WILL ED CANDY'S VISIONS FOR VPLM PATENTS BE.FULFILLED.ON.TUESDAY.AUGUST.5TH SO THAT I WIN THE GRAND PRIZE? THREE DAYS TO GO ON MY THIRD AND LAST TRY AT A DATE.
...GO,CANDY GO!!!
...YOU DID IT BEFORE!!!
As a very last ditch effort an urgent meeting was sought with Roland Huber the Director DG XII who was responsible for the EU Research programs. But nobody knew him personally and it was exceptionally difficult to get meetings with such a very busy senior person. It was a secretary who came to the rescue. She simply picked up a phone and called the secretary of Roland Huber. Who knows what was said between them but a meeting was arranged at very short notice. Ed Candy and Rod Gibson were on the next plane to Brussels to try to convince Roland of the importance of the UMTS program and seek his intervention.
Ed gave the performance of his life to a sceptical Roland Huber…himself a passionate believer in the fibre to the home vision. After a long and intensive debate Roland agreed that the UMTS inclusion in the program should be reconsidered.
The next day he agreed that, although the full funding could not be granted, there was a possibility of a last minute submission failure which would allow a first phase of 14 mECU to be funded. However that depended on Roland single-headedly altering the view of the RACE management committee before the vote later in the day. UMTS scraped through by a margin of two votes that afternoon.
The world owes much to that secretary…
BUT MORE SO, OF COURSE, TO ED CANDY AND ROLAND HUBER
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