CEG is one of the leading advisors on competition and regulatory issues across the communications sector. Our particular areas of expertise include market definition, competition assessments, analysis of alleged anti-competitive pricing, access arrangements, regulatory design, structural separation, network sharing, bottom-up and top-down cost modelling, spectrum policy, access to content and overall regulatory reform.

Representative cases on which CEG economists have recently advised include:

• Assessment of liability and damages in relation to an alleged margin squeeze by a European fixed incumbent
• Preparation for GSAM of a report on the implications for interconnection charging models of the migration to all IP networks and the assessment of bill and keep
• Advice on Sonaecom's proposed acquisition of Portugal Telecom
• Evaluation of proposed network sharing arrangements under European competition law
• Advice to a consortium of broadcasters in relation to the acquisition of premium sports rights
• Support for GSM Association in relation to the development of regulation of international roaming services, including a review of the European Commission's impact assessment
• Advice on UK Spectrum policy reform including the introduction of trading and spectrum liberalisation
• Analysis of competition in a European wholesale broadband access market
• Preparation of a report in relation to the European Commission's consultation on the development of the online content market
• Advice on T-Mobile's acquisition of tele.ring
• Market reviews of the markets for mobile termination in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK including the level and structure of charge controls across operators Advised on the successful appeal of OPTA's mobile termination decision
• Advice on the reform of wholesale regulation of the fixed incumbent operator in Canada
• Preparation of a regulatory roadmap for Bangladesh
• International benchmarking of interconnection charges
• Support in an appeal of the outcome of a comparative selection process for spectrum licensing
• The determination of Administrative Incentive Prices for spectrum
• Expert advisor the to the New Zealand ministerial inquiry into telecommunications
• Lead author of a report for GSM Association on the economic benefits of liberalization of international gateway services
• Support for Optus in relation to the ACCC's mobile services inquiry and in the preparation of Optus' mobile termination undertaking
• Preparation of a report for a European national regulator on the assessment of leveraging issues in relation to regulation and competition law
• Advice to a South African operator on the implementation of current cost accounting
• Preparation of a report on the imposition of regulatory obligations on cable operators.