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Scott W Minehane is an international regulatory and strategy lawyer/economist and has advised investors, operators, Governments and regulators in Australia, Asia, the Pacific and Africa for over 35 years. His expertise extends to telecommunications policy, legislative drafting, regulation, digital content, spectrum management, national broadband networks, new generation fixed and mobile technologies including 5G and 6G, online service regulation, competition law and the app economy.

He is the principal of Windsor Place Consulting Pty Ltd an independent consultancy practice, through which he has advised a range of Governments, leading corporates and organisations including inter alia the Australian, various Australian State Governments, Asian and Pacific telecommunications regulators and international organisations including International Telecommunications Union (ITU), World Bank, USAid, ASEAN Secretariat, APT, APEC Business Advisory Council, and the GSMA.

Among a range of recent publications, Scott assisted the GSMA in the preparation of the ASEAN IMT Spectrum Harmonisation Report, Roadmaps for awarding 5G spectrum for Thailand and Vietnam in late 2024, Indonesia in early 2025 and the Philippines in February 2026.  His firm, WPC was the author of a recent major report for ASEAN on LEO Connectivity.  He was previously engaged by USAid/BEACON project in the Philippines on spectrum management issues and is now engaged by the World Bank in that market and Indonesia.  He recently assisted the Government of Fiji in its release of 490 MHz of IMT spectrum in the 2.6 and 3.5 GHz bands and is currently assisting with NERA on the upcoming mobile spectrum auction in Pakistan with the PTA. 

Prior to the establishment of Windsor Place Consulting in 2000, Scott was a Director and Principal Consultant at Cutler & Company (1993-2000) and Acting Director of Telecommunications Section within the Australian Government’s then Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce.  In the latter role he worked on the sale of AUSSAT and licensing of Australia’s second carrier (to Optus - 1991) and the third mobile operator (to Vodafone - 1992).

Scott has a Bachelor of Economics (1986) majoring in micro and macro economics, a Bachelor of Laws (1991) from the University of Queensland and holds a Master of Laws specialising in Communications and Asian Law from the University of Melbourne (1998).  He is a member of the Telecommunications Society of Australia and the International Telecommunications Society.  He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Etherstack plc – the world’s leading licensor of wireless technologies for the public safety and mission critical communications industries (www.etherstack.com).

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