NEW YORK, February 10 /PRNewswire/ -- TechWeb's Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com), the leading research-led media company serving the global communications marketplace, today announced the publication of its SPIT Manifesto, a special feature outlining a new area of coverage and concentration for its editorial staff worldwide. The Manifesto, written by International Managing Editor Ray Le Maistre, is online, right here:

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=187395

SPIT, or Service Provider Information Technology, is Light Reading's new term describing the evolving set of non-traditional telecom (and data networking) technologies that allow for a greater degree of flexibility in the creation, management, delivery, and monetization of new-generation communications services. Beginning March 1, Light Reading will even have a special week of coverage, SPIT Week, sponsored by Nokia Siemens Networks and dedicated to various SPIT topics, with a new video, special feature, and news analysis debuting on lightreading.com each day of that work week.

While we are as focused as ever on the traditional telecom infrastructure, the SPIT coverage is our unique way of saying that we realize that the information technology systems underpinning a service provider's business strategy have never been more critical, says Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief of Light Reading. We think our readers will appreciate our take on this fascinating area and how it will change the way we communicate in the near future.

SPIT Week will be followed by a series of SPIT related Webinars and a SPIT-related virtual event, Three OSS Imperatives: Customer, Cost Cloud, scheduled for April 20. For information on sponsorship and speaking opportunities contact sales@lightreading.com.

Contact: Amy Averbook Light Reading +1-212-600-3373 averbook@lightreading.com

About Light Reading

Founded in 2000, Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com) is the leading online media, research, and focused event company serving the US$3 trillion worldwide communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate source for technological 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, and TelcoTV Asia, Ethernet Expo New York and Ethernet Europe, and The Tower Summit @ CTIA, as well as focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile, and wireline executives in the US, Europe, India, and China. 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 US$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 monetisation 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 organised 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.

SOURCE: Light Reading

CONTACT: Amy Averbook of Light Reading, +1-212-600-3373,averbook@lightreading.com