UK SPF welcomes three new Steering Board members
The UK Spectrum Policy Forum (SPF) has added Nokia, Samsung and Shure as Steering Board members.
The function of the Steering Board is to ensure that the work of the Forum is properly framed, work items expedited in the correct manner and suitably resourced, and monitor progress on the delivery of the agreed work packages.
These additions bring UK SPF’s total Steering Board membership to fifteen, with Dr. Abhaya Sumanasena, Real Wireless, serving as Steering Board Chair.
The Steering Board is composed primarily of volunteer sponsoring companies drawn from across the range of spectrum users, as well as senior Government and Ofcom representatives.
UK SPF Steering Board members are: DCMS, MoD, Ofcom, BT, Digital UK, Huawei, Nokia, OneWeb, Plum Consulting, Qualcomm, Real Wireless, Samsung, Shure, Virgin Media O2, Vodafone.
The industrial sponsors also provide funding for the operation of the Forum to:
- identify where expert advice is needed to inform priority issues then commission, fund and manage this end-to-end
- maintain a strategy on behalf of the wider Spectrum Policy Forum, and account for what is being achieved
- develop and deliver coherent messages to Government, Ofcom and key decision makers on priority issues
- develop the SPF work programme, addressing in context of known agendas of international bodies, to influence spectrum management decisions, working via Government and Ofcom and use
Please get in touch if you would like to join the Steering Board.
Josh Turpin
Josh Turpin
Josh joined techUK as a Programme Manager for Telecoms and Net Zero in August 2024.
In this role, working jointly across the techUK Telecoms and Climate Programmes, Josh is responsible for leading on telecoms infrastructure deployment and uptake and supporting innovation opportunities, as well as looking at how the tech sector can be further utilised in the UK’s decarbonisation efforts.
Prior to joining techUK, Josh’s background was in public affairs and communications, working for organisations across a diverse portfolio of sectors including defence, telecoms and infrastructure; aiding clients through stakeholder engagement, crisis communications, media outreach as well as secretariat duties.
Outside of work, Josh has a keen interest in music, painting and sailing.
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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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