Client
Project
Acting as Programme Director for the Suffolk Better Broadband Programme, part of the UK Government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) Programme.
Suffolk has signed two contracts with BT to extend Better Broadband coverage to over 95% of premises in the county by 2019.
Advising investment management firms on a range of topics, including: broadband/fibre infrastructure investments, cable TV sector, Pay TV, mobile sector and radio spectrum, telecoms equipment suppliers, technology innovation, etc.
Advising a major international telecommunications equipment supplier on aspects of their corporate/technology strategy.
Attending the GSM Association’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 25th – 28th February 2013 to keep up-to-date with developments, and to network with potential clients and partners.
Advising a metropolitan fibre network provider on developments in the market, and their stakeholder engagement strategy.
Attending the GSM Association’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 27th February – 1st March 2012 to keep up-to-date with developments and to network with potential clients and partners.
Advising an investment management firm on the regulatory compliance of a telecommunications service provider.
Advising a US investment firm on the regulation of broadcast managed services and transmission services, and the implications of forthcoming spectrum auctions for those business models.
Advising an investment management firm on the UK cable TV sector.
Performing technology due diligence for a private equity firm on two wireless technology companies.
Advising a number of investment management firms on the UK Broadband market, and the prospects for the key market players.
Performing technology due diligence for a venture capital firm on a wireless start-up.
Hosting an Investor Roundtable Event in London on Disruptive Trends in Telecommunications, 19th May 2011.
Reporting for a US investment analyst firm on a telecoms equipment vendor event in Europe.
Advising a mobile network operator on the development of a mobile data strategy.
Advising a number of investment management firms on investment trends in the European fixed and mobile telecoms sectors, and the implications of Net Neutrality.
Advising an international telecommunications provider on the award of radio spectrum via auctions.
Advising a number of US investment banks on the UK fixed line access market.
Attending the GSM Association’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 14 – 17 February 2011, to keep up-to-date with developments in the mobile sector, and to network with potential clients and partners.
Performing regulatory due diligence for a private equity firm on a potential acquisition of a business telecommunications service provider.
Advising a European investment management company on the UK Broadband market.
Advising an investment management company on Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) and international calling card service providers.
Attending the GSM Association’s Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong, 17 – 18 November 2010, to keep up-to-date with developments in the mobile sector, particularly in Asia, and to network with potential clients and partners.
Advising Huawei on security concerns, and potential mitigating actions, in relation to telecoms equipment.
Producing a briefing paper on Broadband in Suffolk for Suffolk’s MPs, local authorities, agencies and fora, on the current, and likely future, availability and take-up of Superfast Broadband in Suffolk, and what more needs to be done to extend coverage beyond the reach of purely commercially-funded deployments.
Advising a number of investment firms on how News Corp’s bid for the remaining stake in BSkyB, which it doesn’t already own, would be considered within the EU/UK competition authorities merger, and UK public interest, regimes.
Advising a European investment management firm on the European broadband infrastructure market, and the implications for firms that manufacture and/or install ducting for optical fibre cables.
Attending the GSM Association’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 15 – 18 February 2010, to keep up-to-date with developments in the mobile sector, and to network with potential clients and partners.
Advising a US investment management firm on the wholesaling of premium TV content, and the likely implications for one of the key stakeholders in the UK media sector.
Advising a US investment management firm on a potential acquisition of a UK operator, on the considerations that would apply under the EU and UK competition authorities’ merger regimes.
Advising a hedge fund on the wholesaling of premium TV content and the likely implications for stakeholders in the UK media sector.
Advising a US venture capital fund considering an investment in a femtocell device manufacturer and service provider, on the technical, radio spectrum and regulatory issues involved.
Providing consulting support to Telstra in responding to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), reviewing the declaration of the Domestic Transmission Capacity Service (DTCS) on the regulation of leased lines in the EU/UK and the implications for regulation in Australia.
Advising a major global investment bank on the competition considerations in relation to the proposed joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4 and Talk Talk (code-named Project Canvas) to develop an open standard for set-top boxes to enable broadcast- and broadband-delivered, linear and on-demand TV programming to the television.
Advising a leading global provider of enterprise Information Communications Technology (ICT) services and solutions on the regulatory obligations of becoming an electronic communications services (ECS) provider of unified communications services (including Voice over IP) to the small-to-medium enterprise (SME) sector.
Advising a major overseas telecoms operator on the principles of functional separation and equivalence of inputs, developed as part of Ofcom’s strategic review of telecommunications (which led to the functional separation of BT Openreach), including lessons learned from their implementation.