Graham Finnie

Consulting Analyst, Heavy Reading

Graham has been researching telecommunications for more than 20 years, formerly as a journalist and latterly as an analyst and consultant. He served as Chief Analyst of Heavy Reading from February 2007 until December 2014, and has since moved into a consulting role. Since joining Heavy Reading in September 2004, following a ten-year tenure at the Yankee Group, Graham has been responsible for a wide range of research, focusing primarily on next-generation broadband services and IMS.

His reports for Heavy Reading include:

• Looking Beyond the Network: The Case for Service Quality Metrics (Vol. 13, No. 4, June 2015)

• SDN & NFV: A Revolution in the Making (Vol. 11, No. 8, July 2013)

• RAN Congestion Control & the Road to QoE (Vol. 10, No. 10, September 2012)

• IP Network & Service Migration: Benchmarking Telco Progress (Vol. 10, No. 3, April 2012)

• Mobile Broadband & the Rise of Policy: Technology Review & Forecast (Vol. 9, No. 7, August 2011)

• Next-Gen PONs & Fiber Access: A Market Perception Study (Vol. 8, No. 10, October 2010)

• 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)

Graham has also hosted numerous Webinars and Live events for Light Reading, and is a regular speaker at other major industry events. As a journalist, Graham was formerly editor-in-chief of the award-winning industry paper Communications Week International and has edited several other leading trade publications. He is based in the U.K. and can be reached at finnie@heavyreading.com.