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Biography of
Mr. Andrea AMBROGETTI, Chairman, DGTVi |
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Andrea Ambrogetti graduated in Letters at Rome
University. He started his career in 1989 in FRT
(Federazione Radio Televisioni, national association
of private radio and television operators) of which
he became Director in 1991. At FRT, he was
responsible for relationships with Italian
institutions, broadcasters, trade-union associations
and the press.
He was a Counsellor of the Posts and
Telecommunication Ministry in the radio-television
field in 1994. It that same year, a collaboration
was started with RAI where, in 1995, he became the
Head of the Internal Communication Office. In 1996,
with the birth of RAISAT, he was responsible for
projecting and promoting new satellite/digital
offerings and digital trade developments.
In 1998 he worked in the Sport Rights
Acquisition Direction as responsible for the
negotiation and acquisition of sport rights for RAI.
Since 1999, Andrea Ambrogetti has been working in
Mediaset as Director of Italian Institutional
Affairs, responsible for the relationships with the
Italian Parliament, the Government, Authorities and
other associations for all matters involving
Mediaset in the areas of television and
communications.
Appointed member of the government commission for
the readjustment of the radio-television system by
the Italian Communication Ministry, he is also
President of the DGTVi, the national association for
the development of digital terrestrial television,
composed by Rai, Mediaset, Telecom Italia, the
Italian Communication Ministry as well as local
broadcasters and industry associations.Top
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Biography of Mr. Ermanno BERRUTO, Network
Architecture & Traffic Director, WIND |
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Ermanno Berruto, received his degree in Electronic
Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in
1985. In 1987, he joined CSELT, now Telecom Italia
Lab, the Research Centre of the Telecom Italia
Group. From 1992 till 2000, he was involved with
different responsibilities in several European
Research Projects on mobile communications. He was
responsible, as head of the "Systems and Services"
Department in the CSELT Mobile Division, of
activities concerning radio interfaces, network and
base station architecture, resource allocation
strategies and application services for GSM, UMTS
and satellite systems. From 2000 to 2002, he was the
Switching and Service Development Director of Blu
S.p.A., at that time the fourth GSM Operator in
Italy. In his role, he managed the activities
related to the configuration, dimensioning and
testing of GSM NSS, GPRS NSS and VAS nodes, the
design of the IP network and the development of new
services based on IN, SMS-C, WAP and other specific
platforms. Since 2003, he is the Network
Architecture & Traffic Director of WIND
Telecomunicazioni S.p.A., the Italian
telecommunications operator capable of providing
convergent fixed-line, mobile and Internet services.
His responsibility includes the analysis and
forecast of the network traffic, the definition of
network cost models, the development of medium-long
term network plans, including the assessment of the
related architectural solutions, and the definition
of the technological evolution roadmap.He is author
of around 40 papers in the area of network aspects
for mobile communications systems.Top
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Biography of
Ms. Maria Cristina BUETI, Policy Analyst, Strategy
and Policy Unit, ITU |
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Maria Cristina Bueti
graduated from the Faculty of Political Science and International
Cooperation and Development at the University of Florence, where she took
postgraduate studies in International cooperation.
In 2003, Ms. Bueti completed a project for the Faculty of Laws, University
of Malta, before joining the International Telecommunication Union in
Geneva, in January 2004. Working in the ITU's Strategy and Policy Unit, as a
policy analyst she has been involved in the organization of a wide range of
activities from technical workshops to international conferences. Ms. Bueti
participated in the PrepCom 2 of the Tunis Phase of WSIS. Her specialty is
cybersecurity, with a particular focus on the problem of spam.Top
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Biography of Ms. Jane BUTLER, Head of Corporate
Business Development for Europe, Middle East and
Africa |
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Jane Butler has an
Honours Degree in Engineering, is a Fellow of the
Institution of Electrical Engineers and Chartered
Engineer in the Engineering Council. She has worked
in the IT and networking industry for over 20 years.
