We seek to define, evaluate and solve problems for clients on an
individual level through communication, innovation and rigour.
We feel it makes little sense to provide advice without these foundations.
What does make sense is to take our philosophy, interwoven with experience
in developing policy, strategy and regulation, and combine it
with a holistic understanding of economics, business, technology and politics.
We use this approach to deliver results.
Our advice builds on an understanding of convergence and the policy, economic and technological drivers in the communications and media sectors as illustrated in the following:
| Creation of |
• Global heterogenous network independent services • Enhanced wireless and fibre access |
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| Destruction of |
• Vertically integrated homogenous services • Legacy networks |
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Spectrum rights and reallocation |
Liberalisation and clear rights |
| Spectrum release, licence renewal, trading and pricing | |
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Platform neutrality |
Platform neutral public service broadcasting delivery policy |
| Platform neutral telecoms USO | |
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Legacy “Switch off” |
Analogue TV switch off |
| Copper, 2G/3G and terrestrial TV switch off | |
| Access | Non-discrimination and equivalence |
| Value rather than cost based regulation | |
| Internet | Open access to the Internet |
| Information, privacy, content policy and inclusion | |
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| The challenges go beyond regulation to public policy and strategy | |
