Mr. Peter Curnow-Ford
Chief Executive Officer, Viatec Associates Ltd
Member of the Telecommunications Council
Council Member Biography
Peter Curnow-Ford is the Chief Executive Officer at Viatec Associates and a Board Member of technology companies, and advises clients on investment and technology in Telecoms and Wireless. Companies include Bluenowhere, a wholesale WiMAX Network operator; and Plasma Antennas, a developer of Beamforming Antennas for the Defence and Government sector. Prior companies include Eisar as a Chairman, managing mobile and cellular handset products from Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturers; and SafetiPay, a provider of transaction services to the mobile payments industry. Prior he was the Vice President of Sales at LCC International Inc, a supplier of wireless engineering services; the General Manager for Europe at Repeater Technologies, responsible for 3G business; and spent 10 years with Nortel in senior roles. He is experienced in cellular, infrastructure and wireless telecom markets and investment and WiMAX, LTE, WiFi, 4G, 3G, 2G and other technologies. He is a member of the Institute of Directors, Chartered Institute of Marketing, and a member of the Intellect Wireless Council. He is currently also serving as a Director at Growth Innovators Group (since November 2010), and a Non-Executive Director at Plasma Antennas (since December 2008). (This is me - Update Profile)
Employment History
- 2012 - Unspecified
- Chief Executive Officer, Viatec Associates Ltd
- 2010 - 2012
- Partner, Viatec Associates Ltd
- 2010 - Unspecified
- Director, Growth Innovators Group Ltd
- 2007 - 2010
- Chairman, Eisar Ltd.
- 2006 - 2009
- Non-Executive Chairman, Instruvention Ltd
- 2004 - Unspecified
- Chairman, Bluenowhere Ltd
- 2003 - 2005
- President and Chief Executive Officer, Proximity Group Ltd.
- 2003 - 2007
- CEO, Eisar Ltd.
- 2002 - 2009
- Non-Executive Chairman, Viatec Associates Ltd
GLG NewsSM Analyses by Peter Curnow-Ford
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Reliance mast, or tower sale now back on cards.
May 31, 2011
Reliance mast sale on the cards, as FY results mixed | www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com
Having just announced final year figures, with flat revenues and profits down 71.1 per cent, Reliance also declared that depreciation and finance costs had significantly increased.The previously announced sale of its Tower unit, Reliance Infratel which had been put on hold, is now back on the cards as it faces continuing high levels of debt, especially as Reliance can no longer draw down on its China Development bank financing.Interested parties, already chosen, can now start Due Diligence.
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Impact of Japanese component shortages limited
March 21, 2011
Japan's Electronic Component Turbulence Temporary | itchannelsales.wordpress.com
The impact, in the short term, of the recent disaster in Japan will be limited as only certain sets of components are directly sourced from Japan nowadays.Those components affected include high capacity Li-ON batteries (for laptops, notebooks and tablets) and lower down the component value chain items such as glass substrate for LCD panels.A lot of other components such as CPUs, graphics chips, wireless chips etc are now all sourced to a greater extent from China and Taiwan.
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Cell site Tower rationlisation on its way?
March 21, 2011
AT&T Acquiring T-Mobile For $39 Billion; Let The Scrutiny Begin | moconews.net
Over the weekend AT&T sent out an email to T-Mobile USA, we want to buy your network.One of the many benefits of the merger will be the rationalisation of cell sites and hence a reduction in ongoing Opex of both sites and backhaul.While AT&T is looking to gain additional sites to fill in holes, duplicated sites are a good candidate for a reduction in the numbers needed. This will have a knock effect for tower operators, where the sites are not owned by either AT&T or T-Mobile.
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Pressure on Sprint as AT&T buys T-Mobile USA
March 21, 2011
T-Mobile USA Sold to AT | www.cellular-news.com
While everyone had been expecting a Sprint - T-Mobile USA merger, AT&T shows it has the money in the bank to snap up T-Mobile's US network and customers, so moving it up to the number one spot.The question now, does Sprint buy the small guys or does Verizon buy Sprint? To understand this however you need to see why AT&T jumped when it did, Spectrum!AT&T needed T-Mobile for a) spectrum, b) cell sites and c) customers and T-Mobile did not have the money to fund a LTE roll out in the next 5 years.
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Femto cells - will 2011 be the start of a new trend?
January 19, 2011
Femto cells were long characterised as being the holy grail for users who want to get more speed and better coverage when at home.Now, with the elimination of some of the issues (interference, cost) we might just see operators looking to deploy femto on a network basis, not just for home use but also in the Enterprise as traffic demand increases.This is all about data off-load and now its getting serious, femto's in volume can offer a neat solution especially in dense metro areas.
GLG Study Groups with Peter Curnow-Ford(?)
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
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| TMT Council Members in Member Programs | 18316 |
| Telecommunications Council Members in Member Programs | 3779 |
| Wireless Services Experts | 517 |
| Broadband Experts in Member Programs | 488 |
| Telecommunications Services Experts | 440 |
GLG Live Meetings with Peter Curnow-Ford(?)
Peter Curnow-Ford has not participated in any GLG Live Meetings.
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