UK SPF Plenary round-up: January 2022
On 27 January 2022, the UK Spectrum Policy Forum held its first Plenary session of 2022. We were delighted to launch our latest report—The Future of Spectrum Sharing in the UK—with a presenation from Tony Lavender, Plum Consulting and Chair of UK SPF Cluster 3.
The keynote presentation was delivered by the new Chair of the Radio Spectrum Policy Group, Eric Fournier. The RSPG is the high-level advisory group that assists the European Commission in the development of radio spectrum policy.
Other presenters included Christian Regnier, who is founder at EUWENA (European Users Wireless Enterprise Network Association). EUWENA was founded in 2021, and aims to bring together European organisations to examine the challenges in the private networks for enterprise space.
Philippe Poggianti, Qualcomm, presented an overview of a new report with Nokia Bell Labs, "The business imperatives of 5G mmWave", which focuses on the critical question of 5G mmWave business attractiveness and its unique value propositions, explaining where to deploy it and the dramatic return on these investments now possible.
Thank you to our speakers and delegates for attending the January UK SPF Plenary session.
Sophie Greaves
Sophie Greaves
Sophie Greaves is Head of Programme for Communications Infrastructure and Services at techUK, and oversees the UK Spectrum Policy Forum.
Sophie was promoted to Head having been Programme Manager for Communications Infrastructure and Services, leading techUK's telecoms activities, engagement and policy development. Previously, Sophie was Programme Assistant across a variety of areas including the Broadband Stakeholder Group, Central Government, Financial Services and Communications Infrastructure programmes.
Prior to joining techUK, Sophie completed a masters in Film Studies at University College London; her dissertation examined US telecoms policy relating to net neutrality and content distribution.
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Jaynesh Patel
Jaynesh Patel
Jaynesh Patel is Head of Telecoms and Spectrum Policy, leading the Communications Infrastructure and Services Programme at techUK and overseeing the UK Spectrum Policy Forum.
Jaynesh has extensive experience in the sector, having worked for CityFibre (a full fibre broadband company) and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) on digital infrastructure policy. Most recently Jaynesh led on policy and public affairs in the UK and Ireland for ChargePoint (an EV charging network).
Prior to this Jaynesh worked in the Cabinet Office for more than five years, including over two years at the Government Digital Service (GDS) supporting the digital transformation of UK Government.
Jaynesh has a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE).
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- [email protected]
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- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneshpatel/
Tales Gaspar
Tales Gaspar
Tales has a background in law and economics, with previous experience in the regulation of new technologies and infrastructure.
In the UK and Europe, he offered consultancy on intellectual property rights of cellular and IoT technologies and on the regulatory procedures at the ITU as a Global Fellow at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI).
Tales has an LL.M in Law and Business by the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and an MSc in Regulation at the London School of Economics, with a specialization in Government and Law.
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- +44 (0) 0207 331 2000
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- www.techUK.org
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- www.linkedin.com/in/talesngaspar
Matthew Wild
Matthew Wild
Matthew joined techUK in August 2023 as a Programme Assistant.
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- 020 7331 2000