About
Stephen Temple is an engineer by profession and has spent 25 years in the Civil Service (rising to a senior position in the Home Office and DTI) and (18 years in the private sector rising to Director level including Board level). His particular expertise is “high” strategy and innovation, particularly in regulated telecoms, mobile and TV markets. The recurring themes throughout his career have been the handling of complexity and change.
Whilst at the DTI he was architect of the Europe industrial policy intervention (the GSM MOU) that made GSM the most successful European high technology project and transformed the mobile phone into the most pervasive electronic development of the last 25 years on the planet (over 5 billion mobiles in 160 countries). He has been Director of Strategic Projects in Vodafone’s Group Corporate Strategy and Managing Director of ntl’s Networks Division (where he developed their initial broadband Internet).
His in depth experience in digital TV, mobile radio, high speed Internet, telecommunications and radio spectrum allows him to offer a particular insight and fresh thinking on complex issues in communications.
He was recently on the Steering Group for the Government’s Digital Britain project advising on spectrum and drafted the section of the final report on infrastructure.
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Whilst his background is in telecommunications he has also done 3 years of research into Solar PV Technology and his 450 page research report “Future Solar PV Technology Review is now in its 3rd Edition and published by a leading solar PV market information company ENF
Click here on www.enf.cn for more information on this and other ENF research reports