June 29 - July 1, 2008  

Location: Dubai
Organizer: IIR

The event is dedicated to Number Portability Implementation in the Middle East:
• Discuss best practice for Number Portability development and benchmark your strategy against other perators and regulators
• Scrutinise the different solutions that have been used in the Middle East  and beyond and benefit from successes and the lessons learnt
• Hear how to develop effective and efficient cost allocation and recovery agreements to support your NP implementation
• Analyse the advantages and disadvantages of using centralised or distributed databases
• Hear how Pakistan implemented and managed NP, including the architectural basics, the operator and subscriber guidelines and the code of conduct between operators