After working on several global IP networks for
large corporations, Jane joined Cisco Systems in
1997. During her tenure at Cisco she has consulted
on the design of most of the large corporate
networks in Europe, she has taken a special interest
in advanced scientific and academic networks and
established the NGN initiative at Cisco. In the
industry Jane has chaired the EC funded 6NET
Consortium, developed large scale hosted,
virtualized voice and multimedia solution
architectures and driven advanced core IP and
optical integration. Whenever possible Jane spends
time at schools and higher education establishments
encouraging young girls to take up engineering
careers.Top
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Biography of Mr. Luciano CAVERI, President of the
Aosta Valley |
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From 2000 to 2003
he was elected to the European Parliament in the
Group of the Liberal, Democratic and Reformer
European Party. He was President of the Regional
Affairs, Transport and Tourism Committee in the
European Parliament (2002-2003), member of the
Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and
Defense Policy Committee and member of the
Delegation to the mixed parliamentary EU-Slovenia
Committee.Top |
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Biography of Mr. Marco CARUGI, Senior Advisor,
Nortel |
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Marco Carugi (marco.carugi@nortel.com)
holds an Electronic Engineering degree in Telecommunications from Pisa
University (Italy), a M.S. in Engineering and Management of
Telecommunication Networks from Institut National des Telecommunications
(Evry, France) and a MBA in International Business Development from ESSEC
(Paris, France).
After starting his telecommunication career in Solvay, an international
chemical group, and working for 8 years in France Telecom R&D as Research
Engineer in Broadband Data Services and Network Technologies, he joined
Nortel in 2002 as Senior Advisor, Advanced Technology, CTO office.
Marco has been involved in various standard bodies for 10 years, currently
acting as Rapporteur of Question 2 (Requirements and implementation
scenarios for emerging services in NGN) in ITU-T Study Group 13 and co-Chair
of WG1 (Services and Requirements) in ITU-T FGNGN. He also participates in
ETSI TISPAN and acts as ITU-T Liaison Officer to ETSI TISPAN. He has served
on the Optical Internetworking Forum Board of Directors during the last 3
years and has been involved in IETF as co-chair of the IETF Provider
Provisioned VPN Working Group (2000-2003).
Marco has attended as speaker or organizer various worldwide
telecommunication conferences since several years and authored a number of
Internet drafts, ITU-T Recommendations and papers.Top
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Biography of Mr. Cosimo COMELLA, Head of Network and
Telecommunication, Italian Data Protection Authority |
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Cosimo Comella (c.comella@ieee.org) holds a
Computer Science degree from the University of Pisa, and has been working
for eleven years in academic and research institutions in Italy and USA
within faculty and technical positions (University of Rome "Tor Vergata",
West Virginia University). His main interests are in the field of computer
performance evaluation, distributed systems and networks, privacy and
security issues.
In 2000 he joined the Italian Data Protection Authority, where he is
responsible for the information technology unit.
Mr. Comella is also contract professor of computer science at University of
Rome "La Sapienza", Dept. of Computer Science.Top
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Biography of Mr.
Massimo CORONARO, Technology Officer, Telecom Italia |
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Massimo Coronaro has long-term experience
in telecommunication systems design and implementation. He has held
increasing responsibilities in telephony and broadband systems working for
Ericsson, Alcatel, and Nokia. He joined Telecom Italia in 1996, where he was
responsible for the development of the ADSL and Gigabit Ethernet access
network and the first IP/MPLS backbone for business customers before taking
his current assignment in the company as technology and standard officer.Top
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Biography of Mr. Dario Di ZENOBIO, Senior Engineer,
Ugo Bordoni Foundation |
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Dario Di Zenobio
received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering
from the University of Roma, La Sapienza, in
1974.After gradueting, he joined the department of
Radio Communications of "Fondazione Ugo Bordoni -
Istituto Superiore Comunicazioni e Tecnologie
Informatiche (FUB-ISCTI )", Roma, Italy, where he is
currently managing the Radio Communications
Division. Since 1996 he has been the Technical
Manager of the CABSINET project, supported by the
European ACTS Program, focused on the Broadband
Radio Access to the End-User, and involving more
than 20 European Partners. He is the Italian
representative to the Management Committee of the
Cost Action 262:" Spread Spectrum Systems and
Techniques in Wireless and Wired Communications".
Since 1974 he has actively been engaged in research
on digital communications, including digital radio
satellite systems, and in the development of
broadband LAN radio systems operating at different
frequency bands. His current research interests are
in communication theory, and particularly in OFDM
transmission technique, spread spectrum techniques,
wireless communications and analysis of various data
networks. He has consulted with companies in Italy
and abroad. He has written more than 70 papers.
