Dr. Bazelon consults and testifies in numerous telecommunications matters, ranging from wireless license auctions, spectrum management, and competition policy, to patent infringement, wireless reselling, and broadband deployment.

Dr. Bazelon is an expert in regulation and strategy in the wireless, wireline, and video sectors. He has consulted and testified on behalf of clients in numerous telecommunications matters, ranging from wireless license auctions, spectrum management, and competition policy, to patent infringement, wireless reselling, and broadband deployment.

Dr. Bazelon frequently advises regulatory and legislative bodies, including the US Federal Communications Commission and the US Congress. He also has expertise in the federal government’s use of discount rates for policy and regulatory analysis, intellectual property valuation, and antitrust and damages analysis.

Prior to joining Brattle, Dr. Bazelon was a Vice President with Analysis Group, an economic and strategy consulting firm. During that time, he expanded the firm’s telecommunications practice area. He also served as a Principal Analyst in the Microeconomic and Financial Studies Division of the Congressional Budget Office, where he researched reforms of radio spectrum management; estimated the budgetary and private sector impacts of spectrum-related legislative proposals; and advised on auction design and privatization issues for all research at the CBO.

Practices
Education

University of California at Berkeley
PhD and MS in Agricultural and Resource Economics

London School of Economics
Diploma in Economics

Wesleyan University
BA

Testimony

T-Mobile US Acquisition of Sprint Corporation
December 4, 2018; January 28, 2019; February 19, 2019; February 20, 2019; March 6, 2019; March 18, 2019; March 25, 2019; March 28, 2019; April 12, 2019; May 1, 2019

Coleman Bazelon, Jeremy Verlinda, William Zarakas

Declarations of Coleman Bazelon, Jeremy Verlinda, and William Zarakas Before the Federal Communications Commission In the Matter of Applications of T-Mobile US, Inc. and Sprint Corporation for Consent to Transfer Control of Licenses and Authorizations, WT Docket No. 18-197. May 1, 2019, Response to Israel, Katz, and Keating April 12, 2019 Declaration; March 28, 2019, Response to Compass Lexecon February 20, 2019 Declaration and Mark McDiarmid; March 6, 2019 Declaration; March 25, 2019, Response to Applicants’ February 7 Filings on Diversion Ratios; March 18, 2019, Reply to Cornerstone’s “Response to Dish’s February 19 and 25 Submissions;” February 19, 2019, Reply to Cornerstone “Response to Dish and CWA Comments;” February 4, 2019, Network Model’s Sensitivity to Millimeter Wave Adjustments; January 28, 2019, Response to Applicant Filings on Diversion Ratios; December 4, 2018, Further Reply Declaration of Coleman Bazelon, Jeremy Verlinda, and William Zarakas.

T-Mobile US Acquisition of Sprint Corporation
August 27, 2018; October 31, 2018

Coleman Bazelon, Jeremy Verlinda, William Zarakas, Joseph Harrington

Declaration (August 27, 2018) and Reply Declaration (October 31, 2018) of Joseph Harrington, Coleman Bazelon, Jeremy Verlinda, and William Zarakas Before the Federal Communications Commission In the Matter of Applications of T-Mobile US, Inc. and Sprint Corporation for Consent to Transfer Control of Licenses and Authorizations, WT Docket No. 18-197.

November 16, 2017

Testimony of Coleman Bazelon before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology

March 24, 2017

Expert Report of Coleman Bazelon, Ph.D., In the Matter of Vertical Ventures II, LLC; Vertical Ventures V, LLC; LWH Network, LLC; L, W & C Network, LLC; and Spectrum Family 800, GP vs. Smartcomm, LLC; Smartcomm License Services, LLC; Smartcomm Management, LLC; Smartcomm Acquisitions, LLC; License Acquisitions, LLC; Big Wave Ventures, LLC; Spectrum Networks Group, LLC; M2M Spectrum Networks, LLC; Spectrum Acquisitions Group, LLC; Carlson Investment Group, LLC; Carole L. Downs; Barclay Knapp; and Joe Doe Transferees, Superior Court of Arizona Maricopa County