Tony Lavender is stepping back from his role as Managing Partner of Plum Consulting. After 44 years working in the telecommunications industry here in the UK and globally, the last 12 years as a partner at Plum Consulting, Tony is looking forward to more personal time with his family and on other projects. He will[…]
A collaborative project led by Plum Consulting, with Sussex University and mmWave experts Filtronic will study the application of extremely high frequency ‘D-band’ radio spectrum for links within future satellite systems providing 6th-generation (‘6G’) communications. These frequencies offer a very wide bandwidth, which could support very high bitrate communications. Exploiting such high frequencies, however, presents[…]
On Friday 7 July, Plum Director Chris Taylor presented a webinar on barriers to digital connectivity and engagement. The event included some global examples and analysis, and a case study focused on identifying and addressing these barriers from Plum’s recent study for the Cheshire and Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership. The presentation slides from the webinar[…]
Cloud technology and services are important to businesses and consumers in multiple sectors of the economy worldwide. In telecommunications, modern networks are increasingly deploying cloud-based solutions in multiple settings across networks, operational functions, and customer facing business support, including cloud native 5G networks. “Cloudification” affects consumers and competition, introducing new dynamics to telecommunications value chains.[…]
For our second webinar “Plum Presents”, Richard Rudd, Director at Plum, has provided a brief, non-technical, overview on how to measure and monitor radio spectrum. A robust understanding of spectrum use, and changes over time is crucially important for spectrum regulators and for the developers of new services. Existing users also require an understanding of[…]
On 27th October, Aude Schoentgen moderated a panel on Digital Switch Over in Africa at the MWC Africa 2022, held in Kigali, Rwanda. Panellists from Orange, Ericsson, Spectrum Agency of Côte d’Ivoire, and the broadcaster Telediffusion Sénégal, discussed spectrum issues, end-user issues, and financing schemes for a successful transition to digital TV.
Plum is excited to announce that Chris Taylor has joined our team, based in our London office but serving our clients worldwide. Chris is a specialist in communications and media regulation who has held senior positions and led major programs of work in both the public and the private sectors. He has extensive international experience[…]
On the 18th of October, The FTTH Council Europe is hosting a workshop during Network X in Amsterdam titled “FTTH: which measures to boost the take-up rate”. Benoît Felten will be presenting early results of an ongoing Plum study which aims to identify the drivers of FTTH/B adoption and analyse the policies designed to drive[…]
Plum has today published on its website two major studies commissioned by Google. The two studies explore different aspects of the modern digital ecosystem. The first study explores in detail how the Internet actually works to deliver content to end users. This includes analysis of how data moves around the Internet, how the Internet is[…]
Karim Bensassi-Nour’s paper “Across the Metaverse: Policy Priorities” has been selected as one of the Top 10 papers of the International Institute of Communications’ Future Leaders Competition 2022. This paper identifies and describes the features of the Metaverse. It discusses key policy issues that may arise across both the virtual and the digital worlds, and[…]