Dario Di Zenobio is IEEE Senior Member, and AEI,
ETSI TM4, ITU-R Group V and IX Member. European
Commission (DGXIII) consultant and project
evaluator.Top |
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Biography of Mr. Tim KELLY, Head of the Strategy and
Policy Unit, ITU |
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Dr Tim Kelly is Head of
the Strategy and Policy Unit of the International Telecommunication Union
(ITU), where he has worked since 1993. Before joining ITU he spent
five years as a Communications Policy Analyst with the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and three years with Logica
Consultancy Ltd. He has an MA (Hons) degree in Geography and a Ph.D in
industrial economics from Cambridge University. Over the last twenty years,
Dr Kelly has specialised in the economics of the telecommunications
industry. He has written or co-authored more than 20 books on the subject
including the ITU's "World Telecommunication Development Report", “Direction
of Traffic” and “ITU Internet Reports”. He is currently in charge of the
“content team” for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).Top
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Biography of Mr. Mario LANDOLFI, Italian Minister of
Communications |
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Mr. Mario Landolfi
was born in Mondragone (Province of Caserta) on 6
June 1959. He is a member of the Italian political
party Alleanza Nazionale which appointed him
Commissioner for the Province of Caserta and Head of
the Information and Communication Office. At present
he is in charge as Regional Coordinator for the
Campania region. Since 1983 Mario Landolfi is a
council member of the city of Mondragone. As a
member of the Italian Parliament, Mario Landolfi
paid special attention to the new Law concerning the
organisation of the Italian broadcasting system. He
also promoted important bills concerning the
organization of the catholic religion teachers in
public and private school, the journalistic activity
and the fight against mafia and organized crime.
During the 12th Legislature of the Italian
Parliament he was a member of the Standing Committee
for Productive activities, Trade and Tourism as well
as a member of the Joint Committee for Radio and TV
services.
In the 13th Legislature of the Italian Parliament
was President of the Joint Committee for the control
of broadcasting and member of the Standing Committee
for Culture, Science and Instruction. During the
last legislature he was a member of the Standing
Committee for Transport, Post Office and
Telecommunication, member of the Special Committee
for Legislation, member of the Standing Committee
for Foreign and European Affairs and member of the
Joint Committee for Radio and TV services.
Since April 2005 he is the Minister of
Communications in the Italian Government.Top |
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Biography of Mr. Didier LEBRAT, Chief Technology
Officer, Vodafone |
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Didier Lebrat
joined Vodafone Italy as Chief Technology Officer in
May 2004. His function covers the design,
implementation and operations of network and
information systems.
Prior to joining Vodafone Italy, he was Chief
Technical Officer at Orange UK for four years. He
also held the position of CO-CTO for the Orange
Group.
His previous experience was with Bouygues Telecom,
the French mobile operator, where he had the initial
responsibility of implementing the network
operations organization from scratch. His scope of
responsibility was eventually widened with customer
facing activities such as billing and collection..
He spent the first 12 years of his career with
Sita/Equant a global telecoms operator, where he led
the network operations and customer service with
staff presence on 3 continents.
Didier Lebrat, a French citizen, is graduated from
the Ecole Supérieure en Génie Electrique.
Didier Lebrat was born on June 04, 1960, is married
and has three children.Top
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Biography of Mr. Chae-Sub LEE, Chairman of Focus
Group on Next Generation Networks, ITU-T |
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Mr. Lee joined
Korea Telecom's R&D Group in 1971. He is currently
president of HiSPOT, a KT venture company based in
Switzerland that provides broadband converged
access. Mr. Lee has participated in ITU-T based
international standards meetings, mainly SG13, since
1987. Since 1999, he has been chairman of WP1/13. He
joined ITU-T SG13's management as a vice chairman in
2000 and is also chairman of the network
architecture and interworking areas. Mr. Lee also
led the Joint Rapporteur Group on NGN from 2003 to
2004.Top |
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Biography of Mr. Emilio MARCHIONNA, Network
Director, H3G
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Emilio Marchionna
is born in Milan Italy on 10th of July, 1962. He
obtained the Master Degrees in Electronic
Engineering in 1987. From 1987 to 1989 he works in
Telettra S.p.A as a microwave designer. From 1990 to
1994 he works on mobile radio systems in Alcatel.
