Nautel Limited Strategy Internship

Nautel sees an opportunity to expand our business into the HF (High Frequency) transmitter sector. HF is a technically defined subset of radio spectrum which is used primarily by military and defense organizations. We have received a number of queries in recent months that suggest there may be a significant number of transmitters to be procured by these organizations in the coming months and years. Development of a product to meet these requirements would be a significant project which is likely to cost several million dollars. We need to decide what attributes the appropriate product should have and whether to proceed with development. Nautel anticipates slow recovery of the Broadcast industry and therefore slow recovery of our core business. While we focus a lot of effort and activity on maximizing our success in this sector we also need to make good decisions on diversifying our business. HF transmitters seems to be the strongest of several options that we could pursue but the engineering effort necessary is significant. For Nautel, our most scarce resource is the technical team which can successfully bring a new radio transmitter to market.

Faculty Supervisor:

Eric Morse

Student:

Partner:

Nautel

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program: