This panel will take as its main focus the fact that the communications requirements of the oil & gas vertical are Internet-based and bandwidth hungry. The emphasis will be on assessing how the accelerated deployment of communications technologies, that are providing essential broadband access for end-users in vertical markets like oil & gas sector, is also satisfying parallel demands for cheaper access through reduced bandwidth pricing.  The objective of Panel 2 is to provide both oil & gas end-users and telecoms providers an opportunity to put forward their respective positions and to jointly identify exactly how greater bandwidth supply and cost-effectiveness can be realised in the form of improved bandwidth optimisation and oil & gas sector-specific customisation techniques.