Comms Alliance creates high level advisory council

Stuart Corner
Monday, 05 September 2011 20:38

IT Industry - Strategy

Communications Alliance has established an Operations Council, comprised of senior representatives from member companies to work closely with its board to guide and help manage the core operational activities of the Alliance.

Members include the chairs of the four existing Communications Alliance reference panels and former members of the NBN project steering committee, which will be dissolved. The committee will be chaired by Communications Alliance CEO, John Stanton.

Stanton said: 'The Operations Council will harness the learnings and accomplishments of the NBN project during the past 18 months and link these to the existing reference panels and working committee arrangements used by Communications Alliance for the making of industry standards, codes and guidelines.'

The Council will set a work program based on priority activities needed to facilitate the early stages of NBN deployment and transfer of existing customers from copper to fibre-based services, Comms Alliance said.

It will also be responsible for ensuring coordination across reference panel work programs and the remaining NBN working committee activities in areas such as early-stage deployments, operations and consumer information. It will hold its first meeting on 16 September.

The council members are:

Gary Chappell, NBN product manager iiNet;
Lawrie Clarke, principal Clarke Communications and chair of the Network Reference panel;
Michael Edwards, general manager, product &technology, AAPT;
Clare Gill, general manager, government and corporate affairs, Optus;
Peter Gilmartin, group manager, operations, regulatory affairs group, Telstra;
Colin Goodwin, strategic marketing manager, Ericsson;
Robert Haylock, solutions architect, Alcatel-Lucent;
Trevor Hill, group manager, regulatory Compliance, Telstra and Consumer Issues Reference Panel chair;
Gary McLaren, chief technology officer NBN Co;
Roger Nicoll, general manager, planning and
Interconnect, Primus;
Alexander Osborne, head of regulatory compliance and industry standards, VHA and Operations Reference Panel chair;
Kevin Richardson, managing director Stanimore and Customer Equipment & Cabling Reference Panel chair;
Peter Rossi, CTO,  Huawei;
Ben Salmon, general manager - sales, NBN Co;
Phil Smith, general manager, infrastructure, OptiComm;
Steven Theakstone capacity & migrations manager, Optus.