Andrew G. Email & Phone Number

UK

Extensive experience with regulation, compliance, contractual, costs and pricing, dispute management, risk and public policy management.Areas of telecommunications policy and commercial expertise and experience include: commercial contracts; project management; interconnection; access; commercial negotiation; dispute management; broadband policy.

UK

Cenerva is a specialist training-driven ICT regulatory policy consultancy, helping clients worldwide to address the challenges of today’s digital economy.

Multi-country study of approaches to regulated FTTx in order to provide advice about how to regulate FTTx in a country in the Middle East including: pricing approaches; methods of regulating active and passive infrastructure, SMP / dominant operators and government subsidised infrastructure; access to utility infrastructures for fibre / fiber deployment.

Hull, England, United Kingdom

Broadband Networks Rollout, Broadband Speeds, Wholesale Regulation, Nuisance Calls, Retail Business Regulation

Work areas included:lobbying; advocacy; policy; project management; interconnection; termination rates; universal service; number portability; numbering; spectrum pricing and efficiency of use; pricing controls; competition law and dealing with anti-competitive behaviour; Internet Neutrality; VOIP; Internet Exchanges; licence bids; licence compliance.

Work areas included:launching a new network and building it to become a major mobile competitor; project management; spectrum auctions; interconnection; termination rates; numbering; licence compliance; contract drafting; litigation; team recruitment, training and management and budgeting.

• Telecommunications Ombudsman Project: I established the Telecommunications Ombudsman in conjunction with representatives from other stakeholders.
• Number Portability: I represented the company’s views on number portability regulation and management including the development of the central number portability system. I was responsible for dealing with porting.
• Geographic Location Discovery for Emergency Calls Project: I was the regulatory representative for the UK Government’s project to enable geographic location discovery of emergency calls. This made the UK a leader in.
• Statistical Research: I managed surveys of consumer opinions on mobile retail and termination rates in order to support my company’s public positions on termination rates.
• Wholesale Provision: I advised colleagues on wholesale service provision requirements and compliant product development bearing in mind actual and possible wholesale regulation.
• Operational Compliance: I advised colleagues on licence compliance including wholesale service provision requirements and compliant product development bearing in mind actual and possible wholesale regulation.

Note that I worked for the forerunner of Ofcom - Oftel