Chris Pateman to retire as FCS CEO

Itret Latif, FCS’s deputy chairman, will act as interim CEO while the Board seeks a replacement CEO. Latif is the former Telecoms Business Manager of Scottish and Southern Energy plc (SSE), where he worked since 1991. In that time, Itret was instrumental in developing SSE’s retail communications business in the domestic sector and thanks to his power company background, has a very firm grasp of regulatory issues.

Pateman will be reducing his direct involvement in the federation but will take a lead role in the promotion and management of the Broadband Voucher Scheme and the joint Business Radio 2017 and VTI (Vehicle Technology Installer) event, which will take place at Chateau Impney, Droitwich Spa on 16 November 2017.

“It’s good to look back on the past five years,” said Pateman. “...Five years ago, the ongoing use of UHF2 for business radio was under threat from the mobile networks operators’ territorial ambitions. We were starting to sharpen our arguments for 2x10 reserved spectrum in 700MHz for emergency services. And O2 bought a block of 4G spectrum with a legal coverage obligation which they now have seven weeks left to deliver.