From 1994 to 2000 he is responsible of Radio
Planning in Omnitel HQ. From 2001 up to today he is
in H3G Italy as Network Director.Top |
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Biography of Mr. Aurelio MARGUERETTAZ, Chairman of
the Budget, Finance and Regional Shareholdings
Department, Aosta Valley |
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He obtained his Degree in Commerce at the
University of Turin on March 14th 1988 and he is enrolled in Aosta licensed
public accountant List since May 16th 1994. He taught Technical, commercial
and business doctrines from 1989 to 1994 at the "Istituto Tecnico
Commerciale e Aziendale I. Manzetti" in Aosta and "Istituto Tecnico
Commerciale Panorama" in Châtillon. He was Chair, Vice-chair, Councilor,
Mayor and Auditor of accounts for important companies and local authorities
in Aosta Valley.
He was assistant mayor in Saint-Rhémy-en-Bosses municipality and Vice-chair
of Consortium of municipalities in the Grand-Combin Mountain area.Top |
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Biography of Mr. Alan MARSHALL, Professor, Queen' s
University (Belfast) |
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Alan Marshall: is
Professor of Telecommunications Engineering in the
Queen’s University of Belfast, where he is director
of the Advanced Networks Group. He is a senior
member of IEEE, and has spent over 20 years working
in the tele and computer communications Industry and
in Academia. Since 1993 he has been lecturer, senior
lecturer and professor respectively. He was
previously employed by the Admiralty Research
Establishment (UK), where he worked on the
development of real-time communications networks for
surface vessels. He was also employed as a senior
systems engineer with Nortel Networks where he
worked on 2nd generation cellular (GSM), and
high-speed transmission (SDH) products. He has
published over 100 scientific papers and holds a
joint patent in the area of hard real-time
networking. He has successfully collaborated in a
wide range of European projects and is widely
recognized in the area of network modelling and
performance analysis. He has organized and chaired
technical sessions for numerous international
conferences and was general chair of MMNS2003. He is
Guest Editor for COMNET special issue on managing
Security, Trust & Reputation in Peer-to-Peer
networks, 2005. He has been active on a number of
committees that have made recommendations for local
and national Government policies on future
directions for Telecommunications. His research
interests include network architectures and
protocols: high-speed computer and
telecommunications networks; mobile and wireless
networks; switching; quality of service (QoS)
architectures; and network management systems and
architectures.Top |
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Biography of Mr. Yutaka MIYAKE, Senior Research
Engineer, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. |
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Yutaka Miyake
received the B.E. and M.E. degrees of Electrical
Engineering from Keio University, Japan, in 1988 and
1990, respectively. He joined KDD (now KDDI) in
1990, and has been engaged in the research on high
speed communication protocol, secure communication
system and privacy protection system for network
applications. During a year of 2000 to 2001, he was
a visiting researcher at SRI International and
University of California, Berkeley. He has
participated in ITU-T SG17. He is currently a senior
research engineer of Security Lab. in KDDI R\&D
Laboratories Inc.Top |
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Biography of
Mr. Michele MORGANTI, Senior Vice President for
Technology Innovation, Siemens |
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In November 1999 he
joined Siemens ICN Italy as Chief Technology
Officer. From 2001 through 2004 he was head of
Strategic Marketing for the Siemens Group in Italy.
In 2004 he rejoined Siemens Communications Italy
where he is now Senior VP for Technology Innovation.
An active member of several international
professional organization including the IEEE
Computer and Communications Societies, IFIP and
FITCE, he has published over 50 papers on various
aspects of telecommunications, computers and
computer networking and has contributed to numerous
conferences and publications worldwide.Top |
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Biography
of Mr. Marco OBISO, IT Service Management
Coordinator, ITU |
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Mr. Marco Obiso
graduated in Computer Science from the University of
Rome. He went on to complete further studies at the
IBM Networking Laboratories in Rome.
Mr. Obiso joined Unisys Corporation as Technology
Consultant developing solutions and implementing
system integration projects. He subsequently worked
for Ernst & Young consulting, coordinating IT
strategy projects. In 2000 Mr. Obiso moved to Geneva
to start work at the ITU as associate expert, in the
area of Network Engineering. Within the Information
Systems Department he participated in several areas
including: network infrastructure, system
integration and application cooperation. Mr. Obiso
is currently working as IT Service Management
coordinator.Top |
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Biography of of Mr. Riccardo PASSERINI, Senior
Telecommunication Engineer, ITU |
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At present he is working
in International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – Geneva, as Senior
Telecommunication Engineer (Networks and Services) in the Development Sector
(BDT) , Technologies and Network Development Unit (TND)
He has been dealing with Telecommunication Networks since 1984 in
Superior Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technologies
(Italy) as chief of Networks and Services Department. There, he has been
responsible for defining National Specifications, managing Type Approval
Process (Homologation) of Equipment and Systems, co-ordinating International
and National Committee activities like ITU and ETSI meeting.
