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 specialises in quantitative analysis i.e. cost modelling.

Sascha has built several cost models used by regulators and operators around the world as a tool for investment decisions, access regulation and commercial negotiations between operators.

Before joining Ovum, Sascha worked for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) reviewing undertakings and cost models as part of mobile terminating access service (MTAS) and fibre to the node (FTTN) investment proposals by mobile and fixed network operators.

Prior to working in Australia, he held positions with Mercedes Benz/Daimler Chrysler AG and The German Institute for Economic Research, one of the leading research institutes in Germany, working on the project External Debt in Post-Conflict Countries.

Recent consulting projects at Ovum involve:

• for a national regulatory authority in Asia-Pacific, reviewing and assessing a copper access network model submitted by the incumbent as part of the unconditioned local loop service (ULLS) undertaking
• for a national regulatory authority in the Middle East, building a bottom-up long-run incremental cost (LRIC) model and guiding the regulator on the regulation of fixed and mobile terminating access services.

Other recent research programmes involve sustainability services and building cost-saving and efficiency models.

Sascha holds a five-year Diplom in Economics from the Humboldt-University of Berlin, where he specialised in and gained a sound understanding of regulatory policy.