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Alan Spencer has worked in the telecommunications industry for over a quarter of a century and has experience of all aspects of the subject - including design, standardisation, regulation, training, consultancy and Prince 2 project management.

He is a fully qualified Chartered Engineer and has worked as a consultant for BT, Cable & Wireless, Global Crossing, Logica, Sky, BOC, Nortel, the Capita Group and O2 as well as many other companies in a number of different roles. He is the author of many reports on telecommunication and related IP topics as well as presenting in numerous conferences worldwide. He has also designed and presented many training courses on a variety of subjects and is a certified member of the Institute of IT Training. He also has UK security clearance to SC level.

Alan has worked for the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in Sophia Antipolis where he helped write numerous European Standards and regulations. He has worked for the European Commission and advised current and future member states on EC Directives, telecommunication law and number portability, and has worked for the UNHCR is the selection of a vendor in the supply of a worldwide voice and data managed network. He has also worked for the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as the Technical Design Authority (TDA) for their fully-managed converged network.

Alan has also worked as an Expert Witness and has worked on a number of complex cases involving well-known public companies.

In the last few years, Alan has helped BT (with 21CN), Cable & Wireless and Sky Network Services with their Next Generation Network (NGN) designs and with their vendor evaluation processes. He has also helped O2 define and implement a number of fixed-line offerings, including enhanced telemarketing services, next-generation broadband access and IP telephony services.

Alan has been involved with products from a variety of suppliers, including: Genesys, Siebel, Amdocs, Marconi, Ericsson, Cirpack, Alcatel, Siemens, Lucent, Sonus, Italtel, Panasonic, Operax, Newport Networks, Nextone, Convedia, Zultys, Cisco, Juniper, Nominum, Fujitsu, Tellabs, ECI, Nortel, Veraz, Ciena, Nokia, AudioCodes, Huawei, Kagoor and AcmePacket.