As Chief Executive of the Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile & Personal Communications - Mobile VCE - Walter Tuttlebee heads up a unique not-for-profit company established 9 years ago by the mobile telecoms industry and academia as an outcome of the Government's Foresight exercise. Its mission is to undertake long-term, industry-steered, collaborative research, to the benefit of industry and academia. Mobile VCE today has 18 industrial members, operators and manufacturers, including major companies from Europe, Asia and America. Its research results ‘seed & feed’ its industrial members’ internal R&D programmes as well as influencing international bodies such as WWRF, the Software Defined Radio Forum and IETF. Its research addresses core technology evolution to support the long term development of the wireless communications industry. In the 1980s and ‘90s, Dr Tuttlebee led industry R&D teams in 2 nd and 3 rd generation mobile communications, conceiving and playing a key role in key European research programmes, which contributed to the 3G standards. He is acknowledged as a pioneer of software radio in Europe and has operated in Business Development in personal communications, digital broadcasting and satcoms. He has edited five books, has published widely, has several patent filings and holds BSc, PhD and MBA Degrees. In recent years he has led UK industry missions to Japan, Korea and China within the context of the evolution of future mobile communications.

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