for Pyramid
Research will lead discussions around the direction of technology investments
and business strategy in Latin America's telecoms market, including the NGT20
Session on November 10 and a workshop entitled "From 3G to LTE: Latin
America's Path to Mobile Broadband."

"The Pyramid Research group has a fantastic reputation in emerging markets
worldwide and especially among operators in Latin America which is why they
have chosen to support the NGT Latin America event this year in Panama,"
comments Paul Southwell, NGT LA Summit Director. "Cristiano Laux will be
attending his second NGT event and will lead discussions on what technology
strategies have worked in the region, where they have worked, and why."

Pyramid's custom research and consulting practice offers expert market
intelligence and strategic advice to help clients quantify market
opportunities, mitigate risk, and develop insightful growth strategies. As the
Manager of the Global Telecom Consulting Practice, Laux helps to provide
strategic advice across technology verticals and functional areas for more
than 120 markets worldwide. Some of Laux's latest projects include:

-- Mobile Broadband for the Masses: The Case for Bundled Netbooks
http://www.pyramidresearch.com/store/RPMOBILEBROADBAND0905.htm
-- Market sizing and segmentation of handset devices, smartphones, and
netbooks in Latin America
-- Multi-market prototype testing, research, and analysis for
introduction
of new mobile Apps platform solution for feature phones in emerging
markets
-- M&A valuation of a wholesale network service provider in Latin America
-- Strategy repositioning of late entrant mobile operator

-- Due diligence for a leading Latin American telecom operator applying
for
debt financing from the Inter-American Development Bank

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visit www.pyr.com or contact us at info@pyr.com.

About Pyramid Research
Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com) offers practical solutions to the complex
demands our clients face in the telecommunications, media and technology
industries. Our analysis is uniquely positioned at the intersection of
emerging markets, emerging technologies and emerging business models, powered
by the bottom-up methodology of our market forecasts for over 100 countries --
a distinction that has remained unmatched for more than 25 years. As the
telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network, Pyramid
Research works with Heavy Reading, providing the communications industry's
most comprehensive market data, trusted research and insightful technology
analysis.

About Light Reading
Founded in 2000, Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) is the leading online
media, research, and focused event company serving the $3 trillion worldwide
communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate source for technology
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, Ethernet Expo New York and Ethernet
Expo London, The Tower Summit @ CTIA, and Optical Expo, as well as focused
one-day events tailored for cable, mobile, and wireline executives. Light
Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005 and operates as a
unit of TechWeb.

About TechWeb
TechWeb (http://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 $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 monetization
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 organized 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 http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com.

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+1 617 871-1910
jbaker@pyr.com

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