Nigel Attenborough
Affiliated Industry Expert
Economics and Accounting
NERA
France
Biography
Mr. Attenborough specializes in the application of economics to the telecommunications industry. He has undertaken and directed a range of projects for telecommunications companies, regulatory authorities, and government departments in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia, and South America. These have involved a whole variety of topics, including market definition and the analysis of competition, the impact of liberalization, regulation of NGNs, assessment of different regulatory regimes, development of regulatory strategy, pricing strategy, the setting of price caps, tariff rebalancing, price discrimination and price squeezes, universal service, number portability and allocation and spectrum management and allocation. He also has extensive experience with the construction of LRIC models of interconnection costs, cost allocation, accounting separation, efficiency comparisons, benchmarking studies, licence valuations, demand forecasting and financial and price cap modelling, cost benefit analyses, and economic impact studies.
Research Interest
Valuation of BT for the purposes of setting business taxes.
