Practices

Communications and Media

Bates White’s Communications and Media Practice provides expert economic services in connection with a wide range of issues critical to these industries, including antitrust and merger analysis; discovery support; expert testimony; auction design; business planning and strategy; cost modeling and forecasting; and support for state, federal, and international regulatory proceedings. Our professionals and affiliates, three of whom are former FCC Chief Economists, have been at the forefront of regulatory and strategic issues facing communications firms and our European alliance with E.CA Economics enhances our ability to provide services on an international scale.

Our experts played key roles in analyzing issues of net neutrality before the FCC and examining the competitive effects of high-profile mergers involving Internet search engines. Bates White’s portfolio of experience also includes work on network unbundling, wireless net neutrality, reverse auctions, the Internet backbone, Section 271 proceedings, a la carte pricing and exclusive dealing in cable, as well as large mergers and business consolidations. We are well-known for our deep, data-intensive empirical analysis and our ability to distill and communicate key economic concepts to attorneys, industry participants, and regulators.

Insight

  • May 2011

    Leslie Marx submits statement regarding AT&T/T-Mobile USA proposed merger

  • 14 January 2010

    “Declaration on Net Neutrality” by Marius Schwartz

  • March 2009

    “Introduction to a Special Issue on Network Neutrality” by Marius Schwartz and Philip J. Weiser, Review of Network Economics

  • 8 December 2008

    Bates White provides analysis to DOJ and European Commission concerning the Google-Yahoo! online search advertising agreement

  • 2 May 2007

    “Hanging Up on Carterfone: The Economic Case Against Access Regulation in Mobile Wireless” by Federico Mini and Marius Schwartz

At the Podium

  • 3 December 2009

    Marius Schwartz speaks on broadband competition and access regulation at The Phoenix Center’s Annual Telecoms Symposium

  • 9 October 2009

    Marius Schwartz speaks at FCC workshop on economic issues in broadband competition