Telecommunications and competition

About us

We are a group of consultants on regulatory issues affecting telecoms and the internet. We advise clients on a range of regulation and competition issues in the telecom space and adjacent areas:

• Market definition
• Competition analysis
• National Competition Authorities
• National Regulatory Authorities
• Regulation strategy and tactics
• Tariffs, including termination rates
• Refiling
• The costs of internet access in developing countries
• Universal service
• Externalities
• Affordability
• Market failure
• Telecoms as a development enabler

Some of our work

Much of Cicero Strategy's work is confidential. However we can provide details of two projects where Cicero Strategy worked with Antelope Consulting for the Department for International Development (UK):

• The costs of internet access in developing countries (2001) - see document list.

• Improving the Quality of Transition in Central And South Eastern Europe through Information and Communication Technologies (2000) - see ZIP PDF file on external site (496 KB).

Based on the work for DFID, Antelope Consulting developed the following report for the ITU:

• The costs of internet access in developing countries in Asia (2001) - see PDF file on external site (76 KB).

In 2005 Nicholas Garthwaite worked with Argo Telecom Management Consultants on a report for the New Zealand Commerce Commission on the competitiveness of New Zealand mobile services.

As a Member of the Competition Commission (now the Competition and Markets Authority), Nicholas Garthwaite was on the inquiry groups dealing with:

• the cost of calls to mobile phones - i.e. mobile termination charges
• airlines serving Heathrow, specifically Air Canada and Canadian Airlines
• roofing felt, where he wrote a minority report
• construction industry project data, Emap and ABI
• supermarkets: Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc - Somerfield plc
• bookshops - HMV Group plc - Ottakar's plc

Why "Cicero"?

Marcus Tullius Cicero (c106-43 BC) was a man of action as well as analysis; he was both a politician and a philosopher. He was also a lawyer and was known as a powerful advocate on behalf of his clients.

We do not claim that our advice is in the same class as Cicero's philosophy. We simply hope that he would have approved of our creative solutions to the practical problems faced by our clients.

For a translation business inspired by Cicero, see Cicero Translations.

Further information

If you want further information on the professional consultancy advice and support we and our large panel of associates can give, please contact us.

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