Roland Montagne, is head of the broadband division, in the ‘Services and Network strategies’ department. His main works and publications at IDATE include the global market of the Internet, IP technology and services markets and operator strategies in the broadband networks subject. He is responsible for the ‘European broadband market’ study, which is published annually by IDATE.

Before returning to IDATE, Roland Montagne succeeded in several developments in the areas of Numerical radio telecommunications and mobile services. He worked for a year at AT&T as a studies engineer in one of Bells laboratories (New Jersey, USA). He drove the research on optical networks (DWDM) and ATM technologies. He also worked for CNET (France Telecom R&D) where he led the work on optical communications. Roland Montagne is a telecommunications engineer, with a degree from ENST (Ecole Supérieure des Télécommunications), 1994 and has a further studies degree in Electronics (D.E.A, University of Paris 6, 1994)