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Kenneth Carter remembers the 10¢ pay phone call, rotary dial, PONG, and 300-baud dial-up to the Digital Equipment VAX pdp 11/44.  He is an attorney, a technologist, and a communications business analyst.  As a lawyer-turned-MBA, his work applies the principles and tools of Management Science to the process of regulation and rulemaking, bringing strong legal analysis and a quantitative approach.

Mr. Carter is Policy Counsel for Advanced Networks and Access Services at Google in Mountain View, CA.

He was previously a Senior Consultant in the NGN and Internet Economics Department at WIK Consult GmbH, in Bad Honnef, Germany.  At WIK, he advised both private- and public-sector clients on matters relating to Next Generation Networks, particularly emerging issues or issues of first impression which cross traditionally-defined industries and classifications.  Mr. Carter also  proposed a new mechanism for spectrum trading and assignment which can be as much as 80% more efficient than conventional auctions.

Prior to joining wik-Consult, Mr. Carter was Senior Counsel for Business and Economics in the Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis (OSP) at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).  At the FCC, he provided the Chairman, Commissioners, and other senior staff with financial, business, and market analysis regarding emerging trends and their implications for strategic policy objectives.  He co-authored OSP Working Paper #39, "Unlicensed and Unshackled", widely-cited as an authority on the FCC's Part 15 Rules.  In addition, the Chairman recognized Mr. Carter and two other colleagues with the Commission's Excellence in Economic Analysis Award for their cutting-edge experimental economics work on market-informed radio spectrum policies. 

Before the FCC, he served as the Deputy Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) at Columbia University, the leading academic research institute focusing on strategy, management, and policy issues in telecommunications, computing, and mass media.   Mr. Carter remains a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute.  He is also a GLOCOM Fellow at the Center for Global Communications at International University of Japan.  Mr. Carter has served on several advisory boards and committees, including the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) and the Policy Program Committee of IEEE DySPAN.  In 2008, he served on an International Advisory Forum on Next Generation Broadband Networks to Minister Eamon Ryan of the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in the Republic of Ireland.

Mr. Carter holds an Executive MBA from Columbia Business School, a JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and a BA from Colgate University.  He lives near Mountain View, CA with his wife, Elizabeth, and their son, Jaydon.




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