Pay TV STB Tracker – 4Q21 Database

Daniel Simmons

Research Director, Media Delivery

Dan heads global research on service provider set-top boxes, consumer premises equipment (CPE), content security, and user interfaces. He has extensive experience in producing custom research for all aspects of television technology, influencing the strategies of many of the sector’s largest companies. 

His expertise includes a nuanced understanding of how service providers distribute content around the home, and how consumers interact with content. Dan worked previously at Mitsubishi Electric, where he designed image-processing algorithms. He is a graduate of the University of Surrey in Guildford, England, and has a Bachelor of Science in physics.

Taimur Zafar

Research Analyst, Home Networks

Taimur specializes in service provider technologies and contributes to the analysis of the broadband infrastructure and customer premises equipment markets.

Prior to joining Omdia, he interned at the German Aerospace Center and worked on a research project at the Barts Cancer Institute. Taimur holds a Bachelor of Science in biology from the University of Portsmouth, and a Master of Science in bioinformatics from Queen Mary University of London, both in the UK.

Tara Patel

Research Analyst, Media Delivery

Tara joined Omdia in May 2021 as part of the Media and Entertainment team, particularly looking at TV technology and home networks. She previously worked at a technology consulting company focusing on video entertainment landscapes across countries and tracking top-performing movies. Tara has a degree in international development with economics and overseas experience from the University of East Anglia. She has also worked abroad in Cambodia and India.