Rob is the Principal Analyst of Informa Telecoms & Media's Broadband & Internet Intelligence Centre research portal. He is also Editor of the company's flagship research service about fixed-line telecoms, Telecom Markets.

Rob is responsible for directing Informa Telecoms & Media's coverage of broadband network operator and online media provider strategies. Under his guidance, Rob's team of analysts and associate authors produce exclusive news, analysis, executive briefings and reports on a wide variety of topics, from regulation to marketing and technology to finance. He oversees Informa's series of broadband reports and regularly authors research on next-generation access networks and regulation and new business models for network operators.

Rob has been covering information and communications technologies since 2000 and has specialised in broadband in Europe since 2003. He is a regular face at international conferences, and frequently briefs operators, vendors and consultancies on industry trends and developments.

* Future Broadband Markets (3rd edition), published by Informa Telecoms & Media, January 2008

Recent Research

ECTA's High Speed 2010 conference: Refreshing but still no resolution in sight

I'm no fan of conferences where everyone agrees and leaves with pretty much the same opinions they had when they arrived. In my opinion, such love-ins do the attendees a disservice and have played no …More >>

Over-the-top TV needs fine-tuning to truly court couch potatoes

Early adopters put up with a lot. They risked crippling back injuries to tote the first portable laptop computers. They paid over the odds for broadband for the pleasure of being "always on," albeit a…More >>

Operators should call vendors' bluff about the Internet content crunch

To hear some people talk at Broadband World Forum (BBWF) earlier this month, broadband-network operators and content providers are nearing the end of a tense stand-off akin to a long, drawn-out poker …More >>

Japan's no role model when it comes to next-generation broadband

It seems that barely a politician's speech bemoaning the lack of next-generation broadband in the West can be left to stand without a brief reference to how the Japanese have been enjoying superfast s…More >>

Oxford University's wake-up call to superfast-broadband fear-mongers

I was pleasantly awoken by my clock radio this morning to hear an Oxford University academic go "off-message", as PR people and government spin doctors call it. Alastair Nicholson of Said Business Sc…More >>

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