Oscar González Soto
(oscar.gonzalez-soto@ties.itu.int)
Oscar Gonzalez Soto is currently Consultant for Strategic Planning and Assessment in the
Telecom sector. He is associated to the ITU-BDT for the development programs in Network
and Business Planning towards NGN, Convergence and IMT 2000 as well as to the know
how transfer program to the International Centres of Excellence.
Prior to current activity he has been Director of Network Planning and Economics at the
Alcatel centre for Network Design and Integration at Paris HQ, after holding different
positions as manager for techno-economical evaluations and network planning
development (Strategy centre in Brussels), Telecom planning tools, Performance analysis
and Teletraffic methodologies (Research centre of ITT Research Labs in Madrid).
Oscar graduated at the Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación in Madrid
with further courses on applied mathematics to the Telecom networks and economics.
Formation was complemented among others with master seminars in Strategy for the
International Telecom Industry at the London Business School and Industry Business
Management Development at the Euroforum- INSEAD.
He has more than 30 years of experience in network planning, business evaluation and
solution design for network modernization with applications to many countries in the EU,
CEE, Asia pacific, Africa and Latin America Regions. Oscar represents Spain at the
International Management Scientific Committee of the Networks Symposium and at the
International Advisory Council of the International Teletraffic Congress. Furthermore, he
participated in the organization of more than 30 international conferences and has
published more than 60 papers at international forums.