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Kevin Foster

Kevin Foster is head of innovation for BT’s UK broadband access platforms.  He is also President and a member of the Board of the Broadband Forum and Chairman of the UK NICC DSL Working group.

In previous roles in BT he was responsible for BT’s technical standards development programme and he led BT’s DSL engineering team through the halcyon days of early ADSL broadband development, roll-out and the birth of VDSL technology.  He has 28 years experience in the design and development of wireline digital transmission in BT’s access network and international telecommunication standards.

During his career, Kevin has been very active in telecommunication standardisation in ETSI, FSAN, ITU-T, ATIS, the Broadband Forum and the UK NICC.  He has published many technical papers and standards contributions.  He has also contributed to several books and patents on aspects of DSL engineering.

Most recently, in 2011, Kevin received of the BT Chairman’s award for Corporate Social Responsibility and also the BT Gold Award for Innovation.

Kevin is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology and a Chartered Engineer.  He holds an MSc (with Distinction) in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of London, a BSc (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and a Diploma in Industrial Studies from Loughborough University.