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James Allen

James Allen (Partner) is co-head of Regulation at Analysys Mason, where he has worked for the last 12 years. He has led projects dealing with a wide variety of services and technologies, for clients spanning the telecoms industry - private equity, banks, equipment manufacturers, new entrant operators, incumbents, regulators, and policy makers including the European Commission and UK Government.
He has recently worked on a range of strategically important topics such as "pure LRIC" costing of mobile and fixed termination; proportionate regulation in small countries; access to emergency services on VoIP; costing services on undersea cables; the economics of rural networks; FTTx business cases and their policy implications; regulatory cost models of fixed and mobile networks including advanced services such as multicast; the benefits of lower concentration in European telecoms markets; structural separation in a number of countries; the Commission recommendations on NGA and termination pricing; AIP pricing of spectrum; the revision of the EU Framework; commercial due diligence on an incumbent telco; bottom up local loop cost modelling; cost modelling of voice termination in an NGN; the concept of "Unfair burden" in USO; the regulation of VoIP in Europe; and accounting separation in postal regulation. Before joining Analysys Mason, he worked for the UK ICT consultancy Smith Group (now BAe Detica). In addition to his 20 years' consulting experience, he trained as a physicist and has a PhD (1991) from Durham University.