Mr. Alan Horne General Director
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority

The Importance of Government Policy, Regulations and Regulatory Approach

Alan Horne has been in the telecommunications industry for more than 30 years. He commenced his career in British Telecom moving on to Phillips and Mitel Telecom.

He founded InterConnect Communications in 1984 and grew the company into an international renown consultancy advising on all matters of telecommunications regulation. In 2001 he sold the company to Telcordia Technologies of the USA. He has advised boards of operators in such matters as preparation for liberalisation and privatisation, enterprises on benefiting through the use of new competitive services and technologies, governments on establishing regulators and regulators in developing regulations.

Alan now holds the position of General Director of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the Kingdom of Bahrain.