The Channel Partners Conference & Expo will be featured along with the Agent Alliance, an early supporter of the event, on the weekly Web Radio show, Telecom LIVE!, at 10 a.m. ET Thursday, March 23. To tune in, go to www.mytechnologylawyer.com/radio, and click on Listen Live.

Telecom LIVE! is a new six-part Web radio series based on the popularity of recent shows highlighting opportunities showcased in industry events, including the Channel Partners Conference & Expo.

This weeks segment will feature a discussion of the new competitive landscape for network services agents and the future of the two-tier distribution model.

Radio host Scott Draughon will talk with Khali Henderson, editor of PHONE+, the sponsors of the Channel Partners Conference & Expo; Ernie Kelly, executive director of the Agent Alliance; and alliance member and past president Mark Solomon, president of Global Systems Telecom.

The Agent Alliance was established in 1997 and includes a dozen master agencies and indirect sales organizations that have come together as a buying and networking consortium. Alliance members were integral to the early success of the Channel Partners Conference & Expo, which was formed in the same year and is the communications industrys only event devoted exclusively to solutions providers agents, VARs, systems integrators, interconnects, wireless dealers and consultants.

Henderson, Kelly and Solomon will discuss new challenges for channel partners and how the Agent Alliance and the Channel Partners Conference & Expo together and separately are helping them meeting those challenges.

Want to join the conversation? Have a question? You can call the live show toll-free +1 866 685 7469 or send an e-mail inquiry to [email protected].

If you cant make it (or are reading this after March 23), you can play the recorded audio file by clicking here. http://www.mytechnologylawyer.com/cgi-bin/FormManager/WebForms.pl?Session=MTL.11406630247&Action=ShowFile&File=/media/radio_3.html