As we prepare to close our (new) office door for the last time in 2021, I would like to thank all our clients, consultants, partner agencies and friends for making this another great year for PIP, despite the challenges we’ve all faced due to the continuing effects of the global pandemic. The inability to travel and have[…]
We have been busy for a few years raising awareness among regulators and policymakers about the importance of Wi-Fi for a country’s connectivity agenda and the need for more spectrum for this crucial technology, which citizens and businesses have come to rely on even more during the pandemic. Whenever we speak with stakeholders across the[…]
PIP is pleased to announce partnerships with four new consultants who offer our clients senior policy expertise in Brazil and Ethiopia, strengthen existing expertise in spectrum and develop new offerings on data protection, privacy and cyber security. Amadeu Castro joins the PIP LATAM team led by Sebastian Cabello as Senior Advisor in Brazil, offering senior[…]
PIP has updated the White Paper ‘How to Realize the Full Potential of 6 GHz Spectrum’ published in collaboration with the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance and a group of companies advocating the importance of enabling licence-exempt access to the lower 6 GHz band (5925-6425 MHz) and the upper 6 GHz band (6425-7125 MHz) in a timely[…]
Today we published a white paper in association with the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) that finds that new forms of spectrum sharing could enable many more people to benefit from broadband connectivity and digital services. Based on PIP’s in-depth engagements with industry and public sector stakeholders on three continents, our research uncovered a widespread interest[…]
I am pleased to announce new senior advisers have joined the PIP platform providing advocacy support to an increasing number of global tech clients with interests in Africa, Europe, Middle East and Latin America. They will work closely with Mortimer Hope, Africa Lead and Sebastian Cabello, LATAM Lead and myself, in collaboration with our clients’[…]
By Herman Schepers I am very pleased to announce that PIP has strengthened its expertise and advocacy support for our global clients with interests across Latin America with new associates joining the PIP platform. I set up PIP with the aim of bringing together the right mix of consultants who have the seniority, individual networks[…]
By Mortimer Hope and Herman Schepers Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals– the ‘to do list’ for the world adopted by the United Nations in 2015 – will require affordable internet access for all. To meet the challenge of affordably connecting 3.5 billion ‘unconnected’ people there is an urgent need to find new ideas and innovative[…]
By Irene Ng Since coming into office in November 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government have championed the need for innovation and homegrown new technology in Canada. In particular, the government has increased funding for research and development, encouraged more women entrepreneurs to join the tech sector, incentivised newcomers to set up[…]
By Walter van der Weiden For some time now, Europe’s progress on Artificial Intelligence (AI) has compared unfavorably to developments in the US and China. The finger of blame has pointed in familiar directions: fragmentation of private and public R&D, lack of scale up capacity and funding, a significant number of European SMEs have yet to[…]