David Cleevely
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| Born |
David Cleevely September 1953 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Telecoms expert, entrepreneur |
| Home town | Cambridge |
David Douglas Cleevely, CBE, FREng,FIET (born September 1953) is an entrepreneur and international telecoms expert who has built and advised many companies, principally in Cambridge, UK.
In 1985 Cleevely founded the telecommunications consultancy Analysys Mason Group (AMG), which was acquired by Datatec in 2004. Whilst at Analysys he made a significant contribution to the theory and practice of calculating Universal Service Obligation costs and was involved with a report to the European Commission on VoIP creating the framework for VoIP within the EU and the identification of The Broadband Gap – where the cost of supply would exceed the price consumers were willing to pay which prompted UK Government policy intervention in 2001–2005 to force increased broadband infrastructure in the UK.
He is an authority on telecommunication policy and has advised numerous governments on policy and innovation frameworks. He advised the Prime Minister and UK Government on the ecommerce@its.best.uk report, and was one of the 8 industry experts that compiled the Communications White Paper which became the Communications Act 2003.
In 2001 he was appointed by the UK government to the Spectrum Management Advisory Group, which became the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board, and the IET Communications Policy Panel. He has also appeared before Select Committees in both Parliament and in the House of Lords.
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