STEPHEN TEMPLE

His track record in spectrum began in 1971 when he represented the UK at the ITU 1971 Space Conference on spectrum sharing between earth stations and radio relays. He has since been responsible for two groundbreaking advances in mobile spectrum. He was the first policy maker in the world to bring about the use of a band above 1 GHz for cellular mobile. Nobody at the time thought this was economically feasible. The 1800 MHz band allowed more mobile network operators into the market. In 2016 he was brought into Euro5G to sort out the impasse over spectrum for 5G after an ITU wrold conference in 2015 failed to agree to 28 GHz being used in Europe. His unique controbution was to turn the 5G community away from a singular focus on mmWave spectrum (eg 28 GHz) on economic grounds. Instead he proposed that 5G needed three "5G pioneer" bands to cope with the conflicting demands of wide coverage and high capacity. The mid band 3.6 GHz would be "the sweet spot" between the two. This was liked by..

Primary location: United Kingdom