Ramy Ahmed

Ramy Ahmed is a Senior Manager for the Digital Services Policies at the National Telecom Regulatory Authority of Egypt (NTRA). He has over 10 years of experience in telecommunications regulations and management, especially in the area of market modeling and services planning. He recently participated in formulating a number of high level ICT and next generation strategic directives and policies. He is the technical lead of the market modeling and investment feasibility assessment done in the recently announced Egyptian national broadband plan, eMisr, which proposes different strategic directives to meet Egypt's broadband innovations and services needs.

Mr. Ahmed specializes in the area of telecommunication market modeling, and converged services deployment, network optimization and planning. In this context, he has been involved in the Egyptian national project of the evolution of Digital Broadcast Services. He was also selected as a member of a telecommunication industrial research team for the development of an integrated hybrid LCD-TV in a process of developing the Egyptian TV industry in collaboration with relevant Egyptian stakeholders. He is currently assisting in developing a (Single Frequency Network) SFN based digital transition plan for the Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU).

Mr. Ahmed has several publications in the fields of telecommunication management, multi-objective optimization, meta-heuristic algorithms, and generic communication architectures' development for transmission systems and DVB-T/S receivers. Additionally, he is the author of a book on fundamental logic design.