Eric Tyson has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 25 years, initially with BT and more recently as a consultant with InterConnect Communications. He has carried out project work throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa working with telecommunications ministries, regulators, operating companies and development agencies. Eric has focused extensively on the development of interconnection and tariff regimes, cost-modelling and regulatory and operator performance matters but also has considerable experience in new services development, business planning and benchmarking. Eric leads the Interconnection Master Class and developed the course programme for the NGN Master Class.

Peter Walker worked with BT for 22 years, notably as Planning Director in BT International and Head of Planning for BT’s London Network before becoming Director (Technology) at Oftel in 1993 where he worked on the implementation of the EU regulatory frameworks of both 1998 and 2003 and personally contributed to the current UK Communications Act 2003. He set the frameworks for implementation of several regulatory change initiatives including Interconnect Standards, Calling Line ID, Number Portability, Carrier Preselection, Local Loop Unbundling and Wholesale Line Rental. He is now an independent consultant specialising in technology, regulation and related public policy issues.

Leo Borwick has worked in a variety of senior roles in the telecommunications industry for over 20 years, specialising in business modelling, pricing, regulatory policy and strategy. He has worked with fixed and mobile operators, challengers, ISPs, equipment suppliers and regulators in the UK, Europe, Africa and South East Asia. His recent work has focused on LRIC cost analysis, pricing strategy and price cap reviews. Recent assignments have included building LRIC cost models of fixed and mobile operators, assisting an industry body with developing a consensus on NGN interconnection, assisting the UK regulator, Ofcom, with their review of the future of mobile termination charges and developing a set of scenarios concerning the future of the communications industry for the City of London.

Alex Jennings has been involved in interconnection matters for the past 17 years, initially with Telewest responsible for setting-up and management of interconnect billing between BT and Mercury and also for Wholesale account management with other operators. As a consultant she has worked for as variety of operators including Energis, Tiscali and start-up operators providing advice on interconnection and general regulation. More recently she has advised ADIT (part of the the UK government) on broadband access projects in underserved areas in the UK.

Catherine Joyce is a Senior Consultant with InterConnect working on interconnection, cost modelling and tariff strategies. She has worked in Jordan, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Bosnia, Serbia, Gibraltar, Malta, Morocco, Oman and the Lebanon. Before joining InterConnect, Catherine was a Senior Consultant with Cable and Wireless, where she was responsible for interconnect cost analysis, traffic modelling and analysis.

Steve Morgan worked for BT for 32 years as a network field engineer and then in Access Network Planning, most recently as Tactical Planning Manager and Customer Network Design Manager. Steve has continued to advise clients on Network Planning and Local Access Networks since joining InterConnect and has carried out a wide variety of projects involving all aspects of the Local Loop including xDSL provision, network and customer infrastructure planning. At a regulatory level, he has also prepared Reference Unbundling Offers for a number of clients. Steve presents the Local Loop Unbundling session for the Regulatory Master Class, LLU and RIO sessions at the Interconnection Master Class and technical sessions on telecom networks and new NGNs at three of the Master Classes.

John Holdsworth has been involved in the telecoms sector for 30 years and has extensive experience of NGN Voice systems based on both SIP and H.323 protocols. He has been a member of ETSI TISPAN and an active member of the UK NICC (who defined the first regulated voice interconnect for NGN networks) contributing both security and call prioritisation elements to this work. An expert on Session Border Controllers and associated security issues, John has both a detailed and systems level knowledge of NGN networking including IMS architectures. John presents on IP / NGN at the Interconnection Master Class and is a lead presenter on the NGN Master Class.