Education
New York University, M.A. in Economics; State University of New York, B.A. in Economics |
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Biography
Mr. Zarakas is an economist and Chief Operating Officer for The Brattle Group. He is an expert in economic, financial, strategic, and regulatory analyses as applied to the utility, telecommunications, and media industries. Mr. Zarakas has worked extensively with utilities in modeling cost, rate, and financial impacts used in strategic and regulatory analyses. He has also worked extensively on a range of issues concerning the fixed line (wireline), terrestrial and satellite wireless, video, and internet sectors, including the analysis of business models for the communications and media sectors and modeling the economic impacts of policy and regulatory proposals and initiatives. Mr. Zarakas has also led and directed projects involving spectrum valuation, investment feasibility, demand and market forecasting, and regulation of incumbents, among other areas, in the U.S., Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. He also works on matters concerning the convergence of energy and communications, including utility deployment of broadband and the analysis of smart grid applications.
Mr. Zarakas has worked extensively with electric utilities, incumbent and competitive telecommunications carriers, industry associations, regulatory commissions, law firms, corporate entities, and governmental bodies. He has testified before state and federal regulatory commissions and authored reports submitted to governments, regulatory commissions, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and to courts as part of commercial litigation. He has also headed regulatory audits of telephone carriers performed on behalf of regulatory commissions.
Prior to joining The Brattle Group, Mr. Zarakas was a Senior Vice President at PHB Hagler Bailly and a Managing Director with Theodore Barry & Associates in charge of the firm’s telecommunications practice, and a member of its board of directors.
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Selected Publications
- Strategic Modeling for the Telecommunications Industry 2006 Winter (Telecommunications).
 - "Structural Simulation of Facility Sharing: Unbundling Policies and Investment Strategy in Local Exchange Markets,"
by Daniel L. McFadden, Lisa Wood, William P. Zarakas, Glenn A. Woroch, Nauman Ilias, and Paul C. Liu, July 15, 2005.
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"Letter to the Honorable Joe Barton, Chairman, Committee on Energy and Commerce, US House of Representatives, estimating how much revenue the US Treasury would receive if the Federal Communications Commission auctioned 60 MHz of spectrum in the 700 MHz (TV) band that the FCC has allocated for commercial use,"
by Dorothy Robyn and William P. Zarakas, The Brattle Group, Inc., May 18, 2005.
- "Betting Against the Odds? Why broadband over power line (BPL) can't stand alone as a high-speed Internet offering,"
by William P. Zarakas and Kenneth J. Martinian, Public Utilities Fortnightly, April 2005.
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"Wholesale Pricing and Local Exchange Competition,"
by William P. Zarakas, Lisa V. Wood, and David E. M. Sappington, The Brattle Group, Inc., January 2004.
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"Regulatory Performance Measurement Plans and the Development of Competitive Local Exchange Telecommunications Markets,"
by David E. M. Sappington, Glenn A. Woroch, Lisa V. Wood, and William P. Zarakas, The Brattle Group, Inc., November 2003.
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"FCC Pole Attachment Rates: Rebutting Some of the Presumptions,"
by Lisa V. Wood and William P. Zarakas, The Brattle Group, Inc., Updated March 2003.
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"Utilicoms in the U.S. Market: Outside of the Telecom Bubble,"
by William P. Zarakas, The Brattle Group, Inc., March 2002.
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