BARTOLOME ARROYO-FERNANDEZ (Ingeniero Superior de Telecomunicacion 1972 UPM, Madrid, Spain; M.S. 1976, GWU, Washington DC) is currently deputy head of the group in the European Commission dealing with collaborative R&D on “Networked Audiovisual Services and Home Platforms”. He joined the European Commission in 1989 and since then he has been involved in managing the European R&D programs (RACE, ACTS and IST) particularly in the areas of satellite, wireless, mobile and personal communications. He was with Telefonica de Espana, were he was involved in advanced satcoms developments. He was a researcher at Comsat Labs and ITT Laboratories of Spain.