At the Forum Europe conference in Doha, Tim Miller presented a session on how regulators in Middle East and North Africa can ensure a smooth transition to digital television – and release spectrum for use by mobile networks. His presentation focussed on the steps that regulators and industry bodies must go through when moving television[…]
At the TMT World Congress, organised by TMT Finance, Tim Miller led a discussion among operators, lawyers, and regulatory experts on the ways in which regulation is currently impacting on the operations and investments of mobile operators. The panel comprised representatives from four major operators, and they discussed how lessons learnt from European regulation have[…]
Tim Miller presented the results of Plum’s study into the economic and social benefits that can be realised from mobile broadband in Egypt to a roundtable of industry and government leaders, including the Minister of Communications and Information Technology and the Executive President of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, alongside the CEOs of all mobile[…]
Plum carried out a study into the social, cultural and economic benefits that would be expected if the government of Egypt released sufficient spectrum to mobile operators in order to overcome short-term and medium-term capacity constraints. The study built a model of the market with and without the spectrum, and looked at the impact on[…]
Plum produced a comprehensive toolkit for the GSMA covering the allocation of spectrum, awarding of licences, and formation of regulation to enable mobile broadband rollout – particularly in developing countries. The toolkit covered topics as diverse as deciding on which spectrum to allocate to mobile networks, to monitoring its use and working out the best[…]