TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Assessing competition and markets
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Assessing market strategies and forecasting pricing trends and consumer behavior. We analyze the effects on competition of vertical integration between content and delivery platforms, which has played an important role in regulatory outcomes.
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
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 who produce programs) and delivery platforms (broadband and mobile services) propose vertical integration? We analyzed the implications and were able to provide a good test of the effects of vertical integration between content and delivery platforms in telecommunications. 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 that would result. Read more
Services
Transforming telecommunications sectors to ensure universal access to high-quality broadband, in a way that combines appropriate government support with private ... Read more
Designing regulatory regimes for the national broadband networks, with a particular focus on rules for vertical integration, non-discrimination, and operating ... Read more
Regulatory due diligence on telecommunications sector investments, identifying commercial, regulatory and political risks, and recommending strategies. ... Read more
Blending private and public finance into viable deal structures for fiber and satellite networks, combining government and multilateral grants, loans, ... Read more
Expert evidence when disputes arise, providing authoritative, independent opinions on matters such as competition effects of mergers, contracts, and arrangements ... Read more
Appraising telecommunications sector policies, using economic tools to assess whether new policies will create a net social benefit. ... Read more
