Dr. Harold Ware
Special Consultant
Education
PhD and MA in economics, Cornell University.
MS in mathematics education, Yeshiva University
BA in economics, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Experience
Dr. Ware has extensive experience with regulation and competition issues in the communications and postal services sectors. He works frequently with major local telecommunications companies to develop testimony and reports on regulatory, antitrust, and competition issues. He has directed and written international comparisons of telecommunications regulation and competition policies for submission to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and to New Zealand's Ministerial Inquiry into Telecommunications.
Dr. Ware's recent work in the communications sector has focused on convergence and intermodal competition among wireless, cable, Internet, and wireline companies. He has also directed cost studies of wireline and wireless communications services. The competition and cost studies he has directed have been used in regulatory cases to secure more favorable pricing and competitive freedom. In the course of these projects, Dr. Ware has prepared testimony and analyses of:
- Intermodal competition for directory assistance, local, long distance, Centrex/PBX, and other services
- Convergence of wireline, wireless, cable, and Internet communications technologies
- Network interconnection costs
- Costs, pricing, and entry policy, and universal service issues associated with the transition to competition
- Analyses of the competitive effects of mergers involving wireline and/or wireless communications companies
- Carrier access pricing, cross-subsidization, and other pricing and costing issues
Dr. Ware also has substantial experience with analyses of demand and the economics of network deployment. In particular, he has:
- Directed studies of demand for residential and small business regional telephone services, as well as for high capacity business private line services, telephone switching services, and local telephone services
- Testified on the planning and deployment of new technology in telecommunications networks
- Studied costs and benefits of telecommunications marketing
- Analyzed competition and economic damages in a PBX dealer termination case and other cases
In the postal services sector, Dr. Ware has studied competition and demand for postal services, as well as the impact of postal rate changes on direct mail marketers. He has also prepared testimony on the relationship between costs and rates for postal services on behalf of the US Postal Service.
He has testified or filed affidavit testimony before the US Postal Rate Commission, state regulatory commissions, the FCC, and the US Department of Justice.
Dr. Ware is co-author of three chapters of Communications for a Mobile Society: An Assessment of New Technology and has published articles in Public Utilities Fortnightly, The Journal of Regulatory Economics, IEEE Communications, and proceedings of the Fifth and Seventeenth Annual Telecommunication Policy Research Conferences. His paper, "Competition and Rate Restructuring for Postal Services," appears in Managing Change in the Postal and Delivery Industries (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997).
Dr. Ware received his doctorate degree in economics from Cornell University, where he taught courses in economics and industrial organization and did research on cellular mobile communications in the Technology Assessment Project of the Program on Science, Technology and Society.
