Ian Birleson is a Partner at Analysys Mason, and leads the Telco Next-Generation and Transformation service, responsible for over £4 million per year turnover. Ian specialises in site roll-out management, developing strategies, processes and procedures to accelerate site roll-out or to reduce costs.
Ian’s expertise includes procurement of site roll-out services, the provision and procurement of, outsourced services, formulation of business plans for licence bids and licence auction strategy. He has led activities for 2G, 3G and other wireless projects internationally, including: Orange, O2, Vodafone and Airwave in the UK, Airtel (now Vodafone) in Spain, Digitel in Venezuela, Nortel in the USA, UPC in the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Spain and Finland.
This paper reviews the challenge of consolidating two or more mature networks, including the most effective ways to reduce overall site numbers to ensure opex savings are delivered.
