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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 currently Senior Consultant at wik-Consult GmbH, in Bad Honnef, Germany where he is a key member of the firm's newly formed NGN and Internet Economics Department.  The Department advises both private- and public-sector clients on emerging issues or issues of first impression which cross traditionally-defined industries and classifications.  Mr. Carter has provided assessments of economics, business strategy and regulatory policy regarding:  interconnection; spectrum policy; security; and convergence (including VoIP). 

Prior to joining wik-Consult, Mr. Carter was Senior Counsel for Business and Economics in the Office of 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 use of licence-exempt spectrum.  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 has served on several advisory boards and committees and recently 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 in Bonn, Germany, with his wife, Elizabeth, and their son, Jaydon.



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