Alan Quayle has 18 years experience in the telecommunication industry. He consults extensively around the world on new services and business models with operators such as AT&T Mobility, BT, Etislat, M1, Swisscom, T-Mobile, Verizon and Vodafone; suppliers such as Adobe, Alcatel, BEA, Ericsson, Huawei, Leapstone (Motorola) and Nokia Siemens Networks; and innovative start-ups such as a la Mobile, Caminat, IMImobile, and Miniweb.
Alan’s career began at BT in the early ‘90s where he led a team that developed one of the first Video on Demand demonstrations over DSL. Once the BT board saw that their copper wires could support video services, actually it was a set of BT adverts, they realized the cable TV competitive threat could potentially be met. After many millions of dollars were spent on a trial, the conclusion was obvious; there was no business case for supplying customers with an E1/T1 line at $20 per month.
This baptism of fire encouraged Alan to focus upon finding profitable and compelling new services enabled by technology. To that end he was a driving force in the Full Service Access Network (www.fsanweb.org), an industry initiative including many of the world’s leading operators and suppliers to create a set of common requirements for broadband networks and services. GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network), the technology behind Verizon’s FiOS, was the result.
In 2001, after working in the telecom supply and consulting industries, Alan founded a venture backed start-up call Teltier that led the industry’s thinking on presence. The company’s proposition was simple; if you miss calls while your mobile is off, when you turn the mobile on you can see that you’ve missed 3 calls from your sister, so you call her back. With this simple service Teltier became a business and was acquired by Cisco.
Alan has masters degrees in Electronic Systems Engineering (MEng) and Business Administration (MBA, Technology Management), he is a chartered engineer (CEng) and a member of the IET and IEEE.
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