I began my career in the traditional fixed telecommunications area within British Telecom but in 1984 I joined the Radio Regulatory Department of the DTI where I spent many happy years involved in radio investigation activities. This included a substantial amount of work with mobile radio systems. I began working for ETSI in 1992 when I moved from the South of England to the South of France. (...)

I am Finnish, and have been working in mobile telecommunications since my graduation in 1995. Before I came to MCC in October 2000, I was working as a Project Manager in Telia-Sonera Corporation. I was involved mainly integration, introduction and testing for GSM/DCS equipments (MSC/HLR/BSC ). Between 1997-1999 I worked as a consultant in Omnitel Pronto Italia giving site operating support (...)

I’m Paolo Usai, graduated in Physics at the University of Turin, Italy. I joined CSELT, the Telecommunications Research Center of Italy, in 1969, and I have been involved in the standardization of ETSI GSM and UMTS ... since the beginning, mainly as far as concerns the ’speech coding’ and ’radio’ aspects. After many years spent as a delegate in TM5, SMG2, also chairing in 1995-96 the Speech (...)

I graduated from the University of Essex (http://www.essex.ac.uk) with a Master of Science (MSc.) Degree in Telecommunications and Information Systems. I joined the ETSI Secretariat in 1991 and worked as a Technical Officer for many of ETSI’s Technical Committees. I currently support the 3GPP TSG SA, where I hold the role of Secretary to the TSG SA Plenary and am responsible for 3GPP TSG SA (...)

I’m French, and I’m the "local guy" here in MCC since I have spent most of my life on the French Riviera. I graduated from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis with a MSc degree (French DEA) in computer sciences.   Before joining the MCC in June 2008, I worked for MTN, a mobile telecommunication group operating in 21 countries in Africa and the Middle-East. I was employed by its subsidiary (...)