Telecommunications Licensing and Numbering Expert

Regulatory application experience

Leo has experience preparing comprehensive telecommunications licence and numbering submissions for operator businesses. His work connects the legal basis for authorisation with the technical evidence a regulator needs to assess whether the proposed service can operate compliantly and in practice.

Issues addressed

• Telecom licensing, registration and market-entry strategy
• E.164 numbering and E.212/E.214 mobile network identity resources
• MCC, MNC, IMSI and global-title requirements
• Number suballocation, hosting, permitted use and portability
• MVNO, MVNE and operator-status analysis
• Voice termination, SMS interworking and wholesale charging models
• Territorial nexus, customer use cases and regulatory compliance obligations

Technical substantiation

• 3GPP, ITU-T and GSMA standards
• SS7/SCCP, SMPP, SIP and SMS interworking flows
• Network topology, redundancy, points of presence and carrier connectivity
• Direct interconnection, hubbing and open-peering models
• Mapping contracts, operational responsibility and network control to the requested authority

Support for counsel and operators

Engagements can include application strategy, drafting and technical substantiation; review of regulator questions; assessment of an opposing or competing application; and expert analysis where licensing, numbering or network status is disputed. Confidential application materials and network details are not published.