Telecommunications
Countries turn to Castalia to achieve universal access to reliable ultra-fast broadband to advance education, economic development and smart cities.
Telecommunications technologies evolve and change at an increasing rate. We help stakeholders in this fiercely competitive sector to understand these disruptive developments and to navigate changing telecommunications markets. We develop markets to enable finance of the fiber infrastructure needed for the ultra-fast broadband networks and we design regulation for broadband fiber networks.
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Expert Evidence on Fixed Line Access Determinations, Australia
Castalia helped Telstra argue for continued exemption from wholesale price regulation where competitive supply existed. Telstra’s competitors wanted the ACCC to force it to sell them wholesale services at regulated prices ... Read more
Cost Benefit Analysis of New Zealand’s Broadband Strategy
Castalia advised on the costs, benefits, and optimal design of a subsidy scheme to expand broadband access in New Zealand. Telecommunications service providers wanted to ensure that the scheme did not distort competition or waste resources ... Read more
ICT Regulation Toolkit
Castalia developed a Toolkit on Regulation for Competition, Interconnection and Pricing for the International Telecommunications Union. To enable all governments and regulators to draw on lessons of global experience in how to design regulation that promotes inter-connection, competition and efficient ... Read more
Regulation of Broadband Network Charges, New Zealand
Castalia helped Chorus, New Zealand’s largest telecommunications infrastructure company, identify two regulatory options that would deliver effective price regulation without distorting consumer choice. Chorus was uncertain about the potential future regulatory settings in New Zealand because of the structural separation ... Read more
Advice to Spark on Proposed Telco-Pay TV Merger, New Zealand
Telecommunication company Vodafone and pay-tv company SKY Television wanted to merge. Castalia’s analysis helped convince the Commerce Commission, the competition authority in New Zealand, that the merger was anti-competitive. What are the potential effects on competition when content providers (those ... Read more
Merging an Existing Cable TV Network Into a National Ultra-Fast Broadband Network, Australia
Castalia helped a client prepare a rationale for freeing up capacity on its Hybrid Fibre Coaxial (HFC) Cable network and incorporating it into the National Broadband Network. Our client, a cable TV company, aimed to create value by enabling its ... Read more
Telstra Office of the Future Strategy, Australia
We identified emerging trends from advances in ICT, and socio-demographic changes in the workplace. Telstra, the leading telecommunications company in Australia, realized that tremendous changes would come with the ICT revolution, and they wanted to embrace the opportunities and challenges ... Read more
Advice to Spark on Fiber Regulation, New Zealand
Castalia helped Spark present a submission to New Zealand’s Parliamentary Select Committee in response to proposed changes in the regulation of fixed line telecommunications networks. New Zealand’s largest retail telecommunications provider was worried about losing market share because of draft ... Read more
