Richard Carter

Dr Richard Carter is an economist who has worked in the telecommunications industry for 20 years.

He has worked both for telephone companies, Cable and Wireless and Mercury Communications, and as an economic consultant with Touche Ross Management Consultants and more recently as a freelance economist. He has experience of working in both the fixed and mobile environments.

In this time he has worked on a very wide range of issues and projects, including privatisations, retail and network price caps, interconnection arrangements, the access deficit regime, the universal service obligation, proposals for restructuring the telecommunications industry and most recently has assisted a client with its response to Oftel’s market reviews.