Advising on the commercial impact of technology and
    market changes in telecoms, software and IT services

Sascha Süßspeck, Consultant

Sascha Süßspeck is a consultant with Ovum, working from Melbourne, Australia. He joined Ovum in November 2006 and brings experience from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

Prior to working in Australia, Sascha was involved in the quality management of Mercedes Benz, giving advice on best practice approach for several operations in Berlin. At the German Institute for Economic Research, Sascha also completed research and project work on an international scale regarding the project External Debt in Post-Conflict Countries.

For the ACCC, Sascha worked on undertakings and cost models in regard to mobile terminating access service (MTAS) and Telstra's FTTN investment proposal. During that time, he also formed a view on the difference in regulatory practice in Asia-Pacific, Europe and the US.

Sascha has a master's equivalent degree (diplom) in Economics from the Humboldt-University of Berlin, where he specialised in and gained a sound understanding of regulatory policy. His thesis is about regulation of access charges with the focus on the telecommunications market situation in Germany.

Sascha has recently done modelling work to forecast market demand in terms of data volume in Australia and to valuate the future investment plans of an undersea cable network company. He is estimating the costs of terminating access services provided by fixed and mobile operators in central Asia, and is also involved in a project valuating a telecoms operator in Asia-Pacific by estimating future market trends.