He has been also involved in activities related to the regulatory aspects,
like numbering and interconnection, of the liberalization process of
Telecommunications in the European Countries.
He joined ITU at the beginning of 2001 as part of permanent staff, after
having been collaborating with ITU since 1991 as Expert on Telecommunication
Networks and Services, being responsible of Technical Specifications
definition and Network Planning for ITU projects in a number of different
Countries.
Mr. Passerini graduated in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from
University “La Sapienza ”Roma” with Magna cum Laude in 1981.Top
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Biography of Ms. Laura PONTIGGIA, Policy Adviser,
Information Society and Media Directorate-General,
European Commission |
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Laura Pontiggia works as a Policy Adviser
in DG Information Society & Media at the European Commission, in a Unit
undertaking analysis and policy planning for the information society. She
contributes to the economic assessment of developments in the ICT sector and
coordinates competition issues in the information society area. Her previous
experiences, after graduating in International Economics at Bocconi
University in Milan (Italy), include several years in telecommunications
regulation, both in private consultancy and at the European
Telecommunications Office (ETO) in Copenhagen, where she was undertaking
studies for the European Commission on various telecommunications topics,
aimed at harmonizing the European regulatory framework. Laura has also been
working for some years as a researcher at Bocconi University on issues
related to the implications of technological innovation in the ICT sector.Top
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Biography of Mr. Anthony-Michael RUTKOWSKI, Vice
President for Regulatory Affairs and Standards,
VeriSign Inc |
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Mr. Anthony Rutkowski is
Vice-President for Regulatory Affairs at VeriSign, Inc. - and deals with
development, articulation, and implementation of its regulatory and
standards strategies domestically and internationally for Next Generation
Networks. He also participates significantly in diverse law enforcement and
security related forums..
Mr. Rutkowski is a prominent engineer-lawyer whose career has spanned more
than 40 years in industry and government in the U.S. and abroad - focusing
primarily on pursuing cutting edge business and technology developments.
Beginning with leading design projects for Apollo launch support
communications and control systems at Kennedy Space Center. Over the past
several decades, he has been a corporate and government technology
strategist, public official, organization leader, consultant, lecturer,
publisher, and author of several books, agency proceedings, and scores of
articles in the Internet, telecom, mass media, and aerospace worlds.
He has enjoyed commercial business positions with SAIC Network Solutions,
General Magic, Sprint International, Horizon House, Pan American
Engineering, General Electric, and Evening News Association; government and
elected positions with the Federal Communications Commission, the
International Telecommunication Union, and Cape Canaveral City Council; and
educational positions with the Internet Society, MIT, and NY Law School.
At the ITU, Mr. Rutkowski was Chief of International Telecommunication
Regulations and Relations Between Members, Counselor to the
Secretary-General, and headed the Secretariat at the International
Telecommunication Regulations treaty conference.Top
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Biography of Mr. Guido SALERNO: Head of the Cabinet
of Italian Ministry of Communications |
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In 1978, Guido Salerno was the winner of
the open procedure for officials of the Senate of the Republic, since when
he has held several high-level positions in various institutions, including
those of economic and financial planning and telecommunications regulation
and policy: at the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, as General
Secretary; at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, as Vice- General
Secretary; at the Treasury Department and as a Member of the Research
Commission on the reform of the state budget and public accounting.
Dr. Salerno managed the successful liberalization and privatization process
of the telecommunication sector in Italy. He was member of the
Inter-Ministerial Committee for Economic Planning for the control of tariffs
for public utility services. Since 1998, he has been a National Member of
the '2000-2006 Community support framework of the European Union'. Dr
Salerno has also served as a top-level manager for Telecom Italia, the first
licensed operator for telecommunications in Italy; specifically, he was head
of International Operations of Telecom Italia in Argentina and Vice
President of Telecom Argentina. He is currently Head of the Cabinet of the
Italian Ministry of Communications and Managing Director of Fondazione Ugo
Bordoni, a prestigious Italian independent telecommunications research
centre.Top
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Biography of Mr. Giovanni SANTELLA, Senior Engineer,
Italian Communications Authority |
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Giovanni Santella was born in Rome, Italy,
on June 24, 1961. He received the Electronic Engineering degree from the
University of Rome in 1990. From 1990 to 2000 he has been working as a
researcher in the radio communications area at the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
(FUB), in Rome. His research interests covered the characterisation and
modelling of radio wave propagation, wideband wireless communication
systems, such as OFDM, WCDMA and LMDS. He was also involved in EC projects
such as RACE-II/dTTb, ACTS-QUOVADIS and ACTS-CABSINET. From December 2000 he
has been working at the “Autorità per le Garanzie nelle comunicazioni
(AGCOM)”, the Italian regulator for the telecommunications and the
audiovisual sector. Its main activity is related to the technical aspects of
AGCOM regulatory and monitoring activity in the field of cellular mobile
systems (GSM-UMTS), wireless point-to-multipoint systems (WLL), xDSL
systems, local loop unbundling, digital broadcasting (DAB, DVB-T), frequency
planning for digital terrestrial television (DTT), coverage monitoring of
DTT networks. He is currently coordinating a technical group for a periodic
revision of the spectrum management rules for the copper access network and
xDSL systems. He is also in charge for the definition of the regulatory
framework for VoIP services.Top
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Biography of Mr. Guido RODA, Network Service
Engineering Director, Fastweb |
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After getting a BSC
in Electronics Engineering, Computer Networks from
the Polytechnic of Milan, Guido Roda started his
activity in 1984 with Telettra S.p.A. (Alcatel),
first as System Architect for Packet Data Networks
and later as Network Manager with the corporate
Information Technology Department.
In 1993 he joined Sprint International, where he
held responsibility for Technical Network Services
over the Central-Southern European Region.
At the end of 1994 he joined Omnitel S.p.A., where
he contributed to the successful startup of the
company, first within the Information Technology
Department (where he held responsibility for the
Corporate Services and Applications Division) and
later within the Network Department, as Director for
Value Added Services development.
Since 1999 he is Director of Network Service
Engineering at FastWeb S.p.A (Milan, Italy), holding
responsibility for the design of FastWeb’s network
and triple play services.Top |
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Biography of Mr. Francesco TROISI, Frequency
Management and Planning General Director, Italian
Ministry of Communications |
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Mr. Francesco
TROISI is a graduate in Electronic engineering and
works at the Italian Ministry of Communications as
Director of the General Direction for frequencies
management and planning. His main tasks are,
inter alia, the handling and updating of national
frequency allocation tables, participation in
meetings at both a national and international level,
including meetings of the CEPT and the ITU,
attending World Radio Conferences and coordinating
activities with neighbouring countries. He was
deputy chief of the Italian delegation at the Word
Radio Conference (WRC) held in Istanbul in the 2000,
and he also coordinated, at a national level,
all phases for preparations of the WRC 2003. He was
head of the Italian delegation during the first
phase of the Regional Radio Conference, which was
held in Geneva in 2003.During the Italian presidency
of the European Ministers Council, Mr. Troisi headed
the delegation for electronic communication aspects,
in close cooperation with the Italian Minister of
Communications. He is a member, as an Italian
representative, of the Radio Spectrum Committee
(RCS) and of the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG)
both operating at the European Commission level in
the field of spectrum policy. Formerly, he was
involved in the monitoring of spectrum at a local
level, working in offices attached to the Ministry
of Communications.Top
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Biography of Mr. Thomas Wächter, Head of Digital
Broadcast Technology, T-Systems Media and Broadcast |
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Thomas Wächter
studied electrical engineering at the University of
Braunschweig between 1981 and 1986 before joining
the research institute of Deutsche Telekom in
Darmstadt in 1987 where he remained until 1992.
Since 1992 he has been assistant director at the
headquarter of Deutsche Telekom in Bonn responsible
for the development of digital, terrestrial
broadcasting platforms. From 1995 up to 1997 he was
head of the the DAB project office in
Northrhine-Westphalia.
Since June 1999 he is responsible for the product
management for digital terrestrial transmitter
networks. Thomas Wächter is member of the WorldDAB
Steering Board and heads the Digital Radio Mondiale
Group of the German Government initiative “Digital
Broadcasting” (IDR).Top
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