Government Clients

John provides advice on telecommunications economics, pricing and regulation to various governments and their agencies. Since leaving Telstra, such clients include,

OECD: John researched and wrote the report Catching-up in broadband – what will it take? (April 2007) which explains why broadband penetration rates differ across countries.

ITU: John drafted a chapter on measuring the impact of information and communication technologies on the economy for the International Telecom Union’s 2006 World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report.and presented a paper on NGN (Next Generation Networks) pricing in May 2007

Western Australia; John assembled the team and compiled the 2006 “Big Pipes” report for WA’s ICT Industry Development Forum on Australian international connectivity as a building block in the knowledge economy.

APEC: John led the “stocktake of progress” report on telecoms liberalisation that was presented to APEC-TEL30 in September 2004.

Australia: John helped research and write the report Internet Charging Arrangements (2004) for DCITA to support Australian policy development.

New Zealand: John provided economic advice in a peer review of an interconnection costing model built for the Commerce Commission. The report is at Appendix H of the Draft Determination of the interconnection pricing review of 11 April 2005

OECD: John was invited to present a paper and counsel to delegates from various middle eastern countries on price rebalancing and the impact of competition on universal access and pricing.

“Communications is a complex matter to explain to laymen and politicians but John and his colleagues exceeded our expectations with the Big Pipes report”
- Mal Bryce AO, BA, Hon Phd, Former Chairman of the WA ICT Industry Development Forum