The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Tuesday confirmed to DigitalSENSE Business News the appointment of
Prof. Hyacinth Nwana as its Executive Director. This comes at an exciting time
as the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance strengthens its engagement
with regulators and government officials to promote the adoption of legal and
regulatory frameworks that facilitate dynamic access to radio spectrum.
DigitalSENSE
Business News recalls that prior to joining the Alliance in this newly created role, Nwana
was Group Director of Spectrum
Policy at Ofcom, the UK’s independent
communications regulator, where he spearheaded dynamic spectrum management,
specifically focusing on TV White Spaces for broadband, and led on all UK
Spectrum Policy. Nwana
has also recently founded Atlantic Telecoms and Media.
As a recognized authority in
Telecoms, Media and Technology (TMT) Prof. Nwana has recently authored an
authoritative book on TMT for Developing Economies where he strongly argues the
case for Dynamic Spectrum and TV White Space access in combination with low
cost models and technologies to provide Affordable and Accessible broadband to
the next ‘5 billion unconnected’. This has already moved Dynamic Spectrum
efforts and TV White Spaces up the agenda in Africa, Europe, Asia, and
elsewhere.
Whilst
at Ofcom, Nwana was responsible for
multi-million pound policy projects including the UK’s Digital TV Clearance
programme of Channels 61, 62 and 69. He also oversaw the completion of the
policy implementation of the rest of the UK’s digital switchover programme, and
the multi-billion pound successful auction of the released spectrum. Nwana
was also the Chairman of the Ofcom Spectrum Clearance and Award programme which
reported into the Ofcom Board as well as the British Government and
commercially negotiated
deals with UK broadcasters, broadcast transmission providers and radar
manufacturers totalling over a hundred million pounds sterling.
Prior to Ofcom, Nwana
was Managing Director for 4 years at Arqiva, the UK’s £800M leading
transmissions provider, communications infrastructure and media services
company. Before Arqiva, he was Executive Director at Quadriga Worldwide Ltd
where he was instrumental in the introduction of digital technology and
services to the hospitality industry across Europe, Middle East, and Africa
including high speed Internet, Wi-Fi, digital pay TV and video-on-demand in
over 1700 hotels. Before Quadriga, he was a venture capitalist for 2 years and,
even earlier, a Senior award-winning and published technologist at BT plc for 5
years.
Working in collaboration
with, and under the direction of, the Dynamic
Spectrum Alliance Board of
Directors and Chairman, Nwana will assist with the development and execution of
the organization’s strategic initiatives and outreach to and recruitment of
potential partners and members across the private, public, and non-profit
sectors. He will also serve as a public spokesperson for the initiative in
worldwide venues and manage the organization’s vendors, overall budget and
communication programs.
“H Nwana brings a wealth
of public and private sector experience in the areas of wireless technology and
spectrum policy and regulation,” said Paul Garnett, Dynamic Spectrum Alliance
Chairman of the Board and Director of Technology Policy at Microsoft. “H understands
that spectrum policy – when done right – can deliver huge benefits to society,
including in the areas of social and digital inclusion and in improving quality
of life for the world’s inhabitants. H also happens to be great at bringing
people together around areas of common interest. So, I am thrilled that H
has agreed to lead stakeholders from industry, academia, research, and
government in looking at new ways of managing the radio spectrum leveraging
dynamic spectrum access technologies.”
Nwana added: “The
Dynamic Spectrum Alliance is investing in the future, paving the way for new
innovative wireless technologies and spectrum-sharing. The nirvana of dynamic spectrum
regulation should be something all regulators should aspire to, in order to drive-up
spectrum efficiency.”
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