Chief Analyst, Heavy Reading

Finnie has been researching telecommunications for more than 20 years, formerly as a journalist and latterly as an analyst and consultant. Since joining Heavy Reading in September 2004, following a ten-year tenure at the Yankee Group, Finnie has been responsible for a wide range of research, focusing primarily on next-generation broadband services and IMS. He became Chief Analyst of Heavy Reading in February 2007. His reports for Heavy Reading include:

• Telco App Stores: A Bridge Too Far? (Vol. 8, No. 2, February 2010)
• FTTH Review & Five-Year Forecast: The Road to Next-Gen PON (Vol. 7, No. 7, July 2009)
• Policy Control & DPI: The New Broadband Imperative (Vol. 6, No. 13, September 2008)
• Reinventing the Telco: A Heavy Reading Progress Report (Vol. 6, No. 4, April 2008)
• FTTH Worldwide Technology Update & Market Forecast (Vol. 6, No. 1, February 2008)
• IMS Deployment Update: Promise & Challenges (Vol. 5, No. 12, July 2007)
• IMS Application Servers & the IMS Applications Environment (Vol. 4, No. 20, December 2006)
• FTTH Worldwide Market & Technology Forecast, 2006-2011 (Vol. 4, No. 9, June 2006)
• DSL Home Gateways: Triple Play & Beyond (Vol. 4, No. 1, February 2006)
• The Future of VOIP: A Heavy Reading Service Provider Survey (Vol. 3, No. 16, September 2005)
• IMS & the Future of Network Convergence (Vol. 3, No. 12, July 2005)
• Next-Generation Broadband in Europe: The Need for Speed (Vol. 3, No. 5, March 2005)
• Fixed-Mobile Convergence Reality Check (Vol. 2, No. 26, December 2004)

Finnie has also hosted numerous Webinars and Live events for Light Reading, and is a regular speaker at other major industry events. As a journalist, he was formerly editor-in-chief of the award-winning industry paper Communications Week International and has edited several other leading trade publications.

Finnie is based in the U.K. and can be reached at Finnie@heavyreading.com.