Summary
Andrew Howell is a telecommunications standards and software engineer with three decades of experience designing, testing and managing mobile communications projects across industry and government. As founder of Cellular Technologies Ltd he consults on wireless protocols, device testing and IP, and is a recognized contributor and former chair in multiple 3GPP working groups. His career spans roles at Motorola, BlackBerry and the UK Home Office where he helped shape public safety requirements for national emergency communications. Andrew holds numerous patents in mobile communications and has deep protocol expertise across GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS and LTE signalling. Based in Gloucester, he now applies that standards-first mindset to ambitious ideas like building a free-to-access Internet protocol, bringing rare cross-domain insight from standards, product development and field trials.
11 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer