In December 2019, the European Commission presented the European Green Deal with the ambition of making Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, boosting the economy, improving people's health and quality of life, caring for nature, and leaving no one behind.

Digitalisation will be at the core of this ambitious program and fibre is key to align the digital and sustainability agendas. As the most sustainable telecommunication infrastructure technology, full-fibre is a prerequisite to achieving the European Green Deal and making the European Union’s economy more sustainable.

The need to work collectively towards a more sustainable society has become a strategic objective of policy makers and the vast majority of private organisations alike. With this context in mind, the sustainability Working Group of the FTTH Council Europe has been created with two key objectives:

Promote full fibre as the most sustainable access network technology and enabler of multiple applications which can contribute to reducing the carbon footprint of our activities. Remote working and learning being the most obvious examples.
Support all stakeholders of the Fibre to the Home value chain in their efforts to make their respective activities more carbon neutral.

Insights from the Committee

Focus on the Sustainability Committee

In this episode we focus on the key sustainable challenges facing the fibre industry both in the context of the EU taxonomy and of the energy 2030 targets and much more.

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Carl Pertry

Jun 3, 2024

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Applying for a Board of Directors position

First and Last Name: Carl Pertry

Company Name: Nokia

Current position: Director of Business Development

Company Type: Vendor/Reseller (Products)

Biography:

Carl is Director of Business Development in the Fixed Networks Business Unit of the Network Infrastructure Group of Nokia. His role focuses on driving and developing fixed access network telecom solutions focusing on Tier-1 CSPs and their operational companies throughout Europe and worldwide, and on leading a highly skilled and international team of business development, presales, and commercial managers. Carl develops FTTH access networks as key priority since December 2014, first in a sales role, and since March 2016 in a business development role, responsible to synthesize technical and commercial solutions, and conduct contract closure. Prior to these roles, Carl held positions in various sales and presales roles with focus on a leading European Tier 1 operator and competitive operators in Germany, France, Switzerland, Poland, and part of Nordics. His final position was Sales Director of Network Transformation. Carl started his career in Nokia in the former Alcatel in 1996 as R&D Engineer and progressed to R&D Program Manager responsible for Platform-based-Design methodologies for Systems-on-Chips in the corporate CTO office. Carl is based in Belgium, after residing 15 years in Germany and France, is married and has one son, likes to study society and technology, tries to generate interest in engineering and science with young people and is an avid runner.

Position statement:

At FTTH Council Europe, we should - more vigilant than ever before - advocate the benefits of a fiber fixed access network for consumer and business, and the crucial role these fiber access networks play for humans and society to close the digital divide, to grow our economies and to ensure critical operations of our countries like government functions, utilities and healthcare. In this perspective, fiber access networks should be considered by all stakeholders to be as crucial as (5G) mobile networks. FTTH Council Europe still has a role to play for the “fiberization” of our European countries. The FTTH Council Europe can count on Carl’s full dedication to help position FTTH from a technological, economic, and regulatory perspective.

Your past role(s) and activities in the FTTH Council Europe:

My experience at FTTH Council Europe is being part of Nokia’s team participating to FTTH Conference over many years. Nokia is and has been supporting FTTH Council Europe for years with many technical, market and strategy contributions and experts and I will join and strengthen this expert team with the firm intention to value this tradition.

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