Mr Minehane is an international regulatory and strategy expert in the telecommunications sector and has been involved in advising investors, operators, Governments and regulators in Australia, Asia, the Pacific and Africa. His experience extends to spectrum management and new generation fixed and mobile technologies including optical fibre, 4G/LTE and 5G services and telecommunications sector legislation. Scott has a separate consultancy practice, through which he has advised a range of corporates and organisations including the Commonwealth, South Australian and Victorian Governments, Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA), APEC Business Advisory Council, NBNCo, Macquarie Group, World Bank, International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Asian Development Bank (ADB), ASEAN, GSMA, Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT), Australian Competitive Carriers Coalition ('Commpete'), SDPPI (Indonesia's spectrum regulator), ARCIA, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (Thailand), Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA), TRA (UAE), KPMG, Telekom Malaysia, Axiata Group, edotco Group, and Telkom South Africa. He is also an telecommunications expert witness in international arbitrations. In 2024, he authored the GSMA's Roadmaps for Accelerating 5G and 5G-Advanced in Vietnam and Thailand. He was also a presenter at the 10th Asia-Pacific Spectrum Management Conference in Jakarta in April 2024 on Innovative spectrum sharing strategies in the future connectivity ecosystem and three presentations on spectrum related issues at the APT Spectrum Symposium held in Dhaka, Bangladesh in February 2025. Prior to this he was the principal author of the ITU Report Pandemic in the Internet Age: From second wave to new normal, recovery, adaptation, and resilience' (May 2021) and updated report on the partitioning of the 6 GHz band in Asia-Pacific (November 2022). He is the author, with Simon Molloy of a recently published ASEAN report titled 'Understanding the digital drivers of inbound investment in ASEAN's manufacturing and services industries'. He is chairman of the Risk Management Committee.
