Simon has nearly 20 years' experience of tracking, reporting on and providing consultancy about technology markets, and has spent a large proportion of that time focused on the telecoms sector. He has worked with service providers, equipment vendors, government departments and regulators, telecoms end users and content providers, and still finds himself continually surprised by others' ability to innovate. Simon writes about a wide variety of topics – with current favourites including carrier Ethernet, virtualization, big data and next generation mobile services.