Tom Peters

Tom Peters, who has more than 15 years in the wireless industry, specializes in spectrum and regulatory issues, public safety requirements, and wireless system modeling and performance. Recently, Tom has represented a new wireless entrant in defining public safety requirements for the 700 MHz band, analyzed spectrum and interference challenges in the band, and provided business consulting services in investor briefings.

Previously, Tom led Sprint Nextel's spectrum and interference team, providing technical direction to the company's government affairs operations, including guidance in regulatory issues and spectrum acquisitions. He also headed a team responsible for developing capacity models, simulating next-generation technology performance and delivering coverage and capacity projections for next-gen build-out plans to the executive team.

Throughout his six-year career at Sprint Nextel, he focused on next generation broadband technologies, and led the build-out of its next-gen testing lab where technologies such as FLASH-OFDM, TD-CDMA, and WiMAX were extensively tested.

Prior to joining Nextel, Tom was a director at LCC International where he managed RF engineering projects for wireless operators worldwide. In this role, Tom spent a large amount of time overseas, working in São Paulo, Brazil to help LCC increase its market position in Latin America, and later directing LCC's RF engineering operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) from London.

Tom graduated from Virginia Tech with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering.