Communications, Media, and Internet

Regulation and Public Policy

Regulation and Public Policy

NERA is global leader in providing advice on the specialized regulatory and public policy issues related to the telecommunications, media, and postal industries. Our experts combine first-hand experience with regulation in many countries with a deep understanding of the critical importance of economic theory and its practical application to regulatory policy. We help our clients understand the key regulatory issues and the implications for their businesses, devise an appropriate regulatory strategy, and influence the decision-making process. Our work includes advice, reports, white papers, and expert testimonies regarding regulatory challenges, options, and disputes.

We have substantial experience in regulatory design of wholesale and retail markets, assessing the impact of regulatory decisions on market outcomes, and resolving complex regulatory challenges, often brought on by the convergence of the telecommunications and media sectors. Our work on behalf of clients has included matters related to:

  • Accounting and structural separation
  • Broadband regulation and policy
  • Collusion claims
  • Competitive entry through additional licensing
  • Competitive impacts of market consolidation
  • Cost modeling (fixed, mobile, NGN, NBN)
  • Creation of effective wholesale markets
  • Dark fiber regulation
  • Demand forecasting through market research, econometric analysis, and benchmarking
  • Efficiency evaluations of wholesale markets
  • Infrastructure and facilities sharing
  • Intercarrier compensation
  • Interconnection rates
  • International benchmarking of regulated services
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Mobile and local number portability
  • Mobile termination rates
  • Mobile virtual network operators
  • Narrowband universal access and service reform
  • National and international mobile roaming
  • Net neutrality
  • Network unbundling
  • Next generation networks
  • Relevant market definitions
  • Regulatory design options (incentive, rate of return, pricing flexibility, forbearance)
  • Structure (pole, ducts) sharing

NERA's clients range from the world's largest telecommunications and media companies to small rural providers to governments and regulators. Our experience is global, including developed and emerging economies around the world.

Name Title Location Phone Email
Dr. Christian Dippon Senior Managing Director
Chair of NERA's Global Energy, Environment, Communications & Infrastructure Practice
Washington, DC
New York City
+1 202 466 9270
+1 212 345 1732
christian.dippon@nera.com
Dr. Richard Hern Senior Managing Director London
Berlin
+44 20 7659 8582
+49 30 700 1506 01
richard.hern@nera.com
Richard Marsden Senior Managing Director New York City
London
+1 212 345 3000
+44 20 7659 8618
richard.marsden@nera.com
James Mellsop Senior Managing Director
Chair of NERA's Global Antitrust and Competition Practice
Auckland
Wellington
Sydney
+64 9 928 3290
+64 4 819 2550
+61 2 8864 6536
james.mellsop@nera.com
Dr. Soren Tang Sorensen Managing Director London +44 7775 018622 soren.sorensen@nera.com
Kevin Counsell Director Wellington
Sydney
+64 4 819 2551
+61 2 8864 7235
kevin.counsell@nera.com
Dr. Alan Cox Affiliated Consultant San Francisco +1 415 291 1000 alan.cox.affiliate@nera.com
Dr. Lewis Evans Affiliated Academic Wellington +64 4 474 1320 lew.evans@vuw.ac.nz
Dr. Chantale LaCasse Affiliated Consultant Washington, DC
Toronto
+1 202 466 9218
+1 416 868 7314
chantale.lacasse@nera.com