Laurent has fifteen years of experience in the electronic communications industry at strategy, financial, regulatory, technical and operational level. He is the head of our Paris office since 1999 and has led projects mainly in France, Europe and North Africa. His expertise includes strategic analysis, sector policy definition, development opportunities assessment, business planning, due diligence, pricing and billing, significant market power analysis in the context of the new European regulatory framework, costs and price squeeze analysis, licence awards, benchmarks, broadband access technologies, digital dividend. Laurent holds Engineering degrees from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, as well as an INSEAD MBA.
The French Government has announced that the majority of the radio spectrum released by the switching off of analogue television broadcasting (the ‘digital dividend’) is to be allocated for use by digital audiovisual services. Read what our experts have to say.
In every country in Europe, the switch-over from analogue to digital television will free up UHF spectrum, at frequencies below 1GHz. Consequently this spectrum ...
A new study from Analysys Mason and law firm Hogan & Hartson for the French telecoms regulator helps to identify the most efficient use that France can make of the spectrum released by the digital switch-over.