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The article provides information on the activities and achievements of the 2007 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) held from March 11 to 15, 2007 in Hong Kong, China. The theme of the conference was Wireless Gateway, given Hong Kong's special position within the fast growing vibrant economies and excitement of China and Asia. Hong Kong is well known for its advances in information and communications technology. Furthermore, WCNC 2007 was a resounding success. It broke every record there was to be broken. It had an overwhelming number of paper submissions, truly exceeding all expectations.

The article presents a technical report on the 12th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications, and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2004), which was held during October 10-13, 2004 on the cruise ship Marko Polo on the attractive route Split-Dubrovnik-Split-Venice-Split. The conference program featured a symposium dedicated to the most timely topics in the area of mobile and wireless communications. Two special sessions and 17 general conference sessions, a poster session, and two professional workshops were held too. Researchers and experts from industry, research institutes, and universities from more than 40 countries all around the world submitted in total 203 papers for presentation at Soft- COM 2004. Submitted papers were reviewed by more than 100 scientists from universities, institutes, and companies all over the world. All accepted papers were carefully selected based on their contribution, relevance, conceptual clarity, and overall quality. Nearly 69 percent of submitted papers were recommended for presentation within the technical program.

The article presents information related to various meetings related to wireless communications. NGI 2005, the 1st Conference on Next Generation Internet Networks Traffic Engineering will be held on April 18-20, 2005 in Rome, Italy. WOCC 2005, 14th Annual Wireless and Optical Communications Conference will be held on April 22-23, 2005 in Newark, New Jersey. CQR 2005, IEEE Technical committee on Communications Quality and Reliability will be held on April 26-29, 2005 in Saint Pete Beach, Florida. WTS 2005, Wireless Telecommunications Symposium will be held on April 28-30, 2005 in Pomona, California. HPSR 2005, Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing meeting will be held on May 12-14, 2005 in Hong Kong, China. ICC 2005, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications will be held in May 16-20, 2005.

Information on the Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Council Asia-Pacific First Annual Conference held on July 11 to 14, 2006 at Makuhari, Japan is presented. The conference assessed the market potential of FTTH in the Asia-Pacific region. It featured exhibitions on broadband access services, live entertainment over FTTH, and remote education service.