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Dr. Yale Braunstein lives in the hills overlooking Berkeley (University of California), where he is a Professor of Information. He also serves as Senior Advisor at Kalba International, with which he has been affiliated for more than 25 years. The cases he leads at Kalba are in the areas of regulatory policy (including a recent forbearance case), service licensing, pricing and tariffs, financial analysis, forecasting, and valuation. As an economist (Ph.D., Stanford), Yale has focused on competition in information products and services since the 1970s, in particular on how new generations of products and technologies alter the commercial landscape for incumbent players. In one of his earliest Kalba cases, he developed a formula for valuing TV sports programming in relation to other TV programs for a U.S. Copyright Royalty Tribunal determination on how cable TV copyright fees were to be allocated. He was later a senior member of a Kalba team that valued the patent, copyright and trade secrets of a major telecom equipment and software supplier for an Internal Revenue Service proceeding. Yale has also contributed financial, tariff and forecasting models to our cellular, satellite and fixed telecom practices. These models have been applied and adapted for cases in Brazil, England, Hong Kong, India, the U.S. and other countries. Among the cases he has led have been extended advisory projects in Canada, Israel, Sweden and Ukraine. | 